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KHAWER MUNAWAR AHMED

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I have 15+ years of experience in Management, Design, Development and Implementation of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics solutions.  I have Mechanical Engineering background.  In my professional life I have full filed several roles, from Developer to Engineering Manager.  I have excellent analytical, communication skills.  I have managed a large team of 20+, engineers, business analysts and testers to efficiently deliver business value.  I have ability to hire top talent and mentor, encourage and empower them to deliver to their full potential.  I am experienced in implementing Business Intelligence and Data Analytics solutions using variety of technologies, COGNOS, TABLEAU, MICROSOFT BI, AWS, SPARK, PYTHON,  SNOWFLAKE, TERADATA, ORACLE, INFORMATICA.

PAST EXPERIENCE

Engineering Manager Data & Analytics, Nike, Inc.

April 2018 - Till Date

Responsible for delivering engineering solutions to support business initiatives.  Manage team of data engineers, business analyst,  test engineers and report developers to ensure the solution delivery for the demand and supply management group by developing and supporting data analytics and high performance executive dashboards for Nike Directors and VPs.

 

  • Manage team of 20+ Engineers, analysts and report writers under enterprise data & analytics team.

  • As a part of Nike Enterprise Data & Analytics, driving engineering and technology roadmap.

  • Collaborate in architecture design and discussions to adapt and adopt next generation platform. 

  • Closely work with business management to align and ensure timely delivery of quarterly initiatives.

  • Following Agile methodology to deliver business value drops every sprint in 2 weeks cadence.

  • Involve in scrum ceremonies to plan and refine backlog with the team, estimate the stories, clarify the requirements and help/direct team members with finalizing the design.

  • Deeply involve in hiring process to ensure top talent engagement for Nike.

  • Mentor and support employees to achieve their career goals.

  • Oversee transition and divestiture of Legacy solution to Next Gen cloud technologies.

  • Work with IBM, Microsoft and Snowflake to escalate and resolve product issues.

  • Involve hands on, developing POC for business solutions and new tools and technology.

  • Work with business stakeholders to understand the business direction and propose new BI solutions.

Engineering Lead Data & Analytics, Nike, Inc.

November 2013 - April 2018

Responsible for solution design and new technology review and implementation.  Leading team of developers to ensure the solution delivery for the Sales groups, developing BI solutions.  Also developing high performance Executive dashboards for Nike Directors and VPs. 

 

  • Lead a team of 6+ engineers to deliver end to end business solutions

  • Responsible for managing and approving the solution design.

  • Responsible for managing engineering team sprints to ensure timely delivery.

  • Migrated Data Analytics to Next Gen Platform, AWS, Snowflake, Spark and Airflow

  • Ensure successful divestiture of legacy systems, Informatica, Teradata and Autosys

  • Worked with IBM, Tableau and Snowflake to resolve issues during transition.

  • Managed and maintained data ingestion, storage to S3 and data migration using Airflow and Spark.

  • Designing consumption layer for data scientists for data analytics.

  • Worked with business stakeholders to understand the business direction and propose new BI solutions.

  • Developed and maintained operational standard reports for business analysts.

  • Developed and maintain global executive dashboards for Directors and VPs.

  • Worked with Business Analyst in requirements gathering and documentation.

  • Managed Engineers to develop reporting layer and aggregates for reports and dashboards consumption.

  • Worked with database developers and load testers to tune-up report performance.

Business Intelligence Consultant, Intel, Inc.

August 2012 - October 2013

Developed and maintained Dashboards and TM1 based forecasting tool to track sales performance.

  • Developed and maintained multiple Executive BI Dashboards in Cognos Report Studio and Business Insight using dimensional model and MDX.

  • Developed, implemented and maintained forecasting solution for Performance to Goals using IBM TM1 9.5.2 and integrated it with Cognos Reporting environment for reporting and executive dashboards.

  • Developed Cubes, Dimension, Rules and Turbo Integrator process for data loads and excel based reports.

  • Integrated TM1 cubes with Cognos BI for Analytical reporting using Report Studio and Business Insight Advance.

  • Responsible for performance tuning of the reporting environment.

Senior Applications Engineer, Nike, Inc.

July 2009 - July 2012

Developed inventory management tool designed to align and enhance inventory planning, analysis and management for Nike teams around the globe to be used by Planners, Analysts, Managers and Executives for decision making across the organization.

  • Implemented and maintained IBM TM1  environment and develop solutions for Inventory Management tool.

  • Developed Cubes, Dimension, Rules and Turbo Integrator process for data loads.

  • Upgraded Cognos 8.4 to Cognos 10.2 and worked with IBM to resolve upgrade issues.

  • Developed Cognos8/Cognos10 Metadata Models (both Relational and DMR) using Framework Manager.

  • Created complex and high performance reports in Report and Query Studio.

Senior Software Engineer, Thomson Reuters Healthcare

July 2005 - June 2009

Responsible for end to end BI solution, including installation, administration and development of reports and cubes.

  • Completed training on Cognos 8.4 (certified Advance Report Developer/Admin).

  • Implemented complete Cognos BI solution (assessment, installation, configuration and tuning)

  • Developed Cognos Metadata Models with Framework Manager and designed reports on Report Studio.

  • Reduced Production time from 24-48 hours to 2-4 hours as a result reduced production expenses extensively.

  • Worked on both UNIX and WINDOWS based reporting environment.

Cognos Report Developer, Washington Mutual

February 2005 - June 2005

Developed specific ad-hoc financial reports using Cognos Impromptu to monitor transactions, wires and loans among their customers and other banking systems for their new Money Transfer Systems.

  • Created design specification document for reports.

  • Created Ad-Hoc reports using Impromptu 7.1.

  • Created catalog for financial system and created reports.

  • Trained WAMU employees and customers in creating and maintaining the reports.

  • Extensive unit and performance testing for the reports and fixing report bugs.

Software Development Engineer, Onyx Software Corporation

July 2004 - January 2005

Worked as a BI consultant writing operational reports to embed in Onyx CRM tool.

  • Completed training with Cognos (certified Advance Report Developer).

  • Created design specification document for reports.

  • Created complex operational  and self servicer report.

  • Extensive unit and performance testing for the reports and fixing report bugs.

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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

January 2001 - December 2002

MS in Mechanical Engineering
Wayne State University
Michigan, USA

January 1996 - December 2000

B.E. In Mechanical Engineering
N.E.D University of Engineering & Technology
Karachi, Pakistan

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+1 (971) 470-9246

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