Zahid Hussain, Senior Business Analyst

Zahid Hussain

Senior Business Analyst

Dubai Customs

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Higher diploma, Data Science
Experience
24 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 9 Months

Senior Business Analyst at Dubai Customs
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2007

• Developed Machine Learning model (using Python/Keras/CNN) to identify Harmonized System Code from the Image itself. Presented & published in the conference. (https://conference.rtsolz.com/index.php/ICBTT/ICBTT/paper/view/38)
• Transformed the organization into paperless with the help of technology, AI based automation, process improvements, policy enhancements and change management to become 100% paperless government organization.
• Led the efforts of Digital transformation of the organization with modern automation practices, machine learning based and six sigma-based solutions to the latent business needs including paperless processes.
• Seeking out major Customer & establishing working relationship for improving Customer Satisfaction index by scientific methods.
• Developing & mentoring for Service Improvement including templates, measurement models, Customer Journey Maps, Customer Personas, Empathy map, pain points, moment of truths, breakpoints
• Performing root-cause analysis for problems, SWOT analysis for solutions, generating effective outcome & overseeing the implementation of the solutions
• Overseeing and managing a team of Improvement Analysts
• Contribute to corporate strategy & planning to realize business objectives by saving cost & Increasing service efficiency
• Developing service improvement plan & work closely with team in executing the plan
• Achieving operational objectives & exceed expected targets

Business Analyst at Pakistan Revenue Automation Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2003 to February 2007

Pakistan Sales Tax & Federal Excise, Income Tax (Apr 2005- Feb 2007)
 Worked on domestic taxation reforms assignment, $150m Tax Administration Reforms Program- TARP, funded by World Bank
 Prepared Expression Of Interest, Request For Proposal, and Project Plan of the project
 Conducted Business Process Reengineering-BPR and liaised with domain experts to identify requirement, prepared high level business requirements & detailed requirement specification documents in order to reshaping the procedures, functions and business processes of direct and indirect domestic taxes of federal government.
 Involved in vendor valuation / selection for domestic taxation software system.

Pakistan Customs (Oct 2003 - Apr 2005)

 Worked on Customs reforms known as ‘Customs Administration Reform (CARE)’ funded by World Bank
 Involved in preparation of Request For Proposal, Terms Of Reference and Project Plan of the CARE project
 Conducted BPR analysis and prepared requirement specification documents for PaCCS (Pakistan Customs Computerized System) in order to redesign the procedures, functions and business processes of Pakistan Customs
 Conducted Gap Analysis meetings with the software vendor and revised the business processes and requirement specification documents
 Involved in developing the processes & procedures for Post Clearance Audit in Pakistan Customs
 Coordinated with M/s. PWC Logistics throughout the lifecycle of software development and Implementation.
 Involved in collection and organization of meta data required for software customization.
 Managed a team for preparing test environment and testing documents and perform execution of test cases / scenarios in order to refine the software product.
 Managed & coordinated in-house software application development of Tariff & Integrated Policy- TARIP for facilitating traders to have first hand information about the customs rules & procedures for trading across the territory of Pakistan.

Systems Analyst at Sunsoft Pvt. Ltd
  • Other
  • February 2000 to October 2003

City District Government Karachi - CDGK (Jul 2003 - Sep 2003)

 Facilitated & coordinated CDGK reforms having 15 departments with 178 branches spread over the city.
 Worked on Payroll and Personnel Management Systems assignments.
 Involved in preparing detailed project plan for the task.
 Conducted BPR analysis, prepared As-is / To-be business processes, and prepared requirement specification documents for software solution of payroll and personnel management in order to redefine the rules, procedures, functions and business processes of CDGK.
 Involved in collection and organization of meta data required for software customization.
 Managed a team for developing software solution against the requirements stipulated.

Malik Textile Pvt. Ltd. Karachi - Pakistan (Mar 2003 - Jun 2005)

 Worked on automation & integration of Payroll Management System assignment.
 Performed need analysis, designed solution, developed work breakdown structure and project plan.
 Led teams of software developers & quality assurance personnel for developing software solution.
 Led the Implementation of software application.

Saleh & Abdulaziz Abahsain Co. Ltd. Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Aug 2001 - Feb 2003)

 Worked on Integrated Inventory Management, E-Catalogue & Integrated Workshop/Maintenance & Sales Management assignment.
 Prepared project proposal and project plan documents.
 Conducted requirements analysis and prepared requirements specification document, detailed system design and database architecture for integrated software application.
 Prepared software solutions, led software development teams for the development of software solution.
 Implemented the solution at various locations in eight different cities of Saudi Arabia.

Excise & Taxation Department, Government of Balochistan-Pakistan. (Jan 2001 - Aug 2001)

 Worked on Motor Vehicles Registration & Tax Collection System assignment.
 Conducted requirements analysis, prepared requirement specifications, designed solution & involve in project planning for entire project.
 Performed software development and led a team of software developers.
 Collected meta data and managed the data entry of 50-years paper based records.
 Managed implementation at provincial level among eleven Excise & Taxation offices distributed in various cities.

Pakistan Navy, Government of Pakistan. (Oct 2000 - Dec 2000)

 Worked on Personnel Information System assignment.
 Prepared project plan for entire project
 Conducted detailed requirements analysis, prepared requirement specifications, designed web based solution.
 Transferred existing non- relational data into relational one (Oracle 8).
 Implemented solution on Intranet of the organization.
(Jun 2000 - Sep 2000)
 Organized a program to expedite & manage educational activities at PN School of Logistics & Management through automated solution.
 Prepared detailed project plan and project scope documents.
 Conducted detailed requirements analysis, prepared detailed design, business process models and system architecture.
 Performed software development & led a team of software developers for constructing the customized solution.
 Implemented the solution within time and budget constraints

Dewan Mushtaq Textiles Mills Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad -Pakistan (Mar 2000 - May 2000)

 Worked on Computerization of Inventory Management assignment.
 Conducted requirements analysis, prepared detailed design and developed software solution
 Implemented software solution

Software Engineer at New Century Business Co. Pvt Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 1999 to December 1999

 Worked on automation of Inventory Management assignment.
 Prepared vision document and project plan for developing software solution for the organization
 Performed requirements analysis and business models, designed solution and database architecture.
 Developed and tested entire solution for the inventory
 Implemented the solution.

Education

Higher diploma, Data Science
  • at Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
  • December 2022

Micromasters in Statistics & Data Science, covering Python from linear models to deep learning, Probability, Statistics, Data Analysis

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at SZABIST University
  • November 2019

MS Computer Science

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at University of Karachi
  • December 1998

Master of Computer Science

Specialties & Skills

Certified Trade and Logistics Professional
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Project Management
Business Analysis
Machine Learning
Data Engineering

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • February 2010
Association of Enterprise Architect
  • Member
  • April 2017

Training and Certifications

NLP with Hugging Face Transformers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2023
NLP with Tensorflow (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2022
R (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2022
Data Visualization (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2023
Machine Learning (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2021
Six Sigma Black Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
February 2016
Duration:
32 hours
Certified Process Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Cobit 5 Assessor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015
Six Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
Harrington Institute USA
Date Attended:
March 2015
Duration:
21 hours
ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
COBIT 5 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Participation Certificate of Data mining/ Data warehousing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2004
Valid Until:
January 2005
Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2009
Valid Until:
February 2010
Effective Business Process Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
Effective Communication skills (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011

Hobbies

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