Mohammed Asif Iqbal
Engagement Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Versatile Project/ Program Manager with over 13 years of expertise, applying business knowledge to ensure effective business developments. Skilled at efficient project management through diligent resource allocation. Specialize in taking a solution-based approach for meeting project requirements and exceeding customer expectations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Unilever
Bangalore
06.2018 - Current
Sr. Consultant
Ernst & Young
06.2018 - 08.2019
Operations Manager > Engagement Manager
Capgemini
08.2019 - Current
- Strong understanding of and experience in Project/ Program/ Portfolio Management & Governance processes
- Experience managing EUC, SaaS and Cloud implementations (medium and large complex projects)
- Experience managing multiple projects concurrently and maintain effective vendor / stakeholder relationship
- Key player of project management PMO team & responsible for governance of end-to-end project lifecycle
- Work with functional Managers/ Directors to ensure the demands / projects are delivered as expected
- Create, manage, and track project documents including, but not limited to, project schedules, financials (budgets estimates and actuals, forecasting, invoices), detailed project plans, scope documents, work breakdown structures, cost estimates, resource plans, risk and issue logs and regular status reporting
- Verify detailed Statement of Work (SOW) and provide approval for a small, medium & complexity engagement
- Organize, conduct, and attend meetings with project team and stakeholders to facilitate all levels of project planning
- Identify cost saving opportunities, analyze project related problems, and create innovative solutions
- Merger & Integration Projects (GSK / Pukka Herbs etc.) manage planning, execution, separation, integration, & organizational restructuring activities related to Infrastructure set-up and merger
- Governance of release and deployment projects along with core technical team
- Working with stakeholders across Unilever to design and improve business processes
- Demand / Project SharePoint automation and integrated with Power BI for ease of reporting
- Ensure Contract and Commercial change requests (RFC’s) and in place and processed
- Onboarding New Services and implementation of transition to services projects
- Execute software development & deployment (SDLC) project along with various technical teams
- Global Software App Release in phase wise manage and managed the IT CHAT as an application owner
- Executed development and release of IT CHAT app versions for Android and iOS devices, globally
- Manage Capgemini resourcing across Unilever, manage the resources (FTE’s / contractor) as their N+1 and engage with stakeholder for contract renewal and revenue discussion
- Hiring of resources (FTE’s / contractor / sub-contractor) for various technical and non-technical position with Unilever
- Engage with various vendor partners and work closely with procurement in hiring contractor and sub-contractors
- Understanding and certification on Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, Scrum, SDLC
- Delivered over €5 Mn business with customer and service centric mind-set
- Effected approx
- 1 Mn saving with effective project planning and budgeting
- Excel in Vendor, Client and Stakeholder management
Operations Manager / Project Manager
TEKsystems – Cisco Systems Inc
Bangalore
10.2016 - 02.2018
- Project 1 – DevOps Open Stack / Project 2 – Wells Fargo
- As an Incident/ Project Manager responsible for successful transition, deployment, monitoring & change control of 2500 network sites globally
- Set-up of Infra network and cyber security integration for 2500 sites globally
- Responsible for a global account end-to-end IT Infra network project delivery
- Managing DevOps team for Open Stack and Network related projects
Assistant Manager
Vodafone India Service Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
08.2015 - 09.2016
- Project – SaaS– Mobile Iron / AirWatch / Intune – Pilot (Cloud Technologies)
- Design respective SaaS cloud platform for various customers and onboard them based on their requirement
- Manage the shared services operating model and worked with global customers to deliver utmost service
- Understand the technical requirements, engage with design & development team to translate the requirement and design the solution
- Transition SaaS projects, started from zero, grew to $12 million in revenues in a year
- Transitioned with 4 customers, grew to 22 global customers with effective vendor / client management skills
- Work directly with business stakeholders in delivering technical solutions for SaaS and Cloud partners
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies, Deutsche Bank
Bangalore
08.2012 - 08.2015
- Project 1– SaaS Transition (Mobile Iron / AirWatch / Intune)
- Project 2 – (IPCM) Incident/Problem/Change Management Pilot Transition
- Project 3 – Lean Six Sigma- IHD Error Minimization
- Work closely with Project Manager in setting up the Project Deliverable and Transition Management
- Initiate, Plan and Execute Incident, Problem and Change management workflow in accordance with POC
Hewlett-Packard Global Soft Limited, KPMG
Bangalore
01.2011
- Assisted in troubleshooting user problems relating to Operating System issues (Win XP, Win 2000, Win Vista and Win 7), Network Connectivity, TCP/IP configuration, upgrades, MS Office products and Internet connectivity
Accenture Services Private Limited, AT&T
Bangalore
01.2010
- Researching, analyzing, evaluating, and monitoring network infrastructure to ensure networks are configured to operate at optimal performance
Saurat Auto-Tech (P) Ltd, TATA MOTORS
Jamshedpur
01.2009
- Quality control and Development in various fields of production plant improvement
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Skills
Agile Project Management
Program Management
SDLC Framework
Kanban, Waterfall
Scrum Master
Networking router and switching
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud and SaaS migration
Contract and Commercial
Budgeting and Forecasting
Team Management and Operations
Risk, Resource, Stakeholder, Client Management
MS Project, Jira
Power BI
Certification
Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) / PMP (2976155) / ITIL V3 Foundation / PRINCE 2 (GR633040631MI) / Six Sigma Green Belt / CCNA
Timeline
Operations Manager > Engagement Manager
Capgemini
08.2019 - Current
Project Manager
Unilever
06.2018 - Current
Sr. Consultant
Ernst & Young
06.2018 - 08.2019
Operations Manager / Project Manager
TEKsystems – Cisco Systems Inc
10.2016 - 02.2018
Assistant Manager
Vodafone India Service Pvt. Ltd
08.2015 - 09.2016
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies, Deutsche Bank
08.2012 - 08.2015
Hewlett-Packard Global Soft Limited, KPMG
01.2011
Accenture Services Private Limited, AT&T
01.2010
Saurat Auto-Tech (P) Ltd, TATA MOTORS
01.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Visvesvaraya Technological University