Mohammed Fahad
Gilbert,USA
Summary
PMI Certified PMP IT Project Manager with 6+ years of experience leading cross-functional IT teams in delivering complex technology projects. Demonstrated success in driving projects that achieved 15% revenue growth and improved team efficiency by 20%, while utilizing Agile methodologies to foster collaboration and ensure timely, on-budget project completion.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
IT Project Manager/ IT Business Systems Analyst
NXP Semiconductors
Arizona
03.2022 - Current
- Drove high value digital business projects generating direct revenue from concept phase to production release and post-launch support
- Led multiple digital business solutions projects for NXP.com
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Architects, and IT leads located in Mexico and Europe, throughout the lifecycle of the projects
- Gathered requirements from company executives, creating complex business cases aligning with stakeholder needs
- Managed team of IT leaders and developers to deliver projects within 3 week sprint cycles
- Use core Agile principles to prioritize and deliver in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- Conduct scrums, backlog grooming sessions, retrospective sessions and drive development of web solutions using the Agile methodology
- Work with the senior management team on creating project plans keeping in mind the financial targets and fast to digital market concept
- Leverage Generative AI and Microsoft Copilot to boost efficiency and develop creative solutions
- Create custom dashboards using Power BI and Tableau
IT Business Analyst
Sony Music Entertainment
New York
03.2020 - 02.2022
- Partner with Product Owners on one or more Agile development teams to translate product roadmap features (tied to issues or other general business-generated items) into well-defined user stories and acceptance test criteria
- Lead backlog grooming sessions and requirement clarification sessions
- Run user acceptance testing with Product Owners
- Developed functional and non-functional user specifications in close partnership with core development team to ensure alignment with project goals
- Perform testing/review of newly developed user requested software features, ensuring all bug fixes are communicated and patched by the development team
- Analyzed business issues and data challenges through collaboration and facilitation of brainstorming sessions and inter-department meetings
- Handle data migration projects, covering the entire process lifecycle, right from data gathering, cleansing, data modeling, processing, and ingestion
- Work with the operations and the core development team to scope software releases and align priorities
- Identify areas of potential project risk and manage mitigation steps and escalation
- Applications actively used include JIRA, GraphQL, SQL, Power BI, Visio, internal code testing applications, and Microsoft suite including MS Teams for communication
Project Manager
Packt Publishing Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai, India
03.2015 - 08.2017
- Managed an entire implementation of a pilot project, which focused on gathering customer insights, cleaning, and analyzing the data. Furthermore, ingested the findings and collaborated with the product development team to create an innovative product (Learning Paths), which resulted in 15% revenue growth quarterly
- Managed the complex implementation of inter-department re-structuring. This involved partnering with other managers, performing value-chain and requirement analysis, and migrating staff into new teams with minimal efficiency loss during the whole process. This project helped boost team efficiency by 20% and 10% reduction in the overall project delivery timeline
- Led a cross-functional team of 20 members, consisting of peers from business development, content development, and production teams, and was recognized for shortening the delivery timeline by 15% quarterly and delivering products early to the market
- Facilitated the process change of a new technology system (SugarCRM), working with the tech support team to ensure no data loss during implementation and data structure is maintained. Also, achieved over 90% utilization of new technology due to diligent coaching and on-the-job post-training support
- Advocated for change recommendations to internal communication technology, resulting in implementation of Bitrix24 to streamline communication across UK and India offices.
- Coached and mentored team members and new managers through performance reviews, facilitating 4 promotions and achieving attrition rate below 6%.
- Monitored and worked on financial reports such as Profit and Loss statement (PnL), to identify causes for the increase in departmental spending month on month, and devised plans to control it
Content Development Editor
Packt Publishing Pvt. Ltd
Mumbai, India
04.2013 - 03.2015
- Crafted SEO-optimized content for product landing page to improve online visibility and engagement
- Reviewed and edited submitted content for technical accuracy and visual alignment with project standards
- Collaborated with tech experts and reviewers throughout the production of the book
- Cultivated and strengthened relationships with authors and external technical reviewers to enhance content quality
- Ensured the continued evolution and improvement of all content workflows
- Oversaw 15 projects simultaneously
- Worked on strict deadlines, ensuring the project output target was met
- Collaborated with various departments such as production, product, and marketing
- Contracted skilled tech experts from around the world to provide technical content
Education
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Project Management Institute(PMI)
Gilbert, AZ02-2026
Master of Business Administration - Data Analytics
The University of New Haven
Orange, Connecticut, USA12-2019
Bachelor of Computer Application -
ITM University
Gwalior, India05-2009
Skills
- Project Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Program Development
- Business Development
- Strategic Planning
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Resource Allocation
- Performance Metrics
- Process Improvement
- Quality Control
- Milestone Tracking
- Project Scheduling
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Tableau
- Adobe Analytics
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- People Management
- Vendor Management
- Client Relations
- Lean Management
- Lean Management
Timeline
IT Project Manager/ IT Business Systems Analyst
NXP Semiconductors
03.2022 - Current
IT Business Analyst
Sony Music Entertainment
03.2020 - 02.2022
Project Manager
Packt Publishing Pvt. Ltd
03.2015 - 08.2017
Content Development Editor
Packt Publishing Pvt. Ltd
04.2013 - 03.2015
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Project Management Institute(PMI)
Master of Business Administration - Data Analytics
The University of New Haven
Bachelor of Computer Application -
ITM University