Syed Shah
PRODUCT MANAGER- MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS MAJOR · COLUMBIA COLLEGE DENVER
303-***-**** ************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/syed-shah-20b161155/
About Me
Programming C# · Python · Java
Analytics SQL · Tableau · Microsoft Excel/VBA · SharePoint
Web/Media HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Experience
Nestle Food Peshawar, Pakistan
PRODUCT MANAGER-OPERATIONSTEAM Sep. 2013 – Dec.2015
•Owned the Vision for Global Product Development. Devised short term, medium term and long-term strategies for tools development and provided roadmap for its execution. Also, analyzed existing self-host and pseudo strategies and recommended improvements to increase their efficacy.
•Built a high-performance team and led the feature triad; drove forums for decision making (backlog triage), progress tracking (scrums), visibility (ship rooms) and team morale (per sprint lunches). Prepared Budget projections and resources allocation based on capability, technology roadmaps and fiscal year plans.
•Championed roadshows of the developed products for increasing awareness and adoption. Delivered 20+ presentations on the technology at various Internationalization forums for different target audience. Provided guiding principles, coding guidelines and operating frameworks for agile product development.
• Designed and developed schedules through Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Telenor Telecommunications Peshawar, Pakistan
ASSOCIATE PRODUCT MANAGER- CONTENT TEAM Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2013
•Analyzed our video content on Facebook to increase our video distribution and grew our pages’ views by 54%
•As a product manager for Internet of Things (IoT i.e. M2M and Wearable), OS FUN and SigMa product families, performed market research for top 24 key markets to gain market insights, which included IoTs in International markets, enabling dual SIMs in Microsoft’s low cost phones, reducing disk space through innovative solutions like feature on demand and Language Pack refactoring, reducing deployment time on factory floor and designing product for Low bandwidth Mobile First markets.
•Led the development of tools and technology and associated infrastructure effort for validation of international content end to end. With a 0.15 million dollars spent for a period of 3 year, the organization achieved several folds gain in efficiency, throughput, and improved quality. It started saving 1 million USD on a quarterly basis.
Internships
High Quality Solutions Denver, CO
PRODUCT MANAGER INTERN - ANALYTICS TEAM May. 2020 - Aug. 2020
• Work with database tables, spreadsheets and unstructured data and perform data analysis on client data by writing SQL queries
• Worked with growth team on highlight notifications to improve audience targeting increasing click-through rate by 32%
• Identified and recommend business process/date integration improvement opportunities to design the most optimal B2B solution to meet business needs
High Quality Solutions Denver, CO
PRODUCT MANAGER INTERN - DEVELOPMENT TEAM May. 2019- Aug. 2019
•Presented multiple analyses on the product strategy, product vision and roadmap
•Communicated with customers via phone, email, telepathy, etc. to ensure effective and delightful user experiences
•Designed, executed, and implemented end to end big data analytics dashboards on Tableau using Agile methodology
Academic Projects
SQL Server Database and Visual Studio Windows Integrated Application
Course: Advanced Database
•Constructed a fictional SQL Server Database containing 10 entities as well as multiple functions and queries to create a centralized hospital information system used to improve patient-appointment assignments by 35% using visual studio for GUI
Husky Air Using Agile Methodology
Course: Project Management
•Examined the client’s needs as a Project Manager and Delivered solutions on time, enabling a Husky Air to save up to $40,000 per yr
Education
Columbia College Denver Denver, CO
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS) Feb. 2017 - June2021
•Dean’s Honors List Twice: Above 3.7GPA