About

He possesses an overall working experience of over 30 years mostly as a Management Consultant specializingin Business and IT Consulting. In his last role at IBM, he was the Delivery Excellence Leader for a portfolio ofover 70+ projects in the Middle East, for 10+ years. He was mentoring and guided the Project Executives andProject Managers to ensure timely, quality, and within-budget delivery on all projects. The projects were diverse inindustries, solutions and nature of engagement. Before this, he was the first Country Leader for IBM Consulting (created as a result of the global acquisition ofPricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Consulting) and was the architect behind establishing the consulting businesson a solid footing with consistently high growth in his tenure. He was responsible for the business development,practice development, resource development, and delivery of projects with full P&L responsibility. At PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Consulting, he was a Director and Head of the IT consulting business forPakistan for 9+ years and then Director for the Middle East Pakistan (MEP) region for over 2 years. He was themain architect in establishing the IT Consulting practice with full P&L responsibility which saw the practice growyear on year at double digits. Earlier he was involved with leading the development of commercial software applications.

Skills

  • Grant Writing and Business Development
    10
  • Business plan writing
    10
  • RFP
    10
  • English
    10
  • German
    6
  • Urdu
    10

Experience

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • Freelance Consultant at   None
  • Nishat joined Upwork in April 2021 and since then has worked on more than 40 contracts for a range ofclients from diverse industries and locations.
  • These have been to develop business proposals, business plans, grant applications, and businessstrategies. The solution areas that I have covered in these projects are online food delivery, onlinebook publishing, media solutions, internet service provider, fixed wireless networks, micro-mobility,immigration services, wastewater treatment, migrant healthcare, training, change management,succession planning etc.
  • Most of the Upwork clients have rehired Nishat for more work and consistently given a 5-star rating for the work done for them.

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • As Delivery Excellence Leader my role requires:
  • Oversee the whole project portfolio for Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to advise project managers, helpthem identify and mitigate key risks in order to keep projects on track
  • The value of this portfolio has consistently been around 300m USD with a significant number of 10m+USD projects and revenue streams of over 50m USD per annum
  • Monitor project health from delivery and financial perspective and proactively advise Project Managersfor risk mitigation and cost avoidance as well as push for timely billing
  • Ensure that any deviation from scope of the agreed contract are evaluated for impact and ChangeRequests are agreed with client in time
  • Check projects for any Overspend of costs or any potential Cost Overruns and guide and advise thePM through all the stages of risk mitigation or for timely approvals of Cost Overruns
  • Have led the creation of Dashboards and management reports to highlight Key PerformanceIndicators (KPIs) such as Earned Value, Consumption patterns, Resource Mix, Milestone timings,revenue cost mismatches etc. These dashboards are over and above the standard system and toolsavailable to all PMs
  • Have provided training and guidance to new and experienced PMs on understanding the system /tools reports and functionality and how to use it effectively
  • Am a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the tools and frequently provide suggestions to globaldevelopment team on future versions and releases as well as any anomalies in the usage of theavailable version
  • Have always managed the targets for my role by providing the quarterly outlook to the region andglobal and managing it within the agreed numbers
  • Participate in regular cadence calls at regional and global level as required
  • Advise the business management team on key issues and resolutions so that business continues toperform effectively

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • Performed the roles of Risk Manager and Delivery Excellence Leader simultaneously as well asinterchangeably in this period.
  • As a Risk Manager, my role required:
  • Advise bidding teams on how to evaluate and mitigate risks for any of our services and solutionsofferings
  • Help build a risk profile for the overall opportunity and ensure that all aspects have been considered inthe estimation
  • Provide review of bid documents such as proposals, technical reviews, pricing, any sub-contractingarrangements, solution estimation, technical risks, success and exit criteria, key responsibilities of thestakeholders etc.
  • Convert the identified risks into mitigation advice by providing language for the proposal to the clientas well as for any dependent set of documents
  • Have provided guidance and advice in the creation of global proposal templates as well localizedtemplates
  • Conduct frequent training sessions for potential and practicing bid managers
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  • As Delivery Manager, my role required:
  • Oversee the whole project portfolio for MENA and MEEP regions, to advise project managers, helpthem identify and mitigate key project risks
  • Monitor project health from delivery and financial perspective and proactively advise Project Managersfor risk mitigation and cost avoidance
  • Ensure that any deviation from scope of the agreed contract are evaluated for impact and ChangeRequests are agreed with client in time
  • Check projects for any Overspend of costs or any potential Cost Overruns and guide and advise thePM through all the stages of risk mitigation or for timely approvals of Cost Overruns
  • Have regularly provided training and guidance to new and experienced PMs on understanding thesystem / tools reports and functionality and how to use it effectively
  • Participate in regular cadence calls at regional and global level as required
  • Advise the business management team on key issues and resolutions so that business continues toperform effectively

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • Country Leader, Global Business Services at   IBM Pakistan
  • Country Leader of Global Business Services (GBS). After IBM global acquisition ofPriceWaterhouseCoopers Conuslting (PwCC). he was the first Country Leader for IBM Consulting andwas the architect behind establishing the consulting business on a solid footing with consistently highgrowth in his tenure
  • In the 4 year period GBS became a leading consulting provider in Pakistan with a diverse clientbase and services offering portfolio. He was responsible for the business development, practicedevelopment, resource development, and delivery of projects with full P&L responsibility. He was alsoresponsible for creating and running a consulting resource center in Pakistan which provided low costresources to the IBM Middle East practice as well as to IBM USA internal software development. Thisresource center has later grown on to become a fully-fledged Delivery Center for IBM

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • Within the region, I was the architect for setting up the IT practice and had established a leadershipprofile for the firm as a technology solution provider. As leader of the ITS service market I wasresponsible for selling and delivering assignments to major accounts in the region and for theprofessional development, deployment and retention of about 20 consulting staff. I also hadresponsibility of assessing the technology trends and formulating action plans to advise our keyaccounts for the application of the new technologies.
  • Some key assignments in this period were for Wold Bank funded projects in Government as well asdelivery of diverse solutions including IT Strategy, Business Transformation, ERP Planning selectionand e-Government solutions to a wide range of industries in Middle East and Pakistan.
  • I also led the design and development of a ERP Suite for PwC Pakistan with Finance, HR, Payroll andProcurement modules which were implemented with over 20 clients cross industry

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • September, 1987 - March, 1992
  • Fulltime
  • Responsible for a team of software developers. This team implemented and customized softwarepackage applications for healthcare such as admissions, medical records, laboratory, casemix,radiology, financials (General ledger, accounts payable, billing etc). For some of these applicationsI was acting as design lead. Also personally led the design and development of a unique ExecutiveInformation System (EIS) that provided real time information (extracted from the front and back endapplications) to the C-Suite execs

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • Worked as Systems Analyst to design and develop systems for Shares Accounting, Payroll, OilInventory etc. The systems were developed with Cobol and some RPG for a IBM S/34 environment

Nishat Kazmi

Work experience
  • As Research Associate worked on research and development of 3D visibility algorithms for CAD/CAM systems. After working as Research Assistant for 3 years and supporting various teams as aprogrammer, I was leading the development of the visibility modules. This work was for the Institute ofMachine and Production Technology of the TU Berlin.
  • I authored many research papers as part of my research
  • Education

Nishat Kazmi

Education
  • Compiler Construction
  • Computer Graphics
  • Information Systems

Nishat Kazmi

Education
  • September, 1968 - October, 1970
  • Fulltime
  • Physics
  • Electronics
 

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