Zakira Ahmadova
Baku
Summary
Professional with 5+ years of experience increasing efficiency, productivity, and income while managing projects of all sizes. With a great eye for detail and a methodical approach to execution, excels at driving projects to completion based on milestones and excellent communication. Skilled in managing complex IT projects from conception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals. Possess deep understanding of project lifecycle, risk management, and stakeholder communication strategies. Strengths include leadership, problem-solving abilities, and adaptability to changing technology landscapes. Have successfully led teams to deliver projects on time and within budget, improving operational efficiency and client satisfaction. Innovative professional successful in leading and directing projects from inception to launch. many years of progressive management experience and repeated success in developing project initiatives. Consistently surpasses revenue performance targets.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
IT Project Manager
Badminton Azerbaijan Federation
03.2024 - Current
It Project Manager
Port of Baku
Baku
02.2024 - Current
- Establishing effective communication between departments as well as with vendors/customers
- During project execution, close cooperation with design and programming team, answering and directing questions
- Leading the process to make the project successful and meet the requirements
- Studying users' requirements and ensuring their implementation
- Collaborate with team members to identify product requirements and issues
- Prepare new proposals for product and project development
- Discuss requirements and deliverables with software team and project manager
- Compile, update and prioritize project backlog
- Planning and execution of product launch with stakeholders
- Monitoring and evaluating the progress of projects
- Close liaison with the software team, thoroughly monitoring and guiding the product development process
- Forming a report at the end of the projects and archiving all the information related to the project
- Preparation of structures based on the obtained data or request from the customer/vendor
- Ensure project or product testing, documenting, developing process flow, designing programmable interfaces (APIs) as needed
- Establishing a communication plan with customers/vendors, agreeing on terms and requirements
- Defining user roles, user map, user functionality
- Preparation of technical tasks and sharing with the team/client
- To prepare a technical document on business processes (at the user and technical level - UML diagrams (use case))
- Investigate system problems and propose optimal solutions
- Participate in all IT projects implemented in the society, assess risks, discuss and put forward proposals
- Perform work according to procedures and instructions
- To perform other tasks assigned by the manager within the scope of his authority
- Lead and supervise project team members and foster a collaborative team environment
- Prepare budget forecasts
- Implement and promote continuous improvement practices within project execution and management
Product Owner (part Time)
Qafqaznet
Baku
01.2023 - 01.2025
- Meetings and interviews with the customer
- Identify business and project requirements and compile information briefs
- Define user roles, user map, user functionality
- Prepare a prototype in the program Figma and prepare a video presentation on the program Loom
- Writing terms of reference and sharing them with the team/client
- To lead the process for the success of the project and its preparation in accordance with the requirements
- Learn user requirements and record them
- Collaborate with team members to identify product requirements and issues
- Develop new proposals for product and project development
- Discuss requirements and final materials with the software team and project manager
- Compile, update and prioritize the list of unfinished projects
- Planning and implementation of the product together with stakeholders
- Monitor and evaluate project progress
- Formulation of a report at the end of the projects and archiving of all information related to the project
Executive Head of IT Department
Port of Baku
Baku
12.2023 - 10.2024
- Sign relevant documents related to the activities of the information technology department (monthly subordinates of employees, contract order forms, handover acts, etc.)
- To control the document circulation of the information technology department, approve documents on behalf of the department in the electronic document circulation and other ERP programs used, and send them to execution
- Appropriate meeting, event, presentation, etc. on behalf of IT department. to participate, as well as to coordinate other necessary measures in this regard
Business Analyst
Port of Baku
Baku
04.2022 - 02.2024
- Liaising between the IT department and the executive branch
- Acting as an information source and communicator between business branches
- Understanding strategic business needs and plans for growth
- Enhancing the quality of IT products and services
- Analyzing the design of technical systems and business models
- Utilizing IT data for business insights
- Analyzing business needs
- Sourcing and implementing new business technology
- Finding technological solutions to business requirements
- Producing reports on application development and implementation
- Analyzing data to inform business decisions
Product Owner (part time)
ARIS MMC
Baku
01.2020 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: https://hola.com.az/
- Meetings and interviews with the customer
- Identify business and project requirements and compile information briefs
- Define user roles, user map, user functionality
- Prepare a prototype in the program Figma and prepare a video presentation on the program Loom
- Https://hola.com.az/
Chief dispatcher in the Flexible Reaction Unit
Ministry of Emergency Situations
Baku
01.2013 - 12.2022
- Business analyst and consultant in the development of the Center's Automated System and Software (CASS)
- Management of software development process from system initiation until its implementation
- Communication with customer on identification and understanding business processes and problems
- Gathering and analysis business requirements and rules through interviews, workshops, workflow and document analysis
- Organization of regular meetings with clients in order to lead requirements lifecycle and ensuring of compliance of solution with expectations
- Representation customer's technical and non-technical requirements and business processes in different deliverables such as use cases, class diagrams and workflow diagrams (BPMN)
- Exploration, design and evaluation of potential solutions
- Ensuring of common understanding between business and technical team
- Writing test plans and test cases for organization of software verification and commissioning
- Software testing within functional, user acceptance and performance concepts to verify whether the product fulfills intended usage
- Field Crops Registry Management Software. Chief dispatcher in the single registry of grain and cotton fields throughout Azerbaijan Republic
Product Owner
Ministry of Emergency Situations
Baku
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Helped agile transformation and reshaping product roadmaps to address new goals
- Business analyst K3 - Emergency management solution which is being used at mission critical contact centers such as 112 of Azerbaijan to process ~10K calls daily. Analyzing, implementing, training and testing of the K3 Emergency Management System
- Established and rolled out better practices and guidelines to improve team productivity and service quality
Leading dispatcher in the Flexible Reaction Unit
Ministry of Emergency Situations
Baku
01.2008 - 01.2013
Education
Agile 360
01-2024
(PMP)® -
Project Management Professional
01-2023
UNEC
01.2012
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- Agile methodologies
- User requirements analysis
- Budget forecasting
- Stakeholder management
- Software testing
- Team leadership
- Time management
- Project team coordination
- Teamwork
- Waterfall methodology
- Scrum Methodologies
- Milestone tracking
- Project scheduling
- Agile Scrum
- Project Management
- User Flows
- Process Flows
Projects
MQS
Hola
ESD BNA
Unibank
Azparking
DXMIA
Azərbaycan Respublikası Sahibkarlığın İnkişafı Fondu
K3
Softphone
Transport POB
HRM POB
ESD POB
1C : ERP POB
Events
- Women in transport-Istanbul, 2025 January
- Field study trip to the Port of Valencia-Valencia, 2024 February
- European Women in Technology 2024- 2024 June
- Seminar on Modernization of Governance System and Capacity for Belt and Road Countries-China, 2023 May
- Workshop on Disaster Risk Governance of Istanbul Process-China , 2019 November
Timeline
IT Project Manager
Badminton Azerbaijan Federation
03.2024 - Current
It Project Manager
Port of Baku
02.2024 - Current
Executive Head of IT Department
Port of Baku
12.2023 - 10.2024
Product Owner (part Time)
Qafqaznet
01.2023 - 01.2025
Business Analyst
Port of Baku
04.2022 - 02.2024
Product Owner (part time)
ARIS MMC
01.2020 - 12.2022
Chief dispatcher in the Flexible Reaction Unit
Ministry of Emergency Situations
01.2013 - 12.2022
Product Owner
Ministry of Emergency Situations
01.2013 - 01.2014
Leading dispatcher in the Flexible Reaction Unit
Ministry of Emergency Situations
01.2008 - 01.2013
Agile 360
(PMP)® -
Project Management Professional
UNEC
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