Project Manager Management

MUHAMMAD ADNAN UMER

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Nine plus years of experience in Project Management, Software Architecture, System Analysis and Design.

Three plus years of working on Agile and Scrum Methodologies.

Deep understanding of agile processes, object-oriented design, MVC applications and SDLC.

Fulfilled diverse responsibilities of business analysis, project coordination, documentation and Team Leadership .

Ability to manage multiple projects, set priorities, achieve immediate/long-term goals and adhere to deadlines.

Capable of successfully adapting to new environment and technology.

Value-centric approach in building client products and relationships

Exceptional interpersonal skills; self-motivated and directed.

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Organized and able to follow PMI project management metho dologies.

Delivered projects for fortune 500 clients like Pepsico, Frito Lays, Amway and Telenor.

SKILL SUMMARY

Well-versed and experienced in using project management, ticketing and collaboration tools like MS Project, Jira, Basecamp,

DotProject, Redmine, Bugzilla, etc. Proficient in MS Excel for performing quick analysis on data sets.

Worked with Bugsense, Google Analytics, Parse, Urban Airship, Amazon s3, ec2, Stripe, Zencoder, Firebase, GIT, VSS, SVN,

Jmeter, Monit, Jenkins, phabricator, New relic, Monkey Talk, etc.

Managed projects in multiple technologies like Android, iOS, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Java, Ruby, JavaScript,

CSS and HTML5.

OpenSource CMS: Magento, Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal.

WORK EXPERIENCE

December 2012 – November 2014

Confiz Limited

Designation: Project Manager

Highlights: Managed multiple projects as Project Manager / Product Owner / Scrum Master. Technically managed a team of 15

Software Engineers Quality Assurance Engineers / Designers. Worked with customers to define elaborate project/product

requirements and negotiating time estimates and deliverables . Co-ordination with other project managers and teams to ensure

delivery of the end product. Ensure Quality of the deliverables by following and improving internal audit processes. Develop,

manage and execute project plans, defining scope, schedule, ri sk, deliverables and resources. Conducting team building activities

and trainings to ensure we have a highly motivated team. Following a value centr ic approach to make sure we build quality

applications. Requirement Gathering, Analysis and estimation of new sales leads .

Projects:

Media Application: Media is an enterprise application on Android and IOS platforms. It is a content sharing application which

allows subscribed users to view videos, audios, documents and images. Moreover users can buy videos and audios using their

credit cards and credits. This is a multitenant application built for the multilevel marketing industry and is in production for leading

Amway companies like LTD, Efinity, Vision Global and many more.

Determine Your Success. DYS is an enterprise application for both IOS and Android. This application helps the multilevel

marketing companies to recruit new prospects. Includes Urban Airship push notifications, Amazon s3, Video download and

streaming, sending emails, localization (English and Spanish), communication with web-services and a complete live chat

implementation with firebase. This is a multitenant application which means you can launch this for a new company with very less

work. This application is in production for Amway companies like LTD and Efinity.

Video Subscription Application. This is a content distribution application framework. This helps us share private video and audio

content to your subscribed users. Moreover there is a messaging part used to engage directly with your customers. This consists of

IOS, Android, Web portal and a backend. This is again a multitenant application built over parse in such a way that we can also

change UI elements from parse. Current Customers include Taffer TV and BBBasement.

Task Manager: This was web application based on the idea of making emails into tasks and calendar events. The basic idea

behind this product was of a zero inbox.

September 2011 – November 2012

Clary Business Machines

Designation: Project Manager, Technical Consultant

Job Responsibilities: Technical PM. I was responsible for maintaining web/DB servers and actively involved in troubleshooting

and managing the development and SEO teams. Brainstorming with the Marketing team on different initiatives. Business

Requirement Gathering and Analysis. Creating technical RFP’s and coordinating with vendors for out -sourced projects. Making

key decisions regarding Human Resources. Introduced Project Management processes to setup a proper monitoring system in place

for all resources. Planning, scheduling, estimations, tasks allocation and coordination across teams and stakeholders to ensure the

timely completion of the projects.

Highlights: Setup Project management practices and processes. Setup the lead management system. Server Migration (Moving

100 plus sites from cpanel to plesk). New Multiple Ecommerce stores (panaboards.com, shredderswarehouse.com). Multiple

Wordpress blogs/sites (www.clarysolar.com, etc). Setup Magento Multi store platform. Migrate current ecommerce sites to

Magento. Synchronize all internet marketing efforts. Technical contact for all external vendors.

October 2008 – September 2011

Pyrspective (Digital Marketing Agency)

Designation: Project Manager, Technical Consultant

Job Responsibilities: Business Requirement Gathering and Analysis. Creating high -level designs and overseeing the team in

technical matters. Technical analysis of acquisition prospects. Involved in research and development for some new business

development prospects. Creating technical RFP’s and coordinating with vendors for out-sourced projects. Web Server

Management. Project Management. Making key decisions regarding Human Resources. Creating Quality benchmarks for different

campaigns and projects. Heading the Lahore office and reporting to the director based in UK. Communication with local and

international clients. Managing a Team of 15 resources.

Projects / Products:

Bizactor: This site is based on a unique concept to create a market place that connects businesses and professionals around the

globe. This platform allows users / companies to list their products and uses a complex matching algorithm to connect the bu yers

with sellers.

Pepsico Pakistan: Manage all online (web) assets for Pepsi Pakistan as their digital marketing agency, which include their social

media channels, websites and campaigns. Pepsi did an extensive campaign during the world cup. We were responsible for online

engagement of the brand and developed the following components in a very strict timeline. Pepsi Cricket Fantasy, Cricket World

Cup micro-site, Live Score Widget (Desktop + Web + Facebook), Cricket Revolution PC Game (competition + download), Cricket

Star Avatar facebook application.\The microsite alone had 30,000+ bookmarks whereas the cricket fantasy had 50,000 plus

registered users.

Lays Flavor Cup: Lays launched 4 limited edition flavors for the cricket world cup 2011. A campaign was designed to facilitate

the launch, which allowed consumers to vote for their favorite flavor. The voting was allowed through multiple mediums which

include SMS, website, facebook and desktop widget. Alongside the voting other components like Quiz Competition and Design

your own pack widgets were launched which helped us get more user engagement .

Others: Sting Energy Launch, T20 Cricket World Cup 2010 Song (Badal Do Zamana), Imran Khan Concer t, Dew Fast & Furious

5, Tocgroup, Onitaa, Legal Services, Ems Prototype Video Streaming, World Global Jobs, Wilsons. Cricketfantasy and

Footballpitch

Ecommerce Projects: ChenOne, Rkbathrooms, StyleCoture, Ornate Style (Wilsons Group) and MyHomeFurniture.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2008

NorthBay Solutions (Previously known as CambridgeDocs).

Designation: Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Job Responsibilities: Involved in feature enhancement and ongoing development of many of the x -Doc software drivers. Involved

in research and development for some new business development prospects. Providing Insights of technical issues to the sales

team. Involved in the recruiting process of the company. Responsible for client interaction and maintaining project plans.

Reporting directly to the CEO and the CTO. Lead multiple projects at one time with a total team size of up to 12 resources.

Nextier networks: nexTier is redefining the way data leaks are prevented. Introducing the first data leak prevention technology

with built-in semantic analysis and intelligent automated security policy management. nexTier’s patent -pending technology

discovers network data very fast and uses semantic analysis to automatically secure that data. Worked with different

communication protocols like HTTP, FTP, XMPP, MS Exchange, Active Directory over different operat ing systems (Fedora,

WinXP) using different clients (IE, FireFox, Thunderbird etc).

My Happy Planet: A social networking site based on the concept of learning new languages and cultures around the world. Major

tasks include technical oversight to the team for bug fixing and development of Admin Reporting module.

Gnomi Chat: A chat server/client which combines all different messengers msn, yahoo, icq, aol, etc in one software. Providing

technical oversight on enhancing the current architecture for integration of Second Life messenger.

XDoc: FOPCDOCS is a java based driver which is responsible for converting a ppXML(intermediate internal standard) to XSL.FO

to PDF.

July 2005 – Aug 2007

Bentley Systems

Designation: Software Engineer, Team Lead

Job Responsibilities: Involved in analysis, design, development and maintenance of various engineering software. Requirement

Analysis, responsible for training of new resources, coordination of development work with counterparts working in US, helpin g

with the recruitment process of the Company. Working in a Scrum Team.

Projects:

Bentley Modeling Framework: Bentley Modeling Framework(BMF) is a concept introduced by Bentley to provide a common

platform for all its designing products. Diablo P&ID (Plant and Instrumentation Diagrams) would be the first product launched on

this Framework.

Others: Cadsystem, Autoplant Decoupling

EDUCATION

Institution Qualification Year

2007 – 2009

Lahore School of Economics (LSE) Executive MBA (Marketing and Finance)

2001 – 2005

National University of Computer & Emerging BS Computer Sciences

Sciences (Formerly FAST)

Awards & Achievements

Most Valuable Player awarded at Confiz Solutions April 2014.

2nd Prize PROCOM (NU-FAST-Karachi) All Pakistan Speed Programming Competition 2005.

1st Prize SOFTCOM (GIKI-Topi) All Pakistan Multimedia Category 2004.

2nd Prize PROCOM (NU-FAST-Karachi) All Pakistan Speed Programming Competition 2004.

Co-Curricular Activities

President OSAF (Old Student Association FAST) 2014. VP OSAF 2013. Member Executive Committee OSAF 2006-2010

Sports and Entertainment Committee Manager, Confiz 2014-15, North Bay Solutions 2007-08 and Bentley Systems 2006-07.

President Sports Society NUCES September 2004 and Vice President Sports Society 2003 -04.

Member Board of Governors SOFTEC 2008 -2012. General Secretary SOFTEC Society NUCES 2005.

Treasurer IEEE-NUCES Student Branch 2004 Head Internal Setup 2003.

Member University and Bentley Football Team.

Captain Confiz, Pyrspective Volleyball Team. Member University and Bentley Volleyball Team.

Other

Green Card holder

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