Umer Gul, Management Consultant

Umer Gul

Management Consultant

Lord Corporation

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Master's degree, Strategic Operations
Experience
4 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 3 Months

Management Consultant at Lord Corporation
  • United States
  • April 2012 to April 2012

- Created a value stream map for a part family and established a plan to reduce non-value-added processing/service time.
- Improved process efficiency and reduced set-up time by 30%.
- Created process maps of suppliers processes and assessed the suppliers quality and cost capabilities.
- Created a process map for the cost estimating process to provide customers with quotes more responsively.
- Designed and implemented a visual scheduling system in a test laboratory.

Team lead/ Design Engineer, Mobile Packet Backbone Network (MPBN) at Ericsson
  • Egypt
  • June 2006 to July 2010

-Initiated, organized, supervised and closed technical projects on systems under the domain of MPBN.
-Supervised the project life-cycle with regards to requirement analysis, project goals, timelines, technical impacts and business risks assessment by continuous interaction with concerned stakeholders.
-Developed and implemented policies and procedures for data of different departments traversing the MPBN network.
-Estimated the costs and identification of scope and customer adaptations together with the CPM.
-Defined, managed and verified solutions in customer projects, including handling and management of third party products and suppliers.
-Identified new and add-on business opportunities.
-Conducted recruiting interviews along with the line managers and coordinated technical trainings for the MPBN team.

Solution Architect, GPRS at Ericsson Oman LLC.
  • Oman - Muscat
  • July 2008 to November 2008

-Provided input to responsibility matrix and resource and competence requirements
-Participated in Customer presentations and negotiations
-Secured the functionality and technical quality of deliverables
-Supervised the project life-cycle with regards to requirement analysis, project goals, timelines, technical impacts and business risks assessment by continuous interaction with concerned stakeholders.
-Handled change requests and the consequences of such for the delivered offers and/or ordered deliveries from a Solution point of view

Education

Master's degree, Strategic Operations
  • at Cornell University
  • June 2012

- Strategic Operations immersion: entailed general management, marketing, operations, supply chain management, strategic planning, production management, finance and site visits - managerial cost accounting - Simulation Modeling and analysis - Management Cases & Problem Solving Process - optimization - design of manufacturing

Master's degree, Engineering Management
  • at Cornell University
  • July 2011

Through an in-depth, real world group design project, and course content in management science, project management, decision and risk analysis, information technology, finance and accounting, systems analysis, and organizational behavior, gained the technical and managerial skills necessary to become effective engineering managers. Also studied managerial skills to help organize and supervise people from different cultures and backgrounds so as to maximize teamwork, creativity, and productivity, and to do so in an environment of global awareness and concern for ethical issues. Further, I learnt to navigate this process with a broad, global perspective that considers the full range of technical, economic, environmental, social, and other consequences over an appropriate time horizon.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Lahore University of Management Sciences
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

Strategic Business
Strategic Forecasting
Project Engineering
Business Engineering
Strategic Operations
Business Planning
Project Management
Competitive Analysis
Business Strategy
Engineering Management
Forecasting
Quality Management
Simulation Modeling
Optimizations

Languages

English
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