Arsalan Minhas

Arsalan Minhas

Seasoned Entrepreneur, Strategy Advisor, Pre Sales Consultant & Solutions Architect

Munich Area, Germany

Current
Past
  • Consultant/Project Manager at BeOne München GmbH, Munich, Germany
  • Mobile Business Intelligence Architect at BenQ Mobile GmbH, Munich, Germany
  • SOA Architect at Germanischer Lloyd AG, Hamburg, Germany

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Education
  • Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
  • Ajou University
  • NED University of Engineering and Technology
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Arsalan Minhas’s Summary

Arsalan Minhas did his graduation in Computer Systems Engineering from the NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan. He was honored to be awarded with two gold medals for securing 1st position. He did his Masters in Information & Communication Systems from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany with a CGPA of 1.2 (Excellent) on a German scale (A+ on ECTS scale). He secured a scholarship for a two-year-stint through the “DAAD-Siemens Program for Asia 21st Century”.

He is engaged with Cordys and responsible for Pre Sales for Central Europe region. Before that he worked as a Consultant for BeOne Group, where he managed/designed solutions and provided strategy/technology consultancy to Rohde & Schwarz, Continental Teves, BenQ Mobile, Germanischer Lloyd, Airbus, and European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) addressing their key needs and challenges. Earlier, he served Clickmarks Inc., USA as an Engineering Manager with varied responsibilities including personnel administration, project management, specifications development and architecting software for the state-of-art Clickmarks i-Framework based on patented Presentation Level Integration (PLI) technology for customers like Plumtree, Sun Microsystems, Unisys, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone. He started his career as a (Sr.) Software Engineer at Precience (Pvt.) Ltd.

He is the founder and present advisor of International .NET Association (INETA) in Pakistan and served as the first Country Leader. Moreover, he served as the Secretary of IEEE Karachi Section and also chaired the Students Activities Committee (SAC) for several years. He provided his services as Secretary & Treasurer to the IEEE Computer Society, Karachi Chapter. He is a member of ACM and has a rich experience in both organizing and speaking at various INETA workshops and professional IEEE conferences. He is also the recipient of “2002 Section GOLD Leadership Recognition” award by IEEE Regional Activities Board of Region-10.

Arsalan Minhas’s Specialties:

- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI)
- Software Process Management (CMMI, RUP)
- IT Project Management
- Product Management
- Business/IT Analysis
- Software Architectures
- Design Patterns
- Mobile Applications
- Software Design & Development

Arsalan Minhas’s Experience

  • Senior Pre Sales Consultant & Solution Architect, Central Europe

    Cordys Deutschland AG

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

    Pre Sales for the central Europian region (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) in the areas of Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Process Optimization (BPO)

  • Consultant/Project Manager

    BeOne München GmbH, Munich, Germany

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    September 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 2 months)

    Consultancy services to various clients (Rohde & Schwarz, Continental Teves etc.) in the areas of: Software Architectures, IT Project Management, Software Process Management (CMMI, RUP), Requirements Management and Software/Hardware Design & Development.

  • Mobile Business Intelligence Architect

    BenQ Mobile GmbH, Munich, Germany

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    December 2005 — August 2006 (9 months)

    Project management, requirements management, design & development of an automated business process management where a mobile phone-smart agent is used to continually and automatically monitor events in the operational business processes, to take intelligent decisions on those events and changing facts and then automatically guide users throughout the business process.

  • SOA Architect

    Germanischer Lloyd AG, Hamburg, Germany

    (Shipbuilding industry)

    November 2005 — January 2006 (3 months)

    Proposed the roadmap to GL and performed Service Oriented Modeling to address the challenge of information management, through a robust and balanced SOA, enabling information and business integration and avoiding problems such as isolated data silos, data inconsistencies, and untapped information assets while taking care of heterogeneous landscape of databases, data models, platforms and technology infrastructures.

  • SOA Architect

    Airbus and Innovint AG, Hamburg, Germany

    (Aviation & Aerospace industry)

    March 2005 — October 2005 (8 months)

    - Project Management & Requirements Gathering
    - Service Oriented Modeling of the Aviation industry
    - Design & development of GRESS compliant secure Dataroom (eRoom) for OEM & its suppliers providing a web-based platform for powerful management of business documents and project collaboration along with ensuring high security and complete audit trail of all events .
    - Deployment of the prototype at the suppliers‘ side

  • Engineering Manager

    Clickmarks Inc., CA, USA

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2003 — March 2004 (1 year )

    - IT project management and personnel administration of the engineering team
    - Defining product specifications
    - Business Analysis and architecting software solutions
    - Development of various modules & applications for the Clicmkarks suit of products

  • Sr. Software Engineer

    Precience Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd., Karachi, Pakistan

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 4 months)

    Designed software architectures & developed various desktop and server side applications using component based technologies while adhering to RUP and CMMI (Please ask for detailed CV for all the projects)

Arsalan Minhas’s Education

  • Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg

    MSc. (Masters of Science) , Information & Communication Systems , 2004 — 2006

    - CGPA: 1.2 (Excellent) on a German scale (i.e. A+ on ECTS scale). One of the highest in the University.

    - Recipient of DAAD-Siemens Scholarship for Asia 21st Century.

    - Minors: Project Management, International Business Management

  • Ajou University

    MSc. (Masters of Science) , Information & Communication Engineering , 2004 — 2004

    - Research responsibilities at Distributed & Mobile Computing Lab for the design of Context Aware Module as part of the Adaptive Middleware for Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing Scenarios.

    - Sponsored by the scholarship from Korean Science & Education Foundation (KOSEF)

  • NED University of Engineering and Technology

    B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) , Computer Engineering , 1996 — 2000

    - Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) Computer Systems Engineering with 92% (1st position, GPA: 4.0). Awarded with 2 Gold Medals.

    - Third year (T.E) Computer Systems Engineering with 90.5% (1st position).

    - Second year (S.E) Computer Systems Engineering with 90.3% (1st position).

    - First year (F.E) Computer Systems Engineering with 84.2% (2nd position).

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Arsalan Minhas’s Interests:

Organization, Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Presentations, Talks, Speeches, Webinars, Politics, Current Affairs, Finance, Cricket, Books, Movies, Snowboarding, Skiing, Swimming, German

Arsalan Minhas’s Groups:

International .NET Association (INETA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA), SOA Consortium for SOA Leaders, Society of Industrial Leaders, OPEN Silicon Valley, Forum of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of Germany (FPEG)

  •    SVHUB
  •    Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group
  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    Institute of Management Consultancy
  •    OPEN Forum
  •    Entrepreneur Mentor Society
  •    Global Project Management
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Business Intelligence
  •    Business Intelligence Group
  •    Bluechipexpert.com
  •    IT/Software Development Outsourcing and Offshoring
  •    XING.com
  •    SoftwareEngineering
  •    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
  •    The Enterprise Architecture Network
  •    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
  •    Strategic Business and Competitive Intelligence Professionals
  •    IT Specialist Group
  •    Project Manager Networking Group
  •    Enterprise Software Community
  •    Business Intelligence Professionals
  •    Business Process Management Professionals Group
  •    OPEN Silicon Valley
  •    International Entrepreneur Club
  •    Offshoring & Outsourcing Forum
  •    ACM Members
  •    Pakistani Professionals Working Outside of Pakistan
  •    N.E.D Alumni
  •    Pakistan Business Group
  •    BPM Guru
  •    Cordys Alumni
  •    Agile CMMI
  •    Karachite - Karachi Heart of Pakistan
  •    Talent of Pakistan - Connect | Share | Prosper - TOP Awards
  •    Projektmanagement
  •    Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH)
  •    Business Integration Forum

Arsalan Minhas’s Honors:

- Listed in Top 100 Professionals 2009, IBC, Cambridge England

- Listed in 2009 Edition of Marquis "Who's Who in the World" as one of the world's foremost achievers

- Recipient of “2002 Section GOLD Leadership Recognition” award by IEEE Regional Activities Board of Region-10

- Masters with CGPA of 1.2 (Excellent) on a German scale (A+ on ECTS scale). Also secured a scholarship for a two-year-stint through the “DAAD-Siemens Program for Asia 21st Century”

- Bachelors with 92% marks and secured 1st position in the University. Was honored with two gold medals

- Founder and First Country Leader of International .NET Assocation (INETA), Pakistan Chapter

- Served as the Secretary of IEEE Karachi Section in 2003

- Chaired Students Activities Committee (SAC) of IEEE Karachi Section for several years

- Secretary & Treasurer of Computer Society Chapter of IEEE Karachi Section in 2001 and 2002

- Founder, The Forum of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of Germany (FPEG)

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