Mateen Chaudhary

Highly motivated PMP and Scrum Certified Project Manager with 9+ years of experience in banking. Proven success in leading cross-functional teams through complex digital transformation projects, from concept to launch, delivering significant value. Adept in waterfall, agile, and T&M methodologies, with a track record of managing projects ranging from $1M to $20M and teams of 4-12 members. Expertise in mobile/internet banking, robotic kiosks, digital wallets, ATM enhancements, VISA and Master Card Chip upgrade, and more. Consistently recognized by employers for exceeding expectations and driving results.

• Qatar National Bank (QNB) - Consultant of the Month
• Axis Bank Securities - Axcel (Silver Club Award) for Project delivery and execution
• Absa Bank Mauritius - "Abby Project" Recognition
• Tejora Private Limited - Awarded Mountain Mover best leaders

• Communication
• Leadership
• Agile
• Collaboration
• Interfaces
• CRM

• PMP & Scrum Certified
• Project / Program Management
• IT Delivery & Schedule Management
• Project Financial Management
• Project Scope Management
• Resource Planning & scope efforts Estimation
• Software Development life Cycle
• Stakeholder / Client Engagement
• Business Process Improvement
• Risk Mitigation & Management
• Team Management
• Documentation

• Project Management/ Implementation: Managing a full portfolio of projects, including budgeting, planning, vendor selection, and program execution. Responsible for the entire project life cycle from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control through closeout.
• Scope Management: Taking a full lead in formulating functional requirements and assists the product owner and business analyst in capturing the requirements in a concise manner so that scope expansion can be avoided. Also ensures that non-functional, security, infrastructure, test scope, customer support, application support, change management, and impact management requirements are captured in detail and agreed upon with all stakeholders. This varies from project to project, but it really helps me deliver the project with quality and on time and on budget.
• Application Development & Application Support: Ensuring Infra readiness, Designs, Functional, non-functional, security related requirement discussion are completed before kick starting the development phase and at least having a sign-off on priority module.
• Implementing project plans within preset budgets and deadlines: Closely monitor project tasks defined in the project plan and ensure that they are completed within the established time frame so that variances can be reduced, and that the project is completed on time and within budget by adhering to established project controls and policies. In case of delays, always try to inform the stakeholders in advance and organize a meeting with them so that appropriate preventive measures can be taken.
• IT Delivery Management: Defining service standards and guidelines as per global best-practices, project governance structures, best practices for software delivery life cycle (SDLC), and documentation that serve as benchmarks for excellent service delivery. Preparing proposals, business presentations to clients and handling resource planning, technical direction, effort estimation, tracking , risk management & mentoring.
• Support and Maintenance: Providing post-implementation, maintenance, and application improvement support to stakeholders with respect to the product/software application.
• Manpower Leadership: Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations. Developing competency among the team members; managing appraisal process across the levels, conducting interviews to recruit the right talent and resources.
• Strong management skills, capable of leading & motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity; knack for motivating team for exceeding customer expectations in delivery of committed services
• Risk Management: Tracking and removing internal and external impediments Also capturing the project risk categorized based on priority and plan to overcome the same if persist.
• Documentation and Status update Ensuring all project related documents such as (RFP, NDA, SLA, SOW, BRD, charter, project plan, UAT reports, bug reports, MOM, sign-off email, go-live email, project close email, payment release, PO etc. are placed using tools such as Jira/EPM. I am also responsible for presenting project progress to a larger forum and managing a steercom for all my projects with CTO, business leaders and other stakeholders.

Date of Birth: 03/10/90

• English
• Hindi
• Urdu

• Qatar National Bank (QNB) – Consultant of the Month
• Axis Bank Securities – Axcel (Silver Club Award)
• Absa Bank Mauritius - “Abby Project” Recognition
• Tejora Private Limited - Awarded Mountain Mover best leaders

Certifications:

• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) – April 2022 - Awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – November 2021 - Awarded by the Scrum Alliance