Anam Razzak

  • Senior Project Manager
  • Houston, TX
  • Member Since May 13, 2023

Candidates About

 

Anam Razzak

Top performing and result oriented senior technology leader with 20 years of IT and Business experience. Managed teams up to 70 people, direct and non-direct, onshore and offshore. Proficient in delivering successful, timely, and cost effective solutions which align with business goals and strategies. Demonstrating leadership and vision to turn around ineffective organizations and translate business requirements into highly effective technology based solutions. Diverse expertise in:

ü  Application/Software Development

ü  SDLC, ITIL, Waterfall and Agile

ü  Risk and Change Management

ü  Program and Project Management

ü  IT Controls and Compliance

ü  Business Process Modeling

ü  Enterprise System (ERP) Operation

ü  Vendor Management

ü  Staff Training and Leadership

ü  Budget Development & Management

ü  Contract Negotiation & Management

ü  Team Building and Mentoring

 

 

Experience

 

A&H Engineering Consultants, June 2016 Present

 

IT Consulting, ERP Implementation, IT Compliance and SOX Audit and Project Management

 

Exterran – Information Technology Senior Manager, August 2008 to June 2016 Houston, TX

 

Led the Center of Excellence department, an annual budget of $3.5 Million, which encompasses Application Development, Offshore and Onshore software engineers, Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Operation, Project Management Office (PMO), Change Management, and Governance & IT Compliance.

 

Key Achievements:

  • $20 Million Project - Led the application development, project management and project compliance of the company’s split project. Successfully split the company’s infrastructure, data and all applications. Completed in 8 months and impacted over 3000 employees.

  • $6 Million Project - Sponsored and led the Oracle R12 release upgrade. Successfully completed this 9-month project with worldwide organizational impact.

  • $15 - 26 Million Project portfolio - Established and steered the PMO. Set the foundation and structure including the project charter, methodology, process and procedures, business case, and post NPV and ROI evaluation. Adopted PMI Framework and used iterative waterfall and SCRUM/Agile development methodologies.

  • Consecutive success in spearheading the development, delivery, maintenance, and support of software products. Delivered over 2000 software development solutions to support the different business units of the entire organization using System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and technologies such as SQL plus, .Net, VB, Java web solutions XML publisher, Oracle, and SQL database. Solutions ranged from electronic invoicing using Service Oriented Architecture suite to SQL packages supporting Oracle EBS and SharePoint portals.

  • Responsible for the IT compliance, risk governance, security and framework controls including internal and SOX audit. Created a risk assessment evaluation system to assess and evaluate all IT changes. Led testing team to ensure that testing and stage gate reviews for various stages of SDLC were archived and available for audits, internal and external.

  • Managed Infosys and IBM vendors, their offshore development, and database administration services. This was a team of up to 50 software engineers and DBA’s with an annual budget of $2M. Resulted in delivering 95% of the organization business development solutions.

  • In an unprecedented time frame of 4 months, successfully led a project to change and move the Oracle hosting environment from Oracle OnDemand to IT convergence. This involved moving over 40TB of data and millions of financial transactional records and over 50 third party applications.

 

  • $220K Project Annual Cost Saving - Led a project to sunset legacy application systems, JD Edwards, thus saving over $220K annually. Moved the legacy data to the data warehouse.

Anam Razzak                                                                                                361-548-3473 · anamrazzak@yahoo.com

                            

  • $8.9 Million Dollar negotiation – Successfully negotiated 3 years of Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) with very favorable terms for Exterran.

 

Exterran – Business Technology Manager, July 2007 to July 2008 Houston, TX

 

Led the Application Development of Oracle and JDE Enterprise Systems in the business technology department 

 

Key Achievements:

 

  • Administered several components of the application management solution. Defined the project scope, estimated the resources and cost of the solution, customized processes, created and optimized application coding techniques, balancing and query performance, and implemented the SDLC for documentation.

 

 

 

Career Note

 

UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION Houston, TX

Business Technology Developer Lead 2005 to 2007

System Program Analyst III 2003 to 2005

 

WEATHERFORD Houston, TX

System Program Analyst II 1997 to 2003

 

 

Education and Certificates

 

Continued education, Completed all Ph.D. level courses in General Engineering               

Texas A&M University½Kingsville

 

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, GPA 3.9/4.0

Texas A&M University½Kingsville

 

Master of Science (M.S.), Mathematics, GPA 3.9/4.0

Texas A&M University½Kingsville

 

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, GPA 3.8/4.0

Texas A&M University½Kingsville

 

ITIL v3 Foundation Certificate, PEOPLECERT, 2017

Workplace Respect & Integrity, Exterran, 2014 to 2016

Combating Bribery in Business, Exterran, 2015

Code of Conduct: best Practices, Exterran, 2015

 

 

Technical Proficiencies

 

Methodologies: SDLC, ITIL, COBIT, PMI, Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall.

Platforms: Windows, UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX), Linux (Red Hat, Oracle Enterprise), Oracle database, SQL database

Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, C++, HTML, JavaScript, Visual basic, Cognos 4GL language, Cobol, Fortran, SQL plus