Muhammad Rizwan Akhter, Head of Product

Muhammad Rizwan Akhter

Head of Product

Transhold Pvt Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
28 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :28 years, 2 Months

Head of Product at Transhold Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since August 2016

Under Rizwan’s leadership, the company has gained considerable experience and has grown into a fully integrated tech-based supply chain service provider and tailor-made solutions to suit customer needs. His team embraces every challenge with aplomb and is always there with the client and internal departments, working round the clock to get things right the first time.
Rizwan’s goal is to build products that simplifies business processes and resolves day to day challenges in traditional business methodology by using state-of-the-art technology that is efficient and cost effective.
Day to day responsibilities include:
Setting a vision for how technology will be used through out the group and in products.
Ensuring that all team members meet the company's short and long-term needs.
Outline the goals for research and development which will make product pipeline.
Creating timelines for the development and product feature go live.
Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological product requirements.
Acting as a mentor to team members.
Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of products to market.
Managing budgets and time frames for product launches and customer onboarding
Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
Aid commercial team in making business plans and setting tariffs for products and services.

Technical Advisor
  • Pakistan
  • August 2019 to January 2021

School IBA (Phone GAP,
Python, ASP.NET, MVC)

Assistant Manager at ECU Worldwide
  • Pakistan
  • May 2016 to May 2020

IT Security & Business Systems operations management.
Ensure high availability of IT and IS infrastructure and
business systems.
Preparation of budget for the department and perform IT
operations within the approved budget.
TECHNOLOGIES
IT Project Management and implementation of ERP and
other bespoke business applications.
Analysis, design, development, and implementation of
bespoke business applications and reports.
Administration of Information Security Policy of global
offices
MTO -

IT Consultant at Friends Cargo Services (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • March 2018 to December 2019

IT Security & Business Systems operations management.
Ensure high availability of IT infrastructure and business
systems.
SKILLS
Project Management
Managing timelines
Ensuring project deliveries
Conducting SIT / UAT and Go-lives
(Technical & business)
Supporting for Post Go-live support
till Business-as-usual
Managing and deploying releases
Preparing environments (Deploying
releases / restoring databases /
updating configurations / running
sanity checks)
Writing technical specs and
requirements
Conducting market research and
competitor analysis
UI and UX tools hands on
experience figma and Canva
Ability to take initiative and lead in
crisis situation
Strong demo and pitching
Managing Clients
Communication with clients over
daily update call
Communication on skype with other
support teams (external)
Communication with project owners
including Director and VP level
personnel (external) over email,
skype and calls
Handing over environments to
clients for testing and production
use
Preparation of budget for the department and performing
IT operations within the approved budget.
IT Project Management and implementation of ERP and
other bespoke business applications.
Analysis, design, development, and implementation of
bespoke business applications and reports.
Administration of Information Security Policy.

IT Advisor at Intelligent Financial Technologies Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • January 2019 to June 2019

Designing and applying appropriate project management
standards.
Selection of suitable resources at in efficient cost to cater
all business requirements the project.
Track project performance and progress.
Completion of project milestones according to the timeline.
Support stakeholders in completing project scope and
requirements.
Guide stakeholders and team where necessary.
Prepare all the documentation for the project.
Checking & testing each modules as it's completed, plan
effective UAT stage.
Coordinate with development team & manage timeline of
deliveries.
Understand business requirements & break them to
development team.
Managing Internal Team
Reporting incidents internally
Following up on security incidents
Managing and deployment of
releases
Bridging the gap between technical
and business teams (internal)

Junior Software Engineer at Bottom Line (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • February 2014 to March 2016

Develop and manage development projects
Develop and design web projects
Execute project activities as per the approved plan
Help project manager in managing project boards.

group leader at Pak Suzuki
  • Pakistan
  • June 2015 to December 2015

Develop and design mobile app screens
Execute project activities as per the approved
plan
Help team in managing being on target and
keep stakeholders up to date.

Head of Product & Technology at Transhold Group
  • January 1992 to December 2009

Single
Setting a vision for how technology will be used through
out the group and in products.
Ensuring that all team members meet the company's short
and long-term needs.
Outline the goals for research and development which will
make product pipeline.
Creating timelines for the development and product feature
go live.
Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's
technological product requirements.
Acting as a mentor to team members.
Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the
delivery of products to market.
Managing budgets and time frames for product launches
and customer onboarding
Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory
standards.
Aid commercial team in making business plans and setting
tariffs for products and services.
Under Rizwan's leadership, the company has gained
considerable experience and has grown into a fully integrated
tech-based supply chain service provider and tailor-made
solutions to suit customer needs. His team embraces every
challenge with aplomb and is always there with the client and
internal departments, working round the clock to get things
right the first time.
Rizwan's goal is to build products that simplifies business
processes and resolves day to day challenges in traditional
business methodology by using state-of-the-art technology that
is efficient and cost effective.
Day to day responsibilities include:

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at Sir Syed University
  • January 2023

FINTECH # L OGISTICS # E CCOMMER C E # PRODUCTDEVELOPMENT # SOFTWAREDEVELOPMENT # SUPPLYCHAIN

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Aga Khan College
  • January 2023

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High school or equivalent, Pre - Engineering
  • at Aga Khan College
  • January 2023

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Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Sir Syed University Of Engineering And Technology
  • October 2015

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Specialties & Skills

Communication Skills
Project Management
Technical Sales
Database
Web Development
ADOBE GO LIVE
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PLANS
BUSINESS PROCESS
LEADERSHIP
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
RESEARCH
SUPPLY CHAIN
BALANCE

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