Ahmed Ismail, Business Analyst/ Product Owner

Ahmed Ismail

Business Analyst/ Product Owner

IQVIA

Location
Egypt - Cairo - New Cairo
Education
Higher diploma, Total Quality Management
Experience
11 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months

Business Analyst/ Product Owner at IQVIA
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since October 2021

I lead the business analysis for a complex nationwide project in Oman. The project involves various stakeholders from healthcare, insurance, and government sectors.
My responsibilities include:
- Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting detailed requirements using business analysis tools and methodologies.
- Managing the documentation process and the RTM to ensure quality and traceability of requirements.
- Serving as the main link between the development team and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, collaboration, and alignment.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, resolving conflicts, and fostering trust and partnership.
- Evaluating and prioritizing product or project enhancements based on customer feedback, market trends, and business priorities, driving innovation and improvement.
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that may affect product delivery or project success, using proactive and adaptive strategies to overcome challenges.
- Participating in Agile Ceremonies, product backlog management, product release or project iteration coordination, and sprint goal alignment.
- Working closely with the development team to clarify requirements, provide feedback, and ensure product features are understandable.
- helping in conducting acceptance testing on user stories or project deliverables, verifying that they meet acceptance criteria and business value.
- Leading UAT activities, including test case review, client guidance, ticket management, and report preparation. Also, leading ticket validation and analysis processes.
- Participating in business analysis related to integration, onboarding, training, and implementation activities.
- Taking an active role and utilizing expertise in profile using FHIR and facilitating the onboarding process for the projects.

Senior Business Analyst at Khabeer Software Industry
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2019 to October 2021

- Participate in business gap analysis and elicitation sessions with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document detailed requirements, translating them into actionable user stories, business rules, or acceptance criteria.
- Utilize business analysis tools to ensure alignment with business priorities and customer needs.
- Manage the documentation process, including the creation of Business Requirement Documents (BRD), and Change Requests (CRs).
- Serve as the primary liaison between the development team and stakeholders.
- Continuously evaluate and prioritize product enhancements or project initiatives based on feedback from customers, market trends, and shifting business priorities, driving iterative improvements and innovation.
- Take a leadership role in upgrading and enhancing the Healthcare Information System (HIS) solution, actively contributing to its improvement and evolution over time.
- Engage in various demonstration sessions, showcasing the capabilities and features of the HIS solution to stakeholders.
- Develop and iterate different prototypes of the HIS solution, leveraging user feedback and business
requirements to refine and enhance its functionality and usability.
- Work closely with the development team to clarify requirements, provide feedback.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, including reviewing test cases, guiding clients through testing, managing UAT tickets, and lead ticket validation and analysis processes.
- Play a key role in the training of medical staff on the effective use of the HIS solution, ensuring that users are proficient in utilizing its features and functionalities.
- Collaborate in the mapping of medical data within the HIS solution, ensuring accurate representation and integration of clinical information to support informed decision-making and patient care delivery.
- Participate actively in the implementation of the HIS solution.

Senior Quality Specialist (Performance improvement/ Data Analysis) at Saudi German Hospital (SGH)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2018 to November 2019

- Data Management: Collect, validate, analyze, visualize and interpret the data. Starting from data collection from diverse sources, data cleaning to remove errors and inconsistencies, data validation to ensure accuracy, data analysis and visualization, and data interpretation.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify the area for improvements throughout the different processes using
tools, and techniques in performance improvement methodologies. such as Lean Methodology, Six Sigma Approach, PDCA, FOCUS PDCA, Process Mapping, Value Stream Mapping (VSM):, Design and Redesign of Processes, Performance Metrics, Root Cause Analysis.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor the performance of optimized processes using KPIs and metrics, tracking progress towards improvement goals and provide regular updates and reports.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in processes and systems, proactively
implementing measures to mitigate and manage risks effectively (Clinical and non-clinical risk management)
- Utilization Management: Analyze utilization patterns and trends to optimize resource allocation and
utilization, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining quality of care.
- Accreditation Preparation: Prepare for accreditation audits by ensuring compliance with regulatory
standards, conducting internal audits, and implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Auditing and Compliance Monitoring: Conduct audits and compliance monitoring activities to ensure
adherence to regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures.
- Patient Safety: Implement measures to enhance patient safety, including identifying and mitigating risks, promoting a culture of safety, and conducting root cause analysis of adverse events.
- Document Control: Establish document control procedures to manage version control, access, and
distribution of documents.

Quality Specialist (Performance improvement/ Data Analysis) at Cleopatra Hospital
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2017 to June 2018

- Data Management Cycle: Data Collection, Data Cleaning and Preprocessing, Data Validation and Testing, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Interpretation.
✓ Continuous Improvement: Identify the area for improvements throughout the different processes using tools, and techniques in performance improvement methodologies like Lean Methodology, Six Sigma Approach, PDCA, Process Mapping.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor the performance of optimized processes using KPIs and metrics, tracking progress towards improvement goals and provide regular updates and reports.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in processes and systems, proactively
implementing measures to mitigate and manage risks effectively (Clinical and non-clinical risk management).
- Utilization Management: Analyze utilization patterns and trends to optimize resource allocation and
utilization, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining quality of care.
- Auditing and Compliance Monitoring: Conduct audits and compliance monitoring activities to ensure
adherence to regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures.
- Patient Safety: Implement measures to enhance patient safety, including identifying and mitigating risks, promoting a culture of safety, and conducting root cause analysis of adverse events.
- Document Review: Review and analyze documents, including policies, procedures, and incident reports, to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Document Control: Establish document control procedures to manage version control, access, and
distribution of documents.
- OPPE: Conducting Ongoing Performance Professional Evaluation analysis for the clinical departments for 2017 and 1st quarter of 2018.

Quality Specialist (Performance improvement/ Data Analysis) at International Medical Center
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2015 to March 2017

- Data Management Cycle: Data Collection, Data Cleaning and Preprocessing, Data Validation and Testing, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Interpretation.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify the area for improvements throughout the different processes using tools, and techniques in performance improvement methodologies like Lean Methodology, Six Sigma Approach, PDCA, FOCUS-PDCA, Process Mapping, Performance Metrics/
- Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor the performance of optimized processes using KPIs and metrics, tracking progress towards improvement goals and provide regular updates and reports.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in processes and systems, proactively
implementing measures to mitigate and manage risks effectively (Clinical and non-clinical risk management).
- Utilization Management: Analyze utilization patterns and trends to optimize resource allocation and
utilization, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining quality of care.
- Accreditation Preparation: Prepare for accreditation audits by ensuring compliance with regulatory
standards, conducting internal audits, and implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Auditing and Compliance Monitoring: Conduct audits and compliance monitoring activities to ensure
adherence to regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures.
- Patient Safety: Implement measures to enhance patient safety, including identifying and mitigating risks, promoting a culture of safety, and conducting root cause analysis of adverse events.
- Document Review: Review and analyze documents, including policies, procedures, and incident reports, to
ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Document Control: Establish document control procedures to manage version control, access, and
distribution of documents.

Community Pharmacist at Pharmacy
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2012 to March 2015

1-Dispensing prescription medicines to the public.
2-Checking dosage and ensuring that medicines are correctly and safely supplied and labelled.
3-Liaising with doctors about prescriptions.
4-Selling over-the-counter medicines.
5-Counselling and advising the public on the treatment of minor ailments.
6-Ordering the medicines from the drug suppliers.
7-Managing, supervising and training pharmacy support staff.
8-Checking the expiration date of the medicines.

Education

Higher diploma, Total Quality Management
  • at The American University In Cairo
  • January 2015
Bachelor's degree, Pharmacy
  • at Zagazig University
  • June 2012

Specialties & Skills

Process Improvement
Data Analysis
Agile Software Development
Product Management
Business Analysis
Analytical Skills
Business Acumen
Business Analysis
Data Analysis
Agile Methodology
Water Fall Methodology
Requirement Gathering
Process Improvement

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Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Data management workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Quality Experts
Science of improvement workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Lean six sigma black belt (LSSBB) preparatory course. (Training)
Training Institute:
Private Tutor
Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) preparatory course. (Training)
Training Institute:
Private Tutor
Project Management Processes and Tools Certificate (IQVIA university) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023
Solution Configuration Processes and Tools Certificate (IQVIA University) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023
Cultivating a Growth Mindset (QAS) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023
Being an Effective Team Member 2020 (QAS) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023
Business Collaboration in the Modern Workplace (PMI) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023
Collaboration Principles and Process (QAS) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023
Business Analysis Foundations (IIBA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2023