IT Transformation Partner who has delivered state of the art and robust turnkey IT projects in telecom and financial verticals to build the foundations of successful business operations with latest technology.

Infrastructure Development: Expert in delivering Multimillion USD Data Center Projects to enhance the reliability of the system and provide scalability for the future expansions.

Software Development: Managed agile development teams, release management and end to end testing.

Team Building: Managed the cross functional teams and build the PMO having 70+ team members with well-defined OPA’s.

A History of Competence and Deliverance

HCL America November 2019 to June 2020

PROJECT MANAGER (IT IMO)

Sprint Communications, Overland Park, KS (Boost Mobile Divestiture Project)

Worked on the Boost Divestiture Project by leading teams across technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused on business objectives and track progress to ensure overall program goals are achieved on time, on budget and with the desired results through twenty three (23) projects. Successful implementation of Hybrid model based on Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology.

Key focus areas:

Engaged in the development of Project Charter and Transition Services Agreement (TSA).

Prepared project related documentation for weekly updates to the senior management of Sprint, T-Mobile & Boost which include Power Point slides, Gantt Charts and other reports.

Managed and organized project information portal (PIP) for schedule, risk management, budgets and communication with other business center mangers.

Developed Work Plan to track the milestones and identify gaps in activities to make the project plan.

Developed Project Scorecard and Reediness Plan to track each and every activity required on both sides of the organizations to build-up a new entity to divest.

Developed Cutover Plan with a close coordination with Release Management Team with time stamped activities for the seamless transition of the entity from one company to the other company.

Monitored the assigned budgets for different projects and managed change requests with minimal impact.

Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to create Project Requirement Documents (PRDs) & Functional Specification Document (FSD) to operate as Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE).

Identified all the required existing Applications and Tools for the seamless operations of the divested entity independently. Developed and Trained resources on new Intake Tool to request & perform services.

Followed the company defined RAID logs for Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies. Developed mitigation and contingent plans for the successful delivery.

Purchase from different OEMs of device providers and Invoice generation through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Files as per the Transition Services Agreement.

Migration of employees from Sprint ERM Platform to Dish ERM.

Training of the divested staff on the back-end data bases to work in a new environment through VDI Solution.

Creation of a new Sharepoint site for the divested employees to access to the historical data and current data.

Managed Command Center to make Day 0 a success by creating Slack Channels and Webex Bridges between the companies to monitor the activities deployment on hourly basis for the seamless transition.

Trango Solutions Inc. Kansas City, MO Jan 2018 to Oct 2019

PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER

Engaged in eliciting and documenting, business, user, functional and non-functional requirements. Developed weekly Project Status Report and Change Requests based upon the project requirements; Analyzed and negotiated Statement of Work (SOW).

Key focus areas:

Agile Scrum Methodology for development, Implementation, Testing and successful integration.

Requirement gathering through interviews, workshops, JAD sessions with clients, developers and QA Analysts.

Worked closely with Product Owner and Business Analyst.

Worked on Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning and Retrospective.

Conducted daily standups and Agile coaching.

Used Jira Reporting for project execution.

Developed project plan (MS Project) and burn down reports for status updates to internal and external stakeholders.

Medicaid claims processing and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) translation in compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Clear understanding of eBilling and EDI HIPAA Claims (837/835/834) processing,

PROJECT:

XChange of America

A foreign exchange company engaged in online currency exchange and delivery through DHL Offices across USA.

CNS Engineering, Pakistan Dec 2010 to Dec 2017

PROGRAM MANAGER

Lead cross functional teams across technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused on business objectives and track progress of multiple ongoing projects to ensure project milestones are completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Key focus areas:

Delivered Multimillion US Dollar turnkey IT infrastructure projects including Data Centers for Core Sites, Disaster Recovery and Colocation facilities.

Clear understanding of TIA942 Standards for Compute, Storage, Networks, Electrical Power, Cooling, Security & Surveillance.

Developed and managed project charters, project plans, project schedules, resource requests, and project status reports.

Created and managed SLA’s (service level agreement) for smooth functioning of the systems.

Buildup teams and Organizational Process Assets (OPA’s) to strengthen the PMO role for successful and smoot delivery of projects.

PROJECTS:

Punjab Information Technology Board, Lahore

Tier-III Compliant $14M Provincial Government Primary Data center serving all Government Departments to access and store data at one central place from 36 different regions of the country. to the Primary Data Center and got signed off within the stipulated time of 14 Months on the contract.

oComplete Network connectivity of all remotely located departments with the Data Center.

oDeployment of multiple brands of x86 Architecture Servers and blade server for different Departments.

oSAN and Virtual Storages of different users.

o10K Switches for Aggregation 5K for Access layer.

oFirewall for DPI, IPS, Anti Viruses, Anti-Spam, URL Filtering, Content filtering & GEO Blocking.

o2(N+1) Secure Electrical Power with Draw out Type Switch Gear to reduce MTTR.

o(N+1) Precision Air Conditioning with Chilled Water InRow Air Conditioning, Hot Aisle Containment and Cooled Water Chillers

oDeployment of Data Center Infrastructure Manager (DCIM)

oSecurity and Surveillance of complete facility.

oNetwork Operation Center (NOC)

Board of Revenue, Punjab

$11.4M World Bank funded project for the Computerization of Agricultural Land Records of Punjab Province.

MCB Bank Limited, Disaster Recovery Site, Karachi

IT Infrastructure Project with Network, High End Compute System, Core Banking Software and Passive Infrastructure.

Meezaan Bank Limited, Primary Site, Karachi

Project with DCIM implementation which includes Operation, Capacity, Asset Tracking and Remote Monitoring through single dash board.

Bank Al Habib Limited, Primary Site

Modular Data Center Infrastructure Project serving as primary site more than 100+ branch network aggregation.

Habib Bank Limited, Disaster Recovery Site, Lahore

Data Center Infrastructure Project including power, cooling and connectivity.

Allied Bank Limited, Relocation of Primary Site, Lahore

Migration of Main Data Center. It involved Core Banking Software Tier III compliant

Infrastructure.

Warid Telecom Data Center Relocation, Lahore

oManaged relocation of Tier III Data Center due the site limitations within the same city with more than 60 Physical and Virtual Machines.

oManaged Cell sites across the country which include Infrastructure and Connectivity.

Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited (PTCL) Colocation Facility, Lahore

oA flagship project of First TIA 942 Tier-III Certified Data Center in Pakistan hosting 220 Racks and providing managed services to more than 30 different companies.

CNS Engineering, Pakistan Jan. 2006 – Nov. 2010

SR PROJECT MANAGER

Involved in eliciting and documenting, business, user, functional and non-functional requirements.

Analyzed and negotiated Statement of Work (SOW); forecast and resources; Managed budgets, deadline and milestones.

Project Status Report (PSR) and Change Requests (CR) based upon the project requirements.

Act as liaison between business users and IT development team and work closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to help create Project Requirement Documents (PRDs), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and use cases.

Participated in design, development phase and documented applications and interfaces for multiple environments considering operational risk guidelines for the conversion.

Created a comprehensive Lessons learned archive for future projects.

PROJECTS:

United Bank Limited, Disaster Recovery Site, Karachi

40 Racks Data Center Infrastructure Project.

Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Limited, Main Site Expansion, Islamabad

Main/Core Site Infrastructure Project for Billing and Data Storage.

Allied Bank Limited, Primary Site, Lahore

Project for the launching of Core Banking Software and other applications.

Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Limited, Main Site, Islamabad

IT Infrastructure Project comprising of Server, Storage and Network.

Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited, Disaster Recovery Site, Islamabad

Billing Application and Infrastructure Project

Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Limited

Precision Air Conditioning Project, Supply, Installation & Commissioning of 80 Units of

72KW AC’s of (DX Type) for different MSC’s

Early Career Experience

CNS Engineering, Pakistan - Project Manager Apr. 2002 – Dec. 2006

CNS Engineering, Pakistan - Business Analyst Jan. 1998- Mar. 2002

Education

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), University of the Punjab – Lahore, Pakistan

Project Management Profession (PMP), PMI, USA

Completed PDU’s for ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)

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