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Kamal (Tarik) Tarik Rana

Professional Scrum Product Owner I

Kamal Tarik Rana
Essen, Germany

Experience

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
4 months
Essen, Germany

Design and development of a requirements verification tool based on the INVEST principle

Ranasoft Internet Technologies

  • Design of requirement verification based on the INVEST principle
  • Implementation of the prediction model with scikit-learn and BERT
  • Implementation of the web client with ReactJS and FastAPI
  • Adaptation of the T5 model to improve user story generation according to the INVEST framework
  • Certification of NLP and scikit-learn
  • Technologies: Python, NLP, Scikit-Learn, BERT, T5, ReactJS, FastAPI, Cursor Visual Paradigm, Visual Studio, Draw.io, NSIS, vite, Electron
Mar 2021 - Jun 2024
3 years 4 months
Hanover, Germany

Product Owner

ZF Gruppe / Nutzfahrzeug Control Systeme

  • Design of the main events for the diagnostic tool
  • Business requirements management in Confluence
  • System requirements management in TargetProcess and JIRA
  • Researched UI/UX across various product aspects, created user workflows, and implemented designs for web, desktop client, and Android/iOS
  • Coordinated with the scaled agile team to prioritize the backlog based on business and development needs
  • Led end-customer workshops to gather expectations and prioritize key features
  • Conducted end-user testing
  • Technologies: Java, .NET, ReactJS, Node.js, AWS Docker, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, web services, Docker, AWS, TargetProcess, JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Draw.io
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
2 years 7 months
Hanover, Germany

Business Analyst

WABCO AUTO / Nutzfahrzeug Control Systeme

  • Analysis of existing diagnostic software and interaction with subsystems using SWOT
  • Definition of the vision and workflow for new diagnostic software
  • Requirements gathering for the tender of diagnostic software
  • Requirements management in Confluence
  • Introduction of agile requirements management in JIRA for creating and evaluating tenders
  • Technologies: Atlassian Confluence / JIRA, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm, Draw.io, Visio
May 2018 - Dec 2024
6 years 8 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Product Owner / Business Analyst / Scrum Master / Project Manager / Requirements Engineer

Freelance Consultant

May 2018 - Dec 2018
8 months
United Kingdom

Business Analyst

Ibrahim Trading Company

  • As-is analysis of the company's supply chain management process
  • To-be analysis and requirements management
  • Coordination with the development team
  • Quality assurance of user stories
  • End-user testing
  • Technologies: .NET, ASP, IIS, Draw.io, MS Visual Studio, Trello
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
1 year 4 months

Product Owner

Credit Exchange

  • Overall coordination of creating an agile specification for an innovative product in the credit institution sector
  • Creating the workflow to automate business processes
  • Requirements management in JIRA
  • UI/UX optimization with end users
  • Coordinating with architects to optimize the application
  • Technologies: Salesforce Sales Cloud, Eclipse, Balsamiq, Draw.io, JIRA
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
3 years 2 months

Product Owner

Credaris AG

  • As-is analysis of business processes and recommendation of the CRM solution (workflow)
  • Creating the workflow to automate business processes
  • UI/UX optimization with stakeholders and end users
  • Requirements management in Trello
  • End user testing
  • Technologies: SugarCRM, Balsamiq, Draw.io, UltraEdit, Trello, Redmine
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 10 months

Product Owner

Refractive Limited

  • Research and cost estimation of the application for event management
  • Project vision and splitting project execution into phases for site inspection
  • Creating the business workflow and UI mockups for each step of the workflow
  • Creating and prioritizing requirements in Trello
  • UI/UX optimization with event planners and engineers
  • Coordination and stakeholder management
  • Gap analysis and requirements management
  • Performed functional testing
  • Technologies: Adobe PhoneGap, Balsamiq, Draw.io, Trello, Redmine, Swift, Java, Xcode, Android Studio
Nov 2013 - Apr 2016
2 years 6 months

Scrum Master

Cynergy, German Transfer, Refractive Limited, Dezshop

  • Training team members in Scrum
  • PI and sprint planning with the client
  • Daily Scrum and coordinating to resolve conflicts
  • Preparing reports/dashboards
  • Gap analysis and requirements management
  • Performed functional testing
  • Technologies: WordPress, Magento, Virtue Mart, WooCommerce, Joomla, Balsamiq, Draw.io, Trello, Redmine
Sep 2013 - May 2018
4 years 9 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Scrum Master / Product Owner

Rolustech

  • Leading multiple projects as a Product Owner
  • Scrum Master for multiple agile teams
Sep 2012 - Nov 2013
1 year 3 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Lecturer for Web Engineering at the Computer Science Department

South Asia University

Jul 2012 - Nov 2013
1 year 5 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Freelance Consultant for Open Source Web Applications

Ranasoft

Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
7 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Scrum Master

German IT Solution

  • Leads several eShops, CMS and POS projects for European clients
  • Coaches web developers to work in an agile team
  • Implements Scrum processes
  • Quality assurance of user stories
  • Distributes reports / dashboard to the team and stakeholders
  • Technologies: WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Virtue Mart, WooCommerce, Joomla, Balsamiq, Draw.io, Trello, Redmine, Excel
Apr 2010 - Nov 2012
2 years 8 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Business Analyst

Strategic Systems International

  • Supports business development and project development
  • As-is analysis of the outpatient software application for care services
  • Flow diagrams of outpatient services
  • On-site workshops with the client to define the target scope
  • Creates and quality assures user stories
  • Technologies: MS Technologies (ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight & Express Blend 4.0, SSI Framework based on ASP.NET 3.0, SQL Server 2008), MS TFS, JIRA, UML, VISIO, MS Office
Jan 2009 - Apr 2010
1 year 4 months
Lahore, Pakistan

IT Manager for Telemarketing

Sky BPO

Nov 2007 - Dec 2008
1 year 2 months
Cologne, Germany

Freelance consultant and developer for an ERP tool for vehicle processing

Ford Werke

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Information Technology (8.5 years), Automotive (6.5 years), Professional Services (6 years), Healthcare (2.5 years), Banking and Finance (1.5 years), and Education (1 year).

Information Technology
Automotive
Professional Services
Healthcare
Banking and Finance
Education

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Product Development (14.5 years), Information Technology (13 years), Project Management (12 years), Quality Assurance (5.5 years), Strategy (2.5 years), and Operations (1.5 years).

Product Development
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Strategy
Operations

Skills

  • Requirements Analysis And Management

  • Business Analysis And Process Modeling

  • Agile Product Development

  • Project Management Of B2b And B2c Applications

  • Crm Project Development

  • Ui/ux Experience With Desktop And Web Applications

  • Scrum And Kanban Coaching

  • Lecturer In Web Engineering At South Asia University Lahore

  • Development Of Android And Ios Apps

  • Design And Implementation Of Complex, Multi-layer Business Processes Such As Auctions And Negotiations

  • Agile Development Methods (Scaled Agile Framework / Scrum / Kanban)

  • Excellent Methodology Skills In Requirements Engineering (De/en)

  • Comprehensive Process Analysis And Modeling Skills Uml / Bpmn

  • Excellent Skills In Object-oriented Analysis And Design

  • Project And Multi-project Management Experience

  • Several Years Of Experience In Multinational Development Projects

  • Project Processes: Product Development (Agile); Requirements Management; Business & Value Stream Analysis And Optimization; Program / Project Management (Agile & Traditional); Change Management For Organizations

  • Methodological Skills: Requirements Engineering And Management; Agile Hardware & Software Development (Scrum / Kanban); Data / Process / Use-case Modeling (Uml / Bpmn)

  • Business Processes: Cost And Project Controlling; Logistics Processes / Supply Chain Management; Swot Analysis / Business Case Calculation; Proof-of-concept / Purchasing And Procurement Processes; Workflow / Document Management

  • Industry Experience: Vehicle Diagnostics; Telecommunications; Mobile Platforms; Healthcare; Automotive Services; Banks And Financial Institutions; E-commerce B2b And B2c; Logistics

  • Agile & Collaboration Tools: Apptio Targetprocess; Atlassian Jira / Confluence; Primavera; Trello; Redmine

  • Process Modeling: Enterprise Architect; Visual Paradigm; Visio; Draw.io

  • Requirements / Uml Tools: Rational Rose; Enterprise Architect; Visual Paradigm

  • Frameworks: React Js; Velocity; Struts; Hibernate; Jpa; Spacy; Tensorflow; Bert; Scikit-learn

  • Databases, Db Programming: Oracle Enterprise; Ms Sql Server; Mongodb; Mysql; Db2; Access; Sql; Pl/sql; Toad

  • Java Technologies: Ejb; Web Services; Threads; Jsp; Applets; Servlets; Oo4o

  • Programming Languages: Java (J2ee, Applet, Servlet, Swing); Python; Visual Basic; C++; Perl; Php; Pl/sql; Sql

  • Cms Platforms / E-commerce: Joomla; Virtuemart; Wordpress; Woocommerce; Magento; Drupal

  • Crm Platforms: Sugarcrm; Salesforce; Zoho; Suitecrm

  • Web/application Servers: Ibm Mq Series; Websphere; Bea Weblogic; Jboss; Sun Application Server; Apache Web Server; Java Web Server; Iis; Tomcat; Aws

Languages

Urdu
Native
German
Advanced
English
Advanced
Hindi
Advanced

Education

Oct 1998 - Jun 2000

University of Lüneburg

MSc · Applied Computer Science · Lüneburg, Germany

Oct 1988 - Jun 1990

University of Bahawalpur

MSc · Statistics · Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Certifications & licenses

Certified Agile Requirements Specialist

Agile Requirements Institute

Certified Sugar Sales Specialist

SugarCRM Inc.

Digital Think’s E-Commerce Fundamentals

Cambridge Technology

Feature Engineering For NLP With Python

DataCamp

Professional Scrum Product Owner I

Scrum.Org

SAFe Agile Practitioner

Scaled Agile Inc.

Supervised Learning With Scikit-Learn

DataCamp

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Where is Kamal based?

Kamal is based in Essen, Germany.

What languages does Kamal speak?

Kamal speaks the following languages: Urdu (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced), Hindi (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Kamal have?

Kamal has at least 17 years of experience. During this time, Kamal has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 16 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 1 month. Note that Kamal may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Kamal be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Kamal would be well-suited for roles such as: Design and development of a requirements verification tool based on the INVEST principle, Product Owner, Business Analyst.

What is Kamal's latest experience?

Kamal's most recent position is Design and development of a requirements verification tool based on the INVEST principle at Ranasoft Internet Technologies.

What companies has Kamal worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Kamal has worked for Ranasoft Internet Technologies, ZF Gruppe / Nutzfahrzeug Control Systeme, WABCO AUTO / Nutzfahrzeug Control Systeme, and Freelance Consultant.

Which industries is Kamal most experienced in?

Kamal is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Automotive, and Professional Services. Kamal also has some experience in Healthcare, Banking and Finance, and Education.

Which business areas is Kamal most experienced in?

Kamal is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology (IT), and Project Management. Kamal also has some experience in Quality Assurance (QA), Strategy and Planning, and Operations.

Which industries has Kamal worked in recently?

Kamal has recently worked in industries like Automotive and Information Technology (IT).

Which business areas has Kamal worked in recently?

Kamal has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Project Management, and Information Technology (IT).

What is Kamal's education?

Kamal holds a Master in Applied Computer Science from University of Lüneburg and a Master in Statistics from University of Bahawalpur.

Does Kamal have any certificates?

Kamal has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: Certified Agile Requirements Specialist, Certified Sugar Sales Specialist, and Digital Think’s E-Commerce Fundamentals.

What is the availability of Kamal?

Kamal is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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