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Asif Khanzada

Portfolio & Program Management | Agile Product Management | Co-Innovation Partner
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Summary

Summary of Qualification Asif Khanzada is value driven and customer centric, Certified Agile Project management and Product Management Professional. Asif brings multiple years of digital transformation expertise in Business Agility while embracing disruptive technologies in designing and building AI products and services by leveraging big data, AI / ML, Cloud and DevOps, Block chain, IOT and SAP. Asif has mentored cross functional and self organizing team of Scrum, DevOps, Kanban and Lean to offer seamless user experience in an entire product development phases. He promoted innovations in design thinking for B2B, B2C and B2P product offering. He developed incremental prototype models and refined based on customer feedback towards the successful product delivery. . Effective Scrum Master, facilitator and coach, capable of understanding various perspectives in order to manage stakeholder concerns and co-create beneficial solutions. Results-driven using a consultative approach with Scrum, Agile, and design-thinking methodologies and techniques. Leveraging strong history of results in both Waterfall and Agile project management to utilize the best techniques in facilitating planning and prioritization discussions with the product development team. Extensive project and operations management experience as part of complex transformation initiatives, with an ability to manage multiple activities, manage risk, and consistently meet deadlines and budgets

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
10
10
Certifications

Work History

Project Manager / Agile Coach

  • Point of Sale
  • Reported to Program Manager, managing activities pertaining to GK PLM project (BOSS replacement)
  • Activities such as store initialization, POS out bound file generation interface
  • Managed 7 resources
  • Key Achievements:
  • Facilitated Scrum-related rituals and ceremonies Daily Stand Up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, etc
  • While maintaining all Scrum artifacts (Iteration backlog, Program Increment, etc
  • Represented the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting, passing along information from that meeting back to the team
  • Coordinate with the System Team, User Experience, Architecture, and Shared Services Teams
  • Collaborated with project managers to establish Organizational Process Assets such as templates and lessons learned for Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Mentors Scrum Masters and Product Owners on agile software development principles and practices, Scrum processes, team building, and facilitation
  • Contributed in project savings up to $500K and build the sponsors trust by presenting prototype
  • Responsible for detailed project management of the cutover and conversion deliverables to the new Engaged stakeholders in usability testing of a new web-based service platform through an iterative development process
  • Utilizing Agile principles and techniques, co-created and implemented new digital services and web presence, and increased digital marketing
  • Scrum Master for Business Development team, hosting sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
  • Supported Advisory team through an Agile development process, to deliver new consulting solutions Responsible for leading Agile Development / SCRUM team as Scrum Master.

Sr. Program Manager

Thomson Reuters
07.2021 - Current
  • Leading a regulatory intelligence seamless integration and compliance solutions for Public sector Banking, Financial services, and insurance sector and Fintech industries
  • Activities and Responsibilities:
  • Managing Global Co innovation projects to keep up with customer changing requirement to stay compliant with current ERP system
  • Building Restful API connection to regulatory intelligence and document compliance reporting for cloud and Private cloud solutions
  • Efficiently leverage SaaS based direct and indirect tax integration with AWS, Azure, SAP S4 HANA, GCP, IBM, Sale force platform
  • Managed Risk and dependencies from Scrums of scrum through RAID log
  • Extensively JIRA, Azure ADO and Confluence for tracking program level activities
  • Managed team in Agile release train to prioritize features to be considered in a given PI cycle for the back log refinement, workshops and demos.

Managing Partner

COGMATES
01.2020 - Current
  • Cogmates is the fastest-growing freelance marketplace family network that believes in customer-centric agility and prototype-driven user experience
  • The organization has successfully served clients by leveraging its unique capacity to align with enterprise goals and marketing plans
  • Cogmates focuses on enterprise solutions and digital marketing, including delivering B2B, B2C PaaS and SaaS solution technology transformations as well as enterprise solution and product-development projects while ensuring alignment with corporate needs for successful solution delivery
  • Activities and Responsibilities:
  • Helped business partners design product roadmaps by leveraging the product backlog with incremental releases
  • Facilitated on-premises and on-cloud business-data transfer from SAP and non-SAP to SAP S/4 HANA utilizing SAP S/4 HANA migration cockpit through LTMC
  • Helped business partners cleanse business data by extracting data from the source system
  • Following this, Asif massaged and profiled data by applying business rules and replicated it in the target system
  • Participated in the development of AI-based chat bots for retail clients including car dealers and pizza stores.

Sr. Program Manager & Agile Lead

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
01.2019 - 02.2020
  • Product identification project is required the elimination of user defined fields in ECC and map to standard SAP filed to be able to govern in MDG for S/4 HANA transformation
  • Key Achievements:
  • Served as a senior team member, responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes principles and practices
  • Mentored, guided and coached client teams and individuals on Agile practices and methodologies; collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists to define solutions and drive progress; led daily Scrums, sprint reviews, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
  • Supported Scrum practices such as guiding meetings, managing Sprints and Sprint Backlog; use the Product Backlog to manage needs and requirements and; prioritize Backlog work
  • Evaluated and implemented automation of server and application builds and monitoring for multiple environments Development, Test, Training, Production, and Disaster Recovery
  • Participated in developing and implementing goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for the Information Management domain
  • Identified resource needs; recommended and implemented Developed client engagement and usability terms of reference, and supported Client Services Branch in conducting usability testing
  • Provided feedback on continuously improving iterative usability testing
  • Designed data transformation solution using Azure Data Engineering technologies such as Azure Data Factory , Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Blob Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data bricks, Azure data warehouse and Microsoft Power BI
  • Leveraged lift and shift activities in Azure Data Factory Pipelines using control flow activities such as Get Metadata
  • Mentored, guided and coached client teams and individuals on Agile practices and methodologies; collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists to define solutions and drive progress; led daily Scrums, sprint reviews, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
  • Scrum Master for three Agile pods iterating and developing new digital services for federal government client
  • Engaged stakeholders in each iteration and developed prototypes for continued usability testing
  • Supported the creation of enterprise-wide Service Transformation Plan as part of large-scale digital services initiative
  • Implemented an Agile Design-Thinking development process for innovation, which involved regular stakeholder and client feedback and testing
  • Developed and delivered multiple Agile and Scrum training Boot Camps for Scrum teams.

Program Manager

TORONTO HYDRO
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Responsible for ensuring successful planning and execution of integrated release cutover activities and associated sprints
  • Managed team of 8 consultants onsite and offshore
  • Key Achievements:
  • Facilitated team activities including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning and team retrospectives
  • Managed sprint release deliverables and proactively identify and resolve impediments to help the team work effectively meet sprint objectives and ensure releases stay on track
  • Derived team to high performing levels by creating a healthy Agile environment, provides Agile coaching to team
  • Responsible for ensuring Scrum process of the squad is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines
  • Created strategies and plans for data capacity planning, data security, life cycle data management, scalability, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and archiving
  • Collected metrics to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback on velocity, quality, and overall impact of our efforts
  • Supported the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
  • Lead design and implementation strategies of the Modern Data Platform in Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Analytics and Data bricks
  • Designed cloud-compatible CI/CD DevOps frameworks to deploy solutions on Azure Data Plat form
  • Worked with DevOps to define pipelines including Continuous Integration and Scheduled builds as well as handling and versioning the artifacts from the builds
  • Experience with Azure cloud platform, Azure DevOps platform, Automation via CI/CD pipelines and have great understanding of other public cloud computing architectures and services
  • Developed client and end-user personas and journey maps, and conducted usability testing to confirm key pain points along each current-state journey
  • Managed team engagement through an Agile process using Scrum ceremonies to develop final products and services
  • Included iterative development sprints, daily Scrum stand ups and Scrum/Kanban board
  • Coached team in Agile principles and methods, and utilized Scrum and Agile iterative development processes, tools and techniques.

President

Choice Financial Services
03.2016 - 09.2017

Project Management Consultant

LEICA BIO SYSTEMS
11.2015 - 02.2016
  • Reported to CIO, Managing validation activities in compliant with clients Computerized Software Validation Procedure (CSV)
  • Key Achievements:
  • Responsible for communicating and presenting performance and finances, managed procurement, resources, change control, risk, issues, and scheduling
  • Responsible for developing and executing analytical methods for new products, as well as writing method development report
  • Directed and managed work as per project management plan with considering various aspects of project like project Budget, Scope, Schedule, Risk & Opportunities
  • Created and processed procedures to maintain compliance to ISO 9001, ISO 13485, and CGMP
  • Developed Validation reports and leading a validation process implementation for company producing biological material.

Project Manager / Scrum Master

BEARING DISTRIBUTOR INTERNATIONAL
09.2013 - 09.2015
  • Data Migration
  • Reported to Director Global IT, Managed Data conversion activities AS400 / BODS / SAP Managed Project financials$7Mand 8 resources
  • Key Achievements:
  • Acted as a partner, participating in real-time to provide advice or assistance to teams and team members to tackle and overcome difficult challenges, remove impediments and obstacles and drive continuous improvement through encouraging the adoption of technical practices, improving agile execution and building skills and capabilities
  • Leveraging data to measuring & monitoring progress (Burndown charts etc..as being used by the organization
  • Supported 40 in scope data objects i-e master data and transactional data
  • Lead the enterprise information and integration strategy and platform MDM, SOA, ETL, Master Data Governance
  • Provided overall management of ramp down and ramp up processes around cutover
  • Established RFC connection between ECC host and BODS to imports ECC tables
  • Performed SAP data management activities including data assessment, cleansing, outlining strategy and approach Policy to process data migration plan
  • Developed data cleansing, De-Duping and obsolete records job to ensure the data quality.

Solution Architect

IBM CANADA
05.2013 - 08.2013
  • Reported to PMO Program Manager, Responsible to lead the complex integration, drive technical success, operational readiness as a result lead migration activity from Legacy to SAP.
  • Key Achievements:
  • Managed stakeholder relations to ensure that project delivery expectations are clearly defined and met
  • Provided the strategic directions and road map to LMC logistics stakeholders in managing “Make to stock” and service procurement solutions
  • Responsible for leading Agile Development / SCRUM team as Scrum Master
  • To Lead data architect for Enterprise solution delivery
  • Implemented SAP best practice for sales order driven demand to determine procurement and production activities
  • Conducted fit gap analysis and introduced KPI to monitor customer demand and supply and process improvement..

Data Conversion Consultant

MAPLE LEAF FOODS
01.2013 - 04.2013
  • Reported to Director Master Data Governance, lead several IT & business initiatives, software releases
  • Performed incident change management, operational excellence, maintained documents, obtain sign offs, lead Go-Live
  • Key Achievements:
  • Assisted in troubleshooting SQL Server performance problems and provided recommendations for tuning and high scalability
  • Extracted the active data for Material, vendor, BOM, Routing, PP/DS, Pricing and Work centers from BPCS systemin DCT (data conversion template) for individual business units to come up with cleanse data
  • Carried out mass maintenance for obsolete material vendor and customer as they prevent from ordering
  • Establish proven communication between business units to provide BPCS and corresponding SAP mapping fields along with translation rules and maintained separate log for change requests
  • Member of MDG team keep informed the IS Director on any configuration changes and potential change requests from business units
  • Lead data architect for Enterprise solution delivery / Solution design
  • Obtained a signoff from IS Director prior to configuration changes to comply with Governance and data integrity
  • Provide on call post GO-Live support during “Hyper care” through incident ticketing system
  • Technical Exposure: ECC, SAP Information Steward, SAP PI, MDG, BODS 4.2, LSMW, BDC, SQL Server 2012, Win Shuttle, Hadoop , Hive , Map reduce , PIG, Data Warehouses and Data Marts, Jira, MS Project

Project Manager

AMERISOURCEBERGEN
01.2012 - 12.2012
  • Reported to VP procurement and operations excellence provided a Pharmaceutical industry expertise with Rx products (Prescription drugs) along with extensive MDM strategy & coordination with different channels including data warehouse & analytics
  • Team size 10+
  • Key Achievements:
  • Developed and maintain all project documentation such as Project plan, Issue Logs, Risk register Project Status Reporting, Lessons Learned and Post Implementation Review
  • Ensured project meets all regulatory requirements for specimen storage, chain of custody and transfer for FDA and EU submission, including USFDA part 11 compliance
  • Partner with the leadership and management teams as well as frontline staff to ensure understanding of key business objectives and improvement plans which may include delivery of training and presentations
  • Obtained complementary documents and associated approvals as required for each step in the project, such as validation scripts, specification documents, SOP writing, training sessions
  • Created and maintained data model and artifacts for all core data stores and sources of information for the organization
  • Conducted solution assessment, Design and produced solution architecture designs for DM, SQL Server and other key corporate projects
  • Lead data architect for Enterprise solution delivery / Solution design
  • Coordinated workshop to determine Scope of data transformation Current state processes, Mock conversion time lines along with sign off for individual data object
  • Developed Communication and Process workflow among master data team, buyers, DC, Customer service and special pricing such as Promotions and discounts which in turn results the ownership and responsibilities from particular business unit
  • Technical Exposure: ECC, SAP Information Steward, SAP PI, MDG, Hadoop, Hive, Map reduce, PIG BODS 4.2, LSMW, BDC, SQL Server 2012, Win Shuttle, Big Data, Data Warehouses and Data Marts, Jira, MS Project

Project Lead

ACCENTURE / TELUS, SAP
02.2011 - 01.2012
  • Reported to PMO and Accenture partner, provided Go-Live implementation and support on THFS acquisition with TELUS
  • Team size = 5+
  • Key Achievements:
  • Worked collaboratively with all business units, led, participated and made decisions to establish and map a strategic vision for future initiatives
  • Conducted periodic audits, oversaw and executed the follow-up of findings arising from internal audits and regulatory reviews in accordance with policy
  • Managed internal and external communication for projects and provided timely and accurate financial status of projects to Senior Management
  • Full life cycle implementation of SAP TELUS health and financial services to existing SAP TELUS foot prints
  • Configurable item (Plants, company codes, sales org etc.)
  • Held responsible for AP370 conversion design document for material master, balances on hand, Delivery address, service master and distinguished mechanical and manual load
  • Performed knowledge transfer sessions among Business transformation team and Accenture COE group
  • Handled serialized and non-serialized material conversion, defined rules, data mapping and business rules in LSMW
  • Developed Product test and UAT test scripts templates on possible scenarios in procurement, purchasing, Inventory management and Service procurement
  • Gained extensive knowledge on SAP fields and table relationship
  • Technical Exposure: ECC, SAP Information Steward, SAP PI, MDG, BODS 4.2, LSMW, BDC, SQL Server 2012, Win Shuttle, Data Warehouses

Technical Project Manager

LOBLAW/ ACCENTURE
03.2010 - 01.2011
  • Reported to PMO, Provided SAP Retail & Pharmaceutical MDM & SCM expertise and supported their pilot releases
  • Key Achievements:
  • Coordinated User Acceptance Testing, participated in the review of functional test scripts for different test scenarios to ensure adequate coverage for system testing of all functionalities for the application under test (AUT)
  • Conducted risk assessment and gap analysis of current state process; implemented delivery quality assurance review process
  • Gained professional relationship with renowned consulting firm such as SAP, Accenture, Cognizant, IBM and Deloitte
  • Performed system configurations for Article master, Site master, Vendor master and Merchandizing category through Solution Manager and released transport request in a desired environment
  • Extensively used Solution Manager for system configuration and documentation update
  • Participated in all phases of product development life cycle from design, build, testing and deployment
  • Configured ALE, especially the change distribution model, to create filters for Material Master and Vendor Master Message type to send Material and Vendor though IDoc
  • Worked on enhancements requirement
  • Developed Functional design document to incorporate vendor tax GST/HST/PST as enhanced screen
  • Responsible to deliver Master data synchronization (MDS) business requirement to support data flow from ECC to Data bank and ORMS systems
  • Lead data architect for Enterprise solution delivery / Solution design
  • Designed Master data process and developed Functional design documents to incorporate changes through change request process approval
  • Worked on French translation requirement of multiple objects to deliver French system to Loblaw French users
  • Held responsible to update Functional design document (FD), Business process activity(BPA) documents as well as updated the documents in timely fashion to incorporate design changes
  • Technical Exposure: ECC, SAP Information Steward, SAP PI, MDG, BODS 4.2, LSMW, Hadoop , Hive , Map reduce , PIG,BDC, SQL Server 2012, Win Shuttle, Big Data, Data Warehouses and Data Marts, Jira, MS Project

Supply Chain Lead

LEONI WIRING SYSTEMS, SAP
06.2008 - 12.2009
  • Reported to Director of MIS, Responsible for business analysis & requirements gathering, research and interviews with end users, translating user requirement into functional specification document
  • Key Achievements:
  • Responsible for business analysis & requirements gathering, research and interviews with end users, translating user requirement into functional specification document
  • Configured and implemented New Movement type for inter-company transport, Output determination for Purchase Order, Scheduling Agreement, Delivery Schedule, Requirement for Quotation, Document type for Purchase Order, Pricing Condition for Freight charges, Release Strategy for Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order and Account Determination for several Movement types
  • Lead data architect for Enterprise solution delivery / Solution design
  • Conducted brain storming and awareness sessions with business users, and super users to discuss the project scope
  • Managed production planning, product development and shop floor activities in accordance to Make to order Make to stock strategy
  • Conversion Tool: BDC
  • Technical Exposure: ECC, SAP Information Steward, SAP PI, MDG, BODS 4.2, LSMW, BDC, SQL Server 2012, Win Shuttle, Data Warehouses

Sr. Business System Analyst

LVVWD
03.2007 - 05.2008
  • Configured terms of payment, price marking for vendors, document types and assigned number ranges to all purchase documents
  • Handled goods movements by configuring movement type and assign reason codes such as scrap, return to vendor, ship to customer, PGI production order
  • Handled GR/IR maintenance issues for under delivery and over delivery
  • Actively involved in an inventory management project for consignment goods which includes data gathering, system setup and knowledge sharing for various functionalities within IM/WM level
  • Worked on RF interface to support warehouse activities, developed Functional design document to support development efforts
  • Designed and Implemented STO Process between plants, third party consignment plants and customer locations

Sr. Business Analyst

HEWLET PACKARD
06.2006 - 02.2007
  • Handled ABAP change request and process through engineering change management process
  • Work with business to define business process design, business/system requirements, and translate those requirements into functional design, work on development of functional specifications, business process flow documents, user guides and training
  • Handled Vendor Master Conversion program
  • This includes working on developing custom program, cleansing of data from legacy system, data loading & testing, data maintenance / process definition, and cutover support, modify program, and conversion activities.

Supply Chain Analyst

BEST BUY CANADA
08.2002 - 03.2006
  • Responsible for overall management of supplier inventories for specific stock including non-consignment& consignment
  • Weekly reviewed scheduled customer order to ensure sufficient inventories are in place to meet customer demand
  • Diligently looked for opportunities to leverage improved cost/price opportunities with suppliers who offer multi-column pricing, and schedules deliveries where possible to maximize such opportunities
  • Planed, developed and implement action plans to ensure inventory performance meets or exceeds company KPI.

Education

MIT Certified Cloud & DevOps continuous Transformation SAFe Certified Agile Product Manager -

Master of Engineering - Engineering Management

University of Ottawa

Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing - undefined

University of Ottawa

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

M.U.E.T - undefined

University of Toronto

Project Management - undefined

University of Ottawa

Project Management Professional Certification, Certified by Project Management - undefined

PMI Disciplined Agile Scrum Master Certified - undefined

Project Management Institute

Certified Scrum Master (CSM - undefined

Scrum Alliance

Advanced certificate in Artificial Intelligence and ML - undefined

Stanford University

Skills

Agile Project Management

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Certification

SAP Certified Activate Project Manager

Timeline

Sr. Program Manager

Thomson Reuters
07.2021 - Current

Managing Partner

COGMATES
01.2020 - Current

Sr. Program Manager & Agile Lead

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
01.2019 - 02.2020

Program Manager

TORONTO HYDRO
01.2018 - 12.2018

President

Choice Financial Services
03.2016 - 09.2017

Project Management Consultant

LEICA BIO SYSTEMS
11.2015 - 02.2016

Project Manager / Scrum Master

BEARING DISTRIBUTOR INTERNATIONAL
09.2013 - 09.2015

Solution Architect

IBM CANADA
05.2013 - 08.2013

Data Conversion Consultant

MAPLE LEAF FOODS
01.2013 - 04.2013

Project Manager

AMERISOURCEBERGEN
01.2012 - 12.2012

Project Lead

ACCENTURE / TELUS, SAP
02.2011 - 01.2012

Technical Project Manager

LOBLAW/ ACCENTURE
03.2010 - 01.2011

Supply Chain Lead

LEONI WIRING SYSTEMS, SAP
06.2008 - 12.2009

Sr. Business System Analyst

LVVWD
03.2007 - 05.2008

Sr. Business Analyst

HEWLET PACKARD
06.2006 - 02.2007

Supply Chain Analyst

BEST BUY CANADA
08.2002 - 03.2006

Project Manager / Agile Coach

MIT Certified Cloud & DevOps continuous Transformation SAFe Certified Agile Product Manager -

Master of Engineering - Engineering Management

University of Ottawa

Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing - undefined

University of Ottawa

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

M.U.E.T - undefined

University of Toronto

Project Management - undefined

University of Ottawa

Project Management Professional Certification, Certified by Project Management - undefined

PMI Disciplined Agile Scrum Master Certified - undefined

Project Management Institute

Certified Scrum Master (CSM - undefined

Scrum Alliance

Advanced certificate in Artificial Intelligence and ML - undefined

Stanford University

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