Senior Project Manager
al Rajhi bank
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :26 years, 0 أشهر
• Managing Projects/ Programs of cost of multimillion USD. Managing the programs budget CAPEX, Manage vendor contract payments and accountable to ensure the overall program budget (CAPEX) is spent as planned and report any variances to the senior most managers of bank, program Sponsor, PMO Head and steering committee.
• Responsible to deliver projects within the constraints of Scope, Quality, cost and time.
• Establish and update plans with actual and forecasts, Manage deviations from Plan, Report to Respective Stakeholders and escalate decisions/ unresolved issues to Working Committee, Program Sponsor, PMO Head and Steering Committee.
• Responsible of preparing complete Project Plan contains Scope, Cost, Risks, HR, procurement, Time and Quality plans and having concurrence from all stakeholders.
• Act as primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customers to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance and take corrective actions.
• Conduct periodic review and updates Working Committee (Weekly) and Steering Committee meetings (Monthly). Coordinate and collate the required information from the concerned stakeholders Send Weekly Status Reports (Weekly) to Senior Managers/ SC & LF Members. Manage the SC/ WC committees’ activities and decisions, take minutes and follow up on the resulting action items on periodic basis.
• Managing Projects of multimillion USD cost.
• Responsible for the overall direction and management of Projects both directly and designated Project Managers, consistency of process across projects and customer satisfaction with the related products and services. Responsible to deliver projects within the constraints of Scope, Quality, Cost and Time.
• RFP Preparation and Circulation to the prosperous Vendors
• Vendor Selection based on industry’s best practices
• Establish and Update plans with actual and forecasts, Manage deviations from Plan, Report to respective Stakeholders and Escalate decisions/ unresolved issues to Program Sponsor, PMO Head and Steering Committee.
• Manage the Program Budget CAPEX, Manage Vendor Contract payments and accountable to ensure the overall program budget (CAPEX) is spent as planned and report any variances to the Program Sponsor, PMO Head and Steering Committee
• Act as primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customers to discuss Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance
• Conduct periodic review and updates Working Committee and Steering Committee meetings, Send Weekly Status Reports to all stakeholders
Projects
•Implemented the largest Cash Management/ GTS implementation in Middle East region having all five modules (Portal, Payments, Collection, Trade and Liquidity) for Mashreq Bank.
•Managed the Selection Process of Enterprise Application Interface - Middleware Program (Selection of Separate vendors for Middleware Product and Implementation Partner)
•Branch Automation: Implemented the upgrade of Core Banking for all FIG branches (Globus G10 and G13 to T-24) Vendor; Temenos and Cap Gemini
•Implemented Operational Risk Management for overall Bank Risk Management. Vendor: Kalypto Risk Technologies
•Implemented (RMS) Risk Management System for FIG. Vendor: MIT
•Implemented KYC System for all FIG branches. Vendor: AIS
•Implemented the Safe watch system. Vendor: MIT
• Managed diversified teams and specialties like Software Development, Quality Assurance and Technical Support
• Managed the project deliverables, customer expectations, change requests, project schedule and detailed tasks till user acceptance testing and client sign-off.
• Managed vendors to ensure ongoing delivery of timely, high quality, cost-effective equipment and services
Projects
• Managed the Development (In-house) and Deployment of Seven Retail/ Corporate Banking Projects in one year
o You First Net Banking (UBL Next generation E-Banking): ‘You First Net Banking’ offers a simple, convenient and secure Internet Banking. Rated as best Internet banking.
o You First Mobile Banking - UBL Mobile Banking: You First Mobile Banking is the next generation of YFNB SMS alert service (Push based messages) and have Push/ Pull capabilities.
o You First Phone Banking for UBL Phone Bankers: ‘You First Phone Banking’ is state of art application which facilitates the phone bankers to perform complete banking for contact centre consumers
o UBL Click N Remit : Simple, Speedy and Secure web based remittances product for remitting money from USA to Pakistan online.
o UBL Franchisee/ RSO Collection system: State of art customize application for collections from many corporate Cellular companies
o Cash Management Disbursement System: Collection and Disbursement system for Cash Management Customers
o UBL - Credit Card Reward System: UBL-Reward System to calculate and disburse the rewarded amount/points on card transactions
• Implemented Loan Origination and Approval from Web (Customized Web Application)/ Back office (Vectus). Vendor: London Bridge/ FairIsaac
• Initiated the QA department and implemented SQA for all in-house Software Development Projects in one and half year
• Implemented EPMO/IT Governance for projects and portfolio management Vendor: HP/ Mercury
• Implemented Debt Manager for UBL Pakistan and Middle East. Vendor: London Bridge/ FairIsaac
• Managed 40+ IT engineers in this dynamic software house.
• Implemented SDLC on Rational Platform
• Core responsibilities included Project Scope Definition, Identification of Stakeholders, Identification of Escalation Procedures, Developing detailed task list (WBS), Estimation of Timelines, Preparation of Project Management Plan, Identification of required resources and budget, Identification of risks and evaluating contingency plan, Tracking of milestones, Change control procedure management and reporting the projects status to all Stakeholders.
Projects
• Implemented Cash Management System in Mashreq Bank as Vendor
• Upgraded Corporate Internet Banking in Mashreq Bank as Vendor
• Implemented Cash Management System in Muslim Commercial Bank (Pakistan) as Vendor
• Integration between Habib Bank Limited Scanning systems and Misys Equation (Analysis and solution proposal)
Softnet is US based software house under the banner of Gulfstars, I did join as Sr. Software engineer and promoted as Technical Manager and developed following projects.
Automation of Medical Insurance Claims
Software Lotus Notes 5.0, Fax for Domino, Lotus Scripts, Win32 API, and Kodak Imaging
NCCI is the largest insurance organization in Saudi Arabia. The system allows to dedicate a doctor to process faxes from one hospital. TMD has a group of medical how attend and process these incoming faxes. All the incoming faxes come to single notes database which check for the free doctor and automatically launch the incoming faxes in Kodak Imaging Software. Doctor read the fax and enters the required information into an Oracle Application and mark the fax approved or rejected. As soon as Doctor close Kodak Imaging after processing and saving the fax, system sends the processed Fax back to concerned hospital. Worked as technical manager, responsibilities were Customer engagement, technical issues handling and deployment of the application
SAMBA Purchase Order System (SAMBA KSA)
Software Lotus Notes 5.02, Domino, Lotus Script
SAMBA is Saudi version of Citibank; this application is developed for Riyadh Head office. The application caters whole purchase order cycle electronically. Role management, limit approval are main components of the The System is a Workflow Management System that Processes all Steps involved in approval of a purchase order.
I was the team member as well as support engineer of this application
Claim Management System (Abbott KSA)
Software Lotus Notes 5.02, Domino, Lotus Script
I was the solely responsible of this software including analysis, Designing, Development, Customer engagement and Project Management.
SAMA Saudi Arabia Monitoring agency Helpdesk System
Software Lotus Notes 5.04, Domino, Lotus Script
I started my career from CRPL as software engineer and in the mid of 1998 promoted as team leader. During this job I developed
PTCL Help Line (106) (Enterprise)
Software Visual Basic, SQL Server, Crystal Reports
Description The Software 106 Help Line is developed for PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION CORPORATION LTD. The main functionality of this software is to Log and maintain the PTCL Client’s Complaints and Utilities Request data in the database. The 106 operators at a Central place insert the Complaint or Utility request. The Logged Complaint is transferred to the concern exchange for Resolution. This is WAN based application using dial up feature for transferring the data
I was the solely responsible of this software including analysis, Designing, Development, Customer engagement and Project Management.
Pay 2000 (Payroll Management System)
Software Visual Basic, MS Access, Crystal Reports
This Project is one of the most successful automated Payroll systems in Pakistan, and more than 25 national and multinational companies (e.g. IBM Pakistan, Indosuez SSGC, Shafi tenarie, KAPCO (Kot Addu Power Company) and Novartis) are using the system. The Systems covers both wages and salaries based system and consists on all components of any Payroll System like Tax Management, Vacation handling, Loan Management, Gratuity and PF etc. I was the team leader of the project and managed all activities of the life cycle including team management, Clients engagement etc.
I did play the role of Project manager in this application.
Project Title Revenue Cycle SystemSoftware Visual Basic, SQL Server, Crystal ReportsThis Project Consists of all Sales Related Activities developed for Tamke Tree (New Jersey. USA). Revenue Cycle is started from PO and Documents the Invoices and handles Inventory as well. I was the team member of Development in this application
Passed in good standing
• Brain Bench Certified Visual Basic Programmer • Brain Bench Certified MS Access Programmer • Brain Bench Certified ASP Programmer • Brain Bench Lotus Notes Programmer
• Microsoft Certified Product Specialist • Microsoft Certified Solution Developer • Microsoft Certified System Engineer • Microsoft Certified Product Specialist + Internet
Secured First Class 3rd Position