Tufail Ahmed, IT Product Manager

Tufail Ahmed

IT Product Manager

IQVIA

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Instrumentation and Electronics
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

IT Product Manager at IQVIA
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since April 2018

• Responsible for collaborating with system engineering/product architects and identifying dependencies, both logical and technical.
• Collaborate with Project Management to define a release schedule for all components under management, maintain a forward schedule of changes.
• Work with Project Management and deployment/support staff to ensure that necessary infrastructure and middleware upgrades are integrated into the planned release schedule.
• Proactively establish the end-to-end activities for the deployment of a software release (via Implementation Plan), inclusive of all plans necessary for back-out.
• Responsible for ensuring that all Implementation Plans are consistent with defined Release Services Processes and are repeatable.
• Responsible for updates to Application Portfolio when new products/versions/releases are deployed.
• Accountable for all Service Level Agreements for environment provisioning and component deployments.
• Conduct Post-Deployment Analysis of all implementations and reporting of established metrics .
• Participate in Continual Service Improvement (CSI) efforts for all Release Services Process and Procedures.

Project Manager at ITC Infotech India Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2016 to April 2018

Project Manager
• Partner with ITC Infotech executives and leaders in the initiation, planning, monitoring, and management of technology initiatives
• Create and manage all project deliverable through the use of project management tools
• Deliver stakeholder level presentations and summaries on Project status to Business Executive teams as well as Project Quality Team on health, financials, resources, scope, and risk
• Assess & mitigate risks to ensure corrective action is taken before the problem occurs
• Influences decision making to gain cross-functional alignment to achieve on-time execution of initiatives
• Drive execution of all phases of enterprise-wide or high complexity Projects - include, but are not limited to: scope, risk, quality, change management, resources, and financials
• Manage dependencies, resource constraints, and issues across the project(s) including change management or business process challenges that create project risk.
• Perform all aspects of project cost management - estimating, budgeting, and cost control, tracking and reporting.
• Identify cross project dependencies, business impacts, and facilitate coordination of these where necessary
• Executes the daily tasks associated with assigned initiatives, conducts follow-up, facilitates meetings, coordinates communication, and maintains documentation
• To lead and manage cross-functional project teams consisting of associates at all levels of the organization
• Manage Operations & Integration Project Analyst/Technical Coordinator
• Collaborate with other Operations & Integration Project Management team members to share best practices and strive for continuous improvement

Project Manager PMP at Echidna Software Pvt Ltd..
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2014 to March 2016

• Delivering IT Analysis, requirements analysis, release support, contract transition and personnel supervision
• Providing mentoring for authoring and reviewed project process documents, and relationship management
• Define the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management
• Create a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project
• Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project
• Develop a schedule for project completion that effectively allocates the resources to the activities
• Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required
• Determine the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated at its completion.

IT Project Manager at Computer Systems and Engineering Inc
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2008 to September 2014

• Ensure availability, continuity and performance of NCB -IT Applications within agreed SLAs.
• Ensure adequate capacity of NCB-IT Applications to meet future requirements.
• Ensure applicable upgrades and patches applied to current NCB -IT Application releases to maintain day to day operations.
• Ensure agreed NCB IT Security Policy maintained within NCB -IT Applications
• Provide Second Level Support to NCB IT Applications to maintain day to day operations.
• Accountable for the business requirement analysis & functional specification development of medium and large scale solution development projects.
• Managing Analysis, Design and Development of web based, internet/intranet, client/server, Enterprise and distributed architecture applications.
• Interacting with internal business and operational clients, and outside vendors and internal IT groups.
• Assist software developers in developing task plans and coordinating work plans across functional groups, as well as documenting resource requirements for project tasks
• Responsible for design of Test Cases for the Component / System integration and Factory testing.
• Providing technical & functional support of the product/Solutions by code reviews and bug fixing.
• Performing Project Management tasks like scheduling, delegation, and monitoring.

Web Developer/UI Developer at Mphasis an EDS Company
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2007 to March 2008

Gathered the business requirements and went through the knowledge transition
• Developed a module.
• Fixing issues reported and perform unit testing.
• Analyzed, fixed the bugs and provided status reports.
• Co-ordinate with the testers to resolve issues.
• Responsible for design of Test Cases for the Component / System integration and Factory testing.
• Providing technical & functional support of the product/Solutions by code reviews and bug fixing.

Software Consultant at Mindtree consulting and Technology Pvt Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2005 to March 2007

Gathered the business requirements and went through the knowledge transition
• Developed a module.
• Fixing issues reported and perform unit testing.
• Analyzed, fixed the bugs and provided status reports.
• Co-ordinate with the testers to resolve issues.
• Responsible for design of Test Cases for the Component / System integration and Factory testing.
• Providing technical & functional support of the product/Solutions by code reviews and bug fixing.

Web Developer at Ninestars Information Tech. Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2004 to May 2005

Gathered the business requirements and went through the knowledge transition
• Developed a module.
• Fixing issues reported and perform unit testing.
• Analyzed, fixed the bugs and provided status reports.
• Co-ordinate with the testers to resolve issues.
• Responsible for design of Test Cases for the Component / System integration and Factory testing.
• Providing technical & functional support of the product/Solutions by code reviews and bug fixing.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Instrumentation and Electronics
  • at SIT
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

MS Project
ASP.NET
Project Management
Asp.Net,VB.Net, Visual Studio.NET, GUI editors, Ajax, Web Services, SOA, EAI, Middleware, COM,IIS,XM
Team Management
Business Analyst
project management
System Analyst
Program Management
IT Manager
Product Engineering
Product Management
requirements analysis
stakeholder management
web development
product design
requirements gathering
digital marketing
agile project management
software product management
project plans

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

PMP
  • Member
  • September 2013

Training and Certifications

Project Management Proffessional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
June 2025
Project Management Certification (Certificate)
ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2012
Valid Until:
September 2012

Hobbies

  • Reading , Swimming & Travelling