Sameer Ahmed
Principal Systems Analyst/Agile Product Owner
Merrimack,NH
Summary
Certified Scrum Product Owner & Scrum Master with over 14 years of rich experience leading diverse technology projects across global teams. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary agile behavior, project management, product ownership, risk oversight and client relationship skills. Demonstrating great strengths in business awareness, astute, ability to work in fast-paced and challenging environments. Highly organized, methodical and skilled at optimizing workflows, excellent relationship building with effective communication, analytical and interpersonal skills across all levels to help manage multiple priorities with a positive attitude.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Principal Systems Analyst/Agile Product Owner
Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
07.2021 - Current
- Leading product owner responsibilities with system analysis for new business requirements and performing user acceptability testing of key functionalities by reducing close to 95% of bugs before production release for Digital Onboarding Experience.
- Coaching team on agile practices and formulated team working agreement to identify key strengths, areas of improvement to become fully functional and productive team.
- Empowering team members to fuel their best work by revitalizing regular sprint retrospectives, agility health quarterly assessment and team building activities.
- Successfully released AI Hypo enabled Personalized Transition experience and snowflake reporting by leveraging AWS cloud.
- Implemented release cadence and production support best practices to improve efficiency and knowledge sharing.
- Streamlined Jira & Jira align dashboards with templates and filter queries for effective backlog management & planning.
- Produced Capacity Planner to effectively estimate team bandwidth for sprint planning.
Senior Systems Analyst
Strategic Advisers Technology, Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
11.2019 - 07.2021
- Product owner to critical SAI business/technology initiatives like over 1 million accounts migration to cloud, market volatility & stabilization, production incidents & tactical development.
- Fostered learning culture across SAI business and technology by introducing SAI Learning Track series in collaboration with ELT team
- Created a presentation on 'Day in a life of Managed Account' for onboarding and remedial education.
- Led discovery planning sessions by defining release scope in macro & micro planning meetings to prioritize backlog, develop product strategy, roadmap and refine stories with test cases/scenario.
Senior Systems Analyst & Scrum Master, System Analyst & Scrum Master
Workplace Investing, Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
06.2018 - 11.2019
- Performed dual role of Sr. System Analyst & Scrum Master by managing highly distributed team of 15 members by ensuring team adheres to agile principles, scrum values and practices
Senior Systems Services & Support Analyst
Asset Management, Fidelity Investments
Merrimack, NH
10.2015 - 06.2018
- Created 200+ SiteScope automated monitors for health check.
- Oversaw batch cycle of more than 500+ jobs for business.
- Crisis management for 200+ apps during high impact issues and disaster recovery.
Software Engineer
Asset Management, Fidelity Investments
Bangalore
11.2012 - 10.2015
Associate Systems Engineer
Misys Software Solutions
Bangalore
01.2012 - 10.2012
Senior IT Application Support Consultant
Goldman Sachs
Bangalore
02.2009 - 08.2011
Technical Support Engineer
Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
07.2007 - 09.2008
Skills
Agile Methodologies & Leadership Behavior
Project & Product Management
Strategic Planning & Execution
Business Process Improvement
Communication & Collaboration
Linux/Unix
Microsoft Office
Attention to detail
Accomplishments
- On-The-Spot Recognition Award for building SAI learning track in collaboration with business & technology leadership team.
- Led critical SAI initiative to migrate more than a million accounts & services to AWS cloud platform.
- Planned and executed big room planning for a team of over 60 members across different regions to help cut down costs.
- Designed & implemented FI OneDesk, an intelligent & robust health monitoring system for batch cycle and applications.
- Best Outgoing Student Award – Bangalore University.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Application -
Brindavan College, Bangalore University
08.2004 - 05.2007
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Additional Activities
- Associate Advisory Team Member – Asset Management | Personal Investing (Nov 2018 – Present).
- Aspire Boston Lead for Event, Marketing & Communication - Employee Resource Group (May 2020 - Present).
- Enroot - Member Board of Directors - Immigrant Students Civil Rights and Social Action (Nov 2020 - Present).
Timeline
Principal Systems Analyst/Agile Product Owner
Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments
07.2021 - Current
Senior Systems Analyst
Strategic Advisers Technology, Fidelity Investments
11.2019 - 07.2021
Senior Systems Analyst & Scrum Master, System Analyst & Scrum Master
Workplace Investing, Fidelity Investments
06.2018 - 11.2019
Senior Systems Services & Support Analyst
Asset Management, Fidelity Investments
10.2015 - 06.2018
Software Engineer
Asset Management, Fidelity Investments
11.2012 - 10.2015
Associate Systems Engineer
Misys Software Solutions
01.2012 - 10.2012
Senior IT Application Support Consultant
Goldman Sachs
02.2009 - 08.2011
Technical Support Engineer
Hewlett Packard
07.2007 - 09.2008
Bachelor of Computer Application -
Brindavan College, Bangalore University
08.2004 - 05.2007