EPAM Systems

🚀 Wealth Product: Led and continue to drive end-to-end product strategy in Wealth; launched MVP within a year, accelerated GTM with a fail-fast mindset, and now delivering high-impact features to help branch advisors delight their clients.

🚀 Digital Smart Product: Transformed commuter experience by digitizing 200+ transit terminals with smart digital signage, serving 50,000+ daily users and significantly increasing user satisfaction and trust in public transit.

🚀 FinTech Product: Delivered a high-impact lending analytics engine within an existing B2B platform, slashing manual workflows by 30% and accelerating loan approvals for 20K+ customers.

👥 Managed a high-performing team of 19 direct reports (Business Analysts and Product Owners), and led a 13-member Scrum team across multiple features in a SAFe environment

Product Manager | BA Team Lead

🤖 Telecom: Led AI-powered predictive maintenance for Set-Top Boxes, reducing truck roll costs by 37% and boosting service reliability for 10M+ subscribers.

🧠 Healthcare: Operationalized fraud detection ML models, supporting SIU investigations and reducing fraudulent claims significantly.

💻 E-Commerce: Launched a 1-click buy flow across web and mobile, increasing sales by 26% and simplifying customer experience.

Product Manager | Lead Business Analyst

📊 Insurance: Delivered enterprise big data initiatives (e.g., Risk Pool Analytics, GL Optimization), earning a “Hero” badge for leading stakeholder alignment and delivery.

🛍️ Retail: Built an ML-driven Replenishment System, cutting markdown losses by 30% and optimizing inventory efficiency across e-commerce channels.

🔄 Retail: Defined and delivered an AI-enhanced Distributed Order Management System, accelerating fulfillment speed, reduced mark down, efficient DC replinishment and enabling seamless omni-channel operations.

Senior Business Analyst

Tangentia

🚀 Launched and scaled an Intelligent Automation practice, leading a team of 11 engineers to deliver high-impact RPA and BPM solutions, resulting in $1M in new revenue and streamlined enterprise operations.

Senior Practice Manager - RPA & AI

NESMA

⚡ Built a no-code BPM platform (K2 BlackPearl) that cut SME loan processing time by 70%, automating origination-to-approval workflows.

✈️ Modernized 25-year-old legacy systems for Miro (Boeing) & Rolls-Royce, deploying supply chain solutions across 7 air bases and 3,000 RSAF users.

🔧 Led a $4M digital transformation of aircraft inspections, streamlining operations via BPM and seamless data migration.

📊 Pioneered predictive demand forecasting (Servigistics), optimizing service parts SCM—now enhanced with AI-driven dynamic models.

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Drawbase Software

Software Developer

Stevens Institute of Technology

Graduate Teaching Assistant

I'm product manager with business analyst background. I delivered B2B and B2C products in Wealth, Telecom, Retail, Insurance, Healthcare, FinTech, Transportation for private and public sector using AI, Digital modernization & Process engineering. I love focusing on strategy and talking to stakeholders.

I focus on strategy, engineering, launch & feedback. 

I'm accomplishments driven
- Investment Management Reporting portal for Branch for Wealth management launched in 11 months
- FinTech product increased customer onboarding in commercial lending space
- Telecom product predicted STB failure, network interruption with the help of AI/ML
- Retail helped predict replenishment, size, best order policy using AI/ML
- Transportation helped digitalize signage on platforms in creasing customer experience
- Telecom helped digitalize their web and mobile application increasing the customer base
any many more

I can align, lead and grow world-class teams from 10 to 50 people
- I love to win, but helping team win gives me greater joy
- I speak tech and exec
- I tell great narratives that motivates

I worked in different countries
Canada | United States (USA) | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | India

I / Me
- Coached 500+ to become the BA, PO, SM
- Wrote many articles, IIBA instructor, Agile instructor, LinkedIn top voice
- host Tech Podcast channel

My academic highlights:
- Masters in CS & Bachelor in Engineering
- Certificates in CBAP, CSPO, A-CSPO, CSP-PO, CSM, PMP

Professional Skills:
Product Management | Product Owner | Business Analysis | User Experience (UX) Design |  Team Development | Market Analysis | Strategy Planning | Product Roadmap | Agile | Scrum | Kanban | Requirement Gathering & Analysis | User Stories | BRD | UAT | Coaching | Mentoring

Technical Skills:
Jira | Confluence | Azure DevOps board | Azure Wiki | Trello | Pivotal Tracker | Figma | Lucid Chart | MS Visio | Draw.io | Mural | Miro | Json | API | PowerBi | COTS | XML | Cloud | Aha |  FinTech

Afaq Qazi

Multilingual Executive PM & PMO Manager with over 20 years of international experience leading Project Management Teams, Offices (PMO's) and complex project portfolios across sectors including Energy, ICT, Defense, Security, and Infrastructure. Recognized for bridging strategy and execution, I specialize in building scalable delivery models, aligning cross-functional teams, and transforming underperforming project environments into engines of predictable, high-impact results.
With a firm belief in continuous improvement, I foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and collaboration. I deliver transformation - not just projects.

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