Hussain Raza Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key Achievements: - ODAMIT Project – ICON WATER, Canberra - Custom developed Contractor Project Procurement & Management Module (ODAMIT) in Oracle WAM for Icon Water. - Played an instrumental role in completing the project in 8 months meeting the timelines defined in project plan. - Assisted in drafting Functional Design, As Built As Configured, Release Management, Process Flow and other key project documents. - Led the Testing, Bug Fixes and Release Management activities for the successful and timely completion of the project.Key Responsibilities - Implement and configure Oracle Utilities Application Framework – Work and Asset Management (WAM). - Assist in conducting requirements gathering workshops with the clients for the on-going projects. - Evaluate and analyze the gathered project requirements to develop the proposed solutions. - Assist in developing and conducting conference room pilots to aid in solution finalization. - Provide guidance to the development teams to ensure delivered solution aligns with requirements. - Develop and execute test plans and document results in JIRA / Monday Board / Azure DevOps. - Validate developed customization & coordinate with development team for smooth release of the solution. - Coordinate with technical / functional teams, project manager and client for smooth sailing of the projects.

Karachi

Key Achievements: - Lead the functional development of ISO20022 Transaction Enabler product from inception, MVS was developed in 3 months. - Actively engaged with 15+ clients in 3 months for technical sales engagements and knowledge sharing sessions on ISO20022 framework - Played an instrumental role in converting 3 of top 5 banks to be the early adopters of ISO20022 Transactions Enabler system. - Managed 12+ domestic clients and 10+ international clients for BAU operations, customizations and product feature enhancements in the span of 3+ years (click to see key accounts managed). - Lead the pre-sales activities for 8+ domestic clients and 15+ international clients for new sales initiative over the period of 3+ years with the successful conversion rate of ~20% (click to see key accounts managed). - Contributed in winning Purchase Orders of aggregated USD 3.5+ million in over 3 years. - Developed as a subject matters expert on 9 TPS IP products and 3 TPS Partner products.Key Responsibilities - Responsible for achieving success by driving business growth aided by providing technical support for the sales propositions to win business deals in a Pre-Sales capacity. - Engage with prospective clients in brain-storming sessions to develop opportunity from lead to the maturity stage, both domestically and globally. - Gather business requirements and perform market trend analysis for grooming the product backlog and creating pragmatic user stories in close co-ordination with the Product Owners. - Actively participate in weekly scrum meetings to guide and ensure that the TPS products enhancements are being developed in-line with market requirements and client expectations. - Conduct product demos and requirement workshops with IT and business stakeholders to document techno-functional needs, business objectives, and project-related information. - Create strategic responses to RFPs, RFIs, BRDs aligned with client requirements & company objectives.

Pakistan

- Conducted research on the implementation of the blockchain technology in the banking/payments industry and associated transaction flow processes.- Designed the blockchain based centralized solution architecture to integrate domestic banks for sharing customer information in real-time for improved KYC of loan customers.- Hyperledger Sawtooth was studied as a blockchain tool of choice.- Researched on the implementation of IBM Safer Payments in banking and payments sectors, for improved financial fraud detection.

Pakistan

- Worked as a Pre-Sales technical consultant for Automated Payment Processing Technologies.- Engaged with multiple clienteles belonging to the financial sector of South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Europe, on a routine basis. Conducted on-call and face-to-face meetings with clients.- Assisted the sales team to provide a technical response to the client’s queries and bring closure to the on-going project leads.- Designed infrastructural system architectures for financial institutions, for seamless integration of several payments systems (payment gateways, remittance channels, mobile/internet banking, scheme integrations, core banking integrations, ATMs, and much more).- Formulated business documents and presentation, which includes white papers for TPS financial solution systems for the corporate sector, response documents for clients RFPs, RFQs, CRFs, BRDs and RFIs, feasibility reports for client provided future business case scenarios and corporate presentations with business and technical insights for executives.- Attended and actively participated in weekly scrum meetings arranged by system development teams to stay up-to-date with the added and in-line functionalities of the TPS financial solutions.- Co-ordinated with the technical/development team to provide an adequate response to the client’s techno-functional requirements.- Conducted product demos through WebEx for domestic and international clients as a part of pre-sales activity.

Pakistan

- Developed cross-platform mobile banking application with Xamarin on Visual Studios (C#).- Designed the application’s user interface in accordance with the bank’s theme for the target audience. - Newtonsoft.JSON API was configured to establish integration with the bank’s core system.- Application provides the user with banking facilities such as Funds Transfer, Bill Payment, Mobile Top-up, Statement Requests, Draft Requests, Branch Locator, Deals and discounts, and much more.

Pakistan

- Developed cross-platform mobile application with Xamarin on Visual Studios (C#).- Application was integrated with Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP to provides the mobile interface for Purchase Order and Employee Attendance workflows.- REST API was configured on client side for establishing integration with the middleware.- SOAP API configured on the middleware to establish integration with ERP.

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- Attained in-house experience of exploring the bank’s database management system, to study the data structure, complexity and in-place security measures, which are necessary to maintain the atomicity, confidentiality, isolation, and durability of large-scale financial data.- Conducted in-depth analysis of the financial transaction flows from several customer end-points and associated business processes.- Learned the basics to develop a mobile application for the Android platform. Assisted the Mobile Banking application developers with the development.

Master Of Business Information Systems, Business Information Systems

Bachelor Of Computer Science