Farhan Khan
Karachi
Summary
With over 18 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing IT Infrastructure Services, I have a proven track record of successful project delivery. I possess expertise in a wide range of IT operations including technical design, troubleshooting, and project management. I have implemented change management processes, standards, and executed complex IT infrastructure projects using high-end technologies such as SAP S4/HANA, Microsoft, and Cisco. My effective communication of the benefits of these technologies and projects in business terms has allowed me to build strong relationships with top management and stakeholders. I excel at collaborating with teams based on their skillsets at all levels and have a strong ability to produce management reporting, policies, technical documentation, and project documentation. Additionally, I have 10 years of experience in developing software and services using C# .NET, ASP.NET, Java, Android, and iOS. My belief in adapting standardization and industry best practices has earned me respect, appreciation, and support from subordinates, peers, co-workers, top management, directors, and external customers.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Group Head of I.T GRC & PMO
Amin Bawany Group
07.2019 - Current
- Company Overview: Amin Bawany Group well established Group of Companies having ventures in Sugar (Faran Sugar Mills Limited), Food Manufacturing (UniFood Industries Limited), Power (Faran Power Limited) and Financial (BF Modaraba (Non-Banking Financial Institute)) sectors.
- Leading the IT Governance and Project Management Office at ABG Group.
- Responsible for automating and enhancing business methods through Digital Transformation. My role includes SAP S/4HANA and other tech solutions project management, risk management, planning & budgeting for these projects, vendor/partner management including activities such as selection, evaluation, negotiation and relationship management. Liaison and collaborate with business users to understand their problems, requirements and design the most suitable tech solutions for them.
Head of I.T
UniFood Industries Limited
10.2017 - 10.2019
- Company Overview: Uni-Food Industries Limited is an unlisted (GREEN FIELD PROJECT) public company operating as a joint venture among Amin Bawany Group (key stake holder), Habib Group and Hisham Group. The company has established state of the art automated manufacturing facility of baking items and started business of manufacturing and sales of cakes under the brand name ‘GOOD GOODIES’.
- Strategic management of the Information Services and technology function for Faran Sugar Mills and UniFood Industries Ltd.
- Overall ownership of technology initiatives to improve operational efficiency and productivity by ensuring the implementation of the right level of automation across the organization with prime focus on the implementation of end-to-end ERP – SND across both organizations.
- Set up I.T department from scratch on both Head Office and Factory.
- Successfully implementation Honeycomb ERP with complete roll out of production, supply chain, finance, sales and HR.
- Support & Manage Bill of Material (BOM), Production Recipe, Resource, Process Order, consumption, conversion, scape & wastage process.
- Successfully Implementation of Salesflo System, a secondary Sales Software, nationally on a network of more than 150 distributors.
- Successfully Implementation Attendance System on both Head Office and Factory.
- Designed and build new Data Centers using Blade technology over Virtualized environment.
- Design & Developed of Business Intelligence Solutions & Bar-Code Management.
- Planned and managed the revamp of entire infrastructure head office/factory & WAN & deployed a high available, secure and a robust setup.
- Reporting to the Director and Chief Executive Officer.
I.T Manager (Software Development)
Ismail Industries Limited
07.2013 - 10.2017
- Company Overview: Ismail Industries Limited is one of the largest food companies in Pakistan, manufacturing a wide range of confectionery, biscuits, snacks and packaging films under the brand names of CandyLand, Bisconni, SnackCity and Astro Films respectively. IIL products are exported to more than 40 countries around the globe including USA, Europe, Australia, Africa, Far East and the Middle East.
- Successful roll-out of SAP.
- Managing an I.T team in Head Office.
- Managed & developed a different Web/ IOS /Android based Applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Developing & maintaining the company IT systems, in house ERP software and databases.
- Support to the existing running applications.
- 90% of IT projects were completed ahead of schedule and within budget.
- Identified the key business drivers and Introduced Management Dashboard.
- Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.
Team Lead (Software Development)
Adapt2Tech LLC
11.2007 - 07.2013
- Company Overview: Adapt2Tech is a US based software development organization, develop custom medical software providing healthcare companies with a competitive edge to effectively face their challenges.
- Team Leading.
- Architect all the business ideas for the application and lead technical team for feature development, integration, and deployment.
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield a competitive advantage.
- Database & Object modeling.
- Software Development in different Language (Ms.Net Technologies, Java).
- Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
Software Engineer
The Code Works (pvt) Ltd
08.2004 - 11.2007
- Company Overview: The Code Works (pvt) Ltd is US bases software house, development of real-time web/ mobile applications. I was mainly involved in the development of real-time mobile applications using Java (J2SE and J2ME and Ms.net technologies).
- Worked as a software developer.
- Agile-based development.
- Product feature analysis for back-end as well as front-end
Education
Bachelors of Science - Computer Science
University of Sindh
01.2004
Skills
- Project management
- Proficient in SAP S/4HANA
- Experienced with Microsoft Dynamics software
- Cross-platform mobile development
- Systems integration expertise
- Data migration strategy
- Experience with SDLC processes
- Governance frameworks
- Strategic transformation
- Network infrastructure and firewall control
- Technology alignment strategy
- Expense allocation management
- Stakeholder needs assessment
- Experience with digital tools
- Experience with relational database technologies
Certification
- Aptech Certified Computer Professional from Aptech Computer Education.
- Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education.
References
Available upon request.
Personal Information
- Full Name: Farhan Khan
- Father's Name: Munawar Khan
- Date of Birth: 1st-June-1982
- Mail address: Flat # E-20 Jason Condominium Clifton Blk-5 Karachi
Timeline
Group Head of I.T GRC & PMO
Amin Bawany Group
07.2019 - Current
Head of I.T
UniFood Industries Limited
10.2017 - 10.2019
I.T Manager (Software Development)
Ismail Industries Limited
07.2013 - 10.2017
Team Lead (Software Development)
Adapt2Tech LLC
11.2007 - 07.2013
Software Engineer
The Code Works (pvt) Ltd
08.2004 - 11.2007
Bachelors of Science - Computer Science
University of Sindh