Kamran (Ahmad) Virk
Agile Delivery Manager
Experience
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.
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.
Associate Delivery Manager
Jazz/IBM
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.
Data Analytics Manager
Warid Telecom
Consulting Partner
ConVISUAL AG
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.
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.
Financial Analyst
Berenberg Bank
Data Analyst & Developer
World Bank
Lead Software Engineer
Right Software Solutions
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (12 years), Professional Services (6.5 years), Telecommunication (6 years), Manufacturing (4 years), Food and Beverage (4 years), and Healthcare (4 years).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Business Intelligence (14 years), Project Management (11 years), Product Development (11 years), Information Technology (10.5 years), Quality Assurance (6.5 years), and Marketing (5 years).
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
Education
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Wolverhampton
Master of Software Technology · Software Technology · Lüneburg, Germany
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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