Imad Akhrass

Lead - Group Global Data & Analytics Transformation, Value and Engagement @Vodafone

London, GB

o Three times awarded Vodafone\'s \"Global STAR\" for outstanding performance.o Delivered 8 data & analytics products using common semantic models and Google Cloud / SAP platforms.o Enabling €X m in OpEx savings by transitioning markets to the new data platform and enabling decommissioning.o chaired 3 successful Global Data & Analytics forums, captivating 260+ participants through interactions.The data strategy involves migrating our big data workloads to the cloud using SAP and GCP, providing reliable, secure, cost-effective, and sustainable analytics, insights, machine learning, and GenAI capabilities via an integrated platform.• Report to the Head of Nucleus Programme, I lead analysts globally.• Set priorities for program delivery and business engagement. • Engage senior leaders, driving global technology and data strategy programmes and managing global priority gaps.• Own, govern and track the Group Technology and D&A value framework, measuring and tracking RoI against budget.• Establish demand management process and support our strategic data governance and management risk programme• Ensure roadmap and PI cycles effectively allocate resources to support demands, proof of concepts and agile delivery.• Evolve analysis activities by embedding best practices, machine learning and AI to identify gaps and maximise value.• Document requirements, analyse complex data for fit/gaps, and create use cases for Customer Value Propositions.• Review As-Is processes to design streamlined To-Be journeys, creating architectures, frameworks, and toolkits.• Manage delivery workstreams until go-live, including knowledge transfer, change management, and TOM definition.• Create business cases and provide consultative input into Service Design, Operations and Transition.• Manage user stories, risks and product backlogs, and define test scenarios and acceptance criteria.• Using ARIS, SAP Signavio, Jira, Confluence and Qliksense. Learning Alteryx, Celonis and Collibra.

The Knowledge Academy

ITIL V3, Best practice for IT Service Management

The King's School, Grantham, United Kingdom

A-levels

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Management of Risk, Risk management

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TOGAF 9 - (The Open Group Architecture Framework), Framework for enterprise architecture

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Prince2 project management, Project Management

Vodafone University

Kanban Agile way of working

University of Staffordshire

BSc (Honors), Computing Science

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Six sigma, Process improvement