Vugar Rustamli
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Baku, Azerbaijan
Toptal member since August 3, 2022
With 14+ years of project management experience, Vugar has handled complex projects in the finance, telco, pharmaceutics, and energy industries using traditional, agile, and hybrid approaches. He is capable of partnering with senior management and project teams to foster collaboration and promote an agile enterprise approach across the organization. He is well-versed in using software including but not limited to Jira, Workday, Atos LMS, Monday.com, Smartsheet, and low-code/no-code tools.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Project Management
- Digital Transformation
- Project Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Workday
Work Experience
Project Coach
PMWILL
- Guided organizations and companies to adapt to the agile enterprise approach and increase organizational agility.
- Delivered coaching and mentorship programs for more than 100 junior project managers and development team members.
- Initiated and implemented scrum framework processes and ceremonies for two teams with no previous experience in the scrum.
- Provided training courses in agile, hybrid project approaches, disciplined agile, risk management, citizen development, and change management.
Scrum Master
Pfizer - Digital Manufacturing
- Worked as a scrum master and supported a team of 20+ people in becoming more efficient through scrum cadence, Jira, weekly refinements, and effective retrospectives.
- Supported the team members, POs, and BAs in their day-to-day work and during PI planning, working in close cooperation with RTEs and STEs.
- Integrated tasks with internal and external teams through weekly dependency reviews that supported velocity.
- Acted as a servant leader to the agile team by clearing obstacles, capturing key metrics, and coaching lead roles on improved ways of working.
Project Manager
Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy
- Led the discovery phase through discovery workshops, business analysis, requirements analysis, and project planning for the product to cater needs of the various stakeholders.
- Acted as a product owner of an innovative and transformative product of the workforce management system.
- Delivered the product with the cross-functional team based on agile SDLC to cater to the needs of 10,000 users.
- Supported strategic change management and digital transformation of HR operations from business as usual to tournament-time mode.
- Developed robust business process maps, assessing change readiness to plan readiness strategy across the organization.
Project Consultant
YES Management
- Guided over 120 team members on how to use and apply agile and scrum development practices, develop product roadmaps, and implement best-in-class agile approaches and practices.
- Delivered a technological transition project for the hospitality company to secure services for the international event with a budget of $5 million.
- Coordinated technology programs and transformation projects in different business industries by fulfilling deliverables and clients' expectations.
- Facilitated scrum events of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement and complemented user stories with technical requirements.
Project Lead
Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan
- Coordinated the digital projects on different scales by managing scope, resources, quality, change, stakeholders, and risks within the organization.
- Served as one of the project leads of the business development team for developing a strategy for four years, covering participation, engagement, and revenue system solutions.
- Delivered a volunteering management system solution that transformed manual procedures into a digital web-based platform.
- Supported the development team to build and test a football player registration system used by 20 entities and cater to 15,000 applicants.
Project History
Workforce Management System
Developed, tested, and launched the web- and application-based solution to be used by 10,000 employees during 30 days of 24/7 events operations.
Volunteer Management System
The solution made it easy to manage volunteers via one centralized system by automating end-to-end workflow and decreasing time spent on manual processes by 45%.
Events Platform
Launched a web-based platform for business owners and end users to create, register, and manage events.
Education
Master's Degree in Ethics and Integrity
Swansea University - Swansea, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
Public Administration Academy - Baku, Azerbaijan
Coursework in ESL Program
Virginia International University - Fairfax, VA, USA
Certifications
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Microsoft Excel: Advanced Data Analysis and Interpretation
PwC's Academy
PMP
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Innovation Implementation
Harvard University
Change Management
Harvard University
Skills
Tools
Jira, Asana, Slack, Trello, HubSpot, Wrike, Confluence
Paradigms
Agile, Agile Product Management, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Kanban, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Requirements Analysis, B2B, Change Management, Servant Leadership, Management
Platforms
Monday.com, WordPress, ProductPlan
Industry Expertise
Transportation & Shipping, Education Technology (Edtech), Pharmaceuticals
Other
Project Management, Hybrid Project Management, Waterfall Methodology, Leadership, Digital Transformation, Agile Coaching, Team Leadership, Ethics, Integrity Management, Projects, Business Analysis, Scrum Master, Discovery Workshops, Project Planning, Staffing, User Stories, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Feature Backlog Prioritization, Project Consultancy, Software Project Management, Training & Training Content Development, Estimation & Planning, Web Applications, Estimations, Project Scoping, Discovery, Project Timelines, SOP Development, Stakeholder Management, Jira Administration, Project Coordination, Project Management Professional (PMP), Human Resources (HR), Conflict Resolution, PMO Development, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Delivery, Digital Project Management, Agile Program Management, Certified Project Manager, Software Development, Jira Administrator, Feature Prioritization, Web Project Management, Project Tracking, Program Management, Event Management, Event Planning, Event Management Platforms, Business Transformation Project Management, Enterprise Project Management, Atlassian Plugins, PMO, Project Management & Delivery, Business to Business (B2B), Events, Management Consulting, Change Leadership, Data Administration, Product Strategy, Workflow, Vendor Management, Web Development, Process Optimization, Technical Project Management, Sports Websites, Website Migration, Website Redesign, Process Management, Agency, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sprint Planning, Process Improvement, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Booking Systems, Business Process Analysis, Business Planning, Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Services, IT Management, Product Owner, Smartsheet, IT Projects, Atos OneCloud, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Training, Mentorship, Hybrid Frameworks, Data Analysis, Innovation, Project Design, Product Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Jira Align, Data Analytics, Life Science, PI Planning, ClickUp, Automation, Dashboards, Operations, Workday, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)
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