Affan Iftikhar
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Rory (Chao) Meng
Affan is a strong leader, hard worker with full of passion. It was really fun and a pleasure to work with him. Not only because of his personality that attracts everyone, but also his skill set, and his result driven and high effeciency work. He is someone I would recomment to work with.
Lana Grobshteyn
Affan is a pleasure to work with. He is responsible, reliable and goes the extra distance to get the job done. He has s excellent presentation and communication skills, and creates great rapport with his clients. He listens to his clients requirements and works hard on trying to fulfill their needs.
Rory (Chao) Meng
Affan is a strong leader, hard worker with full of passion. It was really fun and a pleasure to work with him. Not only because of his personality that attracts everyone, but also his skill set, and his result driven and high effeciency work. He is someone I would recomment to work with.
Lana Grobshteyn
Affan is a pleasure to work with. He is responsible, reliable and goes the extra distance to get the job done. He has s excellent presentation and communication skills, and creates great rapport with his clients. He listens to his clients requirements and works hard on trying to fulfill their needs.
Rory (Chao) Meng
Affan is a strong leader, hard worker with full of passion. It was really fun and a pleasure to work with him. Not only because of his personality that attracts everyone, but also his skill set, and his result driven and high effeciency work. He is someone I would recomment to work with.
Lana Grobshteyn
Affan is a pleasure to work with. He is responsible, reliable and goes the extra distance to get the job done. He has s excellent presentation and communication skills, and creates great rapport with his clients. He listens to his clients requirements and works hard on trying to fulfill their needs.
Rory (Chao) Meng
Affan is a strong leader, hard worker with full of passion. It was really fun and a pleasure to work with him. Not only because of his personality that attracts everyone, but also his skill set, and his result driven and high effeciency work. He is someone I would recomment to work with.
Lana Grobshteyn
Affan is a pleasure to work with. He is responsible, reliable and goes the extra distance to get the job done. He has s excellent presentation and communication skills, and creates great rapport with his clients. He listens to his clients requirements and works hard on trying to fulfill their needs.
Experience
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MerlinSight
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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President/CEO
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Jul 2016 - Present
Merlinsight is a tech company, that provide solution and services in the field of consulting & resourcing, Application Development, Improvement & Maintenance, Validation & testing. Merlinsight is a tech company, that provide solution and services in the field of consulting & resourcing, Application Development, Improvement & Maintenance, Validation & testing.
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Elysian Burak
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Farming
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Owner
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Jan 2018 - Present
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TechStar league, INC
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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Founder
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Aug 2016 - Present
TechStar League (TSL) is an engaging boot camp / educational consulting firm. TechStar League (TSL) is an engaging boot camp / educational consulting firm.
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Futran Solutions Inc
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President / Engagement Manager
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Sep 2013 - Dec 2016
Involve in all strategic initiatives to manage a multi-functional team with large size portfolio operations, sales strategy, pursuing sales opportunities, delivery assurance, meeting annual revenue goals apart from holding key relationships with senior client executives. Also responsible for improving top-line revenue, gross margin within the portfolio. • Risk management, Relationship management, Consulting, Sales/Deals' management, Program management oversight. • Led RFP responses, coordinated with horizontal service lines and COEs, proposal review, pricing, and presentation for multiple RFPs in Application Development and Operations space. • Plan and successfully deliver large, highly visible IT open system projects. • Coach and mentor leaders - project and program managers • Identify, secure and lead large multi-stream project teams • Manage project schedules and budgets to ensure project completion on time, on budget and within scope and agreed performance metrics • Analyse project risks and execute risk management strategies • Help client stakeholders exceed/meet their business goals • Responsible and accountable for creating and executing account strategy and work on meeting or exceeding revenue/GPM targets • Escalation management and help proactive issue and risk mitigation for portfolio • Client executive leadership - Relationship management • Talent Management for portfolio • Communication and collaboration with other dependent groups such as sourcing, resourcing group, finance, HR. • Led Quarterly and Annual business reviews with customer leadership. Show less
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XL Catlin
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Bermuda
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Insurance
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Analyst/Scrum Master
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Jan 2012 - Sep 2013
Managed multiple projects - Underwriting, Claims, Fact/TA & Destiny Cash. • Worked closely with business partners, SMEs and product owners to understand the process. • Recorded requirements artifacts, types, attributes and Traceability criteria in the Requirements Management Plan document and categorized requirements using the FURPS model [Functional, Usability, Reliability, Performance, Supportability] • Suggested process change and re-engineering as it was needed based on gathered in detailed business requirements. • Created in depth Gap Analysis with as is and suggested re-engineered process and SWOT analysis for both scenarios. • Conducted requirements gathering using JAD and interview sessions. • Performed document analysis involving creation of Use Cases and Use Case narrations using Microsoft Visio, in order to present the efficiency of the gathered requirements. • Gathered requirements for creating the rating inputs screen for the policy system. • Analyzed and documented performance/security/User Interface Branding requirements for the application. • Worked with underwriters, actuary to determine the rating algorithms for TO BE system. • Assigned Zone Code information as per state standards to the territory codes from ISONet. • Analyzed and documented requirements for Quote possesses for a Commercial Auto Policy • Used agile methodology for gathering requirements and testing them. Show less
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Education
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University of Management and Technology - UMT
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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