Faizal Muhammad
Project Manager
Chennai,Tamil Nadu
Summary
Results-driven Project Management Professional experienced in project management, business analysis, and requirements management. Achieved operational efficiency and financial reporting through leadership of diverse teams across multiple locations using Agile and SAFe methodologies. Focused on continuous process improvement and team empowerment to enhance performance across various sectors, including financial services and manufacturing.
Overview
3
3
Languages
2
2
Certifications
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager/Scrum Master
FIS
Chennai, IN
03.2013 - Current
- Managed several teams as part of the SAFE Agile methodology and ensured deliverables are completed for each PI.
- Facilitated Daily Stand-Up meetings with Scrum Project teams and Kanban Teams.
- Participated in meetings with development team to perform Backlog estimation of stories whenever a new project was assigned to the team.
- Performed follow-up with development team and ensured deliverables are on time.
- Coordinated weekly code-collision meeting with teams working on eZCard projects.
- Facilitated several Agile ceremonies for Design Review, Test Case review and Retro.
- Ensured that Demo was provided to users at the end of each Sprint for current Sprint deliverables
- Reviewed the Sprint deliverables in Rally on a daily basis and ensured the task burn-downs were done on a timely basis.
- Added the list of items for upcoming releases into the Implementation tracker and ensured the changes are locked in the MR and SNOW ticket by obtaining Task Acceptance.
- Raised a risk whenever the Committed Features are likely to be carried over to the next PI.
- Prepared the data for Program Increment (PI) Sync meetings and presented on the same.
- Met with management on a bi-weekly basis as part of the Prioritization of items for Kanban-Megatron team.
- Created cards in the KANBAN Backlog, whenever new requests were Approved and assigned it to project team members to progress with the development.
- Developed and implemented project plans, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time and within budget.
Project Coordinator/Business Analyst
TIAA-CREF
Charlotte, NC
11.2011 - 01.2013
- Facilitated JAD sessions with Investment Reporting and prepared the project schedule and project management plans.
- Interacted with Derivatives Reporting group and prepared the Business Requirements.
- Created the mock-ups of screens for Core, Statutory and Management Reports.
- Worked with business and development teams to prepare estimates for the ‘Investment Reporting’ project.
- Used the Agile methodology for the SDLC.
- Prepared the Business Case for the ‘Investment Reporting’ project and performed Cost-Benefit analysis.
- Worked on project timelines (PMO) and interacted with development and QA teams to ensure on-time delivery.
- Wrote Use Cases for documenting the requirements for the input reports into Financial Data Warehouse (FDW).
- Prepared the Functional Requirements Document and reviewed with users to obtain business approval.
- Interacted with OBIEE developers and data modelers and performed walk-through and feasibility analysis of data requirements.
- Created process flow diagrams in MS Visio to document the flow of data into the warehouse.
- Project: Investment Reporting performed consolidated reporting of data across all Asset Classes in TIAA-CREF.
Project Coordinator/Business Analyst
MF Global
New York, NY
01.2011 - 10.2011
- Prepared project estimates (PMO) by interaction with business, development and QA teams.
- Created project plans based on estimates provided by project teams.
- Interacted with Risk, Operations to prepare and update the Business Corporate Taxonomy.
- Facilitated JAD sessions using Waterfall methodology between business users and other stakeholders to prepare the Business Requirements Document (BRD) for ‘Product Taxonomy’.
- Wrote Use Cases for loading of RANSYS file and for implementation of GMI Product Taxonomy and prepared the Functional Specification Document (FSD).
- Performed data mapping of RM, PH3 Execution data in taxonomy with source systems for Exchanged-Traded Funds (ETF) and also for OTC products.
- Wrote SQL queries for data analysis and validation of data in GMI, Class Source Systems.
- Worked on documenting the requirements for various Asset Classes – Commodities, Equities, Fixed-Income, and Foreign-Exchange (FX).
- Analyzed the Trade file to document the requirements for Futures, Options, Forwards and Swaps - Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Interest Rate Swaps (IRS).
- Interacted with OBIEE users for re-engineering of requirements for creation of dashboards.
- Performed Smoke Testing and Regression Testing of business rules.
- Documented the Test Cases in Quality Center for the Product Taxonomy of GMI.
- Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end-users and provided test data and test rules.
- Project: Business Taxonomy was developed for the standardization of the definitions of data across the enterprise.
- The scope includes ‘Product Hierarchy’ (Commodities, Equities, FX and Fixed-Income), ‘Trade Product Type’ (Future, Options, Swaps), Execution data, Geography.
Business Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
Chase, NJ
01.2010 - 12.2010
- Interacted with business to gather requirements for HARP, MI Company, Hope-for-Homeowners products.
- Participated in cross-system meetings involving Loan Origination teams (Loan Builder, CLOSOR) and Underwriting (ZIPPY) teams to analyze CM impacts for Dodd-Frank
- Generated SQL queries using TOAD for Oracle for data analysis and data mapping.
- Created reports of fixed-income data used by Loan Delivery and trading team.
- Performed data mapping of elements to CDMD for Warehouse Reporting project.
- Documented the requirements for various change requests related to trading of MBS securities.
- Facilitated JAD sessions with Loan Delivery, Agency Relations and development teams to document the Functional Requirements.
- Project: Chase introduced several products MI Company, HARP (Home Affordable Refinance Program), Hope-for-Homeowners, Attached-Detached Indicator.
Sr.Business/Data Analyst
IBM
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
07.2009 - 12.2009
- Prepared the User Interface Specifications for loans as part of the PNC project.
- Lead JAD sessions with clients, architects and developers and off-shore team as part of the requirements gathering process.
- Worked with MISMO data model to prepare the UI Specification document for the PNC project.
- Interacted with the client to document the RESPA changes for GMAC and created requirements traceability matrix for the same.
- Documented the Change Requests incorporating the MISMO standards for the PNC project.
- Used JIRA for reporting and tracking defects and bugs.
- Project: IBM developed the Impact Mortgage Loan Origination System (LOS) and Point of Sales (POS) for PNC Bank. The LOS was used for Origination and Fulfillment of mortgage loans. The POS was used for creating loan applications.
Education
Masters in Business Administration - Finance
Utah State University
Logan,Utag2005
Masters in Science -
Arizona State University
Pheonix,Arizona2002
Bachelors in Engineering -
University of Madras
Chennai,India2001
Skills
Risk management
Agile methodologies
Project development
Project tracking
Project tracking
Schedule management
Risk management
Data analysis
Strategic planning
Relationship building
Schedule management
Risk management
Certification
PMP - Project Management Professional
Timeline
Project Manager/Scrum Master
FIS
03.2013 - Current
Project Coordinator/Business Analyst
TIAA-CREF
11.2011 - 01.2013
Project Coordinator/Business Analyst
MF Global
01.2011 - 10.2011
Business Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
01.2010 - 12.2010
Sr.Business/Data Analyst
IBM
07.2009 - 12.2009
Masters in Business Administration - Finance
Utah State University
Masters in Science -
Arizona State University
Bachelors in Engineering -
University of Madras