Dynamic Product Manager with **+ years of experience leading product development and delivery in asset management financial services industries. Expertise in user-centered design, data-driven decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, and agile methodologies. Adept at improving engineering velocity, driving customer engagement, and delivering measurable business value.
CAREER SUMMARY
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mortgage Industry Advisory Corporation Charlotte NC 01/20 – 12/24 Fintech Company provider of pricing, risk management for the mortgage and financial services industries
Tariq Shah
Product Management/Ownership
Staff Software Developer
Engineered OAS technology in C++ OOP, enhancing system efficiency by 40% for advanced Whole Loan and MSR Tranche FRM and ARM pricing, leading to faster and more accurate financial analyses.
Integrated real time feed from FINRA for TRACE data to generate in house TBA pricings.
Developed a comprehensive application for computing detailed Cash Flow Components, integrating problem-solving skills to allow user-defined prepayment, delinquency, and foreclosure models, facilitating seamless data transfer to spreadsheets.
Software Developer
Engineered a Bloomberg and Thompson Reuters Pricing API tool, enabling real-time pricing downloads and incorporating problem-solving and system architecture enhancements.
Implemented a reporting engine using Crystal Reports, facilitating runtime report generation with options for PDF/Excel export, improving data accessibility and report management.
Designed a sensitivity analysis tool, allowing simultaneous component adjustments and pricing for different components, showcasing problem-solving and software engineering skills. Developed an unrivaled price sensitivity analysis tool for interest rate shocks or scenarios at various levels.
Product Manager/Owner
Led the delivery of one of the main financial enterprise products, a key pillar for firm to delivering asset management suite with advanced behavior modeling and stress testing to effectively measure risk, evaluates the price performance of the mortgage capital markets products.
Defined and executed the product strategy that engaged over 80% of customers and internal users on existing products, long-term product vision; conducted monthly customer calls and quarterly customer panel reviews.
Improved engineering velocity by 30% by managing product backlog, prioritizing features, sprint reviews, product-engineering collaboration, and organizational alignment.
Developed OKRs by involving in market research that aligned with the organizational OKRs, achieving that resulted in increase in retention of existing users, onboard of prospect users and 30% of revenue increase.
Created and validated product feature using wireframes, prototypes and data to ensure user needed solutions.
Presented biweekly presentation report to higher executive level, breaking complex data into meaningful and impactful visualizations, polished prototypes, and clear user flows to drive strategic decisions.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/tariq-shah-54893616/
Bachelor of computer Science, Bangalore University
Software Development Project Management
Led engineering and enhanced system architecture in C# and C++, achieving a 20% boost in application performance and a 30% reduction in code deployment time.
Oversee development and migration of C++ standalone MSR calculator engine to a C# enterprise solution, utilizing SQL for backend processes, embodying problem-solving and software engineering excellence using distributed process management.
Oversee Implemented DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment cycles by 40% and fostering a collaborative environment between development and operations teams.
Architected system infrastructure to integrate state-of-the-art, in-house, and third-party API prepayment and default models, improving loan-level cash flow calculations and asset valuation accuracy.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Product Roadmap, strategy, Execution, Market Research
Data-Driven Decision Making, UAT & Metrics Dashboards
User Journey Map, Backlog Grooming and OKR Development
A/B Testing, Customer Segmentation & Retention Strategies
Cross-functional Team Leadership, UX/UI Collaboration
Product Lifecycle Management, SDLC, Agile (Jira, Confluence)
Asset management, MBS, Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSRs), Whole Loans, Commercial Loans, Reverse
Financial Modeling, Cashflow Modeling & Structured Finance
Capital Market Asset Pricing and Risk Management
Cloud (Microsoft Azure), Big Data, API Integrations
Software Engineering (C++, C#, .Net, Python, SQL)
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