Professional Profile

• Seasoned IT professional with comprehensive technical skill set and expertise in Enterprise Project Management, business process automation / management (BPM), systems integration, workflow design, process modeling & reengineering, software development.
• Proficient problem-solver who envisions business and technical perspectives to develop workable solutions.

Professional Summary

• Masters in Computer Science, from Confidential,University Pakistan. 2003
• Currently working as AVP - Manager Systems Integration at UBL, Pakistan.

Industries
Banking Sector, Information Technology, FMCG.

Professional Experience

Confidential,Information Technology Division. Jan 2010 – Present

Assistant Vice President – Project Manager Systems Integration

Technologies & Frameworks

• Microsoft Project Server
• Microsoft BizTalk Server
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
• Microsoft .Net Framework
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

Job Description

• Manage Systems Integration and Service Oriented Architecture
• Architecture analysis and systems integration designing.
• Technology review and evaluation for systems integration standard practices.
• Implement the concept of ESB and SOA to create and maintain an extensive Library of Reusable Business objects.
• High availability planning & disaster recovery strategies.
• Business Process modeling & revamping to standardize systems integration.
• Research & Development for new technology and trends for middleware services development standardization.
• Project and resource management.
• Team supervision and coordination, to resolve project bottlenecks.
• Maintain extensive library of ESB services for common business objects reusability.
• Ensuring that development teams are following the approved SDLC processes according to IT Group policy.
• Review and audit the development process periodically.
• Manage / coordinate multiple technical teams.
• Formulates systems architecture guidelines for best practices and policies.
• Provide the high level technical architecture for systems.
• Review and approve application architecture.
• Establish best possible support processes according to the priority defined by business and IT management.
• Ensure the technical training of support groups.
• Ensure the preparation and implementation of SLA and SOP for system Support.
• Analyze security of source code in accordance with proprietary applications
• Coach and mentor diverse technical teams and identify areas for improvement.
• Establish good communication and well built working relationship with other teams, peers and management
• Keep updated on the policies and procedures of IT and overall bank.
• Maintain constant awareness of advancements in relevant development technologies and suggest investment where applicable.
• Revamping of Internet Banking according to SOA standards..
• Initiate and implement Pakistan’s first mobile and SMS banking system in UBL.
• Anticipate business needs / risks and mitigate appropriately.
• Lead business transformation as required, acting as a change agent and promoting best practice.
• Working pro-actively to ensure all sensitive data / transactions are maintained securely to the agree standards.
• Act as an advocate of new technology or process capabilities to drive adoption within the leadership teams.
• Support IT management in the delivery of financial plans and forecasts.
• Aware of the wider commercial environment and have the ability to successfully challenge and influence operational stakeholders.

Achievement

Lead the BizTalk Server implementation team, at UBL.

Confidential, Mar 2007 – Dec 2009

Lead Systems Architect - Team Lead for systems integration projects

Tools &
Technology

• Microsoft BizTalk Server
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Microsoft Visio

Job Description

• Research & implement Service Oriented Architecture, to integrate heterogeneous systems in seamless manner and minimize development effort to write common business objects pluggable to systems irrespective of platform & architecture.
• Implement the concept of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• To implement Concept of Coexistence of current Core Banking Application (Unibank) with new Core Banking Application (SYMBOLS).
• Perform requirements analysis for projects, code analysis and in-depth review of developed projects.
• Contribute towards the creation of integration design specifications to be agreed with system stakeholders.
• Design, code and debug applications in various .Net Technologies like C#.NET, SQL Server and BizTalk Server.
• Perform maintenance of source code, analyzing and fixing bugs where necessary.
• Provide estimates on future development, and accurate progress reports to support planning activities.
• Communicate with peers and business analysts to set expectations for the software components and for any clarification of requirement.
• Provide training to support, operations and user groups.
• Work with QA & facilitate to define the QA test plans.
• Technical support, maintain and document project’s functionality of various banking applications.
• Deliver projects on-time and detailed description of design criteria with an appropriate level of quality meeting in house standards at UBL.
• Assist to Evaluate and perform design tradeoffs regarding the architecture and software.

Confidential, Oct 2004 – Mar 2006

Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer

Tools &
Technology

Programming Languages: VB.NET, VB,
Web Development: ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript, HTML & XML
Database: SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle.
Reporting Tool: Crystal Reports
Workflow: Lotus Workflow Architect
Analysis & Design Tools: Visio, Visual Studio, ERWIN

Project
Summary

• Provide project leadership to analysis team, in Century Publications Pvt. Ltd, existing system re-engineering and system acquiring phase.
• Define and achieve client needs through Event Management System, developed for TMN (Television Media Network), Express News TV channel, to automate event planning and resource allocation.
• Multimedia streaming application for TMN, for real time media streaming and broadcasting.
• Introduced and develop, Organization resource evaluator, to evaluate resource efforts with respect to project, time and cost.
• Analyze and integrate CYBERNET billing system with ASP.Net application to monitor and forecast company sales, with respect to region, marketing team and target year.
• Envisioned and represented employee idea technologies concept to management to enhance staff development and skills enhancement.

Confidential, Mar 2004 – Oct 2004

Analyst Programmer

Tools &
Technology

Programming Languages: Visual Basic
Database: SQL Server
Reporting Tool: Crystal Reports
Analysis & Design Tools: Visio, ERWIN

Project
Summary

• Develop Material Resource Planning System, for Universal Brush wares, to automate their inventory and production cycle, work as a team leader to analyze their business process and model system design for development.

Confidential, Jul 2002 – Feb 2004

Software Engineer

Tools &
Technology

Programming Languages: Visual Basic
Database: SQL Server
Reporting Tool: Crystal Reports
Analysis & Design Tools: Visio

Project
Summary

• Part of analysis team responsible for on-site system analysis and business process enhancement and improvement of production processes of Heavy Mechanical Complex, Taxila.
• Serve as a liaison between system stake holder and development team to automate live system processes.
• Develop Human Resource System, integrated with Attendance Management System to track and evaluate resource performance according to ISO standards.
• Design and develop State Bank Statistical Information System, for Country’s Import & Export details.
• Re-Engineering of General Ledger System.

Confidential, Feb 2001 – Jun 2002

Programmer

Tools &
Technology

Programming Languages: Visual Basic
Database: SQL Server
Reporting Tool: Crystal Reports
Analysis & Design Tools: ERWIN

Project
Summary

• Primary task to re-engineer existing systems in Visual Basic and SQL Server.
• Develop Visual General Ledger, an on shelf product, worked on N-Level of Chart of Accounts.
• Develop and maintain Inventory Management System.
• Design a database driven component to implement user authentication and rights in application.
• Assist system designing.
• Develop and implement business logic in DLL.
• Responsible for on-site user training and deployment.

Professional Training

• Microsoft BizTalk Server Advance Training at Microsoft Dubai.
• Executive Development Trainings at UBL.

Honors and Awards

• Recognize and awarded for efforts made for implementation of Pakistan’s largest middleware implementation in UBL and live roll out of Core Banking Solution modules.
• UBL Performance Rewarded.