Project Management Consultant
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Shakeel Peerwani
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Sr. Project Management Consultant
Well-seasoned and results-driven Project Management Consultant with over 10+ years of combined experience in Public Sector, Financial Institution, and Insurance industry. Managed sizable teams, developed, and implemented large-scale complex projects whilst demonstrating the ability to successfully support and deliver multiple projects consecutively. EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
• Bachelor of Art (Economics) – Karachi University
• MS Project Professional 2013 Certification - Microsoft
• Project Management Certification Training - University of Toronto
• Certified Associate Project Management Completed - PMI
• Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Study
• Guidewire Claims Transformations Systems Program Certification – Aviva Canada PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS
5 year – HP PPMC 9.2, Clarity PPM, JIRA, Rally Software, SharePoint, Carpe Diem and HP ALM 10+ years – MS Project, Visio, Lotus notes and Outlook 10+ years – Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, Power Point, Access, and Outlook. Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 10/Windows 7/XP
Competencies / Specialties
Project & Program Management / Scrum Methodology / Change Management / Business Process Re engineering / Consulting / Strategic and Operational Planning / Quality and Performance Improvement / Vendor Management / Strong Communication / Team Leadership / Team Building & Training / Performance Reporting / Problem Solving & Conflict Resolution / Self Starter / Independent / Proactive / Business Transformation PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. Project Management Consultant
Metrolinx (Union Station Bus Terminal Management Software Implementation) Jan 2018 – Current Successful implementation of a state-of-the-art Terminal Management System at the New Union Station Bus Terminal (81 Bay St) which automatically assign a platform to the Go buses entering the terminal. The key modules development and business functions of Transit operations were mainly focused on achieving safe operations and enhanced consumer/customer experience by integrating and automating hardware end points of Vehicle detection, Traffic control, Passenger entrance Door Control, Drivers interface/signage. Scalability of system to support other Metrolinx operated bus terminals in the future and to accommodate Third party bus services providers e.g. (Grey Hound, CanAr and Toronto Coach) etc.
• Adhere to PMO practices and routine, mainly comprising of status reporting, financial tracking, risk management, Gating board, Resource allocation process (RAP), Procurement process for SOWs & RFP to engage vendor, and maintaining SharePoint documentation repository.
• Effectively collaborate with the construction company Hines, Capital Project Group and internal Metrolinx project teams to ensure the alignment of TMS core peripheral hardware delivery and the construction and backend infrastructure readiness are synced.
• Responsible for managing the budget of 24M for forecasting, approval of SOWs vs efforts for not to exceed contract value, and continuous tracking/reporting of disbursements vs scope and resources planned.
• Continuous track of Schedule Performance index (SPI) and Cost Performance Index (CPI) to evaluate project health vs Earned Value (EV) at any given point and maintain contingency variance not to exceed 3% throughout the project life cycle.
• Work closely with Sr. Project manager, Sr. PgM and Project sponsor to address situations of a scope creep through approved Project Change Request (PCR) and a revised Charter to measure and adjust additional time and efforts. Shakeel Peerwani
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• Followed artefacts tailoring guide to prepare and produce documentation upon each gating board through the phases of project life cycle from initiation to closure.
• Responsible for working with technical lead, QA lead, Vendors, procurement team and development leads to create a detailed project schedule for weekly task tracking. Also develop Gantt chart/Timeline delineations for the senior leadership team for macro visibility.
• Facilitated monthly Project Review Board (PRB) session with Senior leadership of the organization encompassing status, risk and reporting of financial health of projects and captured action items and meeting minutes during the session.
• Ensure timesheets are submitted on time by the project team. Validate the actuals hours worked against the forecasted allocation to avoid cost overruns.
Sr. Project Management Consultant
Metrolinx (Integrated Command Centre Technology @ Oakville) March 2016 – Feb 2018 Audio Visual (Videowall) and End User Devices setup at the new Network Operations Command Centre Oakville. As the old Go Transit Command Centre’s facility was being demolished there was a need for greater visibility into the outside events through CCTV feeds, news channels (CP24), Canadian National Feeds and other sources of visual information which would greatly improve situational awareness. Successfully delivered the project on time and on approved 4.2M budget. Also, the desk setup for the Command Centre resources with high peformance equipment such as new laptops, keyboard, monitors, turrets, PA announcement system which would provide optimized ergonomics, usability, workspace portability, and access to information. Successfully delivered the project on time and under the approved 2.7M budget.
• Successfully managed and coordinated with over 10 vendors simultaneously to ensure requirements are understood and lead time for deliveries can be planned based on the specific phase of the project.
• Diligently adhered to Metrolinx’s procurements process and build the project schedule based on the lead time provided by the procurement team for each hardware delivery based on procurement type and cost.
• Documented all the critical resource and hardware delivery related risks at the Program level for complete SLT visibility and escalation support.
• Meticulously tracked all invoices and PO’s for each vendor individually and tracked them against the forecasted budget to avoid cost overruns.
• Organized POC desk setups for Old GTCC resources using the new equipment’s to gather their feedbacks and ensured that the final setup at Oakville NOC met the provided specification and to obtain business signoff
• Successfully delivered 3 x 8 (24 videowall setup) at the Oakville NOC facility which provided live feeds from Canadian National, CP24 and CCTV feeds from Union Station Bus Terminal.
• Responsible for working with technical lead, QA lead, Vendors, procurement team and development leads to create a detailed project schedule for weekly task tracking. Also develop Gantt chart/Timeline delineations for the senior leadership team for macro visibility.
• Proactively worked with the internal team to gather Transition to Run related artifacts for post Go live support Sr. Project Management Consultant / Scrum Master
TD Canada Trust - DASH / Large Program Management (LPM) September 2015 – February 2016
• Build Program Governance process guides to facilitate the on boarding and off boarding of new Workstreams and ensured the conformity of the Program standards by all the leads
• Build DASH marketing plan by working diligently with the senior executives and understood DASH's vision, problem statement, solution and built a project plans to reach the target state to be used as a roadmap
• Organized and conducted training ad QA session with the Senior Program Managers from all 14 Workstreams of the new DASH program governance standards
• Developed "DASH Marketing Strategy" by working in collaboration with the Communication, Finance and Executive team members, with an objective to raise DASH awareness amongst all Business and Technology segments Shakeel Peerwani
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• Established how to guides for Workstream Plan on a Page illustration (Roadmaps), Change Request Process and Risk and Control documentation combined with the detailed description of the roles and responsibilities of the key stakeholders, process flows and reporting cadences
• Prepared the weekly ESC meetings preparations, monitored, and tracked action items and followed up with the executives for prompt resolution
• Promptly tracked and reported Program off-track activities, interdependencies and critical milestones using Workstream Plan on a Page reports
• Worked very closely with the C-Level executives around adhoc reporting, followed up with dignitaries from different LOB’s to gather specific documentations and reports
Sr. Project Management Consultant / Scrum Master
Aviva Canada - (Guidewire Claim Centre Implementation) Jan/2013 – Sept/2015
• Implemented scrum methodology by developing Kanban wall, leading scrum meetings and user story tracking whilst diligently complying with all the gating, initiative Proposals, Charters, Business Case, CR and Benefit realization processes in place to meet the PMO governance standards.
• Facilitated prioritization, planning and elaboration sessions with the key stakeholder to elicit high level testing cost estimates and identify the work effort for policy Integration, vendor services, configuration, downstream feeds teams
• Build a code promote schedule for multiple environments to accommodate Performance testing, based on the input from the infrastructure team around environment’s availability on a certain day/time as they were shared by other projects
• Build forecasts & resource allocation plans for every sprint by creating vacation and resource contract trackers staffing profiles in PPMC and assigning task for each resource based on the scope for each sprint
• Followed Aviva’s change request process to accommodate new regulatory changes, enhancements, and business-related changes due to new market trends by creating and presenting the impact analysis and received signoff’s
• Diligently tracked all project related risk, issues, decisions, and action items under RAID log on bi-weekly basis to ensure optimum rigor and control over scope creeps and risk mitigation
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