Muhammad Zahid
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Experience
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1LINK (Pvt) Limited
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Pakistan
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Financial Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Manager
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Feb 2021 - Present
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Avanza Solutions
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United Arab Emirates
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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AVP Software Development
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Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
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Wirecard
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Germany
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Financial Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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Senior Implementation Specialist
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Dec 2016 - Aug 2020
My current role in WireCard includes - Managing card-issuing portfolio of different regions for Visa and MasterCard. - Development and enhancement in existing products to customize as per requirement. - Bridging the gap between PS team with existing features of product and vendors with respect to new requirements. - Performing proof of concept analysis to support and finalize new functionalities. - Responsible for Key management, which includes key generation, its import and sharing of final encrypted keys with payment schemes (VISA, MC, UPI etc.). Projects --------- Few of the major implementations include: - Authorization forwarding certification with VISA. - Implementation of different card-less and card-based profiles with 3DS, Tokenization and contactless transactions support. - Migration of card personalization product. - Product advancements in Tranzware design to support profile configuration and management via introducing new and improved API structure. Show less
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Avanza Solutions
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United Arab Emirates
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Manager Software Development
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Jan 2013 - Nov 2016
Possessing a successful career at Avanza Solutions Pakistan spanned over 8 years of experience in financial middleware and ATM controller application. Currently as Manager Software Development– EFT, I am leading multiple teams for implementing integration projects with different payment switches, bank Host systems and telecom industry. Roles and Responsibilities===================Reporting to department head and managing multiple teams of consultants, working on different integration projects.Responsible for collaboration with client stakeholders, requirements gathering and gap analysis to define the scope of the projects.Perform risk analysis and scope management to ensure quality and timely delivery of the final solution.Track the overall progress of the projects and submit status reports to management on completed tasks.Manage resources, and prioritize responsibilities and tasks in order to achieve the target goals and milestones defined by the company.Maintain detailed documentation for assigned projects which include scope of work, functional specification, work breakdown structure and project execution plans. Also review technical documentation provided as part of deliverables before sharing with client technical teams.Design flow charts, use cases and mock-up to facilitate clients as well as technical teams to better understand the agreed solution. Interact with different technology vendors involved in a project to devise the integration mechanism as per the message format documents.Manage the development of tools and utilities to improve the quality and reduce testing efforts.International travelling to have onsite client visits and requirement analysis. Show less
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Senior Technical Consultant
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Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Roles and Responsibilities===================Technically leading the development engineers on multiple projects in parallel. Development of tools & utilities to reduce testing efforts.International travelling to have onsite client visits.
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2008 - Dec 2009
Development and integration of payment solution in multi-vendor environment as per message formats/functional specifications.
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Karachi Stock Exchange
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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IT Officer
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Jun 2007 - Jul 2008
Responsible for development on different components of KATS (Karachi Automated Trading System) using Visual C++ 6.0 . It included working on TIBCO Messages in a multi-threaded socket based applications. Responsible for development on different components of KATS (Karachi Automated Trading System) using Visual C++ 6.0 . It included working on TIBCO Messages in a multi-threaded socket based applications.
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Software Engineer
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Feb 2007 - Jun 2007
Worked on a Credit Bureau system using Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle 9i. My role included writing validation checks in the application as well as providing support to operational staff. Worked on a Credit Bureau system using Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle 9i. My role included writing validation checks in the application as well as providing support to operational staff.
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Education
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National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
MS, Computer Science -
Institute of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science