Present Vocation:
Director,
Museum, Archives & Art Gallery Department, State Bank of Pakistan,
Established First Monetary Museum of Pakistan, conservation of historical building of the Museum, Theme, designed exhibition of display, wrote descriptive panels, Acquisition of material for the Museum, developed manpower by training young interns, established the dept. of Museum & Art Gallery along with the rules and SOP's. project schedules, fabrication and detailing and drawings, graphic design, furniture detailing and artifacts installation, presentations and meetings with private collectors as well as professionals for the project of Museum, selected contractors for the Museum renovation/conservation, furniture, virtual tour, computer kiosks (interactive educational), prepare yearly Budgets, Business Plans, strategic plan 2010-15.
Devised special plan for the Manpower developed, under which trained 10 young interns in different fields of Museum for the first time in the history of Pakistan such as graphics, software development, Currency, stamps coinage and Art studies, conservation of paintings and coinage.
Devise special educational and recreational plans for the physically challenged children and visitors.
Special educational activities are of prime importance for this Museum.
Virtual Tour of the Museum, text written, and research.
Research and writing for the material of the educational computer kiosks, the whole collection of the Museum is being digitized and stored in the kiosks for the reference of the visitors and specially students, with the photographs at 360 angles, and complete data, of the objects of the museum.
Yearly summer camps are arranged for children which are getting very popular and hundreds of children are participating, the children are trained the dying arts such as calligraphy, papier-mâché, painting different recycled material.
Appointments in Chronological Order:
09/2004 to 5/2005 Director (Additional Charge)/Curator (Archaeology), National Museum of Pakistan .
03/1990 to 9/2006 Assistant Director, Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan. The post entails planning and supervision of archaeological excavations, undertaking exploratory tours, compilation of scientific reports, representing the Department at international forums and coordination with foreign missions working in Pakistan.
02/1996 to 3/2002 Curator, Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan.
• Revised Pc-II, PC-I for the Museum Education Service.
• Trained Art School students in the technical drawing of the pottery, discovered during Archaeological survey of Sindh.
• Drafted the blueprint for the addition of a Children's Gallery to the Museum.
• Constructed an auditorium for the activities of children education in the cultural History.
• Coordinated with the school administration in organizing various instructional programs for schools, arranging tours of school children to the museum for educational purpose and displaying the casting and modeling techniques with the help of models.
• Started collaboration educational program with Karachi University visual Art Dep't. in which the student of Architecture & Graphics (final year) III year, students worked for the whole semester, and designed the Catalogue, labels, guide Maps, guide book etc. for the Museum. This way the works done by students don't go waste as well the interest and sense of belonging was developed for the heritage in the students.
• Counseling different schools for their curriculum as well as educational videos to BBC and other televisions.
• Opened up and photographed the Victoria Museum Collection after 53 years lying in the wooden boxes, photographed the whole collection and now preparing a catalogue of the same.
• Planned collaborative work with the Visual Art Department, Karachi University, for the up gradation of the Museum labeling, posters
05/1999 to 6/2000 Director, National Museum of Pakistan,Department. of Archaeology & Museums, Govt. of Pakistan
2/1996 to 03/2002 Curator, In charge of Numismatics Section National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan
• Contributed to a catalogue titled 'Indo-Greek Coins Collection in the Taxila Museum, Pakistan' that was initially compiled by Dr. Walton Dobbins, an American Numismatist; also did the editing of the original manuscript, expanding the work with addition of certain details (viz. size, depth, find-spot etc.).
• Compiled a catalogue on 'Indo-Greek Coins in the National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi' and carried out a scientific analysis of coins which is a unique effort in Pakistan.
• Rearranged the Numismatic Section, classified and catalogued the coins in the collection of the museum.
04/1988 to 03/1989 Assistant Curator National Museum of Pakistan, Deptt. of Archaeology & Museums, Govt. of Pakistan.
• Rearranged the Reserve Collection of the Archaeology Section of the museum and catalogued the material.
• Prepared a 'Catalogue of Persian Pottery', indexed and classified the material.
• Supervised the expansion of the Ethnological Gallery of the National Museum and added objects from the reserve collection of the museum
• Worked on the Mughal Miniature Paintings in the reserve collection of the National Museum, Karachi as Master's student and currently, revising the old work extensively.