Experience

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  Euronet Pakistan (Private) Limited

  • Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

  • Head of Business Strategy and EPMO

    • May 2020 - Present
    • Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

    * Provide leadership and oversight to PMO function and work with Business Sponsor to develop project roadmaps that align with business objectives. * Overall responsibility for planning, executing, tracking and managing cost, schedule, and scope for all projects in the portfolio. * Direct project portfolio activities, conduct reviews and use strong technical and business acumen to mange risk and address escalations. * Enforce consistency and standardize processes across the organization.

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  Foree

  • Karachi

  • Product Manager

    • Nov 2018 - May 2020
    • Karachi

    • Elicit and validate product requirements. Conducts research and data gathering to analyse and determine appropriate solutions. • Manage entire Requirements process from defining requirements, scoping with development and supporting the developers with all questions going through development process.• Drive the positioning and interaction of the product within the product portfolio and its integration with other products. • Understand competitive landscape from strategy to functional capabilities; Identifies customer and prospect problems and market opportunities; builds, updates, and communicates the product line accordingly. • Responsible for comprehensive definition and cadence of product Release for a product line to achieve the strategic plan, by identifying and delivering requirements on time. • Conduct research and data gathering to analyse and determine appropriate solutions.• Contribute for the internal road-map covering all customer as well as internal requests.

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  United Bank Limited

  • Pakistan
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Divisional Head - IT International

    • Nov 2017 - Nov 2018

    • Provide executive leadership as Div. Head of Information Technology for UBL International and responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation and IT Operations.• Present optimal strategies for applying and optimizing technology; contributing new technology information, analysis, and recommendations to organization strategic thinking and direction.• Translate strategic and tactical business plans into IT strategic and operational plans.• Provide senior level leadership on all IT security and risk management concerns.• Ensure technology compliance with changing trends and regulations related to financial industry.• Responsible for preparation of IT Annual budget and its effective utilization.• Directing development & upgrades in Banking Application, Middleware, Alternate Delivery platform to cater for upcoming new products & services, additional transaction handling capabilities.• Responsible for developing, implementing and executing bank’s Technology Disaster Recovery Plan for International business.

  • Sr. Manager - PMO

    • Nov 2016 - Oct 2017

    • Manage and monitor IT Road Map and its progress.• Ensure the strategic alignment of projects, while providing visible reporting on project status, portfolio tracking, financial implications, and overall performance.• Partners with IT and Business leadership, as well as other key stakeholders, to define opportunities to identify and prioritize projects based on predefined criteria (ROI, productivity, compliance, etc.)• Establishes operational processes for collaboration, scope management, change management, Risk Management, knowledge management, resource planning, rollout plan, vendor management, portfolio tracking and dashboards. • Ensure successful completion of all critical activities and participate in preparing contingency plans to minimize the risk of delays.• Oversees periodic reviews of key programs and projects, monitors their progress and provides updates to leadership.• Highlight associated risks in a timely manner so that informed decisions can be made to eliminate and mitigate risks along with updating risk register.

  • Business Architect

    • Jan 2014 - Oct 2016

    • Creating business architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems interoperate within the organization.• Review, analyze, evaluate ideas, projects and opportunities to develop new products, new technologies and business models for the business segments.• Collaborating across business segments to both find opportunities for and showcase ideas in the Innovation and emerging business pipeline• Conduct analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement.• Ensure solutions developed across organization are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits).• Functions as a liaison to Business and IT partners in order to gain a broad understanding of industry trends and innovations, and their impact on technology.

  • Snr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

    • Sep 2007 - Dec 2013

    • Help business to identify and formulate change needs and develop Business Cases.• Capture and analyse requirements from stakeholders using interviews, document analysis, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and mapping their needs with appropriate solution.• Responsible for product evaluation process, vendor evaluation process and vendor management activities. • Ensure IT and Operational teams fully understand the requirements, scope and objectives through full collaboration and interactive process during the project lifecycle.• Liaise between the business units, technology teams, delivery and support teams to arrive at optimal solutions. Facilitate walkthroughs for requirement gathering and finalization, solution assessments and training.• Collaborate with Architects, Developers and Subject Matter Experts to map the business objectives with technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs. • Assist in the production of RFPs when tendering to vendors and external suppliers, and in the subsequent review and selection.• To play a role of hybrid manager to manage and implement the system successfully.

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  Kalsoft

  • United Arab Emirates

  • Business Development Manager – Middle East and Africa

    • Jul 2006 - Jan 2007
    • United Arab Emirates

    • Leading cross-functional teams in driving new business opportunities. • Identifying potential regions and territories to establish alliances with the potential clients. • Preparing cost scheme for the projects so as to offer the most competitive rates to the clients.

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  Kalsoft

  • Pakistan

  • Snr. Quality Assurance Executive

    • Jan 2002 - Aug 2004
    • Pakistan

    • Captured and analysed business requirements and coordinated with software development department throughout the project life cycle.• Preparation and execution of test plan – including test cases to test the developed modules.• Identification and documentation of risks associated with the projects.• Escalated recommendations / issues / risks to the project managers for system enhancement or to meet the agreed business requirements.• Signing off of all deliverable and achieving the milestones on time and maintaining the level of quality agreed.