Chief Manager (Information Systems)
Pakistan Revenue Automation (Pvt.) Ltd.
Total years of experience :34 years, 7 Months
Core Responsibilities:
To develop and maintain Data Governance and EDW Strategy & Roadmap in close coordination with all stakeholders, Business and BI Planning teams. To review and analyse process improvement / redesign opportunities and drive process redesign initiatives. Develop and implement Policies & Procedures and define way of work for all BI processes. To ensure up to-date and standard documentation of operational processes for entire BI & EDW value chain. To design and develop Continuous Improvement framework for BI & EDW and ensure all necessary health checks (Operational, data quality, performance and user satisfaction) are in place. To manage teams responsible for operational and governance support. To ensure all EDW components are progressing as per plan and company policy. To ensure new technologies are assessed and applied to gain competitive advantage, improve user experience and reduce cost. To develop and implement plans for improving business intelligence services and applications. To work with business stakeholders to define business KPI’s and develop semantic layers in the underlying data model to support these KPIs. To ensure power users of the BI tool are up-to-date on best practices for the and best use of data model. To manage the reporting platform(s) to ensure that scheduled jobs are successfully run and data analysis aligns to timeliness / completeness of requirements. To create and manage project plans, identify necessary resources, and execute project management tasks throughout the life of a project. To continuously re-evaluate project status and identify issues/ risks, and provide recommendations for resolution and escalate when necessary. To work with business analysts and project managers to develop and refine reporting requirements.
Major Achievements:
* Development of Corporate Data Governance Strategy, Plan, Policies, Standards and Procedures
* Developed Data Model to serve needs of data analysis, comparison, forecasting coupled with the corporate data governance needs of controlling, audit-ability and monitoring.
* Performed parametrized risk-based audit cases selection for 5 consecutive years through customized software interfaces
* Performed several data analysis for broadening of tax-base, revenue enhancement
* Performed Data Mining activities to identify potentially high risk tax evaders and potential revenue losses in future
Mobily is the fastest growing mobile communications and technology provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Role & Responsibilities:
Development and deployment of complete OBIEE/ Oracle 11g based dashboard and management reports for monitoring Prepaid and Postpaid revenue as well as service/ package/ plan performance for ensuring quality and continuity of service delivery.
Developed specialized “cause and effect” analysis reports for issue tracking and decision-making.
PRAL is a Software House and is fully owned by Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Pakistan (the national revenue service).
Professional Achievements:
1. Achieved corporate goal of implementing an in-house developed revenue data warehouse by managing DWH project for national revenue service (the FBR, Pakistan). Main achievement is design, development and implementation of corporate data warehouse through complete SDLC. Successfully overcome challanges in this project included integration of data from various tax management systems and external agencies, execution of data cleansing algorithms and development of taxpayer’s complete 360o profile. This project includes an agile Business Intelligence reporting system which produces large number of pre-defined reports and ad hoc analytical reports.
2. Lead data analysis job for FBR which resulted in additional revenue equivalent of over 530 million USD through analysis of collection data, taxpayer’s declarations and identification of gaps within withholding statements and revenue collection (May-June, 2012).
3. Successfully achieved corporate goal of up to 90% reduction in revenue collection reporting time and data quality improvement by managing and successfully implementing ‘Collection Automation Project’ for nation-wide computerization of revenue collection in all branches of State Bank of Pakistan and National Bank of Pakistan. 4. Recently (November, 2012) carried out risk profiling of corporate category taxpayers for identification of possible tax evasion and false declarations through analysis of taxpayer’s historical data and application of risk-measuring criteria. The result of this activity was identification of high-risk taxpayers and list of audit cases. This audit is expected to generate additional revenue equivalent to 250 million USD before June, 2013.
Role & Responsibilities:
Comprehensive responsibility for the fulfilling data analysis requirements of Pakistan’s national revenue Service, the FBR.
Ministry of Commerce and Trade, Pakistan initiated this project. This project was sponsored by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and purpose was to pilot implementation of first-of-its-kind web-based Goods-Declaration-Service for Pakistan Customs.
Job Responsibility:
1. To conceptualize, designed and developed and propose Pakistan Custom’s Goods Declaration Portal, “Electronic Document Exchange” (EDEx) for Pakistan Customs.
2. Business requirement analysis, stakeholder’s needs identification / evaluation and development of a technology solution to ensure effective information exchange among Custom Authorities and traders.
Major achievements include development of Electronic Document Exchange portal (EdEx) system (using Oracle AS10g and Forms 10g) for importer / exporter to electronically file the declaration documents for Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Pakistan.
Applied technologies included Oracle10g database, Oracle Database, Application Server 10g and Oracle Portal10g.
Fauji Software Company is subsidiary of Fauji Foundation, Pakistan’s largest business conglomerate
Job Responsibility:
1. Complete management responsibility for all software development activities.
2. Provided technical leadership to Software Development team for Healthcare ERP development project. Responsibility included Project Management and providing technical leadership to teams of systems analysis, design, development and implementation.
4. The project automated following hospital areas;
a. Registration
b. Out Patient Department
c. In-Patient Department (Ward Management System)
d. OT Management
e. Pharmacy and Stores and Procurement Management Systems
f. Radiology and Pathology Labs
g. Billing and Accounts Management
h. HR Management, Roaster Planning, Organizational Planning
i. Medical Records Management
3. Applied Technologies included Oracle Developer 6i, Database 8i, C API, Active X and Pro C
Major achievements included development and implementation of Oracle based Health-Care ERP system in 500+ bed teaching hospital. Details of projects carried out include;
1. Development of Medix Health-Care ERP for a chain of large hospitals in Pakistan. The solution was successfully delivered within monitory budgets and given time-lines. It is implemented in two hospitals. Implementation is underway in three more hospitals.
2. Management of offshore development projects for Excel Solutions; an Omaha, USA based Software Development Company. Delivered projects included;
a. ERP for a construction company
b. Web based print control system
Gulfnet Pakistan is a software house and has developed Oracle based indigenous ERP solution, Apex.
Professional Achievements:
1. Achieved company’s goal of indigenously developing company’s flag-ship product, a complete ERP system for service industry using Oracle technologies. The developed software modules included Financials, Distribution, Human Resource Management and Billing. The project completed successfully and the ASP version of this application was sold to a US company.
2. Successfully developed and implemented Inventory Management and Budget Control and Management systems for a large government organization. These were multi-million US dollar and over 15, 000 man-hours projects and were completed successfully within given targets of time and budget.
3. Java based internet billing system. The system had extensive features of tariff customization and was fully compliant with RADIUS protocol.
4. Worked as consultant for National Database Organization (NDO) Pakistan. Participated in preparation of RFP document for Country’s largest data warehousing project.
Role & Responsibilities:
Complete responsibility of managing software development projects and providing technical leadership to development of ERP system for service industry.
Responsibilities included planning and preparation and review of deliverables in various forms including written reports and presentations. Project proposals, pre-sales presentations, client meetings and project sponsor communication management.
Other responsibilities include team building, supervision, coaching, mentoring, managing recruitments, training, performance reviews and ensuring implementation of workplace policies and procedures and provision of business/ technical leadership.
Saudi Cable Company is one of the Top-10 companies in Saudi Arabia.
My job responsibility included management of Systems department and provision of information technology support for USD 50 million company by customizing and implementing Financial and Distribution suites of Oracle based ERP system, EMIS.
Major achievements at Mass Centers - Saudi Cable Company included successful implementation of EMIS (Empire Management Information System), an Oracle based ERP developed by ESI Technologies, USA on five locations of company.
Modules of EMIS customized and implemented at Mass Centers - Saudi Cable Company included General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Control, Sales Order Management, Purchase Order Management, Warehouse Management (Serial, Lot Bin Control) and London Metal Exchange (LME) based Pricing Management.
NASCO is part of Aggad Group of Companies, one of Top-10 companies in Saudi Arabia.
My job responsibility as NASCO ERP Implementation team lead included Technical Leadership provision to the team of developers for customization and implementation of EMIS ERP system at Arabian Elevator and Escalator Company (AREECO) Jeddah (also part of Aggad Group of Companies), Saudi Arabia.
Modules implemented at AREECO included General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Just-In-Time (JIT) Inventory Control, Customer Order Processing, Purchase Order Management, Quoting and Estimating and Preventive Maintenance Control Systems.
Major achievements included customization and implementation of existing ERP modules as well as development of special purpose modules for Elevator Price Quoting, Job Order Management and Work-In-Process accounts management.
Seesi Systems was a Jeddah based software development company which had specialized in the areas of customization and Implementation of Oracle based ERP for large Manufacturing and Distribution companies.
My job responsibility at Seesi Systems included development and implementation of customized application software and implementation of EMIS ERP System for renowned companies.
Major achievements included development of bank branch accounting system for Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), Taif Branch.
I have actively participated in ERP implementation for following companies in Saudi Arabia.
1. Saudi Cable Company, Jeddah
2. Al Thuriya Carpet Company, Jeddah
3. Sunbullah Food Factory, Jeddah
4. Styrenpack, Jeddah
5. Fosam/ Fosroc, Jeddah
6. BRC Al Fadal Steel Factory, Jeddah
7. Rashid Al Rashid, Dammam
The modules of ERP which I have implemented and customized for various companies include Financials, Distribution and Production Management.
I have scored 3.7 GPA and won talent scholarship by remaining among top 15 students of department of Computer Sciences throughout my session (1987-1989).
I have scored 70% of total marks and stood first among over 30 colleges of my area. I was also awarded "Roll of Honor" of my college for year 1986.