Tameez Ansari

IT and Business Leader; International Consultant; Agile Transformation

Canton, United States

Horizon Transformations

Mar 2023 - Present -2 yrs, 3 months

United States , Canton

Job Details:• Leading transformational services from waterfall to Agile methodologies and driving cultural shift for an international Healthcare client, a joint venture of a top US hospital and Saudi national oil company.

Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 -9 months

United States , Canton

Job Details:• Led Agile transformation for the Plasma Derived Therapies (PDT) business, driving comprehensive adoption program for Scrum teams and leaders. • Developed and executed a full Agile maturity transformation roadmap, leveraging productivity tools like Miro, resulting in improved planning exercises and value delivery. • Conducted maturity assessments and coached multiple teams on Agile methodologies, enhancing collaboration, reducing technical debt, and improving skills. • Trained and coached leaders and product owners on release and epic planning, implementing automated processes and Jira for efficient road mapping. • Implemented solutions for oversized teams by splitting them into smaller sizes, resulting in improved self-organization, resource utilization, and collaboration. • Introduced and coached teams on the Kanban framework, optimizing story distribution and flow for better resource utilization and increased efficiency. • Consolidated multiple, disparate product backlogs, improving program coordination and dependency visibility using Jira Advanced Roadmaps and Jira Align. • Actively participated in value stream mapping exercises, contributing to PDT's lean outcomes and generating financial gains and savings. • Made significant contributions to Takeda's Agile Center of Excellence (COE), sharing experiences and collaborating with other coaches to drive widespread adoption of Agile practices.

Feb 2015 - May 2015 -3 months

Qatar , Doha

Job Details:• Consulted Italian IT conglomerate ENGINEERING on business development in the UAE. • Conducted market research on the local conditions. • Developed thorough plan for business rollout.

ADASI

Jan 2009 - Jan 2015 -6 yrs

United Arab Emirates , Abu Dhabi

Job Details: • Established IT risk management, information security and governance regimes and ensure compliance with external regulatory environment. • Managed annual budget and administered funds according to budget approval. • Developed and rolled out IT strategic plans, policies, procedures and operational guidelines. • Developed and tested IT disaster recovery and security plans. • Managed successful outcome of IT Audit that lasted over a year, based on COBIT and other regulatory requirements. • Implemented ITIL- and SLA-based service desk resulting in efficiency and 80% response time improvements and improved IT governance. • Managed relations with suppliers and other international partners. • Realized 60% improvement in operational efficiency from deploying IT automation tools. • Led and completed implementation of major multimillion-dollar Oracle ERP implementation, complete with financials, HR, Payroll, SCM, self-service (ESS) and future Project and Resource (PM and RM), MRO, Asset Management and Teamcenter PLM. • Instituted and chaired IT Steering Committee to converge, align business and technology directions. Collaborate with all business units on the IT services. • Developed regional support system for user needs and problem resolution. • Developed ADASI’s IT business unit and developed staff ensuring smooth operations and successions.

MSc in Information Technology
Florida Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 - 3 yr
Computer Science in IT, Computer Science
Eastern Michigan University
Jan 1981 - Jan 1987 - 6 yr