Mohammad Zaid

Granicus is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for government organizations. The technology platforms enable governments agencies to improve citizen engagement, streamline operations and increase transparency. Granicus is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Harvest Partners

• Driving efforts in creating Roadmaps, Vision and Strategy a for a Gov Tech (making product for Government) product portfolio centered around DevOps processes and tools that align with the business goals and improve operational efficiency.
• Prioritized DevOps initiatives based on their impact on deployment speed, system reliability, and business value.
• Create, refine, and prioritize the DevOps backlog, focusing on automation, infrastructure improvements, and process enhancements.
• Develop a strategy for optimizing cloud costs that aligns with business objectives and supports sustainable growth.
• Work with development, operations, and security teams to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
  
  

• Lead product owner for the Infrastructure Technology team. Deeply involved in the development of solutions to support the Technical Debt Refresh (reduce technical Debt of legacy systems)
• Owning and managing the team's backlog(s)
• Actively participated in planning activities for the Program Increment and PI Planning
• Story definition, providing clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and story sequencing, and drafting the team's specific objectives for the upcoming Program Increment (PI)
• Lead the development team through all activities to support
• Sprint activities (Backlog grooming, daily scrum,sprint demo, retrospective)
• Acting as a key stakeholder in product related decisions and release planning
• Worked with the Chief Product Owner to evaluate the product roadmap to identify features for development and identify "definition of done" for each feature
• Worked with the Architect(s) and Tech Lead(s) to identify non-functional requirements such as infrastructure needs

Client – iConfig - Infosys Internal Product

• As a product manager/ product owner of iConfig which is one of the Infosys internal product, my responsibility lies in continuously evolving the product vision and align goals to value.
• Understands outcomes and goals of the product / feature / service / UX experience.
• Worked on Backlog Prioritization - epics / stories.
• Worked with technical architects on .NET application design / architecture.
• Facilitated team activities: story mapping, prioritization, estimation, road mapping, product brainstorming and business model canvas.
• Defined MVP aligned to agreed customer / business outcome, adding features incrementally.
• Cross business stakeholder management
• Defining project scope, identifying risk and impacts- recommending new functionality and implementing best practices.
• Ensuring coordination of requirements to the business and development teams; established business metrics and indicators.
• Managed prioritization of features and trade-offs against user experience.

Client – Thyssenkrupp elevators

• Conducted research and basic analysis of the industry the customer is in collecting, understood business requirement from the Client.
• Translated business requirement document to software requirement specifications.
• Ensured coordination of requirements to the business and development teams; established business metrics and indicators.
• Interpreting high level business and product requirements and creating feature requirements, user stories and relevant product backlog items.
• Collaborate with the product manager on building the product vision and roadmap .
• Prioritizing the work/backlog to satisfy delivery milestones and deliver client value.
• Worked with technical architects on .NET application design / architecture.
• Collaboratively define the ‘Definition of Done' and ‘Ready.
• Effectively coordinate with many internal stakeholders .
• Measure and Monitor on progress of the product development and highlight issues impacting delivery

Client - AGCO

• Worked closely with AGCO Corp to develop Global CPQ Configurations for their Agricultural products using Dot net, Angular and Configit (Denmark) technologies.
• Worked as Engineering lead /solution developer /Business analyst. This project was developed in SAFe Agile methodology.
• Actively participated in Program increment planning and collaborated with different teams and stake holders.
• Worked with technical architects on .NET application design / architecture.
• Has been instrumental in designing/ solution defining of enterprise web applications for AGCO Corp (manufacturing domain)
• Worked as Scrum master also for few sprints.
• Experience in TFS Build automation, GIT Hub
• Global Delivery Model, Iterative, Agile and Waterfall Methodology driven Software Delivery Life Cycle.
• Worked with AGCO marketing team for Product roadmap
• Defining project scope, identifying risk and impacts- recommending new functionality and implementing best practices.
• Ensuring coordination of requirements to the business and development teams; established business metrics and indicators.
• Managed prioritization of features and trade-offs against user experience.

Client - Boeing & Airbus

• Lead Development team of 3+ members to develop small scale desktop and web applications for client.
• Instrumental in designing/ solution defining of enterprise applications (desktop & web based) for our client
• Enterprise application integration architecture, design and implementation.
• Participated in code and design reviews along with technical architects.
• Developed applications (Web and Desktop) from scratch using dot net technologies.
• Did Unit testing and bug fix for enterprise codes.
• Worked with DevOps team for scripting and automation of code deployments.
• Worked as an agile developer, actively participated in scrum calls, and meeting.
• Worked with product owners and business analysts for requirements gathering.