Owais Ahmed Farooqui
Project Consultant
Karachi
Summary
Strategic Project Consultant builds a great rapport with a diverse workforce. Honest, confident and committed to achieving excellence. Qualified in resource management planning, scheduling and vendor management. Detail-oriented, personable and helpful.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Consultant
AUC Pvt. Ltd.
Karachi
2020.05 - Current
- Maintained high performing team and served as project's advocate.
- Prepared contingency plans.
- Allocated work among team members and provided guidance.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Planned, executed, and controlled assigned projects, ensuring work performed complied with contractual requirements.
- Recruited, hired and supervised resources to staff project team.
- Developed and trained junior team members by leveraging industry experience to achieve optimal project strategy.
Head of Business Development
AUC Technologies
Karachi
2019.01 - Current
- Collaborated with sales and marketing departments to support client acquisition.
- Identified and pursued valuable business opportunities to generate new company revenue and improve bottom line profit.
- Established and maintained highly effective relationships with clients and industry partners to drive growth.
- Implemented innovative business development strategies to increase customer base and expand market share.
Business Development Manager
AUC Technologies
Karachi
2015.03 - 2018.12
- Established relationships with key decision-makers within customer's organization to promote growth and retention.
- Generated new business with marketing initiatives and strategic plans.
- Reached out to potential customers via telephone, email, and in-person inquiries.
- Monitored market trends and competitor activities to identify areas of potential opportunity.
- Achieved sales goals and service targets by cultivating and securing new customer relationships.
- Liaised with sales, marketing, and management teams to develop solutions and accomplish shared objectives.
- Directed sales support staff in administrative tasks to help sales reps close deals.
Technical Project Coordinator
Purpose of Life TV Productions LLC
Dubai
2013.11 - 2014.12
- Communication and follow ups with SKY’s corporate and business associate
- Keeping track of SKY’s movements and engagements
- Taking care of office logistics with the Building Management and Protocols
- Checking and assigning day to day work flow of the SKY Team
- Daily 30 minutes Team Meet for task updates and progress
- Monitoring the Social Media aspects
- Monitoring, in sync with the Administration, Content Development
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- Monitoring, in sync with the graphical team and the in-house technicians, AV
- Production
- Reception of, in sync with Operation Manager and PRO, Govt and legal bodies and transactions of the Dubai
- Providing Weekly Report to the Managing Director regarding the work flow and progress
- Daily update to Shaykh Khalid Yasin regarding the office work flow and corporate logistics
- Ground Level Management.
Project Manager
Super Technologies
Karachi
2012.10 - 2013.04
- Manage Team as a Team Leader by assigning in-house tasks for Website
- Development, Customization of Websites on Word press, Video Tutorials and
- Web Hosting
- Daily walk through of company’s websites for unit testing and debugging
- Assigning security protocols for the company’s website on web servers
- Successfully conducted Sessions focusing on the enhancements, awareness of the Social Media for Online Earnings and promoting websites for Super
- Technologies
- Organized events for Super technologies related to jobs, online earnings
- Liaised with other companies in preparing their Strategic Plan for the mutiple events.
Social Media Strategist / Consultant
Muntwo.com
Karachi
2012.07 - 2012.11
- To create a comprehensive social media strategy to define programs that use social media marketing techniques to increase visibility, membership and traffic across all different brands and Implement and manage social media programs.(Mostly R-Projects)
- Experimenting with new and alternative ways to leverage social media activities
- Monitor trends in social media tools, trends and applications and appropriately apply that knowledge to increasing the use of social media
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- Strategize with and train the management team and others across the company on incorporating relevant social media techniques into the corporate culture and into all of the company’s products and services.
Software engineer / R&D Manager
Telniasoft, Inc
Karachi
2011.01 - 2011.04
- Worked on Microsoft Dynamics GP 10, SQL Server 2005, Crystal Reports 10, visual studio 2005-08
- Supported backend trouble shooting of Dynamics GP for Telniasoft
- To generate and experiment with new queries on SQL server on Telniasoft demo severs
- Once the queries have been generated successfully, would provide training to the technical team of Telniasoft
- Modification of the MSDG 10 according to the client’s requirement (mostly finance and accounts department of super stores and textile industries) through MSDG SDK and VBA
- Generated customized reports through crystal reports according to our client’s requirements.
System Analyst
BCI, INC
Karachi
2007.05 - 2007.10
- Planning, designing, installing and deploying new computer systems for banking sectors
- Revamping existing computer systems for new tasks for banking sectors
- Networking computer systems with others systems for in-house unit testing
- Preparing cost-benefit and return-on-investment (ROI) reports for in-house management
- Testing and debugging new or revamped computer systems and the networks on which banking sector communicates.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Usman Institute of Technology - Hamdard University
Karachi 2007.04 - 2018.01
Skills
Team LeadershipPublic Speaking
Project control
Risk management
Project Management
Adept in scheduling
Organization skills
Project planning
Decision-Making
Cultural Awareness
Planning and Coordination
Sales pipeline management
Relationship building and rapport
Prospect targeting
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Project Consultant
AUC Pvt. Ltd.
2020.05 - Current
Head of Business Development
AUC Technologies
2019.01 - Current
Business Development Manager
AUC Technologies
2015.03 - 2018.12
Technical Project Coordinator
Purpose of Life TV Productions LLC
2013.11 - 2014.12
Project Manager
Super Technologies
2012.10 - 2013.04
Social Media Strategist / Consultant
Muntwo.com
2012.07 - 2012.11
Software engineer / R&D Manager
Telniasoft, Inc
2011.01 - 2011.04
System Analyst
BCI, INC
2007.05 - 2007.10
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Usman Institute of Technology - Hamdard University
2007.04 - 2018.01