Ahmad Kibwana

Ahmad Kibwana

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  • About me

    Project Manager | Bringing the human touch to project teams | Scrum, JIRA, Tableau, Excel

  • Education

    • University of Maryland College Park

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      Bachelor of Science - BS

      Dean's list: Fall 2018Coursework:∙ Health Informatics∙ Biostatistics∙ Research methodology∙ Program development∙ Health education∙ Professional writing∙ Healthy equity∙ Health policy∙ Minority health∙ Epidemiology∙ Anthropology∙ Calculus∙ Anatomy and physiology∙ Organic chemistry

  • Experience

    • University of Maryland: Department of IT

      Aug 2016 - May 2018
      Team Lead
    • Center for Science in the Public Interest

      Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
      Policy Intern
    • 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.

    • 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

    • 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

    • Virtuoso Travel

      Dec 2023 - now
      Project Manager
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  • Volunteer Experience

    • Swahili interpreter

      Issued by Refugee Services of Texas on Mar 2022
      Refugee Services of TexasAssociated with Ahmad Kibwana
    • Prep Cook

      Issued by Casa de Luz on Jul 2023
      Casa de LuzAssociated with Ahmad Kibwana
    • Outreach Coordinator

      Issued by Agile Careers on Sept 2023
      Agile CareersAssociated with Ahmad Kibwana
    • Coordinator

      Issued by MaryPIRG on Mar 2016
      MaryPIRGAssociated with Ahmad Kibwana