M.Yaseen Patel

M.Yaseen Patel

Operations Manager

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Former Director and Executive Board Member of IIBA South Africa (2023 Chapter of the Year Award Winners out of 120+ Global Chapters) | Senior Business Consultant

  • Education

    • Glenvista High School

      2005 - 2010
      Matric

      Activities and Societies: Soccer team, Hockey team, RCL, Chess team, Athletics, Eistedfords

    • University of the Witwatersrand

      2014 - 2015
      Honours Management Information Systems

      Activities and Societies: Wits Smart Cities for Africa Team I received a NSFAS scholarship to undertake this research project. My Research Report was titled “Readiness of Library Users for a Smart City: A Study of Self-Perceived e-Skills versus Actual e-Skills”, 2015. This helped to strategically inform decision making concerning WiFi implementation in 35 city libraries within the Gauteng City Region as part of pursuing a 'Smart City' status.

    • University of the Witwatersrand

      2011 - 2014
      Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Double major Management and Information Systems
  • Experience

    • Chillifunk

      Jan 2009 - now
      Operations Manager

      -Development, production and delivery of projects from proposal right up to delivery.-Delivering events on time, within budget, that meet (or exceed)expectations.-Setting, communicating and maintaining timelines and priorities on every project.-Communicating, maintaining and developing client relationships.-Managing supplier relationships.-Managing operational and administrative functions to ensure specific projects are delivered efficiently.-Providing leadership, motivation, direction and support to my team.-Travelling to on site inspections and project managing events.-Being responsible for project budgets from start to finish.-Ensuring excellent customer service and quality delivery. Show less

    • Saratoga Software

      Jan 2016 - now
      Senior Business Consultant

      Saratoga has a number of clients/projects assigned to their workforce. My main responsibilities include:- Analysis within a systems development and integration project environment- Analyse and elicit business requirements and translate them into solutions. - Document requirements and functional specifications- Engage with stakeholders at various levels and conduct scoping, requirements and design workshops- Identify and analyse a large number of source systems and have the ability to map data and design new efficient data models- Analyse test requirements and test scenarios and design, co-ordinate and execute testing- Prepare and maintain test environments, including the creation of appropriate test data Show less

    • IIBA South Africa Chapter

      Jan 2016 - now
      Volounteer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Agile Fundamentals

      Just Plain Agile
      Aug 2018
    • ISTQB Foundation Level

      ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
      Apr 2016
    • Process Modeling

      Bizagi
      Oct 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • IIBA® Member

      IIBA
      Apr 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • BPMN for Business Analysts

      Udemy
      Sept 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • Foundation in Business Analysis

      Business Change Academy - BCA
      Oct 2018
    • IIBA® Chapter Leader

      IIBA
      Jan 2022
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  • Volunteer Experience

    • Strategy, Planning and Operations

      Issued by IIBA South Africa Chapter on Jun 2016
      IIBA South Africa ChapterAssociated with M.Yaseen Patel