ALI HASNAIN, PMP

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Over 12 Years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in leading & delievering Enterprise IT projects. Decisive, action and result oriented professional with strong background in Application/Database development, systems support and maintenance. Outstanding talents in project Scope, Time, Cost, quality and Customer relationships management. Driven by new challenges and desire to bo successfull in all endeavors. Immensely enjoy navigating all aspects of complex projects.

EDUCATION

Masters Of Business Administration (MBA) 2004 Hamdard Institute Of Management Science, Karachi, Pakistan

Master Of Computer Science (MCS) 1999 Preston Institute Of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Bachelor Of Commerce (BCOM) 1997 Karachi University, Pakistan

Intermediate (HSC) 1992 Govt. National College, Karachi, Pakistan

Matricalculation (SSC) 1990 Ali Ali Secondary School, Karachi,Pakistan

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Project Management Professional(PMP) 2006 Project Management Institute, Toronto, Canada

SAP BI/BW Training 2010 Haadi Academia & Development,Toronto,Canada

IBM Certified- DB2 Business Intelligence V8 2008 IBM

IBM Certified Advanced Database Professional 2004 IBM

Diploma in Computer Sciences 1996 AT&T Education Centre

IBM Lotus Notes & Domino R6 2004 IBM Pakistan Ltd

JAVA 1.2 1999 Ideal Solutions (Pvt.) Limited

Visual Age for Java 2000 Ideal Solutions (Pvt.) Limited

DB2 UDB WorkGroup / Enterprise Edition 2000 Commit (Pvt) Ltd

Certificate course in XML 2000 IT Track Institute

Professional History

1. IBM Canada Ltd, Position: Senior Project Manager , October 2010 - Present

My project management responsibilities are as under

• Management of multiple concurrent projects.

• Identify and establish schedules, milestones and resources required to meet project objectives.

• Confirm project scope, specifications, goals and deliverables.

• Manage project scope, define and clarify project as needed to mitigate deviations.

• Monitor progress of project against KPIs (Key performance Indicators).

• Take corrective actions as needed to resolve functional and technical issues and ensure quality.

• Define transition to support and required support structure, training and resources.

• Work with clients to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support.

2. Honda Canada Ltd Toronto, Canada, Position: Project Manager, September 2009 – October 2010

• Managed a dynamic team of Systems Analysts, SME's, Developers, and QA Analysts, and implementation staff in a matrix environment.

• Developed work plans, managed deadlines and coordination of project team activities in line with project objectives, budget, and schedule.

• Worked with appropriate team managers in finalizing project deliverables and milestones and leading the team towards achieving those milestones.

• Negotiate vendor contracts and initiate performace standards.

• Standardizing services, processes and products to reduce legal exposure.

• Scope management and communication with stakeholders.

• Budget management, risk management and regular status reporting to stake holders

3. IBM Canada Ltd, Position: Project Manager , Jan 2006 – August 2009

I worked as a Project manager in IBM Canada Ltd. I performed project management for various clients of IBM. My job responsibilities included

• Managed projects with more than 15 team members and a given budget including the creation and management of project charter, project plan and detailed implementation plan ensuring the project scope is scheduled in manageable components.

• Interaction with clients to prepare and contribute to presentations. Manage client and stakeholder expectations.

• Ensured projects assigned were delivered on time, on scope, on budget. Closely monitored timelines and project costs to ensure adherence with approved project plans.

• Was Responsible for communication management (i.e. the preparation of project, client and executive reports).

• Managed the efforts of inter-departmental teams. Allocated resources and organize available resources effectively.

• Aggressively protected the project's scope to ensure that scope creep does not result by enforcing change management procedures.

• Coordinated complex technical, system and process audits on client and internal engagements.

• Facilitated team meetings to communicate progress, status, issues, assignments and urgency.

• Worked with the project team to identify and anticipate issues and risks. Managed issues and risks and escalated those that are unresolved to senior project management to ensure that possible actions will mitigate these.

4. Bank ALHabib Ltd, Position: IT Manager, April 2002–December 2005.

I worked in Bank ALHabib Limited as an IT Manager. Bank ALHabib is one of the leading commercial bank in Pakistan with more then 180 branches accross the country.

My responsibilities included

• Directed Tech Support, Software Development, Internet and Database operations for the bank.

• Improved service levels and provided monthly service level reporting.

• Introduced and integrated new technologies.

• Increased productivity through applications development and deployment.

• Re-engineered a complete banking application with migration of database.

• Planning purchases, Requesting sellers responses and Selecting sellers.

• Estimation of Project Resource and Duration requirements.

• Cost Estimating, Budgeting and Controlling.

• Managed key relationships with vendors and consultants.

5. IDEAL SOLUTIONS (PVT) LIMITED, Position: Systems Analyst, August 2000–March 2002.

Ideal Solutions is a software house currently engaged in the development of different software with its offices in USA, UK, Pakistan, Dubai, and Macedonia. I worked as a Systems Analyst.

PROJECTS FOR IDEAL SOLUTIONS (PVT) LIMITED

a. Banking System

Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Position: Systems Analyst

I worked as a Systems Analyst on the project of a Bank, which was developed in Visual Age for Java and DB2. My job involved interaction with the client regarding their requirements for the banking system. Analysis of the system and design of the application modules. Supervising and helping in database design.

Responsibilities:

• Defining, Documenting, categorizing and user requirements.

• Identifying and gathering business, user and system requirements.

• Conducting requirements review meetings.

• Developing requirement document for approval by stakeholders such as business leads, system designers and testers.

• Developing conceptual and logical data model using Erwin.

6. AUTOMATED BUSINESS SERVICES, Position: Systems Manager, February 1999– July 2000.

AUTOMATED BUSINESS SERVICES (ABS) is an IT Solution Provider with expertise in Item Processing. ABS is an IT consultant of National Institutional Facilitaion Technologies (NIFT). NIFT is an automated clearing house providing its services to more then 45 banks of Pakistan. Initially I joined ABS as a Software Engineer and subsequently promoted as Systems Manager and given the assignment to setup NIFT Lahore.

PROJECTS FOR AUTOMATED BUSINESS SERVICES (PVT) LIMITED

a. Setup of NIFT Lahore

Location: Lahore (NIFT)

Position: Systems Manager

NIFT started it’s Lahore operation in 1999 and i was assigned the task to setup IT infrastructure there. I was involved in the Initiation, Planning, Executing and closing of the project. The task included dealing with various international IT consultants regarding procurement of Hardware and Software for the automated clearing house. After the selection of the consultant i was also involved in deployment of Hardware (installation of new sorters) and software with the help of foriegn consultants.

Responsibilities:

• Planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones.

• Developing and delivering progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.

• Negotiating with vendors and service providers.

• Management of changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.

• Communication with different banks, documenting their requirements.

b. NBS (NIFT Billing System)

Location: NIFT (Lahore)

Position: Development Leader

A billing system for National Institutional Facilitational Technologies which involved more than 540 branches of 45 banks working in Lahore. This system handles around 10 million records per month and contains 15 different reports. I was Development Leader and had also Analysed the system.

Responsibilities:

Analysis, and Design.

c. MIS Query System

Location: NIFT (Lahore)

Position: Software Engineer

A large scale MIS & Query System comprising of 50+ reports providing detailed information about the transactions done by different member banks of NIFT. This project was developed in VB 6 and SQL Server.

Responsibilities:

Designing & Development

7. IDEAL SOLUTIONS (PVT) LIMITED, Position: Analyst Programmer, October 1998 –February 1999.

Ideal Solutions is a software house currently engaged in the development of different software with its offices in USA, UK, Pakistan, Dubai, and Macedonia. I worked as a Analyst Programmer.

PROJECTS FOR IDEAL SOLUTIONS (PVT) LIMITED

a. Citi School Management System

Worked on the project of Citi School which was developed initially in Oracle and then re-engineered in Visual Basic and SQL Server.

Responsibilities:

Designing & Development.

8. SunSoft (PVT) LIMITED, Position: Programmer, November 1997 –September 1998.

SunSoft is incorporated in Pakistan with its office in Toronto as Softage Inc., a part of Sun Enterprises which have had its presence in North American continent for over a decade. SunSoft mainly focused on development of software in Visual Basic with its clients in North America and Canada.

PROJECTS FOR SUNSOFT (PVT) LIMITED

a. Depot and Container Management System

Developed a complete suite containing modules and activities related to Depot Management and Container management for a local shipping company. It was designed in Visual Basic. I worked as Programmer involved in development.

Responsibilities:

Development

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