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Nazir brings over 15 years in management
experience with a strong background of successful financial oversight and HR
process development with a focus on software integration, efficiency
improvement, and collaborative growth. He is excited to bring his experience
and ideas to Pragma.
Jason Neufeld is a professional with two decades of experience in the eCommerce and advanced analytics sectors. His expertise extends across a wide range of roles, from eCommerce technology and infrastructure to data engineering and analytics. A Columbia University MBA graduate, Jason’s academic background in management and human resource administration, combined with his practical experience, makes him exceptionally skilled in identifying and recruiting top-tier talent for diverse client needs.
In his multifaceted career, Jason has excelled in consulting, client-side roles, management, and recruitment. His comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by modern digital businesses enables him to adeptly match the right talent with specific organizational requirements. Notably, Jason’s entrepreneurial spirit is evidenced by his successful initiation, management, and exit of two eCommerce ventures, giving him a profound appreciation of the essential hard and soft skills needed for effective placements in various business environments, ranging from startups and emerging companies to large corporations.
His unique blend of practical experience, educational background, and entrepreneurial success positions him as an asset in driving forward the human capital aspects of IT and digital businesses.
Jason’s Specialties
• eCommerce Technology & Infrastructure
• Front-end Development
• Database Administration
• Full-stack Engineering
• Big Data Engineering
• Advanced Data Development
Lives in Littleton, Colorado
Bringing hardworking positive attitude into all interactions resulting in a refreshing pro-active approach to all opportunities.
25 years of luxury hospitality project management recruiting, selecting, hiring all management and executive talent.
12 years owner SmartPOS overseeing all operations relevant to hospitality technology.
Always acknowledging that nurturing people, passions and communication are the key to successful and productive long-term relationships.
Multi-skilled, adaptable Operations Manager with over 21 years of experience and a proven track record of success in the International Non-Governmental Organisations, commercial and logistics environments.
Over twelve years of experience in Africa and have successfully entered over eight (8) African countries in a start-up capacity that brings a wealth of hard learnt resource and negotiation skills. Possesses a broad knowledge base covering both technical and commercial aspects with a demonstrated ability to solve operational issues and problems and improve efficiency under challenging conditions. A keen analytical mind, coupled with an ability to adapt to change quickly and work to high-quality standards. Project Management & Leadership: driving/steering project deliverables from small projects to US$500 million projects. Facilitating & leading project teams with both IT & business resources through IT networking skills learnt as a network manager on Microware OS9, he survived Y2K millennium bug!
More recently, Arduino/Raspberry pi/ESP32/Sigfox based IoT products has allowed him to explore logistics barcode (1D & 2D), IoT, RFID and ERP linked logistics projects proving you can teach an old dog, new tricks. Additionally, he is involved in gamified learning projects, VR/AR/XR remote training for logistics, organisational funding and organisational training. An example of one training module could be found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uq__1Sz564 and was chosen by Karl to show that even difficult topics could be gamified.
A big proponent of open-source software, and the philosophy put forward by Richard Stallman, proficient with OBS, Odoo, Gimp, O3DE, WebXR. As well as Microsoft Office products and Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Adobe Captivate and Moodle.
Abbas Syed has been in the technology space for the last 30 years.
His main expertise has been in the infrastructure space mainly focusing on the Unix and Windows. He has been involved in providing solutions for infrastructure needs for multiple fortune 500 companies. He has been involved in the talent acquisitions for most of the projects that he has implemented.
His career in IT has also allowed him the opportunity to create Pragma Inc, an IT staff augmentation company. He main ability is to identify resources that can work in the technology space, this includes candidates technical expertise and the temperament required to work in the technology.
30 years of diversified experience in the arena of Technology, Corporate Banking, Retail Banking & Cards, Mobile Financial Services, Agent Banking (bio metric Banking) etc. in Different Banks and multinational IT Company. Have hands on experience to Launch & run Mobile Banking & Agent Banking channel in Bangladesh as Project Head. Proven leadership capability with more than 20 years of experience (7 years in C level) in managing & developing team of IT and business as well. Have Full experience of implementing Core Banking & IT solution in Banking. Strong control and command over the performance of business partners and own employees
A Financial Services professional with a successful background aligns with the achievement of business growth through the creation and execution of different IT Projects & Payments and expert for transformation from IT knowledge to business opportunity. Has successful experience of Implementation online banking systems & ATM with plastic money service and Core Banking system ( Pro-Banker of Laser soft India (Currently Intellect of Polaris India), T24 of Temenos & UBS of oracle), ATM switching system (IST of FIS implementation & upgrade) and Credit card management system of SunGard of different Banks & multinational IT Company.
Successfully implemented & upgrade of both Visa & Mastercard issuing & Acquiring. Lead & implement the Project MFS (Mobile Financial Services-Rocket) & Agent Banking (Bio-metric Based Banking) implementation as Head of Financial Inclusion Division to ensure the Banking Facility in rural & urban area for unbanked people. Implementation of CISCO enterprise contact center.
Worked as the Chairman of Technical Committee and Purchase committee as well.
M.Sc. (1st class 2nd) in Statistics (Major in Econometrics),Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (1st class 2nd). PMP from PMI, CSM from Scrum Alliance & Certified Lead Auditor of ISO 27001.