Naveed Khan, Software  Manager

Naveed Khan

Software Manager

Tagit RFID Solutions

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months

Software Manager at Tagit RFID Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2016

• Over 16 years of experience in Software Development, Project Management, Product Management and Delivery Management
• Certified SAFe Agilist, Scrum Master and PMP
• Experience in handling end-to-end deliveries (requirement understanding, scope, design, code and Testing) using Agile and Waterfall models
• Extensive Experience in various stages of Software development Life Cycle and strong knowledge on Development Processes, Testing Processes and Quality processes.
• Successfully managed cross functional teams, projects and releases in multiple domains like Luxury Retail, Casino Gaming, Compiler Design and Performance Engineering
• Experience managing software deliveries with multiple scrum teams sitting at geographically dispersed locations ( US, Australia and India)
• Worked in JAPAN with global technology giants like NTT Data, NEC and Fujitsu for more than 3 years
• Experience in managing third party vendors, remote software teams

Team Lead at Aristocrat Technologies Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2013 to April 2016

Role: Scrum Master
Worked with multiple Scrum teams (US, Australia and India) to ensure timely and bug free delivery of Games Development Kit to various game studios (US, UK, Australia and India)
• Participation in PI planning events with multiple teams like Regulations and Compliance Teams, Platform team and Games Studio
• Participation in ART Sync event Scrum of Scrums with various Scrum Masters on the ART (Agile Release Train)
• Facilitate the regular team agile meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Facilitate the PI Demo (Solution Demo)
• Tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Coaching and mentoring team in agile best practices
• Managed a Third Party Vendor for Test Automation Project
Achievements:
• Appreciated for proposing, effectively planning and managing the stabilization sprints for GDK
• Appreciated and awarded by CTO for reducing the turnaround time for issue fixes by implementing KANBAN

Associate Technical Manager at HCL Technologies Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • May 2005 to November 2013

Role: Technical Project Manager
• Owned the overall accountability for end-to-end delivery of the deliverables.
• Performed regular reviews to ensure project delivery is on time and on budget.
• Responsible for communication between client and the Team in India to ensure that the project is on track as per timeline and quality standards.
• Provided regular project updates to management on project status including risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Responsible for capturing and reporting on performance measures and key metrics.
• Conducting monthly CMMI audits for CMMI L3 compliance
Achievements:
• Project got 7/7 customer satisfaction (CSAT) ratings.
• Got the highest individual performance rating consecutively for two years (O2 League)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Aligarh Muslim University
  • May 2002

Aligarh Muslim University is one the top 10 universities in India.

Specialties & Skills

Vendor Management
Software Project Management
Full SDLC
People Management
Leadership
Shell Scripting
Test Management
Stakeholder Management
Project Management
Team Management
Delivery Management
vendor management
SQL Server
Scrum of Scrums
Product Management
Scaled Agile (SAFe)
Agile Delivery
ASP.net MVC
Web API

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Japanese
Beginner

Memberships

PMI (Project Management Institute)
  • Member
  • June 2014

Training and Certifications

SAFe Agilist (Certificate)
CSM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2014
Valid Until:
October 2018
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018

Hobbies

  • Cricket
    Member of Cricket Team at HCL Technologies Ltd