Tameez Ansari (US Citizen)

734-***-****

Canton, Michigan

adbqm0@r.postjobfree.com • http://www.linkedin.com/in/tansari • http://www.tameez.com • Skype: tameez.a

SENIOR LEADER/CONSULTANT/COACH

As a seasoned Leader in the IT and business domains both in the US and abroad, I have achieved critical success focusing on coaching, development, technology-business alignment, growth and operations. I have a record of establishing relations and collaborating with stakeholders. I have consulted, supported business leaders, and verticals (HR, Finance, Legal, Audit, Sales, Operations, Business Development, Purchasing, Production and Technology) in delivering value and excellence. I have been leading effort as regards transformations, coaching, mentoring, developing teams and organizations at multiple levels.

I have been at the forefront of developing organizational capabilities, leading changes and building teams.

I have also managed projects and delivered multi-million-dollar enterprise and have ably delivered sales force, healthcare, ERP (HR, financial, SCM), content management, data management and IT infrastructure solutions.

I believe in the development of individuals and have coached many professionals over the years. I have gained business and technology insight from working in multiple industries and countries. These include EdTech, financials, publishing, aerospace, consulting, oil and gas, healthcare, and government in the US and overseas.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Business leadership • Coaching/Mentoring • Transformation • Staff Development • Agile Delivery • Waterfall • Scrum • Governance • Process Improvement • Business/Technology Alignment • Service Delivery • RFP • Policies and Procedures • SDLC • SLA/OLA • Implementations • Oracle ERP • Analysis • Project Delivery • Relationship Management • Dispersed Teams

CERTIFICATIONS

PSM I - Professional Scrum Master I • COBIT® 5 Foundation • PMP (Expired) • ISACA CISM • ITIL Foundation • CPD – Certified Process Director

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

Oracle 11i eBusiness Suite • Costing and Budgets • Process Development and Improvement • Project Management • Coaching and Appraising • Quality Management • Information Security • Business Process Analysis and Design • Management Training • Time Management – Franklin Covey

VENDOR RELATIONS/PARTNER MANAGEMENT

Oracle, IBM, DX Technology, Microsoft, Forrester, Symantec, others

CAREER TRACK

TRANSFORMATION CONSULTANT – AGILE COACH Aug 2018 to Date

GE Aviation, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Actively participating in the enterprise-wide transformation journey and leading adoption of Agile for teams in the US and abroad. Mentoring and coaching individuals and teams on Agile methodology and operational excellence.

Established discipline and cadence for Agile projects and product delivery with planned releases and iterations.

Trained and certified in IBM CLM SAFe product implementation. Actively pursuing additional SAFe training and preparing for certification.

Preparing our organization for SAFe rollout and working with external vendor on tools and application.

Developed guidelines, documentation and presentations for teams; developed and led training sessions. Providing on-going support.

Transformed global engineering operations teams from diverse Kanban and waterfall methodologies into unified Agile methodology delivery unit for developing and supporting application lifecycle management (ALM) suite.

Leading and monitoring continual project delivery processes improvements and implementing these into project streams.

Leading teams using Scrum framework for project delivery. Leading BRP sessions and other Sprint events, such as stand up, planning and review sessions, as well as sprint retrospectives.

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Developing and configuring IBM CLM system for product and project delivery.

Consulting business managers to increase value proposition of products and services at GE Aviation.

Developed Wiki architecture for user training and documentation.

PROJECT MANAGER – AGILE COACH June 2016 to Apr 2018

ProQuest, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Coached and mentored development teams on Agile delivery of backoffice solutions based on Oracle E-Business, OTC, P2P, Hyperion SFDC and other financial solutions using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, etc.

Digital transformation: Led delivery of award-winning, web-based portal, integrating with Oracle enterprise system and automating delivery and processing of invoices and ACH payments.

Extended Agile coaching and delivery to sales, product development, marketing and customer support teams to launch Portal solution on time and on budget.

Led continual Agile transformational processes and events, including coaching, planning, reviews and retrospectives; and worked with product managers on releases.

Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product requirements and use cases for Agile delivery.

Led improvement of portfolio and program governance framework for improved demand and delivery management of global enterprise systems.

Led department’s EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) project as part of corporate initiative. Activities included coordination with corporate Web team, developers, security, back-end network and database support personnel and QA. Identified both customer-facing and enterprise systems requiring changes at system and data levels.

Developed portfolio and program governance framework for improved demand and delivery management of enterprise systems.

SABBATICAL Jun 2015 to Jun 2016

CONSULTANT Feb 2015 to May 2015

Engineering, Arlington, VA, USA/Abu Dhabi

Consulted IT conglomerate ENGINEERING on business development in new territories.

TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS LEADER Jan 2009 to Jan 2015

ADASI, Arlington, VA, USA/Abu Dhabi

Established the technology business unit and infrastructure from ground up in an international startup and led its growth to support six-fold increase in employee base.

Established the Agility methodologies and coached technical and business units on Agile.

Developed the agility transformation planning and execution for the organization.

Led implementation of solutions and systems using Agile and Scrum framework.

Championed business and cultural change, and collaborated with HR, Finance, Development and other verticals on business processes.

Mentored and coached new teams as well as businesses to plan and lead business transformation and growth.

Led digital business transformation, reduced costs and increased operational efficiencies by completing implementation of multimillion-dollar Oracle ERP implementation.

Chaired IT Steering committee for business and technology alignment and convergence. Resulted in more focused planning and project delivery.

Led development of risk management and managed risk register.

Managed multi-million dollar annual budget and administered funds as per budget approval.

Led all IT audit response efforts – both internal and external.

Established and managed relations with internal and external business partners to support business and expand services.

Collaborated with executive management for a new joint venture with an international business partner.

Developed technology and business organization units for the joint venture. Developed the IT organization design and related operational. Developed processes for the new organization.

Established IT risk management; information management and security; governance regimes and ensured compliance with external regulatory environment.

Founding member of ADASI Procurement Committee for streamlining and improving procurement processes.

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IT STRATEGY LEADER Jun 2008 to Dec 2008

NBAD, Washington, DC, USA/Abu Dhabi

Developed strategic information technology plans for governance, security, data management and processes.

Initiated enterprise Data Management and Data Warehousing project, covering all business divisions.

Led the IT transformative exercise for proper alignment with businesses and technology functions.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS:

Collaborated with Sales and saved over $500,000 and developed Sales Force Automation (SFA) system for remote sales force and devised security, workflow, replication schemes and developed legacy interface. Received outstanding consulting service award.

Worked with Operations and improved order processing 50% by developing interfaces to backend system.

Mentored junior developers and delivered enterprise solutions.

ADCO:

Mentored and coached junior staff as part of the corporate career ladder program.

Reduced time-to-engage with vendors by 80% and developed call-off contracts.

Managed implementation of enterprise Content Management System.

Led study around enterprise Data Management.

Negotiated prices and services, and managed commercial contracts.

Researched and recommended Human Capital Management System (HCMS).

OTHERS:

Led implementation of Meditech Healthcare Information Management System (HIMS) modules.

Led implementation of Financial Advisory Services systems.

Developed system on Lotus Domino platform

Managed large scale, strategic and mission-critical programs.

ACADEMICS

MSc, Information Technology April, 2019

Florida Institute of Technology, Florida, USA

BSc, Computer Science

Eastern Michigan University, Michigan, USA

Dean’s List student & EMU Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Scholarship.

Developed computer graphics for the Biochemistry Lab Manual.

ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS

Technology - Delivered new multimillion-dollar, IT infrastructures (data centers) on budget and on time. Oversaw growth of IT infrastructure from 2 servers to multi-site, in-built redundant data center.

Service Delivery - 60% improvement in operational efficiency from automation tools. Implemented ITIL- and SLA-based service desk resulting in efficiency and 80% response time improvements. Developed and implemented corporate IT strategy, governance, policies and procedures as well as security strategy and policies. Established regional support organizations.

Enterprise Systems - Championed business process automation and control; and led multiple Oracle ERP (HR, Finance, Payroll, SCM) implementations as well as other enterprise system. Developed corporate SFA system and SharePoint platform.

Organization - Established brand new IT units from scratch. Actively supported growth of ADASI from 20 FTE to 200 FTE and US$9m to US$40m turnover. Increased IT department strength 600% due to rapid expansion, mentored and developed staff employees. Developed IT transformation strategies and plans.

Making a World of Difference award at ProQuest for Invoice Portal

Outstanding Consulting Services award for Sales Force Automation System development at BNA

ADNOC’s Innovation award for developing ADCO’s HSE e-learning course

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