
Faizan Anwar
Project Manager
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11 people recommend
Newcastle NSW, Australia
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
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About me
Intro
Working as a IT project manager for Ecommerce applications developed in Adobe Commerce aka Magento. Major responsibilities include: - Responsible for managing project execution to ensure budget, schedule, and scope conformity - Collaborating with the tech and QA leads to monitor sprint/release quality - Collaborating with diverse project teams, such as development, business and marketing - Preparing or refining project plans that include project objectives, technology stack, risk analysis, work breakdown structure, and resources - Perform UAT and change documentation is recorded - Monitored and tracking of projects to ensure that milestones and commitments are met on schedule - Business requirements analysis and assessment - Change impact assignment - Current vs future state gap analysis - Developing and managing work breakdown structure to estimate and have clarity on requirements. - Initiating and leading processes depending on project nature, including Agile & Hybrid - Ensures that all electronic communication is WCAG compliant - Arranging and participating in a variety of inter- and intra-departmental meetings - Lead all agile ceremonies, such as story estimate, sprint story management, and retrospectives Have experience of, - Managing projects of the eCommerce domain developed in Magento 2 with full customization. - Managing projects of iOS and Android apps. - Managing projects developed in PHP Laravel, WordPress, and Squarespace. - Release upload and store listing on App Store and Play Store console. - Creating profiles and certificates from an iOS developer account. - Creation of Admob mediation profile and Ad units for mobile apps. - Google Firebase products for app analytics, push notification, crash reporting and dynamic links. - Working with In-app purchase of App store and play store. - Working with Amazon S3, Elastic BeanStalk, Amazon SNS, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2 instances, DigitalOcean and Godaddy Servers. - Working with different tasks management tools e.g. Teamwork, Jira, Trello, Confluence, Smartsheets, and MS Project.
Work experience
Project Manager
Helen of Troy
Dec 2021 - Present
4 years 11 months
Remote
• Keep track of project plans, resource allocations, deployment timelines, and other project-related documents, and circulate them to the relevant stakeholders. • Communicate the status of ongoing projects to the team, Director PMO, business managers, and department heads on a regular and succinct basis. • Facilitating Scrum framework, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. • Collaborate with the Director of PMO, business managers, and department heads to prioritise and evaluate task requests. • Identify/escalate project risks and collaborate with the team to provide resolution options for management to consider. • Assist in the facilitation of critical meetings in order to achieve their objectives, and follow up with summary notes and action items. • Liaison communication between business stakeholders and product development team. • Facilitated getting the work done without compulsion, assigning, or dictating the work. • Helps to ensure that every digital information is consistent with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). • Facilitated and migrated multiple projects as part of a cost infrastructure savings initiative with the DevOps team. • Supervised the email service provider (ESP) integration with Adobe commerce projects by building a custom connector.
Project Manager
Suave Solutions
Apr 2015 - Dec 2023
8 years 9 months
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
As a Project Manager, I lead a team of USA based E-commerce marketplace which consists of software developers, UI designers, quality assurance engineers, content writers, and SEO specialists. From requirement analysis to design and architecture, development, quality assurance, maintenance, deployment, cost estimation, risk analysis, and engagement with domestic and international clients, I've worked on a variety of web and mobile application projects. - Magento Ecommerce Project Manager - Build and improve Magento Ecommerce store - Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the smooth execution of projects - Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget - Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility - Ensure resource availability and allocation - Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress - Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs - Measure project usability & performance using appropriate tools and techniques (e.g. JMeter, CrazyEgg, Google Analytics, hotjar) - Report and escalate to management as needed - Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders - Perform risk management to minimize project risks - Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation - Meet with clients to take detailed project briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project - Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members' individual strengths, skill sets, and experience levels - Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals - Meet budgetary objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis - Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members - Use and continually develop leadership skills
Education
Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
2010 - 2014
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Leading Remote Projects and Virtual Teams
Issued: Mar 2022
Advanced Google Analytics
Issued: Jul 2020