Sr. Project Manager
Maple Business Solutions
Total years of experience :23 years, 3 Months
• Responsible for delivering projects against agreed scope, budget, schedule & customer expectations. Doing this whilst supervising, directing & motivating teams of multi-discipline contractors & employees.
• Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance.
• Escalating promptly any issues that may impact operations
• Producing stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change etc
• Providing strategic direction during the implementation stages
• Managing client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service
• Acting on client feedback
• Monitoring staff & team performance
• Have designed and implemented many templates for Proposal, Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications, Test Plans and Test cases.
Employment History
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS - Karachi, Pakistan.
Project Coordinator November 2012 to March 2014
Plan and execute software development projects, build project teams, estimate size, effort and schedule.
Communicate with customers during development, delivery and support phases of the projects, continuous-ly improve customer satisfaction and report status to the higher management.
Communicate with other functional heads (QA, CM, Process Improvement etc.) at appropriate phases of SDLC to obtain and monitor their commitment towards the successful completion of projects.
Review project documents and artifacts and obtain sign-off by client and disseminate among the internal stakeholders accordingly.
Ensure controlled change management, identify inconsistencies, and provide corrective action plan to re-solve the identified inconsistency.
Rapidly introduce new technology into the product and the software development process and achieve suc-cessful transition.
Produce quality software in shorter development cycle times.
Strong ERP implementation/troubleshooting skills, Exploring user problem/requirement & Test the updates accordingly.
ASSOCIATED CONSULTING PVT LIMITED Karachi, Pakistan.
Project Manager, November 2005 to October 2012
Bizinex 360 ERP System - Architecture & Design
Project Management
Identify Project team members
Create Project plan and documentation to be used
Discuss Business Processes and Reporting
System architecture
Business cycle - agree on GL, Sales and Purchase setup for template company e-g Chart of Account Struc-ture, Currencies, Responsibility center
Inventory / location setup where applicable
Workshops - to test various setup of template company
Identify data required to be brought across from legacy systems
Identify and specify bespoke development requirements
Testing and modifying template company for various multi-company / locations
Training - all modules
User Acceptance Test
NAV EXPERIENCE:
Implement Navision Business Solutions at - Seisco International Limited
Installation of NAV software on client sites
Working with lead consultants to identify gaps and writing up outline specification documents
Maintenance and Support of Dynamics NAV
Setting up Chart of Accounts, Posting groups and Dimensions for new projects
Testing and restoring test/live system on client sites
Creating new companies on the same database
Experience of implementing Financials, Sales Order/Purchase Order Processing and Inventory
Understanding of Financials, Manufacturing and HR business processes
Excellent Business Analysis skills including writing of Functional Specifications and Training Manuals
Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
Understands Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client / server architectures.
Possesses a thorough understanding of our capabilities.
Maintains awareness of new and emerging technologies and the potential application on client engagements.
Reviewing Chart of Accounts, creating new GL accounts, creating Totaling accounts, adding Dimensions
Creating Financial Statements using Dimensions
Training on use of GL reports using Dimensions
Creating Vendor bank Accounts and testing BACs procedure
Creating Stock Posting Profiles and testing the GL posting of Receipts/Shipments and Invoicing
Fixed Asset setup, creating Fixed assets and running depreciation
Basic report changes
Deliver training programme - for example:
Financials - Basic and Advanced
(Sales / Purchase Ledger) to include Budgets, Analysis and Reporting
Relationship Management - eg Segmentation, Campaigns and Interactions
ADAM SECURITIES (KARACHI STOCK EXCHNAGE), Pakistan.
Manager MIS, February 2001 to October 2005
Managed Company Financials, handled daily Clients portfolio, Successful setup and implementation of Web base online shares trading systems www.adamsecurities.com.pk
Successfully launched application base ultra-trading systems developed by Lahore Stock Exchange with co-ordination to MIS team of Lahore Stock Exchange.
Implementation and operation of oracle base back office systems & client control systems (CTRF)
Resolved months of backlogged work, restored order and organization to processes/records in disarray, re-searched and solved billing problems and corrected invoicing and journal entry errors that had previously been missed.
Analysis Techniques • Brainstorming • Document analysis • Focus groups • Interface analysis • Interviews • Observation • Prototyping • Workshop • Reverse engineering • Survey/questionnaire • MS Visio • MS Project Analyze Requirements • Attributes • Document • Validate • Verify Modeling techniques • Data and behavior models • Process/flow models • Usage models
Skills taught • Project integration management • Project Scope Management • Project Time Management • Project Cost Management • Project Quality Management • Project Human Resource Management • Project Communication Management • Project Risk Management • Project Procurement Management
• Database Architecture & Modeling • SQL & PL SQL • Oracle Database Administration (DBA) • Backup & Recovery • Performance & Tuning • Database Administration – Networking
M.B.A, IBA 1998 to 1999
B.B.A (Hons), IBA 1996 to 1998