Kashif Akhter

VP - Wing Head Application Development at National Bank of Pakistan

• United Arab Emirates
• My current job since July 2021

Managing a team of 10 people including (3 AVPs) and application developers.
* Directly reporting to EVP Division Head.
* Assigning Projects/Tasks to Application Development Unit Heads (AVPs).
* Presenting project progress reports to senior management including CTO and Division Head.
* Engaged in Cross functional team correspondence in all phases of application development i.e. PMO, IT Ops, Business
Analysis and Quality Assurance.
* Participating in recruitment of technical and non-technical team members.

Senior Manager at Habib Bank Limited

• United Arab Emirates
• December 2016 to July 2021

Working for different business groups of HBL on diversified platforms and technologies such as Credit Administration
Division

Associate Project Manager at PIBAS Inc

• May 2014 to December 2016

Working on PIBAS Core Banking Conversion project. It is a technology migration with a focus on new era of Software
and web development techniques.
* To provide the high level technical / functional leadership to existing software development team in order to produce
the efficient and cost effective solutions in a timely fashion.
* Software development cost and effort estimation by following component based efforts estimation models.
* Following the Scrum based Agile methodology and acting as a Scrum Master.
* Present the researches to technical team and management as well to provide the detailed level understanding to new
approaches to Software Development.
* Design and Develop the complete framework, code specifications and software development protocols.
* Walkthroughs and code inspections to mitigate the ripple effect and to ensure the software development standards and
protocols are strictly followed by the developers.
* Functional and Technical software documentation for both internal and external (Client) use.
* Business and Data modelling with complete Database Structure.
* Design the Software Deployment Strategy (Complete Database Scripts and Solution Deployment Steps on IIS) with a
focus on Version management / Release management.
* Management of Technical professionals in order to assign the tasks to developers and tracking the progress on assigned
tasks.
* Perform Project Management activities using JIRA and MS-Project.
* Answer the queries of Risk Management Committee at client side and demonstrate that how to mitigate/minimize the
risks associated with project.
* Accountable for Recruitment of technical and non technical professionals in a project team.
* Participate with management in appraisals of professionals by providing the feedback over individual's performance.
Successfully transformed/enhanced 16 projects in a program of 28 projects. Products successfully
transformed/developed include System Security Management, Business Relationship Management, Centralized
Limits Management, Charges Management System, Credit Committee Management, Treasury Management
System, Documents Management System, Dispute Resolution System, and Collateral Management System.

Project Manager at PIBAS Inc

• Pakistan
• January 2013 to December 2016

Advisory Software Engineer at Systems Limited

• United Arab Emirates
• February 2014 to March 2014

Managing a team of developers for a Dubai based ERP project for government entity Trakhees (Sea Port).
* Working on cutting edge tools and technologies such as KendoUi, MVVM architectural pattern with Single Page
Architecture K2 (Work Flow) and nHibernate.

Team Lead at PIBAS Inc

• January 2013 to January 2014

Software Development
Job Descriptions
* To provide the high level technical / functional leadership to existing software development team in order to produce
the efficient and cost effective solutions in a timely fashion.
* Software development cost and effort estimation by following component based efforts estimation models.
* Following the Scrum based Agile methodology and acting as a Scrum Master.
* Design and Develop the complete framework, code specifications and software development protocols.
* Walkthroughs and code inspections to mitigate the ripple effect and to ensure the software development standards and
protocols are strictly followed by the developers.
* Functional and Technical software documentation for both internal and external (Client) use.
* Business and Data modelling with complete Database Structure.
* Management of Technical professionals in order to assign the tasks to developers and tracking the progress on assigned
tasks.
* Accountable for Recruitment of technical and non technical professionals in a project team.
* Participate with management in appraisals of professionals by providing the feedback over individual's performance.
Projects Highlights:
1- ATM Dispute Resolution System

Senior Software Engineer at ERP

• India
• August 2012 to January 2013

Database analysis and design, Requirement gathering, Correspondence with business users, System development, Deployment,
User training, T-SQL, C#.NET, Development of isolated but integrated modules in ERP such as CSD and Auction modules,
Extensive working with heavy usage of jQuery to mitigate the server side processing in order to provide fully optimized web
software solutions to users
Projects Highlights:
1- Auction Module

Manager Software at Developmen

• Pakistan
• August 2012 to December 2012

Software Development Consultant at CSD

• United Arab Emirates
• January 2012 to July 2012

Consultancy Over Software Architecture and Design.
Job Descriptions.
Database analysis and design, PL-SQL, Database jobs scheduling, Business Processes Identification, Business modeling, Data
modeling, Requirement gathering, Correspondence with business users, System development, Microsoft .NET Frameworks 3.5
and 4.0, Solution Deployment, User training, System architecture design, final deployment strategy designing, Database
scripting to DBA's in order to provide the error less and smooth change deployment, Change justification to Change Management
Committee (CMC) at UBL, post implementation reviews and feedbacks, software demonstration to Senior Executive Vice
President.
Projects Highlights:
1- SMS Vision
2- UBL Telecom Billing System
3- Staff Capacity Management System
International Credit Information Limited(ICIL)
www.pakbizinfo.com, www.iciltek.com, www.icil.org.pk

Software Engineer / Team Leader at ASP

• United Arab Emirates
• June 2007 to January 2012

Job Descriptions.
Database analysis, design, stored procedures, Database functions, System Development, Team Leading, Business Processes
Identification, Software Analysis, requirement gathering, Frameworks development for multi layered/tiered environment, Project
Resources Management etc, Code specifications, formal and informal reviews of software development process and code
inspections in order to meet the tight timelines and to avoid fire fighting operations, Database backups and replication
scheduling, directly and actively correspondence with clients/customers to provide onsite and offsite support .
* Application development in multi tiered/layered architectural environment.
* Application development in both (Browser and desktop) application environment.
* Crystal reports development using both the techniques (Pull method and Push method).
* Research and Development on new technologies / methodologies / frameworks.
Projects Highlights:
1- Customized ERP for AMS (Analytical Measuring Systems