Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Certification
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SAAD AHMED SIDDIQUI

IT Project Manager
Karachi,41, Building Askari 5 Malir Cantt

Summary

Professional Project Management Specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Associate Project Manager

ECU World Wide
Karachi, Pakistan
07.2021 - Current

• Escalated incidents to next level to remain compliant with company's standards and procedures.
• Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
• Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
• Managed bookkeeping, prepared budgets and cost reports.
• Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.
• Adhered to budget requirements with excellent planning and consistent expense monitoring.
• Deeply involved in deployment of project to next level by continuously reviewing change management and present changing to higher management.
• Manage and evolve into workflows to address the rising demand in product development delegate the tasks to the various teams using Monday.com, with clear explanations.
• Ensuring that service management policies, processes and procedures documentation is updated and maintained as well as communicating IT service management strategy, process and procedures across IT.

Team Lead Management Applications and Systems

Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited
Karachi, Pakistan
09.2016 - 07.2021
  • Provides complex problem resolution, root cause analysis and technical support for delivery systems.
  • Design and validation of IT budget and procurement of advanced systems to keep technological edge.
  • Coordinate with professional clients for rectifying requirements, scope and objective of projects.
  • Assign tasks to internal teams and assist them according to schedule management.
  • Plan and Implement Two Factor Authentication Project to assembly paramount system login or data prevention for corporate levels.
  • Make plans, comprehensive documentations and reports of given projects.
  • Involves in build performed activities for compiling and deploy projects.
  • Meet budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis.
  • Use different kind of tools for keeping checks on assign project compilations during tentative timelines.
  • Work with appropriate teams to identify technical areas for improvement with current systems and actively monitoring for improve quality, reliability, and supportability of existing infrastructure.
  • Coordinate multiple vendors for testing and implementation of technical terms associated to different Projects.
  • Manage changes to project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
  • Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to make certain network capacity meets existing and future requirements.
  • Design and modify Service Level Agreement(SLA) for introducing new project and manage it according to mention tentative timelines

Assistant Manager IT

HBL Currency Exchange
Karachi, Pakistan
09.2015 - 08.2016
  • Deploy and implement data center rehabilitate enhance obsolete IT infrastructure to updated infrastructure.
  • View, update and maintain Online Forex Wallsoft currency dealing web application interface, allowing privilege access to particulars as per described by HBL policies and procedures.
  • Routine enterprising backup on daily basis of different applications including HCM (Human Resource Management),Microsoft SQL Server (Wallsoft application) and HR payroll applications.
  • Installing and Implementing of SQL Server 2013 integration with Online Forex Wall Soft Currency dealing Application.
  • Migration of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 live environment, including Active Directory domain services roles features, group policies as per IT best practices.
  • Ensuring smooth running of all IT systems, including anti-virus software, print services and email provision.
  • Setup of new systems including installation of operating system and appropriate software as per baseline standards, evaluate and testing new tools and technologies.

Management Trainee Officer

Martin Dow Limited
Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
07.2014 - 04.2015
  • Perform day-to-day system monitoring, verifying integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, messages and alerts to ensure pro-active approach to problem resolution.
  • Performed recovery hardware or software failures and undertake routine preventive measures in addition to implementing new hardware/software upgrades and updates.
  • Install new / manage existing servers (Microsoft Environment) and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, Active directories domain services, storage, in accordance with standards and operational requirements.
  • Continuously updating documentations and guides detailing servers OS, installations, health of Data center accordingly as per IT Standard Operating procedures.
  • Troubleshooting system and networking problems, diagnose and fix it.

Education

MBA - Project Management

Karachi University Business School
University Road, Karachi
11.2020 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

SirSyed University of Engineering And Technology
University Road, Karachi
01.2008 - 03.2012

Skills

    Resource Utilization Planning

Project Resource Assessment

Planning and Coordination

Leadership

Good listening skills

Interpersonal Communication

Multitasking abilities

Critical thinking

Accomplishments

· Successfully deployed and Implement Two Factor Authentication Project for the purpose of login security credential. OTP will generated by Gemalto device work on the seed network timing protocol.

· Successfully implement Cisco Webex with Sx-10 Video Conferences devices for internal communication between company refineries, regional offices with Head Offices.

· Collaborated with team of SAP Team in the development of Byco SAP United Project.

· Achieved appreciation by completing Network revamping at Head Office and refineries with accuracy and efficiency.

Affiliations

  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Member of Karachi Aero Club Assosiation

Certification

Prince 2 Foundation Project Management

Timeline

Associate Project Manager

ECU World Wide
07.2021 - Current

MBA - Project Management

Karachi University Business School
11.2020 - Current

Certified Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft - 2021

11-2020

Team Lead Management Applications and Systems

Byco Petroleum Pakistan Limited
09.2016 - 07.2021

Prince 2 Foundation Project Management

07-2016

ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library

05-2016

Assistant Manager IT

HBL Currency Exchange
09.2015 - 08.2016

Management Trainee Officer

Martin Dow Limited
07.2014 - 04.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

SirSyed University of Engineering And Technology
01.2008 - 03.2012
SAAD AHMED SIDDIQUIIT Project Manager