Umar A. Abubaker Email & Phone Number

Delivery focused and passionate about driving innovation and growth, I was the head of the BAU "Business as Usual" unit, reporting back to directly to the head of engineering, serving 6 markets with new development work and maintenance. I've also spearheaded the migration of one of the largest markets for KFC worldwide, KFC Japan.Responsibilities include.

• Hands-on hard driving PM that is focused on delivering feature/stories “fully signed off” and ready for dev. Heads down and focused on speed.
• Owns a range of features that need to be built (features and supporting stories that need to be fully refined, unblocked and prepared for Web and App development).
• Works across various areas to get it defined, unblocked and ready for dev.
• Collaborates with different departments and units to understand blockages, unblocks the features/stories and prepares them fast to resolve and development.
• Heads down focus and energy to rapidly punch through and get the work down.
• Advises on best practices for Agile development processes.

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• Gathers business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Analyzes new business requirements to deliver new functionality, carry on integrations, enhance design, and smoothen user experience.
• Leads globally distributed teams of developers and defines technical solutions to meet clients’ business requirements.
• Maintains architectural documentation and deliverables for the development and implementation cycles.
• Manages JIRA projects, including creating and assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Develops and implement JIRA best practices, including naming conventions, issue types, and workflows.

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• Leads daily operational aspects and scoping for e-commerce projects.
• Gathers business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Analyzes new business requirements for e-commerce projects to deliver new functionality, carry on 3rd party integrations, enhance design, and smoothen user experience.
• Leads teams of developers and defines technical solutions to meet clients’ business requirements.
• Maintains architectural documentation and deliverables for the development and implementation cycles.
• Provides estimations, evaluations and recommendations on the design of e-commerce sites, while integrating components from across the team and ensuring the integrity and quality of the deliverables.

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Worked within the product team on 3 core products: Fabric Pay, Fabric Loyalty & Fabric OMS. All built on a headless microservices architecture & RESTful APIs built on an AWS environment.

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• Leveraged expertise in working with J2EE, JSPs, JMS, and EJBs and in the writing of tasks and automation scripts.
• Carried out the writing and design of data transfer XML and XSLT documents.
• Operated in a pivotal capacity by writing and developing optimized SQL scripts to be used in data extraction and ETL processes.
• Administered the efficient and effective migration of data by writing Windows batches, Linux shell scripts, and Apache Ant tasks.
• Oversaw the creation of Java code to integrate WebSphere Commerce with a wide range of Business Intelligence solutions.
• Handled the modification of the Apache SOLR access and search profiles and extended the available REST handlers.

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