Syed R.

Syed R.

Product Owner

Malaysia
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About Me

Syed is a versatile Product Owner with over 10 years of experience in enterprise-level agile transformation and leading large-scale teams. Successfully released various B2B and B2C products of variable sizes and complexity, from inception to implementation, for multiple industries and target platforms. His expertise includes geospatial database modeling & governance, roadmap building, standards benchmarking, process development, and maturity assessments. Syed has successfully delivered various projects to achieve customers' digitalization goals by delivering the right set of technology including the project and master data stores, interpretation solutions, and workflow integration, on-premises as well as on the cloud.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Product Owner
2022 - Present (2 years)
Remote
  • Overseeing product development and permanently communicating with the development team for planning, reviewing and refining the requirements.

  • Prioritizing the needs in terms of product features and align them with the stakeholders' feedback.

  • Acting like a primary communicator and link between stakeholders.

PBQ Oilfield Services DMCC
PBQ Oilfield Services DMCC
Product Owner/Information Management Advisor
2016 - 2022 (6 years)
Remote
  • Tackled complex business problems including providing support in subsurface studies for better integration, reliability, and efficiency. PBQ is high technology oilfield services company operating in Middle East and Asia with headquarters in Dubai UAE.

  • Conducted data management maturity assessments and information management bench marking, designing and deploying conceptual, logical and physical data model and spatial road map in various projects.

  • Translated product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes.

Beicip-Franlab Asia
Beicip-Franlab Asia
Principal Geotechnologist
2016 - Present (8 years)
Malaysia
  • Worked on projects for a International oil and gas consulting and software solutions provider with cutting edge science and innovation.

  • Managed work related to GIS, data management, data science, text mining, machine learning, analytics, automation, and open-source technologies.

  • Solved complex business problems, achieving efficiency and accuracy in E&P multidisciplinary workflows.

LMKR
LMKR
Product Manager/Test Manager
2011 - 2016 (5 years)
Pakistan
  • Setup a new QA team with highly skilled Geophysicists and Geologists and IT professionals to ensure good quality software delivery.

  • Worked as a product manager and product owner on "GVERSE-Connect" (a plug-in for the Petrel (R) platform), that seamlessly integrates well, seismic and maps between Schlumberger (Petrel) and Landmark (Geographix) to increase efficiency in an integrated interpretation environment.

  • Acted as product manager for various other software including Exploration Management System (EMS) and Petrohive (Physical Data Management).

LMKR
LMKR
System Designer
2001 - 2010 (9 years)
Pakistan
  • Developed IP for E&P industry in GIS domain, providing Geophysical domain expertise in all development activities.

  • Performed R&D to solve navigation data interoperability issues between various applications form Halliburton, Schlumberger, ESRI & kingdom including UKOOA, LAS, SPS, Shape file, CAD files, Google KML, SEG-Y, SEG-D and ZGF formats.

  • Ensured Data Models POSC and PPDM were compliant to regulations.

Portfolio

Product Owner - GVERSE-Connect
Product Owner - GVERSE-Connect

GVERSE-Connect is a new productivity plugin for efficient project transfer of a competitor's technology in hours instead of weeks. Leveraging the strengths of two leading E&P Technologies, GVERSE Connect enables a fast database to database exchange for an efficient and optimized user experience by utilizing the right tool for the right job. Acted as a Product Manager from idea to launch of the desktop application (plugin). I collaborated with stakeholders (sales, channel partners, and potential customers) and built the product vision, roadmap, and revenue model. Proposed, implemented, coordinated, evaluated, and adjusted development strategies for the product. Prepared a product release plan and product backlog, worked with the engineering team using Team Foundation Server (TFS) and SCRUM methodology to deliver the product in 15 months. Worked with sales, marketing, finance, legal, documentation and branding teams for financial modeling, product launch, user manual, training material and marketing collateral preparations. Delivered training to clients, presentations to other stakeholders and maintained constant contact with beta testers of the product.

Product Owner - My Covid Care (Covid Assessment Center)
Product Owner - My Covid Care (Covid Assessment Center)

The project is a cloud-based end-to-end business process automation system for Covid Assessment Centre that reduced the patient’s risk exposure by 60% and reduced processing time by 300%. Worked as a product manager to develop the web-based application. Collaborated with stakeholders (doctors, paramedics, sales, dispensary, emergency support, administrator, and management) and built the product roadmap, and delivered it in three releases within two months. We used Jira for product backlog management, SCRUM methodology, and lean development approach to accomplish this challenging and time-critical project. The product was to serve internal and external users with integrated and efficient workflows.

Product Owner - PetroHive (Physical Data Management)
Product Owner - PetroHive (Physical Data Management)

PetroHive is an intuitive, web-based physical and electronic data indexing and cataloging solution that enables you to store, manage, track and utilize your E&P information assets ranging from core rock samples to well, seismic and map data stored at multiple storage locations. As a product manager of an ongoing product, I revisited the product roadmap and release plan with the collaboration of existing users and sales partners. Planned the next three releases and continued with the backlog grooming using SCRUM and released several versions. I worked with sales to deliver technical demos for potential clients. Established continuous integration and an automated testing environment for this product. Started development for SaaS enablement and associated revenue modeling. Introduced a new product on the smartphone platform to deliver several features demanded by many clients.

Product Owner - Sellers Hero (Market Analytics &  Sales Intelligence)
Product Owner - Sellers Hero (Market Analytics & Sales Intelligence)

Sellers Hero uncovers high-demand, low-competition products with maximum profit potential on Shopee. Identify trends and filter opportunities using data-driven insights to craft product strategy. Provide web-portal and browser-based extension to track products, evaluate sales over time and spot trends, unexpected spikes, and seasonality. I prepared the product strategy, roadmap, backlog grooming and go-to- market plan and worked with a distributed team of engineers and marketers till launch of the product.

Product Owner - WooBoo (Inventory Management)
Product Owner - WooBoo (Inventory Management)

Wooboo is SaaS based inventory management system for importers, stockiest and sales agents to maintain demand and supply and minimize the out-of-stock status. Businesses register and maintain multiple products, stockiest and sales collateral whereas stockiest register sales agents and assign sales quota, profit margins and incentives to each agent. As a product manager I worked from inception till beta release and prepared product vision, strategy, roadmap and built feature list. Worked with small engineering team to complete the MVP within 2 months.

Product Owner - ResTool (Reservoir Modeling &  Financial Modeling Tool)
Product Owner - ResTool (Reservoir Modeling & Financial Modeling Tool)

ResTool is an internal product to reservoir engineers and remove inefficiencies and risks involved in excel based oil and gas reserves calculations and provided a desktop software, that improved efficiency by 80% and removed the human error by 100% and provided strategic advantage over competition. As a product manager I worked with cross functional team to build the product vision, roadmap, release plan and establish the product roadmap. Worked with remote developers and released three versions of the software with classified features for the strategic advantage

Product Owner - Knowledge Management System  (CORE)
Product Owner - Knowledge Management System (CORE)

Centralized Online Repository Ecosystem is a web-based portal based upon open-source technologies with following modules: enterprise document management, search engine, project data management and management dashboard for all users and smart tools for administrator for customization and batch processes. As a product manager I built product vision, roadmap, backlog, training material and worked with engineering team of local and remote developers, UI/UX specialist, and third-party developers to build two releases of the product and provided customer support.

Education

Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations; Agile 
Product Owner Role: Techniques; Becoming a 
Product Manager: A Complete Guide; Business 
Analysis for Project Managers; Planning and 
Releasing Software with Jira; Requirements 
Elicitation and Analysis; Scrum: Advanced; 
Technology for Product Managers; The 45-Minute 
Business Plan; Advanced Python; Learning Data 
Governance; PostgreSQL Essential Training; 
LinkedIn logo Product Management: Building a 
Product Strategy; Decision-Making Strategies for 
Optimal Team Performance: A Primer for Team 
Leaders ; DevOps for Data Scientists
Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations; Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques; Becoming a Product Manager: A Complete Guide; Business Analysis for Project Managers; Planning and Releasing Software with Jira; Requirements Elicitation and Analysis; Scrum: Advanced; Technology for Product Managers; The 45-Minute Business Plan; Advanced Python; Learning Data Governance; PostgreSQL Essential Training; LinkedIn logo Product Management: Building a Product Strategy; Decision-Making Strategies for Optimal Team Performance: A Primer for Team Leaders ; DevOps for Data Scientists
LinkedIn Certifications
Geographic Information System - Advanced Analysis
Geographic Information System - Advanced Analysis
NED University of Engineering and Technology
Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Computer Science
Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Computer Science
Quaid-i-Azam University
Masters in Earth Sciences (Geophysical 
Computation)
Masters in Earth Sciences (Geophysical Computation)
Quaid-i-Azam University