Syed Shabir Zakiullah, CSM, PRINCE2, PMP
No. 4/7B Begum 3rd Street, Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600014 | H: +91 44 43518354 | M: +91 9940678418
haadiyah.shabir@gmail.com
Career Overview
Certified Project Manager (PMP & PRINCE2 Practitioner) with over 11 years of experience in Software Development, Business Analysis, Team Management in small to large, complex environments. Diverse technological background, Interface with all levels of management. Effectively bridge the IT / business communication gap. Collaboratively manages global team resources to deliver project objectives, Able to mitigate and resolve issues, re-establish project momentum throughout all stakeholder tiers including end users, technicians, engineers, subject matter experts as well as management in both business and/or operations. Applies Common Sense Project Management Principles to engender cooperative and collaborative efforts, deliver business strategic objectives and fill the end customer needs.
Education
1999 – 2003 Bachelor of Technology (Electronics)
CGPA : 7.4/10
Institution Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chrompet, Chennai, India
Specializations C, C++, UNIX, LINUX Digital Communications, Digital Electronics, Familiarity with Simulators like MATLAB, ORCAD, VHDL, PHP, MySQL.
Summary Of Skills
Programming C, C++, JAVA, Shell Scripting, Perl, GNU Autotools, Ruby, Selenium, Python, TCL/TK, Groovy
OS Platforms Open Systems: Unix, Trustix Secure Linux, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, AIX, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris.
Microsoft: Windows 2000 Server/XP/9x/7/Embedded 8.
Tools AccuRev, CVS, SVN, ClearCase, Jenkins, CruiseControl, SilkTest, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG/ReportNG, BMC Remedy, ANT, NUnit.
Database Oracle (9i, 10g, 11g, 12g), MSQL Server 2005, MySQL, Sybase and DB2.
Professional Certifications
? PMP [Project Management Professional] (Project Management Institute) –
[PMP Number]: 1719905
? PRINCE2 [Practitioner] (ACELOS) - [Reg. No] - 5068636.20285182
? Certified ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance) - [MEMBER]: 000262394
? RHCE [Training] - STG Limited, Chennai, India
Accomplishments & Awards
? Awarded with LiveWire Award 2012 at HCL for migrating business critical infrastructure setup from US to India thereby decreasing the operation cost substantially up to 300K USD/year
? Received individual excellence award in Infosys Technologies for the year 2010
? BAP90 Porting project received best project excellence award in Infosys Technologies for the year 2010-11 for accomplishing 35% profit margin against estimated 20%
? Awarded as ‘Best Debutant' in Wipro Technologies for the year 2006
? Client (NWA – North West Airlines) appreciations for architecting highly business critical solutions with minimum impact on business.
? Received ‘Feather in my cap' award in Wipro Technologies for the year 2007
Professional Experience
Project Manager Jan 2012 to Present
HCL Technologies,
Client: Xerox USA
Technologies: C, C++, UNIX, JAVA, Linux, Shell Scripting, Oracle 10g, Ruby, TCL/TK, Groovy, Jenkins, CruiseControl, Solaris, Selenium, SilkTest, Perl, Microsoft SQL Server 2005
? Coordinated the technical and infrastructure migration of critical CI systems from USA to India with minimal impact on daily operations thereby resulting in reduction of yearly operation cost by approx. USD 300K.
? Managed detailed design, testing, architecting of Test Automation infrastructure for automating Windows OS installations and Web Based UI testing using Selenium WebDriver integrate with Jenkins CI, ReportNG/TestNG. (15 direct reports)
? Headed sustenance operations for various product baselines of client/server software for Xerox, USA under agreed SLAs successfully managing good turn around profit every quarter. (5 direct reports)
? Managed improvement of automation test coverage to 65% thereby reducing the manual effort considerably
? Participated in various process improvement and project management process tailoring initiatives by integrating SCRUM with PMP, PRINCE2 principles thereby effectively managing various organization wide programs/projects
Technical Lead Dec 2010 to Dec 2011
Infosys Technologies, Zurich, Switzerland
Client: ZKB, Switzerland
Technologies: C, C++, UNIX, JAVA, Linux, Shell Scripting, Oracle 10g, DB2, PL/SQL, CVS
Managed the migration and implementation process of critical business applications for senior executive from ZKB, Switzerland.
? Involved in initial proposal and estimation of the project
? Involved in preparation of high level design documents and Requirement specification document
? Involved in initial Risk management strategy involving assessment and response planning
? Responsible for inputs on various solution options and there benefits and dis-benefits while preparing the project business case
? Effective stakeholder engagement during the whole life cycle of project
? Responsible for creating WBS, Project schedule along with monitor and control
? Involved in code review and inspections at every control stages of the project
? Setting up Configuration Management for the project
? Handled team with team size of 6 (offshore) and 1 (onsite).
? Travelled to Zurich, Switzerland during initial RA/Impact analysis phase and final go live and warranty phase of the project.
Technical Lead Mar 2008 to Dec 2010
Infosys Technologies, India
Client: Finacle, Infosys
Technologies: C, C++, UNIX, JAVA, Linux, Shell Scripting, Oracle 10g, DB2, PL/SQL, ProC, CVS
Led the research and development strategies for migration of finacle banking product to DB2/Linux platform
Involved in preparation of high level design documents
? Involved in review meetings on design and process management.
? Responsible for allocation and coordination of tasks to Team members
? Involved in code reviews and inspections developed by peer
? Setting up Configuration Management for the project
? Handled team with team size of 6 (offshore).
Senior Software Engineer, Apr 2006 to Feb 2008
WIPRO Technologies, India
Client: Thomson Airways, UK
Technologies: C, C++, UNIX, JAVA, Linux, Shell Scripting, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, CVS
? Key in Preparing of all of the Functional Specification Documents (FSD), Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Testing Documents.
? Worked on production support and future releases of software.
? Upgraded client server Oracle Forms and Reports application to web based and ran the application through Oracle Portal and Single Sign-on.
? Coordinated with department managers, office managers, vice president operations, and other developers during all phases of software development including the following: requirements gathering, application design, coding, and testing and user acceptance.
? Coordinated on creating Database, Table spaces, Indexes and all other Database Objects and monitor/manage database space utilization and growth, table space usage and extents, to include allocating and planning disc storage, modifying database structure.
? Coordinated database installations, builds, upgrades, object sizing, object creation, cold backups, and export/import.
Senior Software Engineer, Oct 2005 to Apr 2006
WIPRO Technologies, India
Client: NWA, USA
Technologies: C, C++, UNIX, Linux, Shell Scripting, Sybase, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, ClearCase
Migration of Yield management applications to MATIP and to 64bit AIX OS environment
? Migrated around 40+ applications from AIX 4.2 to AIX 5.3 (32 Bit to 64 Bit OS)
? Key in preparing of all code migration plan documents and Functional Testing Documents
? Worked on MATIP (Mapping of Airline Traffic over TCP/IP)/ AIX 5.2 conversion for yield management system
? Worked on IBM SNA and Screen scraping under AIX 4.2 to TUXEDO/MATIP System running on a 64-bit IBM AIX 5.3
? Followed a definite and efficient process to come up with porting and writing test-cases compliant with VelociQ
? Awarded “Best Debutant” from NWA for exceptional performance in architecting critical business solutions with minimal impact to operations
Application Developer, Sep 2004 to Sep 2005
C.O.M.O.D.O Security Solutions, India
Technologies: C/C++, Shell Scripting, RPM, UNIX, Linux, GLIBC, GCC, AutoMake
OS Development and Release Management of Trustix Secure Linux (2.2, 3.0, TSEL-2)
? Part of Installer development (Viper-Installer) in python for Trustix OS Installation
? Building and Customizing software packages using RPM internals
? Part of architecture and design team for OS installer and integration
? Product Owner for TSL 2.2, 3.0 and TSEL-2.0
Application Developer, Apr 2003 to Sep 2004
Linare Corporation, India
Technologies: C/C++, Python, Shell Scripting, RPM, UNIX, Linux, Java
Involved in development and release of Linux distribution (Linare Linux Professional) built from scratch based on BSD standards aimed at providing the user-friendliness. Components: Linux 2.4 Kernel, KDE and OpenOffice along with support for multimedia and Internet utilities such as XMMS, MPLAYER, Mozilla, GAIM, Evolution and many more.
? Design and Architecture of New Customized Linux desktop based on RedHat/Fedora and BSD Standards
? Re-Engineered KDE C++ Code for KDE Taskbar to resemble more like the windows XP Start menu, created custom KDE themes (Linare Pro Theme) for various KDE widgets (UI Components) and integrated them into Linare Linux Professional 2.0, integrated new icons and features such as a better control panel.
? Developed using C/C++ and RPM Lib Synaptic Software Updater for installing/updating RPMs from Linare.com update server, the core module was written using C/C++ and rpmlib which resolves dependency information automatically and present information the user for custom installs, the GUI frontend was written using Java/SWING toolkit