Fayaz Iqbal, Product Owner

Fayaz Iqbal

Product Owner

DRILLMONKEY

Location
United Kingdom
Education
Higher diploma, Microelectronic Engineering
Experience
21 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 6 Months

Product Owner at DRILLMONKEY
  • United Kingdom
  • My current job since February 2022
Program Manager at KAPTUR SOFTWARE (NLG
  • United Kingdom
  • January 2021 to January 2023

• Defined the data strategy, to ensure adequate growth, security and efficiency
• Architected the API Gateway to make a smooth integration with the 3rd party suppliers
• Facilitated, process improvement workshops and resolve scoping issues and stakeholder conflicts.
• Migrate multifunctional teams to deliver IT projects based on Django & python technologies.
• Developed a roadmap to include 360 degree technology, drone implementation and Augmented reality to ensure we remained competitive
• Managed a cross functional team of architects, BI, scrum teams, testing team, developers and devops

Product Owner at GROWTH HACKLY LTD
  • United Kingdom
  • January 2018 to December 2020

Managed a delivery of a crowdfunding platform using Big Data & data warehousing, an inventory management system using AWS, React, MySQL and blockchain architecture using Hyperledger Fabric for this software development company partnered with a leading Agile provider.
• Developed the technical roadmap for clients developing cutting edge products.
• Managed full project lifecycle; organise scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, Sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with a Scrum team alongside Offshore Developers, UI Experts, Data Scientists
• Collaborated multifunctional teams to deliver IT projects based on .net and PHP technologies.
• Facilitate project architecture and analysis; delineate technical infrastructure and performance requirements.

Senior Product owner at YOSHURA LTD – ONLINE RETAILER
  • United Kingdom
  • May 2014 to April 2018

Owned the ERP processes, defining the roadmap with “as-is” starting point and defining “to-be” processes for a customer service department handling hundreds of new monthly customers. United cross-functional departments to deliver products using Scrum methodologies while extracting the data from upstream systems to make intelligent business decisions.

Key achievements
• Reduced overtime 30% in six months by increasing departmental knowledge and setting realistic business expectations.
• Increased monthly sales 50% by implementing a data warehousing with intelligent BI.
• Cut staff attrition having gathered requirements to establish a departmental training programme and staff development plan.
• Created an efficient procurement process defining and documenting all stakeholders and eliminating 10% wastage to ensure quality and timely delivery of goods.
• Delivered 20% efficiency improvement having stripped down processes and re-mapped each department to eliminate, streamline or outsource key components.

IT Business Analyst at CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION BANK - FINANCE
  • United Kingdom
  • May 2013 to May 2014

• Maximised benefits of use case and sequence diagrams as well as business process models.
• Presented technical solutions and alternatives to Scrum team.
• Fostered and developed robust business stakeholder relationships

Senior Applications Support and Development at BANK OF IRELAND (FIRST RATE EXCHANGE SERVICES)
  • Ireland
  • October 2002 to March 2013

• I was part of the team that delivered the post office travel money card. I help design the infrastructure and delivered the technical integration solution
• Increased system stability and delivered 40% reduction in application support; realigned operations from a predominantly support function to a focus on new projects.
• Established a £2M application project performance test, resulting in recommendation to redesign from scratch; identified ongoing improvements to prevent repeated support issues and embed a focus on stabilisation

Education

Higher diploma, Microelectronic Engineering
  • at Kingston University
  • March 1995

Microelectronic Engineering

Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering
  • at Kingston University
  • May 1991

Specialties & Skills

PRINCE2
Agile Testing
Business Case Development
Gap Analysis
Business Process Management (BPM)
Tableau

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Leveraging Generative AI for Project Management (Certificate)
Agile Software Development: Transforming Your Organization (Certificate)
Artificial intelligence (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Books