Ahsan Bukhari, Assistant Manager Business Intelligence

Ahsan Bukhari

Assistant Manager Business Intelligence

Telenor (Pvt) Ltd (A Norwegian Telecom Company ), Pakistan

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
19 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 7 Months

Assistant Manager Business Intelligence at Telenor (Pvt) Ltd (A Norwegian Telecom Company ), Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since September 2010

Role:
- Manage team of BI System and Reporting Analyst to facilitate Ad-hoc Reports & Dashboard development.
- Act as BI interface for all reporting requirements to Telenor Pakistan business units.
- Gathering reporting requirements from cross functional business /commercial teams.
- Mapping business requirements against technical CLDM implementation.
- Identifying solutions available for developing a report (Business Objects /Ad-hoc).
- Reports development using Business Objects or ad-hoc solutions.
- Reports data quality verification.
- Identifying needs for sourcing information in data warehouse.
- Implementing solutions for carrying out analysis using dashboards /reports.


Role:
- Manage a team of BI Consultants to ensure BI solutions architecture and design while promoting the utilization of BI within the organization.
- Planning of the overall architecture of solutions; including performance considerations, storage selections, data schemas, and subject definitions.
- Perform in-depth analysis and build strong understanding of each Commercial Business Unit’s working, processes and Key Performance Indicators.
- Ensuring that the architecture & design of the assigned projects is harmonized across BI Solutions and is as per industry standard implementations.
- Uses skills in data design and modeling techniques to develop the solutions according to the proposed design.
- Explore and recommend latest BI tools and technologies that are aligned with business strategy and upcoming requirements.
- Build strategic partnerships with key stake holders within the organization and develop/enhance the culture of utilizing BI.
- Manages vendors and ensure strong relationships with them to carry out and deliver the projects smoothly.
- Stay abridged with latest trends and improvements in the industry related to BI and periodically identify and analyze areas of improvement for BI Solutions.
- Team building and structuring the team with concepts of delegation of authority, responsibilities and ownership.

Projects:
- SAS Upgrade - SAS 9.1 to 9.2 along with Marketing Automation 5.1 to 5.3 & 5.4 - Redesigning semantic layer and implementing new physical layer as per latest Micro - Segmentation Strategy.
- Business Object Upgrade - Business Object RXI 2 to 4.0 along with Performance Manager to Strategy Manager 10.
- Roadmap Design - Location Intelligence, Customer Lifecycle Management and Advanced Analytics to facilitate Business departments with latest BI techniques.
- Behavior Centric Routing & Magic Screen Application Support & Integration of new business changes and ensure alignment of changes to any affected systems.

Business Intelligence Specialist at WARID Telecom (Warid is a joint venture of Abu Dhabi Group and SingTel), Pakistan.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • April 2008 to August 2010

Role:
­ Lead and supervise the development, maintenance and enhancement of the BI Projects & Processes.
­ SAS Projects from their solution discovery phase to planning, implementation, structuring and administration.
­ Implementation, configuration, deployment of SAS ETL (Extraction, transformation and loading) process flow design and Load job scheduling.
­ Business Intelligence establishment of infrastructure including DW, OLAP and Data Mining.
­ Campaign Management project from the initial phase to planning, implementation and operation.
­ Identify issues and recommend initiatives to address data quality and data integrity.
­ Responsible for maintaining Data Standards and Data Governance across Data Warehouse and BI
­ Coordinate with commercial departments, development and infrastructure teams for business and IT partnership.

Projects:
­ SAS Phase I - Ensured development and deployment of complete semantic layer on top of physical layer.
­ SAS CLM - Customer life cycle built on near to real time environment with lag of 4 hours. This Information sourced into base layer of Campaign Management solution for all BTL campaigns.

Analyst Software Engineer at TRG - The Resource Group
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2006 to April 2008

TRG is the leading provider of equity capital, strategic advice, customized outsourcing solutions and proprietary technology in the BPO sector. TRG has over 120+ global clients in 27+ global countries with operations in 7 countries.

­ Campaign Developer for International Client - Alert, TLSP, BOA, AT&T, iSKY
­ To provide business domain and solutions - working directly with off shore teams in US for Business Analysis and requirement gathering, framework conversion and develop / manage campaigns / scripts.
­ Working on UNIX Servers for routine maintenance and servers’ management
­ Managing data servers for Business Intelligence Analysis
­ Developed, Optimized and Tuned Shell Scripts to manage different data for International Clients
­ Strata Soft Front-end & Backend support
­ SQL 2005 backend support to linked Campaigns
­ Data Analysis, ETL tasks, Administration & Performance tuning
­ Reports generation as per desired templates
­ SSIS Packages to design flow of reporting (Visual Studio 2005)
­ Outsourced Network Operations & Monitoring
­ To Look after Process Management
­ Handling Different Reporting Server and Dealing with International Clients
­ Making recommendations to Operations Manager for improved Campaign results aimed to assist in meeting daily goals

System& CRM Analyst at Mobilink – Pakistan Mobile Communication Limited (An Orascom Telecom Company )
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • October 2004 to May 2006

Pakistan Mobile Communication Limited, Better Known as Mobilink, is the first GSM operator in Pakistan and since the launch of its services 1994, has engaged in installation, operation and maintenance of countrywide GSM cellular network

­ Databases - Administrating and doing operational tasks on Database SQL Server 2000. Also monitoring its working and making strategies to enhance its performance
­ Backup / Recovery - Managing backup/recovery solutions like HP Open View Storage Data Protector for performing database and file system backups and recovery procedures.
­ Managing SAN & Backups - Managing backup/recovery of database archive/redo logs on SAN Enterprise virtual Arrays
­ Disaster Recovery - Planning strategies for disaster recovery and Configuring RAID and other such procedures in order to maintain system’s stability
­ Monitoring and optimizing the performance of storage and server and providing timely recommendations for any required upgrades of storage and server resources according to the increase in application/database loads

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Punjab University
  • March 2005

GPA - 3.21

Specialties & Skills

Information Integration
Business Intelligence
SQL Server 2000 2008
Business Objects
Team Management
SAS Enterprise Guide 4
SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Server 2000,2005
SQL Server Integration Services
Plateforms : MS DOS, Windows XP/NT/2000/2003 Advanced Server , Unix
SAS Information Map Studio 3.1
Teradata - Process Monitor, Administration, Query Assistent
SAS - Marketing Automation & Campaign Management Solution
SAS Managment Console
SAP - Business Objects
SAS OLAP Cube Studio 9.1

Languages

English
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Urdu
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Arabic
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