Technology and Innovation Management/Policy Professional
Korea
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- Researcher and Teaching Assistant at Information and Communications University
- Director IT at Ministry of IT Pakistan
- Project Director at Higher Education Commission Pakistan
- Visiting Faculty at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
- QA Manager at Enabling Technologies Islamabad
- Systems Controller at CresSoft
- Project Engineer at Siemens Pakistan
- Service Engineer at We Brothers Pakistan
- Education
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- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- CPRSouth
- Lahore University of Management Sciences
- NED University of Engineering and Technology
- Aitchison College
- Project Planning and Management Institute, Ministry of Planning and Development, Gov of Pakistan
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Tahir Hameed’s Summary
Having accumlulated diversified experience and knoweldge from engineering, management and policy in multiple domains, I have positioned as a professional/researcher in strategic management of technology and capabilities development at firm/policy level.
Tahir Hameed’s Specialties:
Management of Technology and Innovation, R&D Management, S&T Policy, Programme Management, Teaching and Research
Tahir Hameed’s Experience
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Researcher and Teaching Assistant
Information and Communications University
(Education Management industry)
August 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 5 months)
I commonly follow neo-schumpetrian techology development and innovaton explanations, and have used mostly Technological Catch-up, Institutional and Evolutionary, Product Life Cycle, Capability Accumulation, Dynamic Firm Capabilities, Standardization, and Design & Modularity theories. I have also researched with Futures and Scenario Building to some extent.
I have taught courses like Engineering Management, SQA, Database Systems at Graduate and undergraduate levels in Pakistan while co-taught e-biz strategy and Management of Technology to undergraduates in Korea. Developed 12 teaching cases using Korean technology frims or sectors, jointly with Prof.Choung Jae-Yong for R&D Management, Management of Technology and e-Biz strategy classes. -
Director IT
Ministry of IT Pakistan
(Public Policy industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
I was responsible for planning, appaisal and monitoring of the National IT Program of the country including more than 100 projects in the areas of E-Government, Software Industry Development, Capacity Building and HRD.
Further responsibilities included input on formation of policy and legislation related to Information and Communications Technologies involving IT industry and other stakeholders in the process. -
Project Director
Higher Education Commission Pakistan
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years )
Responsible for project planning, implementation, monitoring and evalauation of Human Resources Development Project worth US $ 70 million spread over 8 years (Overseas PhD Scholarship awards to 800 students.)
Collaborate and Liaison with international institutions and Universities for all matters related to selection, placement and awards till completion of the postgraduate studies of HEC scholars.
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Visiting Faculty
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
(Education Management industry)
March 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 6 months)
Have taught at least four courses over 2003 to 2005 at Islamabad campus of which 3 were new courses entirely self-designed and introduced. Thes eincuded two graduate courses in software processs and Quality Assurance, one undergraduate course in databases, and another one was Engineering Management. Student evaluations were high.
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QA Manager
Enabling Technologies Islamabad
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Project Monitoring & assuring quality at various stages in the product life cycle for VoIP software development, Testing & code reviews for implmentations like Media gateways and intelligent call distributors and proprietary software stacks and protocols like IP, RTP, SIP, Megaco & H.323, and SNMP etc.
Designing Processes for software and systems engineering; Ensuring implementation of documentation and maintaining records
Product Definition and allied business planning for ACD and IP-PBXs -
Systems Controller
CresSoft
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
This job was in parallel to a full time MS-CS study at LUMS and one of the most tough and rewarding experiences in my life.
Part of the SQA team leading the organization through ISO 9001-TickIT to CMM level 3 & 4. Planning, definition & implementation of software engineering processes.
Accounts Manager ProCres, a web-based integrated project workflow, people & process management tool
Part of the Quality Council (QC) & Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG),
Leading Metrics Group MG, collecting and dissemination a Monthly Quality Report to the company for improvement -
Project Engineer
Siemens Pakistan
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SI; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
Project Engineer - BESTWAY CEMENT PROJECT, Client: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan, Part of the team deployed for complete supply, design, integration, commissioning & maintenance of CEMAT V5, a PLC-based distributed automation & control system. Stayed & executed the project through complete life cycle and gained extensive handson with engineering desig and commissioning. The SW used include CEMAT, SIMATIC S5 and S7, VB & MS_SQL under Windows NT.
Misc medium to small sized automation, instrumentation and control jobs in different sectors ranging from power transmission, process to building automation. -
Service Engineer
We Brothers Pakistan
(Industrial Automation industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Hi-tech PC-based industrial & analytical instrumentation. Gained multidimensional experience of marketing, installation, commissioning & customer support.
Gained extensive hands on with analytical and process instrumentation ranging from UV-Vis, Atomic Absorption, Glow Discharge, FTIR Spectrometry, Gas and HPLC Chormatography, Gas and Combustion Element Analyzers, Sensors and Actuators for Temperature, Flow, Level, Sound, etc.
Tahir Hameed’s Education
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
PhD , Management of Technology, Innovation Policy , 2006 — 2009
Previously, Information and Communications University (ICU) has recently merged with and become KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
My areas of interest include Technological change and Capability Development, Competitiveness, Technology Strategy, R&D Management and National and Sectoral Innovation Systems. -
CPRSouth
CPR south Young Scholars Award & Training , Telecommunications Policy , 2007 — 2007
CPR South (www.cprsouth.org) is a network of Information and Communications Technology Policy professionals from developing countires with similar agenda like of EuroCPR. CPRSouth1 conference was inaugurated in Phillipines in January 2007 training and promoting potential young researchers and scholars in these fields from South. I particpated in the training, received a young scholar award and am a part of this strong professional research and practice network.
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Lahore University of Management Sciences
MSCS , CS , 1999 — 2001
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NED University of Engineering and Technology
BE , Industrial Electronics , 1991 — 1995
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Aitchison College
1989 — 1991
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Project Planning and Management Institute, Ministry of Planning and Development, Gov of Pakistan
Certificate in Project Management , Project Mnagement , 2005
It was an executive one week taining covering parts of the PMI PMBOK and special issues in public sector project management incuding appraisal, monitoring and evaluation
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Tahir Hameed’s Interests:
Reading, Hiking, Tennis and Swimming, Watching Movies, Surfing Internet
Tahir Hameed’s Groups:
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Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) -
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Telecommunications Economics (Technology, Market & Business) -
IAMOT
Tahir Hameed’s Honors:
All Pakistan Merit Scholarship for study at Aitchison College Lahore, 1984-1991
Honorary IT Ambassador of Korea to Pakistan by KADO, Ministry of Information and Communciations, Korea 2007-2008
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