waqar ali, Unit Head

waqar ali

Unit Head

Allied Bank Limited

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Master's degree, Information Engineering
Experience
18 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 5 Months

Unit Head at Allied Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since August 2008

• Responsible for project planning and keeping it aligned with ITG’s Strategic and Operation plans.
• Foresee projects related to upgrade, deployment & maintenance of Core banking and Auxiliary systems.
• Capacity planning, optimization of Core banking and Auxiliary systems keeping in view the industry best practices.
• Plan, organize, lead resources to meet the application administration’s department targets.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Ensure applications/systems availability as per their service level objectives.
• Continuously monitors progress of reporting functions to ensure meeting of project deadlines.
• Co-ordinate with vendors, technical and business team to resolve issue.
• Validate project status and Oversees project status, authorize vendor payments and manages conflicts within the teams.
• To address application level information security related vulnerabilities by taking corrective and preventive measures.
• To address audit observations both internal and external against various applications by having interviews, walkthroughs and providing relevant data.
In case of gap take measures to rectify the observations for its compliance.
• Take part in planning and implementation of DR activity of various applications.
• Any other assignment assigned by higher management as and when desired.

Manager
  • January 2015 to March 2018

projects related to application deployment, automation, maintenance of Core Banking & other auxiliary systems.
•Capacity planning, optimization of core banking system keeping in view the industry best practices.
•Plan, organize, lead resources to meet the application administration’s department targets.
•Plan and implement application high availability solutions
•Define and implement application health check procedures.
•R&D to facilitate administration task and ongoing projects.
•Managing Application Administration team, assign projects/tasks to application administrator and priorities tasks and define time lines to complete tasks.
•Ensure the 24X7 applications/system availability
•Implement application security and auditing
•Co-ordinate with vendors, technical and business team to resolve issue.
•Perform a continuous cycle of service improvement to the production services through service continuity; availability and capacity planning and management.
•Define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and ensure the agreed service levels are met.

Manager
  • November 2012 to December 2014

Life Cycle Management of the Core Banking System (T24) in terms of Archiving/Purging of the data as per Bank’s Policies.
•Devise and suggest efficient archival mechanism to teams.
•Planning, policy approval, implementation and refinement/optimization of archival processes.
•Execute archival /purging schedule as per plan.
•Prepare retrieval protocols of archived data & data stacking procedure as how to place/segment archived data into Online, Near Online and Offline modes.
•Efficient Data Extraction of applications from Core Banking System (T24) for MIS reporting purpose.
•Manage overall T24 System Administration.
•Analyze requirements specifications and translate them to task specifications for junior resources.
•To prioritize and meet project deadlines.
•To analyze developed programs and processes, and make recommendations which yield a more performance effective product.
•To analyze problems in an efficient and time effective manner.
•To interact professionally within team using effective inter-personal and communication skills.
•Provide periodic and accurate analysis reports to senior management.
•Leads and coordinates project update meetings, and documents project status and issues.
•Research and recommend software development tools to management based on the analysis of performance, complexity and maintainability.
•Maintaining systems by monitoring and managing software defects.
•Coordinates changes of considerable consequences to the scope and schedule of the projects.
•Working closely with management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development.
•To conduct and assist in interviews for hiring process.

Business Process
  • December 2011 to November 2012

Lead a team of Performance Management of T-24 for its Close of

Software Engineer –Team Lead
  • August 2008 to November 2012
senior management
  • September 2009 to December 2011

Lead a team for ETL development (for Bank’s MIS Reporting purpose) for CDB Data Provision. I was a core developer for its data provisioning area and expert in its analysis and design. Perform various analytics to cater end user requirements. Provide MIS data to cater various business users requirements. Prepared reports for end users and

Developer at Interfaces
  • August 2008 to September 2009

I worked as a Core

Software Engineer at Systems Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • March 2007 to August 2008

I worked on different functional areas of this application .I was completely involved in its design documentation, technical documentation and implementation. The development was in Java/JSP/Servlet/Applet/Beans/AJAX in front end with Oracle at back end.
Apart from the project implementation of the functional requirements I am involved in writing technical specification, unit test cases and for different artifacts according to UML and object oriented concepts.

Software Engineer at CureMD (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • November 2004 to January 2006

I was involved in implementation, writing functional specification, user manual and design document of these and various modules of the product.The development was in ASP (front end), VB (business logic) and MS SQL (back end) and a third party DLL.

Education

Master's degree, Information Engineering
  • at Lahore University Of Management Sciences
  • February 2007

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Specialties & Skills

Information Engineering
Web Development
Government
BANKING
REPORTS
CAPACITY PLANNING
OPTIMIZATION
SPECIFICATION
AUDITING
AUTOMATION

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker
Punjabi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015

Hobbies

  • Cricket
    Captain of the winning cricket team in school.