Mazdak Abtin

Mazdak Abtin is a highly motivated, change-oriented and solution-focused product manager, product owner Scrum Master (CSM) and business analyst (CBAP) with over 17 years of experience across a variety of IT-based projects in a wide range of industries. Industries: IT, HR, HCM, Payroll, Energy (Oil & Gas), Banking/Finance, Electronics, MC, Education Product/ Projects’ size: 3Bn EPC (SaaS) to small internal IT and process improvement Business Environments: 4 Corporate (well-established), 2 Growing,7 Start-up Approaches: Over 9 years’ experience in Adaptive (Agile-Lean) and 6 years in Predictive (Waterfall-Traditional) Frameworks: Scrum, XP and Kanban, RUP, Waterfall, BABOK 3.0, APM, UCD Roles: Coach, Product and Project Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, UX/UI Analyst, Developer, Tester  Demonstrated success in defining product vision, managing roadmap, devising strategies, defining outcome, analysing and interpreting business needs, requirements and product solutions, and driving change to address business objectives  Deeply capable of articulating a common vision, persuade, convince, inspire, encourage, support, lead, direct, participate, coach and delegate cross-functional teams without formal authority  Highly skilled in eliciting, identifying, gathering, defining, specifying, analysing, assessing, designing, verifying, confirming, validating, documenting, slicing, prioritizing, modelling, visualising, maintaining, tracing and managing variety of business, functional, non-functional and transitional requirements  Adept at establishing, developing and maintaining strong relationship to facilitate collaboration of external stakeholders (clients, consumers, customers, user groups) and internal stakeholders (marketing, engineering, product team and delivery stream) in different levels across all SDLC phases and ceremonies  Committed to delivering the highest possible value and quality products through constantly and collaboratively liaising with Clients, business sides and delivery team across all phases (envision, speculate, explore and adapt) and in different ceremonies (Sprint/iteration planning, stand-up, daily meetings, retrospectives)  Great track record of finding the most creative, effective and pragmatic solutions for customers and businesses, both collaboratively and individually  Talent for initiating, optimising and improving business processes, products and customer experience  Passionate to learn and apply latest approaches, methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tools • Expert in using variety of prioritisation techniques (value, cost, time, risk, dependency, stability) • Capable in acceptance and evaluation criteria and test, KPIs, lessons learned and retrospectives • Experienced in UX, UI analysis and prototyping • Excellent in interviewing and conducting discovery workshop • Intense instruction in personas, business case, MVP, MMF, use cases, scenarios, epics, user stories • Proven skills in backlog management and functional decomposition • Thoroughly familiar with story decomposition, story elaboration, storyboarding, and mapping • Professional background in business, domain and scope modelling • Strong aptitude for process analysis, visual modelling • Hands-on experience with web technologies, CMS, programming and complex data systems • Skilled in stakeholder analysis (Impact-influence, RACI matrix and onion model) • Competent in business cases, benchmarking and market, business rules and capability analysis  Talent for think out of the box to connect the dots  Effective facilitation, elicitation, collaboration, communication and negotiation skills  Adept in problem-solving, analytical, visual and systematic thinking  Excellent product and project management skills  Experienced in market analysis, segmentation, value proposition, competitor analysis and positioning  Proven success in managing requirements (trace, maintain, priories and assess)  Proficient in product strategy and requirements analysis and design definition  Experienced in successful coaching, mentoring and instructing  Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and thrives on a challenge  Highly competent in business analysis, planning, and monitoring  Outstanding business planning, strategic planning and market planning skills