Hujefa Gangardiwala, Development Manager

Hujefa Gangardiwala

Development Manager

Woolworths Group

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Advanced Software Technology
Experience
22 years, 10 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 10 months

Development Manager at Woolworths Group
  • Australia
  • My current job since May 2018

Devise software development and resource plans; Coordinate delivery of software developed within a program into production; Manage IT delivery to time, budget and quality; Ensure appropriate quality checks are in place on all IT Deliverables; Identify and proactively manage risks and issues for the project; Lead a team of developers both onshore and offshore; Resource management / delegation of work to teams; Work in close association with project manager by taking the end to end accountability of technology solution.

Operations Manager at TechnipFMC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2007 to March 2018

Operational management of Corporate Development Center (CDC); Devise software development & resource plans; Projects Completion & Delivery; Ensure Quality Checks for IT deliverables; Build strong relationships with key stakeholders; Management of scope, budgets, financials, risks, issues and actions; Responsible for business critical internal software systems (intranet, internet, mobile apps); Team Mobilization & Performance management; Drive continuous improvement of Agile & Iterative delivery processes.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
* Development and production of 50+ critical applications on ASP.NET, SharePoint, HTML5/Angular, Oracle, SQL Server, Xamarin & Ionic
* Successfully running 15-20 new/active projects each year. Project Sizes ranging from 500-to-25000 man-hours
* Successfully collaborated with 10 key Business domain managers (internal stakeholders) in planning and delivering projects as per agreed roadmaps.
* Establishment and management of a budget of up to USD 5.5 million
* Recruitment and management of a large multicultural team, 12 nationalities peaking at 53 engineers
* Completed 8 technology foundation & dev platform upgrade projects - latest: upgraded intranet project technology introducing HTML5/CSS3, Angular & TypeScript
* Introduced Mobile Apps (iOS, Android & Windows) using Xamarin and Ionic Framework
* In-housed Enterprise Application Integration team skilled to work in BizTalk and SSIS within a quarter.
* Ensured Zero process non-compliances on all projects conforming with CMMi L3 standards
* Expanded team skills by organizing and running 4 technical and 3 soft skills-based training
* Won TechnipFMC Innovation Awards for Responsive Web App solution to improve Ergonomics of Industrial Plant Engineering & GIS-based Navy Security System

Software Architect at Al-Futtaim Systems, Technologies & Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2003 to December 2006

Responsible of design and development of new intranet and internet solution plaforms. To enhance current solution architectures to implement web applications and portals. Integrate the web-based applications with legacy applications.

Application Developer at Informap Production LLC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2002 to November 2003

To design and develop web/desktop GIS-based solutions. This involved providing value-added services over interactive mapping systems. Responsible for software development, testing, integration and deployment of projects.

Software Developer at 3Genesis- Winet Software Services Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • June 2001 to April 2002

1) Responsible for timely execution and quality implementation assigned projects.
2) Part of an on-site and offshore team that travels to Europe/UK and the US for software development and integration projects.

Education

Master's degree, Advanced Software Technology
  • at National Center for Software Technology
  • June 2001

Stood First in the course with 80% overall percentage.

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunications
  • at College of Engineering
  • June 2000

This is a four-year engineering degree course under the University of Pune. I have done specialization in communication systems and system programming. Obtained first class all four years. FIRST Class Degree holder.

High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at The Indian High School
  • March 1996

Completed schooling in Dubai

Specialties & Skills

Integration
Web Applications
Software Development
Science
C and Data Structures
c++ (cpluzpluz)
Developer 2000
visual studio 6.0 (vb, vc++ (cpluzpluz), interdev)
Oracle 8i (PL/SQL, Pro*C)
SQL Server 2000
HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, PERL, ASP,PHP,Flash
Java (RMI, JDBC, JFC-Swing)
Windows 2000
COM, ActiveX, J2EE
Rational Rose 2000 (Rational Unified Process)
Win32 Programming
Visual Studio .NET (VB.NET)
MS Access
ASP.NET
ESRI tools- ArcIMS, ArcView
Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Flash
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003
XML Web Services

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Urdu
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2013