RAHEEL
IT Project Manager / Business Analyst
Dubai
Summary of Career
1. Direct the requirements development for applying technology to satisfy business needs
2. Closely monitor the Project phases and deliverable within approved budget and timelines. To use Agile methodology, when needed
3. Daily status meeting and assign the daily task to team, follow-up and escalate
4. Deliver informative, well-organized presentations
5. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and decompose high-level information into details
6. To get Interfacing and Integration related requirement from Business and transferred into Technical language for IT in the light of preset governance framework
7. Resolving the reservations raised by Audit, Compliance or Information Security
8. Encounter the vendor, if there are some gaps in provided solution (functionally and technically)
9. Work directly with and serve as the liaison between business units, technology, support teams and management
10. Closely coordinated with business/other stakeholders and ensure to comply their requirement / concerns.
Experience as Senior Project Manager (Consultant)
16 December 2018
15 December 2019
• Closely monitor the Project phases and deliverables within approved budget and timelines.
• To use agile methodology, when needed.
• Daily status meeting and assign the daily task to team, follow-up and escalate.
• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations.
• Proactively monitor project deliverables.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and decompose high-level information into details.
• To get Interfacing and Integration related requirement from Business and transferred into Technical language for IT in the light of preset governance framework.
• Resolving the reservations raised by Audit, Compliance or Information Security.
• Encounter the vendor, if there are some gaps in provided solution (functionally and technically)
• Work directly with and serve as the liaison between business units, technology, support teams and management.
• Comparison between RFP, AS-IS, TB-BE, AN100, DS 140 and test cases & ensure requirement are providing as per approved RFP.
• Closely coordinated with business/other stakeholders and ensure to comply their requirement / concerns.
• To get signoff from business and other stakeholders on AN.100, AS-IS, TO-BE, DS140, CEMLI objects, TSD documents and interface design.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Work with business unit personnel to identify required changes and communicate information to development team/vendor.
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Assist to HOD in the enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.
Experience as Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
Habib Bank Limited
16 February 2011
10 June 2018
• Direct the requirements development for applying technology to satisfy business needs.
• Work with functional & technical team members to transform and develop new requirements, design and implementation.
• Develop functional specifications and system design specifications.
• Monitor user adoption rates and respond as needed (e.g., additional training sessions, communication, system modifications, etc.)
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the needed artifacts (i.e., functional requirements/specification, business requirements document, UAT, trainings, test cases, GUI and screen & Interface designs).
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Proficient with technology, including office applications, database systems, executing data imports, running exports, merging records, and running reports.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and decompose high-level information into details.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Work directly with and serve as the liaison between business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Work with business unit personnel to identify required changes and communicate information to development team.
• Assist in the enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.
• Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Proven track record of assessing system/network availability, security, and data integrity to identify, manage and reduce risks and ensure general compliance.
• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations.
• Resolving the reservations raised by Audit, Compliance or Information Security.
• Proactively monitor program and project delivery.
• Create and maintain workflows, approval processes, and validation rules based on internal stakeholder requirements
• Manage ongoing support requests and administrative needs
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates.
Experience as Information Security Analyst
Habib Bank Limited
01 August 2007
15 February 2011
• Risk assessments and security reviews of numerous projects including business process reviews, IT system review, architecture and design reviews.
• Review and analysis from security perspective for all over hardware, network, application, database and OS.
• Security, compliance, configuration & vulnerability management for various businesses and IT systems.
• Proactive monitoring & reporting of security events of production environment through enterprise SIEM.
• Deployment of CIS benchmarks and verification on applications and Infrastructure.
• Security hardening of operating systems, databases and network devices as per industry best practices.
• Network security and vulnerability scanning of servers and network devices (Routers, Firewalls and Switches) using EI Retina.
• Network monitoring, Reporting and handling of incidents using enterprise SIEM (McAfee ESM)
• Responsible for developing procedures for monitoring and logging of server activities.
• Assisting and devising a strategy to select relevant tools to scan networks for vulnerabilities.
• Coordinated with Business and project stakeholders to evaluate the project as per Information Security standards.
♣ Major Projects
- Vulnerability Analysis (Security Patches, Standard Security Configuration Review & Implementation)
- Core Banking System rolled out project (356 branches in 6 months)
- Endpoint Policy for Branch PC’s
- Security Deployment on HBL’s Network - Centralized Security Management & Monitoring.
- Coordinated with vendor for Penetration Testing (Code Injection, Masquerading, Confidential Data Leakage)
- Prepare Online Training material for employee about awareness of Information Security (how to avoid/reported spam emails, phone calls, phishing, data security, password severity etc.)
- Numerous application security risk assessment
Experience as Fraud Risk Aanalyst
United Bank Limited
01 September 2006
05 May 2007
• Analyzed and re-verification of customer loan applications to traced out fraud cases.
• Cross verified from concerned departments of doubtful customer documents including tax returns.
• Ensure deployment of Anti-Money Laundering standard procedures.
• Monitored fraudulent or suspicious activity and transactions for risks.
• Collected evidences, statements and testimony to identify and analyze fraudulent activity for further action.
• Coordinated with Law enforcement agencies in the matter of fraudulent customers.
• Traced out default customers and passed the updated information to Recovery department.
• Actively member to create processes for reduced Fraud Risk.
Experience as Network Support Officer
03 March 2003
10 July 2006
• Identified, diagnosed and resolved network connectivity Problems.
• Administrating networks for all sites.
• Resolved problems reported by end users for local and wide area networks and personal computers.
• Installed, configured, maintained and monitored network services, equipment and devices.
Bachelor 31 January 2007
BS (Computer Science)