Syed Awdhil Ahmed, Project Management

Syed Awdhil Ahmed

Project Management

Cognizant Technology Solutions India

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Diploma, Diploma In Internet Programming
Experience
25 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 7 Months

Project Management at Cognizant Technology Solutions India
  • India
  • My current job since October 2004

Managing customer expectations by managing their projects for successful deliveries for clients in US, UK, Switzerland, Malaysia amd KSA. In additional Project Delivery and client Management, other responsibilities include managing resources and mapping their career paths, training and responding to RFP's.

1. Account & Client Relationship Manager for A Leading French Security Services & Investment Bank (Location: Chennai, India) - 2014 - 2015

2. Service Delivery Manager for A Leading American departmental store retail
chain in US (Location - Chennai, India) - 2014

3. Program Manager for A Leading American toy Mfg. Co. in US (Location: Chennai, India) - 2012 - 2014

4. Onsite Delivery Manager For a Leading UAE bank (Location: Abu Dhabi, U.A.E) - 2011 - 2012:

5. Project Manager for a Leading Swiss Bank (Location: Zurich, Switzerland) - 2009 - 2011

6. Transition Manager for a Logistics leader (Location: CyberJaya, Malaysia) - 2009

7. Project Manager for a Leading UK banking & Insurance Co.(Location: Bristol, United Kingdom) - 2007 - 2008

8. Project Lead for The 3rd Largest Banking Institution in US - (Location: Chennai, India) - 2004 - 2007

Sr Analyst at Syntel India
  • India
  • June 2004 to September 2004

Main Responsibilities
 To code based on the specifications provided.

Consultng&Development at FreeLance Consulting
  • India
  • September 2003 to June 2004

Main Responsibilities
 Perform Pre - Sales and consulting to prospective customers and secure their business for project implementation.
 Prepare agreements, SLA's and contracts for the implementations
 Co-ordinate with the customers to prepare business specification documents.
 Develop, Test and implement the agreed requirements.
 Provide Post Implementation Support for agreed period of time.

Main Achievements:
 Without any prior experience in Pre Sales / sales and Account Management, I had managed to secure a couple of clients and deliver above their expectations.

System Analyst at Jeddah Islamic Port Authority @ Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2002 to August 2003

Main Responsibilities
• Liaising with the contractors operating the different terminals and identifying their requirements.
• Requirement gathering, analysis, preparing design specifications and Setting Delivery schedules.
• Preparing issues related to which Forms/Reports needs to be developed.
o Allocating tasks to the team for developing the Forms/Reports.
o Monitoring the tasks allocated, and suggesting requisite changes.
• Testing Of Modules, Implementation and Post - Implementation tasks.
• Designing and Developing the Web Application of Jeddah Islamic Port.

Main Achievements:
 Based on my proposals and implementations for GSCCo, my services were requested by Jeddah Islamic Port, a governnment department, to design and implement an intranet site for them and also monitor the implementation of a software that was being developed to track movement in the Port.
 A proposal for setting up a Conditional Access Entry System for the building and other sensitive areas within the building and incorporating it as an Attendance System was submitted and was in active consideration with vendor proposals being evaluated at the time of my leaving the organization.

Sr. Programmer & Web Administrator at Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Co. Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2002 to December 2002

Main Responsibilities
• Assist the System Administrator in maintaining the company's network infrastructure.
• Install and maintain the ISA Firewall and Exchange Server.
• Provide Support to the Operations Team by giving reports regarding ship's container storage configuration and yard storage configuration as and when the Ships come to port.
• Provide reconfiguration report of the ship's storage to the ship captain.
• Co-ordinate with a vendor to get the company's website online - www.gscco-sa.com .
• Design, Develop, Test & Maintain the Web site Application.

Main Achievements:
 Design specification outlining related benefits to the organization to go online was accepted.
 When the vendor failed to deliver satisfactorily over a period of two months, a proposal to develop the web site internally was accepted and responsibility entrusted to me for the end to end activity.

Software Programmer at eCalyx India Pvt Ltd.
  • India
  • November 2000 to January 2002

Main Responsibilities:
• Analyzing the requirement and Preparing Program Requirement Specifications & Design Documents.
• Resource Estimation and Allocation.
• Maintaining Coding effort.
• Design & Code UI and relevant HTML/JSP/Servlet/EJB’s classes along with JavaScripts to validate the Front End Form fields
• Performing UTP review, System Test, Integration Test of developmed components or modules.

Software Programmer at Icom Technologies
  • India
  • October 1999 to November 2000

Main Reponsibilites:
. Coding as per the specifications provided.
. Unit Tests

Web Page Developer at Pintograph Computers
  • India - Chennai
  • October 1998 to October 1999

Main Responsibilities:
. Designing and Developing Web Pages and related graphics..

Education

Diploma, Diploma In Internet Programming
  • at Kaashayap Radiant Info School
  • August 1998

Course covered all Internet Technologies

Master's degree, Information Systems
  • at Insitute For Technology & Management
  • May 1998

MBA(Systems)

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at The New College - Madras University
  • June 1996

B.Sc(Comp Sci)

Diploma, Advanced Diploma In Systems Management
  • at NIIT
  • January 1996

Course included technologies in vogue.

Specialties & Skills

Project Portfolio Management
Programme Delivery
People Management
Vendor Management
Java Technologies
SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8i/9i
JRun, Web Logic, JWS, IIS,JBoss
HTML, DHTML, Java Script
Program / Project Management
MS Project
ERP Implementation and Delivery
Vendor Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
German
Beginner