Tariq Mehmood, AI Business Analyst

Tariq Mehmood

AI Business Analyst | Solution Architect | Forward Deployed Engineer
New Jersey

About

Business Analyst and Head of IT & Business Operations with 10+ years of experience across healthcare, fintech SaaS, and education technology. I translate business needs into clear requirements, build EHR and executive reporting in Power BI, Tableau, and Salesforce, and lead UAT through go-live. Today I also design and ship AI-enabled automation and internal tools for a multi-office behavioral health practice.

10+years in business analysis
3industries: healthcare, fintech, edtech
13AI agents in my DevOps pipeline

Experience

2024 to Present

Head of IT & Business Operations

Cognitive Behavior Institute · Pittsburgh, PA

  • Own technology and business systems for a 3-office practice with 86 staff across the USA, India, and the Philippines.
  • Oversee EHR operations and reporting, HIPAA-aligned operations, security, and a portfolio of about 30 vendors.
  • Turn executive and department needs into requirements, then design, build, test, and roll out internal tools.
2024 to 2025

Business Analyst II, Reporting

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

  • Delivered Power BI, Tableau, and Excel reporting for 7 teams, including Credentialing and Provider Network.
  • Documented Salesforce flows, BRDs, FRDs, and user stories; led UAT for Salesforce releases.
2024

Technical Business Analyst

Public Consulting Group · Austin, TX

  • Gathered requirements for special education platforms used by school districts in multiple states.
  • Designed web and mobile UX flows in Axure RP; validated REST APIs in Postman.
2023 to 2024

Business Systems Analyst

UnitedHealthcare (Optum Rx) · New York, NY

  • Defined requirements for the Optum Rx provider search on web and mobile.
  • Built Tableau and Salesforce executive scorecards; led UAT, A/B, and prototype testing.
2017 to 2022

IT Business Analyst, Implementations & Activations

Payactiv, Inc. · Silicon Valley, CA

  • Reduced client onboarding time by 20% working across Sales, Legal, Compliance, and IT.
  • Owned API integrations with UKG, ADP, Paychex, Paycor, Paylocity, QuickBooks, and Rippling.
2015 to 2016

Junior Business Analyst

Apple Bank · New York, NY

  • Supported requirements and cross-device UAT for iOS and Android mobile banking apps.

Selected projects

AI · DevOps

13-Agent AI DevOps Team

A sequential build, test, and release pipeline with BA, architect, QA, DevSecOps, UAT, release, and SRE agents, plus a live dashboard.

AI · RAG

AI Website Chatbot

Answers website visitors and internal staff from a searchable knowledge base.

Security

Email Threat Detection

Flags phishing, scams, and malware across company Gmail mailboxes, with an admin dashboard.

Web app

Project & Task Management

A Kanban app with department routing, team dashboards, and Google Calendar sync, adopted across departments.

Automation

HR Approval Workflow

A multi-level HR to Executive approval flow built on Google Forms, Sheets, and Apps Script.

Governance

Vendor Management System

The framework that governs about 30 technology and service vendors: selection, contracts, renewals, and performance.

Skills

Analysis & Delivery

Requirements ElicitationBRD / FRD / SRSUser StoriesProcess MappingGap AnalysisUATAgile / ScrumWaterfallStakeholder Management

Data & Reporting

Power BITableauSQLExcelLooker StudioEHR ReportingKPI & Dashboard Design

Platforms & Integration

SalesforceJiraConfluenceREST APIsPostmanGoogle Apps Script

Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Systems

AI AgentsMulti-Agent OrchestrationLangGraphLangChainCrewAIAutoGenModel Context Protocol (MCP)

LLMs & Retrieval (RAG)

ClaudeChatGPTGeminiRetrieval-Augmented GenerationPineconepgvectorChroma

AI Coding Tools

Claude CodeCursorGitHub Copilot

Automation

n8nZapierMakePower Automate

Development & Cloud

PythonNext.jsReactFirebaseDockerGitHub ActionsAWSAzureGoogle Cloud

Education & certifications

B.S. Computer Science

Business Analysis (Microsoft) · Project Management Foundations (Microsoft)

Business Application Engineer (Cisco) · Engaging Stakeholders for Success (Cisco)