Zakir Sayeed
Project Manager | US Healthcare
Chennai
Summary
IT professional with extensive program and project management experience. Demonstrated excellence project management in MMIS healthcare care industry.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Program Manager - Products
Acentra Health / CNSI
1 2022 - Current
- Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
- Manage and groom the Product backlog of product enhancement and customer requests.
- Manage the budget, capacity and establish release calendar with multiple release trains based on business needs
- Work with Product Owners and Customer and gather requirements.
- Conceptualize and finalize design requirements.
- Plan the design, development and testing in accordance to priority and dependency.
- Managed the development and testing team ensuring timely deliverable.
- Monitored risks by ensuring setting up various ceremonies throughout the project. Enabled various dashboard reporting for tracking and also for reporting purposes to the Steering committee. Managed multiple release trains of delivery with multiple releases planned in tandem. Releases covering Product Enhancements and Transformation initiatives such microservices and UI refresh of the application.
- Improved program efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing time-saving solutions.
Project Manager - Scheduler
CNSI
03.2020 - 12.2021
- Implementation of Medicaid System of a large scale program spanning over a period of 20 months
- Planned, built and managed the detailed schedule plan of the end to end implementation, whilst also using various prediction models to monitor slippage and forecast issues
- Monitored progress, risks and dependencies with both internal and external stake holders
- Enabled tracking of progress in JIRA by tracking the progress during development phase
- Responsible for reporting progress to the Steering committee and the customer.
PMO
CNSI
07.2015 - 02.2020
- Established various project management process and practices in organization
- Resource Management of India organization with ownership of managing bench resources
- Implemented JIRA project management process, practices, workflow and framework from scratch for different types of projects such as implementations, products and initiatives
- Established Capacity Management process for organization which later was developed application internally for same purpose
- Instituted project planning practices for product and operational releases
- Introduced Agile Scrum practices in organization by establishing various ceremonies and fluidity in planning practices in order to include basic Agile principles.
Project Management Professional - 1
Computer Sciences Corporation
06.2011 - 07.2015
- Responsible for managing, creating and closing charge codes based on SoWs of a major account
- Fixed price billing and rate card management
- Conducted monthly project management compliance review along with Quality assurance team for all applicable projects in the account
- Monthly status reporting of project cost (hours) against the budget of all projects
- Administered PPM tool workspace for assigned portfolios and programs.
Education
Master of Business Administration (Distance) - Operations Management -
University of Madras
Chennai, India 01.2013 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology - undefined
Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering (Anna University AFliated)
Chennai, India 09.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Program Management
Agile Project Delivery
MMIS Product Development Life Cycle
US Healthcare
Schedule Management
Capacity Planning
JIRA
Microsoft Project
Certification
Project Management Professional, 07/2021 - 07/2024, PMI
Accomplishments
- Implementation of Project Management Framework for Product Releases and Transformation Initiatives, 2022 - 2023, Establish project management framework from the scratch for Products by adapting basic Agile practices.
- Implementation of Capacity Management Process, 2017 - 2018, Introduced and implemented resource capacity planning concepts in the organization which later led to become a full-fledged process, with its own tool (Internal tool) and tracking
- JIRA Implementation and Continuous Improvement, 2017 - Present, Implemented project management based framework while setting up Cloud JIRA. Introduced, implemented and reported project schedule forecasting techniques based on backlogs and pending work completion for all projects in the organization.
Awards
- Employee of the Month Award,(12/2018 - CNSI India) Awarded for the outstanding contribution in project status reporting and implementation of capacity management process
- SPOT Awards, 2015 - 2022, CNSI India, 2017 - Contribution towards CMMI 2019 - Implementation of PowerBI dashboards 2021 - Contribution towards Implementation of MMIS system in record time 2022 - Successful delivery of multiple Product releases
- Excellence Award, 12/2022, CNSI India, Contribution towards setting up program management practices in Products and on time delivery of releases with minimal quality issues.
Work Availability
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Timeline
Project Manager - Scheduler
CNSI
03.2020 - 12.2021
PMO
CNSI
07.2015 - 02.2020
Master of Business Administration (Distance) - Operations Management -
University of Madras
01.2013 - 05.2014
Project Management Professional - 1
Computer Sciences Corporation
06.2011 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology - undefined
Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering (Anna University AFliated)
09.2007 - 05.2011
Program Manager - Products
Acentra Health / CNSI
1 2022 - Current