Adnan Qureshi, Senior Project Manager

Adnan Qureshi

Senior Project Manager

NADRA Technologies Ltd.

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
Experience
8 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 8 Months

Senior Project Manager at NADRA Technologies Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • October 2011 to September 2012

Develops product solutions and manage delivery of projects to large corporate & government clients. Interface with various government entities to attract new projects and provide additional earning avenues for e-Sahulat franchisees encouraging them to expand and invest in the product. Lead major engagements. Assisted in development of large bids and proposals. Control budgets up to $ 8M. Led team of twenty five professionals. Cash turnover of $ 7.6 M has been observed during last year with 77 million transactions going through the system.

Implementation Manager at NADRA Technologies Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • June 2010 to October 2011

Conceived, planned and implemented the e-Sahulat branchless Payment Eco-System. Instrumental in building an infrastructure comprising agent network of 5000 locations, 25 utility companies, 5 telecom operators and 10 banks. Involved in project management of G2P and P2P projects in liaison with SBP, banks and telecom operators. Marketing, formulation of business proposals and evolution of business processes including Operations, Risk Management, compliance, reconciliation are the areas being looked after. Developed project management best practices, metrics and training for this management and technology department.

Project Manager at National Database and Registration Authority
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • March 2009 to June 2010

Managed large scale project team on Nigeria’s civil registration project with a total contract value of $ 1M. The main purpose of the project was to develop a National Identity Management System for the Nigerian government. Instrumental in the actual bidding process where the Nigerian government invited IT firms from across the world for execution of its civil registration project and NADRA was the lowest bid. Worked with in-house technology teams to integrate biometric verification. With this project, NADRA will assist Nigeria in producing computerized national identity cards of Nigerian citizens.

Network Data Analyst at Xanadoo Inc.
  • United States
  • June 2008 to February 2009

Design, develop, test and modify network operational reports from the Company’s SQL data warehouse. More specifically, responsible for managing data flow and reporting surrounding the wireless broadband network including customer usage patterns, peak/off-peak traffic flow, load balancing, and network over subscription. Additionally, job role includes supporting the Director of Planning and Analysis in all ad hoc reporting requests and cross-functional decision support.

Project Manager at National Database & Registration Authority
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2004 to May 2008

Directed performance management by diagnosing improvement opportunities, providing effective feedback, coaching, training, professional development, and corrective action plans. Performed quality checks, developed and reviewed performance reports, identified areas to improve, and implemented measures to improve performance levels and meet objectives. Constantly monitored interaction between staff and callers to ensure quality assurance standards. Reviewed call center statistics to measure staff performance and the need for improvement.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
  • at University of Houston
  • December 1998

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Project Management
Data Analysis
MS Project
Windows Server
MS Excel
MS Visio
SQL/MY SQL
MS Powerpoint
Microsoft Project

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL Version 3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
June 2012
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Valid Until:
September 2012