Anam Siddiqi, Product Manager

Anam Siddiqi

Product Manager

Eocean Private Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, Master of Science - MS Software Project Management
Experience
12 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months

Product Manager at Eocean Private Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since April 2019

• Translating business goals into specific software requirements
• Prioritizing software features based on market need analyses and company strategies
• Managing software project scope by making tradeoffs between competing software requirements, such as time vs. cost and software security vs. speed
• Prioritizing feature requests from software development teams
• Crystallizing the product vision and working closely with software engineers to define its specifications
• Ensuring that the software solution is successfully meeting business goals and users' needs
• Tracking progress against plan and resolving any variances as soon as they are identified
• Making tradeoffs between features, schedule, and costs based on their relationship to business goals, company policies, software architecture constraints, and software development team capabilities.
• Finding the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems.
• Describing the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of software to project stakeholders.
• Defining features, phases, and solution requirements.
• Providing specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered.
• Leading a team of designers, quality assurance engineers and software engineers to develop a multi-channel cloud communication platform having capability to integrate WhatsApp for Business, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Business & Google Business Messages APIs.
• Designing the backend database schema and software solution architectures.
• Leading deployment of developed solutions on AWS cloud.

Team Lead IS Systems at Philip Morris International
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • December 2018 to April 2019

• Designed, built, deployed and maintained local IT solutions/applications (Concore)
• Supervised the deliverable of vendors/ third parties
• Assisted Sales & Marketing functions in requirement definition for an identified need of a system. In case of in-house solution, define,
• analyze, develop, test, deploy, train end-users and provide support. In case of outsourcing of a solution, liaise with vendors, acting as the sole technical person, for requirement translation to appropriate technical specification and formalizing scope.
• Supervised the deliverables and actively follow-up.
• Facilitated Project Manager from business in the development of Business Case, Project Management documents and in the preparation of
• presentations to the project's Steering Committee. Lead projects from IS perspective and deliver set objectives in an optimum ways to
• maximize efficiency and ensure on time delivery. Act as a change agent and work with project teams to integrate change management activities into their overall project plans.
• Developed understanding of PMI general tools on communication /collaboration etc.
• Participated in IS initiatives in introducing new tools and provision of informal tips and tricks to end-user community

Senior Software Engineer at Avanza Solutions
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2015 to November 2018

• Implemented Unison (CRM) solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Determined operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documented and demonstrated solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepared and implemented solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improved operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updated job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, and by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protected operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provided information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplished engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supported and developed software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

Software Engineer at Avanza Solutions
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 2012 to December 2014

• Improved system quality by identifying issues and common patterns, and developing standard operating procedures
• Enhanced applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations and designing and implementing systems
• Maintained and improved existing codebases and peer review code changes
• Liaised with colleagues to implement technical designs
• Investigated and used new technologies where relevant
• Provided written knowledge transfer material

Education

Master's degree, Master of Science - MS Software Project Management
  • at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
  • September 2020

Stood distinct in my batch with 1st Position (4.0 CGPA) & Gold Medal

Bachelor's degree, B.E - Computer & Information Systems
  • at NED University of Engineering and Technology
  • December 2011

Stood distinct in my batch with 3rd Position Participated in 4th ICICT 2011 at IBA, Karachi Head organizer in the Speed Programming Competition Of TechELITE in July- 2011 Participated in the Speed Programming Competition of Event TechELITE in May-2010 (TechELITE is an IT competition hosted by CIS department of NED University of Engineering and Technology)

Specialties & Skills

Agile Software Development
Certified Scrum Master CSM
Teamwork
Software Product Management
Product Design
MS Project
Teamwork
Product Backlog Management & Refinement
Scrum Implementation
WhatsApp for Business API Integration
AWS Cloud Management
Market Research
Software Development
Database Design

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2022
Valid Until:
June 2024

Hobbies

  • Healthy Eating| Pets Caring| Fitness Training| Travelling
    MS-SPM: 1st Position , Gold Medalist BE-CIS: 3rd Position