Salman Malik, (Pmp, Pmi-Acp, Csp-Sm) Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As the CEO of Al-Hashmi Thobes, I oversee the strategic direction and overall operations of the business, ensuring product quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction. I lead marketing initiatives, product development, and partnership building to expand our market presence. Additionally, I manage our team, focusing on delivering top-tier thobes and apparel collections, while driving sustainable business growth.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Coached Scrum Masters and Agile teams to ensure adherence to Agile principles and continuous improvement.- Hired and mentored new Scrum Masters, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and effectiveness.- Led Agile workshops to educate teams on Agile practices, frameworks, and methodologies.- Developed and implemented Agile Maturity Models to assess and improve team performance and processes.- Collaborated with senior management to align Agile practices with business goals and objectives.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Facilitate agile ceremonies for technical tracks including: sprint iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups, sprint retrospectives and release planning - Manages release plans, iteration plans, time tracking and KPI’s, forecasting and status reporting of projects - Assists team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking - Proactively identifies and removes blockers, limits work in progress and prevents distractions - Coordinate the organization of project activities ensuring that projects/programs are completed on time and within budget constraints - Ensure project success by driving day-to-day operations through the application of sound project management principles and methodologies- Manage scope creep through change orders, phased delivery, and prioritization - Work with key stakeholders to ensure the impact of changes is understood and approved

Toronto, Canada Area

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (Backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily scrum, etc.)• Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups• Manage the life cycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment• Monitors and communicates the progress of project delivery and ensures timely and effective communication of project status in terms of cost, forecast, schedule, assessment of risks/issues, etc ; • Proactively anticipates project risks and ensure adequate response plans are put in place so that delivery is not compromised; • Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs• Ensures effective change control process is efficiently followed• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Enhance and develop policies, procedures and service systems to meet the goals of the department• Monitor departmental performance against goals to ensure that progress is being made, and that corrective action is taken if necessary• Ensures adherence to established methods to measure and maintain customer service excellence standards• Worked with Product Managers & Business owners to understand Business needs & problems and how technology can be used to address these challenges• Determine staffing requirements, and interview, hire and train new employees, or oversee those personnel processes

Toronto, Canada Area

- Managed data flow for Autos, Real Estate, Employment and other online classifieds products.- Managed and tested all new feed developments- Managed all technical feed projects- Worked with CanWest markets – site administrators, prepress, IT, managers – to ensure uninterrupted feeds- Worked with external data providers to ensure feeds conform to CDM standards and flow properly- Worked with third parties to ensure timely, accurate delivery of upsold products, change requirements, Corrections, etc- Ensured all classifieds feeds are working 24/7

- Ensured all Automotive feeds are working 24/7- Ensured all ads are getting to the right place with the right upsells- Worked with CITG (booking, billing and data transfer) and CDM Technical (ad repository, ad manager, and related tools) to manage support and issues escalation, rollouts, enhancements, etc- Supported Auto-dealers on various technical issues- Responsible for setting, modifying and cancelling dealers on existing feeds- Cross-train and document to ensure no service failures- Prepare and provide fulfillment reports on a weekly and monthly basis

- Data Storing and File Management- Maintained Servers; Installed Operating system & New Programs- Responsible for troubleshooting Macintosh computers and programs- Assisted Operations Manager for searching & ordering new hardware and software- Provided tech-support to internal staff- Programmed publishing software for automated processing- Liaison with 126 Canadian newspaper providers for content requests- Responsible for organizing Content Production during day shift for Administrators

Toronto, Canada Area

- Extracting and proofing files from Quark Express to PDF- Enhancing newspapers and magazines files to include story type, graphics, photos, by-lines and sources for FPInfomart/Canada.com- Process PDF pages for Electronic Edition Content- Provide support for FPInfomart database- Responsible for tracking missing content on system- Coordinate with Canadian newspaper clients to modify newspaper copy for the web

Project Manangement

- Passing PMP Exam

Project Management

- Fundamentals of Project Management - Managing Information Technology Projects

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