Mohammad M.

Mohammad M.

Project Manager/Product Manager

Islamabad, Pakistan
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About Me

Mohammad has nearly 20 years of experience working with startups, Fortune 100 companies, and the defense department. An accomplished product leader, Mohammad has delivered products for both consumers and enterprises in domains such as AI, social, eCommerce, gamification, oil and gas, e-governance, and C4I2SR. He's been a startup founder, coach, and product growth consultant for several funded startups.

Work history

Overjet
Product Document Writer
2023 - Present (1 year)
Remote
  • Created user manuals for a machine-learning product to make insurance decisions on dental procedures.

  • Generated user-facing user manuals emphasizing interactivity, navigation, and skimmability.

  • Redesigned existing documentation into highly visual and interactive slideshows.

Boston Consulting Group
Technical Writer
2022 - Present (2 years)
Remote
  • Created user manuals for a machine-learning product to optimize pricing, markdowns, and promotions for one of the largest retail chains in North America.

  • Generated both user-facing and dev-facing documentation.

  • Captured the knowledge in meeting recordings and calls and codified them into structured documentation.

  • Extracted the Q&A and known issues lists from the resolved issues logged in ServiceNow and incorporated this into the knowledge base.

Unwynd
Agile Product Manager
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Co-created the first pitch for an activities-based social network that raised the initial $100,000 angel funding.

  • Conducted user research to explore customer pain areas.

  • Created the backlog, hired the team, and built the first MVP.

  • Crafted the company persona and drafted the first marketing copy.

  • Established a high-performance team culture with an emphasis on accountability and ownership.

ASU Preparatory Academy
Product Manager | Business Analyst
2021 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Built productive working relationships with key stakeholder groups.

  • Documented the current state of learning management system (LMS) and student information system (SIS) operations from a people, process, and technical perspective.

  • Defined and documented requirements for the proposed system.

  • Recommended optimal solutions to business requirements that best leverage the current products.

  • Compared existing LMS and SIS functionality with other leading LMS and SIS systems.

Vintage Technologies
Chief Executive Officer
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Secured a contract with a leading African edtech platform to produce thousands of educational videos.

  • Set up a production pipeline to produce dozens of videos every day.

  • Recruited a team of 30+ top industry professionals to deliver high-quality video content ten times faster than traditional production studios.

Technology Rivers
Head of Product
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Spearheaded a social network with an emphasis on learning and onboarding as the product owner of an enterprise. Developed for iOS, Android, web, and desktop.

  • Created a communications platform that involved audio/video calls, a support chatbot, live streaming (including recording and transcriptions), chats/news feed functionalities, and a homebrewed learning management system (LMS).

  • Led the development of low-, mid-, and high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes for the same.

  • Oversaw a HIPAA-compliant remote patient monitoring IoT solution.

National Incubation Center
Startup Mentor | Coach
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • Coached a home tuition marketplace, a micro-tutoring platform, an eCommerce platform with thousands of daily customers, a footwear eCommerce brand valued at $1+ million, and an electromechanical VR motion platform that won the National Startup Cup.

  • Collaborated with founders to develop go-to-market plans and growth strategies resulting in up to 100% month-over-month growth.

  • Helped founders raise capital, such as equity or grants, by crafting a masterful story for their business and creating a concise pitch deck and the accompanying financial model.

  • Assisted the founders in delivering a compelling pitch by leveraging the right tone, timbre, posture, positioning, and eye contact.

  • Aided startups in formulating their product development and technology roadmap, including documenting the functional specifications to a level of granularity that enabled accurate time and cost estimations.

  • Provided founders with counseling to maintain morale and team cohesion and cope with the immense pressure that comes with startup life.

The Founder Institute
Director
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Remote
  • Empowered young founders coming into the program with vague ideas and knowing little about entrepreneurship—usually with a full-time job—into becoming confident, highly focused leaders geared for success.

  • Assisted the founders in distilling a germ of an idea into a robust business model, complete with a concise, one-page business plan and a crisp, clear, and sellable elevator pitch.

  • Drilled the founders into upping their game by making them data-driven and accountable and forcing them to either level up or quit.

  • Helped founders deliver a compelling pitch by leveraging the right tone, timbre, posture, positioning, and eye contact.

  • Provided founders with counseling to cope with the immense pressure that comes with startup life.

Touch'd
CEO
2013 - 2018 (5 years)
Remote
  • Grew Touch'd, a personal relationship manager, from just an idea germinating in my mind to the Google Play Store by raising over $100,000 in angel money, building a rock star team, and creating a world-class product.

  • Secured a partnership with Google to promote Touch'd on various Google properties.

  • Oversaw the creative side, branding, UI, UX, gamification, product roadmap, recruiting, sprint planning, and the relationships between design, engineering, and marketing.

  • Pitched the product to local and international pitch competitions and garnered international press coverage.

  • Created a world-class team culture with a high development velocity while offering unlimited leaves, telecommuting, flexible timings, and free snacks while maintaining the right degree of accountability for the team and mission.

  • Gained recognition out of thousands after being selected as one of the top 50 startups globally to join the FounderX investor roadshow in Silicon Valley.

LMKR
Product Manager
2006 - 2013 (7 years)
Remote
  • Created two successful interactive 3D visualization products, an experiential learning simulation for oil and gas exploration used by Petronas University to train graduate students, and a financial training simulator to train Halliburton executives.

  • Acted as the product champion by traveling worldwide (from Houston, Texas to Saudi Arabia), acting as the business developer, sales lead, and pricing specialist.

  • Recruited world-class teams for the two products, including a Ph.D. in real-time rendering and a Fulbright scholar from Carnegie Mellon.

  • Created a highly cohesive team culture with an off-the-charts development velocity that led us to develop the most advanced oil exploration simulator in the world, years ahead of our closest competitor.

  • Oversaw the technical decision-making, creative side, branding, UI, UX, gamification, product roadmap, recruitment, sprint planning, and the relationships between design, engineering, and marketing.

  • Aided the pioneering team working on the Gverse (https://www.lmkr.com/gverse) 3D visualization platform.

NESCOM (A National Public Sector Organization)
Head of Department
2002 - 2006 (4 years)
Remote
  • Defined and documented the requirements for a large-scale information system for the Defense Department, a mission-critical C4I2SR system involving spatial RDBMS for defense assets, GIS, and real-time messaging on strat communications channels.

  • Led the technology comparative analysis effort for the selection of an enterprise content management system (ECMS), including the likes of IBM FileNet, Laserfiche, and Documentum.

  • Supervised the execution of three tightly coupled sub-projects within the program, from requirements gathering, analysis, development, deployment to maintenance.

  • Acted as the primary liaison between the development team and stakeholders from the strategic defense forces.

  • Defined software quality assurance policies for the organization and tailored the IEEE/EIA 12207 standard and the Rational Unified Process to match the requirements of the organization and the project.

NetSol
Senior Software Engineer
2000 - 2002 (2 years)
Remote
  • Developed the front-end UI based on user requirements for NFS, NetSol's (NASDAQ: NTWK) flagship finance and lease management product, used by customers in three continents.

  • Led the effort to translate user requirements into software design for the Contract Management System (CMS), one of the core modules of the financial suite of applications.

Orange Basket LTD
Product Management Consultant
Present (2024 years)
Remote
  • Performed tech research and comparison to select the optimum tech platform to build a grocery shopping eCommerce business for CPG items in North Africa.

  • Performed time and cost estimation and created a product roadmap.

  • Led the off-site development team in executing the development roadmap.

A Fortune 100 Tools Manufacturing Business
Project Management Consultant
Present (2024 years)
Remote
  • Worked with senior executives to build a project roadmap.

  • Coordinated efforts across multiple teams to support the launch of new eCommerce properties: Business owners, content, marketing, development, and more.

  • Performed a status information collection and rollups to present an accurate picture of the project regarding progress and P&L.

Bykea
Consultant for New Product Verticals
Present (2024 years)
Remote
  • Crafted new lines of business—in line with food and CPG grocery shopping—for a successful eCommerce shopping and delivery business with over two million users.

  • Performed extensive competitive research, ranging from Western to Chinese apps, to craft a unique value proposition for Bykea, congruent with the unique socio-ethnic nuances of the local consumers.

  • Led a team of experts to create low, mid, and high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes for the proposed food and grocery shopping workflows.

  • Recruited a team of highly accomplished specialists in UX design, product psychology, and UI design.

IconBunny
Consultant for Growth and Scaling
Present (2024 years)
Remote
  • Designed and executed a Kickstarter campaign for a digital design eCommerce store built using Magento, which raised $24,000.

  • Performed exhaustive research on successful and failed crowdfunding campaigns to identify best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

  • Surveyed hundreds of digital content creators to identify their needs, wants, pains, and workflows to handcraft a unique value proposition in the crowdfunding campaign.

  • Leveraged the insights obtained by the user research to design optimal and easy-to-understand rewards for backers.

  • Created a project plan for the Kickstarter campaign, including the financial plan, marketing partnerships, and content creation plan—such as the video, graphic, and text elements that make up the campaign design—and executed it.

  • Developed the post-campaign communications plan for timely relay of project milestones and rewards delivery with the backers.

Portfolio

Touch'd: Personal Relationship Manager

Touch'd is a mobile personal relationship manager that helps users focus on and strengthen key relationships in an overconnected world. It's used by thousands of users and is evolving into the world's first cognitive relationship management product, powered by IBM Watson™.

Bykea

Bykea is a transportation, logistics, and cash-on-delivery platform helping move people, parcels, and payments efficiently. As a consultant for new product verticals, I was responsible for end-to-end delivery of new lines of business and revenue streams, independent of the core product and team. The task included collaborating closely with the CEO to capture the vision and strategy and execute on that strategy independently with a mix of own resources and those of Bykea.

XpoSim

XpoSim is a technical training simulator for the exploration phase of the exploration and production (E&P) upstream cycle. It covers a broad spectrum of activities such as acreage management, seismic surveying and interpretation, well-prognosis, drilling, completion, and wells' abandonment. It boasts state-of-the-art 3D volume rendering and 3D interpretation capabilities. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), the premier research university in Malaysia, uses XpoSim to teach students about the energy exploration lifecycle. I was responsible for scoping, strategy, planning, execution, pricing, business development, and sales.

E-services at CDA

E-services at CDA was an ERP, intranet, and citizens' portal project for the Capital Development Authority (CDA). I was in charge of executing the complete delivery lifecycle, including requirements engineering, design, development, testing, deployment, customization, data digitization, training, and support phases.

E-services at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock

Automation of internal business processes to serve individual farmers and livestock holders, as well as remote sensing to capture crop yield and production data for planning and performing historical correlation. I also oversaw client coordination and eliciting, defining, and documenting the project requirements, and I supported the generation of the architecture and design documentation.

Classified

I was a pioneering member of a team working on a real-time, mission-critical C4I2SR system involving customized spatial RDBMS for defense assets, GIS, enterprise content management, and real-time messaging on strategic communications channels. I supervised three tightly-coupled sub-projects within the program, from requirements gathering, analysis, development, deployment to maintenance.

NetSol Financial Suite

NFS is a successful lease management product that facilitates all phases in a leasing contract, from contract activation, to transfer of assets to the lessee. This is one of NetSol Technologies’ flagship products, used by customers in three continents. As part of the Contract Management System (CMS) team, I was responsible for evaluating user requirements as well as developing front-end data windows for various modules in CMS.

Operation NOVA

Operation NOVA is a financial training game developed by LMKR for Halliburton. The player manages a portfolio of multiple service lines in the E&P upstream sector aiming to optimize revenue while responding to a changing market scenario over three years. NOVA has been used as a competitive event in the annual Halliburton Business Development Academy from 2007 to 2010, played by 1000s of participants at the academy (top Halliburton managers and executives from around the globe). NOVA is entering its 10th year of enterprise-wide deployment in Halliburton for internal use, to train managers in the financial aspects of the upstream E&P cycle including pricing, bundling, discounting, and service delivery.

Remote Patient Monitoring

A healthcare web application for remote patient monitoring where patients are provided with medical devices like weighing scale, blood pressure monitoring device, and other services. The patient’s medical readings are remotely analyzed by the medical assistants. The solution is HIPAA compliant and built on ReactJS and PostgreSQL

Enterprise Communications, Training and Onboarding Solution

The solution is an intranet communications platform built to facilitate the members of any organization in any vertical communicate and collaborate better.

Medicentials eCommerce Store (Shopify)

Medicentials was a dropshipping store developed using Shopify, Oberlo, and Dropified, that supplied PPE equipment to the United States via Chinese merchants shipping from warehouses in the US mainland with guaranteed seven-day shipping, at a time when PPE supplies were running critically low at the height of the global pandemic.

Unwynd

Unwynd is an activities-based social network that aims to create good experiences and long-lasting friendships through common interests.The app lets you see what your friends are up to, discover exciting thingshappening around you, create fun activities, and meet and make new friends who like what you like!

Education

Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Engineering
GIKI
1996 - 2000 (4 years)