Project Management
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SA I RAZHASSAN@GMA I L . COM
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SAIRA HASSAN
SUMMARY
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with proven experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously. Delegate effectively and motivate team members to achieve on-time project completion. Self-motivated with strong analytical abilities, efficient in problem solving, and improving efficiency.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Progressive experience in the aerospace, e-commerce, and financial services industries
• Execution oriented with a clear understanding of setting personal and team goals.
• Comprehensive understanding of the Product Development Life Cycle (Agile and Water Fall), and Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC) from project definition to post-deployment documentation
• Skilled in creating and developing strategic Project Management documents encompassing PMI- Project Management Methodologies
• Expertise in in leading offshore/co-source projects. Experience in mentoring and setting career paths for new team members
• In-depth experience in desktop, web-based and client server applications. Good understanding of Relationship Database. WORK EXPERIENCE
CLEAR PATH COMMUNICATIONS. (6/2016- 12/2016)
Project Manager (Genentech’s Channel Ops Strategic Communication Plan Development)
• Led an executive level team of 12 to formulate a communication strategy for 200+ internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance to FDA Drug Safety Guidelines.
• Developed a detailed project plan with identified project objectives and key milestones; conducted weekly team meetings to share project progress, identify and assign action items, and address blocking issues.
• Spearheaded multiple full day planning sessions with the project team and several representatives across the organization to craft a key message framework to ensure FDA compliance readiness and global alignment.
• Identified and assessed over 30 internal and external stakeholder groups to evaluate the current awareness level and long-term interests; delivered a detailed report to the executive team, illustrating proposed communication framework for the evaluated groups.
• Authored and presented a comprehensive 3-year strategic communication plan and 2017 tactical plan, which captured the unique needs and interest of diverse stakeholder groups.
• Collaborated with internal teams and external vendors to identify and finalize budget and resource requirements of $300K for 2017 communication tactics implementation.
PMI - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHAPTER. (6/2016- PRESENT) Director of Professional Development (Volunteer)
• Define strategies for improvements in professional development programs and chapter events in accordance with chapter policies.
• Develop project management education materials, courses, presentations and sessions including leadership development training programs.
• Coordinate full and half day professional development workshops for up to 30 people.
• Manage the event workflow from speaker proposal acquisition through event hosting, invoicing and surveys. UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO (01/2015- 05/2016)
Project Manager/OD Consultant (Academic Projects)
• Led research and analysis for a global technology community to suggest improvements on information sharing, conflict resolution, increase efficiency in meeting structure and data tracking for their fully remote employee base.
• Designed and conducted interviews and surveys to solicit direct feedback on the effectiveness of the reporting structure for a non-profit organization, analyzed the data and developed strategies to increase functioning and stabilize a projected 5% annual turnover rate.
• Prepared a detailed report and presentation, illustrating discrepancies between the projected measures of employee engagement and job satisfaction with actual results, as determined through census data collection and analysis.
• Spearheaded a 3 day off-site, using the “future search” methodology focused on the discovery and consensus of current limitations, and created short term and long term plan of action to achieve a new company vision. CARR ASTRONAUTICS CORPORATION. (10/2010- 1/2015)
Project Lead
• Performed requirements analysis based on primary contractor Harris Corporation supplied use cases, worked closely with the system engineering team of 8 to derive functional requirements for Mission Management element on Ground segment of GOES-R Satellite Series.
• Generated and managed project scope and schedules; identified and allocated resources; tracked progress of multiple projects to ensure milestones were completed on time and with the desired results.
• Authored detailed project management plans and coordinated all aspects of verification and validation, including functional, system and compatibility testing of GOES-R ground segment algorithms.
• Led the formation, implementation and training of internal QA team, and delivered all projects above 90% on-time success rate.
• Facilitated weekly and bi-monthly meetings to discuss project status, program and financial status, issues, and rolling wave planning; generated daily status reports for project teams and senior leadership.
• Created and tracked earned value metrics (EVM) to monitor project performance: schedule performance index (SPI) and schedule variances
(SV).
ORBIT LOGIC, INC. (2/2009- 3/2010)
Senior Software QA Engineer / Project Manager
• Successfully led multiple new features of .NET mission planning scheduling applications to meet aggressive deadlines.
• Proactively interacted with customers including DigitalGlobe and GeoEye to evaluate and approve functional specifications, and to improve the performance of the product.
• Defined project scope, established and monitored project schedule, and tracked status to ensure that projects were completed within budgets
• Generated project documentations including, project plans, test plans and test suites, and planned ahead for the lifecycle of the project.
• Performed functional testing and organized test peer-reviews with internal and external cross-functional teams to ensure optimized results.
• Initiated and led the process improvement efforts to establish company-wide product development and QA methodologies saving Orbit Logic over 50K in retesting of software products.
• Authored a new hire workbook to help new QA hires to get up to speed with their new role, which successfully increased the onboarding rate and brought savings of several thousand dollars.
PAYPAL, INC. (10/2005- 12/2008)
Senior Software QA Engineer
• Analyzed business and product specifications and developed test plans for the testing process of Authentication Models, Transaction Models, Merchant Risk Models, and Customer Administrative tools.
• Worked closely with cross-functional team members, such as developers, Product Managers, Project Managers and UI designers to resolve issues, and to ensure scheduled delivery of a quality product.
• Documented project plans and test suites, and maintained requirements documents that reduced redundancy and improved accuracy and efficiency to achieve organizational objectives.
• Performed user acceptance testing and front-end to back-end functionality testing of new features to ensure the expected results and quality, including testing of emergency bug Fixes (EBF) and emergency feature requests (EFR).
• Successfully led and managed virtual and offshore team members on multiple projects. Worked as a QA Release Lead for multiple releases, duties involving allocation of resources, build qualification, resolving build issues, and ensuring on schedule delivery of new features. EDUCATION
University of San Francisco
Master of Science – Organizational Development (Dean’s List) San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Science – Computer Information Systems (Dean’s List) CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional (PMP)
License Number: 1940845
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance ID: 513883
CREDENTIALS
OPERATING SYSTEMS UNIX, LINUX, MS Windows, AS 400, MS DOS BUG TRACKING SYSTEMS Bugzilla, Fogbugz, Clear Quest, Test Director PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS Rational DOORS, Version One, MS Share Point, CA Clarity PPM, MS Project, Project Libre DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Oracle 8.x & 9i, MS Access 97/2000, MySQL SOFTWARE LANGUAGES SQL, HTML, XML, JAVASCRIPT, C++, CGI Bin, Visual Basic.Net WEB SERVERS IIS, Apache, Weblogic, Java Web Server
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