Saim Zafar, Lead Business Analyst

Saim Zafar

Lead Business Analyst

The Language Doctors

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Specializing in Data Analytics
Experience
5 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 9 Months

Lead Business Analyst at The Language Doctors
  • United States - Maryland
  • My current job since May 2023

- Liaised between developers and business stakeholders to gather requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure that the system met the stakeholders' needs.
- Handled project requirements by identifying, documenting, and managing changes throughout the project lifecycle.
- Led the QA team by developing and executing the QA plan, tracking bugs and defects, and ensuring that the system met quality standards.
- Handling Data& creating Dashboarding solutions to ensure data-driven decision making.

Senior Associate Consultant at Prismware Technologies
  • Canada - Toronto
  • July 2022 to April 2023

- Developed Multi-Level Integrated Microsoft Applications, Dashboards & Automations in the Field of Automotives, Telecommunications, HR, Law, and Business Operations to optimize work by over 50%, saving 100+ Weekly hours of manual tasks.
- Analyzing data via qualitative and quantitative methods, and diagnosing problems and their root causes
- Creating innovative solutions to the diagnosed problems in projects, and assessing them for both technical and contextual suitability
- Delivering presentations to managers, clients and other stakeholders, and supporting in new business acquisitions

Senior Business Analyst at Saudi Arabian Airlines Catering Division
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2022 to January 2023

- Organized and Initiated the Scope of building the foundation of a Data Warehouse, analyzing over 10TB of Data Volume to extract Valuable insights.
- Managed the Information Lifecycle with Key Stakeholders and initiated cross-department data usage.
- Identified & held successful Merger discussions with Industry leaders (IBM, Oracle, Informatica) to provide ETL facilities.

Business Intelligence Analyst at Vendorage Business
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2021 to May 2022

-Analyzing, defining and documenting business and functional requirements for projects.
-Generated use cases to capture and document requirements
-Participated in cross functional requirement sessions and activities with business and technical team members
- Founding Member at Vendorage Business Solutions.
- Supervising projects thoroughout the timeline before sending it to clients.
-Supporting requirements understanding and issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle
-Completing current state analysis and producing all related supporting documentation
-Participating in full project lifecycle solution planning and execution
-Facilitating issue capture, triage and resolution throughout the project lifecycle
-Continuously seek and identify opportunities to provide value-added solutions for business and clients

Business & Data Analyst at Upcision
  • United States
  • August 2021 to March 2022

● Managing a vast database for a B2B Marketing Company, generating thousands of monthly leads.
● Distributing Daily Lists to agents for Email Marketing Campaigns of clients ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises in VoIP, BPO, Financial Services & more.
● Data cleaning and Wireframing complete dashboards on Power BI & Data Studio for analyzing the data on regular basis.
● Analyzing more than 0.5 Million Human Responses, Leads, and cycle of Email Marketing Campaigns in a day & making decisions for future from predictive modelling.
● Managed & Troubleshooted the Daily Live seed file in real-time.

Data Analyst at Freelance
  • Saudi Arabia
  • August 2018 to December 2020

Part-time Designing projects on all major Freelancing websites (Fiverr, Upwork etc)
Worked Part-time for APU Career Centre and major University communities.
Data Warehousing And Visualization for over 50 Clients & Projects
Inter-Excel Group of Companies

Marketing Internship
  • September 2019 to December 2019

Computer Science and technical research-
Website development for academic and consultant aspect of the company.
Competitor & Marketing Analysis -
Social Media & Digital Marketing- Managed Facebook and Instagram accounts to market all the different events. -
Project Management: Helped the company affiliate with various similar companies to broaden the market. -
Graphic Designing and Video Editing- Shot and Edited all promotional videos for corporate, as well as making various posters for
further subsidiaries of the company.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Specializing in Data Analytics
  • at Staffordshire UniversityAsia Pacific University
  • December 2020

courses: Specializing in Data Analytics. -Data Analysis. -Business Analytics -Project Management - Creativity & Innovations -Marketing Analysis. - Computational Theory (Multi-dimensional concepts) -Data Quality & Models - Machine Learning Algorithms -All major programming languages (Python, Java, C). - Business effectiveness & understanding Skills, Achievements & Other Experience Achievements: SAS - Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation Joint Certificate in Computer Science and Data Analytics. Virtual Internships with Accenture, KPMG, Microsoft, PwC. Achievements: Certified With Google on Marketing & Analytics. LinkedIn Certifications in Six Sigma, DevOps, Business Analytics & more.

Specialties & Skills

Research
Marketing
Business Intelligence Tools
Business Intelligence
Data Analysis
Business Strategy
Visual Studio
Data Visualization
Risk Management
Tableau
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MARKETING
WEB SITE PRODUCTION
DATAWAREHOUSING
MICROSOFT EXCEL
ACADEMIC
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Agile Methodologies
POWER BI
Information Technology
Big Data
Project Management
Networking
Social Media Manager

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Languages

English
Native Speaker
Urdu
Native Speaker
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Data Analytics Consulting Virtual Internship (Training)
Training Institute:
KPMG
Date Attended:
January 2021
Duration:
15 hours
Cybersecurity Virtual Case Experience (Training)
Training Institute:
PwC
Date Attended:
January 2021
Duration:
20 hours
Accenture Discovery Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Accenture
Date Attended:
January 2021
Duration:
20 hours
Engineering: Undergraduate & Masters Asia Virtual Experience Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
January 2021
Duration:
20 hours
Google Analytics Individual Qualification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2021
SAS logo SAS - Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation Joint Certificate in Computer Sc (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2021