Qamaruddin Shaikh

**** ****** *** *** *****, CA *5757

Cell: 916-***-****

H: 916-***-****

abm1eq@r.postjobfree.com

Status: US CITIZEN

PROFILE

Experienced, resourceful professional in engineering and technology with

over 15 years of diversified Project Management and leadership experience

in public and private organizations. Seeking a challenging full-time

opportunity in Project Management with a leading organization.

Provided necessary program direction for planning, organizing, developing

and integrating the engineering effort, including establishing the specific

objectives, schedules, and budgets for the Organization served.

Provided technical leadership for analyzing and establishing requirements,

preliminary designing, designing prototyping, and testing of the product;

divide the work into discrete and clearly definable tasks. Assigned tasks

to technical personnel within the Lead Engineer's area of responsibility

and other organization units.

Defined, negotiated and allocated budgets and schedules according to the

specific tasks and overall program requirements.

Measured and controlled cost, schedule, and technical performance against

program plan.

Planned, maintained and utilized engineering facilities to meet the long-

range program requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IS Ventures, Inc.

Senior Project Manager/ Consultant April 2006- Present (as needed)

IS Ventures Inc. is a 34 years old General Contractor specializing in large

government projects.

Responsibilities included maintaining network infrastructure while

providing availability and reliability; Upgrading application and

integrating third party software; worked on Point of sale network (NCR) for

company's different location; helped implement IT policies to maintain the

security and integrity of the company's head quarter; helped to implement

Safety compliance rules set by OSHA at workplace; delivered large, complex

IT project results on time, on budget, on scope, and at the highest

quality; created and maintained IT project scope, estimates, plans, status

reports, costs and budgets, and issued and maintained change logs; defined

IT project deliverables and reviewed for quality; monitored IT task and

deliverable progress, and took corrective action as required; reported IT

project status to IT project sponsors, and company management, coordinated

with other members of IT and Business Departments to ensure project

dependencies are being addressed; monitored adherence to IT standards and

actively checking for accuracy of data received or generated before acting

on it; cooperated among individuals and departments, sharing information

and resources.

Cross-trained IT personnel; attended IT conferences and kept abreast with

the latest technology; enrolled in Master Program for Project management.

Helped setup company's strategic goals.

QWEST Communications, Inc.,

Cyber Center Manager / Senior Project Manager

April 2001 - Nov 2005

As a Cyber Center Manager/Senior Project Manager, specialized in data

center operations management, facilities management, data center

consolidations and migrations, and large data center project management

assignments. Also specialized in creating and leading the empowered, high

performance, self-managing team and quality improvement process management

leading quality improvement teams from planning through implementation.

Responsibilities included managing the QWEST Statement of Work, expenses,

security (firewall access) requests, and performance for outsourced

contracts awarded to various vendors. Scope of responsibility included

analyzing all invoices before authorizing payment; research and process all

firewall access requests according to QWEST requirements, produce Direct

Measurements of Quality (DMOQ), and impact metrics. Also performed Project

Management involving Fortune 500 client's co-location installations of high

end IT network.

Reported directly to the VP of Cyber Center Division. Functioned in a

senior leadership position resulting in the growth of this federal

government contractor and its commercial technology subsidiary from

combined revenues of $40M in 1999 to a $112M business in 2005.

Achievements included the successful data migration of MCI WorldCom

Internet customers to QWEST Data Center. Scope of responsibility included

analyzing Data Dictionary and Copy Book requirements, identify and resolve

issues, create data validation rules, create test plan, test requirements,

and test conditions. Created test data in Microsoft Access, verified

results, modified validation rules, and certified correct.

Data migration of the Corio customers into the QWEST Cyber Center.

Successfully planning of new data center environment including space

management, security, UPS, HVAC, power, PDU, generator, software/hardware,

and move plan. Gathered data for inventory management for the migrating

customers.

ABB (Asean Brown Boveri )

Senior System Engineer

Feb 2000 - April 2001

Scope of responsibility included reviewing design documents, business and

system requirements, preparing test strategy, creating test requirements

and test conditions, and verifying test results.

Monitored test release cycles and performed checkpoint verification,

identified ownership and tracked problems, established problem resolution

procedures, performed regression testing, documented issues, and

communicated status as required. Responsible for the planning, scheduling

resources, disaster recovery plan, backups, disconnect hardware, pack and

ship hardware/software/media by air and ground transportation.

Responsible for the planning, scheduling resources, disaster recovery plan,

backups, disconnect hardware, pack and ship hardware/software/media by air

and ground transportation. Data center platforms included client servers,

UNIX, SUN, HP, EMC, STK Silo, and peripheral equipment. Managed and

scheduled a technical staff of 8-12 systems administrators and console,

tape, and print operators providing 24x7 systems availability. Other

process and project management highlights included development and

management of a problem tracking reporting system and creating monthly

metrics related to Direct Measurements of Quality (DMOQ) and service level

agreements (SLA).

Responsible for management of the data center facilities. Responsible for

supplier management and purchasing tape media, printer toner, and fuser

agent. Developed and implemented data storage migration projects leading to

$185k savings. Led efforts to successfully consolidate and redesign the

data center

including space management for hardware, tape libraries, and administrative

workspace. Provided scheduling, coaching, training, performance evaluations

and career path for direct reports.

Achievements included develop and implement data storage migration

projects leading to $185k savings. Led efforts to successfully consolidate

and redesign the data center including space management for hardware, tape

libraries, and administrative workspace.

Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering, Johor Malaysia

Senior Project Engineer - Guarantee Department

1993 - 1999

Performed engineering and computer support functions associated with

accomplishing work related to providing technical direction for the

financial, automated data processing, industrial engineering and technical

information functions to support the operations of the Engineering &

Warranty Department.

Duties included administering workload planning and control system by

developing budgets, accepting/declining work, scheduling commitments,

negotiating financial matters; manage and coordinate the Capital Equipment

and Technical Directives Programs; providing engineering support for newly

delivered vessels; developing industrial process improvement systems and

programs; developing Shipyard facilities; providing engineering support for

the Shipyard's technical library; providing computer hardware/software and

programming support for the scientific, engineering, technical, computer

aided design and computer aided engineering functions, as well as

networking and data communication support, etc..

Achievements included completing project before schedule of Floating

Production Storage & Offloading (FPSO) 87,000 dwt hull conversion contract

worth $84 million. Modification works which involved procurement,

construction and installation of the FPSO hull equipment, including

shipboard marine systems, cargo, ballast, inert gas, crude oil washing,

fire fighting and electrical and instrumentation. As a result

of the above achievement, was promoted to Chief Guarantee Engineer

responsible for heading all

Warranty projects.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Masters in Project Management, Devry University, Elk Grove, CA (2009-

present)

Project Management System 2009

Advanced Project Management 2010

Managing Quality 2010

BS Computer Science, University of Karachi, Pakistan

MCSA (MCP ID 1591760) 2004

MCDBA 2000

Microsoft Exchange server 2002

MCSE 2000

Associate Degree in Naval Architecture

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Associated Member of Institute of Marine Engineers

Member Board Meals on Wheels 2005

CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS

Awarded Commitment to Excellence Letter from the CEO of QWEST

Communications. (2002)

Awarded Volunteer of the Year Sacramento County Board of Supervisors (2004)

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