Bilal Siddiqui
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Bilal has more than six years of experience, bringing a wealth of knowledge to deliver products that meet business needs and exceed expectations. He is an Agile professional with a knack for requirements, user stories, backlog management, and change requests. He is proficient in Jira and Azure DevOps, Confluence, draw.io, Balsamiq, Miro, and more. Bilal is excited to turn your vision into reality. He has been overlapping the CST for the last two years, and time overlap will not be an issue.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Product Manager
Stealth AI Startup
- Created the entire product roadmap with features and timelines.
- Assisted with financial forecasts along with Forecastrer.co.
- Set up investor demos for the product funding rounds.
- Helped with the seed funding round and the pitch deck.
- Managed the entire tech team from scratch to Beta testing and continuing.
- Created user personas, user story maps, and mindmaps to better understand the potential users.
- Performed market research on the target audience for better insights.
- Led the development of the object detection AI model (classification).
- Ran daily standups for the Scrum team to get updates on the progress.
- Led the development of a price prediction model for the system.
Senior Product Manager
Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy
- Led the development of multiple B2B solutions that successfully impacted 7 million visitors during the AFC 2023 tournament.
- Trained the junior product managers, helping them effectively manage products and enhance their overall product management capabilities.
- Spearheaded the development of the event management system.
- Utilized my business process management (BPM) skills and managed the redesign of the Hayya to Qatar website and the B2B portal.
- Oversaw the development of the Asian Cup 2023 website (Asiancup2023.qa/en).
- Headed the integrations with the Ministry of Interior in Qatar.
- Led the integrations with insurance companies for visa travel insurance.
- Guided Agile teams towards a unified project vision, fostering collaboration and efficiency.
- Created product roadmaps for the B2B products that align with the company's vision.
Product Owner | Business Analyst
Western Union
- Collaborated with the team and senior leadership to develop a product vision and a roadmap. Set OKRs to track the goals.
- Trained support team members on Salesforce chat support.
- Increased engagement from 30% to 85% and improved containment from 20% to 86% in two years.
- Saved more than $500,000 in cost for customer support spending.
- Negotiated SOWs with 3rd-party vendors for APIs and support.
- Introduced self-service features for Western Union customers.
- Ran daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for the team.
- Set the product vision and roadmap for features to be released.
- Created dashboards on Power BI by connecting data sources from Snowflake and creating visualizations for internal monitoring, allowing the leadership to view reports and analytics.
- Researched topics on artificial intelligence, chatbot development, and machine learning.
Product Manager Consultant
Rhyan Schwartz
- Assisted in creating a roadmap for the AI product and its features.
- Helped the founder budget for the development effort.
- Set up the Jira board and helped create a product requirement document for the AI solution.
Data Products Owner
Sema Technologies, Inc
- Wrote user stories for work items to be done and updated the roadmap and timelines.
- Managed the Jira board for the product team during the standups.
- Communicated and collaborated with internal stakeholders for story grooming.
- Reviewed audit reports from the system regarding the tech audit done my Sema.
Business Analyst | Product Owner
Royal Cyber
- Worked with the senior management to build a product roadmap with features and gaols.
- Interacted with offshore stakeholders and conducted kickoff meetings, stakeholder workshops, and requirements gathering sessions to design and develop new eCommerce solutions.
- Created user stories and drafted them into epics and tasks.
- Gathered requirements and documented those requirements on the Confluence.
- Researched the market for available solutions and competitors.
- Helped plan, design, and set up proofs-of-concept (POC).
- Created marketing content and wrote white papers for solutions.
- Managed the entire Jira board, its epics, and sprints. Introduced the concept of story points to my team and helped them adapt that to provide estimations.
- Advocated best Agile practices and established Agile ceremonies.
- Conducted product demos for potential clients of our product.
Business Analyst and Product Owner
Traffic Digital
- Conducted stakeholder requirements gathering workshops and performed user story mapping using Miro.
- Worked as a bridge between the client and the technical teams.
- Maintained proper product documentation such as user stories, business requirement documents (BRD), software requirements specifications (SRS), entity relationship diagram (ERD), process flow (BPMN), and functional specification document (FSD).
- Performed GAP analysis and SWOT analysis for projects.
- Worked with Azure DevOps for project planning the management during the development phase.
- Ensured issues were identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved promptly.
- Documented requirements from stakeholders and got sign-off.
- Communicated the required changes to the development team.
- Assisted the project manager in the planning of project timelines and goals.
- Traveled across the MENA region to conduct requirement gathering sessions and workshops with clients. Mostly CMS implementation and development on platforms, including Sitecore, Sitefinity, and Liferay.
Business Analyst
MarketLytics
- Managed and coordinated with team members around client projects.
- Tracked and managed each project's profitability and progress.
- Led tasks on Teamwork, assigned them to team members, and added hours estimates.
- Collected and documented business requirements during client meetings.
- Reviewed and shared eCommerce data audit reports with stakeholders.
Business Analyst
Tracking World
- Conducted requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders.
- Created requirements specification documents for projects.
- Developed business process diagrams (BPMN) for each project.
- Worked with stakeholders and the development team to launch a pilot project, which was very distinctive in the entire fleet tracking industry.
- Hosted bi-weekly meetings with the company's management to provide updates on the project.
- Ensured issues were identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved promptly.
- Checked that issues and bugs were identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved on time.
- Tested IOT vehicle-tracking devices for each project.
Business Analyst
Mean3
- Delivered eCommerce websites successfully, namely EZMakaan, TAMEER GHAR, and VapeBazaar.pk.
- Gathered the client's requirements and documented them. Later created a requirements specification document and got the sign-off.
- Broke down the high-level requirements into Epics and features and tracked them on Trello.
- Acted as a bridge between the client and the development team.
- Managed the Trello board and hosted the daily standup meeting.
Project History
Intelligent Chatbot with Self-service and FAQs
https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/contact-us.htmlLed the chatbot design and development phase, initially released in the US. It was later released to 41 countries with two million users monthly and approximately $550,000 in cost savings.
Later, we added some self-service options for customers that a CSR previously performed. We integrated an RPA bot on Salesforce for these self-service options, which conducted the tasks that a CSR once did.
Subcom Enabler
https://www.royalcyber.com/technologies/subcom-enabler-service/During COVID-19 times, I came up with the idea to build a feature that would enable businesses to have the functionality of subscription commerce for their eCommerce sites. I designed, developed, and sold this feature.
According to Forbes, the subscription box industry grew by 890% from 2014 to 2018. Using our Subcom-Enabler, users can add the Subscription eCommerce to their eCommerce website in two weeks.
Functionalities
• Select delivery internals
• Cancel or reschedule upcoming delivery
• Change delivery intervals after order placement
• Cancel subscription
• Set the subscription's end date
• Ability to have multiple products with different frequencies within a single order
It can easily integrate with all major eCommerce platforms, including HCL Commerce, SAP Hybris, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Commerce Tools, and Adobe Commerce Cloud.
Sharjah Islamic Bank Website Revamp
https://www.sib.ae/Conducted requirements workshops, created wireframes and documents, and got approvals and sign-off. Successfully delivered the project within the committed timeline. User traffic and engagement increased exponentially after the release.
Engro Agri Farming Feet Solution
Led the project from start to finish. Conducted stakeholder requirements gathering sessions and produced technical and business requirements documents and financial costings.
Engro agriculture reached out to Tracking World, a previous employer of mine, which requested to design a unique fleet tracking solution that would enable them to calculate the area their rental farming machinery harvested. Based on that, the company charged the farmers.
We quickly grasped the opportunity, initiated MVP development after a few stakeholder meetings, and conducted a pilot run on an actual field. This was a huge success, and we won the contract for 300 farming vehicles. On top of it, I managed to sell an additional fuel monitoring solution that brought additional value to the client.
Dubai Customs Website Revamp
https://www.dubaicustoms.gov.ae/en/Pages/default.aspxDelivered a whole new CMS (Sitecore) website to Dubai Customs with new landing pages and additional custom modules for duty calculation.
I was involved in the project from the initial discovery stage until its successful delivery. I conducted stakeholder meetings to gather requirements, created personas, user story maps, and business requirements documents, and got the sign-off from the client. In addition, I created epics and user stories for the developers to work on and then tested the built pages.
Abu Dhabi School of Government
https://adsg.gov.ae/enDelivered a new website to the client that covered their requirements and enabled its users to view and complete Coursera courses on the website and the admin to view the user's progress.
Ezmakaan
http://www.ezmakaan.comSuccessfully delivered an eCommerce website for home appliances and renovation material based on WordPress. Led the process from start to finish.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Guglielmo Marconi University - Rome, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
NED University of Engineering and Technology - Karachi, Pakistan
Higher Secondary Education in Pre-engineering
Formen College - Karachi, Pakistan
General Certificate of Education: Ordinary Level in Pre-engineering
Cambridge International Education (CIE UK) - Karachi, Pakistan
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Product Management 101
Udemy
Foundations of Project Management
Crash Course in Data Science
Johns Hopkins University
Agile Product Owner Role | Foundations
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Building Intelligent Chatbots on AWS
LinkedIn learning
Product Management | Building a Product Roadmap
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Creating and Giving Business Presentations
LinkedIn learning
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
International Institute of Business Analysis
Introduction to SAP Hybrid
Udemy
Business Analyst and Project Manager Collaboration
International Institute of Business Analysis
Business Analyst and Project Manager Collaboration
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Agile Requirements Foundations
International Institute of Business Analysis
Agile Requirements Foundations
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Business Analysis Foundations
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Business Analysis | Business Benefits Realization
Project Management Institute (PMI)
What Is Business Analysis for Information Technology (IT)
Udemy
Basic JavaScript
FreeCodeCamp
Google Analytics for Power Users
What is Data Science
IBM
Advanced Google Analytics
Google Analytics for Beginners
Google Tag Manager
Scrum | The Basics
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Business Analysis Foundations
LinkedIn Learning
Agile Software Development
LinkedIn Learning
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