Adam Arif Email & Phone Number

Newark, New Jersey, Us

Overseeing all project operations from inception to execution. Responsible for maintaining budgets and enforcing deadlines. Ensuring that projects follow PMO principles/values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.* Maintain organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.* Direct technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.* Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.* Verify application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.* Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.* Training, mentoring, and supporting teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.* Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.* Scheduling and facilitating events, meetings, and decision-making processes.* Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.* Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.* Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the team.* Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.* Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

New York, Ny, Us

I've been responsible for Cloud Manager & Atlas, a cloud-based web application for deploying, monitoring, and backing up MongoDB deployments of any size and configuration. Working within the Cloud Services team at MongoDB, and helping with planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile project teams.• Defining and shaping how the Cloud Services team works, including working out how we apply Scrum and Kanban within each individual team, how we account for maintenance and escalation support, how we conduct deployments, and how we work with the other upstream engineering teams at MongoDB• Supporting the Director of Project Management in forming realistic Quarterly Plans that execute our Product Roadmap, and track/report on progress throughout• Supporting teams up and down our technology stack including java, javascript, and infrastructure work.• Working closely with the engineering leads to help them manage their backlogs and maintain a consistent view of their workload• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives and demos with teams• Estimate upcoming work, to review how past work went and how to continuously improve in order to deliver great product features rapidly• Own scope and spec tracking process

New York, New York, Us

I'm responsible for managing the development of high value applications, which are leveraged across MLBAM's platforms and properties. Also for managing iterations, coordinating development resources, prioritizing and scheduling feature implementation with stakeholders, quality assurance and feature deployment. Manage each piece of the SDLC for multiple mobile applications across multiple platforms.

New York, Ny, Us

I’ve had the primary responsibility to oversee one or more technology products or services. Managed daily operations according to Viacom standards, including both Agile/Lean and traditional approaches. Worked to identify key customers and stakeholders. Take an active leadership role in the team and created an environment that fosters the prescribed methods and processes. Helped enable the team to adhere to established SLA’s, maintain a consistent flow of tasks, and satisfy our brands and stakeholders. • Understand and follow the Viacom process frameworks for operations to efficiently deliver service to the business.• Negotiate OLA’s with internal groups and SLA’s with internal/external customers and vendors.• Facilitate the creation of a well-defined Activity Backlog.• Oversee the creation and maintenance of a documentation library.• Work across multiple teams to coordinate operational activities and manage dependencies.• Work with offshore support and maintenance teams to tightly integrate them into the operational workflow.• Ensure team resources are applied appropriately.• Work with Product Management and/or key stakeholders to prioritize work.• Facilitate change control and risk mitigation.• Analyze risk and mitigation accordingly, including establishing contingency plans and initiating corrective action.• Track and report key operational metrics while keeping all stakeholders informed of status and issues. • Manage relationships with the Product Team and/or stakeholders.• Arbitrate and resolve conflict within the team.• Coordinate participation of different tech and business groups in requirements gathering, specifications, design, development and implementation of key deliverables.• Promulgate department-wide operational processes.

Virginia Beach, Va, Us

As a Technical Project Manager (TPM), I developed the functional specifications for site features. Plan and review the navigational user interface design. Plans and review site architecture for new web site products and features. Troubleshoot, test and oversee the launch of new products. Coordinate among cross functional to identify challenges, recommend and implement solutions.• Responsible for complete project life cycles, including requirements determination, technical planning, scheduling, design, implementation, testing, and post-implementation support.• Serves as liaison between company and client technical and executive management teams.• Implemented Scrum to manage and control development work, with significant productivity improvements.• Interface and collaborate with product teams at Brightcove to identify integration points, negotiate additional API functionality requests and provide support both during the integration process and post-launch; responsible for launching the video section of the site.• Coordinated with teams at Six Apart to implement and launch the Movable Type blogging platform. • Responsible for ongoing product updates to the existing CMS (Sitecore), coordinating both functional and content releases.

New York, Ny, Us

The Product Development Manager (PDM) plays a pivotal role in all technical projects: guiding, designing and overseeing initiatives from early business requirements through roll-out. As a PDM, I constantly interact with business stakeholders, information designers, content developers, graphical designers, front-end producers, developers, and the quality assurance team to coordinate the execution of the best results possible. While the emphasis of the position is on the translation of business needs into great product, I also function as a technical consultant and advisor to the business case development and management. Excellent communication skills are imperative to ensure that product specifications are understood by all product development team members and that project status is continuously shared with stakeholders.• Manage all technical projects, ensuring each project's successful completion within budget and timeframe, and according to expected quality levels and stated business requirements.• Coordinated between several key cross-functional groups. • Accountable for ongoing product updates, coordinating both functional and content releases.• Conceptualized, designed and directed the development of software products targeted for internal admin tools. • Managed project scheduling, tracks and resolved dependencies, and made key decisions to ensure timely delivery of product releases.

New York, Ny, Us

Initiated and established processes for Responsibilities included, Regression testing, Scripted testing, Stress/Load testing, Product verification, and Bugs tracking.• Provide hands-on technical leadership and people management of a small team of QA engineers to ensure the on time, high quality delivery of an educational website.• Direct the design, specification, and execution of test plans to minimize risk within the constraints of the website development schedule.• Provided input to technical writers and review documentation for new features.• Worked with product development to ensure testability of product designs. • Worked with development managers and engineers to identify areas of risk and address problems in a timely fashion. • Conducted database testing of stored procedures, schemas, and SQL scripts using SQL Navigator.• Performed regression, manual testing/ Unit testing for various functionality of application.• Executed load and performance testing using Microsoft’s Web Application Stress Tool also Rational’s SiteLoad, and Paessler’s Webserver Stress Tool, along with several other tools.• Involved in migration of code to .NET Framework, and tested prototype on .NET platform.• Executed cross browser/platform compatibility testing in all versions of Netscape, IE browsers & AOL

Us

• Created agency-wide contract tracking system.• Developed Database Test Scripts using Database checkpoints.• Monitored and enhanced existing Access database.• Train clerical staff to update the developed database.

• Provided input to technical writers and review documentation for new features.• Worked with product development to ensure testability of product designs. • Worked with development managers and engineers to identify areas of risk and address problems in a timely fashion. • Conducted database testing of stored procedures, schemas, and SQL scripts using SQL Navigator.• Performed manual testing/ Unit testing for various functionality of application.• Provide hands-on technical leadership and people management of a small team of QA engineers to ensure the on time, high quality delivery of a retail website.• Direct the design, specification, and execution of test plans to minimize risk within the constraints of the website development schedule.

• Designed web site using HTML around ASP and XML.• Worked with Java developers to create dynamic page elements and templates.• Hand-coded HTML and JavaScript to develop webpages• Image mapping and combining split images into a whole image using HTML.• Created and integrated Macromedia Flash elements into the site.• Responsibilities include planning, design, deployment and maintenance of website. • Cut and optimize graphic elements using Adobe Photoshop.

Computer Science

Computer Science