Practice Manager / Project Director
FIS Global
Total years of experience :23 years, 3 Months
Responsibilities
Manage Core Banking Automation (CBA) program for National Bank of Pakistan. Responsible for planning, governance & control of CBA projects with multi-million Dollar contract value, including 3 core banking applications from Fidelity core banking portfolio Profile, Profile Islamic Banking & AllProfit. Other satellite projects include implementation of SAP FI/CO & HCM, Theta Origins - Loan Origination, Misys Kondor+ for Treasury and Internet Banking; Managing team of 30 resources, responsible for developing people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Lead Program Management engagements, responsible for the end to end management and timely completion of projects.
• Defining program and project work streams in coordination relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain and publish progress reports of all assigned projects and escalate issues, conflicts, constraints to appropriate stakeholders.
• Plan, prepare and review deliverables in various forms including written reports, presentations and discussions with client, processes for risk control and reporting.
• Communicate significant issues, fees, and estimates-to-complete to client Management
• Ensures an effective resourcing strategy is in place, that recruitment needs are properly addressed and that induction is effectively managed including budget and financial management.
• Manage the coordination with the testing team to facilitate the testing activities and resolution of any issues identified during testing.
• Build strong, long-term relationships with key stakeholders.
• Manage all financial aspects of the business unit.
• Undertakes a day to day oversight of the governance of the Pakistan office, its quality system and metrics, and ensures that these are robust and complete.
• Responsibilities include change management, quality management, project oversight, and deployment of project and portfolio management programs.
• Accountable for fulfilling business goals, meeting budgets, maintaining project profitability/margins while ensuring quality of project delivery.
• Manages multiple project/program managers and senior level individual contributors.
• Managing multiple sub-contractors & vendor teams in multiple geographical locations.
• Develop and deliver selective projects / changes / fixes in collaboration with third-party vendors in order to meet business requirements.
• Implement application management services (AMS) processes and procedures and maintain continues improvement cycle.
Achievements
• Managed development & customization of Profile core banking.
• FIS Profile core banking application delivery and rollout to 1, 403 branches and ongoing support.
• Managed development & customization of FIS Profile Islamic banking application roll-out and ongoing support.
• Successfully implemented of SAP FICO/HCM.
• Implemented Internet Banking.
• Implemented Loan Origination system.
• Successful completion MISYS Kondor+ treasury solution.
• Implemented application management services governance model.
• Currently implementing secure development practices policy.
Strategic, Planning & I.T Governance
- Develop strategic plans and implement the objectives of the I.T needs of the bank to ensure the I.T capabilities are responsive to the needs of the bank's growth and objectives.
- Develop establish operating policies and approaches based on international standard I.T Governance framework- COBIT, evaluate risks and internal control processes for computing and information technology.
- Prepare enterprise objectives and budgets to facilitate the orderly and efficient Banking systems operations, processing, and dissemination of information.
- Identify emerging technologies to be assimilated, integrated, and introduced within the bank.
- Assess new computing technologies to determine potential value for the bank.
Programme / Project Management
- Successfully managed MISYS Equation (CBS) implementation with budgetary value of 1.6 million USD.
- Managed Programme for Contact Center solution Implemented Avaya Genesis solution integrated with Microsoft dynamics CRM and core banking.
- Implemented Mobile commerce solution offering mobile banking, bill payments services to retails customers.
- Implementing online trade finance and cash management services portals.
- Implementing remittance acquisition and disbursement solution to facilitate collection & disbursement of foreign inward remittance.
- Manage strategic systems conversions and integrations in support of business goals and objectives.
- Responsible for monitoring projects
- Responsible for I.T Business relationship and Stakeholder management
I.T Operations
- Responsible for the development, review, and certification of all back-up and disaster recovery procedures and plans.
- Oversee ongoing improvements and the feasibility of system enhancements.
- Vendor and systems evaluation in terms of cost benefit analysis and the quality of services offered by the vendor
- Recruit, train and supervise staff to meet support requirement of the Bank.
Responsibilities
Programme / Project Management:
Assist CIO for with the Management of Program’s. Responsible for defining scope, planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting projects and Programme activities; establish and maintain organization’s standard governance processes. Responsible for building team, delegate and mentor others to assist the overall team in achieving its goals
Achievements
• Managed Core banking transformation, MISYS Equation (CBS) implementation.
• Managed Programme for Contact / Call Center solution
• Managed Programme for Consumer Loan Origination & Debt Collection.
• Implemented Mobile commerce solution offering mobile banking, bill payments services
• Managed strategic systems (Treasury / Trade Finance) conversion and integration
Responsible for design and development of new systems, problem identification / rectification and suggesting necessary solutions, Coordination with different business units for requirement gathering;
Achievements
• Managed roll out of Treasury Back office implemented FX & Money Market modules.
• Team Lead MISYS Equation Banking System, implemented Deposits, Lending, Credit Risk, and Branch / Retail banking modules.
• Contributed in developing implementation, Migration and Integration Strategy.
• Spear headed technical team for swift and error free transformation.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Trade Finance in implementation of MISYS Trade Innovation
Responsibilities
Database Administration:
Responsible for the performance, integrity and security of Oracle databases for Core Banking Application - PIBAS Plus.
Development Team Lead:
Responsible for planning, design, development and troubleshooting of in-House applications
Achievements
• Lead development of centralized MIS Reporting system.
• Data Architect for the MIS project.
• Project management & Development of HRIS & Payroll
• Team lead for implementation of PIBAS Plus (CBS)
Responsibilities
Software Development:
Responsible for full lifecycle application development; Designing, coding and debugging applications, Object-oriented Design and Analysis, front end graphical user interface designing, Software testing and quality assurance, support, maintain and document software functionality.
Achievements
• Setup distributed database environment and Multi-master replication.
• Designed & developed Credit Society fund system
• Served as a developer in ERP development
• Performed unit testing, functional testing of Traveler Check Management System.
Awarded 50% Scholarship Offered internship at Millennium software in last semester Got job offer at Millennium Software within 15 days of pass out Worked on EDI interfacing project using XML & JAVA technologies during my internship