Abid Butt, Business Development Consultant - Artificial Intelligence

Abid Butt

Business Development Consultant - Artificial Intelligence

The SmartGen

Location
Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
Education
High school or equivalent, Computer Science
Experience
23 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 2 Months

Business Development Consultant - Artificial Intelligence at The SmartGen
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since September 2017

Activities in creating Architect, Position, Design, Develop and Deploy enterprise solutions which include components across the Artificial Intelligence spectrum such as Chatbots, Virtual Assistants, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Services (e.g. Vision/Image, Textual/Language processing).
Perform data studies and data discovery routines for video, voice, weblog, sensor, machine and social media data sources or mash ups of new and existing data sources.

Implement large-scale data ecosystems including data management, governance and the integration of structured and unstructured data to generate insights leveraging cloud-based platforms
Leverage automation, cognitive and science-based techniques to manage data, predict scenarios and prescribe actions

Drive operational efficiency by maintaining their data ecosystems, sourcing analytics expertise and providing As-a-Service offerings for continuous insights and improvements.


Experience designing and implementing Apache Open Source (Kafka, Storm, Spark) Frameworks to process end to end data management life cycle for NLP, Machine Log Algorithms, Text Mining algorithms.
Java Programming at User Interface (UI) level

Chief Information Officer at Arab Open University
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • August 2013 to August 2017

Accountability:
Currently reporting to the Rector and leading a team of 60 for managing ICT Operations to provide the Information services to its users.
Accountable to lead the team for support of Infrastructure including the network of campuses located in over 8 different Gulf countries.
Managing definition and enforcing of the Directorate Technology Budget along with annual/overall Strategy and Technology plans.
Responsible for the formulation of overall University ICT wide strategic goals as well as identifying needs of the University in the area of Information Technology Application.
Involved in analyzing existing business processes, developing resources to use new technology
Spearheading the advisory role for the academics and other technical staff leading efforts in digital citizenship.
Supporting appropriate uses of technology, acceptable use information and security policies
Providing a cohesive environment in the form of a cooperative, collaborative relationship and open communication with peers.
Coordinating development, deployment and support of all software application plans for the University.
Performing daily team administration routines as well as team development and people management activities to improve team productivities.

Achievements:
Provided and achieved successfully migrating IT for multiple new building at Bahrain, KSA
Successfully introduced IT skill enhancement related course including PMP, DBA, BI reporting, SharePoint Administration, and others.
Contributed in IT Application/Technology procurement after evaluating annual technology plans

University of Karachi, Open University CBM, PAF-KIET

Chief at Pakistan Indus Credit & Invest Corp
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2000 to February 2003

Accountability:
Reported to the MD and led a team of 15 resources for implementation of a High-Tec culture in the organization via adopting a progressive approach.
Managed day-to-day operations of the IT department so as to ensure availability/integrity of Information Services to the users.
Responsible for organizing the IT function via building team to deliver state-of-art solutions by analysis of business requirements.
Involved in deployment of LAN/WAN based on Windows NT server to provide high-speed communication/data sharing along with re-engineering business software packages.
Spearheaded conduct of overall analysis in order to reduce redundancies & improved the business information flow as well as conversion of Legacy System code to a Client/Server based environment.
Performed daily team administration routines as well as team development and people management activities to improve team productivities.

Achievements:
Successfully connected nation-wide branch networks with the Head office via PTCL to achieve on-line secure data transfer
Migrated the legacy data by converting the old format into the Open source environment

VP Operations at ZRG International (P) Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2003 to January 2003

Accountability:
Reported to the CEO and led a team of 12 resources for management of the Consultancy Services & Operations to deliver state-of-art CRM based solutions.
Managed to lead the sales team during the pre-sales activities for the potential market to reach widespread awareness
Responsible for study/analysis of RFP/RFQ and prepare & deliver presentation on possible solution to potential customers.
Involved in development of a one-stop solution for the CRM services as well as analysis of corporate IT business functions to develop effective solution.
Performed daily team administration routines as well as team development and people management activities to improve team productivities.


Achievements:
Created a dynamic, highly motivated and results oriented environment by leading from the front
Provided assistance to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Pakistan Telecom (PTA), Pakistan Television (PTV), HBFC and Lakson Group of companies

General Manager at Pakistan Mobile Communications Ltd-Mobilink
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 1999 to August 2000

IT
Accountability:
Managed a team of 25 resources to ensure uninterrupted functioning of the technology dimension of the company
Responsible for development of short and long term IT plans based on current and future needs.
Involved in delivery of state-of-art technology in the field of telecommunications, electronic media, and data communications.
Provided challenging and positive working environment to the IT Team and also developed E-Commerce applications.
Performed daily team administration routines as well as team development and people management activities to improve team productivities.

Achievements:
Successfully launched the IN platform to support pre-paid JAZZ brand.
Achieved optimizations of WAN usage for the VoIP support
Created Data Mining tools to extract Business Intelligence for the CRM support.


Previous Engagements
Eli Lilly

IT Manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 1996 to November 1999
Systems Analyst at ZRG Associates
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 1994 to March 1996
Programmer Analyst
  • United States
  • August 1990 to May 1994
Project Manager at ORASCOM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Team Size
30

Environment
To integrate Siemens IN telecom product that mediates between GSM Mobile Switch and Alpha based Telecom Billing system


Details
This Mediation Device project involves 3 vendors (a) Siemens from Germany (b) Kingston from UK (c) POINT from Singapore. As a project manager was to coordinate with all of the vendors, to allocate resources, and delivered the Message-Coordinator (Mediation Device) as per schedule.

Project at CUSTOMERS SERVICES AUTOMATION
  • to
Project at PAKTEL LTD
  • to

VIS TO PROVIDE FAST SERVICE

Lead Developer
  • to

Responsible to use various Voice and Text tools in completing this project with 15 people reporting to me directly.

Project Manager
  • to

A 3-tier based project with multi-platform to integrate in providing the billing information to whole subscriber based.

at SONERI BANK LTD
  • India
  • to

Team Size
10

Environment
Authorized users are assigned various roles in such that clerks can add/edit signature information into the system. A reporting subsystem that provides detailed information on the usage of the system

Project Manager at Faysal Bank- Solution for Voice-Banking & AudioTex. Soneri Bank
  • to

Responsible for designing, development, and implementation of the whole project.

Education

High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at IBA, Karachi
  • January 1998

Adv. Analysis of Algorithms, Adv. Computer Architecture) leading to Ph.D., from IoBM

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at IBA, Karachi
  • January 1998

Adv. Analysis of Algorithms, Adv. Computer Architecture) leading to Ph.D., from IoBM

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at San Jose State University, San Jose
  • January 1994

DBMS/Interpretation of Computer Programs/Numerical Analysis/Statistics),

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Training
Cloud Computing
ASP.NET
BUDGETING
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS PROCESS
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
E-COMMERCE
EBUSINESS

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

NLP (Training)
Training Institute:
CBM
Date Attended:
May 2019
Duration:
12 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading