Ishfaque Ahmad, Product Manager

Ishfaque Ahmad

Product Manager

Systems Limited

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Computer Sciences
Experience
23 years, 9 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 9 months

Product Manager at Systems Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since May 2013

My responsibilities in Systems Limited as Product Managers are
End to end management of the product lifecycle from concept to phasing out of the product(s).
To be an advocate for the customer, keeping their interests in mind at all times.
To manage and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
To be an expert in the product and keep up to date with technological advances.
Development and execution of the product roadmap.
Perform business analysis with subject matter experts and customers.
Identification of new opportunities; product enhancements; and line extensions.
Development of documentation to support the approval, design, development and launch of the product.
Facilitate the design, development and launch of innovative products.
Identification of new target markets.
Identification, specification and prioritization of features, functionality and capabilities.
Definition implementation and maintenance of the marketing mix and business models for the product.
Facilitate development and implementation of high impact and differentiated product positioning and messaging.
Development and implementation of the launch strategy.
Facilitate development of high impact sales tools.
Development of sales and channel training materials.
Education of the sales force about products and solutions.
Monitoring of the marketplace, customers and competitors.
Definition and implementation of strategies to counter competitors.
Joint presentations with sales for key customers.
Joint relationship management with sales for key customers.
Evangelizing the product at industry events, seminars and customer briefings.

Product Manager at Al Jazeera Children's Channel
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2015 to June 2017

My responsibilities to manage from concept, to design, sample production, testing, forecast,

cost, mass production, promotion, support, and finally product end of life.

Delivers the operating plan: achievement of growth objectives including market share,

revenue, profit and return on investment for all the channels/categories of business and/or key customers.

Responsible for managing and implementing marketing activities through research, strategic planning and implementation.

UX Manager at Vertex Vision
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2014 to June 2015

Participate in stake holders meeting and take strategic decisions.
Manage a team of Jr and Sr UX Designers along with other designers.
Assign design tasks to team and see if they need any inputs.
Take stakeholders feedback and make necessary changes in design.
We had JIRA to maintain our tasks(create tickets, follow up with tickets, and close them)
Improve team skills by training them.
Conduct usabilty testing, focus groups to collect user feedback to make design changes.

UX Lead Designer at Confiz Solutions
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2009 to March 2013

Plan and Organize Design Interfaces of web products width complete time line and also budgeting and scope of the features which is suggested for the site and feature vision of the new features, also design all the screens sing Photoshop, xHTML, CSS and also guide the developers to understand the flow of the specific area also debugging or fixing the issues regarding design or web2.0 compatibility

Creative Designer at Naseeb Networks
  • Other
  • June 2008 to August 2009

I am responsible for conceptualization and design of solutions from concept to completion as a senior designer and associate product manager and directly work of one or more junior designers who generate comps and create layouts and final art.

Web Designer / Multimedia Developer at Obscure Technologies
  • Other
  • May 2007 to May 2008

Design New Web sites / Applications including interactive presentations using Flash-CS3 with action script 2.0.

Design Head / Branch Manager at Edge Systems International
  • Other
  • May 2004 to May 2007

Manage the Different Matters regarding the administration of the Branch including launch the new courses with respect to the market trend

Education

Master's degree, Computer Sciences
  • at COMSATS
  • April 2005

Its 18 months program and following major courses were completed 1. Computer Programming 2. Computer Organization & Computer Architecture 3. Computer Networks 4. Database Systems 5. Software Engineering

Bachelor's degree, Bechular in Computer Sciences (BS. CS)
  • at COMSATS
  • June 2003

Its 4 years program and following major courses were completed 1. Introduction to Computer Science 2. Computer Programming I-II-III-IV 3. Digital Logic Design 4. Comp. Organization & Assembly Lang. 5. Discrete Structures 6. Database Systems 7. Operating Systems 8. Design & Analysis of Algorithms 9. Object Oriented Analysis & Design 10. Software Engineering 11. Artificial Intelligence 12. Human Computer Interaction 13. Computer Architecture

Specialties & Skills

Project Collaboration
Product Life Cycle Management
IPhoneAndroidWindows 8 Design
Web Design
CSS 2.0 / 3.0 / SAAS
Android / iOS / Surface Designing
Product Planning & Management
Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / Flash
HTML 4.0 / 5.0 / XHTML
Adobe Dreamweaver
Corel DRAW / Adobe InDesign
Drupal / Wordpress / vBulletin
SENCHA Touch / Jquery Mobile

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Diploma in Graphics Designing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2003
Valid Until:
December 2003
Diploma in Multimedia Graphics (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2003
Valid Until:
January 2004