Hussain Ali Merchant, Senior Project Manager IT

Hussain Ali Merchant

Senior Project Manager IT

Alfalah Insurance Co. Ltd. ( Abu Dhabi Group Comapny)

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Higher diploma, Information Technology in Insurance
Experience
22 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months

Senior Project Manager IT at Alfalah Insurance Co. Ltd. ( Abu Dhabi Group Comapny)
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since May 2013

• Responsible for the overall I.T. Governance, strategy, Software Development & operation’s for the Insurance Company.

 Worked on functionality & performance by introducing CRM, workflow based ERP & controls by using IS.
 Direct new I.T & Security policies, I.T initiatives to CEO
 Managing & Enhancing software for Insurance Company which supports Reinsurers
 Working on various insurance related e-commerce based solution
 Worked with largest reinsures like Hannover-RE and MILVIK
 Worked with IATA Singapore for TRAVEL Insurance product and integration
 Working with MUNICH - RE Islamic insurance for the integration with Insurance System
 Provide Motivation to the development, Network and Database
 Provide Planning, Strategize infrastructure communication for regional & global use
 Develops, tracks and controls the I.T. development of annual operating and capital budgets
 Align I.T./IS to ensure the productivity and outcome in order to meet investors’ concern over services
 Develop and maintain Disaster Recover (Hot & Cold sites) with BCP (Business Continuity Planning)
 Strong knowledge of .Net platform, C++, Java, JavaScript, SQL Server, AJAX, HTML, CSS technologies

Senior Manager Projects - IT at Universal Insurance Company Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • March 2010 to April 2013

• Working closely with Marketing, Business Development and Operations to define and deliver new products and enhancements.
• Customer support to 42 branches & clients all over, Provide enterprise technology knowledge and management strategy
• Develops, tracks and controls the I.T. development, Software development of annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing and operations
• Manages and optimizes infrastructure assets to satisfy internal financial targets
• Keep track of software development cycle and keep the time lines for delivery
• Supervise team of developers for insurance software and e-commerce portals
• Keep Change management and provide controls
• Work closely with user's for introduction of insurance system features
• Worked on both Islamic and conventional software syetm

Senior Manager Projects - IT at Takaful Pakistan Limited (A subsidiary of Bank Al-Barka, Emirates Global LLC )
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2007 to January 2010

• Managing Infrastructure, business applications and complete team of I.T
• Provide enterprise technology knowledge and management strategy
• Assessing cost and feasibility of system requests and preparing I.T budget
• Overall responsibility of operating systems, basic application software/suites including business, scheduling, e-mail, LAN, WAN etc.
• Directs new I.T & Security policies and development of I.T initiatives
• Design and development of software applications by considering I.T Governance

Project Manager ERP (Peoplesoft) at Aga Khan University Hospital
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2006 to August 2008

• Primarily responsible for project management of a approved medical projects
• Responsible for executing iteration plans and ensuring quality standards
• Take care all communication with customers/Users
• Managing the configuration management & requirements management
• Supervise and mentor the development team (15-18 members)
• Coordination with QA department
• Using Project Methodology of RUP
• Implemented People soft GL (750 user’s)
• Database related methodologies

Manager Software Development at KASB Securities Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2002 to December 2006

• Managing overall activities of IT Department which includes, Network, Hardware, IS, Procurement, Web
• Managing team of developer, Infrastructure and Networks and providing them vision and technical infrastructure for development.
• Arrange Training to the end users by arranging seminars and presentations
• Reporting and provide presentations to strategic staff
• Managed the Help Desk and Procurement
• Developed SIS for the KASBIT University as a Group sister concern

Education

Higher diploma, Information Technology in Insurance
  • at British Computer Society UK ad Chartered Insurance Institute
  • October 2008

Certificate In IT for Insurance, Specialize certificate to help understanding the IT project management related to different methodologies and Agile management.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Engineering
  • at Usman Institute of Technology, Hamdard University
  • May 2001

Studied in Computer (Systems) Engineering : Design of integrated hardware and software solutions for technical problems. They are involved in many aspects of computing, from the design of individual microprocessors, personal computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design.

Specialties & Skills

IT Management
Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Agile Project Management
IT Project Management
Database Designing
System Analysis & Designing
IT Infrastructure Management
IT management
Project Management
Project Lifecycle management

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

British Computer Society
  • Associate Member of British Computer Society United Kingdom
  • October 2008

Training and Certifications

Project Management with PMP Exam preparation (Training)
Training Institute:
Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology
Date Attended:
April 2009
Duration:
35 hours
Implementation of PeopleSoft Financial Solution (Training)
Training Institute:
KE Systems, Malaysia
Date Attended:
June 2007
Duration:
48 hours
Effective Disaster Recovery and IT Infrastructure Managment (Training)
Training Institute:
Pakistan Institute of Management ( PIMS), Karachi
Date Attended:
September 2007
Duration:
32 hours
Implementation of Rational Unified Process (RUP) with CMMI (Training)
Training Institute:
Construx Software
Date Attended:
January 2006
Duration:
120 hours
Project Planning with Primavera (Training)
Training Institute:
Pakistan Institute of Management ( PIMS), Karachi
Date Attended:
June 2005
Duration:
48 hours