Senior Managing Consultant
Abacus Consulting
Total years of experience :21 years, 9 Months
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in
collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Draft and submit Financial proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitment if necessary during project cycle.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Plan and schedule project time lines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines with management.
• Holding weekly internal and external meetings on progress.
• Single point of contact for all communications between the Head Office and staff.
• Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed time frames.
• Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that projects conform to AGILE methodology and required standards.
• Conducting regular impact analysis in order to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business.
• Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
• Assisting the technical team in their design and development tasks.
• Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Research and recommend software tools to management.
• Prepare and Implement Project Plan using Project Portal and MS project management tool.
. Analyze requirement document to determine project cost, scope and resource allocation.
. Plan a development strategy to complete the projects efficiently and effectively in due time.
. Perform research operations to troubleshoot development issues.
. Manage team to maintain efficiency and motivate team members.
. Correspondence with clients to gain feedback and analyze development progress.
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9.Technology Skill Set
Degree Major Institution Date (MM/YYYY) MCS Computer Science Premier College Lahore 08/2002 6. Countries of Work Experience Pakistan