Usman Hafeez, Bsc(Eng), Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Providing Program/Sr. Project/Delivery Management consulting involving the planning, organizing, and managing of resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives by effectively applying PMP methodology and enforce project standards, utilizing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Responsibilities by role:Program Manager/Delivery Manager• Program/Delivery Manager for cross-functional teams using Agile processes• Accountable for a portfolio of initiatives/projects for multiple delivery teams, which involved communicating the project vision, objectives, and status across the organization as well as mitigating risks and managing issues that arise• Assessed delivery metrics to improve teams' processes and implemented process changes• Coached internal and external teams on Agile ProcessesSr. Project Manager• Provided project management for large scale data migration & mobile technologies projects, including data migration to Veeva Systems• Identified and reduced bottlenecks in the software development process for faster project implementation, including in project intake, project estimation, coordination between user experience design and business analysis, development and quality assurance• Participated in the adoption of Agile Scrum methodology, with small integrated teams involved in iterative releases with flexibility to change• Monitor, track, and report on project deliverables through each stage of the project life cycle to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget• Manage coordination across multiple concurrent releases• Responsible for the ownership and accountability of the delivery of business requirements and change requests in accordance with overall plan• Develop detailed project plans including multiple deliverables, dependencies, time lines and key milestonesClients include: NORC, Razorfish, Nokia, Leapfrog Online, Sears Holdings, Inc., JP Morgan Chase Bank, Paramount Homes

Chicago, Il, Us

Co Founder and Chief Technology Officer of AirView Corp., a startup that uses specialized UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to the placement of mobile sensors to structures for data gathering. AirView, by adding these mobile sensors to outdoor structures, significantly reduces the price for gathering data and expands structures that can easily be added to the Internet of Things. Responsibilities include:• Building up the Intellectual Property portfolio by working with the co-founder to submit multiple patents which include: • Wireless charging and transfer of mission for UAVs to expand scope of tasks that can be completed by UAVs • Placement of sensors via UAVs for data gathering, resulting in mobile sensors that reduce energy usage in gathering data for IoT• Develop go to market strategies alongside the CEO• Leading focus groups to refine the marketing approach to expanding market share• Develop UI/UX for app based interface to control/direct/request UAV actions• Manage hardware and software teams during the development of prototypes as proof of concept of the technology

Managing IT projects for a major philanthropic scholarship organization.• Responsible for successfully implementing IT projects by gathering end user needs, translating those needs to the development staff or vendors, and verifying milestones are met within budget.• Managed technology consulting and outsourcing projects• Managed multiple projects simultaneously.• Successfully implemented numerous projects which resulted in significant time and cost savings for the organization

Northbrook, Il, Us

• Responsible for proactively building working relationships with business partners to identify opportunities for improvement. • Interacted with business stakeholders to elicit and verify business requirements through formal and informal sessions; ask probing questions to promote full understanding of the scope and scale of the business needs.• Translated business requirements into functional and technical requirements, test plans and training materials; conducted formal and informal training sessions.• Actively participated in creating project estimates, cost benefit analysis, and the work plan; tracked progress to plan and adjusted approach to maintain commitments.

• Founding member of a start-up company which specializes in products and services for the Middle East and North Africa region.• Negotiated contracts and wrote memorandum of understanding to establish joint partnerships with other corporations.• Played a prominent role in the development of the strategic business plan and developed marketing material to advance the mission and operational goals. • Assisted in developing and directing the accomplishment of objectives, procedures, and work standards for the organization.

• Founding member of medical services start-up company, which included taking a prominent leadership role as primary developer of the business plan, establishing policies and goals, and ensuring the achievement of milestones.• Managed overseas development team by determined appropriate software architecture and communicated requirements, followed by quality assurance testing.• Gathered business and functional requirements to write documents such as the business plan, marketing material, and technical specifications for software developers.• Consulted with client companies to identify end-user needs and customized technology solutions to meet those needs. • Assisting in establishing and overseeing the execution of a comprehensive marketing strategy to increase the customer base.• Played a prominent role in the development of the strategic business plan to advance the mission and operational goals. Ensured that all administrative, financial and planning functions of the organization were performed at a high level of proficiency, thereby minimizing time and cost expenditure.• Assisted in developing and directing the accomplishment of objectives, procedures, and work standards for the organization.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Assumed key development and leadership role in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of unbilled minutes' functionality into the Interactive Voice Response system (IVR) which allowed customer’s to access minutes usage data through Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). Defined high level designs and detailed program specifications that met the set of requirements for the project. Acted as technical team leader for new development and enhancement.• Performed necessary analysis steps in application development including defining system scope and objectives through research, and fact-finding with others to develop an over-the-air activation system for cell phone users. Aided in completing significant portions of system analysis and design.• Development of code, testing, and preparation of technical documentation for new reporting system. Provided assistance in training technical support staff on new functionality and on-going application support.

• Developed programs in Java, JavaServer Pages, XML, C, and JavaScript for software development to demonstrate core technologies, as well as added further functionality in C and Java to existing software.• Chief designer and programmer Implement High Availability technology to server through the use of a NAT (Network Address Translation) and clustering solution, written in C.• Programmed a servlet written in Java and web data written in JSP and HTML to develop a web site that demonstrated the company's core technologies. Demo coded for use in an interactive manner by potential customers over the internet.• Programmed a data retrieval servlet in Java to retrieve data in XML format from server and display in a user-friendly and interactive manner. Data display using JSP, CSS and XSLT style sheets used in order to convert data from XML to HTML for ease of display on web browsers.• Tested advanced technologies using DegaGnu testing software.• Researched new technology for implementations with software.

• Reviewed and developed programs in C for wireless communication devices.• Altered existing software to introduce new wireless terminals to be supported by wireless NCU product.• Wrote software to implement new functionality to keyboards and scanners for various wireless terminals.• Coordinated with development counterparts in finding, reproducing, and troubleshooting bugs.• Driving and resolving issues blocking testing and the release of the product.• Developed test plans for the wireless devices.

Mba, International Business

Bs, Computer Engineering