Shakir Akbari Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• As the Director of Applications at the American Library Association, I oversee strategic planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of our organization's applications, ensuring regulatory compliance and.
• Strategically plan, develop, implement, and maintain enterprise-wide applications
• Foster innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration
• Communicate benefits, process impact, and ROI of technical solutions
• Evaluate, select, and manage vendor relationships
• Build relationships with key stakeholders to forecast their needs and align to organizational goals

Greater Chicago Area

• The charge of the American Library Association's IT Project Manager position is to 1) coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects 2) ensure that projects are delivered.
• Provide regular status reports for all IT initiatives to the association's executive directors
• Implement Major IT Projects and Initiatives
• Deliver projects on time and with in budget while ensuring quality
• Manage relationships with vendors and consultants
• Create common understanding and agreement on scope with business stakeholders

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for the stewardship of mission-critical software-based business solutions across a portfolio of business accounts. These solutions optimize the key workflows and processes of their users and the Product Owner is charged with gauging whether this expectation is being met and proactively engaging in remediation efforts when technology solutions.

Greater Chicago Area

• Lead enhancements and supported CRM solution including website, reporting, data integration using both agile and waterfall SDLC processes for digital healthcare marketing company. Provided guidance to new project.
• Worked closely as technical/business liaison with account managers and development team to identify business needs.
• Played key role onboarding new clients on data solutions. Created presentations and diagrams for teams to understand scope, project work, and help gather additional requirements
• Streamlined manual processes for creating multi-channel marketing reporting which resulted in long-term savings and revenue generating products.
• Created business and functional requirements to integrate 3rd party data into CRM solution including sending CRM emails, and identifying sales targets.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for project management, business analysis, requirements documentation, designing & developing data models, user interfaces, and systems integration for the suite of education information systems supporting the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Develops project plans to offset risk factors, allocate resources, and align with the CPS’s strategic.

Greater Chicago Area

-Designed, developed and implemented many different MIS projects including-District health modules to ease data entry, improve data quality, increase state compliancy, and reduce clinicians’ workload. -Duplicate student resolution tools: reducing 50+ resource-hours of data resolution per student to less than 1 hour of data validation. Enabled the city to.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Science - Msc, Major In Business Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Graphic Art & Animation