Experience

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  Bsp technology consultants

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2009

  Analyst programmer

  Supported BSP Products and services with pre-sales, design, development to support and maintenance wherever applicable.-Designed and developed BSP Document Management Solution for prospective UAE clients - The product allowed dynamic design and indexing of key unstructured organizational content - Implemented in banking industry for 100k+ credit customers and 2mio+ documents on-click-Developed and supported bespoke property solution for prominent real estates in UAE market. - Commissioned the customized CRM integrated with IVR to support self-service customer services - Alerts to CRM executives were part of the package to follow up customer payments and service history - Included financial and sales reporting for management to track investments and unit status Show less

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  Paperless technology

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2011

  It project manager

  Managed software development projects with technical consultation for customers in the areas of Banking, Human Resource, Sales and Marketing- Led technical and architectural system design, development and deployment - Shared project status reports to internal and external stakeholders with governance of project KPIs- Key projects include credit card documents management solution for banking industry, green leaf solution for Philip Morris Pakistan Limited

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  Philip morris international

  Apr 2020 - Dec 2022

  Head of it

  Developed server-side solutions (Java & WCF, Oracle, SSIS) for customer-facing applications, built client-side solutions employing Java, jQuery & REST, and ReactJS for employees and agents processing change management to legacy applications, providing L3 support for new and legacy products.  Some of the key projects I was part of are:o Microservices-based green leaf procurement solution which managed leaf procurement, and logistics. Engineered high-throughput, low-latency systems using advanced Java features and multithreading techniques. Reduced $1mio/year in operational costs.o Designed and deployed a sales force automation solution with a distributed caching mechanism using Apache Ignite, improving data retrieval speed by 40%. o Developed and maintained a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Git, ensuring continuous integration and deployment of code changes. Show less

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  Unilever

  Jan 2023 - now

  Head of it - pakistan & sri lanka

  Part of IT Delivery team for the Unilever South Asia Region. Responsible for Digital Transformation through delivering cloud architecture for web and digital deliveries, designing new and innovative solutions to challenges in company and provide support and results in following areas: - Delivered $10M of cost savings and reduced 50K Manhours in 2023 through Digital Transformation with notable projects including: - Leading a transformation of current On-Premises services to the cloud including the infrastructure and network design, selection of Platform-as-a-Service offerings, providing integration to Software-as-a-Service offerings - Starting the DevOps culture including Continuous Integration & Delivery, bringing the automated infrastructure tools to existing teams, and setting guidelines and standards to promote the new software conventions. - Providing the framework for the collaboration of multiple in-house and vendor development teamsKey Projects: o A Microsoft Azure Data Lake for sales team connecting with Unilever’s global data ocean with an annual data volume of 70TBs. o A no-touch AI/ML based demand forecasting service integrated with Unilever’s Kinaxis (Rapid Response) planning tool, employing Microsoft Azure data bricks. o Java Full Stack, SQL Server, and Oracle-based Modern Trade Ordering solution employing IBM Dell Boomi, SFTP and Kofax OCR. Show less