Shahzad Akhtar Alvi, Assistant Manager (IT Billing)

Shahzad Akhtar Alvi

Assistant Manager (IT Billing)

Ufone (PTML)

Location
Pakistan - Rawalpindi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Arts
Experience
22 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 0 Months

Assistant Manager (IT Billing) at Ufone (PTML)
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since January 2015

• Managed, optimized and operated monthly bill-run processes for all postpaid customers of Ufone.

• Managed daily reconciliation of Rating and Mediation count at file and record level.

• Managed orders and hot complaints of internal and external customers.

• Implemented centralized tax certificate server to facilitate customers all over the country.

• Handled inbound and outbound international roaming customers and roaming partners.

Customer Application Analyst at HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2008 to August 2014

(Including experience of International Turnkey Systems)

CUSTOMER WISE WORK ASSIGNMENTS & PROJECTS

- Telenor, Pakistan

• Played a major role in Telenor CBS Implementation project, in testing and UAT for Product Catalog Module (PCM) which is used for defining and configuring products and their tariff/ rates in CBS.
• CDR rates verification
• Short codes, USSD and Special Numbers testing.

- Ufone, Pakistan

• Worked for short time in Ufone OCS Customization Team and provided support in defining and configuring 3G data tariffs in the very first launch of Ufone 3G in Pakistan.

- MTN, Sudan

• Provided onsite support for 3 months in almost all modules of billing system.
• Assisted onsite working team for the first time implementation of MNP change request.

- Warid Telecom, Pakistan

• Implemented on site billing and bill-printing solution.
• Provided on-site support in Call Center, Bill Printing and Inventory modules of TABS system.
• Implemented many change requests (CRs) in ongoing business.

- Banglalink, Bangladesh

• Conducted on-site UATs and implemented many change requests in Call Center area within the deadline defined by customer.
• Provided support for many call center incidents

- Wateen, Pakistan

• Tested inventory modules of TABS billing system for Wateen and conducted some training sessions to teach customer about TABS inventory.

Team Lead, Local Development at ID INTERACTIVE
  • Pakistan - Rawalpindi
  • January 2006 to January 2008

Using programming tools in Java, Oracle, PHP, ASP, C++ and Visual Basic, worked for:

- Warner Music Group, UK / USA

• Managed and developed many world famous singers’ websites
• Developed an online audio cutting tool for ringtones

- Universal Music Group, UK / USA

• Developed an online reporting and billing system for UMG
• Developed many websites using latest scripting tools

- Sports Inc., UK

• Developed an online store for sports items with a lot of advanced features, like zooming a product picture, editable catalog display (customized CMS), etc.

Project Manager at ACE QUALITY SOFTWARE HOUSE
  • Pakistan - Rawalpindi
  • January 2004 to January 2006

• Minimized the monthly expanses and time-consuming efforts on a manual procedure of smart card activation at payphone network server machines by providing a soft solution of card activation through SMS.

• Presented a self-made software project on behalf of the company at Open House 2005 held at Military College of Signals and appreciated by the Chief Guest Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, Chairman National Engineering & Scientific Commission, Pakistan.

• Done embedded programming for feeding built-in tariff in GSM payphones.

Software Support Engineer at COMCEPT (PVT.) LTD
  • Pakistan
  • January 2002 to December 2004

• Software support of Payphone Network Management System was provided to the most famous payphone companies in Pakistan, like World Call, Telecom Foundation (TF), TeleFast and Pearl Comm.

• Designed and worked on different modules of Network Management System (NMS), a famous payphone management software of Comcept (Pvt.) Ltd.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Arts
  • at Punjab University
  • September 1998

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Networking Essentials (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 1999
Valid Until:
January 9999
Post Graduate Diploma in IT (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 1999
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Writing
    1. I have been writing stuff for debate competitions 2. I have my own some poetry work