Muhammad Ali

Socialpreneur | Hustler | Sharing Economy Enthusiast | Fintech

Fin-Tech Project Manager
As Senior Project Manager for ACI worldwide, I am looking after the payment gateway & fraud solution implementation for APAC customers. ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments company, powers and protects electronic payments and banking for more than 5,000 financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors around the world.

All-Rounder.
Over weekends I am working as an all-rounder on Sharekayak.com. ShareKayak is an asset sharing platform for Kayak, which allows anyone to be an entrepreneur and run an asset sharing business.

Traveller
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”. Travelling is my passion. I appreciate meeting new people and visiting new places. I would like to explore as many as chapter of this book “The world”.

Experience
May 2016 – Current

ACI WORLDWIDE PTY LTD, Sydney Australia

Program Manager / Sr. Project Manager

  • Currently working as Sr. Project Manager for ACI worldwide. Managing projects for Merchant Fraud protection and monitoring (RedShield) and Payment Gateway integration (PAY.ON) in APAC region. The project team is based in Australia, UK, Germany, Singapore, Japan and Romania.
  • Responsible for project governance, producing weekly reports, maintaining various project logs which include the development of issue resolution and risk mitigation plans.
  • Responsible for managing multiple active projects and their deliverables, which involve multiple departments and products, ensuring all cross-functional dependencies are identified, managed and resolved.
  • Manage all aspects of the project delivery from Start Up through to Project Closure and handover to Business As Usual (BAU).
  • Identified, assessed and managed project risks and dependencies. Managed Risk register throughout project lifecycle. Planned and managed risk response strategies to reduce project threats and increase opportunities.

Aug 2015 - Current

Sharekayak, Sydney Australia

Socialpreneur & All-rounder over weekends

  • Leading the planning and development of the kayak sharing platform Sharekayak  & owning all operational aspects of bringing the product to market.
  • Building an asset sharing platform. It will allow anyone to share any asset (Kayak) with anyone else to generate extra income.
  • Creating a prioritized product roadmap to keep all key stakeholders informed, reducing the uncertainties of product deliveries and commitments.

Aug 2010 - Current

alitravel.me

Blogger

  • I have been happy to share my life learnings. I believe in strong community of people that can be trusted, counted on and believed in.

Feb 2012 – Aug 2015

Crimsonlogic Pte Ltd, Singapore/Sydney, Australia.

Application Manager

  • Developed budget and resource plans to ensure performance of the project is within corporate defined goals.
  • Conducted workshops to develop a detailed business solution. Understood customer acceptance requirement, and confirmed product specifications and functionality that meet or exceed customer requirement.
  • Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process, use cases, scenarios and workflow analysis.
  • Managing the implementation of the system and prioritizing Use Case implementation to match customer’s evolving Software/Hardware ecosystem.

Nov 2008 – Jan 2012

Crimsonlogic Pte Ltd, Singapore

Lead Software Engineer

  • Worked as technical development lead, oversaw overall technical design and development activities.
  • Performed and managed the stages of SDLC and participated in the system review with all stakeholders.
  • Successfully led the user requirement sessions and documented all the specifications, business process and workflows, coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and confirm requirements.
  • Conducted regular Working Committee meetings and did a constant status update to all the stake holders (Functional, Internal Teams, technical and Steering Committee members) and escalated any issues which needs stakeholder’s attention.
    Designed and documented the system architecture and proposed appropriate technologies and tools required to implement systems; and ensure users signoff design specification.

May 2007 – Nov 2008

Chartered Semiconductor Mfg, Singapore (GLOBALFOUNDRIES)

CIM Engineer

  • Coordinated with users for the requirement of new projects, successfully refined and implemented new projects.
  • Brainstormed and implemented the migration & up-gradation techniques of real-time software, while maintaining the data integrity and uptime.
  • Managed the integration of technical and application components to meet business requirements.

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)® (Number: 1893174)
  • Certified Business Analysis ProfessionalTM (CBAP®) (Number: 4427)
  • ITIL® Foundation in IT Service Management (Number: 5587301.20494782)
  • PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management (Number: 5587301.20497902)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) (Number: 000294356)
  • Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) ® – PMI (Number: 1801270)
  • Blackblot Product Management ProfessionalTM (BPMP). (Number:30912995)
Stakeholder Management
95%
Business Relationship Management
90%
Software Project Management
99%
Project Schedule and Planning
90%
Change control management
95%
Resource Management
92%
Procurement Management
85%
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