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Mohammed Asjad Afroz Afzal Khan

Melbourne,Australia

Summary

With an overall experience of 15+ years in Software as a Service(SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service( IaaS) in complex environments with globally spread operations.

Currently working as a Senior Project Manager in NAB (National Australia Bank) which is one of the top 4 largest financial institutions in Australia.

Extensive experience with Progressive Elaboration, Safe, Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies across medium and larger scale organizations with operations running globally.

Delivered a wide range of products and services in Merchandising and Supply chain management domains for reputed companies in United Kingdom and Australia.

Superior Stakeholder management skills in Organisation with 35000+ employees, Engagement with Stakeholders includes Domain Executives, Domain Head of Technology, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Technical Leads.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Project Manager/RTE(NEF 2.0)

National Australia Bank(NAB)
Australia, Australia
01.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for delivering variety of complex projects under NEF2.0 which is a core engineering team for delivering Platform as a service (PaaS) (Harness CICD on K8s-Kubernetes (EKS and AKS)) and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for DevOps and Software engineering teams across NAB.
  • Continuous Integration with SNYK (container scanning Tool) on NEF2.0
  • ASAE3150 Audit- Deputy Integration with Service Now (Service NAB) to restrict unscanned container images from being deployed to Production.
  • Delivered of Service Nab Integration with Harness Onboarding pipelines for seamless onboarding and adoption.
  • Successfully managed delivery of Onboarding 250+ teams onto the new NEF2.0 platform (Harness CICD, Amazon EKS and Azure AKS).
  • Infrastructure as a Service (Harness IACM- Infrastructure as Code Management) Centralisation and Standardization of Infrastructure provisioning across NAB using Harness IACM, successfully Delivered Immutable modules to allow rapid upgrades and roll back of Infrastructure components.
  • Ensured the planning process follows Progressive Elaboration throughout the cycle of software design and development.
  • Responsible for Daily, Weekly and Monthly reporting of the vast portfolio to Stakeholders using Rally and other reporting mechanism such as PowerBI dashboards and PowerPoint slide decks.
  • Removing impediments for Principal Engineers and Engineering teams across NEF2.0 for a timeline delivery.
  • Coach progressive elaboration to Engineering Managers, Engineering teams and Scrum Masters.
  • Resolved contingencies and complicated issues across multiple teams, provide leadership to project teams and provide consultation and coaching to the team.
  • Anticipate and work on removing potential impediments and roadblocks that impacted delivery timelines.

Project Manager/Technical Product Owner

Target
Australia, Australia
11.2015 - 01.2022
  • Successfully delivered business critical products GBSS (Global buying and sourcing solution) and JDA ODBMS to support Merchandising and Supply Chain Management operations.
  • Successfully delivered Integration of GBSS and ODBMS (XML/file-based) & Integration of GBSS with Assortment Planning which was API based Integration using Micro services.
  • Responsible for creating Product road maps aligned to overall business strategy.
  • Responsible for delivery of all GBSS and ODBMS projects from small, medium to large scale.
  • Responsible for ensuring the Program and Sprint backlogs are living documents and are maintained by priority.
  • Responsible to planning Program Increment work (Quarter planning) for the squads.
  • Responsible for planning and delivering work with multiple squads ie Internal Target development squads and Vendors across Hong Kong and India, Ensuring these squads are aligned with the delivery of the Program increment work.
  • Ensuring backlog items have been WSJF'd(COD/Job size) and aligned accordingly.
  • Ensuring the items that become part of the backlog have a calculated Cost of delay (Business value +Time Criticality +Risk reduction/opportunity enablement).
  • Plan and report delivery of initiatives with External Stakeholders and Internal stakeholders such as General Manager of Technology, Technical team members, Business users, Business analysts, Iteration Managers.
  • Identified risk, dependencies and highlighted in order to be planned with teams to ensure delivery is done in a timely manner.
  • Coached Business analysts and Process analysts on Best Industry practices

Senior Business Analyst

Product based company- E2open
Australia, Australia
12.2014 - 10.2015
  • Worked as a Senior Business Analyst in the Core requirement team to ensure that the Product has market differentiated capabilities
  • Strived to create smarter functionalities within the product to uplift user experience in order to give the product a competitive edge.
  • Wrote Epics & User Stories in confluence for documenting the requirements.
  • Provided important and valuable insights for Product road map with the Product owner for new releases.
  • Prepared and reviewed Functional Requirements & technical design documents.
  • Provided solutions which were cost effective and at the same time technologically advanced as per market standards.
  • Reviewed and signed off Test Plans, Test cases, Test scenarios etc. to ensure scope coverage.
  • Coordinated activities that involved project/release delivery.
  • Worked closely with engineers, acting as the end user to ensure technical compatibility and meeting industry standards

Business Analyst

Hewlett Packard (HP)
India, India
05.2013 - 12.2014
  • E2E Integrated solution for automated Warehouse Management System in Distribution centers and Regional Consolidation Centers of United Kingdom comprising of Red Prairie (JDA) and SAP IS Retail(OTC)
  • Played a role of business process partner for the client organisation by aiding the functional users to define and document existing business process, identify gaps and build a business case for process automation.
  • Acted as a liaison between the business and the technical team to ensure that user needs are translated accurately into system functionality.
  • Gathered business and user requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis and workflow analysis and translate them into BRD/SRS.
  • Created System requirement specification document using the standard templates.
  • Coordinated in project management activities

Business Analyst

Computer Science Corporation(CSC)
India, India
06.2009 - 04.2013
  • E2E Integrated solution for automated Warehouse Management System in Regional Consolidation Centers of United Kingdom using Red Prairie (JDA) and SAP IS retail module workflow for OTC (order To Cash)
  • Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and nonfunctional requirements based on interactions with the process owners & stake holders in Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
  • Worked with SCM SME's to gather the Business process requirements, documented them in Business Requirement Document (BRD) and performed Business Process Re-engineering.
  • Interacted with department heads to finalize business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and created Business process model.
  • Facilitated Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions between technical and regulatory teams for meeting requirements as well as solving problems daily.
  • Created and maintained Narrative Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams using MS Visio.
  • Involved with the QA team to conceptualize, determine and develop test approaches and methods for system testing, integration and functional testing, load and usability testing

Education

MBA - Finance

Indian Institute of Planning And Management
Hyderabad
04-2009

Bachelor of Engineering -

Osmania University
Hyderabad
05-2007

Skills

  • Program Management
  • Fintech Engineering
  • Supply chain management
  • Merchandising Management
  • Managing issue and risk logs
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Project Planning
  • Conflict resolution
  • Software requirement analysis
  • Platform as a service (PaaS)
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Kubernetes -AWS EKS and Azure AKS
  • Progressive Elaboration
  • Agile (SAFe)
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Container scanning
  • Reporting
  • Coaching
  • Risk management
  • Business analysis
  • Product management
  • Solution design
  • Requirements gathering
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Reporting tools (Service Now, TM1, SSRS)
  • Test reporting tools (HP ALM, HP Quality Centre)
  • Cross-Functional Communication
  • Scope Management

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 29 December 1983
  • Nationality: Australian

Award Nominations

  • Nominated for 'The NAB Honouree' award 2023
  • Nominated for 'The Accountable award' for 2021 Rondel awards

Certifications

  • Professional Development Courses: AWS Cloud Practitioner(2019-2022).
  • Professional Development Courses: Progressive Elaboration Certified(2022-Current

References

  • Available on request

Timeline

Senior Project Manager/RTE(NEF 2.0)

National Australia Bank(NAB)
01.2022 - Current

Project Manager/Technical Product Owner

Target
11.2015 - 01.2022

Senior Business Analyst

Product based company- E2open
12.2014 - 10.2015

Business Analyst

Hewlett Packard (HP)
05.2013 - 12.2014

Business Analyst

Computer Science Corporation(CSC)
06.2009 - 04.2013

MBA - Finance

Indian Institute of Planning And Management

Bachelor of Engineering -

Osmania University

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