Alumni Profiles


Faisal Nadeem

Organization Information

Ascertia is a global leader in delivering functionally rich, easy to deploy e-security solutions. The company focuses on digital signature creation, verification, timestamping and secure archiving products as well as eID validation. These key functions deliver the essential trust services needed by governments, financials, telco, healthcare and other organisations to conduct electronic business. Businesses need traceability, accountability and audit services plus clear originator authentication, signed approvals, assured data integrity and provenance to allow them to meet legislative, regulatory and internal controls requirements.

Describe the work that you do in your role

I am working as software engineer so my role is more technical rather than managerial. My responsibilites include analysis, design and development of company's various products that mainly deal with Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure, Digital Certificates, Digital Signatures, Documents Signing (PDF, XML and other formats), OCSP, TSA, LTAN, XKMS services and Email signing.

Indicate previous experience and/or areas of career proficiency/achievenments

My last job was at MCB Bank as a System Analyst. during my stay i worked on various banking products and grasped a great knowledge about banking domain.
I Extensively worked on SMS Gateway a software system for SMS Banking and other Credit card alerts services.

Describe your success in your professional life and achievements

During my stay at MCB I designed and developed an administration system to manage contents on MCB's official website. The system cut down the efforts and times of various individuals from different departments of the bank.

There are not really any landmarks yet as I am in the beginning of my career but I am keeping my fingers crossed to perform remarkably for my organisation :)

Write your activities and achievement if you were member of any club or society in UMT?

I have won Gold Medal from UMT for my BSCS plus there were a few Dean's honors awards. Moreover, I was a member of UMT Programmers group that was solely for software programmers.

What do you remember about your time in ILM / IMT /UMT?

There are plenty of memories about my friends and teachers. We have got some really nice teachers who made a great impact on my life and career. All my successes during my studies and professional career are just cause of my teachers at UMT. It was really great to be a part of UMT :)