Ayesha Shoaib Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

• Successfully implemented SAFe, Agile scrum frameworks for software development teams, allowing for increased predictability, efficiency and productivity by 30%.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, demos, reviews, PI Planning sessions, and Inspect and Adapt events to ensure all objectives were met, the projects progressed.
• Collaborated with stakeholders, RTEs, other Scrum Masters, Release managers, Senior leadership and business owners to proactively identify risks and dependencies for Agile projects, reducing the chance for costly.
• Successfully coached and mentored, provided guidance and training to existing or new team members on SAFe and Agile best practices and best practices.
• Based on regular monitoring and feedback, utilized Scrum methodology consistently to drive progress and Continuous process improvement. Improved Agile processes overall.
• Created Multiple Dashboards for tracking and visibility, leading to improvement in ART performance by 30%.

Irvine, California, United States

• Managed the delivery of a high-visibility, enterprise-level projects, coaching and supporting teams to successfully delivered projects on time.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, demos, and reviews, to ensure all objectives were met and the project progressed on schedule.
• Successfully negotiated, escalated and managed project dependencies, resulting in reduction in project risk.
• Used agile metrics to measure and improve team performance, resulting in increase in team efficiency.
• Reduced the number of blockers by 50% and increased the team's ability to deliver high-quality features by leading several Scrum of Scrums (SoS).
• Improved team morale by 20% by leading team-building activities, fostering open communication, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and trust.

Irvine, CA

• Lead team of 40 project managers across 6 locations globally and managed their workload.
• Planned long and short-term allocation of resources, ensured timely development, coaching and retention of resources.
• Monitored day to day communication of project managers with clients and other departments for operational support and lead meetings to ensure successful completion of projects.
• Reviewed and approved quotes sent out by the sales team to verify costs and project times to ensure profitability and timely delivery.
• Established project delivery guidelines for the PM team, which improved turnaround time of projects by 20%.
• Collaborated with BDMs and contracts department for revenue growth by looking at lost opportunities with current clients.

Irvine, CA

• Managed workflow for the entire PM team and assigned projects to PM’s based on experience and workload
• Monitored communications between PM’s and the client daily to ensure quality and timely delivery of projects
• Lead weekly meetings to discuss project managers’ challenges and resolve issues with vendors and other departments
• Facilitate effective communication between project managers and Sales team and set the expectations of project timelines
• Managed Freelance vendors and overseas resources and negotiated rates and project timelines. Created a standard base rate resulting in an average savings of 31% for small scale project
• Generated and submitted variety of reports on daily, weekly and monthly basis for CEO to review

Irvine, CA

• Managed variety of translation and localization projects, with extensive knowledge of clinical trials document localization.
• Team lead for Long term clinical trials studies. Managed the team as well as point of contact for the vendor and client. Team worked 24 hours in 4 distinct Geo’s (US, SE Asia, Europe and S. America)
• Assigned translators/interpreters for translation projects with efficient scheduling to ensure timely delivery of projects.
• Oversee vendors’ selection, allocation, communication, and budgeting and contracts negotiation.
• Lead project team and provided support by sharing expertise
• Maintained a positive working relationship with clients across the world while meeting extremely tight delivery deadlines.

Irvine, CA

Fountain Valley, CA

• Managed the speaker and sessions layout for the 2 yearly International conferences
• Kicked off the process by sending out request for submissions to about 2000 registered global members and tracking their responses
• Responsible for dealing with all submissions of Economic theory and research papers for the conferences and coordinate with all participants (globally) to validate and prepare their sessions
• Review submitted Abstracts of research papers to verify suitability of topic/content for presentations, reported to President of the Association (Dean at CSUF)
• Scheduled Keynote speakers and corresponding breakout sessions to align with the theme of the conference
• Maintained the member database and ran SQL reports to provide member and cost data for the VP of member services