Dear Recruiting Manager,

I am a seasoned MBA-performance driven professional with a track record to

deliver successful results in high pressure environments. My experience

spans a variety of organisations, from private to publicly held

organisations, to government agencies, and from local to country-wide

companies, to global conglomerates, working directly with front-line staff,

through to senior executive leadership.

My background includes education in three separate degrees; an MBA, BSc.

Information Management Systems, and BSc. Biology. In addition to the

diverse formal education, I have accumulated senior level Project/Program

Management in several organisations in client-facing as well as internal

roles. Currently at Siemens Canada, I am the Country Project Manager

overseeing the integration program of two business units in Canada, as part

of a global restructuring, with direct reporting to HQ in Germany, regional

leadership in the USA, and Canadian leadership. I have spent time at

Longview Solutions, implementing their proprietary CPM solutions with

strategic clients across North America. At UHN, one of Canada's largest

hospitals, I worked with a hospital partnership spanning the entire GTA

leading several implementations, procurements, and strategic integrations

for many of the partners, and dealing with many levels dealing with front-

line staff to the CEO and CFO on a regular basis. While at Accenture, a

leading global consulting firm, I have worked on a strategic province-wide

initiative addressing one of the major government concerns regarding

population health and performance measurement, and I also worked a post-

merger implementation following an international acquisition involving an

offshore leading mining company and a Canadian-based mine. I have been

involved with several initiatives from large-scale, enterprise-wide and

province-wide implementations, to procurements, to third-party vendor

transitions, to mergers and acquisitions, and global restructuring

programs. My personal attributes include stakeholder management, strong

analytical, problem solving and communication expertise as well as sound

decision making and troubleshooting skills.

Having a diverse background, skillset, and experiences, I believe I am

ideally suited for this position.

I am certain I could make significant contributions to the organization. I

welcome the opportunity to meet with you to discuss my experience and

skills in more detail.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Masroor Ahmed

Summary

> MBA performance-driven professional with a proven ability to deliver

results in high-pressure environments

> Proven leader to successfully manage key strategic and at-risk projects

> Extensive experience in Business and IT Project Management and

consulting, with both internal and external clients, working with

stakeholders ranging from the CEO, CFO and VPs, to Directors and

Managers, to front-line staff, and vendor management

> Managed C-level communication through to all levels of projects for

programs up to $98M

> Managed enterprise-wide systems implementations and IT infrastructure,

as well as province-wide, country-wide, and international

implementations

> Managed business-level strategic integrations, and post-merger

activities

> Worked with global clients, and vendors

> Worked on country-wide and global initiatives

> Proven ability to work with offshore vendors, overseas HQ leadership

and North American leadership based in the USA in multinational

organizations

> Proven analytical and problem solving expertise and team-building

skills, with the ability to deliver results using Project Management

methodologies, including developing and maintaining project plans,

budgets, risk management plans, communication plans, and managing

project interdependencies

> Extensive experience successfully managing multiple, concurrent

projects within cross-functional, matrix-model environments

Skills and Qualifications

. Bilingual (English, French)

. Project Management

. Risk Management

. Team Mentoring, Evaluation

. Problem Solving, Analytical, Decision Making

. Enterprise Services

. Senior Executive Consultations

. Stakeholder Management

. Communication and Presentation

. Vendor Management

. MS Office, Project, Visio, Sharepoint

. Worked in ITIL environments

Professional Experience

Country Project Manager, Siemens Canada

April 2013 - present

Oakville, Ontario

. Provide Program Management for Canadian portion of a strategic global

business reorganization for a leading global, multinational engineering

conglomerate

o Worked with Country leadership, Managers, and Directors across the

business within the group to oversee the integration program for 2

business units, including teams, processes, and systems, to realize

$2million in efficiencies

o Worked with an external, overseas vendor, Atos, for part of the

delivery of the technology solution, rollout of a handheld device tied

into SAP for reporting, tracking, and dispatching of technicians

o Coached PM's and teams in Canada and Mexico as a SME

o Managed Project Budget of $1M with 1.5 years duration

o Direct reporting relationships with global headquarters in Germany,

North American regional leadership in the United States, and Canadian

national leadership

Senior Project Manager, Longview Solutions April

2012 - February 2013

Toronto, Ontario

. Lead the implementation of the firm's Corporate Performance Management

solution for key/strategic clients of the firm across North America,

including some with multiple global sites

o Responsible for leading the project implementation and maintaining

relationships during the installs with multiple concurrent clients

throughout North America (MetroLinx, Central 1 Credit Union, Nortek,

Sherritt International, Dielbold)

o Solution helped with up to 25% reduction in production time of KPI and

Financial reports

o Coached consultants and client teams on Project Management PMI

methodologies

o Worked on multiple clients at a time; global mining company; regional

government agency; manufacturer of lifestyle improvement products for

home and work, with multiple subsidiaries; manufacturer of ATM's,

electronic and physical security products

o Managed Project Budgets ranged from $200K to $4M, team sizes up to 10,

with durations of 3 months to 1 year

Project Manager, University Health Network (UHN)

March 2008 - April 2012

Toronto, Ontario

. Lead a key infrastructure integration initiative as part of merger

activities during merger of Toronto Rehab Institute with UHN, was the

first tangible result of organizational merger; intranet infrastructure

integration, facilitating business integration discussions

. Transitioning of UHN from the former Managed Services (help desk, data

centre, etc.) vendor (HP) to a new vendor (CompuCom)

. Manager and Bid Administrator for an RFP (procurement) of an enterprise-

wide system (Electronic Patient Record) at one of the rehab hospital

partner sites, reporting regularly to CEO and CFO

. Lead a Program of system improvements for 'Rehab Solutions' at Toronto

Western Hospital, as part of key integration activities of 'Rehab

Solutions' with SIMS at UHN; set-up of the network infrastructure for the

relocation of departmental staff, server virtualization, implementation of

a call-centre solution to link province-wide offices with the host

hospital, and the roll-out of touch-screen technology in support of a new

application

. Implement an inventory management system for the Operating Rooms and

integrate it with the third-party supply chain provider (Cardinal Health)

. Implementation of several projects at another of the rehab hospital

partner sites; set-up of the shared (hosted) infrastructure required for

the implementation of Sharepoint as the new Content Management System with

NetDexterity as the vendor, and Cognos to automate and reduce the

production of the organization's Balanced Scorecard by 2 weeks and provide

a Data Package to facilitate ad-hoc reporting worked with Keyrus Canada

for part of this delivery

. Managed Project Budgets ranged from $300K to $10M, with durations of 6

months to 1 year

Consultant, Accenture Inc. March

2006 - March 2008

Toronto, Ontario

. Project Management Team to implement Oracle as part of post-merger

activities

o Member of Project Management Team to implement Oracle's enterprise

application at former Inco operation as part of Vale (a leading mining

company based in Brazil) post-acquisition activities; team members

included Accenture Senior Manager, Oracle Project Manager, Ernst &

Young Senior Manager, and the overall Program Manager from the client

o Major achievements include regular reports and presentations for senior

and executive leadership, ad-hoc reports, document tracking; worked

with al team leads from Accenture, Ernst & Young, Oracle, and Vale-

Inco, for overall project tracking, responsible for weekly generation

of reporting presentation tracking the overall progress of the

implementation of the project delivered to project sponsors at company

leadership level

o Project budget of $98M, with 120 - 130 resources and duration of 1 year

. Wait Times Information System

o Project Team Member in multiple phases of phased roll-out of the Wait

Times Information System project, the centrally-hosted WTIS-EMPI system

accessed by hospitals across Ontario

o Beta Phase - Member of Provincial PMO Team

. Major achievements include helping implement, and develop training

material for, the use of a document storage system and process, and

deliver training to the senior team leads of the project

o Phase 2 - Member of Accenture's Project Management Team

. Major achievements as PMO Team Lead include financial tracking,

client-invoicing, vendor tracking, project (Accenture) team audit,

training sessions to transition incoming internal project team

members, as well as weekly generation of client-deliverable

reporting on team progress

o Phase 3 - Member of Implementation (Site-Lead) Team

. Major achievements include working with the Site Leads to track

progress on implementation activities at hospitals across the

province, risk tracking, and generation of client-deliverables

showing implementation progress

o Project budget of $4M, with 50 resources and duration of 1 year

Business Project Manager, Juravinski Cancer Centre

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton Ontario

2005

. Worked with hospital senior leadership to document and help formulate the

vision for a unique, new 'Neuromusculoskeletal' Oncology Program, drawing

together different research areas: nerve, muscle, and bone, as one of the

organization's key long-term objectives

. Key result was the creation of a qualitative report outlining the vision

for the new Program, including a 'Centre of Excellence' structure, as well

as the different research areas

Business Project Manager, Roche Canada (Pharmaceuticals)

2004

Mississauga, Ontario

. Worked with the Market Access Manager on key initiatives in support of

department activities, including meetings with government officials, cross-

functional product teams, and departmental meetings

. Major achievements include federal and provincial policy analysis,

conducting research in support of company strategic planning, including

drug funding trends for long-term planning of upcoming product portfolio,

drug-funding landscape in Canada, conducted analysis of reimbursement

service providers available on the market resulting in investment in a

subscription to a new service provider, and created and updated department

databases for reimbursement status of Roche and competitor products, and

for government drug listings, helped update corporate marketing material

Assistant Manager, Little Imports

1985 - 2001

Ottawa, Ontario

. Family-owned and operated shop in downtown Ottawa, focusing on travel

bags and products, as well as women's accessories

. Managing daily operations, and supervising staff

. Represented company at industry trade shows as buyer; selected new

products and product lines, and maintained contacts with existing

suppliers

Education

MBA - Master of Business Administration

2005

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

BSc. - Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Management Systems

2003

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

BSc. - Bachelor of Science

2000

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

PMP - in progress

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