Muhammad Usman Email & Phone Number

Munich, BY, DE

Germany

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managing Agile projects dedicatedly with enterprise customers. Preparing project plans, tracking and sharing weekly progress.
• Leading daily stand ups, Sprint planning, Sprint review an and Retrospective meetings.
• Managed Data & BI projects for Emirates NBD and a Mobile application for Monstar-lab.
• Implemented Agile in a traditional setting at ENBD including steering committee meetings, backlog refinement, team structure and resource planning.
• Managing Financials and keeping project tools ( JIRA, Confluence, Clarity) updated.
• Having regular Steering Committee meetings with Business stakeholders (SVPs)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Initiating projects with enterprise customers (Gulf Ministries), implementing Scrum for delivery with vendor teams.
• Coaching vendor teams on writing user stories, planning in Agile way to align with customers on Agile delivery.
• Ensuring all Scrum ceremonies are happening for internally lead projects.
• Launched Exceed Operating Model to achieve Agile Transformation. Model contains guide for all operational and managerial aspects of organization.
• Presenting Projects’ Financial & Operational Analysis to Exec. Committee. Keeping project tools updated

• Made Agile Delivery Model for execution of Digital Strategy in Innovation Lab (for a client). Model describes ‘How teams work?’ and co-create consumer focused Innovative Digital Products using Design Thinking and.
• Educated client on Trifecta (recipe of Digital Transformation): Design Thinking, Agile, DevOps & their interplay (for best customer experience)
• Used pragmatic approaches to apply agile way of working (Scrum/Kanban) and enabling teams on tools
• Worked on Target Operating Model / Operational Strategy (TOM) & 3Ps (People, Practices, Places) to ensure Digital Lab runs smoothly following IBM Strategy & Analytics guidelines.
• Identified major problems in client’s traditional IT department which were hindering market competitiveness and documented / improved processes for IT department of a financial institution. Processes to eradicate.
• Prepared plan for Design Thinking Implementation in a traditional environment and to activate Design Thinking Digital Lab.

Islamabad, Pakistan

- Responsible for work on projects from design to delivery and negotiations with clients to finalize contracts.- Made a high-fidelity prototype for Android based cloud application to digitally transform 'audit process of telecom sites'.

Islamabad

• Facilitating Daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Review Meetings & Retrospectives.
• Delivered a Classical Artistic Network (TrueLinked - A social platform for classical industry) in Europe as PM which got an investment of 2.5M Euro and won Midemlab Award 2017.
• Implemented Blue/Green Deployments for TrueLinked and managed live deployments
• Implemented Agile development methodologies which enhanced way of working & digital marketing strategy for Vizteck
• Worked as Scrum Master (from design to launch) & educated teams to give best results in Scrum framework
• Worked with clients (Product Owners & Investors) to prepare product backlog and manage sprints. Facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Stand Ups, Review, Retrospective)

Islamabad

- Wireframe & Design reviews for Mobile & Web Apps- Wireframing clients’ requirements- Involvement in projects from Project Kick-off- Developed Web and Mobile App to complete technical training- Writing Test Plan and Test cases - Improving user experience (continuous improvement) and bringing new elements in design of digital apps to make them successful.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical (Telecommunications) Engineering