About

Omar Farooq is a Program Manager at Amazon with 7.78 years of relevant experience in program management, product and process enhancements, and operational excellence. He is responsible for providing premium paid services to tier 1 vendors in the US MP and has created a feature prioritization framework based on impact, cost, and risk model for Ops Roadmap. Omar has launched an automatic work allocation tool as an MVP post-pilot testing, reducing average allocation time and manual allocation. He has also developed a performance metric/funnel dashboard to monitor adoption and success of the launch, and automated the productivity calculation process, audit mechanism, and upgraded the input capturing mechanism. Omar has previously worked as a Program Management Intern at Amazon, where he worked on a project to reduce Andon pulls for the Watches Category and remove operational inefficiencies in the business. He engaged with stakeholders at multiple levels across functions to prioritize competing opportunities based on the impact and provided recommendations with a potential reduction of Andon TT inflow by 64% and TAT by 9% in a year. This resulted in an increase in OPS by $4.35M and a reduction in Concessions by $5.12M, a total FCF increase of $9.48M. Omar also has experience as a System Engineer at TCS, where he worked as a Java Developer for the development of a unified report for a banking client as the sole owner of the country-product by mediating with the client, onsite coordinator, Business Analyst & teams across geographies. During his stint, he worked on Java, SQL, and Spring framework in Agile Methodology (SCRUM). Omar holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Anna University. He completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Omar's TechStack includes Java, SQL, and test. He is a dynamic and result-driven professional with a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget while maintaining a high level of quality.