Danish Refai

Danish Refai

Product Owner, Business Analyst

Introduction

Tech Enthusiast, engineer by profession. With a spectrum of skills in technologies, frameworks and functional use cases, I transform ideas into leading technology platforms.

Profile

Highly motivated individual who takes up challenges and delivers beyond expectation. He is not afraid to go an extra mile to bring outstanding and exceptional deliverables. Starting out his way as a Analyst, he has made his way through a Business and Process Consultant to Mobile/Web Tech Lead in short span of time.

He demonstrates high levels of professionalism, which combined with his functional and intermediate technical skills, make him an ideal candidate for any project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2019 – 2020

Tech Lead

Launchpad App Development

Launchpad is a boutique innovation consultancy and software development firm transforming innovative ideas into successful apps.

  • Innovation and Startup Strategy and consulting
  • User Experience Design and Market Research
  • Prototyping, User Interface Design and User testing
  • Software architecture and technology decisions
  • Managing End to End Projects from Ideation, Design, Development, Support & Change Requests
  • Quality Assurance and Performance Testing
  • On-Going Support and Product updates

2016 – 2019

Business Analyst, Head of Sales

OpenXcell Technolabs Pvt. Ltd.

OpenXcell is CMMI Level 3 software Development Company pioneering in technology consultants and creative designers. The company targets software development, mobile app development, real-time systems, BOT development and all IOT systems.

  • Hired, Worked and Managed a Team of 6 Pre-Sales Executives including Sales Reps and Business Analysts.
  • Worked with project stakeholders to establish functional and non-functional system requirements
  • Creating Business Process Models and Business Use Cases, System Use Cases and Activity Diagrams
  • Analysed and documented business requirements and designed and developed detailed system requirements
  • Trained and mentored the Business team in Agile methodology and in documenting requirements artifacts
  • Provide consulting services to potential projects
  • Conducting periodic cross continental meetings/conference with stakeholders to discuss requirements
  • Investigated and analyzed system defects, business requirements and the impact of system changes
  • Analyzed and documented system change requests, requirements and enhancements
  • Create and maintain Project Portfolio, Tasks and effectively communicate progress to Key Managements
  • Perform Analytical Operations on data and identify potential improvement areas

2014 – 2016

Senior SAP BW/BPC Consultant

LAM Research

The was an End-to-End Project lasted 2 Years including production support and training.

  • Insights in to company’s resources & utilization using existing Headcount Allocation Engine
  • Involved in migration of historical data on BW Cubes using Conversion, Transformation & Mapping rules
  • Creating Transformation & Conversion Files to support uploading of flat files from Legacy Sources
  • Responsible for setting up actual data load process in BW for transaction data
  • Creating script logic, DM package to move data from once application to another
  • Creating documentation & guides for end users templates, reports etc.
  • Creating configurations in BPC 10.0 NW for Models, Dimension, and Business Rules.

2013 – 2014

Senior SAP BW/BPC Consultant

GREE International, Inc.

The End2End project was to replace legacy planning modules with BPC based on BW. Analytical Capabilities were mined on BOBJ via BW.

  • Involved in conducting periodic meetings/conference with stakeholders to discuss requirements
  • Involved in creating configurations in BPC 10.0 and NW for Models, Dimension, and Business Rules
  • Involved in creating design and configuration documentation to support the business planning processes
  • Responsible for creating data spreadsheets and managing efforts from colleagues
  • Extensively worked on Data loads – Master data and Transactional data from Flat file and from BW Info Objects.

2011 – 2013

Test Analyst – Functional Designer

Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

Involved in two Large Tier-1 Banking Systems Implementation from Canada and Australia.

  • Exclusively worked on Loan and Deposit Management
  • Carrying out Loan Life Cycles and Deposit tenures, he has developed key skill in the same
  • Extensively worked on SAP GUI and SOAP-UI Services for Banking Operations for Term Loans, Line of Credits, Term Deposits, Savings/Deposit Accounts.
  • Implementation of a Pilot Project for CBA that required Integration of SAP ERP with an External System from an End to End perspective including AO, Master Data Storage & Replication, Application Fulfillment, Payments, Correspondence, Reporting out of BW via BOBJ.
  • Worked on various initiatives in the design phase for the Mortgage Lending group with focus on Origination, Adjudication processes in particular
  • Worked on preparing high – level documents (i.e. Use Case Documents, Report Specification Document, Print Specification, System-to-System Interface, Use-Case models etc.)

Skills

  • Functional

    Mobile App Analysis
    Business Analysis
    Project Execution
    Business Case Development
    Use Case Modeling
    Functional Documentation
    Requirement Analysis
    Enterprise Performance Management
    Financial Analytics & Reporting
    Requirement Analysis
    Core Banking
    Origination & Adjudication
    Loans Management
    Banking Processes
    SAP Account Receivables & Payable
    Telecommunication Rating & Charging

  • SAP Suite

    SAP Business Objects Suite

    SAP BPC 10.0 NW

    EPM for Excel

    SAP BW

    SAP Integrated Planning using BOBJ

    SAP ECC

    SAP FI-CA

    SAP Banking Services

    SAP Convergent Charging

    SAP Netweaver

  • Software & Tools

    UX – Sketch & Figma

    Basecamp

    Trello

    FreshWorks Suite

    ZenDesk Suite

    CleverTap & MoEngage

    Google Suite

    MS Office Suite

    Zeplin

    Slack

    Zoom, WebEx for Meetings

    Twilio

    Stripe

Education

2007 – 2011

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Bachelors of Technology – Electronics and Telecommunication

CGPA: 3.32/4.00

2005 – 2007

Mahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS)

International Baccalaureate – Diploma Programme

English, French, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Business Management

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