Summary
Education
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Mohammad Omer Karim

Mohammad Omer Karim

Agile Coach / Scrum Master
Islamabad

Summary

Certified Agile Practitioner with over 8+ years of experience in handling projects within IT, Telecom & Fin-tech industries.

Over 7 years of experience in Technical support and operation

Active involvement in learning & development cycle, bring them to practice and share experience as part of contribution to community

Education

Master of Science - Management

CASE - University of Engineering & Technology
Islamabad, Pakistan
03.2014

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Hamdard University
Islamabad, Pakistan
03.2004

Certification

  • SAFe 5.1 - Advance Scrum Master - Oct, 2022 - https://www.credly.com/earner/earned/badge/d1949fd1-8f9e-4488-b0d0-b42026a39c44
  • PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner - Jan, 2021 - https://www.credly.com/earner/earned/badge/f495d035-f6a3-48fc-87ba-6f4261712cb0
  • Six Sigma Yellow Belt - Jun, 2008

Skills

  • Agile Project Management
  • Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • Servant Leadership

Work History

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Telenor Microfinance Bank
Islamabad
02.2022 - Current
  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements for projects
  • Develop effective working relationships and ongoing management processes for projects.
  • Coach and facilitate team in adapting essential practices governed under agile values & principles
  • Facilitate team in achieving their targets for Agile Release Train and Program Increment
  • Lead team efforts towards relentless improvement & remove impediments by actively engage PO's and respective stakeholders
  • Active coordination with other Scrum Master and Agile Coaches to manage dependencies and adaption of common agile practices needed in agile transformation
  • Manage team's engagement towards preparation & readiness for ART events

Sr. Agile Delivery Manager

Ciklum
Islamabad
01.2019 - 01.2022
  • Work closely and collaboratively with the Product Owners, BA, QA & Tech Leads
  • Assess and Inculcate suitable 'Agile Approach' for the projects in a manner that support frequent deliveries in a sustainable manner
  • Lead and coach multi-disciplined teams across a variety of developments ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
  • Facilitate, coordinate and manage ceremonies such as planning, stand-ups and retrospectives
  • Provide necessary coaching towards team members towards Agile Principles to help the team mature in an agile process
  • Facilitate cross-team collaboration with the internal teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes with respect to production issues
  • Maintain a healthy relationship with clients to provide a transparent view of development progress and manage the expected outcome under the allocated budget

Corporate Strategy Analyst

China Mobile
Islamabad
11.2016 - 12.2018
  • Develop & maintain Corporate Strategy in alignment with functional units and key stakeholders at organizational level.
  • Ensure corporate, commercial and technical level strategy execution are aligned on objectives and functional performance indicators
  • Create Strategy awareness across organization.
  • Target setting and analysis of KPI's across functional units.
  • Forecast and align efforts to close gap between targets and achievements for functional units
  • Maintain monthly / quarterly dashboard in accordance to ‘Targets vs Achievements' against core KPI's of finance and commercial department.
  • Manage departmental communication and meetings in lieu of performance reviews and improvement plans.

Customer Experience Management

China Mobile
Islamabad
11.2014 - 11.2016
  • Research and development of CEM operations and inculcating best practices across the enterprise.
  • Benchmarking experience nodes within and outside the industry.
  • Data integration of current data base of ZONG with psychographic data collected through research and surveys.
  • Product refinement and development based on the intelligence and research.
  • Conduct customer's ‘Sentiment Index', NPS and other custom designed research to assess customer behavior throughout the user journey.

CRM Analyst

Pakistan Mobile Communication Ltd
Islamabad
07.2014 - 11.2014
  • Nationwide ‘Quality of Sales Analysis' with respect to every channel in each region on routine basis.
  • Perform nationwide ‘Churn Analysis'. Forecast ‘Potential Churn'.
  • Periodic review of nationwide postpaid ‘Life Span' with respect to every channel in each region.
  • Analysis of financial exposures.
  • Develop and maintain structured and reliable communication with respect to analytical findings among the stakeholders.
  • Monitor periodic health check of inter and intra-departmental processes and share findings with the stakeholders

Operations & Technical Support

Pakistan Mobile Communication Ltd
Islamabad
08.2004 - 05.2013

Worked in different roles:

  • Floor Supervisor - Contact Center Islamabad
  • Team Leader - Investigation & Resolution Unit (Backend Support)
  • Team Leader - Contact Center Islamabad

Major Responsibilities Includes and not limited to:

  • Maintain & manage service level agreements
  • Provide support on technical complaints
  • Track and benchmark customer complaint, and re-engineer existing processes to deliver optimum results
  • Perform weekly / monthly analysis over the nature of workload received.

Publications

  • Pre-Mortem: A Proactive approach to secure your AGILE Projects - Jan 2022 - https://polarisinsight.blogspot.com/2022/01/pre-mortem-proactiveapproach-to-secure.html
  • Estimations in Agile Projects - Jan 2022 - https://polarisinsight.blogspot.com/2022/01/estimation-in-agileprojects.html
  • Assessing the Influential Behavioral factors of Performance Management System - Jan 2015 - Journal of Strategy & Performance Management
  • New World Order, Globalization and its Impact on Pakistan - Dec 2012 - Saicon International Conference PC Bhurban Pakistan

Timeline

Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Telenor Microfinance Bank
02.2022 - Current

Sr. Agile Delivery Manager

Ciklum
01.2019 - 01.2022

Corporate Strategy Analyst

China Mobile
11.2016 - 12.2018

Customer Experience Management

China Mobile
11.2014 - 11.2016

CRM Analyst

Pakistan Mobile Communication Ltd
07.2014 - 11.2014

Operations & Technical Support

Pakistan Mobile Communication Ltd
08.2004 - 05.2013

Master of Science - Management

CASE - University of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Hamdard University
Mohammad Omer KarimAgile Coach / Scrum Master