Shahbaz K.

Experience

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  Institute of Space Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

  Mar 2003 - Jun 2004

  Assistant Manager

  As a member of a team of 4 engineers, I was responsible for writing device drivers for Single-board computers to be used in satellite systems. Specifically, my work was related to LEO satellites. During this job, I acquired very useful experience of working in C and Assembly and an insight into the working of computer interfacing hardware.

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  PTCL

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2006

  Assistant Divisional Engineer

  As a leader of a team of 8 members, I was responsible for the management and troubleshooting of 29 Alcatel PSTN swtiches through the Network Management Center located in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Besides gaining invaluable management experience, I acquired critical non-technical skills such as analytical ability, problem solving, and the ability to work under tight deadlines. During this job, I supervised the successful implementation of a new numbering plan in all Alcatel Switches in record time.

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  Citigroup

  Feb 2008 - Apr 2014

  Led the global strategic initiative of datacentre migration and IT optimization with multiple, geographically distributed teams of up to 8 people.• Led the development of the 2013 tech room migration strategy for a cluster of 9 countries in the Middle East region• Delivered annual saves of USD 431,000 by migrating 15 business applications from 9 different countries to strategic VMWare farms in UK and Germany• Reduced the non-strategic datacenter footprint by 33% in 1 year• Mentored 1 new team member in project management skills• Received 2 promotions in 5 years (Senior Officer, Assistant Vice President) Show less Delivery of technology solutions to Citi businesses including capital markets, consumer banking, private banking, wealth management, and cash and trade services with project budgets of up to USD 1.2 million.• Managed the successful rollout of the Exchange 2007 email platform to all business segments in EMEA region (~60,000 mailboxes total) with no customer impact, mitigating end-of-vendor-support risk to the email infrastructure• Led the virtualization to IBM p595 frames of a key book-keeping application for Corporate Finance, delivering operational cost saves of USD 71,000 annually• As part of global IT transformation program, managed implementation of target operating models for two separate datacenter workstreams (storage and backups, batch management)• Coached 1 new analyst in project management Show less Providing project coordination support to the team.• Successfully led to completion the re-engineering of the technical design review process, thereby ensuring early capture of the datacenter hardware requirements and an improvement in time-to-market for the business• Managed a complex migration of tradefloor data traffic to multicast SPLAT firewall platforms in 4 different datacenter locations across the UK and Germany. This project delivered enhanced protection to the corporate network by segregating the multicast traffic from the unicast traffic, thereby reducing the risk to the Commodities business Show less

  • Project Manager - Assistant Vice President

    Jan 2012 - Apr 2014

  • Project Manager - Senior Officer

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2011

  • IT Graduate Associate

    Feb 2008 - Dec 2009
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  ECS

  May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Project Manager

  Provided IT project and program leadership to ECS clients within a consulting and/or managed-services framework.

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2017

  Project Manager

  End-to-end delivery of technology solutions to all business segments within Lloyds Banking Group including retail, commercial and corporate banking, general insurance, and life, pensions and investment provision. Successfully led a large-scale technology risk remediation initiative focused on IT security.

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  IBM

  Sept 2017 - Sept 2021

  Designed Cloud technology solutions (up to GBP 7 million) for clients in the UK financial services industry. End-to-end delivery of technology solutions to clients. Worked on cloud migration and technology risk remediation at major UK retail bank, covering all business segments including retail, commercial, corporate banking, and insurance.

  • Technical Solution Manager

    Apr 2019 - Sept 2021

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2017 - Apr 2019
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  Kyndryl

  Sept 2021 - now

  Solutions Architect

  Orchestrating the design of large and complex multicould and hybrid Cloud solutions (up to GBP 12 million) for clients within the UK financial services industry, assisting the clients in refining their requirements, working with technical specialists, and using the breadth of Kyndryl and partner products and services.