Rizwan Shah, Project Manager

Rizwan Shah

Project Manager

COMSATS IIT

Location
Pakistan
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
19 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months

Project Manager at COMSATS IIT
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since July 2012

Closely collaborate with customers, development and internal colleagues to meet the right requirements and managing different projects both short & long term.
Primary interface between business requests, product road map and development.
Responsible for facilitating prioritizing and communicating functional and technical requirements of technical projects to the development team.
Responsible to manage our offshore development team.

System Analyst at COMSOFT, CITC, COMSATS
  • Pakistan
  • July 2009 to July 2012

• Collect information to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems.
• Analyze and evaluate present or proposed business procedures or problems to define data processing needs.
• Research and recommend hardware and software development, purchase, and use.
• Liaising extensively with external or internal clients
• Identifying options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability
• Creating logical and innovative solutions to complex problems
• Drawing up specific proposals for modified or replacement systems
• Planning and working flexibly to a deadline
• Keeping up to date with technical as well as industry sector developments.

Solution Architect / Project Manager at Al-Aseel
  • United Arab Emirates - Fujairah
  • January 2009 to August 2011

Al-Aseel took a project to automate Land Acquisition Process of Al-Fujariah Municipality and out sourced it to COMSATS Abbottabad.

I worked directly and under Al-Aseel management in providing the solution.

Re-Engineered work flows / Business Processes for AL Fujariah Municipality Department for Acquisition of LAND and Land Planning and Survey.
Managed and Designed the Software Project "Land Management System".

Software Engineer / Team Lead at COMSOFT CITC COMSATS Abbottabad
  • Pakistan
  • July 2005 to July 2009

• Liaising extensively with external or internal clients
• Identifying options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability
• Creating logical and innovative solutions to complex problems
• Drawing up specific proposals for modified or replacement systems
• Presenting proposals to clients
• Working closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
• Ensuring that budgets are adhered to and deadlines met
• Drawing up a testing schedule for the complete system
• Overseeing the implementation of a new system
• Planning and working flexibly to a deadline
• Providing training to users of a new system
• Keeping up to date with technical as well as industry sector developments.

Programmer at COMSOFT CITC COMSATS Abbottabad
  • Pakistan
  • February 2005 to June 2005

• Primary responsibilities include development of Software Projects and providing GUI for Desktop and web projects.
• Analyzes user specifications and requirements.
• Code, test, debug, and document programs on large-scale, complex projects.
• Revise and update programs and documentation as required.

Programmer / Analyst Internship at COMSOFT CITC COMSATS Abbottabad
  • Pakistan
  • October 2004 to February 2005

• Works under supervision of more senior programmers to prepare specifications and user requirements.
• Assists with coding, testing, debugging, and documenting small programs or program modules.

Programmer / Analyst Internship at COMSOFT CITC COMSATS Abbottabad
  • Pakistan
  • October 2004 to February 2005

• Works under supervision of more senior programmers to prepare specifications and user requirements.
• Assists with coding, testing, debugging, and documenting small programs or program modules.

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at FUUAST
  • January 2020

MS(CS) software Engineering

Master's degree, Computer Sciences
  • at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
  • September 2004

I got 3.13 GPA out of 4 scale. I was awarded full scholarship for the Degree on merit base.

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at University of Peshawar
  • July 2002

BS of Electronics

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
SQL Server 2000 2008
Visual Web Developer
ASP.NET AJAX
Solution Architecture
.Net Web services
Asp.Net
Adobe Flash
SQL Server 2000 / 2005 / 2008
Adobe DreamWeaver
Adobe Suite ( Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver)
JavaScript
MS Visual C++
MS Access
Adobe PhotoShop
Google API's
SQL Server 2005
Community Starter Kit Module Development
DotNetNuke
Community Starter Kit
DotNetNuke Module Development
Community Starter Kit Skinning
MSN Live Maps
DotNetNuke Skinning
Video Editing

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
Pushto
Beginner