Ahmed Rizvi

Experience

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  Vortechs Innovations

  Mar 2018 - May 2018

  Business Development Intern

  My role was to perform pre-sales activities that included sending project proposals and developing relevant technical documents such as SRS and flowcharts etc.

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  NASA Space Apps Challenge CH

  Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

  Galactic Mentor

  These were the tasks I performed as per the instructions of organizing team in order to provide best mentoring to the participants of this international Hackathon under the banner of NASA:1) Helped and guided participants with the best practices of Software Development. 2) Asked open-ended “how” and “what” questions from participants.3) Encouraged participants by explaining them potential strength of their ideas and provided ideas for modifying their ideas according to current standards and need.4) Offered and exchanged problem solving ideas.5) Provided feedback which was honest, open and positive. 6) Presented opportunities to the participants which they had not recognized on their own.7) Provided suggestions to the best of my knowledge that helped the participants reach their goals. Show less

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  Silicon Graphics

  Feb 2019 - May 2020

  Business Analyst

  Silicon Graphics is a UAE based software development services company. Where I worked in as a Business Analyst for the clients. My major role was to gather requirements and produce relevant artefacts accordingly which included detailed documentation, mind maps, workflows, and wireframes.• Prioritize requirements and create conceptual flow diagrams and wireframes.• Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce useful insights.• Evaluate business processes and anticipate requirements.• Conduct meetings and presentations with project managers, design leads, development leads and SQA leads periodically and specifically to share ideas and findings.• Document and communicate the results of applied efforts. These documents include FSDs and SRS along with flowcharts, use case diagrams and mind maps. Show less

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  SAMI Pharmaceuticals (Pvt.) Ltd.

  Jun 2020 - Jun 2021

  IT Business Analyst/ Project Manager

  SAMI Pharma is one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in Pakistan from over 40 yearsin the industry, SAMI is also privileged to be the manufacturer of two of the top ten selling drugs.• I worked in as a Business Analyst for the digital transformation department of the company where my core role was to propose various innovative ideas to digitalize the internal business processes. • It was majorly an Internal Product Management role with various responsibilities of building internal products from scratch or manage projects of third-party software implementation.• I worked on digitally transforming manual processes of various departments which included Research & Development, QC, QA, Production (Manufacturing), Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Import.• I mainly worked on Requirements gathering and elicitation tasks which included designing wireframes and FSD (Functional Specifications Document) development of various software project ideas followed by its execution planning with technical teams on board which comprised of SAP consultants, Software engineers and Infra Architects.• I also assisted compliance officers with CSV (Computer System Validation) assessmentsfor GxP (Good Practices in Pharma) of software implementation in Pharma industrybased upon CFR21 p.11 guidelines (Compliance Guidelines).• The top projects I worked on were RnD Lab solution which was an end-to-end solution for managing drug research process along with its documentation and QMS (Quality Management System) which was a clone of top QMSs built internally for the QC department. Besides the software development projects I also initiated development of many useful dashboards for the Manufacturing departments which imported data from SAP.• The other highlighted achievement was initiation of MES (Manufacturing Execution System) implementation. I dealt with the team from Koerber Pharma along with the company’s top executives and key stakeholders. Show less

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  VFairs

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2023

  Product Manager

  • As a product manager at vFairs I had the opportunity to build an event’s marketplace vFairs Discover that is a standalone B2C product in itself. This was intended to provide our customers with a platform to market and promote their events where they could reach out to their potential audience by getting listed with all event related details along with other popular virtual and hybrid events.• I built the MVP of vFairs Discover from scratch for which I had set up a product strategy, ideated the scope with stakeholders’ inputs, designed initial high-level wireframes and framed out the delivery plan.• Initially to build the MVP I worked with a team of 1 UI/UX Designer and 4 Software Engineers skilled in backend development with PHP and frontend development with React. We built a master admin portal which fetched events related data from the main Database of events and had sanitization controls for publishing an event to the marketplace. This was followed by the development of our Marketplace where events were being published with details.• Besides leading the technical team for software development, I also collaborated withthe marketing team for promotions and growth, this team comprised of various channel owners such as Technical SEO specialist, Growth Hacker, CRO specialist, Content marketers and Social Media Marketing specialists.• The platform was launched in December 2021, since then it has seen a decent growth and demand amongst vFairs clients who are events organizers and using vFairs as a platform for their virtual or hybrid events.• Right after its launch I work majorly on planning roadmaps and feature releases for upcoming Quarters.• Besides planning upcoming features, I also report on traffic numbers using Google Analytics for presenting stats on traffic. This helps us aligning promotional and marketing efforts.• Since its launch from zero the product grew to approximately 7,000 users and 30,000 unique pageviews organically Show less

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  Körber Pharma

  Sept 2023 - now

  Project Engineer

  The tasks and responsibilities I have as a Project Engineer are:- Understand customer manufacturing processes and map them into Werum’s PAS-X MES software- Organize and carry out user requirement, process and system design workshops- Analyze the technical feasibility of customer-specific adaptions together with a team of technical experts- Create/adjust life cycle documents (e.g. URS, functional specifications, and functional risk & impact assessment)- Consult and coach the customer and the project team in practical usage of the product- Build up, maintain, and provide process and application expertise for internal or external products/platforms- Assist the project management team in project planning and execution- Creation and implementation of releases (major releases, patches, hot fixes) including documentation- System integration/installation with customers, including documentation and test, as well as software updates & merges in the projectProvide team support during development phase (dev, build, module test environments)- Create and monitor system builds- Basic software development/programming- Execute SAT/FAT testing and module testing- Develop scripts to handle complex builds- Perform system installation internally and at client sites- Act as point of contact with customers regarding internal systems setup onsite Show less