MD Nasir Hussain

Management of overall project and Team plan for multiple projects simultaneously undergoing technology transfer, and scale-up, serving as an intermediary between clients/stakeholders and team members to ensure all project requirements, risks, and deliverables are identified, integrated, and tracked throughout the project lifecycle, from initiation through closure to ensure timely completion and success.

Key Achievements

• Develop integrated project plans, identify and track milestones, risk analysis/management, resource planning/management, meeting excellence (scheduling, agenda development, minutes, action items), and managing project communications to stakeholders and team members (cadence and transparency).
• Collaborated with leads of all functional groups to establish integrated project plans for each study.
• Kept teams informed, focused, and motivated to achieve short-term and long-term goals.
• Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available providing day-to-day supervision of the Team to deliver tasks according to procedural requirements and agreed-upon service levels.

Supported Project Managers / project teams with primary responsibility for ensuring the overall quality of translated and localized content. Also responsible for identifying, analyzing, tracking, and fixing quality issues in content for multilingual projects managed and delivered by the IQVIA™ Translation Services team.

Key Achievements

• Managing daily operations of the Language (Translation and DTP) Team for the Iqvia company: monitoring internal workflows and identifying areas of improvement; managing team's workloads and supporting them when necessary; and assisting with linguistic and production-related queries.
• Integrated Project Manager for global time-sensitive translation and localization requests (print and moving images): managing end-to-end projects; preparing accurate cost estimates based on contracted rates while maximizing profitability; arranging briefing and de-briefing meetings with all relevant parties – internal and external.
• Consistently surpassed department productivity and revenue goals by maximizing the utilization of available resources for multiple, ongoing projects.
• Focused on continuous improvement initiatives: quality, safety, data integrity, operational excellence, efficiency, technical expertise, advanced technologies, and new service offerings.

Provided Quality System management for a leading medical device manufacturer. Responsible for compiling all and trending non-conformance data and conducting root cause analysis.

Key Achievements

• Investigated processes to develop maps and determine optimal improvement approaches.
• Developed automation tools to improve efficiency, and eliminate waste and Quality.
• Relayed findings and data to line managers, functional teams, and upper management, with proactive suggestions and solutions to any issues.
• Provided audit summaries and reviews, responses to audits, and corrective actions to findings. Managed facility training initiatives and tracking to ensure compliance with SOP.

Independently managed and coordinated with the team to do research and create layout designs for University study books.

Key Achievements

• Acquired resources, and coordinated efforts of team members to finalize book layout according to syllabus/professor instructions and within budget.
• Prioritized assigned schedules ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of work; initiated corrective measures to overcome delays.
• Provided recommendations and supported the team for continuous improvement.
• Developed and supported workflows and procedures for layout design in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Identified new design concepts for potential use in future projects.

Owning translation projects from brief through delivery; proactively communicating across teams regarding the status of all projects to align expectations and account for changes.

Key Achievements

• Day-to-day client communication on project-related matters and management of high-profile multilingual projects with full respect for tight turnarounds.
• Partnering with internal teams and external vendors, to roadmap localization and translation projects to ensure resources are in place and tight timelines are met while delivering high-standard translations.
• Edited classified and unclassified reports and other communications materials to maximize organization, proper grammar usage, and clarity.
• Formatted in Microsoft Word, Adobe Software, and PDF to prepare documents and proposals for review or final submission.
• Scheduling and resource planning, occasionally complemented by management of outsourcing campaigns, in the absence of a Vendor Management representative.
• Edited classified and unclassified reports and other communications materials to maximize organization, proper grammar usage, and clarity.