Rizwan SaeedCall: +92 301 8434275 Email: smilingrizooo@hotmail.com Skype Id:rizwan.saeed130

Address: 30-Farooq Avenue, Johar Town G-Block , Lahore, PakistanMarital status: Married #of kids: 2 Passport #: CX5976022 (PK)

A self-motivated, ambitious and enthusiastic professional with 15 years of extensive experience in IT industry on wide range of roles to

successfully manage projects from inception to closure. Proactive self-starter with a track record of taking initiative, reputation for

personal responsibility, taking ownership of work, leading from the front, minimizing complications and making things happen. Key Skills

SDLC (Agile, Waterfall) Planning Requirement gathering

Strong analytical & problem solving skills

Risk identification & mitigation Implementation (deployment, user training, UATs and system support)

Personal communication skills Issue resolution & conflict management

Client handling

Tracking & oversight tasks prioritization & delegation effort estimation & costing

Employment History:Designation: Senior Project Manager (Jan 2016 – Present)

Employer: NetSol Technologies Ltd. (ISO 9001, 27001/CMMi 5/NASDAQ: NTWK) ( www.netsoltech.com )

NetSol Technologies provides IT services and enterprise solutions; NetSol’s flagship product is NFS (NetSol Financial Suite), covering comprehensive business solutions for banking, leasing and assets financing. NFS has 250 implementations with 150 clients in 28 countries covering Australia, North America, Europe, China, Japan, Asia Pacific and Middle East.

Achievements:

Successfully manage & delivered complex projects within cost & timelines Awarded as the Team of the Month for June 2012 as a result of demonstrating an excellent team spirit in achieving extraordinary

results for the complex Japanese project delivery. Upon demonstrating exceptional performance, promoted regularly in 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2016.

As Senior Project Manager:

Projects/ Program: Team Size Duration LocationDaimler Financial Services China (NextGen) 40 ~ 60 Jan 16 – Now China and Pakistan

As Project Manager:

Projects/ Program: Team Size Duration LocationNFS Ascent Core 40 ~ 60 May 15 – Now Lahore and PakistanBYD Auto Finance Company (BYD China) 25 Sep 14 – Apr 15 China and PakistanNFS pre-sales support 5 Apr 14 – Aug 14 PakistanBeijing Automotive Group Finance CompanyLimited (BAIC China)

20 Oct 13 – Mar 14 China and Pakistan

Mercedes Benz Financial Services Japan(Phase II)

18 Dec 12 – Sep 13 Japan and Pakistan

Responsibilities: Being Project Manager, I am responsible of the project successful initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling and closure which encompasses many activities including but not limited to:-

Project planning, estimation, costing and scheduling. Project execution, integration, monitoring and control to meet project goals, stakeholders’ expectations and timely

delivery. Client interaction on project scope, planning & negotiating commitment and timelines. Project status reporting to client, senior management and PMO. Risk management (risk assessment, risk response, mitigation & contingency planning). Offshore and onshore resource management. Conflict management and negotiations. Requirement/gap analysis in collaboration with business & technical units. Onsite consultancy during requirement gathering, UAT and go-live phases. Interaction with 3rd party vendors and consultants.

As Project Technical Lead:

Project: Team Size Duration LocationMercedes Benz Financial Services Japan(Phase I)

30 May 2010 Nov 2012 Japan, Singapore and Pakistan

Responsibilities: Responsible of all technical on-site/off-site activities related to the requirements gathering, analysis, design, estimates, development and implementation which includes the role of Project technical lead, Implementation lead, Team lead, Release management and encompasses following responsibilities:-

Led Dev. & SQA teams involved in all development & testing activities for multiple projects and programs and performed resource allocation for different teams, task allocations, estimating, hiring and involved in appraisals.

Obtained and analyzed Requirements, Identified Impacts & GAPs and estimated Effort. Setup of client’s test & production environments, UATs planning Requirements specification, functional specification, design documents and codes, project plan, end user training documents,

Data Flow Diagrams and Business Process Models and advised improvements. On-site requirement gathering workshops to collect requirements and finalize the functional specification. Exceptionally performed in on-site project activities for deployment phases covering Environment Setup, SIT, Business User

Training, UATs and application support. Audited covering complete Quality Management System, Planning, mentoring audit meetings and reporting. Collaborated in data migration activities, Go Live activities, Sign off activities (requirement, UATs, System) and Production

support. Reviewed and executed client’s business Test Cases (BTC). Coordination with all stakeholders including Business Development team, Business Analysis team, Development team,

Technical Communication team, Graphics team, Software Configuration Management team, Project Managers, Senior Management and client’s project teams.

Proactively managed client’s change requests during the project customization and implementation phases. Identified potential risks, risks mitigation with devised contingency plans, managed issues resolution and conflict management.

Helped in improving business process areas of various clients after requirement analysis and before the finalization of functional specifications to reduce cost of projects.

Involved in Pre Sales activities for RFP (Request for proposal) phase to pursue new business opportunities through Demos, Presentations and offshore (Japan) workshops.

Prepared Training Plan and Tracking; Mentored group discussions for domain/business understanding of new clients, Conducted internal technical for teams. Conducted trainings to enhance the resource pool to be used on multiple projects, delegated tasks to create opportunities for team members.

Analysis against the metrics collected during the project lifecycle and publishes reports for steering committees/Sr. management and other relevant stake holders.

Part of process action team member, contributed in development, enhancement and implementation of SQA, Test, SCM, Release, Requirements Management, Project Management and Training process.

As Project Team Member:

Project: Team Size Duration LocationGAC-Sofinco China 20 Sep 2009 Apr 2010 China and Pakistan

Code refactoring (Internal project) 5 Jun 2009 Aug 2009 Pakistan

Mercedes Benz Financial Services Australia &New Zealand

25 Apr 2009 May 2009 Pakistan

Daimler Financial Services Korea 15 Dec 2008 Mar 2009 Pakistan

Nissan Financial Services Australia 30 Feb 2008 Nov 2008 Australia and Pakistan

Daimler Financial Services Taiwan 25 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Pakistan

Responsibilities: Requirements analysis, functional specification, design documents, end user training documents, Data Flow Diagrams. Application development including coding, unit testing & documentation. Setup of client’s test & production environments, UATs on-site/off-site support Reviewed and executed client’s business Test Cases (BTC). Exceptionally performed in on-site project activities for deployment phases covering environment setup, Business User Training

and UATs support. Collaborated in data migration activities, Go Live activities, Sign off activities (UATs) and Production support. Coordination with different stakeholders including Business Development team, Business Analysis team, SQA team, Technical

Communication team, Graphics team, Software Configuration Management team, Project Managers, Senior Management and client’s project teams.

Prepared training documents

Tools/ Technologies Used – Visual Basic 6.0, VB.Net, SQL server 2000, 2005 & 2008, Oracle 10g & 11g, Crystal Reports, PowerBuilder 6.5 & 9.0 and 11, MS Excess, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, 7 and 8, MS Office/ Project/ Visio, Jaguar Server, JIRA, , Visual Source Safe, Subversion (SVN), MS Visual Studio.Net.

Senior Software Engineer, Izhar Group of Companies. Lahore Pakistan (Mar 2002 to Oct 2006)

Izhar Group is one of the largest groups of companies in Pakistan with their major businesses of Construction, Steel building, Pre-cast concrete, Pavers and Housing schemes.

Responsibilities: In-house software development; including requirements, design, estimations, development and testing.

Software Engineer, Izhar IT (Pvt.) Ltd. Lahore Pakistan (Feb 1999 to Mar 2002)

Izhar IT (Pvt.) Ltd. was software house in Pakistan which was dealing in Software development, Web page design, Data Entry center and Medical transcripts center.

Responsibilities:

DevelopmentEducation and Trainings:Title Completion University/ InstituteITIL® Foundation certificate in IT Service Management 2015 AXELOS

Master in Computer Sciences 2000 ~ 2002 The National College

Bachelor in Computer Sciences 1997 ~ 1999 The National College

Interests: Current Affairs, History, General Knowledge and Gardening.Reference:

Available on request