Nazim Akhtar
Technical Program Manager
Nagpur
Summary
Senior Technical Program Manager with over 18 years of hands-on experience spanning program, project, product and team management. A diverse background in technical and managerial areas with experience in creating vision, strategies, portals, process management, software development, platform modernization, product operations for delivering business critical software projects to clients
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager
Simpplr
10.2022 - Current
- Improved cross-functional communication by establishing regular meetings and facilitating clear documentation.
- Planned and managed technical projects for clients.
- Drove successful product launches by coordinating with stakeholders, managing schedules, and mitigating risks.
- Interfaced between engineering, product and design verticals to make sure all stakeholders are up to date with latest program roadmap
- Increased team efficiency with effective resource allocation, task prioritization, and workload balancing strategies.
- Implemented monitoring tools and performance metrics for increased visibility into project health and risk mitigation strategies.
- Successfully managed multiple simultaneous projects while adhering to strict deadlines for optimal progress tracking.
- Oversaw implementation strategies and onboarding process for clients
Delivery Manager
Srijan Technologies
02.2022 - 10.2022
- Managing 3 Scrum projects with 6 members each during development processes
- Working as primary point of contact for external clients with delivery issues, promoting maximum customer satisfaction metrics for each interaction.
- Drafted status reports for clients to illustrate ongoing accomplishments and reassure customers of compliance with planned milestones.
- Reviewed solution architecture proposals to provide technical direction to associated personnel.
- Applied agile project management and agile transformation techniques.
- Coordinated employee scheduling around delivery timeframes, resolving conflicts and supporting consistent availability of necessary competencies.
- Created and monitored compliance with delivery schedule milestones to support consistent progress toward internal goals.
- Aggregated delivery status reports from multi-disciplinary teams to unify progress tracking efforts across projects.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
Engineering Manager
Yash Technologies
05.2021 - 02.2022
- Delivered 4 Cloud based project successfully
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate specific features into finished products.
- Led development on 3 simultaneous projects, multi-tasking across several deliverables while remaining in direct control of development paths.
- Interviewed, hired and trained staff, leading performance reviews and offering constructive feedback.
- Communicated regularly with customers concerning data exchange and technology integration.
Engineering Manager
Persistent Systems Limited
11.2018 - 05.2021
- Coordinated 4 AWS migration projects, defined scope and managed milestones.
- Reviewed and assessed architecture design, implementation, testing and deployment needs to identify project requirements and costs.
- Managed milestones and financials approximately $2M . Ensuring healthy LM and smooth deliveries without major escalations
- Customer interactions, demos, requirement analysis, ensuring project team understands requirements
- Managing Scrum ceremonies and weekly/monthly status, steering committee meetings, customer negotiations and project documentation
- Managing Jira viz... User Stories creation and estimations using Planning Poker . WBS and assignments
- Risk assessments and proactive mitigations
Engineering Manager
GlobalLogic
09.2015 - 11.2018
- Delivered 3 Java and Data science based projects
- Managed projects of approximately $1.2M revenue.
- Ensured healthy LM and smooth deliveries without major escalations
- Managed team of 15 resources, ensuring processes and quality deliverables, budget and timelines are intact
- Customer interactions, demos, requirement analysis, ensuring project team understands requirements
- Managing Scrum ceremonies and weekly/monthly status, steering committee meetings, customer negotiations and project documentation
- Managing Jira viz... User Stories creation and estimations using Planning Poker. WBS and assignments
- Risk assessments and proactive mitigations
- Active advisory in architecture and design and hands on involvement
Senior Team Lead
Persistent Systems Limited
12.2009 - 09.2015
- Led team of 10 members while providing exceptional customer service, Led 4-5 Java based projects in this tenure
- Participated in cross-functional team-building activities.
- Coordinated weekly meetings for internal and external groups.
- Implemented new working processes to deliver multiple improvements.
- Represented software applications engineering team during large and complex development projects.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
- Analyzed data to coordinate installation of new systems or modification of existing systems.
- Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
Senior Software Engineer
Mahindra Satyam
07.2006 - 12.2009
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Java and working to improve overall team performance.
- Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Developed clear specifications for project plans using customer requirements.
- Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
Bhopal 06.2003 - 06.2006
Skills
Platform modernization programs
Agile Methodologies
Stakeholder Management
Presentation and facilitation
Building technical teams
Team Oversight
Compliance and regulations
Continuous process improvements
Cross-functional team leadership
Agile project management
Accomplishments
- Winner of Engineering Excellence Awards and Bravo Awards -2019, 2020
- League Extraordinaire award winner - 2017
- Winner of Leadership excellence award - 2016
Persistent
GlobalLogic
Timeline
Technical Program Manager
Simpplr
10.2022 - Current
Delivery Manager
Srijan Technologies
02.2022 - 10.2022
Engineering Manager
Yash Technologies
05.2021 - 02.2022
Engineering Manager
Persistent Systems Limited
11.2018 - 05.2021
Engineering Manager
GlobalLogic
09.2015 - 11.2018
Senior Team Lead
Persistent Systems Limited
12.2009 - 09.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Mahindra Satyam
07.2006 - 12.2009
Master of Computer Applications -
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
06.2003 - 06.2006