- Leading Scrum Team on Digital Disputes Project (Pega)- Managing Backlog Grooming- Leading Sprint Planning- Organizing and Facilitating Daily Stand-up Meetings- Maintaining RAID Log, Follow ups and Escalations- Facilitating Sprint Demo- Leading and Documenting Retrospectives

- Manage E2E implementation projects for Xactly sales management and compensation SAS products.- Organize Sales to Professional Services transition.- Organize Kick-off meeting and requirements gathering sessions.- Manage the process of creating, reviewing, approving FRD.- Plan, Schedule, Follow up project tasks from start to end, including design, demo, configuration, system integration testing, reviews.- Manage RAID log items, weekly updates, status calls and communication internally and externally.- Review and approve team time-sheets.- Manage UAT process, and report/track issues reported.- Organize the deployment and Go-live activities and transition to support.- Manage closure process and project docs archiving.

• Manage all phases of IT projects and agile releases within the Remote Banking & Shared Services department.• Kick off projects and releases with project team and stakeholders.• Plan and coordinate project activities with team leads.• Organize project and release meetings.• Collect project updates from project team and report status to management.• Manage project/release issues and risks and escalate to higher management as needed.• Manage, control and report project financials; approved budget, actual spending and remaining estimates. • Deliver the latest project status updates to senior management including directors and VPs. • Conduct project closure activities; including the delivery of final status report, budgetary assessments, conducting document archival for audit purposes.

• Coordinated and participated in projects proposals, initial estimates and high-level timelines.• Participated in recruiting and staffing project teams to work at several Toronto based financial institutions.• Provided direction, mentorship and guidance to project managers, scrum masters, team leads and other team members.• Coached scrum ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews & retrospectives.• Monitored projects’ performance across several pillars including cost, revenue, profit and team performance.• Participated in resources planning, and effective alignment of resources across different projects.• Reviewed and approved team timesheets and expense claims.• Maintained strong relationships with clients and projects stakeholders through re-occurring meetings while collecting constructive feedback on progress and challenges to help guide teams accordingly.• Organized various meetings across a vast spectrum of topics that included conducting presentations to clients, partners and internal teams.

- Drove and owned agile coaching and facilitation responsibilities.- Promoted the Agile and Scrum values, principles and practices within the scrum team. - Provided workshops/trainings on Agile/Scrum practices as needed. - Owned and managed the agile tooling for the team and assisted in JIRA administration.- Managed the project scope and high level timeline.- Coordinated the sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.- Identified and understood the dependencies, anticipated potential conflicts and risks, and communicated with stakeholders to reduce risks and resolve potential issues in advance- Facilitated the internal communication and effective collaboration.- Worked with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.- Resolved conflicts and handled impediments.- Ensured deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.- Guided development teams to higher scrum maturity.

• Project scope included the architectural design for a new physical datacenter. This involved a wide breadth of initiatives from the strategic selection of the physical location to host the datacenter to the architectural resiliency and availability. • Provided efficient capacity planning to pre-provision resources that cater to forecasted utilization. • Wrote RFP and conducted clarification sessions with bidding vendors.• Collected vendor proposals and coordinated proposal evaluation activities to align to success criteria.• Maintained contracts and vendor relationships.• Developed project charter, objectives, constraints and clearly defined project stakeholders.• Conducted the kick-off project meeting and presented high level milestones.• Reviewed vendor plans and identified any drift from the initial proposal to ensure alignment with internal project plans.• Reported project status to stakeholders and engaged them in the decision-making process.• Managed issues and risks and ensured effective resolution plans have been defined.• Organized and coordinated steering committee meetings.

- Outsourced to Mobily (see Mobily section in my experience)- Outsourced to Samba Financial Group (see Samba Financial Group section in my experience)- Managed Business Transformation project at STC (Telecom)- Managed Portal Development project at Saudi Aramco (Oil & Gas)Common Responsibilities:- Plan & kick off project with stakeholders- Prepare RFPs & proposals- Prepare & archive project documentation- Facilitate, monitor & control project activities- Manage project issues and risks proactively- Prepare & submit regular status reports- Facilitate & ensure successful delivery- Build & maintain strong relationship with customers & vendors- Facilitate project closure activities- Coordinate & participate in process improvement initiatives

• Oversight of software development for several independent change requests (average 10-15 concurrent change requests (CR), 2-8 weeks interval each).• Conducted meetings to review requirements and confirm the feasibility of proposed changes.• Facilitated and coordinated project activities (design, development, testing, release and deployment).• Facilitated and supported UAT activities conducted by lines of business.• Coordinated project Go-Live activities, and aligned teams’ deployments to minimize/eliminate production outages due to dependent platforms.

• Conducted project kick off with stakeholders.• Led and coordinated requirements gathering and scope definition workshops with clearly defined outcomes.• Developed project plans, managed issues, risks and mitigation plans. • Reported project status to stakeholders, providing transparency.• Followed up on project activities providing coordination between internal and vendor teams.• Organized and facilitated re-occurring project meetings to ensure objectives are continuously met.• Managed Go-Live by closely monitoring weighted traffic distribution, evaluating the impact of platform changes• Provided ongoing mentorship and support to junior project managers.

• Assisted in generating product roadmap to drive an enhanced customer experience.• Recruited & mentored a diverse team of analysts, graphic and web designers, developers and testers.• Facilitated several projects end-to-end from inception to final delivery.• Gathered client functional and non-functional requirements to align the most suited solution. • Led and managed Scrum ceremonies and activities towards revamping the in-house developed platform intended to deliver content management, order management system and online reservation through: - Backlog grooming, Sizing and prioritization, Sprint planning, Daily standups, Sprint reviews, Retrospectives.• Created near-real time dashboard providing granular visibility to the team.• Introduced an efficient development and test environment to the organization with toolsets and pipelines that drive improved team collaboration. • Restructured development environment, processes and tools.• Led and coordinated process improvement activities through strategic programs alignment.

Delivered successfully large migration program for a number of banking solutions, and several enhancements on international version of core banking (Phoenix).You can find more details about projects in below projects section in my profile.Duties & Responsibilities included:- Review project initial inputs and define process customization needs- Prepare project plans (scope, sizing, resources, schedule, issues, risks, quality control, quality assurance, etc.)- Conduct project kick-off- Monitor and control project activities- Manage project issues and risks- Report project status- Facilitate project delivery and closure- Participate in process improvement activities- Administrate Microsoft Project Server- Help new PMs joining PMO to familiarize with process and tools- Conduct peer-reviews with other colleagues/PMs in PMO

Contributed in business analysis, coding and testing of several releases of Real Estate Application (RETECH) through the following activities:- Write System Requirements Specifications (SRS)- Use Visio to draw screens interface components & work flow diagrams- Code and write database scripts using .Net and MS SQL Server- Write & execute test plans and test scenarios - Report defects and follow up bug fixing on tracking tools