Shehzad Kazmi's Resume

Shehzad Kazmi
Dubai United Arab Emirates	http://shehzadkazmi.co.cc

OBJECTIVE

I am an accomplished Consultant, working with firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and Teradata, specializing in organizational strategy and change, enterprise performance management, project management, business development, business intelligence & analytics, data warehousing and IT strategy.

SUMMARY

Excellent knowledge of Hyperion Planning, Financial Reporting and Essbase System 9

Hyperion Certified Essbase Developer Certified with hands-on experience in design & implementation of Hyperion Planning Applications

Worked with CXO level and senior management for Hyperion Planning engagement

Actively participate in Proposal Development and Presales demos for Hyperion Planning

An established track record of over 5 years experience in consulting with Global Consulting Firms namely PwC, IBM and Teradata with engagements within Financial Services, Telco and Public Sector

Excellent analytical and communication skills, verbal and written, including the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical clients

WORK EXPERIENCE
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Aug 2010 - Present Assistant Manager	PWC	Dubai, United Arab Emiirates
Client Relationship Management / Service Delivery Business Development / Proposal Development Engage with Public Sector Departments across the Middle East to pursue Hyperion Planning opportunities Project Lead and Technical Lead for various projects in the region (UAE) Responsible for proposal development and pre sales demos of Hyperion Planning to clients all over UAE and Middle East Required to coach and train team members on consulting and industry leading practices to help ensure high quality -
July 2007 - July 2010 Senior Consultant	IBM	Karachi, Pakistan
Team Lead for Hyperion for IBM Global Business Services Pakistan Responsible for proposal development and pre sales demos of Hyperion Planning to various clients Project Manager with successful completion of multiple Hyperion Planning implementations Technical Lead for various projects in the region (Middle East) -
August 2006 - June 2007 Professional Services Consultant	Teradata	Islamabad, Pakistan
DWH Architect with focus on end-to-end enterprise data warehouse implementations using Teradata as the platform along with the leading ETL and BI tools Perform data discovery, requirement gathering, analysis, design and development of ETL, design and development of BI, testing, delivery and deployment of enterprise data warehouse implementations Developed a focused technical team to service Vodafone account globally Architect of Implementation Methodology specific to Vodafone for DWH implementations across Vodafone -
December 2003 - July 2006 Development Team Lead	Bentley Inc., USA	Islamabad, Pakistan
Team lead for the development team based in Pakistan for Bentley Modeling Framework Development team member for PlantSpace P&ID -

ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

Ministry of Finance - United Arab Emirates - Department Level Reporting System
Role: Project Lead and Opportunity Owner

Overall project delivery lead and opportunity owner for a new application for Ministry of Finance, UAE

Lead for stakeholder and team management, requirement gathering, solution design, implementation and delivery

Department of Finance - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Hyperion Planning
Role: QA and Performance Lead

Lead for the QA and Performance enhancement to ensure delivery of high quality and high performance solution

Enhanced outline, forms, rules and reports to ensure quick response times for all concurrent users

Ministry of Finance - United Arab Emirates - Budget Automation System
Role: Technical Lead

Technical Lead for the project and responsible for all the design changes, change management, stakeholder management

Management of metadata through EPM architect, development and enhancement of BR's, Data Forms and Reports

United Bank Limited - Hyperion Planning Human Resource Implementation
Role: Project Manager and Hyperion Planning Track Lead

Responsible for overall project delivery in line with IBM's Hyperion Implementation Methodology

Project Manager for a custom Hyperion Workforce Planning solution

Gathering of requirements and formulation of a solution for the clients requirements

Detailed design development of the solution to be implemented

Leading the delivery team during implementation

Responsible for Design, Build, UAT and Deploy

Management of metadata through EPM architect, development of BR's, Data Forms, Reports and Security of the application

United Bank Limited - Hyperion Planning Implementation
Role: Project Manager and Hyperion Planning Track Lead

Responsible for overall project delivery in line with IBM's Hyperion Implementation Methodology

Gathering of requirements and formulation of a solution for the clients requirements

Definition and detailed design of the solution to be implemented

Responsible for the Analysis, Design, Build, UAT and Deploy

Management of metadata through EPM architect, development of BR's, Data Forms, Reports and Security of the application

Supreme Education Council, Qatar - Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementation
Role: Business Intelligence Track Lead

Responsible for the overall Business Intelligence implementation using Oracle Discoverer

Detailed design of BI and Reporting, formulation of a solution for the clients requirements

Design and development of EUL and Reports

Leading the delivery team for BI implementation

Vodafone, Turkey - Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementation
Role: Data Warehouse Architect, ETL and Business Intelligence Track Lead

Responsible for the overall technical implementation

Leading the BI team based in Turkey (3) and Pakistan (5)

Responsible for the initial requirement analysis, design and development of the Logical Data Model and Physical Data Model, detailed design and development of ETL (Ab Initio), design and development of BI (BusinessObjects)

Deutsche Bank, Germany - Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementation
Role: ETL Development Lead

Part of the ETL Development Leadership team managing the technical team based in Pakistan

Liaison with the Project Manager & Technical Lead based in Germany to coordinate and direct ETL development activities in Pakistan, define overall project standards and ensure conformity with overall design

DHL, USA - Proof-of-Concept Data Warehouse Implementation
Role: Development Lead

Lead for the analysis, design and development; leading the development team based in Pakistan

Optimization of solution for high performance that led to Teradata winning the contract (outperforming Oracle and IBM in almost all the benchmarks)

SKILLS

Soft Skills

Team Leadership

Client Relationship Management

Database & Data Modeling

Logical/Physical Model Design

Multi-dimensional Data Modeling

Teradata

Oracle DB

Essbase OLAP

LogicWorks ERWin

TOAD for Oracle

Nexus by Tera-Tom

EPM/BI Applications & Tools

BI Architecture & Design

DWH/BI/EPM Implementation Lifecycle Management

Budgeting concepts for Financial Services, Telecommunications and Public Sector

Hyperion Planning

Hyperion Workforce Planning

Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management

Hyperion Reporting Studios

Business Objects XI

Oracle Discoverer

Cognos

ETL Tools

Ab Initio

Data Stage

CERTIFICATIONS

Essbase 9.3 Developer Certified Expert
Ab Initio Certified

TRAINING

Hyperion Planning 9.3.1 Create and Manage Applications Training from Oracle University

Hyperion Essbase Analytics 9.3.1 Bootcamp Training from Oracle University

Oracle Discoverer Training from Oracle University

Ab Initio Training from Ab Initio

PUBLICATIONS

"Hyperion Planning - System 9: Installation Guide" a free guide available for users new to Hyperion Planning

"Technical Implementation Bible" used as a standard guide within Teradata GCC Pakistan Practice

"BI using ETL", a paper on the effective usage of ETL tools to optimize and automate the creation and data population of the summary/presentation layer to be used for BI Reporting

Contributed to "ETL Methodology", used as a standard guide within Teradata GCC Pakistan Practice

EDUCATION
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August 1999 - May 2003	National University of Computers & Emerging Sciences
BS Computer Science 3.5 Grade Point Average -