JIRA
Aiman Azhar
Project / Program Manger
Lahore,PB
Summary
Dynamic and team-oriented IT Project Manager with 10 years of experience in asset management, risk mitigation and project leadership. Innovative and driven with passion for delivering high-quality work. Detail-oriented and focused on maintaining organisation and identifying opportunities for process improvements. To seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilising interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Manager
Educative.inc
Lahore, Punjab
05.2021 - Current
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Updated operational methods, oversaw accounting procedures, tracked information and compiled data to improve efficiency.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Identified, reviewed and applied policies and procedures.
- Eliminated discrepancies in progress by reviewing performance, spend and timeline.
- Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, procurement, sales and marketing, quality assurance and supply base.
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mockups.
- Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
- Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
- Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
- Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
Technical Project Manager
Digitify
Lahore, 54000
12.2019 - 04.2021
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
- Supported and executed simultaneous delivery of various e-commerce and mobile projects.
- Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mockups.
- Formulated integration system process flows, business process model and notation (BPMN) plans and data mapping diagrams based on stakeholders' specifications, technology surveys and interviews.
- Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing and planning sessions to validate requirements.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Owned and prioritised product backlog.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
- Managed multiple projects effectively in demanding environment with tight deadlines.
- Documented each step in product's design process for use in manuals.
Scrum Master
Arbisoft
Lahore, Punjab
01.2016 - 08.2019
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
Principal Quality Assurance Engineer
Arbisoft
Lahore, 54000
03.2015 - 12.2015
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
- Demonstrated new product features and functionality to clients, managers and team members.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
Business Analyst
CureMD
Lahore, 54000
12.2012 - 03.2015
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Built library of models and reusable knowledge-base assets to produce consistent and streamlined business intelligence results.
- Promoted enterprise-level risk management practices and helped instill strong culture focused on protective policies and procedures.
- Developed short-term goals and long-term strategic plans to improve risk control and mitigation.
- Analyzed and assessed functional and organizational activities.
- Assessed business processes and identified ways to boost improvement.
- Performed quality assurance checks on transactions and account actions to assess compliance with state and federal regulations.
- Maintained strong working knowledge of ERP, CRM and business intelligence tools and operational features.
- Collaborated closely with upper management to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes.
- Created workflow diagrams and Gantt charts to clearly demonstrate processes and timelines.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
NUST
Islamabad 09.2008 - 06.2012
Skills
Project planning and development
Business process re-engineering
Lean manufacturing and design
Project Management
Software Development Lifecycle
Research and trend analysis
Product development
Strategic planning
Public speaking
Documentation Management
Reporting template development
Team leadership and direction
Policy and procedure improvements
Software Documentation
Business process mapping
Data analysis
Workflow Analysis
Software
Mondaycom
Microsoft Projects
Confluence
Slite
Timeline
Project Manager
Educative.inc
05.2021 - Current
Technical Project Manager
Digitify
12.2019 - 04.2021
Scrum Master
Arbisoft
01.2016 - 08.2019
Principal Quality Assurance Engineer
Arbisoft
03.2015 - 12.2015
Business Analyst
CureMD
12.2012 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
NUST
09.2008 - 06.2012