Experience

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  Lahore Garrison University

  • Pakistan
  • Higher Education
  • 500 - 600 Employee

  • Manager Business Incubation Center | Senior Lecturer Department of Management Sciences

    • Aug 2021 - Present

    Subjects Taught: Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Project Management, Organizational BehaviorEstablished the Business Incubation Center and successfully run the cohort.• Strategized, streamlined, implemented, and managed incubation and successfully graduated the first ever batch of startups from the Business Incubation Center.• Documented strategic plan, budget, cohort schedule, startup screening, curriculum, training management, KPIs, evaluation and graduation criteria, and startup policy.• Networking with various stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem including investment forums, trainers from industry, academicians, and incubation centers.• Streamlined entrepreneurship activities at the campus in phases of pre-incubation, incubation, and post-incubation including business idea competitions, awareness sessions, hackathons, investor summits, and other events.

  • Senior Lecturar

    • Sep 2017 - Present

    Subject Taught : Entrepreneurship, Project Management & Organizational behavior.

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  CSC Empowerment and Inclusion Programme

  • Lahore

  • Program Manager

    • Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
    • Lahore

    Community Support Concern is a Social Entrepreneur Organization working in Microfinance, Vocational training, Capacity Building, Livelihood, and Social awareness domains.• Managing, Monitoring, and Coordinating with Project Team about Livelihood projects, women's rights awareness, Small & Medium enterprise development and Vocational training in Sheikhupura and Dera Ghazi Khan Districts, throughout the project life cycle.• Communicating and managing relationships with stakeholders including community-based organizations, trainers, beneficiaries, communities, community leaders, relevant government authorities and donor agencies about project activities and updates. • Supervision and managing of various pieces of training and actively participated in post-training activities including impact assessment.• Conceptualized and developed proposals and reports, case studies, success stories, media content about project activities.Achievements and Results:• 3 years project of vocational and livelihood projects at DG Khan completed with all documentation.• Participated actively in the successful launch of the “women ride with Pride” initiative for free mobility of women. • Coordinated with project team & 20 CBOs developed, 60 street theatre sessions, 2 product mela, 330 women trained on vocational training, 168 women trained on enterprise development, 65 women trained on kitchen gardening in Sheikhupura.

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  Little Tree House apps & e-Books; Suave solutions pvt. ltd.

  • Lahore

  • Project Coordinator - e-Learning

    • Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
    • Lahore

    Little Tree House Apps is brand of Suave Solutions (pvt) Ltd. with projects and initiatives of Smartphone Apps, Edutainment and E-learning. • Managed and coordinated all phases of E-learning development process by following ADDIE model including conceptualization.• Supervised instructional design phase by articulating storyline by selecting contents in liaison with technical and subject matter experts, aligning the scope of learning application with stakeholder’s need.• Populated e-learning template with graphical, audio, visual and subject contents as per stakeholder’s requirements.• Developed the training material, guidelines and support procedures for Trainers.Achievements and Results:• Successfully completed the series of Early Childhood Education Apps in Urdu after QA testing and are ready for deployment.• Planned and submitted proposal for the scale-up of the current projects under Integrated Education Program to international donors.Professional Domains Project Planning & Proposal Research & Syllabus Mapping E-learning / ICT EducationInstructional Design Storyboarding & Script Work Breakdown Structure Communication & Reports

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  Renesis Tech

  • Lahore

  • Project Manager

    • Jul 2012 - Dec 2015
    • Lahore

    Tech projects with the social impact from the domain of livelihood, economic inclusion of marginalized segments of society, and institutionalization of schools; were developed and delivered for the development sector organizations funded by international donor agencies like Ilm Ideas Program UK Aid, USAID, and UNDP.Projects: School management system to improve the governance of the schools in marginalized areas. Connecting the women workers from the cottage industry to the potential stakeholders in the supply chain for their work, to ensure better business and employment opportunities.Making school children literate to use e-Learning platforms in schools and training the teachers to use online resources for lecture preparation. Conducted requirement analysis by empathizing with the stakeholders and determining the scope of the projects. Close interaction with the donor agencies, initiator, and developers team through written and oral communication in the initiation and planning phases of the projects. Communicated with the developer's team to track the milestones. Implemented the Tech projects at the community level, trained the beneficiaries and end users to ensure technology literacy and track the progress of implementation. Communicated and participated with the donor agencies and initiators to evaluate and assess the impact of the Tech projects for the social impact. Written and documented reports including project proposals, project charter, milestones, Log Framework Matrix, progress and monitoring and evaluation reports etc.

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  Church World Service Pakistan/Afghanistan

  • Sn. Project Management Officer

    • Jan 2010 - Dec 2011

    CWS-P/A: An international Civil Society Organization working in “Capacity Building” projects for small and medium CSOs.Projects: Enabling the NGOs and CBOs working in rural areas of Pakistan computer literate, and ensuring good governance through institutionalization. A web-based platform "Smart Office" was developed targeting NGOs and CBOs.Capacity Building and training on various managerial aspects for the NGOs, CBOs, and development sector professionals, to ensure good governance in their projects and operations. • Successfully completed the Online database project “SmartOffice”; an integral component of the Capacity Building Program with the purpose to make professionals technology literate and improve governance through technology.• Managed and track project activities in the Requirement analysis, development, marketing, implementation, training, and monitoring phase of the SmartOffice ICT project.• Coordinated with Implementor/ ICT Vendors throughout the development phase of the SmartOffice software project.• Identified Resource Persons for various Capacity building training & coordinated TOR, module development, boarding and lodging, and participants' details, etc. • Planned and managed training session activities including promotion, applications shortlisting, boarding and lodging arrangement at the venue, security arrangements, follow-ups coordination, and managed training sessions.• Planned proposal for next phase of Capacity Building Program and develop Project Management Plan.• Participated in and Coordinated Monitoring and impact assessment activities in alignment with indicators.• Assisted and participated in the awareness campaigns of HIV Aids, Good governance, the impact of media, and education. • Distributed information in written and oral with stakeholders including Project proposals, project charter, Log Framework and indicators, Progress Reports, Cases studies, and Newsletter stories through all project life cycle phases.

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  Rainbow Max

  • Project Analyst

    • Dec 2008 - Aug 2009

    Rainbow Max: subsidiary of Rainbow Max Hong Kong dealing in Life Style brands of “Lulu Caty, Spacetoons and Fashion” in Pan Arab Countries with Bin Laden Group as sponsor.• Conceptualized Brand Enhancement through the project of Interactive Multimedia Software for kids up to 13 years.• Defined, analyzed and documented the need, objective and business benefits of ICT Educational Software.• Supervised and Conducted B2C Research via Questionnaires, surveys interview for ICT Software Requirement Analysis. • Contents editing and story boarding of various animations in ICT Education Software.• Developed project management plan and created WBS in team for projects of ICT Education Software.• Managed projects with alliance to the project scope and completed all projects by coordinating project team and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and goals.• Liaised with IT technical team and project team through all phases of project life cycle to track the project milestones.• Distributed information in written and oral with stakeholders through all phases of project life cycle.

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  FM 101 Lahore

  • Radio Jockey

    • Sep 2002 - Sep 2008

    • Program conception, selection of contents; topics, musical and non musical items, live program presentation on regional and nationwide network, live calling session and equipment handling.

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  Greenwich Bell Resource (pvt.) Ltd.

  • Key Account Manager, Recruitment consultant

    • Apr 2008 - Aug 2008

    Greenwich Bell Resource is one of Pakistan trends setter as outsourced recruitment consulting firm dealing in candidate selection and profiling for UK, USA and Canada based Clients.• Managed high profile account of Lafosse Associates London for the end client of Royal Mail UK and BBC.• Profiled and selected the suitable candidates for the various IT and Project Management jobs using job portals like monster.co.uk and JobSearch.com etc.

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  Great Bear International

  • Customer Services Supervisor / Project Management Unit Associate – CSR

    • Jul 2006 - Mar 2008

    GBIS: a Russian company with brand name of “DIALLOG” CDMA in Pakistan with HUAWEI as a business partner. Acquired by Omantel.Supervised the Lahore Customer Services team and day-to-day operations. Designed, conducted B2C Research and survey, and transformed insights into facts and analysis.In addition to customer services, I assisted and coordinated a CSR project of the social awareness campaign of ethical mobile usage.Documented the progress reports for CSR Projects and marketing research reports.

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  Zaavia Designs

  • Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

  • Business Partner - Project Manager Interior design and Renovation

    • May 2003 - Jun 2006
    • Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

    Business Partnership in a family-owned business related to Interior Designing and Renovation Projects. Managing all activities related to domestic and commercial Interior Designing and Renovation projects.Participated and supervised the activities related to lead generation, requirement analysis, designing, and third-party vendor communication to the execution of the projects.

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  National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA)

  • Shift Incharge (Scanning Process of Registration forms for National Database of pakistani citizens)

    • Sep 2002 - Apr 2003

    NADRA possess largest database of Pakistani citizens working under the Ministry of Interior, for issuance of National ID Card, Passport, Overseas Pakistani cards and other necessary national documents. • Led a team of 10 people for the Business Process of scanning of ID cards forms and managed the various scanned forms in relevant lots in NADRA.• Maintained the equipment, which included 20 workstations, servers and special purpose scanners, UPS and working environment in NADRA.

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  World Service Intl

  • Broadcaster

    • May 2000 - May 2001

    • Program conception, selection of contents; topics, musical and non musical items, live program presentation on regional and nationwide network, live calling session and equipment handling.

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  Radio Pakistan Faisalabad Radio Broadcaster

  • Announcer

    • Jan 1999 - Jun 1999

    Program conception, selection of contents; topics, musical and non musical items, live program presentation on regional and nationwide network, live calling session and equipment handling.