A professional engineer with 30+ years in enterprise IT — trained at IBM's own technical labs in Austin, Texas, and teaching Enterprise Professional Courses and UNIX & AIX in Pakistan and abroad since 1995.
Before joining TLC, Adnan worked with IBM Pakistan as Client Technical Architect for Financial Services, and prior to that as Enterprise Business Development Manager at Fujitsu. He served as Chief Operating Officer at Si3, one of Pakistan's largest systems integrators, and spent eleven years at IBM Pakistan as a Country Systems Product Manager and a further five at ICL (International Computers Limited) as a Systems Support Engineer.
His core expertise sits in IBM POWER architecture and the AIX operating system, Fujitsu PRIMERGY server and ETERNUS storage platforms, and data replication technologies — with a particular focus on High Availability and Site Disaster Recovery. He has consulted for organizations across Pakistan on disaster backup recovery, systems security hardening, AIX health checks and performance optimization, IT strategy and policy, and cross-brand solution design under IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure framework.
His contribution to IT research and development includes
eight weeks in residencies at IBM's International Technical
Support Organization (ITSO) in Austin, Texas, where he
contributed to ten IBM Redbooks on AIX and POWER systems —
technical references still used to certify IBM's own
engineers.
Systems Support Engineer, working across UNIX systems including AT&T SVR4 and SCO UNIX.
Eight-week residency assignments contributing to IBM Redbooks on AIX and POWER architecture.
Nine years across technical and client-facing roles, deepening expertise in POWER systems and AIX.
Led operations at one of Pakistan's largest systems integrator's.
Storage and infrastructure presales leadership across the Fujitsu PRIMERGY and ETERNUS storage portfolio.
Solution designing and building technology architecture roadmaps for banking and financial-services sector clients for country-wide large five enterprise banks and stock exchange in Pakistan.
Lead consultant and instructor imparting enterprise professional courses in the space of enterprise architecture, storage technologies, cybersecurity, and digital transformation programs to enterprise teams across Pakistan and abroad.
Business development, lead consultant developing
enterprise technology roadmaps, lead instructor
imparting IBM AIX, enterprise architecture, storage,
cybersecurity, and digital transformation workshops to
country-wide broad portfolio of customers across all
business industry sectors.
Plus international training, assignments, and technical conferences attended from 1989 to date — including IBM Global Sales School (England), IBM EMEA International Technical Conference (Istanbul), and NetApp's Annual Sales & Technical Conference (Bangkok).
A professional software development leader
with 20+ years in enterprise IT — known for taking change as
a challenge by transforming crises into an opportunities.
Before joining TLC, Mairaj was a part of 1Link Private
Limited taking care of two business units; as Head of Solution
Architects and Head of Project Management Office. Prior to
1LINK, she worked for two years for a USA-based organization
Razor Hedgeas as Financial Services Software Engineer. Before
that she worked for six years at MCB Bank Limited as eBusiness
Manager. Engineer. Prior to MCB Bank, she worked for five
years for another USA-based organization Halcyon Software as
Senior Software Engineer.
His core expertise sits in Application
Design and Development. Extensive, hands-on expertise with
the desktop, multi-tiered application architecture, database
development, object oriented programming/analysis/design,
data modeling, client/server applications. Worked
exclusively with Java/J2EE development tools, .NET platform,
Web Services, A proactive, result oriented, dedicated
team player with analytical and problem solving skills.
Moreover, taking care of Switch Software,
On-line Billing, Inter bank fund transfer services(IBFT),
IBAN implementation across 1LINK's member bank, Inter Switch
Fund Transfer Services(across 1LINK to MNET banks), China
Union Pay Issuing and Acquiring, Master Card Issuing and
Acquiring, EMV Implementation across banks, POS (Point of
Sale) Transactions across Pakistan local banks, VISA VMT
Services, Inter Bank Fund transfer/Corporate Payments/AML
Compliance, Direct Debit Services. Research on Contact Less
ATM Transactions, NFC(Near Field Communication)
Transactions, QR Code in Billing/ATM Transactions, Branch
Less Banking, Payment Gate Way Solutions Evaluations, Fraud
Monitoring Solutions Evaluations. Worked on many
projects development like Mobile Payment System, Online
Payment System, revamping of MCB e Banking Services.
Developed several products including iHUB, an innovative high-performance middleware solution that enables seamless cross-integration and cross-development between Microsoft .NET, J2EE and XML based applications, rJAX (Remote Java ActiveX Oracle client) serves as a Java-COM bridging middleware that links Microsoft Active X, DLLs, and COM to Java applications running on a Java enabled platform.
Responsible for handling product evaluation, implementing SOA strategies for MCB IT large turn-key projects, development of Mobile Payment Systems and Online Payment System including smart phone projects development, revamping of MCB Bank Virtual Banking Services in order to minimize the risk of fraud and taking care of security aspects by redesigning Virtual Banking enrollment and registration process. Specialized in ISO 8085/8583 message formats.
Developing solution with a focus on trading stock software application, software integration, development and design of new and existing projects.
Heading two major business functions with the core
responsibilities in terms of taking care of payment
system operations, new application sizing and
performance benchmarking, maintaining primary digital
payment switch and gateway services, and end-to-end
project management of large turn key projects.
Heading Application Development Management Services
function. Responsible for bridging the gap between
client acquisition. Core responsibilities includes
leading a team of application developers, bid and
proposal management, cross-functional leadership, and
client relationship management.
A senior executive responsible for driving strategic growth, expanding market share, and securing high-value partnerships and broadening the clientele portfolio across the country especially in banking and financial-services sector. Responsible for spearhead revenue growth, identify new market opportunities, and align the strategic direction of custom software, mobile applications, and enterprise solutions. Core responsibilities includes strategic growth and go-to-market, sales and revenue generation and client relationship management.
On-site or in-house — Karachi, Lahore, or Islamabad.
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