Nadir Ali
Project Manager / Solution Architect
- Location
- Pakistan
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Nadir Ali's Overview
- Current
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- Assistant Manager - Mobile Financial Services at Telenor
- Past
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- Application Management Specialist - Mobile Financial Services at Telenor Pakistan
- Solution Architect at Telenor Pakistan
- Business Analyst at ZTE Pakistan 2006-2008
- Software Engineer at WebBoon Pakistan 2005-2006
- Education
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- National University of Sciences and Technology
- Army Public Degree College
- Noukhez Public High School
- Recommendations
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5 people have recommended Nadir
- Connections
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500+ connections
Nadir Ali's Summary
• 8+ years of experience in Project Management, Solution Architecture & Design, Implementation Consulting and System Integrations for state of the art systems like CRM, middleware, billing, provisioning, number portability and mobile financial services.
• Worked in the capacity of Project Manager, Solution/Integration Architect, Business Analyst and Software Engineer.
• 5 years of IT Infrastructure Service delivery experience
• Strong understanding and experience of Web services, SOA, and EAI
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills coupled with vision, business insight, and good negotiation abilities.
• Coordinated and worked with international vendors like Accenture India, Evolving UK, TIBCO USA, Telcordia USA & Fundamo SA, in several application development projects.
• Experience in requirement gathering/analysis, creating use cases, system design, testing, production support and report generation
• Managing concurrent multi-vendor large telecom-grade projects and lead cross functional teams for projects execution
• Product/Services Life Cycle management which includes change requests, invoices management and issue handling
• Strong knowledge of frameworks like PMI, CBAP, ITIL, TOGAF, ISO 27001, TL9000 & UML
• Experienced in managing a team, from hiring to supervising and setting team goals and KPIs
Specialties: Project Management
Mobile Financial Services - Branch-less Banking
Integration Architecture
Solutions Architecture and design
TIBCO, SOA, Middlewares,
Number Portability,
Provisioning & CRM
Nadir Ali's Experience
Assistant Manager - Mobile Financial Services
Telenor
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TEL; Telecommunications industry
November 2012 – Present (8 months)
• Leading swap of easypaisa at Telenor Group level in such a way that easypaisa services become available at individual Telenor Buinsess units
• Swap of easypaisa value chain to ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), BPM (Busienss Processes Management) & SDP (Service Delivery Platform)
• Providing consultancy at Telenor Group for mobile financial services and integration architectures
• Designing easypaisa SOA model to be integrated with federtated ESBs and Global ESB
Defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology and ensuring that all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design
• Setting KPI’s for the team and realization of assigned organizational goals
• Capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost effectiveness
• Optimization of the easypaisa value chain to maintain and enhance the business continuity
• PMO practices and communication between teams in the matrix environment, to increasing the number of simultaneous projects
• Development and maintenance of the easypaisa architecture landscape on state of the art framework i.e. TOGAF, BIAN
Application Management Specialist - Mobile Financial Services
Telenor Pakistan
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry
October 2010 – September 2012 (2 years)
Responsible for
• Managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables of Mobile Banking Releases, which includes planning, tracking, change control, and risk management of project
• Technology Strategy and Roadmaps
• Devising the processes for the implementation of the release cycle and system maintenance
• Interacting with the Business Stakeholders for the identification of flaws in the exisitng business processes and suggesting the new business processes flows
• Alignment of Financial Services projects and releases with PMO
• Working as an interface between Business, Vendor and support teams
• Performance & Capacity testing for the financial services application
• Enterprise Architecture /TOGAF
• Release & delivery management for the Mobile Branchless Banking
• Deployment for Financial Services Projects
• Mobile Banking system benchmarking and performance optimization
• Mobile Banking Integration with the Business Support Systems
• Verification of Functional and Technical design
• Management of the requirement process with the all stakeholders
• Managing user accesptibility testing for the upcoming releases
Solution Architect
Telenor Pakistan
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TEL; Telecommunications industry
April 2008 – December 2010 (2 years 9 months)
Responsible for:
• Managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables of BSS Releases, which includes planning, tracking, change control, and risk management of project
• Providing solution to middleware application programming and integration as well as technical Queries
• Managing TIBCO Integration with CRM (Siebel), Provisioning system (Tertio), Billing system (Geneva), Number portability system (Telcordia) and 5 3rd party systems
• Managing Team of 9 people including Architects, Developers and Operations
• Handling of all technical changes to the production applications (projects and change requests)
• Maintain and implement enterprise and solution architecture frameworks, process and standards
• Review, analyze and approve the design and development of vendor modules and applications.
• Handing over and transferring knowledge of new applications/services to the Operations team
• Working knowledge of developing Architecture models using TOGAF 9
• Developing RFQ and Vendor Evaluation for the in coming Platforms
• TIBCO Product suite (Administrator, EMS, BusinessWorks, RV, Adapters & Hawk)
• Managing ESB and BPM for service orchestration and service composer for departmental integration to Enterprise Architecture
• Benchmarking of IT systems for capacity planning and infrastructure upgrade
• Business case development for cost/benefit analysis of IT expenditure and initiatives.
• Architecting service assurance controls & integration blueprints
• Building solid relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Setting KPI’s for the team and realization of assigned organizational goals
Business Analyst
ZTE Pakistan 2006-2008
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; 0763; Telecommunications industry
March 2006 – March 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Responsible for:
• Solutions design and development
• Software Development (J2EE & Oracle)
• Develop solutions using Oracle technologies PL/ SQL, Forms and Reports
• Interface designing between Billing and Customer care
• Data Migration from Billing System to Customer Care System
• Data maintenance and Application Customization
• Training end users about the System
• Modifying and enhancing existing Oracle applications
• Experience of working in Test Driven environments
• Experience of working in all phases of the software life cycle
• Requirement gathering & System Deployment.
Nadir Ali's Courses
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Independent Coursework
- CBAP
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- UML Modelling
- TOGAF
Nadir Ali's Certifications
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PMP
- PMI
- License 1573938
- January 2013
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ITIL Foundation
- EXIN
- January 2012
Nadir Ali's Skills & Expertise
- Project Management
- Mobile Financial Services
- Solution Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture Design
- IT Service Management
- Service Delivery
- Telecommunications
- Business Support Systems
- ITIL v3 Foundations Certified
- Information Technology
- Technology Integration
- Product Development
- Software Development
- Provisioning
- Message Oriented Middleware
- Enterprise Architecture
- Vendor Management
- Team Management
- Requirements Analysis
Nadir Ali's Education
National University of Sciences and Technology
Bachelors, Education; Information Technology A
2001 – 2005
Army Public Degree College
Noukhez Public High School
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