Project Manager - Data Services

Syed A Rizvi Mississauga (ON) - L*M 647-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Qualification Summary

Extensive experience across several industry segments, business applications, and software/hardware platforms. Orchestrating successful data strategies and business intelligence initiatives designed to increase data based decision making and provide corporate insights integrating across divisions, businesses and silos.

Analytics and database project delivery, KPI development and analysis, technical team management experience, with eleven years of progressive roles in business intelligence and analytics. Refined relationship-building skills and experience

An innovative, energetic leader responsible for the development, delivery and support of mission-critical solutions and professional services for data governance, data management, data modelling and data analytics.

Technical Skills

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification # 1630585

10+ years of Program/ Project management & change management experience

Experience budgeting and tracking Programs of multiple projects up to $4.6M

Experienced managing software implementations in a SaaS / Cloud computing environment

Data Management / Visualization & Analytics

Expert at Microsoft SQL Server & it's Business Intelligence layers (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), database & data warehouse modelling

Skilful of programming languages: Java, C++ and Visual Basic

Expert proficiency with data visualization tools: QlikSense, Qlikview, Tableau & PowerBI

Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project and JIRA

Professional Experience

Project Manager – Data Services Oct 2017 – Present

Bayshore HealthCare, ON

Lead the design and development of complex data analytic solutions within Bayshore’s evolving data environments.

Responsible for Scoping out Projects, creating Project Plans, Business Requirement documents and Functional Specifications by identifying critical stakeholders. Also responsible for establishing the plans to achieve project goals, monitoring progress against the plans, and leading action to manage risks throughout the life of the program in order to ensure project success

Led the implementation of project and portfolio management functionality in 4 months utilizing the Planview Enterprise PPM application for project reporting and governance

Led Data Governance Office to build Data Governance Framework, Data Lineage, Data Profiling and Data Catalogue as business subject matter expert

Implementation of processes and procedures to minimize the risk to Data integrity as well as define remediation plans to mitigate known Data risks. Identification of both producers and consumers of Master Data as well as how the Data will be used for reporting and analytics

Utilizing Planview’s Work Management solution to optimize project portfolios, balance capacity against demand, link plans and resources to projects, and manage the underlying financials. Utilized BMC Remedy system for Change Management

Project Manager – Analytics Deployment Jan 2016 – Oct 2017

PRECIMA – a LoyaltyOne Company, Toronto, ON

Successfully implemented Analytics solution in a SaaS / Cloud environment for Retail clients.

Develops and deliver the actionable insight to the business user through the use of BI tools such QlikSense, Qlikview, Tableau and R

Evaluated and aggregated data coming from different sources such retail POS data, Nielson and 3rd party to meeting both regulator and Operational risk reporting requirements.

Work with Application Development team on requirements identified in Consolidated Infrastructure Solution, Review and analyse any impact to project timelines and deliverables

Utilized Planview (PPM) reporting capabilities reporting on Project Status, Project Actuals, Milestones, Risks and Issues reviewed and approved FFS and internal resources timesheets. Also, managed project budget, forecast, resources allocation and time tracking, using Planview Enterprise Project Management solution (EPM)

Autonomous on my projects, I was in charge of all the communication between Precima and the clients. I took part in the whole project lifecycle: from the scoping phase to the rollout phase of the tool. Change management had a significant in my projects. Workshops I lead were scheduled with various populations from the client.

Implementation Manager – BI & Data Analytics

TELUS, Toronto, ON

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016

Responsible for ensuring that complex data networking solutions are successfully implemented to meet client’s expectations, leading the business intelligence integration project

Evaluated historical and analytical report requirements to create and execute project plan for new report generation system and dashboard involving modification of existing data warehouse to accommodate new market and creation of new SQL server integration services (SSIS) to load data from heterogeneous data source.

Provided Data Governance & Management consult services for enterprise data to PMO ensuring all projects were following and producing artifacts to support Data Management Checklist.

Used Planview for project governance, access trend analysis, baseline, critical path, and resource usage information by producing regular reports.

Program Manager

Etisalat - UAE

Dec 2010 – Dec 2014

Reported to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) as part of strategic PMO for Etisalat UAE with full accountability for managing the delivery of Analytics program. This required the timely delivery of the strategy by managing four streams of work; 1) technology upgrades, 2) team and skill restructuring, 3) rebuild data warehouse's data structure including ETL, reports and delivery channels, 4) implement future governance of BI deliveries.

Managed the up gradation of DCs, ROs, Customers Centre & warehouses to latest technology solutions to ensure secure & central management including Sun/Solaris re-platform to Intel/ Linux/ Windows, automation of upgrade & roll out of POS Linux OS images for tills in Customer Centres, deployment of a single backup tool across all sites to achieve a unified backup strategy and Centralized Syslog, Authentication, Configuration & Patching solutions deployed to all servers in all locations

Handled Telcordia ISCP solution development, infrastructure deployment (IBM AIX servers, Linux, Solaris servers, SAN storage, Data Warehouse, TCP/IP, and SS7 network), and integration with Telco infrastructures from equipment vendors, such as Ericsson, Huawei, NSN and Alcatel.

Project Executive – BI & Analytics

Telenor – Norway / Pakistan

May 2009 – Dec 2010

Established project management strategies and recommended an appropriate level of planning, scheduling and control for installation, integration and commissioning of Base Transceiver Station (BTS) sites.

Managing Infrastructure implementation project and analyzing project needs, monitoring extensive analysis of socio-economic/ demographic data to identify/ prioritize target areas and quantify service requirements.

I also started by creating and later optimizing the company's ETL using Informatica. Learned how to do metadata modelling using Microstrategy. Front-end reporting was done in the same suite and completing my understanding of the back-to-front BI offering

Program Coordinator (PMO)

SIEMENS UK– London, UK

Jul 2007 – Mar 2009

As part of SIEMENS PMO, I supported in managing the multi-million pounds Technology Framework Programme, within the BBC Account. This included managing, planning and installation of IT infrastructure into the various Data Centres in London and the migration rollout to the new Data Protection

Ensured that Project is operated using PRINCE-2 Methodology and updated RAID logs

Monitored and controlled work-plan using a Project Management Tool (MS Project). This involves setting up plans, tracking actual progress, and reporting variances. Ensure delivered activities adhere to meet scope, time and cost requirements.

Project Analyst

Transport for London – London, UK

July 2006 – July 2007

Assisted in delivering successfully a number of high profile London Underground infrastructure projects with budgetary responsibility ranging from £50k to £1.6m

Developed project controls from analyzing and documenting processes within Railway Investment Projects stages 5-8 via workshops, interviews and surveys

Effectively used risk strategy by a prioritized list of risk (high, medium & low) and produced a detailed contingency plan set up for changes that occurred during project execution

Education & Training

Master of Management Analytics - Queen’s University, ON 2015 – 2016

Master in Engineering Management - Brunel University, United Kingdom 2005 – 2006

Bachelor of Computer Engineering – SSUET, Pakistan 2000 – 2004

Project Management Professional (PMP) – USA 2013

ITIL V3 Foundation 2014

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