PMO
Dubai Airports
Total years of experience :9 years, 9 Months
Implementing standardized Project Management methodology throughout Dubai Airports’ programmes in alignment and compliance with the Corporate Portfolio framework. This includes supporting the development and communication of project documentation templates, reports, embedding defined processes across the Programme and Project management community and providing information to the appropriate Governance Steering Groups (and / or Boards) to drive effective programme and project investment decisions.
Interface with programme and project managers to collect and analyze project level information (scope, time, cost and quality) and present an overall consolidated programme report for the management meetings.
• Implementing the Programme/Project Management systems and processes for required Programmes, including embedding project management processes (scoping, planning, budget management, reporting, project monitoring and controlling, closing) and tools for specified programme(s)
• Set up of the Programme and Project Steering Groups, aligned to Dubai Airports’ governance requirements. Work with Programme Manager(s) to implement a governance framework to support decision making and escalation of risks and issues within Dubai Airports and its external stakeholder environment
• Supporting multiple programmes roughly estimating at AED 180M.
• Lead communication and collaboration across internal and external stakeholders of the Programme team
• Support Programme Managers to enhance discipline across the required Programme and to provide ongoing support for various Programme activities
• Lead PMO activities (planning, progress reporting, risks and issues escalation, budget management, deliverables management, etc.)
• Maintaining trackers, e.g project spending trackers, Gantt charts and high level programme/project schedules
Worked for the company’s government client, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and contributed to multiple projects by managing all aspects of the planning activities, including determining needs, mobilizing resources, and achieving results.
Millennium Challenge Corporation, CIO Office, IT Support (Apr 2016-Jun 2017)
• Led and managed multiple projects within MCC.
• Focused teams on objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were accomplished on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Developed innovative business models for “as-is” analysis, and provided relevant documentation to supplement the process and assist in creating “to be” scenarios.
• Organized semi-monthly meetings with the client to appraise project progress.
• Created domain models and provided solutions to address gaps, as necessary.
• Bridged between the business and IT technical teams to determine needs, and to develop system strategies, and convert business requirements into logical data models.
Wrote project proposals, guided the senior management on new business development, and conducted a market search on products relating to forms management and automation.
Interior Department, National Park Service, Enterprise Forms System Support (Oct 2015-Apr 2016)
• Using the HTML5 elements automated the Bureau’s legacy forms and web pages.
• Organized and participated in weekly status meetings with the client to report project progress, and the daily scrum meeting with the project team.
• Led and managed the forms development process while analyzing and reporting functions and business process proficiencies.
Department of Labor (DOL), OSHA.gov Stabilization Project (Aug 2015-Apr 2016)
• The project aimed to reconfigure current environment to approximate last known working architecture with supported software and hardware.
• Working as Documentation Lead and Testing Support created a complete documentation set from the ground up to capture comprehensive critical system knowledge.
• Developed and submitted various project documents, including the project charter, system documentation, quality assurance plan, and weekly status reports.
US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Communication Template Management Project for CDER (Nov 2013-Apr 2016)
• Working Team Lead implemented a COTS product and integrated it within the FDA software suite for stress-free maintenance of its 800+ templates.
• Led and managed a team of six professionals to convert and test the current CDER templates.
• Developed and submitted project management documents, such as project plan, requirements document, traceability matrix, quality assurance plan, and weekly status reports.
• Scheduled client training and created training materials, as required.
• Kept up-to-date the client SharePoint site for the project documents, and also maintained and updated the solution in AWS GovCloud.
Planned and coordinated activities of multiple projects simultaneously, including defining projects’ scope, objectives, staffing, resources, and deliverables. Devised and implemented process improvement initiatives that considerably enhanced operational efficiency, process optimization and helped achieve business objectives.
USPS - Informed Visibility (IV) - (Aug-Nov 2013)
• Helped improve upon old legacy systems and introduce new methods to meet the cutting-edge requirements and provide visibility across the network and reporting capabilities.
• Working as the Team Lead created detailed requirements and use cases for the IV System by conducting stakeholder interviews.
• Envisaged and provided supportive wireframes for the dashboard design of a business intelligence application.
• Created the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that linked requirements throughout the validation process for migration to HP ALM.
USDA - Rural Utilities Service (RUS), Broadband Initiatives Program (Apr 2010-Sep 2013)
• Working as Reporting Analyst provided high quality comparative and statistical data analysis to create reporting deliverables about application processing and post-award monitoring.
• Built and upheld a backend database to produce automated dashboards for post-award monitoring system and generating quarterly dashboards while providing progress reports on the ARRA funds advanced to the White House.
USDA - Rural Development (RD), Eligibility Website Improvements (Apr 2010-Sep 2013)
• Working as Reporting Analyst developed reports on incentive payments for Satellite awardees, and created a dashboard to report progress to the OSTP outside the White House.
• Performed internal user testing to validate the requirements and keep a traceability matrix.
Nickel Institute Searchable Web-based Database (Oct 2012-Mar 2013)
• Helped enhance and streamline Nickel’s website by providing information on regulatory criteria and C&L data.
• Working as Business Analyst gathered business needs and create test scripts for UAT.
• Performed internal user testing to certify the requirements and maintain a traceability matrix.
Georgia Power Residential and Commercial Energy-Efficiency Program (Jul 2011-Jul 2012)
• Formulated reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for incentive payments to customers, and ensured quality to ascertain any duplicate payments.
USDA - RUS, Broadband Collection, and Analysis System (BCAS) - (Nov 2011-Feb 2012)
• Gathered and documented business requirements and created process documents to help RUS improve the financial accounting and reporting systems.
• Verified the execution of business rules and identified room for improvements, where needed.
Oversaw and managed the release of a new service pack for SAP ERP 6.1.2 while developing, analyzing, and monitoring quality reports.
• Gathered requirements, tested, and conducted peer review meetings to seek approvals.
• Reviewed and defined test case scenarios while developing a testing strategy.
• Established quality plans and set project timelines for the latest release.
Pursued my Master's of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University
Pursued my Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mumbai University, graduated in 2002.