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Dubai, AE

New York, NY, US

Fair Pattern is a 20 year old Minority owned enterprise with offices in New York, Dubai, India and Bangladesh. We are a group of experienced project managers, developers, analysts with 20+ years of experience in delivering projects and resources using cutting edge Ai / ML and Cloud technology. We have been in the project consulting and delivery space for 2.

Old Greenwich, CT, US

• Successfully managed an online simulation product called Websim, that lets users back test financial models using python codes or alpha expressions on a set of market data for TOP 3000 US stocks
• Setup Jira Agile Scrum to migrate issue lists from BugZilla and drove developers and other BA’s to utilize Jira for sprint based deliveries
• Delivered several business requirement documents along with flow diagrams and use cases for multiple projects within Websim
• Successfully managed the delivery of converting Websim web version to a fully featured mobile application for Iphone and Ipad along with a 60 page mobile application Functional Requirement
• Actively involved with QA test cases, UAT testing and release management
• Researched and helped setup MYDBR, a MySQL based tool to create Ad hoc reports utilizing MySQL stored procedures

Gogarburn, GB

• RBS Group – OCT 2013 – PresentProject Manager / Business Analyst
• Successfully delivered a high visibility project on time and on budget to be used by the US Treasury and other high profile Investors
• Delivered a 72 page Business and Functional requirement document for the RBSMobile project. This project is a thin iPad client that tiers with several service layers to bring in confidential strategy articles from RBS.
• Delivered technical requirement document with data flow, web service flow, caching rule and security architecture by collaborating with tech lead
• Created project plan, work breakdown, time estimation and planned resources for the project
• Conducted regular business stakeholder Agile sessions, managed client expectations, risks and delivered project plan and updates every Friday on a weekly status review

Houston, TX, US

• Delivered a high visibility water payment portal project initiated by Houston Mayor Anise Parker
• Project Managed the City of Houston Water Bills Portal – www.houstonwaterbills.org for its conversion from classic ASP to Asp.Net / HTML 5, implemented responsive design for 320, 420 and 720 px as well as a Mobile iOS.
• Planned and interviewed resources for the construction and QA phase
• Arranged daily scrum sessions to go over tasks and new items
• Maintained Jira for task tracking and delivery status
• Delivered a 165 page functional requirement document with business flow diagrams, use cases and wire frames for the City of Houston Permitting project

Houston, Texas, US

• Delivered a high usage and crucial supply chain project with $5 million budget that has 12,000 users in 80 locations
• Duties involved delivering key requirements for eTrace Base, QOTD and FTL RIG applications every week with an agile development methodology
• Maintained project plan for an Agile delivery and worked on project specification and architecture documents for new releases
• Managed client and field expectations within the Schlumberger network in a highly challenging environment
• Implemented internal software to tackle bugs and everyday maintenance
• Monitored application performance, SQL indexes and application response time

• 8 years of intense project management experience and managed 35 offshore resources
• Interviewed, hired and managed a team of 35 developers, QA engineers, architects
• Managed and delivered successful projects utilizing both onshore and offshore resources in PHP5,.Net 1, 2, 3.5 MS SQL, XML, MySQL, C#, ecommerce, payment gateway integration
• Worked on multiple ecommerce projects with deep understanding of user experience, adaptive sites, personalization, shopping cart management, usability and targeting the right content to the right audience, payment.
• Successfully managed client expectation, project needs, delivery and QA with a strong focus on usability, efficiency and testing
• Maintained multiple project plans and utilized Agile / Waterfall delivery methodology

Finance And Economics Certificate, Economics

Marketing, Marketing

Bs, Computer Science And Math