Abrar Hashmi
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Philadelphia, PA, United States
Toptal member since June 22, 2021
Abrar is the chief agile evangelist and founder of Agile Brains Consulting, Inc. He has assisted in value-based delivery transformations in various Fortune 500 companies and spoken at multiple Agile conferences. Agile Brains was listed as a Top 10 Agile Solution Provider of 2020 by CIO Applications for their customer-centric approach to help achieve business agility. If you are looking for a strategic leader to help you deliver projects effectively, Abrar is your go-to person!
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile DevOps
- Agile Project Management
- Azure DevOps
- Confluence
- Jira
- Jira Align
- Lean Portfolio Management
Work Experience
Founder & Chief Evangelist
Agile Brains Consulting, Inc.
- Created the company from a single person to 70+ contractors and consulting serving large enterprises to achieve business agility. Trained thousands of students globally in 100+ training courses from Agile and DevOps to delivery management.
- Built our custom award-winning proprietary framework "ABC," which starts with an organizational assessment (A) followed by brainstorming (B) solutions with coaching (C) support to help deliver business value to customers.
- Led the world's largest private equity investment organization in its Agile transformation journey. Conducted an initial assessment and built a two-year roadmap for Agile transformation with a focus on people, process, and technology.
- Assisted the largest utility provider on the East coast to bring Agile project management and deliver their mobile and web-based products to market. Trained internal teams on Agile principles and built their first Agile center of excellence.
- Mentored and coached the product team for the largest COVID-19 vaccine provider within the USA and Europe to help define the MVP for the COVID-19 operator mobile application and help structure the lean product management team.
- Introduced Scaled Agile Framework for one of the largest insurance providers in the United States and used program increments to deliver the MVP in a record 21 months by focusing on high-quality features and capabilities.
- Trained 200+ students on the principles of DevOps and DevSecOps for a US government agency and helped the students understand the ways of lean working, maximizing flow, amplifying feedback, and building a culture of learning and innovation.
- Conducted Jira and Confluence tool assessment for a financial customer and created a list of inefficiencies on how Jira and Confluence were not being utilized effectively. Built a roadmap for operational changes and conducted process to tool mapping.
- Implemented Azure DevOps for a large-scale credit union, helping them migrate from spreadsheets to ADO and build internal process workflows.
Project History
Emmy Award-winning Recommendations Engine for Cable Provider
Led the program for the Emmy award recommendation engine for a cable provider which supported 1.2 billion queries a day.
Led the core team for search, browse, and recommendations to identify viewing habits and use metadata to build the recommendation engine, which is now used by over 30 million subscribers in the USA.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
Certifications
Atlassian Certified Professional – Managing Jira Projects
Atlassian
ICAgile Delivery at Scale (DAS)
ICAgile
IC-Agile Agile Project Management
ICAgile
Certified Scrum Professional
Scrum Alliance
ICAgile-Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC)
IC-Agile
Scaled Program Management Consultant (SPC 5)
Scaled Agile
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Trello, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel 365, Word 2016, AgileCraft
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Azure DevOps, Scrum, Agile Leadership, DevOps
Other
Portfolio Management, Lean Portfolio Management, Jira Align, Agile DevOps, Project Management, Agile Coaching, Human Assessment, Impact Assessment, Agile Product Delivery
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