Faraz Rizvi

Current

Lead Consultant at Release Consulting

Past

Project Manager / Business Analyst - IT Digital Initiatives at Universal Music Group International
Business Analyst - Data Services at Entertainment UK
Head of Products at ION IT

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Faraz Rizvi’s Summary

Experience

- 12 years working in industry and IT consultancy (7 years in Media & Entertainment), with an emphasis on business analysis and project management in international organisations

- Implemented strategic projects in product metadata databases, and operational projects in entertainment industry distribution, virtual manufacturing, and supply chains

Business Analysis

- Broad experience of business analysis techniques including UML

- Roles have included capturing business requirements, workshop facilitation, process documentation, UAT, and identifying project risks, costs and benefits

Project Management

- Delivering on complex projects with teams of 2-6 people in environments with a high degree of uncertainty

- Employing elements of PRINCE2 or Agile (Scrum) methodologies as needed

Faraz Rizvi’s Specialties:

Business analysis, project management, virtual teams and collaboration, web applications, technology consulting, project risk/benefits analysis, metadata, content management, digital media, digital supply chains, order processing

Faraz Rizvi’s Experience

Lead Consultant

Release Consulting

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Project Manager / Business Analyst - IT Digital Initiatives

Universal Music Group International

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; V; Music industry)

August 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 7 months)

- Role evolved from a Business Analyst to Project Management

- Analysed and delivered local customisations required by France and Germany for a centralised Release scheduling system, which resulted in the decommissioning of local incumbent systems

- Analysed and project managed the development of an application that monitors the complexities of the digital supply chain into a dashboard

- Managed the development of Universal’s 3rd party digital distribution portal

- Responsible for understanding the technical interfaces and downstream system integration implications of redeveloping the global label copy system

- Chairperson on international operating committees, facilitating governance and stakeholder reporting

- Delivered as part of a global program of work to ensure IT systems were Sarbanes-Oxley compliant
Business Analyst - Data Services

Entertainment UK

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

June 2001 — June 2005 (4 years 1 month)

- Lead Analyst on website content integration and provision for entertainment products utilised by major UK e-tailers and retailers (Tesco, Play, Virgin, Woolworths Group).

- Consulting, analysing and implementing strategic projects with new and emerging technologies (digital music services, wireless PDA in-store deep catalogue customer ordering)

- Supply chain and order fulfillment integration with major UK e-tailers and m-tailers.
Head of Products

ION IT

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 9 months)

- Responsible for developing and delivering a hosted, online e-facilities suite to enable large multinationals manage their real estate and facilities. The service was launched successfully with Xerox, Seagram, and Reuters, and enabled them effectively manage several hundred million pound property portfolios.

- Business Consultant supporting technology and telecoms purchasing across Europe for a multinational company (Xerox). Analysing and reporting on annual $2bn spending trends to the European Financial Controller and Senior Director.

- Project Managing, developing and delivering bespoke software applications utilising offshore technical resources in India.