Waseem Shaheen
Summary
"Digital Transformation Leader with 10+ years driving the advancement of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 within the public sector. Proven success in analyzing organizational needs and leading talent strategy within the Ministry of Education’s Vision Realization Office to deliver over 67 large-scale transformation initiatives. This included streamlining project execution for 16 MOE deputy ministers and departments, achieving 95% on-time delivery. Combines a M.Sc. in Information Technology and Certified Scrum Master to bridge technical and operational gaps, fostering sustainable growth through data-driven decision-making, agile frameworks, and strategic talent acquisition and development. Passionate about mentoring cross-functional teams and cultivating high-potential individuals to translate visionary goals into measurable outcomes aligned with national priorities".
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Strategy Transformation Manager
Global Innovative Products
04.2023 - Current
- Create strategies for existing accounts to generate business; provide guidance on project prioritization and other activities within the organization; allocate and optimize resources, and make profits that generate above-average returns.
- Evaluated diverse organizational system to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization.
- Oversaw and manage the ERP system.
- Managed revenue models, process flows, operations support, & customer engagement strategies to ensure project success.
- Created detailed roadmaps of action items & project goals; provided reporting & analysis across budgeting & planning.
- Develop & prepare presentations for prospective clients to promote products/services & engage potential clients’ buy-in.
Leader of Initiatives Development Department Strategic Planning
Vision Realization Office, MOE
02.2021 - 02.2023
- Team management, vendor management, policy deployment, delegating, planning, and strategic thinking.
- Drive continues improvement on work process to guarantee high quality outcome.
- Devised deployed and monitored process to boost long-term business success, increase income by 45%.
- Oversaw day-to-day initiatives operations.
- Communicate and support program managers on regular basics to achieve initiatives goals successfully.
- Developed strategic relationship with 20 stakeholders in the ministry departments.
- Implemented strategic business plans.
- Created weekly reports to track the process of the work.
- Executes the Reporting of all KPI’s
- Interact with consultant companies.
Sr Business Analyst
ELM
11.2018 - 02.2021
- Partner with key business and technology stakeholders to define work deliverables, and project task list.
- Managing and leading project teams or work streams as part of larger projects.
- Building long term trusted advisor relationships with clients.
- Communicating with delivery teams and managers on a daily basis to derive information on current status of deliverables that are due, currently, and upcoming.
- Define requirements in accordance with SDLC, management and project/product scope. Ensure requirements are aligned to project scope, objectives, and strategies.
Business Analyst
Meem Accelerator
05.2017 - 06.2018
- Review and mentorship tech startup.
- Define business and technical integration requirements.
- Analysis and create documentation.
- Develop graphic images to achieve design goals.
- Engage in User Acceptance Testing writing and performance.
- Review, prioritize and update requirements with every update.
- Deliver use cases, process flow, prototype, and business requirements.
Jr Business Analyst
Delta Airlines
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Define, plan, coordinate and obtain information requirements to support and launch new products and software releases.
- Coordinate with multiple resources efficiently and effectively throughout the development lifecycle to ensure that the projects are completed on time, meet requirements, implemented accurately and the business owner understands the full impact.
- Interface with internal business users as well as various IT development groups so the needs can be clearly understood, expectations managed and change initiated.
- Act as the point of contact between the business units and IT.
- Perform analysis for business applications.
- Develop and implement plans to suite business plans and objectives.
- Integrate the Airbus A350 parts catalogue with SAP.
Associate Business Analyst
Technology Resources
05.2009 - 02.2011
- Assess clients' needs, identifies and document requirements critical to achieving business objectives through discussion and interviews.
- Partner with the business and IT groups to find solutions for projects and operational issues
- Identify project process impacts and works to ensure processes are in place to support an effective operation.
- Use systematic techniques for specifying requirements - like use-case scenarios, process modeling, and data-flow diagramming.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Kennesaw State University
Marietta, GA12.2016
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology, Business Management
La Roche University
Pittsburgh, PA12.2014
Skills
- Strategic Alliance
- KPI Management
- Performance Analysis
- GAP & Business Analysis
- Processes Re-engineering
- Strategy Management
- Policy Deployment
- Roadmaps
Certification
CERTEGLOBAL UK
Strategic Planning Professional
National Center Performance Management
Strategy Management
PMI
- PMP
- Researching Market and Customer Needs
- Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master
- Critical Thinking for Decision-Making
Scrum Alliance
Professional Scrum Master
Dar Al Hekma University
Entrepreneurship Certification
Kennesaw State University
Information Technology Security
Awards
• VRO – Gess |Fall2022
• VRO – Challenging Mission Team | Fall 2021
• Elm – Aljenadriyah | Summer 2019
• La Roche – Dean’s List | Winter 2014
• Saudi Arabian Culture Mission Scholarship | spring 2011
LANGUAGES
Arabic
English
Timeline
Strategy Transformation Manager
Global Innovative Products
04.2023 - Current
Leader of Initiatives Development Department Strategic Planning
Vision Realization Office, MOE
02.2021 - 02.2023
Sr Business Analyst
ELM
11.2018 - 02.2021
Business Analyst
Meem Accelerator
05.2017 - 06.2018
Jr Business Analyst
Delta Airlines
01.2015 - 01.2017
Associate Business Analyst
Technology Resources
05.2009 - 02.2011
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology, Business Management
La Roche University
Master of Science - Information Technology
Kennesaw State University
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