Usman Ahmad, Director

Usman Ahmad

Director

Confiz Limited

Location
Pakistan
Education
High school or equivalent, CS
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

Director at Confiz Limited
  • Pakistan
  • My current job since July 2018

Managing teams for medium to large scale projects to work with clients (primarily US and
UK based, been on-site with US client teams as well). Working in the capacity to define
and elaborate project requirements, establish expectations for deliverables and plan /
execute end-to-end development iterations in agile methodologies.
Responsible for professional mentoring, coaching and performance reviews of all team
members to ensure a continuously improving and high performing team.
Focused on “Being” part of Agile more than just “Doing”.

Project Manager at Confiz Limited
  • Pakistan
  • June 2015 to June 2018

. Projects worked on:
* Macy’s / Bloomingdales - MyStore App (Xamarin, Azure, ADFS, ASP.NET)
Worked with Macy’s System and Technology (MST New York) for development
and implementation for the native application for iOS, Android and Windows 10. It
enables store executives with streamlined tools for store operations.
Rolled out enterprise wide in 600+ stores in 2016, it also got featured at the NRF
Big Show in the Microsoft booth as an innovation for a modern workplace.
* GameStop’s In-Store Immersive Solution - POC (Xamarin, Azure)
Worked on in-store immersive experience initiative of GTI (GameStop
Technology Institute), as a pilot project aiming to provide cloud based immersive
experience for consumers with live product catalog search, 4K/UHD video
content streaming through premium Microsoft Azure Media Services

Associate Project Manager at Confiz Limited
  • Pakistan
  • February 2013 to June 2015

. Projects worked on:
* LittleCast (Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android, Zencoder Media Services)
A direct to social network video marketing and commerce platform, supporting
different Web, iOS, Android and Facebook apps and having deep integration with
video processing services of Zencoder, different payment services including
Stripe and Apple In-App Purchases

Principal Software Engineer
  • October 2011 to February 2013

PikesSoft (Startup)

Team Lead
  • June 2010 to August 2011

responsibilities included mentoring,
reviewing, training cross project mentored resources.
* LTD Messaging (Android)
An enterprise application for ltdteam.com which involves short intra
organizational messages exchange among employees. Involved integration with
third party services encoding.com, S3, EC2 and UrbanAirhsip (Notifications).
* BillingBoss (Ruby on Rails)
An online invoicing system designed for small businesses. It was a product of
Sage Canada, a leading supplier of business management software

Software Engineer
  • October 2007 to June 2010

Confiz Solutions)

Education

High school or equivalent, CS
  • at FAST-NU
  • January 2011

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Bachelor's degree, CS
  • at Punjab University College of Information Technology
  • January 2007

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Specialties & Skills

Web Development
Mobility Solutions
Agile Project Management
Client Communication
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