Ahmad Kibwana

Experience

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  University of Maryland: Department of IT

  Aug 2016 - May 2018

  Team Lead
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  Center for Science in the Public Interest

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Policy Intern
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  UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health

  Feb 2019 - Oct 2020

  Research Assistant

  •Audited large marketing data sets and produced cutting-edge reports on nutrition policies referenced by lawmakers and other key national nutrition researchers. •Evaluated quantitative and qualitative research in modern nutrition advertising policy, advertising norms, and marketing trends; collected extensive data and conducted and compiled thorough analyses as evidence to support proposals on nutrition policy interventions.

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  Connecticut Department of Public Health

  Dec 2020 - Dec 2021

  Business Analyst

  •Collaborated cross-functionally across engineering, leadership, UX/UI and business in an Agile environment and led daily stand-ups and sprint planning to streamline resource distribution processes; ensured that project deliverables were being met according to project schedules/timelines. •Functioned as chief liaison for regional stakeholders; identified system pain-points with CRC staff, gathered and translated business requirements into technical requirements for the engineering and development teams; performed troubleshooting of system issues as needed. •Crafted and Delivered comprehensive weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to senior executives and stakeholders containing key metrics and analyses of project performance to highlight improvement opportunities and identify and escalate risks, resulting in improved decision-making processes. •Maintained holistic understanding of IT Delivery roadmap and tracked all changes to the product backlog, promoting synergy and transparency.•Identified key data points for tracking adoption KPIs within development and delivery activities, leading to a 15% improvement in overall measurement capabilities.•Leveraged DevOps to drive continuous improvement in contact tracing software through CI/CD pipeline and documented system changes using Sharepoint; conducted testing of system changes prior to deployment. Show less

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  Meta

  Apr 2022 - Jun 2023

  Project Manager

  ∙Initiated and advocated the development and enforcement of Meta’s advertising content review processes in accordance with product roadmap using Agile methodologies to enhance user safety and improve engagement experiences. ∙Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to develop detailed project scopes and requirements for content review initiatives, resulting in a 25% reduction on average in project timelines and budgets. ∙Investigate process issues and bottlenecks and provide recommendations to make improvements.∙Define, gather, and write well-structured high-level business requirements, acceptance criteria, expected outcomes, and full functional and business requirements in a manner that technical teams can fulfill them.∙Work cross-functionally across business, engineering, product, and UX to analyze business needs and processes, and design and implement solutions.∙Ensures clear and timely communication with business stakeholders to ensure that needs are understood and that solutions provided are within Meta’s parameters. Show less

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  Virtuoso Travel

  Dec 2023 - now

  Project Manager