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Kamran (Ahmad) Virk

Agile Delivery Manager

Kamran Virk
Frankfurt, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
Remote

Agile Delivery Manager

Sparecodes Incorporation

  • Highly successful role as lead data analytics expert at a US consulting startup.
  • Managed stakeholder expectations by ensuring team delivery velocity using Agile and Lean practices.
  • Trained and assembled international offshore data science teams of DevOps engineers, BI developers, and technical support specialists.
  • As Sparecodes' data analytics experts, we improved our clients’ business outcomes through requirements management, dashboard and report development, migration, automation, and production support using IBM Cognos, AWS, SAP, Oracle, Teradata, CRM, ERP, Confluence, and Microsoft.
  • Provided effective coaching and mentoring for international, multicultural teams in a remote environment, covering new tools and techniques, Agile best practices, internal and external communication, and presentation skills.
  • Coordinated technical processes efficiently, including managing and implementing project changes and control processes.
  • Promoted strong team engagement and supported employees’ career development, including business change management through coaching.
  • Enhanced project status reports by providing insights into team productivity, predictability, and backlog burn-down, leading to improved project outcomes.
  • Successfully led the coordination and implementation of software solutions for clients in mechanical engineering, including automation system integration and customization to meet client needs.
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
4 years
London, United Kingdom

Scrum Master

Food Alert Limited

  • Successfully served as Scrum Master to deliver cloud-based software for compliance in health & food safety, training, and eLearning.
  • Directly responsible for the CRM software lifecycle and root cause analysis of all quality-related issues.
  • Efficient use of Agile Scrum practices improved team delivery commitment by 60% and provided accurate forecasts for backlog items.
  • Achieved 98% productivity increase by developing automated macros and PL/SQL functions based on statistical data.
  • Conducted user interviews to identify process activities, weaknesses, and risks.
  • Carefully analyzed complex data to detect patterns and trends and derive actionable insights.
  • Effectively supported client meetings and reviews, gathering feedback to shape scope, design, and implementation of business requirements into OKRs and KPIs.
  • Designed and implemented new training materials to enable knowledge transfer and foster a sustainable culture.
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
6 months

Associate Delivery Manager

Jazz/IBM

Apr 2015 - Jun 2017
2 years 3 months

Agile Product Manager

Zavia Technologies (Pvt.) Limited

  • Developed a data warehouse and delivered analytic services to capture customer experience, branch operations management, sales, and planning.
  • Led research on existing applications and created a detailed project plan for developing the EDW with MDM.
  • Drove a strategic vision and designed a centralized data warehouse, covering project scope, planning, monitoring, and rollout.
  • Successfully delivered the business intelligence solution on time and within budget, boosting profitability by 20%.
  • Collaborated effectively with key stakeholders to identify project priorities and develop artifact-based solutions via Agile Scrum.
  • Managed EDW architecture, ETL developers, and designers efficiently to build a web-based BI reporting system.
  • Supported agile adoption retrospectives, sprint planning meetings, gap analysis, backlog management, and overall product lifecycle control.
  • Developed project charter/POC, led JAD sessions, and created the project management plan, schedule, budget, risk assessment, communication plans, dashboard, and data policy.
  • Created use cases, designed screen mock-ups, conducted SWOT and RFM analyses, and translated requirements into functional and non-functional documents.
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
1 year 3 months

Data Analytics Manager

Warid Telecom

Sep 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 4 months
Remote

Consulting Partner

ConVISUAL AG

Apr 2010 - Aug 2012
2 years 5 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Marketing Analyst

Vodafone GmbH

  • Delivered numerous milestones as a CRM Business Analyst at Vodafone Germany, responsible for Customer Value Management and supporting Cross-/Up-Sell and customer retention campaigns.
  • Successfully identified the optimal price point by highlighting the sweet spot between uplift and take rate.
  • Introduced progressive business strategies for analysis and development of direct marketing campaigns.
  • Optimized the customer base marketing campaign to increase mobile internet market penetration.
Nov 2007 - Mar 2010
2 years 5 months
Germany
On-site

Management Consultant

Certitude GmbH

  • RESPONSIBILITIES Responsible for the analysis and development of innovative direct marketing campaigns for a Telco customer. Successfully implemented business strategies, with insight customer lifecycle analysis, to plan, design, execute and measure CRM campaigns.

  • KEY ACHIEVEMENTS · Effective monitoring and controlling of customer base KPI's, e.g. Turnover, Tariff change and usage. · Efficient discharge of all work for the integration of landline (Arcor) with mobile (Vodafone) customers for cross-sell campaigns at household level. · Worked with insight BI team for risk assessment, data quality and learning sharing. · Successfully participated in and developed training material, documentation and templates for company's process optimization. . Accomplished all tasks working as Test Analyst for a leading telecom customer.

Jan 2007 - Oct 2007
10 months

Financial Analyst

Berenberg Bank

Jan 2003 - Sep 2004
1 year 9 months

Data Analyst & Developer

World Bank

Jan 1999 - Dec 2003
5 years

Lead Software Engineer

Right Software Solutions

Summary

During a successful career in the competitive consulting and analytics environment, I worked as a Senior Consultant at several large companies in areas like healthcare and insurance, telecommunications, retail, and blue-chip/FTSE 100 firms like Vodafone, IBM, and banks such as the World Bank and Berenberg. As a highly qualified and versatile analyst with multicultural know-how and a focus on analytics and business development, I enable lasting improvements to your business processes. After identifying and defining needs, I use holistic strategies and concepts to create high-value solutions for your stakeholders. As a certified Scrum Master and a strong team player, I build effective connections among all core components of an organization, identify measures to enhance them, and act as a facilitator in developing the agile team. What sets me apart is my precise analytical approach, numerical expertise, meticulous attention to detail, a keen eye for best practices, outstanding interpersonal, technical and presentation skills, and the ease with which I master new tools and methods and apply them effectively.

Skills

Business

  • Team Development
  • Leadership & Management
  • Technical Consultancy
  • Quality Management In Product & Process Lifecycles
  • Change Management
  • Business Insights
  • Business Analysis
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Team And Individual Mentoring
  • Retail-fmcg
  • Software Development
  • Database Design And Modelling
  • Relationship Management
  • Erp/crm Development
  • Use-cases
  • Value Stream
  • Digital Transformation

It Skills

  • Atlassian Suite, Jira, Trello & Confluence
  • Servicenow
  • Azure Devops
  • Microsoft Office, Vba, Project, Visio, Power Bi & Ssrs
  • Digital Workspaces Like Citrix Daas, Aws, Gcp & Vmware
  • Db Tools Like Sql Server, Oracle, Sql Developer, Postgresql, Snowflake, Bigquery, Toad, Aginity Pro & Dbeaver
  • Ibm (Watson) Campaign, Cognos & Netezza
  • Crystal Reports
  • Sap Bo, Hana
  • Ppm
  • Tableau
  • Teradata
  • Sas
  • Qlikview
  • Python
  • Unix Shell Scripting
  • Autosys/control-m, Zendesk, Hubspot, Pagerduty
  • Ci/cd
  • Pi Planning

Framework & Methodologies

  • Agile
  • Pmi
  • Prince2
  • Itil
  • Crm
  • Cvm
  • Erp
  • Cmm
  • Uml
  • Bpm
  • Business Intelligence (Bi)
  • Ibm (Unica) Campaign
  • Microstrategy
  • Zapier
  • Slack
  • Monday.com
  • Bdd
  • Data Science
  • Lean User Experience
  • Kanban
  • Safe
  • Less
  • Art
  • Wip
  • Big Data
  • Analytics
  • Direct Marketing
  • Change Management
  • Mcsd
  • Olap

Languages

English
Native
German
Advanced
Arabic
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2004 - Sep 2007

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Wolverhampton

Master of Software Technology · Software Technology · Lüneburg, Germany

Feb 1997 - Jun 1999

University of South Asia

Bachelor of Computer Sciences · Computer Sciences · Lahore, Pakistan

Certifications & licenses

ITIL® 4 - IT Service Management Certification

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

Scrum.org

PMP Professional Training

PMI.org

Test Management - Foundation Level

Istqb.org, German Testing Board

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