Senior Project/Requirements Manager
NASA
Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months
As a MITS contract Project/Requirements Manager, my duties include
• Planning, directing, and controlling project implementations utilizing PMP and Agile/Scrum Methodologies.
• Current Project: Leading the development effort for the 2nd generation of the instant issuance payment cards program utilizing both EMV and MagStripe technologies while complying with PCI DSS regulations.
• Primarily responsible for the strategic implementation of new technology solutions and identifying new technologies to improve and enhance the organization's business goals.
• Responsible for having exposed the development team to the Agile practices that have become the norm during my time with the company
• Led the initiative to increase code quality and productivity through leadership and guidance in areas such as Test/Behavior Driven Development, and Agile Estimation and Planning
• Introduced the use of automated testing tools such as Selenium and QTP to reveal and document, as well as drive development of, behavior in a large legacy code base.
• Delivered working software every four weeks
As an IT Project Manager, I am maintaining business strategies by managing staff, researching and implementing strategic solutions. Responsibilities include:
o Coordinating internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
o Ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
o Assisting in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
o Developing a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
o Managing changes to projects scope, projects schedule, and projects costs using PMI recommended verification techniques
o Measuring project performance
o Reporting and escalating to executive management as needed
o Performing risk management to minimize projects risks
o Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation
• As an Agile expert, I am also acting as CPI Nashville Scrum Coach by providing coaching and education to CPI Nashville business, executives, management, practice leads and development teams on Agile and Scrum methodologies. Other responsibilities includes identifying people, process and technology issues and collaborating with Scrum Masters, Business Owners, Product Managers, managers and development teams to propose solutions
o I am currently member of the Global CPI PMO organization responsible of the full transformation into Scrum Product Management methodology.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Acting as single point of contact between the Information Technology department and other business units within NASBA different units.
• Product Owner for two Agile Scrum Development Teams.
• Maintaining and prioritizing different products backlog for each business unit.
• Grooming and maintaining story backlog for assigned software products.
• Working with internal/external stakeholders to create accurate Epics, and User Stories.
• Representing stakeholders’ interests and ensuring projects are accurately realizing end user needs.
• Understanding and confirming Quality Assurance (QA) methods and working with the QA team to verify accurate story completion utilizing a test driven development approach and through meaningful test plans, test automation, and bug resolution
• Facilitating proper handoffs of newly implemented systems
• Lead product owner responsible of managing release, and feature prioritization for two of ICA products.
• Member of ICA's Product Council consulting on product/feature opportunities to increase company’s product portfolio.
• Project Manager for Product Release delivering a working software every three weeks while ensuring product feature completion, compliance to Healthcare regulations, documentation tracking and completion on Scope, time and budget.
• Ramped up two teams of software developers, QA Engineers, and Technical Writers using Agile and Scrum, continuous delivery and test driven development, a key focus being man management and agile coaching.
• Guided feature and functional requirements for the Direct project complying with the ONC specifications.
• Led the full implementation of XDR and XDM conversion and messaging by utilizing SMTP, XDR, and XDM protocols through ICA’s HISP, and HIE products.
• Led the organization in accomplishing DTAAP recertification.
• Initiated the Blue Button research and assessed the organization’s capabilities to meet MU2 patient involvement.
• Participated in third party EMR certification efforts by supporting SMTP communications between the EMR and SMTP channels.
• Ensured adherence to healthcare industry security and regulatory standards such as HIPAA, and DTAAP.
• Regularly participated in the ONC workgroups discussions representing ICA's interests and resolving interoperability issues regarding HISP to HISP exchange.
• Led the ICA team through virtual Direct Connect-A-Thons and HISP to HISP messaging.
• Ensured development decisions stay aligned with business needs and the ONC specifications.
• Managing project procurement RFPs and contracts
• Translated VGT roadmap into prioritized product backlog which is utilized by development teams.
• Lead development across two scrum teams, each with five to nine members.
• Created user stories and acceptance criteria for the product backlog and assisted Scrum development teams through planning session.
• Ensured that the product vision is understood by development team members
• Interfaced with company stakeholders to understand product expectations, constraints and requirements.
• Collaborated with Product Management to establish release planning
• Tracked and communicated release burn down metrics to Product Management
• Delivered working software every four weeks
• Initiated, fostered, and maintained positive working relationships with internal and external development organizations in a Scrum environment
• Collaborated with Product Management to understand product performance and customer feedback for continuous product improvement
• Managed external development efforts with 3rd party vendors for outsourced technology
• Responsible for supplying feedback for the performance of associates on Scrum teams
• Mentored other associates as well as other Product Owners.
• ScrumMaster for the SmartPlant V.2013 QA Release Team.
• Providing first and second line of support as a Software QA Analyst.
• Subject Matter Expert representing the SmartPlant 3D product in the SmartPlant Integration Enterprise development effort.
• Quality Assurance Representative for two development scrum teams.
• Working directly with software planning and development personnel to channel new software requirements received from customers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• As a ScrumMaster, my duties and responsibilities include:
o Facilitating Sprint planning, Capacity planning, Retrospective and Sprint Reviews.
o Assisting the product owner with the backlog tracking and ensuring cross-team coordination.
o Maintaining relevant metrics to guide the scrum team during Sprints.
o Managing backlog risks and issues and providing appropriate issues escalation to the product owner.
• In my last project December 2011-June 2012, as Scrum Master, I was responsible of the collection, and elicitation of Product’s new functionalities requirement from various stakeholders including clients, and internal departments as well as coordinated and hosted several meetings to finalize the requirements list.
• As a QA lead, I am assigned as an on-development site coordinator acting as a liaison between Intergraph’s Stakeholders, development team, and QA team consisting of five QA Engineers.
• Achievements:
o Ammar was recognized for the outstanding contribution and for leading and managing the Engineering Team through the deployment of SmartPlant 3D V. 2013 Release.
o Ammar has also received a number of positive customer satisfaction surveys in his role as a Software Analyst while providing first and second line of support to Intergraph’s clients.
• Lead Test Engineer for multiple product lines in a fast-pace electronic manufacturing environment.
• Provided multi-level support to the test engineering department that included hardware, software and expertise to ensure the smooth transition and deployment of a high quality product, from production to shipping.
• Worked closely with the project manager and other project members to understand the requirements presented by the client, and developed the project plan and timelines for the deliverables requested.
• Identified process issues, and worked with the test engineering, production line personnel, and other project members, in understanding of root-cause, development of corrective action plans, and successful implementation of solutions for issues identified during test or debug to allow for a smooth production process, and high first pass yields that meet the client’s expectations.
• Regularly met with the client “SUN Microsystems” to agree on testing requirements and expectations for each production cycle.
Duties include:
- Developing Automated and manual test procedures and scripts in TCL, KSH, BASH, XML and Expect.
- Reviewing customer supplied documentation to determine proper revision, content, and consistency for the purpose of establishing test processes.
- Providing product design for test reviews to customers.
- Taking full test responsibilities for assigned products, and leading products through prototype, pilot and production builds.
- Reporting on status of NPI activities.
- Analyzing production line failures information to drive corrective action in manufacturing process.
Honors & Awards: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Overall GPA: 3.2
Overall GPA: 3.5