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Saqib Azhar, SENIOR PROGRAMME MANAGER

Saqib Azhar

SENIOR PROGRAMME MANAGER·Sapient | Publics

United Kingdom

Master's degree, Computer Networks

Work experience

Total years of experience: 24 years, 5 months

SENIOR PROGRAMME MANAGER

July 2016 - Present

Sapient | Publics

London, United Kingdom

July 2016 - Present

Responsible for the key delivery accounts of plan and management of work streams projects.
 Day to day hands on project management and primary client delivery contact for Web and Mobile based
projects.
 Ensuring project scope is defined, creating and managing the project plan, and provide direction to all
members of the project team.
 Responsible for managing and identifying Risks, Assumptions, issues and dependencies.
 Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

Worked on: Emaar, Jumeirah, Du, OSN, Miral, Diageo, RBS and more
Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Management

LEAD SCRUM/PROJECT MANAGER

December 2014 - July 2016

Digitas LBI | Publicis

December 2014 - July 2016

Responsible for overall Agile projects delivery within the areas of technology platform rollout, including
service build and delivery in the digital industry.
* Day-to-day agile project manager as a scrum master of Medium to Large sized engagements (15-20 team
members, up to £5m revenue).
* Primary client delivery contact, ensuring project scope is defined, creating and managing the project plan,
and provide direction to all members of the project team.
* Facilitating client workshops, ensure project scope is defined, create and manage the project plan, and
provide direction to all members of multi-disciplinary teams. (onshore and offshore teams)
* Planning and coordinating activities of individual team members to ensure that the project goals are
accomplished and client needs are met within the agreed timeframe, budget and to the target margin using
the internal processes including solution Design, user stories and features grooming.
Company industry:
Advertising
Job role:
Other

ASSOCIATE PROJECT DIRECTOR

July 2014 - December 2014

United Kingdom

July 2014 - December 2014

Cross discipline liaison between Technical Architects, UX, designers, content strategists, front-end and back-
end developers, QA testers, and client based all in the same open space office area.
* Supporting development rollout of 40+ markets to date out of 250+ markets planned to roll out globally.
Worked on:
* £50m+ agile-waterfall hybrid delivery model
* 1 AEM platform for 5 key automotive Alliance brands (Renault, Nissan, Infiniti, Datsun, Dacia)
* A shared template with unique style sheets for each brand and content for each country
More info can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewq0yKDvF6k
AKQA - Innovation and digital services company
Job role:
Research and Development

PROJECTS DIRECTOR

July 2012 - July 2014

M&C Saatchi

United Kingdom

July 2012 - July 2014

The Leading Full Service Digital Agency
Company industry:
Advertising
Job role:
Management

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

January 2012 - June 2012

January 2012 - June 2012

Managing Mobile development (IOS, Android, Samsung, iPad), design, testing and QA teams
* Day to day technical management and responsibility for major clients.
* Manage project plans and technical delivery on all aspects of major project on time and on budget.
* Day to day SCRUM as a Scrum Master.
* Responsible for project documentation and managing projects on time and schedule
* Responsible in delivering mobile applications and mobile internet/Apps and Websites.
Job role:
Information Technology

HEAD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

August 2009 - January 2012

United Kingdom

August 2009 - January 2012

the mobile industry.
* Handing over the service to the Operations team for in-live support.
* Project planning, statements of work, Delivery schedules, milestones, progress reports. risk assessments
and status updates for clients ranging from mobile carriers to content providers
* Responsible for the Control of costs, timelines, budgets and quality within a project lifecycle
* Assisting in the winning of new business.
* Managing customer technical and delivery requirements to deliver a successful product or service.
Mobile Apps Delivered for: Samsung Hope Relay, O2, Vodafone, Play Station, Big Brother, Find a Property, Britain's
Got Talent, The Sun, Money Super Market, Walkers, Barclays Premier League.
Mobile Websites Delivered for: Skype, Clarks, New Look, M&S, B&Q, Vodafone, ITV
Markco Media - My VoucherCodes.Co.uk (The UK Number 1 Voucher Site
Job role:
Management

Web Project Manager

January 2002 - January 2010

January 2002 - January 2010

Lead a team of designers and developers insuring that projects where completed on time and within
budget.
* Responsible for improving the agile processes within the and client team to catch-up to original plans.
* Full lifecycle development predominantly working with LAMP technologies but also working with C#
ASP.NET
* Designed, Developed and Managed the implementation of large scale E-commence shopping websites
from start to finish.
* Designed technical specifications and develop content management systems in object-oriented PHP5
(incorporating design patterns and MVC structure), Cake, MySQL, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, JQuery.
* UI Development and Trained colleagues in standards-compliant XHTML, CSS, PHP5 and coding practices.
* Development CMS from the ground up and organized client training for a content management systems,
Drupal, Joomla, word press and bespoke systems.
* Managed the requirement gathering, concepting/prototyping, UX and design, and front-end build. Also
responsible for managing the client relationship and their backend development team code integration.
Tools: Clarizen, Jira, Mantis, Redmine, Bugzila, Trac, Gemini, Trello, Assembla and many more.
Job role:
Management

WEB PROJECT MANAGER

April 2007 - August 2009

Aztech Business Systems

United Kingdom

April 2007 - August 2009

Brought in to stabilize, re-architect and scale a leading edge File Control marketing technology platform
* Provided leadership, management and control to a multi-discipline team of 15+ developers.
* Delivered processes, Agile methodologies, targeted infrastructure upgrades and new productivity tools
* Grew a global development team headquartered in Luton with off-shore resource extensions.
* Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
* Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with management
and stakeholders.
* Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
Job role:
Management

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

September 2006 - April 2007

United Kingdom

September 2006 - April 2007

Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear
fashion.
* Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
* Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
* Day to day Scrum as a Scrum Master
Web
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Masters in Computers

November 2007

November 2007

Master's degree, Computer Networks

United Kingdom

Skills

Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Web Projects
Expert
Web Projects
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Mobile
Expert
Mobile
Expert
Scrum
Expert
Scrum
Expert
.NET
Expert
.NET
Expert
AGILE
Expert
AGILE
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
CMS
Expert
CMS
Expert
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
Expert
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
Expert
DIRECTING
Expert
DIRECTING
Expert
MANAGEMENT
Expert
MANAGEMENT
Expert
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Expert
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Expert
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Expert
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Expert
WEB SITE PRODUCTION
Expert
WEB SITE PRODUCTION
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Web Projects
Expert
Web Projects
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Mobile
Expert
Mobile
Expert
Scrum
Expert
Scrum
Expert

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Native Speaker
Hindi
Native Speaker
Urdu
Native Speaker