
Suhail Khaled
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Tracy, CA, United States
Toptal member since May 6, 2020
Suhail is a seasoned project manager with over 20 years of experience. He is well-versed in traditional as well as agile environments. He has trained, mentored, and coached multiple scrum teams, helped organizations improve their delivery, and produced high-quality products through good project management and agile practices. Suhail's attention to detail and uncanny ability to pinpoint potential issues, while providing strong leadership makes him an asset on projects.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Project Management
- Jira
- Kanban
- Microsoft Project
- Offshore Team Management
- Project Planning
- Scrum
Work Experience
Senior Project Manager
Folio3 Software, Inc.
- Acted as the senior project manager/scrum master for Folio3. I worked on multiple projects concurrently providing our clients with technology solutions.
- Used both the traditional model and scrum framework depending on client and project needs, ensuring the product was delivered with the highest quality through working closely with the product owner and development teams.
- Guided the team in continuous delivery by resolving issues that hindered the team's workflow.
- Coached clients and teams on agile values to improve project delivery.
- Collaborated with division owners for resource planning and risk management. Worked with the client to identify potential new projects.
- Coached the clients in the product owner role helping them realize their responsibilities and expectations. Helped them understand the agile frameworks and implementations.
Senior Project Manger
10Pearls
- Acted as the project manager and scrum master at 10Pearls, a Washington DC-based digital development company, helping businesses with product design, development, and technology acceleration.
- Ensured projects were on-track by working closely with delivery managers.
- Collaborated with the product owner and development team to develop and maintain product backlog through backlog grooming and prioritization sessions.
- Guided teams in continuous delivery by resolving issues faced by the team.
- Directed and managed the project team from inception to delivery, including deployments and UAT.
- Coached the clients in the product owner role helping them realize their responsibilities and expectations. Helped them maintain a prioritized backlog and it's value in delivering the highest priority items.
Project Manager
SS&C Primatics
- Acted as a project manager at Primatics Financial, a Virginia-based organization, to work on their product EVOLV, a loan accounting and valuation platform.
- Worked in the project management office (PMO) to implement project management best practices.
- Aided the transition of the teams from traditional to agile software development. Move the organization from module-based development to feature-based development.
- Ensured delivery according to the product roadmap and collaboration with product owners.
- Led up to five concurrent teams and projects containing as many as 30 developers.
- Coached development teams in scrum practices across the organization.
- Trained, mentored, and coached multiple scrum teams to understand scrum values and practices.
Project Manager
360training
- Developed and implemented features in the learning platform, of 360training, a Texas-based company.
- Collaborated with top technology executives in re-engineering processes and implementing metrics to provide quality and on-time delivery of products.
- Planned, directed, and coordinated activities of designated projects on a legacy platform.
- Advised on a report using a gap-analysis of the LS360 platform against the legacy system and helped build an LS360 roadmap.
- Headed the SQA team to perform testing of the LS360 and legacy platform.
- Collaborated with the technical teams to develop project management plans and their subsidiary plans.
Project Manager
Wavetec, Ltd.
- Advised senior management on integrattion policies, processes, and metrics to improve the performance of the eQ team.
- Collaborated with product management to shape and develop the eQ product vision and roadmap. Worked with technical leads to ensure adherence to SDLC.
- Headed the QA team to perform testing of the eQ products.
- Planned, directed, and coordinated activities of designated projects simultaneously.
- Presented work status for monthly roadmap meetings with senior management.
Project History
Project Manager/Scrum Master for Managing Animal Health in Cattle Farms
Led an animal health project to deliver a quality management system to help ranch owners manage their cattle and sustenance using the scrum framework.
The program focuses on three main pillars:
1) Cattle care
2) Food safety
3) Sustainability
We assisted in the building of a mobile app that helped ranch owners manage their ranches and cattle. It identified processes being followed and administrative support to add new clients and ranches. We followed the scrum framework to deliver functionality at every sprint, helped the team conduct daily scrum sessions, and organize scrum reviews and retrospectives.
Coordinated the product releases involving technical and user acceptance testing activities, ensuring the required documentation was in place (traceability matrixes and testing reports), and created final release reports. I created and monitored the technical processes for code reviews and delivery, and designed the manual and automated testing strategy.
Project Manager/Scrum Master for a Customized Healthcare Solution
We created a health product for physicians and patients where the health of the patient would be monitored. The patient data was tracked and collected through a smartwatch. We worked together to deliver the scope of the project in two phases.
The team was organized from a strong matrix organization where team members were assigned to the project. We followed our adaptation of the scrum framework and used various practices to help us deliver the project efficiently.
The team size was composed of 13 professionals; six developers, four testers, a UI specialist, one project manager/scrum master, and a product owner while the director of software services oversaw the project.
The strategies and practices we used were:
• Constant backlog grooming
• Information radiators such as burndown charts and status reports
• Planning poker - helped us estimate stories on relative sizing
• Coding standards
• Code refactoring
• Continuous integration
• Build automation and automated deployment
Agile Transformation at a Financial Solution Provider
Coached an agile transformation project for one of the biggest loan accounting services providers for top banks and financial institutions in the US.
I acted as the agile coach to help our teams and the organization understand the process and guide them during the process. We implemented scrum after experimenting with different implementation approaches.
Project Manager and Scrum Master for Hospitality Project
Developed a TV app for a hospitality project to allow checked-in guests to order their meals for in-room dining.
Project Manager and Scrum Master for Shopping Platform
We created an online platform to generate shopping sites very quickly by selecting predefined templates and customizing them according to the client requirements. Users can customize their stores using CMS and manage products they want to sell.
The team was organized from a strong matrix organization where team members were assigned to the project. We followed a scrum framework and adopted various practices to help us deliver the project efficiently. The team size was composed of 13 members (ten developers, two testers, a UI/UX engineer, one project manager/scrum master, and a product owner.
Project Manager and Scrum Master for an Education Platform
Developed an evidence-based, cross-curricular program that engages diverse populations of students on all platforms while providing tools for administrators to track and monitor their progress in real-time.
Project Manager and Scrum Master for an English Learning Platform
Developed a platform for students to learn English. The platform provides users a phonetics-based approach.
Specifically, English language educators will be introduced to a new teaching method. Parents of children learning to read, struggling with reading, or learning
English as a second language will find this platform informative and helpful. It includes the videos used for teaching readable English that explain the complexities of the language. The program is designed to convince students that any difficulties they face with reading aren't their fault. The problems are the fault of the language, which the platform 'fixes.'
Project Manager and Scrum Master for Transport/Fleet Management System
Built a service management system for a fleet of transport for a service event management organization providing high value, complex, commercial assets, and vehicles.
Collaborated with the client to truly transform communication between fleets, service providers, and assets through an intranet of back-end APIs, white-labeled mobile apps, and web applications. The solution includes an important mobile component which ensures mechanics are servicing the right parts–compatible with augmented reality plugins to visualize maintenance locations and activities.
Project Manager and Scrum Master for Loan Accounting Projects
Delivered a comprehensive, cloud-based, end-to-end accounting solution for financial institutions that integrates and automates all risk and finance processes relating to a loan portfolio, from data capture to back-end reporting and analytics.
Implemented various loan accounting and valuation features over a period of time through sprints and quarterly releases. Planned and managed the beta cycle for releases. Oversaw 10-12 teams releasing at the same time. The final release was managed through the beta project, which included the roll-out of the new features along with user acceptance testing.
Project Manager for Learning Management Platform
Managed the development of a learning management platform, which allowed customers to build custom courses and allowed their end-users to purchase and take the course through the course player.
Project Manager for Queue Management System
Set up a configuration management system for project configuration management, software development, and release management.
Education
Master of Business Administration Degree in Marketing and Finance
Institute of Business Administration - Karachi, Pakistan
Master of Science Degree in Information Technology (IT)
Hamdard Institute of Information Technology, Hamdard University - Karachi, Pakistan
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
FAST Institute of Computer Science - Karachi, Pakistan
Certifications
Certified SAFe® 5 Advanced Scrum Master
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Disciplined Agile Lean Scrum Master
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
SCRUMstudy
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Skills
Tools
Trello, Slack, Confluence, Microsoft Excel, Jira, Microsoft Project, Google Docs, VersionOne, Pivotal Tracker, Basecamp
Paradigms
Kanban, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Waterfall Delivery, PMBOK, Agile, Lean
Other
Technical Project Management, Sprint Ceremonies, Time Management, Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Communication, Sprint Planning, Project Planning, Offshore Development, Offshore Team Management, Discovery, Requirements & Specifications, Stakeholder Management, Scope Management, Mobile, Agile Coaching, Project Management Office (PMO), Web Project Management, PMI, Scrum Coaching, PMO, Process Improvement, Requirements, Training, User Stories, Training & Training Content Development, Agile Transformation, Project Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Scrum Master, Team Management, Waterfall Methodology, Extreme Programming, Lean IT, Business Agility, Data Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
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