Project Manager

UMAIR BAIG

SUMMARY

With over ** years of project management experience, Umair has worked as a Management Consultant and Trainer during which he led and delivered successful projects, conducted training of the staff and coordination of the resources to deliver business value thus helping the clients, he worked for, save thousands of dollars. Umair has got not only experience and credentials, but also the knowledge and skills to manage people and a foresight to see the strategic value from successful projects.

COMPETENCIES

·Project Management skills using Agile / Scrum / Waterfall Methodologies

·Business analysis, Systems analysis

·MS Project (Advance Level)

·Oracle Primavera P6 (Advance Level)

·MS Excel (Advance Level)

·Instructional Design & Training

·Managing knowledge bases in learning management systems and repositories

·Creating training material and content

·Delivering training and using metrics to measure the effectiveness

·Business Process Mapping utilizing BPMN 2.0, MS Visio and other tools

·MS SharePoint (End User Level)

·IBM SPSS

·Oracle E Business Suite R12 (GL, AP, AR, INV, OM Modules)

CERTIFICATIONS

·Project Management Professional (PMP No. 1663806), Project Management Institute, USA

·Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP No. 1867013), Project Management Institute, USA

·Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA No. 2032403), Project Management Institute, USA

·Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certificate ID: 001087427, Scrum Alliance, USA

·ITIL Foundation Certified

·Lean Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt)

·MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)

EXPERIENCE

July 2019-

Present

Master Scheduler/Project Manager, Agilify

·Working as a Master Scheduler for the client, Louisiana Medicaid PPMO, to build and manage all project and program schedules from ground up utilizing schedule management best practices such as PMI Practice Standards for Scheduling and DMCA 14 Point Assessment to name a few.

·Performed schedule management tool selection based on a rigorous and objective scoring model.

·Set up MS Project Server and performed admin level tasks such as Project naming conventions, enterprise custom fields and lookup tables, resource naming and creation, custom views, tables, and filters, etc.

·Create individual project schedules and then build an integrated master schedule for various program and overall portfolio level.

·Set up procedures for schedule version control and archival process.

·Set up MS Project online integration with MS SharePoint to build project schedules from the very inception till completion and close out phases.

·Built project schedule templates to support various project methodologies, ranging from Agile, Scrum to Waterfall approach

·Engaging with the client to understand the project needs and help them elicit project requirements, build a solid Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that helps in effective scope management of various projects.

·Keeping a close tab on the critical path and all the tasks on the Critical Path to prevent schedule slippage and minimize the foreseeable risks.

·Support in developing custom reports to help manage projects, programs, and portfolios by identifying key metrics and data requirements. Some of the custom reports include but are not limited to Milestone Report, Portfolio Impact Analysis Report, Timeline Report, Variance and Trend analysis, SPI and CPI Analysis, Resource availability and cost reports, etc.

·Involved in leveraging technologies such as MS Power BI to create robust dashboards and reports such as Portfolio Health Analysis to present to the leadership and executive board on a weekly basis.

·Involved in setting up processes internally for developing staff training and development and skills assessment tools. Utilizing the tools to map their current and desired skillset and help them to develop the skills over time

Jan 2018- Jul 2019

Independent Consultant/Trainer ITIC System, LLC, USA

·Work as an independent Project Management, IT Management and Quality Management consultant for various training organizations

·Delivers Project Management courses, such as PMI-PMP certification course, Agile, Scrum, Risk Management, Six Sigma, ITIL foundation, MS Project, Oracle Primavera P6, etc.

·Teach complex concepts such as CPM, EVM, Estimation approach used in project management etc. to not only understand but also apply and practically use on projects.

·Perform business development activities to get corporate clients for training of their staff, ensuring high level of ROI for all my clients, by meeting training needs

Jan 2014 -

Dec 2017

Management Trainer Sitespower Training Center, LLC, Dubai, UAE

·Delivers Project Management, Risk Management, Primavera P6, ITIL and MS project training to various corporate and individual clients in Gulf region.

·Trained basic to advance level on industry leading scheduling software, such as MS Project and Oracle Primavera P6.

·Taught how to import and export schedules from MS Project and Oracle Primavera P6

·Taught how to do resource demand and capacity planning and block planning in Oracle Primavera P6

·Used Primavera Risk Analysis to manage and mitigate risks and calculate the overall risk exposure across projects

·Trained thousands of individual clients from various organizations local and fortune 500 companies in over 3 years.

·Managed internal projects and schedules for implementing CRM application within the organization.

·Important KPIs and OKRs were, customer rating, skills knowledge gap assessment, conducting pre and post-tests to confirm knowledge transfer, etc.

Nov 2011 -

Dec 2013

Project Manager iAmplify Consulting Solutions

·Worked on ERP support and upgrade projects for various clients, from shipping, manufacturing, and services-based industries.

·Complete Life Cycle implementation and Project management, including documentation, management of key resources, activity sequencing, schedule management, risk management and implementation of risk mitigation plan.

·Gathered initial requirement, created BR docs, and communicated it to technical teams, did milestone reviews and conducted post implementation reviews and reports.

·Utilized project scheduling tools such as MS Project and Oracle Primavera P6 to build and manage schedules.

·Ensured the coordination of all teams to test and deliver work packages to the client successfully.

·Reported to client in form of various dashboards and ensured communication with all stakeholders to ensure project success

Aug 2008 -

Oct 2011

ERP Consultant IBM Global Business Services, Pakistan

·Worked on a complete end to end ERP Implementation project as a ERP Consultant

·Ensured the coordination of all teams to test and deliver work packages

·Worked on Oracle EBS R12 application, on supply chain and financial modules

·Coordinated and proofread test scripts and created user productivity kits, demos etc.

·Used MS Project to build and manage project schedules and generate built in reports from the tool.

·Worked with the client to ensure that over 60,000+ inventory balances are accurately transferred on the new system from the legacy software, trained end users and conducted post implementation reviews.

·Regular reporting to Project Manager to manage schedules and conduct performance reviews of team members on their assigned work.

EDUCATION

2012

2018

MBA, Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan

BBA, Business Administration, MIS, Bahria University Karachi, Pakistan

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