MBA 2012

Muhammad Imran Alam

House No. 164-A, Canal View Housing Society, Lahore, Pakistan Mobile: 92-03225153870, Phone: 92-42-35294212 imranaalam@gmail.com Date of Birth: July 17, 1980 Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) MBA Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad MSc Economics National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad BS Software Engineering/ Information Technology Jun 2012 2009 2005

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad Oct 06 - Mar 10 Regional Window Coordinator/ Web-Manager - Information and communication Department As program manager, responsible for scope, time and cost, completed projects in collaboration with regional and international partners with 95 percent customers satisfaction rate Proposed and established different Information and communication technology systems which resulted in 60 percent IT portfolio reviewed and disposed; and 40 percent cost savings. Additional benefits were increase in application availability by 19 percent Accomplished an Increase in the segmented web traffic by 43 percent and attained 1st rank at REPEC among all economic research institutes of Asia As a regional window coordinator directed in-house and outsourced activities of partners achieving 106 percent planned IT benefits projected vs realized. All this achieved working in integrated project teams in 78 percent of projects Researched customer needs and guided content marketing team which encouraged registration of 730 researchers and 175 organizations with in South Asian region in a single quarter. Our team earned no.1 position among all 8 international teams Successfully digitized and published 270 offline research papers of researchers and created knowledge management system that received 15 hits per day and organized 3 cross-functional teams in a quarter Datels International Sep 05 - Oct 06 Software Engineer - Software Development Department Led 3 person software requirement specification team that delivered project using 97 percent standard methodology for systems analysis and design at Ministry of Food agriculture and livestock (MinFAL). Negotiated scope change requests resulting in only 5 percent scope creep in Islamabad Estate office information system. Reduced the throughput time of hiring process from 3 months to 15 days 100 percent of system user staff was trained in use of new technologies and techniques. Improved from 7 defects per 100 function points in first production month to 2 defects per 100 function point At MinFAL 72 software specifications out of total 84 were approved for the implementation phase. Impact of financial crisis of 2008 on textile Iindustry of Faisalabad, Pakistan Authored working paper on textile industry of Pakistan in collaboration with SANEI to find out how the financial crisis of 2008 has left impact on the textile industry of Faisalabad, Pakistan through the channels of export and investment. 250 small and medium size textile units were surveyed for quantitative analysis. Consultancy for Zarar Shaheed hospital Surveyed 126 individuals, 4 hospitals and 9 clinics in the 4 miles vicinity of ZST to create a disease, income and competition heat map Simulated operational and functional realities on staffing requirements at 3 demand sensitivity levels constrained by the available hospital resources Implemented 12 benchmarks targets for Gynecology and 2 action plans were handed over for implementation in 6 month time frame Provided IT data support by implementing cost management system which comprised 9 excel sheets and 5 reports Improved staff utilization by 20 percent by raising awareness in the community. Resulting in daily patient count increase from 27 patients per day to 43 patients per day

MBA 2012

Managed family business portfolio of agri-farm, fertilizer dealership and dairy-farm from perspective of procurement to marketing for time span of 8 months Selected among 367 IT professionals from Punjab by PITB for three month advance IT training in project management, software engineering, programming and quality management Selected among 49 employees to represent PIDE at annual general meetings and conferences in Egypt and China Meeting new people, making new friends and working out at Gym.