Abdullah Alkeilani

ABDULLAH (“ABE”) ALKEILANI - (M) |-| Current Location: Livonia, MI, USA | https://www.linkedin.com/in/aalkeilani Specializes in the Solutioning of Products and Programs focusing on Cloud, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation. Technology Product Leader with 20+ years of experience managing cross-functional technical teams and implementing enterprise software solutions. Strong background in cloud environments, application development pipelines, and technical team leadership. Experience driving collaboration between development and operations teams with a focus on automation, efficiency, and security. Program Management | Product Strategy | Software Architecture | Systems Engineering | Software Development Vendor Management | Risk Management | Process Improvements | Data-Driven Change Management | Product Roadmaps PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Ford Motor Company | Product Strategist - Designer / United States (US), Dearborn, Michigan (MI) 6/2023 – 3/2025 • Led product discovery, design and development, aligning with strategic goals and optimizing supplier data insights. • Served as a liaison between the development team and customers, ensuring clear communication of requirements, aligning product features with customer needs, and facilitating feedback loops to enhance product satisfaction and functionality. • Owned data-driven solution targeting manufacturing supplier sustainability and risk resilience. • Performed modelling analytical factors to forecast potential risks and predict disruptions of Ford’s production based on suppliers' manufacturing anomalous practices, supply network behaviors, historical supply, and demand data. 4/2022 – 4/2023 Miracle Software Systems, Inc. | AI/ML Product Manager / US, Dearborn, MI • Oversaw customer experience (CX) for AI/ML platforms, enabling efficient model deployment in hybrid environments. • Evaluated Computer Vision vendors specialized in handling unstructured data, discovery and search, and labelling. • Assessed Ford's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) use cases for AI/ML. 3/2020 – 4/2022 Wipro Limited | Engineering Product Manager / US, Remote • Apple - Collaborated with Apple’s Engineering Managers, leading concurrent, day-to-day cross-teams planning and execution for 4 global and AppleCare critical PaaS/SaaS products across multiple Data Centers (DC). • Acted as Product Owner in project that involved transitioning legacy systems to AWS Cloud, optimizing delivery pipelines. 11/2019 – 3/2020 AAA - The Auto Club Group (Contract) | Agile Consultant / US, Dearborn, MI • Delivered data-driven assessments for adopting agile methodology, identifying readiness opportunities and gaps. • Evangelized for best practices, including for facilitating customers’ in-take process. • Completed end-to-end audit of current agile workflows and processes. 5/2019 – 11/2019 MacGregor Partners, LLC | Solutions Architect / US, Remote • Directed design and implementation for logistics solutions using Blue Yonder WMS, ensuring seamless integration and reducing shipping errors. • Identified key user requirements to deliver pre-shipment validation, resulting in cost savings and risk mitigation. 6/2017 – 2/2019 Amazon.com, Inc. | Technical Program Manager / US, Detroit, MI • Oversaw the development of a home-grown platform in collaboration with data scientists, developers, and designers transforming and migrating big data without requiring service setup, integration code, scaling, or operational burden. • Ensured compliance with SOC and internal Amazon Security standards • Defined program goals and metrics, tracking data to report status on initiatives and make data-driven recommendations to refine policies, processes and objectives. • Provided regular roadmap communication to customers, partners, and senior management. • Served as product owner in defining Minimum Viable Product (MVP), user stories, epics, and use cases, serving as a liaison between development and business teams. Achievements: • Increased YoY adoption and engagement 100% amongst unique active users. 1 ABDULLAH ALKEILANI • PAGE | 2 Increased the YoY net promotor score (NPS) for a critical metric by 44%. 3/2015 – 5/2017 E-Nor | Business Development Manager / Qatar, Doha • Cultivated inbound and outbound sales pipeline & strategies, identifying cross-sell and upsell opportunities for digital user behavioral and social analytics solutions. • Established customer relationships while managing projects executions for next gen digital transformation and web/social analytics for key strategic clients in governments, telecom, and media agencies. • Managed onboarding and retention of new and existing clients, serving as the first point of contact. • Responded to RFPs, drafting SoWs that set pricing while leading customer presentations, demos, and proof of concepts. • Clients: MBC Group, Saudi Airline, Emaar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Qatar), Qatar Charity, and Du. 9/2013 – 8/2015 Qatar Mobility Innovations Center | Product Release & Planning Manager / Qatar, Doha ● Delivered home-grown Intelligent Mobility and Smart Cities platform to key national partners. ● Designed and enforced software development procedures & workflows to improve efficiency & collaboration by 33%. ● Implemented an agile and ITIL development environment and led a Continuous Integration best practice initiative, conducting training & coaching on Scrum, Agile, JIRA, Confluence, and Bamboo. ● Clients: Ministry of Interior, Qatar University, Qatar Foundation, Shell, and Ashghal. 2/2013 – 9/2013 Longbow Advantage, Inc. | Product Leader / Consultant / Remote • Delivered consulting & implementation services to JDA RedPrairie's Warehouse Management System (WMS) clients. 4/2007 – 2/2013 RedPrairie, Inc. (aka. JDA / BY / Blue Yonder | Solutions Architect / US, Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Developed and managed the implementation of WMS for key customers (AT&T, Bosch, Brightpoint, JCP, and others) providing technical leadership, including requirement analysis, software engineering, and code review. • Collaborated with Project Management on RFPs, billing quotes, and other effort estimates such as proof of concepts (POC), mock-go-lives, and go-live support for both on-site and remote. • Performed all staff management functions for 9 onsite and offshore direct reports, including hiring, monitoring day-to-day activities, and performance evaluations. EDUCATION Master of Science in Engineering Management / University of Michigan – Rackham Graduate School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Bachelor of Computer Science / University of Michigan – Dearborn, MI, USA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Detroit Police Reserve Academy (Part Time Volunteering Reserve Police Officer | Squad Leader – Est. June 2025). Product Management for AI and ML | ELVTR Digital Product Management – Modern Fundamentals | University of Virginia - Coursera Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) | Marketing Strategy Fundamentals (SCMS-F) – SCRUMstudy Google Analytics Individual Certification – Google Project Management Fundamentals – Qatar University PROFICIENCIES Team Management and Mentoring, Technical Leadership, Project Management, System Delivery, Database Design and Management, Systems Architecture, Application Development, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, E-Commerce, OnPrem, Clouds, AWS, GCP, Salesforce CRM, IoT (Internet of Things), Digital Marketing , Atlassian, JIRA, Confluence, Product Strategy, Product Roadmap Development, Agile Methodology, Market Research, A/B Testing, Data Analysis, Data Ingestion, Data Collection, Data Transformation, Data Storage, Technical Writing, Product Marketing, Tableau, Blue Yonder/JDA/RedPrairie, Warehouse Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning, SQL, UAM, ServiceNow, Matomo, Splunk, Unix, Pre-Sales, Account Management, Rally, Radar, SIM, Jenkins, OKRs-based MBR, KPI, project portfolios, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, LabelBox, Voxel51, Snorkel AI, RAG, Computer Vision, NLP, Amplitude, Google Analytics, Problem Solving, Data and Metrics, Use Data, Quantitative Skills, Leading Team, Interpersonal Skills, Attention to Detail, Tools and Systems Integration, Data Governance, Cross-Teams Alignment, Presenting to Executives, Accountability 2