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Inspiring Women For A Better Professional Life
in Technologyby
Uzma Khan, SECP
About Me
• Uzma Khan
• Joint Director/IT Consultant/ Business Manager
• Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan(SECP)
We learn from each other to live and to succeed.
My upbringing , Roots & Values • Perception of my family about Me• Life is all about the way you think• Climbing the Ladder with Confidence• Matric with A – Grade• F.Sc (Engineering), 5th Position in Federal Board• B.Sc (Double Maths and Stats)• Gold Medal, Role of honor, Maths A Subject Prize• Highest Marks in last 10 years of college history
• M.Sc, Computer Science, QAU• Second on Merit List
My Career Start Point • First Job - Joined NextBridge - Third largest software House in
Pakistan • Software Engineer – 6 Months –Visual C++, Object Store
Database• Lessons Learnt • Be Independent • Be Reliable• Be Consistent
There are three rules of success. The first: Go on. The second: Go on and the third: Go on. Under all circumstances
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My Career –One Step Ahead• Second Job - Joined Askari Information Systems• Software Design Engineer – two and half years –.Net
Technology Stack • Challenges
• Team of Toppers• Asked to learn new technologies in days
• Lessons Learnt • Never Say No to your Managers• Learn to Say No to situations, based on your Social Values • Be Polite and Firm as a Team Lead
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My Education Planning
• Planned to do Ph.D • Research Proposal - Offshore Software
Development in Multicultural Environment
• Selected as Principal Candidate • Available on my LinkedIn Profile
My Career –Next Step
Third Job- Joined Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan • Java based technologies• IBM Product Stack• Microsoft Product Stack • Oracle Product Stack
Software Engineer
System Analyst
Solution Architect
Manager Software Solutions
Business Manager
My Achievements
• eServies -Allows Business Entities to file Financial Data with SECP, having digital signatures, that have a legal standing in courts
• Comply Electronic Transaction Ordinance 2001 • First SOA based Implementation in Pakistan• Integrated more than a dozen of IBM Products • Physical Architecture based on 32 servers• More than 10 TB of Content Data
My Achievements • 2011 Laureate Award by IDG Group, ,
the world's leading technology media and research company, which honors visionary IT applications in promoting positive change after evaluating more than 1,000 nominations from all over the world
• India got 3 and Pakistan has only One Laureate Gold Medal .• According to World Ranking Report on ease of doing business
in countries across the world, the ranking of Pakistan was 89 before the launch of eServices
• After the launch of eServices, Pakistan rose 31 point and reached the 68th positon in the world.
• Websphere champion 2013 , Innovative thought leaders in IBM community
Challenges
• Late Working Hours • Lessons Learnt : Work till you and your
family feel comfortable and work remotely
• Team Management – Being a Female Manager • Lesson Learnt : You can either be a good
manager or a good person
My Achievements• Project Management Professional (PMP)• How to pass PMP exam in First Attempt ? –
Available on my LinkedIn profile
• Got Australian Immigration • Congress Coordinator in PMI Congress 2008
in Sydney• Got funding for IBM training in Australia
Where am I at Now?
• One Stop Shop Portal (OSS)• OSS is collaboration between SECP, FBR, EOBI,
MOF, ERU, and the World Bank• OSS is a single point of access for electronic
services and information offered by OSS parties• Analyzed and Re-engineered, Registration Process
of SECP, EOBI and FBR • Reviewed and approved Technical architecture
Documents
Into the Future eBusiness Portal – Enterprise Plan
Conceptual Document
Article “eGovernment : : A Dream Coming True for Pakistan?” published in Business Recorder
Professional Career Advice
• Be Clear – where do you want to go ?• Climbing the ladder – One by One • Be Consistent –Go On – Go On – Go
On