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Skills:IT Program Management, IT Project Management, Delivery Management, Agile , Scrum, Prince2, Software Engineering Manager

Certification:Certified Scrum master Prince 2 beginner and practitioner

IT Program Manager 05/2018 - current
Emirates NBD Bank, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Finance
IT Program manager aligning to ENBD digital transformation
? Managing IT programs for core banking domain alighting to NBD’s digital transformation strategy ? Manage the full systems development life cycle of system changes and projects as specified and signed off by the business. ? Provide direction to the project by planning, monitoring, controlling, managing and escalating issues, risks and dependencies within the solution delivery area, with consideration to their impact on related IT projects ? Control / co-ordinate all work, allocating tasks, monitoring progress, ensuring awareness of responsibilities and securing commitment to successful solution delivery ? Prepare a solution delivery project plan with timelines, dependencies and resource requirements under the ambit of the full project ? Establish and maintain solution delivery project dashboards, and provide accurate progress reports and updated plans at pre-defined intervals to the Head of IT solutions and CIO ? Control the migration of system changes through the various testing environments from development environment to UAT environment and ready for handover to IT Services and Support in pre-prod and production environments ? Manage the releases into the pre-prod and production environments in accordance with agreed release dates so that releases are implemented smoothly and with no problems in production ? Co-ordinate the solution delivery work items between the development, integration configuration and testing teams so that the quality and output of solution delivery is efficient and optimized--
IT Program Manager 08/2008 - 03/2018
Emirates Airlines, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Aviation IT
IT Program Management Software Engineering management
? Engaged as a Technical program manager, responsible for planning software delivery work program in ERP domain, which includes new software developments and enhancements. ? Shouldering accountability to complete ownership for the delivery of the high quality software which includes estimations, technical design, programming, testing, and implementation and post implementation. ? Effective stakeholder management across all levels (including executive level) in business and IT to ensure successful deliveries. ? Allocating projects and work items to software development teams and monitoring their performance, providing advice, guidance and assistance. ? Leading a team of multi-disciplinary professionals and liaising with the client at all stages of the project for securing approvals, finalization of specifications, reporting progress and final handover. ? Creating project charter outlining scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget, and timelines. ? Leading project reviews to assess schedules, processes and risks. Guiding the project team using appropriate methods to ensure that they understand their deliverables and know the best practice for delivering them. ? Working as part of the strategic transformation program & IT Innovation lab and contributed in designing a strategic transformation program in all its aspects such as processes, methodologies, organisation design, communications, change management, people development and learning activities ? Acted as Knowledge Manager for department, defined the standard Knowledge Management practices and introduced a governance structure & facilitated the roll out across the organization.--
Project Manager 06/2007 - 07/2008
Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India
Industry: Information Technology
IT Project manager responsible for SharePoint migrations
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Associate IT consultant 02/2005 - 06/2007
IBM India, Bangalore, India
Industry: Information Technology
Offshore Team lead
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Sr.Software Engineeer 04/2000 - 01/2005
b-Commrce Infosystems, Bangalore, India
Industry: Information Technology
Senior software engineer experienced in .NET , C# technologies
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MES College of Engineering 11/1995 - 11/1999
, , India
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Electronics
Bachelor of Technology in applied electronics and instrumentation from Calicut university

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