Naveed Khan, Project Manager

Naveed Khan

Project Manager

Injazat Data Systems

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months

Project Manager at Injazat Data Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2020

Role: Technical Program Manager (Strategy Planning & PMO)
• Managing large-scale Technology Modernization Program to migrate 20-Year-old Legacy Application to Modern Distributed Event Driven Microservices Architecture.
• Defining and managing the program roadmap from strategic planning to tactical activities. Ensuring the various program activities (Project plans, goals, resource allocation etc.) are entered and monitored though Enterprise project management system.
• Identification of issues and assessment of risks throughout the program life. Preparation of risk management plan to minimize or aver the risks.
• Working closely with Architects, Product Owners, Development and QA teams to plan the Program increments.
• Ensuring sponsor and senior management is aware of program status by providing regular and frequent status updates

Software Manager ( Head - Software Development and Products) at Tagit RFID Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2016 to August 2020

Responsible for overall design, development, and delivery of company's multiple digital B2B products (Web Applications, Android Applications and IOT Applications) based on RFID Technology
• Worked closely with Company founders in defining overall strategy and Roadmap for company's product
• Responsible for maintaining product backlog for multiple products of company ensuring it is visible, transparent, and clear to all, showing what the team will work on next
• Provided Pre-sales support to the Sales Team
Achievements:
• Setup the offshore development center in India.
• Introduced and implemented agile methodology in the organization.
• Established processes and defined templates for each phase of project life cycle.
• Conceptualized, designed, developed, and successfully released first ever RFID Security Solution on Raspberry PI

Team Lead at Aristocrat Leisure Ltd
  • India - Noida
  • November 2013 to April 2016

• Managed team of developers and Testers working on Games Development Kit for one of the largest producers of Casino Games
• 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)
• Participated in PI planning events with multiple teams like Regulations and Compliance Teams, Platform team and various Games Studios
• Facilitated regular team agile meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
• Tracked and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• 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
  • Japan - Tokyo
  • May 2005 to November 2013

• Worked with multiple Japanese clients (NTT Data, NEC, Fujitsu) for multiple software development projects
• Managed multiple offshore software development teams working in Compiler domain
• Responsible for overall end to end delivery (Requirements, Design, Development, Code reviews, Test Planning) of multiple projects
• Provided regular project updates to management on project status including risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Conducting monthly CMMI audits for CMMI L3 compliance
Achievements:
• Project got 7/7 customer satisfaction (CSAT) rating.
• Got the highest individual performance rating consecutively for two years (O2 League)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITYAMU
  • May 2002

Specialties & Skills

Problem Solving
Stakeholder Management
Microservices Architecture
Agile Project Management
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Technical Leadership
Project Management

Languages

Japanese
Beginner
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2014
SAFe Agilist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015