Azaz Niazi, PMO Manager

Azaz Niazi

PMO Manager

SAICO

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
21 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 9 Months

PMO Manager at SAICO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since February 2012

Establish SAICO Project management office, processes, template, project methodology aligned to PMI Standards  
Establish and Implement Program and Project Governance framework to achieve set goals

Strategically plan and manage initiatives consisting of program components that meet SAICO’s expectation.
Defined and institutionalized PMO dashboard to track and monitor the status of portfolio, programs and projects, provided executive reports to Program Steering Committee
Collaborate with functional groups within the organization to drive execution of requirements for System Implementations and manage stakeholder expectations.
Perform analysis of Critical Success Criteria, KPI/KRIs and non-financial benefits realization
Ensure Key stakeholder management and communication is in place
Manage closure phase, gather best practices and lessons learned

IT Business Analyst at Al Rajhi Takaful
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2009 to January 2012

Translate business direction into technical specifications as well as Translate technical jargon and reasoning for the business stakeholders; Coordinates all project activities with project team, stakeholders and vendors.
Coordinates with any stockholders for change requests to project.
Proactively document & re-engineered key business processes across the main head-office functions including Finance, HR, Medical Insurance, and General Insurance and identify opportunities for improved efficiency, automation and workflow.
Documenting business and IT processes
Working with the business teams to create, validate, and analyze requirements.
Conduct gap, use case, business process, task, traceability, and workflow analysis.
When needed, assist and/or support UAT with the validation of test scripts.
Working with software developers within an agile environment.
Modelling techniques including ERD and process/workflow diagrams.

Software Developer at Rich Application Consulting
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • March 2007 to April 2009

Worked as the software developer.  
Responsible for understanding the current implementation and architecture.
Ensuring that projects’ scope is adequately defined and projects remain on target to meet deadlines.  
Actively participating in UI development of running projects.
Managing PHP based projects following agile methodology.

Software Engineer at GeoTech Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2006 to January 2007

Schema designing & normalization.  
Develop system design and specifications.  
Defining work break down structure.  
Implementation and monitoring of code management and change management

IT In Charge at Institute of Social Sciences, Lahore
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • August 2002 to March 2006

Responsibilities:
• Preparation and updating of databases
• Staff supervision
• Generate reports for different community surveys
• Preparation of materials for training
• Master Trainer of MS Project
• LAN Maintenance / Management
• Installation of Operating Systems & Software

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Punjab University
  • April 2002

Specialties & Skills

Installation
Visual Basic
Modeling
MS Project

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Training CBAP (Training)
Training Institute:
Simplilearn
Date Attended:
October 2014
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
March 2015