Mohammed Abdul Quddus
Hyderabad
Summary
Results-oriented, PMP certified Senior IT Project Manager with 22+ years of experience leading $5M+ IT projects across E-commerce, Healthcare, Banking, Crowd funding, and Political sectors. Successfully delivered 100+ projects within budget, resulting in an average cost savings of 15%. Proficient in managing full project lifecycles using both Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies. Expertise in Mobile App development for iOS and Android, with a focus on prioritizing features based on customer and business needs. Successfully delivered projects on time and within budget, with proven abilities in resource management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder collaboration. Recognized for optimizing workflows and improving operational efficiency and fostering cross-team collaboration through scrum practices including Daily Stand-up Meetings, Sprint Planning, & Sprint Reviews. Translated business requirements into functional specifications by authoring detailed product requirement specifications for development. Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications, Business Requirements Document, Use Case Specifications, Requirement Traceability & Verification Matrix and testing documents.
Experienced with Agile methodologies, including Scrum framework. Utilizes effective communication and leadership to guide teams toward successful project delivery. Track record of fostering collaborative and productive team environment, ensuring project goals are met efficiently.
Professional Project Management Specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Project Manager, Scrum Master
ReloadTheWeb Inc.
04.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: At ReloadTheWeb, a Canada based Start-up Company, led the maintenance and progressive enhancement of Petco.com, a leading pet supplies e-commerce platform
- Led the team to utilize Agile methodologies, mainly SCRUM
- Prioritized tasks in the product backlog, ensuring the development team had clear objectives aligned with business priorities
- Championed and implemented Agile Release Train, reducing defects in development builds by over 95%, while increasing efficiency and speed to market for new products, feature enhancements and technical debt deliverables
- Facilitated the gathering of client requirements and documenting functional specifications
- Worked with UI/UX teams to optimize the online shopping experience for consumers, improving conversion rates
- Inspected landing pages, product information, cart options, and all other pertinent website-related systems to ensure their visual appeal, accuracy, and ease of use
- Ensured site users can easily find the things they want and are exposed to suitable ads, promotions, up sells/cross-sells, discount offers, email capture prompts, newsletter or club invitations, etc
- Implemented personalized content based on customer behavior and preferences, utilizing product recommendation engines, eventually increasing average order value by 15%
- Ensured seamless data flow and synchronization across systems for accurate product information and inventory levels through scheduled tasks automation for updating of product catalogs, prices, and stock levels
- Performed risk management to minimize project risks, resolve scrum impediments, manage project scope, control resource availability and allocation
- Managed strategies to address technical debt, develop KPI metrics and dashboards, resulting in 65% reduction of production bugs, significantly improving B2C site usability, functionality
- Increased speed to market by improvising Software Quality Assurance proficiency by 40%
- Reduced post-deployment defects by 50% through rigorous QA processes and code reviews
- Collaborated with the technical team to optimize website speed and responsiveness, improving page load times by 40%
- Supported cross-organizational group needs and expectations (i.e
- Testing, Training, Production Deployment & Support)
- At ReloadTheWeb, a Canada based Start-up Company, led the maintenance and progressive enhancement of Petco.com, a leading pet supplies e-commerce platform
Application Development Project Manager
eCore Services LLC
04.2022 - 07.2023
- In this balanced matrix organization, the Business Analyst and Estimation Team collaborated with clients to gather project requirements, estimate scope, and the budget before the Project Manager’s involvement
- As a Remote Project Manager, I successfully led the virtual teams in delivering web and mobile application projects, managing schedules, budgets, and resources
- On boarding project team by placing requisitions and coordinating with HR Team
- Collaborating with Customer Success Manager, PMO Community and Project Team to ensure the deliverables align with product requirements, budget and deadlines
- Led Sprint Planning and facilitated Daily Stand-ups for a globally distributed team of 6, delivering mobile apps 10% under budget
- Improved team velocity by 25% through effective sprint planning and backlog grooming
- Coordinated app testing and ensured quality assurance and sign-offs before launch
- Communicated application progress with clients and internal stakeholders regularly, providing weekly updates
- Managed project hours and ensured budgets were adhered to, using tools like ClickUp, Clockify, and GitHub for project tracking and collaboration
Senior Project Manager
Techzert Software Private Ltd.
03.2021 - 12.2021
- Led the Bank of China, Hong Kong (BOCHK) project, a critical initiative to transition the bank’s legacy message processing and funds transfer systems from MERVA ESA to IBM's Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for SWIFT services, in alignment with ISO20022 standards
- My role focused on ensuring the successful migration of services across multiple phases of the project
- Facilitated coordination between DevOps, IBM experts, and internal teams, addressing critical issues and ensuring timely progress through each project phase
- Led Phase 1B, overseeing the migration of services for Yangon and Brunei, while supporting the completion of Phase 1A, which involved upgrading FTM for SWIFT from v300 to v324 and to expedite the bug fixing and help go on to production
- Resolved 96% of long-pending critical bugs and addressed critical impediments in collaboration with IBM
- Additionally, resolved 20% of pending security compliance findings, eventually increasing the system efficiency
- Facilitated bi-weekly bug reviews, status assessments, and sprint planning sessions
- Managed communication with stakeholders, providing project updates and ensuring project timelines and goals were consistently showing progress
Senior Project Manager
9th Pixel Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 03.2021
- In a Strong Matrix setup, I have directed multiple projects as a Project Manager and Scrum Master, leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact mobile and web application development projects, delivering under strict timelines and budgets
- Up skilled and earned certifications as a Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), enhancing my ability to implement Agile methodologies effectively
- Led Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Sprint Reviews to ensure alignment between cross-functional teams and stakeholders’ expectations
- Consistently met project milestones while delivering high-quality results
- Led the Communication with all stakeholders and client’s teams, ensuring transparency throughout the project lifecycle
- Delivered multiple products, taking charge from the ideation phase
Senior Project Manager
V-Empower Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
10.2006 - 11.2018
- 'Company Overview: At V-Empower, in a mix of Strong Matrix and 'Projectized' organizational structures, I successfully delivered large-scale projects for U.S.-based clients, across industries including healthcare, finance, media, education, e-commerce, and political portals by managing cross-functional teams and leveraging both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Managed IT Services’ day-to-day operations as the Focal Point of Contact
- Oversaw client communications, presales activities, project application development and product development, while managing client relationships and the working model Initiatives
- Documented Project Proposals, RFPs, Business Requirements Documents
- Prepared Estimation and Project Schedule excel documents, Liaison with stakeholders, keeping them updated with Work Status Reports and Project Review Meetings
- Servant Leader with experience in facilitating the adoption of Agile (Scrum) practices, including Daily Stand-up Meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospective Meetings
- Led the creation of Scrum artifacts, removed impediments, and reduced technical debt each sprint, ensuring the successful delivery of product features
- Established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track project progress, risks, and team performance through metrics like velocity, burndown charts, defect leakage and monitoring backlog health
- Efficiently led the implementation of ISO and CMMI level 3 Quality Processes
- At V-Empower, in a mix of Strong Matrix and Projectized organizational structures, I successfully delivered large-scale projects for U.S.-based clients, across industries including healthcare, finance, media, education, e-commerce, and political portals by managing cross-functional teams and leveraging both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Managed a $5M portfolio of projects for U.S
- Clients, increasing customer satisfaction by 20% and improving the augmented team’s productivity by 18% through Agile best practices
- Listing a few top clients: August 2017 – November 2018: Tobiko Strategies (Offshore PM), January 2015 – March 2017: Datawiz Corporation (Application Architect & PM), June 2008 – September 2015: Yagnaum Systems now Alignity (Offshore PM), June 2003 – February 2010: Votenet Inc (Application Architect - Offshore Project Lead), April 2006 – April 2007: San Jose Education Foundation (Offshore PM)
- Delivered multiple products, heading Product Design and Development from Idea & Feasibility analysis to Concept genesis, Prototyping & Proof of Concept, Product development, and ultimately facilitating handover to the Market Entry and Commercialization Department
Education
Post-Graduation Diploma - MIS & CA
Osmania University
Hyderabad03.1998
Bachelor of Science - Geology
Osmania University
Hyderabad01.1996
Skills
- Project Management
- Scrum Methodology
- Risk Management
- Budgeting
- Quality Control
- Scrum Facilitation
- Backlog Grooming
- Sprint Reviews
- Jira
- Click Up
- MS Teams
- Trello
- Mantis
- MS Visual SourceSafe
- Project planning
- Scope management
- Cross-functional Team Management
- Project scheduling
- Offshore Development
- Conflict Resolution
- Stakeholder Management
- Vendor Coordination
- Documentations
Certification
- Project Management Professional, PMI, PMP #3187315
- Professional Scrum Master - I, Scrum.org, #471344
- Professional Scrum Product Owner - I, Scrum.org, #510857
Timeline
Sr. Project Manager, Scrum Master
ReloadTheWeb Inc.
04.2024 - Current
Application Development Project Manager
eCore Services LLC
04.2022 - 07.2023
Senior Project Manager
Techzert Software Private Ltd.
03.2021 - 12.2021
Senior Project Manager
9th Pixel Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 03.2021
Senior Project Manager
V-Empower Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
10.2006 - 11.2018
- Project Management Professional, PMI, PMP #3187315
- Professional Scrum Master - I, Scrum.org, #471344
- Professional Scrum Product Owner - I, Scrum.org, #510857
Post-Graduation Diploma - MIS & CA
Osmania University
Bachelor of Science - Geology
Osmania University
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