Abdullah Tayyab Farooqi, Vice President, Product Development

Abdullah Tayyab Farooqi

Vice President, Product Development

Systems Limited

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Master's degree, Engineering Science
Experience
14 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months

Vice President, Product Development at Systems Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since January 2021

Heading the only products competency within the company. Responsible for the whole offshore team as well as product development and maturity.

Director, Software Development at ibex
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • April 2010 to January 2021

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Launch two new clients in a year first time ever on enterprise platform, and transition largest existing client, to cloud (AWS) infrastructure, generating ongoing annual cost savings of 30% across those clients

• Introduce and own IT processes including Agile estimation & development, Release Management, Change Management, Post-Delivery Support (Incident & Problem Management), Decision Making Framework, SMART Goals/KPIs, Asset Management, Risk Management

• Reduce bugs by 90% over 4 years by driving continuous improvement through technical excellence practices for teams and products

• Part of senior IT management that led successful transition to Agile Scrum from Waterfall Model

• Standardize Service Level Agreements across all clients to offer uniform service and decrease administration costs

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead Production (Service Ops/Maintenance), Product Management, and DevOps departments

• Provide roadmaps to continuously improve business process re-engineering and services offered with more reliability, scalability, and code reusability

• Mentor 100+ professionals to adopt Agility mindset across all disciplines in three locations

• Collaborate with clients and Client Services teams to improve the product offering and customer experience

• Responsible for Agile transformation and continuous delivery while also practicing Agile values and principles

• Continuous evolution of processes for more automation and reliable systems

Internee Software Engineer at Intagleo Systems
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2008 to February 2009

- Primary Symbian developer with major responsibility being a location-based social networking application which kept tracks of user’s location and user could perform actions based on their own location and their friends’ locations.
- Working on and maintaining the database used by mobile software as well as the website.
- Interfacing between the mobile and database through GPRS/EDGE.
- Getting all location information of users using cellular details or GPS.

Education

Master's degree, Engineering Science
  • at University of New South Wales
  • December 2009

MSc Eng. Sc. majoring in telecommunications.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
  • June 2008

Specialties & Skills

Software Project Management
Leadership
Automation
Coaching
Agile Project Management
Business Analysis
Requirement Analysis
Change Management
Client Communication
Program Management
RFP Analysis and Response
Service Delivery
Project management
Leadership
Mongo DB
React Native
Business Agility
Agile Coach

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Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Scrum alliance
  • Member
  • November 2019
Red Cross
  • Donor
  • August 2009
Scrum Inc
  • Practitioner
  • June 2020

Training and Certifications

ICP-Agile Certified Coach (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2020
Scrum @ Scale Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Certified Scrum Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
SAFe Agilist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Valid Until:
June 2021
ICP-Agile Team Facilitator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Certified Scrum Developer - Scrum Alliance (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Valid Until:
June 2022
Certified Product Owner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2019
Valid Until:
June 2022
Certified Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2019
Certified Agile Leader (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2019