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SHARIQ SAAD
? +92-3200 219 109

✉shariqsaad@hotmail.com

? Karachi, Pakistan
SUMMARY OF SKILLS

·       5 years of experience in Scrum Master (Certified Scrum Master) Activities like building Agile mindset (playing agile games) , building Agility in Teams, Gathering Requirements, Building MVP, Prioritizing tasks, removing road blocks, facilitating scrum team, PO, stakeholders, building dashboards, stories and MVP’s for iteration, showcasing product growth after each iteration to stakeholders, Aligning business goals and identifying GAPS, playing scrum games and facilitation other scrum ceremonies. Achieving these tasks using JIRA / GIT / Excel / Tableau

·       Facilitated in Digital transformation of GDRFA – United Arab Emirates (General Directorate of Foreign Affairs) and MOL (Ministry of Labor) eChannel products like eDNRD, eForm and eFawri by encouraging MVC architecture implementation.

·       Showcased GDRFA stakeholders MVP for each iteration to illustrate product add-on value through statistics displayed on Tableau Dashboard telling Story and predicting probable area of growth

·       Facilitated NOQODI Payment gateway implementation. This product is being used by all Dubai government organizations as ancillary payment product along with Credit Card.

·       Experienced in designing and implementing effective solutions to complex business problems and enhancements to existing enterprise applications and integrating with other systems using Informatica, scripting, Cognos

·       Hands-on in implementing industry best practices, time estimations, CI/CD, Peer Programming, code reuse and other lean approaches.

·       Hands-on in development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid etc.) and using tools and processes that contribute to the design and rollout of cutting-edge reliable software

·       Very well experienced in architecting Relational & Object-Relational Databases and database development (procedures, functions and triggers)

·       Used INFORMATICA for ETL like visa /residence status sharing, sharing MOL data and establishment profile data. Also developed BI Dashboards / Reports using COGNOS for GDRFA.

·       Developed and customized crystal reports.

·       Designed and implemented 25+ database applications using Oracle Developer (Forms and Reports), Crystal Reports, IBM COGNOS Reports, TOAD, PL/SQL, UNIX, Linux, Java, Hibernate, spring framework, JavaScript, XML, CSS and other allied tools.

·       Have tuned and optimized 20+ enterprise level applications both functionally and technically using ASH, AWR reports, TKPTOF / Trace files, SQL Profiler, Explain plans, Execution Plan, etc.

·       Professional experience on SQL Server Development, Administration, Visual Studio, SSRS, ETL, SSIS.

·       Developed artifacts such as Change Impact Analysis, estimations artifact based on change workload, technical expertise, environment, Peer review checklists, API integration and data filtering, etc. to that improve business response time and reduce technical effort. Wrote Technical Design and Viability Designs.

Domains

Financial  including budgeting and payment Domains

CUSTOMS, Port and Shipping domain

Immigration Domain

Data Migration, BI and Dashboards

Functional Skills

Business Analysis, Digital Transformation, Agile, Scrum , Lean, XP, Crystal,   CI/CD, TDD, CISA, PMP, EDI Management,   Data Modeling and Engineering, ETL, BI, Dashboards, IS Frameworks, Technical / Solution Design

Non-Functional Skills

JIRA, GIT, SQL, PL/SQL, Pythpn, Tableau, Power BI, COGNOS,  Informatica, ETL, Performance Tuning, Oracle Developer, Oracle Portal, TOAD, Oracle Database,  JAVA, Eclipse, Hibernate, Spring, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MS Project, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, MySQL, Oracle OBIEE, Linus, Shell Scripting, Dimensions, CAST and Various Templates and Checklists, Technical detail

EDUCATION

? July 1999        ? (Al Khair University (AJK)

Masters in Computer Engineering

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CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master
Oracle SQL Associate
EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Shispare

?    Oct 2020–Present                    ? Karachi, Pakistan

(JIRA, GIT, Excel, Slack, RingCentral)

Warehouse Management System

Responsibilities

–          Perform Scrum Ceremonies

–          Work on Individual / Team Maturity

–          Analyze work artifacts

–          Remove scrum dev team blockers

–          Perform product backlog refinement with Product Owner

Team Lead (Migration)

Infotech

?     Feb 2020–Jun 2020                 ? Dubai, UAE

(Cognos, Informatica, SQL Scripts, Linux, Excel, Power Point, MS Project)

Dubai Customs – Statistics Department

Responsibilities

–          Helped in understanding customer requirements, wrote functional specification Documents for Statistics Department.

–          Participated in developing Cognos Reports / Dashboards for eStatistics Department of Dubai CUSTOM.

–          Coordinated activities with stakeholders and helped them understand deliverable and its MVP, Similarly helped team by removing road blocks

–          Oher supporting jobs

Scrum Master

Emaratech, Dubai

?    Jun 2015–Feb 2020                  ? Dubai, UAE

(JIRA, GIT, SQL, Tableau, Excel)

eDNRD, eForm and efawri echannels

Responsibilities

–          Facilitated daily standups for 3 scrum teams (eDNRD, eForm, eFawri)

–          Gathered and analyzed business requirements with PO and helped in formulating MVP, grouping / prioritizing stories and finalizing product backlog by attaching DoD and test cases, defining and reiterating sprint goals using JIRA. Lastly updating dashboard statistics to be used later.

–          Facilitated Scrum teams in taking up stories / tasks, their story points estimation of each task, helped them with their clarifications. Even after Sprint Planning kept abreast of their development efforts using Excel and Tableau. Wherever we felt there is a road block / impediments I ensured its resolved or mitigated without compromising sprint iteration value.

–          Maintained Kniberg Team Index Assessment for ascertaining Team Maturity Level.

–          Helped team in realizing effort through Planning poker, Affinity Mapping, Similar Story History, Bucket sizing, T-shirt Sizing and other methods.

–          Played Scrum Games Like “Human Knot Game” to build relationship within team and realization of flat hierarchy.

–          Facilitated in Digitally Transforming all these 3 eChannel applications into a unified eChannel product with Noqodi Payment Gateway as the default payments gateway. Simplifying customer user experience for Visa application and minimizing network bandwidth. Transformation included unifying Visa Fee rule engine , business rule engine, document engine and data movement engine.

–          Facilitated PO and the scrum team in developing their sprint charter, sprint goals, resolving impediments during sprint planning meeting. playing sprint planning games like Planning Poker, encouraging team to adopt Kaizen approach, increasing collaboration through white ball games, rocket to mars games.

–          Coached and Mentored Agile teams in Retrospective meetings by playing games like Sail Boat, High Performance tree, Starfish, Table bins, One Word, Car analogy, etc for team to gain insights about their impediments and opportunities, to have a clear focused vision for what to bury and what to take on.

–          Have prepared Dashboards, providing insights to Scrum Team on their Progress and preventing them from vanity metrics. Worked in JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Excel, Tableau, Power BI

–          Helped Teams in adopting Scrum / Kanban / Lean / XP approaches

–          Involved in Scrum games, helping teams to formulate their sprint goals, facilitated teams in devising their Sprint Plans, helping teams in removing their impediments, aided teams in performing sprint reviews, playing retrospective games with teams, motivating the team, Coaching, Teams,  Performing Scrum Sprint Ceremonies, Scrum Sprint Standup,  shielding the team, Forecasting and remove impediments etc. for all these scrum Teams.

–          Helped team by gaining insights and identifying GAPS and discussing with team plausible road maps.

Senior Software Engineer

Emaratech

?    Apr2012–Jun 2015                   ? Dubai, UAE

(Pl/SQL, Java 7, Spring, Spring Boot, Linux, Oracle Portal Oracle Developer (Forms and Reports)

eDNRD, eForm and efawri echannels

Responsibilities

–          Performed Coding, gathered requirements, analyzed requirements, data modelling, designing data structures, designing data structures, building functions, pipe lined functions, stored procedures, User Defined Types, indexes, triggers. Jobs, scheduled jobs, views, materialized views, handling BLOB / CLOB / XML, system analysis, code refactoring, Performance Tuning Query Tuning, Application Tuning Using PL/SQL

–          Tests and debugs Java Code using eclipse (putting break points and running code in debug mode) than reading logs and Splunk logs.

–          Perform daily health checks of the application, job schedules and infrastructure supporting the application

–          Work closely with business in managing day to day issues, resolve user queries

–          Perform in-depth research and identify sources of production issues surrounding eChannel applications

–          Developed Best Practice Guideline for PL/SQL and Oracle Developer Suite 10G Forms & Reports.

–          Developed and implemented Technical Time Estimations.

–          Used Informatica for ETL purposes during Visa Application Status sharing process. Wrote PL/SQL scripts too

–          Worked on IBM Cognos Analytics to build reports and dashboards.

–          Wrote Technical Design and performed Code Reviews and Created Technical Frameworks for code written using PL/SQL and Oracle Developer Suite 10G Forms & Reports

–          Performed Application tuning and contention resolution for 3 eChannel projects using ASH, AWR reports, TKPTOF / Trace files, SQL Profiler, Explain plans, Execution Plan, etc.

–          Acknowledged for successfully resolving locking

–          Coding of Adhoc reports and Provided Technical Support

–          Resolving Critical Issues by analyzing trace files/TKPROF, using DBMS_PROFILER for Procedures / Functions, query AUTOTRACE and EXPLAIN PLANS FOR statements to tune queries, used ASH reports for resolving latch contention (lock) issues, AWR for improving application health, resolving IN-DOUBT distributed transactions etc.

–          Developed code under SDLC ( Software Development Life Cycle ) as well as under Agile Methodology of Scrum , Scrumban, Kanban and Lean

–          Worked on Projects like eFawri, eForm, eDNRD, GDRFA backend, RSA, DHA (Dubai Healthcare Authority)

Application Architect

CMA CGM.

?     Oct 2011 Apr 2012                  ? Dubai, UAE

(Oracle DB, Oracle Developer, PL/SQL, HPSM, IBM RPM, Linux)

LARA Application Performance Optimization

Responsibilities

–          Developed Frameworks, guidelines and artifacts to improve application and team performances.  These included Code Reviews, BPG, Time Estimations, etc.

–          Mentored teams technically for projects like BENBEC, Lara XFO

–          Developed Technical Design that translated Functional requirements into Non-Functional ones by using UML, Performed Impact analysis using IBM CAST.

–          Validated Application logic against required business requirements mapped through technical designs by performing in-depth code reviews.

–          Evaluated performance metrics of an application that was being accessed in more than 150 countries

simultaneously.

System Analyst

DHA, Karachi.

?     May 2011–Oct 2011               ? Karachi, Pakistan

(MS Project, Excel, .NET, SQL Server, Linux, Oracle DB. SQL, PL/SQL, Crystal Report)

CMS Application

Responsibilities

–          Customer Focus. Participated in customer analysis meetings to understand client’s business process and functional requirements, later performed data modeling, develop UML documents and work flows.

–           At times developed generic reports.

–          Performed requirement gathering, resource planning & management, and resolution of issues for 10+ applications.

–          Developed Business Case Studies, Identifying Use Cases, Functional Impact and Test.

–          Performed Functional Reviews.

–          Removing project related impediments.

–          Gave Demo to Customer.

–          Maintained Documentations such as ERD, DFD’s and other.

Solution Architect

CMA CGM.

?     Aug 2008  – Apr 2010                             ? Dubai, UAE

(Oracle DB, Oracle Developer, PL/SQL, Java, HPSM, IBM RPM, Linux)

LARA XFO Application

Responsibilities

–          Validate Business / Technical Design for 1 LARA application.

–          Create IS architectural artifacts to improve existing LARA application.

–           Perform Impact Analysis and Performed PICR for 1 LARA application.

–          Resolve key performance issues for 1 LARA application

–          Collaborate with database architects and developer for deliveries for 1 LARA application.

Programmer

Karachi Port Trust

?     Aug  2002–Aug 2008               ? Karachi, Pakistan

(Oracle DB, ETL, PL/SQL, Scripting, Oracle Developer, .Net, SQL Server, Crystal Report, Star UML, ERWIN, VSS)

LARA XFO Application

Responsibilities

–          Functioned as Project Coordinator, Team Lead and Team Member) for developing various business applications of Karachi Port Trust aimed at ship cargo discharging, loading, clearance and other allied shipping port activities

–          Developed all these applications under the Waterfall methodology SDLC ( Software Development Life Cycle)

Applications developed in the capacity of a System Analyst / Team Leader (9 Applications)

–          Pension, Gratuity,

–          Advances & Loans,

–          Dual Duty,

–          Refund and Sanction,

–          IGM /, EGM,

–          Cargo Clearance Application,

–          ePAS (Electronic Port Access System an EDI) and

–          ETA (Electronic Time of Arrival an EDI)

Applications developed in the capacity of a Team Member (10 Applications

–          Wharfage Billing,

–          Financial Budget,

–          Contract Agreements Application,

–          Plan & Estimates Application,

–          Tender Information Module,

–          Port Activity,
Travel Authorization,

–          Law cases,

–          Refund,

–          Payments to third parties,

–          Payment to employees,

–          Pension Application,

–          Financial Application