Project Quality Assurance

Yusuf Quddus

*** ****** ***, *********, ** - ****4

Cell: 609-***-****, Home: 610-***-****

Email Address: ***********@*******.***

OBJECTIVE

Project Manager with 14 yrs IT technical project planning and implementation experience seeks a position fully utilizing strong

customer service attitude, exceptional organizational ability and communication skills.

Key Project Management Skills:

• Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with

ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.

• Subject matter expert in IT Project Iterations understanding the Agile/Waterfall Software development methodologies to

support implementation.

• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing

projects and initiatives.

• Superior coordination of user acceptance testing of final IT infrastructure and software development deliverables

through iterative evolutions.

• Provided direction to project resources, monitored development efforts, assembled key project deliverables, and

intelligently identified issues requiring escalation when reporting project status.

• Monitored change requests and prevented unapproved requirement modifications that result in scope creep.

• Scheduled and facilitated project status meetings and advised management on the effects change requests will have on

schedule and resources and presented project implementation options that affected cost, schedule, quality, and risk to

stakeholders, as well as offer recommendations based on these elements.

• Coached, mentored, motivated and supervised project team members and contractors, and influenced them to take

positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Utilized Agile/SCRUM, and Waterfall project management methodologies to radically enhance the projects productivity.

• Contributed to the development and administration of projects management methodology, policies, procedures,

standards and tools.

• Above-average proficiency creating detailed project schedules using MS Project 2003 and 2007.

• Experience working with client-facing applications and working with off-shore project teams.

• Possess strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills and demonstrated the value of being a team player

through actions. Involved with high-visibility projects and managing multiple projects concurrently. Ability to execute

under accelerated timeframes and quickly adapt to change in priorities

• Experience with Project Management Tools (MS Project, MS Office, Jira).

Key Technical Qualification:

5 years of experience as Technical Lead in software design, development and implementation.

Familiar with: Java/J2EE FrontEnd Technologies, Spring/Hibernate, ANT, Eclipse, HTML, XML, JavaScript, MVC Patterns and

EJB, Adobe: Flex 3/Flex4, LCDS/Blaze DS and Cairngorm Framework.

Educational Background:

Executive MBA, Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey

M.S. in Mathematics, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Certifications:

Certificate Program in Project Management for IS-IT Project Management. Villanova University.

Certificate Program in Project Management for Mastering Project Management. Villanova University

Six Sigma Green Belt, Villanova University

Employment History:

April 2008 – June 2011:

Verizon Wireless, Wireless data Solution, New Jersey, Senior Member of Application Staff

• Provided project leadership in the development, design and implementation of three-tiered Rich Internet

Applications using Adobe Technologies. Provided project leadership to multiple internet/intranet sites.

• mediastore.verizonwireless.com is an eCommerce site that enables Verizon Wireless users to buy Ringtone,

Ringback Tones, Games, Application and Wallpaper for their handset. It uses Adobe Flex 3 using Cairngorm

framework on the front end and communicating with the backend using remote procedure calls using Flash

Remoting request, using Blaze DS, to the server-side Java class that returns binary Action Message Format over

HTTP enabling the binary data transfer.

• Discounting GUI, an intranet site used by the Marketing Department to create Discount Code using Drools rules

engine, a general-purpose expert-system generator.

• Spearheaded the effort of transitioning the development effort from Adobe Services and bringing it inhouse.

• Lead the initiative of creating a solid Flex Development team. Managed a team of 6 developers and a graphic

designer. Also coordinated with outside vendor (Universal Mind) for this development effort.

• Effectively managed resources, schedule and quality of deliverables through the full project life cycle. Worked with

functional managers to negotiate for resource availability, workload, performance and to build WBS.

• Managed up to 9 Projects and Programs while evaluating the impact of each project on the core infrastructure as

well as other projects.

• Lead and organized daily Scrum meetings for status updates.

• Researched new concepts and ideas including Predictive Search: ability to customize search results according to a

set of keywords entered in the Search box using Apache Lucene(TM), a high-performance, full-featured text

search engine library written entirely in Java.

• Researched and presented findings and recommendations to upper management for search engine optimization

(SEO) project approval; and followed through with a plan that resulted in a increase in traffic from search engine

results.

• Lead the initiative to implement HBX Analytics to improve return on investments by revealing valuable information

about the visitor's behavior, tracking campaign effectively and see how visitors found the site, how many times

they came back and much more.

• Responsible for effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling,

managing and delivering all activities for projects and related release initiatives.

• Supported Product, Engineering, Design and Business Partners in driving projects and tasks to completion on

schedule and to spec.

• Determined road map dates based on metrics and priorities. Provided Executive level summary of Project Plan

and weekly status.

• Responsible for release of new features as well as maintaining the website and bug fixing.

• Participated in regression testing, quality assurance for emergency patches and major releases. Managed the Test

Cases, Test Plans prepared by the QA team based on Business Line Functional Requirements.

• Determined road map dates based on metrics and priorities. Provided Executive level summary of Project Plan and

weekly status.

• Co-ordinated daily defect ‘Business Review” meetings for defect status using Jira and Mercury Quality Control..

April 2005 – March 2008:

Verizon Wireless, Customer Care Group, New Jersey, Senior System Analyst

• Provided project leadership to the development group for Web site development including production timetable,

client/project team coordination and quality assurance. The application was developed using Java/J2EE FrontEnd

Technologies, Spring, ANT, Eclipse, HTML, XML and JavaScript. Site: http://verizonwireless.com

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple projects directed toward strategic

business and other organizational objectives.

• Managed an ERP requirements analysis project including 5 Business Analysts and 2 consultants.

• Gathered Requirements through interview and Use Cases. Implemented several change management strategies

• Managing the Project team to architect Framework that will be used for Unit and smoke testing the Database,

Web Services, and UI layer.

• Represented the Team in the core team, release team, change control board meetings.

• Executed and maintained project management processes and disciplines in the areas of: Project Scope

Management, Project Time Management (using PERT and CPM), Project Quality Management, Project

Communications Management, Project Risk Management.

• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including

those external to the organization.

• Successfully lead the development of projects from conceptual to prototype to product release.

• Ensured Quality Assurance through Test Plans and tested against those plans following a traceability matrix.

• Gave assignments, monitored work and progress, and resolved conflicts on a daily basis.

Aug 1997 - March 2005:

Verizon Wireless, Point of Sale Group, New Jersey, Senior Programmer Analyst

Provided Technical leadership in the development of an Online Reporting System, Credit Application Transaction, Bill Payment

Kiosk system and Year 2000 project. The applications was developed using JAVA Struts in UNIX environment using MVC

patterns, EJB and Orion Application Server, Oracle 9i Database, Sybase SQL Server and JDBC. Configured Bea Message

Queue,and ANT. Configured TCP/IP connections for communication with outside vendors such as Transunion and CBI. Managed

a team of outside vendor.

Was Project/Technical Lead in the development of an Online Reporting System using the J2EE architecture. The application is

being developed using JAVA Struts in UNIX environment using MVC patterns, EJB and Orion Application Server, Oracle 9i

Database, Sybase SQL Server and JDBC.

• Developed and coded JAVA classes, JSP, JS and CSS in UNIX environment.

• Involved in deploying the system in BEA Web Logic Server 6.1 Application server. Involved in solving all the

technical issues related to deployment in BEA Web Logic Server 6.1. Involved in writing ANT build scripts for the

deployment in the Application Server.

• Implemented Point-to-Point messaging service (JMS)

• Coded Crontab to un-deploy and deploy code into the production boxes.

• Used Unified Modeling Language (UML) to draw Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams and Sequence diagram

Was Project Lead in the conversion of character based Credit Application Transaction System (CATS) to GUI based system.

The application was developed using JAVA Struts in UNIX environment

• Developed and coded JAVA classes, utility classes and JSP’s

• Configured Bea Message Queue,and ANT.

• Configured TCP/IP connections for communication with outside vendors such as Transunion and CBI.

• Managed a team of outside vendor .

Developed a Bill Payment Kiosk system. The system was developed as:

• EXE written in Visual Basic and was deployed using Microsoft IIS Web Server running on Windows NT using Bea

MessageQ and Active Server Pages and implemented on the Intranet

• A DLL was developed in VB to act as a proxy server to communicate with the Backend server residing on VAX

Alpha system to access the RDBMS

Successfully managed the Year 2000 project at Bell Atlantic Mobile from initial stage to the final stage. Responsibilities included

• Reviewing and evaluation, budget preparation, time accounting, quality assurance, recovery procedures and

scheduling. Creation Year 2000 development manual that included design development, software configuration

control, release and test procedures.

Sept 1996 - Aug 1997:Sungard Asset Management System, Pennsylvania, Software Developer

Responsible for design, development, modification and testing of Security and Asset Management System. Facilitated all aspects

of product development including requirements definition, architecture evaluation, code review, time reporting/project planning,

management presentation and beta testing,

References: Will be provided on request.

Contact this candidate