Islāmābād, Pakistan
I am a seasoned professional with over 18 years of diversified experience in data analysis, energy data modelling, enterprise data warehousing, data governance, database administration, ETL (Level 1 & 2), business intelligence, and data-driven technologies. I am also a certified Internal and External ISO 27001 Lead System Auditor with expertise in information security, compliance, and governance. Currently, I am serving with Integrated Energy Planning IEP), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Planning Development & Special Initiatives of the Federal Government of Pakistan, where I am responsible for executing specialized assignments including large-scale energy data analysis, data governance, data management, energy modelling, demand forecasting, supply-side analysis, environmental emissions assessment, and carbon footprint analysis using the TIMES/VEDA and LEAP energy modelling tools. In recognition of my contributions, I was awarded shields of Appreciation by the Federal Minister for the Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives. Previously, I worked as a Sr. Consultant with Teradata and JAZZ (formerly Mobilink GSM), delivering enterprise technology solutions across diverse sectors including telecommunications, ERP, retail, insurance, and manufacturing. My professional experience spans clients in Pakistan as well as the EMEA region, where I received multiple awards and recognitions for technical excellence, project delivery, and leadership.
As a Senior Data Specialist/Analyst & Energy Modelling Specialist with the Integrated Energy Planning, Energy Wing of M/o PD & SI, my JDs include: 1. Development of a comprehensive national energy model using a bottom-up approach through the TIMES (The Integrated MARKAL-EFOM System) framework, in collaboration with international experts from GIZ (Germany), E4SMA (Italy), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 2. The model projects energy sector trends over the next decade and supports evidence-based policymaking by addressing key energy, climate, and sustainability policy questions. 3. Development and analysis of two policy scenarios, a Least-Cost Scenario and a Net-Zero Scenario to evaluate pathways through which Pakistan can achieve its Net-Zero emission targets while ensuring energy security and economic sustainability. 4. Incorporating renewable energy integration, demand-side management, and policy-driven scenarios such as carbon pricing and emission reduction targets. 5. Conducting sensitivity analysis and scenario-based forecasting to assess the impact of various policy interventions. 6. Generating insights to inform policymakers on sustainable energy transitions, cost-effective investments, and long-term energy security. 7. Collect and manage large scale integrated energy data sets from 80 (plus) different energy stakeholders across Pakistan. 8. Improve data collection and system management, also ensure data accuracy and integrity. 9. Utilized statistical and analytical techniques to interpret data, providing actionable insights for process improvement. 10. Created and maintained data visualizations using tools such as Tableau for effective communication of findings. 11. Contributed to the formation of Pakistan Integrated Energy Demand Model for the sustainable development using the LEAP energy modelling tool and adopting the top-down approach. This model was verified by more than twenty energy stakeholders across Pakistan.
1). Plan the releases of project deliverables and follow the agreed and complete release life cycle. 2). Devise and communicate the deployments related tasks like planning, timelines, requirements among stakeholders (SMOs, EDH/Source, ITCM & Teradata Operations). 3). Review deployment packages (SAP CMC & MSTR ‘BO’, Physical Layer & ETL/ELT) updated by application development team on the Remedy tool (get pending approvals by all the approves/stakeholders). 4). Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon dependent applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates. 5). Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications list, and dependencies. 6). Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management. 7). Make sure that the release is planned and in sync between source and destination i.e. deployment should be deployed first at EDH then at EDW level. 8). Get history data/DUMPs from EDH by raising separate CRQs after getting required approvals similarly load the DUMPs into STG tables by modifying the MLOADs to fill the past data gaps. 9). Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule (agreed time window allocated by CAB). 10). Identification/rectification of production code if CRQ/change-request fails during the deployment, communicate, and keep design & application development teams in sync for code updating. 11). Identify the risks w.r.t scope and quality that can delay the release. 12). Lead the go-Live activities to deploy the code into production successfully. 13). Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release. 14). Closing the presented CRQs in allocated time assigned by CAB by attaching all the artifacts generated during deployment.
1). Providing database administration, reporting for performance assessment, maintaining and continuously enhancing the database; producing and reviewing system utilization reports 2). Maintaining documentation of system standard operating procedures and policies; protecting data systems and databases from unauthorized users by monitoring, evaluating, and maintaining systems and procedures. 3). Executing optimization and performance testing; providing technical support for incident response and reporting as well as delivering on-call support as needed. 4). Ensuring all issues are proactively identified, communicated, and addressed to keep the system health and performance at optimal level. 5). Creating required reports in response to business user needs; reviewing locking logger report on regular basis to address any blocking issues 6). Performing routine data acquisition process and table demoralization as per instructions provided through change management process. 7). Evaluating the documentation of Managed Service reporting requirements. 8). Guaranteeing smooth execution of statistics collection process on daily and weekly basis to identify, communicate and address potential statistics issues. 9). Reviewing database design and integration of systems, providing backup recovery and recommendations regarding enhancements and improvements. 10). Designing and creating the data warehouse & all related extraction, transformation, and load of data functions in the company. 11). Assisting in implementation of quality test strategies/methods in compliance with QA methodology. 12). Testing designs while ensuring smooth running of the system; documenting issues and their respective resolutions.
1). Identified and highlighting any TASM related issues with CM-PAK client. 2). Coordinating with Teradata Customer Services representatives and CM-PAK DHW for installation of patches and maintenance releases, and resolution of any issue related to system hardware / Teradata software. 3). Assuring smooth execution of monthly & Ad-hoc BAR operations (using backup tapes + ARCMAIN script to move intra-nodes data transfer in the absence of backup tapes). 4). Served as ETL stream lead of CRM, Provisioning and HLR while investigating the root cause of job failure, fixation and resumption. 5). Performed minor fixes to jobs (limited to change of runtime parameters only) as per the guidelines mentioned in the Runbook. 6). Maintained CRON jobs and other admin related scripts on Data Integration Environment servers. 7). Maintained GCFR Static Metadata (Meta data administrator) and performed Data Loading and Validation (GCFR Operational Metadata). 8). Involved in Auto Space Management (Landing & Teradata servers), Jobs Automation & Incident Management and Release management.
1). Contributed to business area assessment, user requirement analysis, business system evaluation and design. 2). Interaction with client management and analyzed technical limitations in their existing Oracle financial system and associated processes and suggested improvement methods and provide quality upgraded solutions to achieve desired level of efficiency. 3). Assisted with comprehensive cost/benefits analysis and preparation of business cases using testing tools for the upgraded system. 4). Provided assistance in development of new project and ongoing maintenance as per the agreed quality and standards. 5). I was responsible to investigate and debug programming codes for the loopholes that have an impact on the business logic and protocols. 6). Writing, amendment and updating of programming codes as per the defined protocols and by endorsed quality standards which were responsible to brought data from older system to an upgraded one. 7). I was responsible for writing Oracle and quality PL/SQL programming scripts e.g. MySQL, APIs, ODBC and OLEs as per the predefined transformations rules and apply unit testing where required. 8). Performed tuning and optimization of SQL codes to improve the running time of the scripts with appropriate system resources e.g. CPU utilization, spool space and processing time etc. 9). Responsible to maintain programming codes versioning control in both test and the live environment. 10). Developing, amendment and updating of technical design documentation of the developed components (Reports, forms, Interfaces, Conversions and WF customization etc.) based on the functional design documents which were approved by the stakeholders and other operation manuals. 11). Provided guidance and expert opinion in developing proposals and recommend software’s and hardware purchases, software's and system patches, up-gradations and other financial services.