Ismail Shaik

Turbify.com (Formerly known as Yahoo Small Business)

• Off-site Team Technical Activities and Program Management:
  Assumed a pivotal role as a Technical Program Manager, orchestrating multifaceted technical initiatives with precision and finesse despite being off-site.
  Managed program with seamless coordination, exemplifying strong remote management skills and a deep understanding of technical program dynamics.
• Impactful Off-Site Team Management:
  Demonstrated adeptness in overseeing and managing off-site team's technical activities and programs, ensuring a harmonious and collaborative work environment.
  Vigilantly monitored project progress, identified bottlenecks, and offered timely guidance to overcome challenges, resulting in the consistent delivery of high-quality, on-time outcomes.
• Leadership in Team Development:
  Guided a 57-member team across three diverse programs for a duration of 5 months, providing effective leadership through clear direction and valuable support.
  Undertook the role of a program manager for "Turbify," overseeing a 31-member team, showcasing strategic thinking and adept program management skills as a second-level manager.
• Resource Management and On-Site Support:
  Facilitated a smooth off-site team migration for "Turbify," ensuring a seamless transition while optimizing resource allocation for enhanced productivity.
  Played a pivotal role in ensuring robust resource management, coupled with comprehensive training initiatives to elevate the off-site team's technical proficiency.
• Investing in Emerging Talent:
  Recruit, trained, and nurtured a group of 16 recent college graduates, efficiently leveraging internal resources to minimize training costs.
  Elevated the capabilities of these graduates, empowering them to contribute effectively across diverse projects and programs, fostering a valuable integration into the organizational landscape.

IBM Talent Suite - Onboard

• Responsible for integration of various software solutions from Infinite talent Suite Onboard (Eg: Workday,Success factor,ADP,Salesforce,Oracle). This is done either programmatically with code or declaratively with ETL tools/middleware (Dell Boomi).
• Defining, documenting, designing, coding, testing, and deploying integrations, customizations, and enhancements primarily using Web Services (SOAP/REST/HTTP) specific in-house built tools as middleware.
• SME for all Talent suite Onboard Integrations.
• Work with cross-functional project teams and client and define complex integration requirements and ensure their implementation
• Define and develop elegant solutions for system integration
• Integrate systems/software solutions via APIs.
• Experience with Web technologies (XML, JSON, REST, Web Services, SOAP)
• Experience with designing and implementing XSLT mapping, graphical mapping.
• Experience in performance tuning of objects and systems utilizing best practices.
• Designed and Developed reusable integration templates and it reduced 40% of implementation time.
• Look for and fill in gaps where implementation time might be shortened.

IBM Talent Suite - Onboard

• Accountable for team's ongoing deliveries and people within teams.
• Responsible for budgets within the team. Team improvements, Recruitment, line management, team morale, career progression.
• Metrics on team delivery potentially on multiple projects.
• Worked as single Point of Contact for Multiple teams
• Worked with team on a daily basis to make sure their projects stayed on target and within budget.
• Attended weekly meetings for all projects.
• Resolved managerial and technical problems with clients, team members, and higher management officials.
• Interact with the Client on a regular basis to review any issues or concerns.
• Proactively communicated and resolved issues across all levels of the organization that impacted project success.
• Always made sure higher management was aware of any issues or risks prior to their occurrence
• Part of the end-to-end implementation of Integration projects involves planning, scope, requirements, schedule, communication, risk, and budget.
• Liaising with the customer's requirement gathering, Discovery calls, task allocation, Driving the team to achieve the project timelines providing support, and dealing with escalations.
• Acted as Subject matter expert in the Onboard Integrations.
• Get the requirements from the client and provide feasible and efficient solutions to the client on their integration requirement.
• Led a team of 5-7 members for 4+ years as Offsite Technical Manager.
• Provided best practices to the team members and encourage them to build time to value applications to improve client satisfaction.
• Provided technical guidance on complex and cross-application architecture challenges
• Lead design workshops to enable the preparation of detailed technical specifications
• Designing and Developing time to valuable tools to reduce the implementation time and improve client satisfaction.
• Design and Develop the Integrations using Middleware (Boomi/Cast iron/Internal tools) to client HRIS systems.
• Design Developed B-O mapping tool and reduced the implementation time by 60%

Kenexa Recruiter Enterprises and Kenexa Recruiter Hourly (KRE/KRH)

• Worked as Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer in Customization Team.
• Customize the base product as per the client requirement using Java.
• Implement the client as per the client requirements within the timelines
• Provide the post live support to the product.
• Provided production support to the 100+ clients, like fixing bugs, applying patches etc.
• Migrate the client data from Legacy systems to new systems using in-house built tools and SQL scripts.
• Team activities includes, Hiring, training, budding, Motivating the team to achieve the management goals.
• Lead several large size concurrent projects right from analysis of requirements, development of new features/modules, customizations to the ATS product.
• Managed and lead the customization team responsible for integrating ATS with various HRIS products like SAP, Lawson, People Soft and other legacy systems.
• Managed and lead the customization team responsible for integrating ATS with various 3rd party background check vendors (sterling, choice point, hire right …) and WOTC vendors
• Managed and mentored both onshore and offshore teams.
• Coordinated efforts with the implementation consultants, clients and technical team members to identify areas of opportunity and improve project performance.
• Identified and documented scope of projects, created budgets and work plans, assigned tasks, obtained resources and conducted meetings to review progress and organize future work effort.
• Owned the project specification and project implementation plan and is responsible for their update and distribution to appropriate team.
• Built teams as a member in the board of recruitment.
• R&D for implementation or integration between various technologies.
• Performing high level and detailed analysis of system architecture, requirements, functionality and design, developing, documenting and testing applications.
• Designing and Coding using JAVA/JSP.