Mohammed Fairozudeen Gaffur

PSM Scrum Master Certified IT Professional with over 19+ years of experience in Project Management, Agile Project Management, Experienced Internal Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master with PSM1 (Professional Scrum Master) Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle. Extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall Software Development methodologies and transition. Coached and Implemented Scrum processes, theories and rules to many scrum teams. Coached scrum values to team to maximize the output of Scrum Experience in facilitating and conducting Scrum Ceremonies and produced positive results. Gained expertise in resolving conflicts / impediments and major issues during project execution. Experience in internal and external communication, improved transparency and information radiators. Helped and coached teams for correct estimations of stories and tasks. Helped teams to achieve sustainable pace and improved velocity, improve Definition of Done . Coordinated with Product Owners, Teams and Customer for prioritization of stories/defects and resolution of bugs. Implemented Community of Practice at the multiple levels for the teams for motivation and innovation within the multiple teams. Motivated Product owner(s) and team to refine and prioritize backlog items based on business values. Back filling for RTE , Actively facilitated Scrum of scrums (SOS), resolved inter dependencies. Involved with enterprise agile coach for Waterfall to Agile transformation. Extensive experience in using various estimation techniques like planning poker, fist of five, relative sizing, t - shirt sizing and prioritization techniques like MoSCoW etc. Actively explored various Agile/Scrum techniques and shared new learning with the teams. Strong knowledge of business approval workflow process. Experienced Project Manager by handling multiple project teams for Financial Industry in waterfall and agile methodologies. Project Management experience using various tools JIRA, Rally, MS Project, MS Office Rigorously following Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and posses strong knowledge of SAFe Created artifacts templates like User story, Defect, DoR, DoD in various Agile tools and repository tools. Familiarized with Jenkins, GitHub and Continous Integration concepts. Expertise in tracking efforts and documenting various project status reports. Organized many Team co-ordination events,Mentoring programs

Successfully implemented FedNow payments service for BNYMellon.

Best of Best in Bnymellon 2012

Best in class team in 2011

• Best of the Best Award 2012, For Implementing and enhancing the Treasury Edge product. Among all business units of BNY Mellon, only one from iNautix for 2012.
• Team Tops Award 2012, For Treasury Edge Conversions.
• Best of Class Award 2011, For Successfully Implementing the Treasury Edge Product(industry leading corporate financial treasury product).
• Leadership Award 2010(Individual Award), For Leadership in presenting iNautix for the new client location of Bank of Newyork mellon in Pittsburgh.
• Leadership Team Award 2006, Recipient of the Leadership team award for performing the Leadership Role representing workflow team in Document Rendezvous & Redesign project.
• Level 1 Brokerages & Securities Domain Certification, Acquired Brokerage and Securities domain certification conducted by iNautix, Chennai

# 1 Real Time Payments - FedNow.

BNY Mellon www.bnymellon.com (http://www.bnymellon.com/) January 2022 to July 2023

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Team Size: 30 (3Pods *10)

Technologies: Agile – Scrum, PPM, Jira, MS Projects, Excel, Power Point, Java, NEXEN, GitHub,

The FedNow Service is a new service for instant payments built by the Federal Reserve to help make everyday payments fast and convenient for American households and businesses. Banks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up for the FedNow Service and offer new instant payment services to their customers. In the coming years, customers of banks and credit unions who sign up for the FedNow Service will be able to use their financial institution's app, website, and other interfaces to send instant payments directly from their bank accounts quickly and securely. The FedNow Service enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments within seconds at any time of the day, on any day of the year, so that the receiver of a payment can use the funds immediately.

The system provides new opportunities for all customer segments: consumer, business, and wholesale banking. It will have an enterprise-wide impact providing:

· The ability to send and receive payments 24/7/365 with immediate funds availability in DDAs.

· Immediate confirmation of payment and notification of receipt.

· Liquidity and cash flow control.

· Ability to support multiple message types through the use of the ISO 20022 protocol and value-added messaging such as requests for payment.

· Real-time fraud prevention.

Role & Responsibilities: As a Project Manager, Responsible for Creating Project Charters, working with teams to prepare the year end budget, work with HR and technical teams for staffing, Worked on Vendor Management, for Software purchases and Staffing, Performed Engagement Manager role in Archer, to execute SOW and Mentoring a Team of 20 Developers. Involved in all phases of SDLC including but not limited to Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, QA and UAT Testing and Implementation, for the successful completion of the project. Worked at Pittsburgh location interacting with business users, dependent applications, infrastructure teams for seamless completion of the project.

# 2 Real Time Payments

BNY Mellon www.bnymellon.com (http://www.bnymellon.com/) January 2021 to December 2021

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Team Size: 20+

Technologies: Agile – Scrum, PPM, Jira, MS Projects, Excel, Power Point, Java, NEXEN, GitHub,

RTP allows consumers and businesses to send and receive funds and messages in real time, 24/7/365, directly from their bank accounts. It allows businesses and consumers to exchange payments more quickly, more safely, and more efficiently than via current payment rails. It supports complex digital commerce services with integrated messaging that allows issuing and paying of e-invoices, e-bills, and requests for payment. It provides rich remittance data, confirmation of delivery, and requests for information or return of funds as well. The RTP system is accessible to all financial institutions in the U.S. and is growing its reach across the banking industry as more and more banks join the network. The industry goal is to reach full ubiquity by 2020 allowing seamless payments and messaging to flow instantly 24/7/365 to every bank in the country. RTP has the ability to integrate with current systems, so that clients can use their existing accounts, and it supports complex business payment services, including electronic invoicing, rich remittance data and confirmation of delivery. Clients are able to initiate payments from smart phones, tablets, electronic wallets, Application Program Interfaces (APIs), file transfers and via the Internet.

The system provides new opportunities for all customer segments: consumer, business and wholesale banking. It will have an enterprise-wide impact providing:

· The ability to send and receive payments 24/7/365 with immediate funds availability in DDAs.

· Immediate confirmation of payment and notification of receipt.

· Liquidity and cash flow control.

· Ability to support multiple message types through the use of the ISO 20022 protocol and value-added messaging such as requests for payment.

· Real-time fraud prevention.

Role & Responsibilities: As a Project Manager, Responsible for Creating Project Charters, working with teams to prepare the year end budget, work with HR and technical teams for staffing, Worked on Vendor Management, for Software purchases and Staffing, Performed Engagement Manager role in Archer, to execute SOW and Mentoring a Team of 20 Developers. Involved in all phases of SDLC including but not limited to Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, QA and UAT Testing and Implementation, for the successful completion of the project. Worked at Pittsburgh location interacting with business users, dependent applications, infrastructure teams for seamless completion of the project.

# 3 Treasury EdgeSM

BNY Mellon www.bnymellon.com (http://www.bnymellon.com/) January 2010 to December 2020

Project Leader / Mainframe Developer

Team Size: 20

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, MQ-Series, Adobe Flex, Portal, SiteMinder.

Description:

The Treasury edge application is the primary portal for Global Cash Management (GCM) Corporate Customers of the new Bank of Newyork Mellon Corporation after the merger of the heritage Mellon (Mellon Financial Corporation) and heritage BNY (Bank of New York Corporation)

This Project Includes Merger and integration of two major Financial Management applications, iTelecash (Mellon) and Cash Register Plus (Bank of New York)-CR+.

This New project Include all key and unique features of these two individual applications and also they contain all the common features of both the systems.

Gaffur Mohammed Fairozudeen 412-292-7752 Page-5

· Incorporated Common Features of CR+ and iTelecash.

· ACH Reporting.

· ARP(Recon)

· Check Image.

· Payments (Wires)

· LockBox Services.

· Incorporated Unique Features of both CR+ and iTelecash.

· Safe Settle.

· File Transfer.

· Check Writer.

· Global Mass Payments.

· Event Manager.

· Ideal Forex.

· Automated Investments.

· Fundstrac.

· ACH Adjustments.

· ACH History.

· Tax payments.

· MPS.

This project Uses proprietary NEXEN Portal Architecture and Interface redesigned using the NEXEN Architecture, Backend Interface redesigned Using CICS. The Services are Made Dual Release (4 Eye Review) For additional Security.

Both hBNY & hMellon account holders can access a Single User Interface which has Enhanced Service Capabilities for New as well as Existing clients of BNYMellon. The new interface provides a means where services which are used only by iTelecash users is now accessible to hBNY Customers and also Services which are used only by CR+ users is now accessible to hMellon Customers

Role & Responsibilities: Managing and Mentoring a Team of 20 Developers. Involved in all phases of SDLC including but not limited to Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, QA and UAT Testing and Implementation, for the successful completion of the project. Worked at Pittsburgh location interacting with business users, dependent applications, infrastructure teams for seamless completion of the project. Performed a Developer role in creating Online Programs in CICS, which interaces with DB2 for Updating and gathering Entitlement information for Functional and Data Entitlements. Also worked on Package Deployment via Endevor during Implementation Process.

# 3 ITelecash (iTE)

BNY Mellon www.bnymellon.com (http://www.bnymellon.com/) September 2008 till January 2010

Project Leader

Team Size: 10

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, MQ-Series, Adobe Flex, Portal, SiteMinder.

Description:

The iTelecash application is the primary portal for Global Cash Management (GCM) Corporate Customers of heritage Mellon (Mellon Financial Corporation). The service is critical to their ability to access GCM systems and often represents Mellon Bank to them. Customers use Telecash to manage day to day cash flows, to move funds between their banking accounts, to reconcile their accounts, and to monitor their accounts for potential fraud. iTelecash has interfaces, to all major GCM applications, to many other applications within Mellon. customers, banks, and vendors. GCM also offers a private label version of Telecash to its Enterprise customers called Enternetbank.

This Application is a Sun Set application along with its counterpart CR+, This strategic project involves development of process during the Intermediate times to facilitate the users of both applications to go cross platform and get familiar with key features.

This project also concentrates on identifying key areas of technological and process related improvements such as retiring the heritage inquiry system and replacing them with new CICS based transactions and also make the system more reliable to adapt to modern three tier architecture.

Web link: www.enternetbank.com (http://www.enternetbank.com/)

Role & Responsibilities: Managing a Team of 20 Members from Inception to Completion of this project. Placed at Clients Place in pittburgh for 4 years to work with business teams to understand the project requirements and prepare design and coordinate the team for development and testing efforts for successful delivery of the project.

# 4 Document Rendezvous (DR) & Redesign

Pershing LLC: A Wholly owned subsidy of Bank of New York Mellon January 2008 – September 2009

Team Member

Team Size: 5

Technologies: CICS, DB2, COBOL, MQ-Series, Endevor, M4 Insync, TraceMaster, DumpMaster

Description:

Pershing Re-engineered business transactions uses document rendezvous processing. The process of marrying transactions with documents is called Document Rendezvous. When a business transaction is initiated, documents could have been in the system or documents could come later. A generic Rendezvous system designed to remember which transactions are waiting for document and when the matching document arrives, a transaction is notified of documents arrival.

Document Rendezvous does the automation of relating documents (which are scanned and maintained by Pershing’s Proprietary IMAGING system) for every business transaction. Document rendezvous polls request into imaging for a particular account number with some additional search criteria and corresponding responses are being received from imaging and the docs are been related to the particular business transaction in Workflow. Whenever a user wants to take an action on a particular request, DR provides the corresponding values for the docs and front end paints documents based on the DR response. Only workflow-enabled systems can use document rendezvous.

The Redesign part of the Document rendezvous project is to reduce the communication overhead and processing overhead between mainframe systems and the distributed application servicing the requests because of polling mechanism which had a 15 minute delay between every poll. This caused a high delay in completing the rendezvous process and for the transaction to complete. The redesign is to remove the polling between mainframe and the distributed applications and change it to be triggered on new document arrival so that rendezvous will complete quicker.

The Redesign of polling mechanism reduced mainframes CPU time by 40% which had resulted in a savings of about 0.5 million dollars per year and Average time for a document to get rendezvous is reduced by 99%

Role & Responsibilities: Responsibilities include interaction with onsite clients and team members to obtain complex financial business requirements for DR project, translating requirements into technical specifications and Implementation. It also includes unit and integration testing of applications with Front end and Source systems, which are to be workflow enabled.

Proposed the Redesign of polling mechanism in DR and took leadership role in feasibility analysis, design, construction, testing and implementation of the DRR.

# 5 Activity Engine (AE)

Pershing LLC: A Wholly owned subsidy of The Bank of New York, New York May 2006 – July 2008 (6 months)

Team member

Team Size: 12

Technologies: CICS, DB2, COBOL, MQ-Series, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, File Aid, Xpeditor

Description:

Activity engine acts as a centralized repository of all information where all other Pershing system has to register their actions. Users can search the status of their requests at any particular time using the Enterprise id, which will be generated at the time the user enters a request in their particular source systems.

Activity engine provides various services like generate enterprise id, registering to AE, updating the postings in AE, etc., for Source systems, which can use those services and interact using MQ-series to update AE database. AE also provides Front end services like search for status and search for history with various search criteria options. Front end uses the services to paint the NetXOffice Activity status screens based on users search options.

Enterprise Activity Engine runs on the IBM’s mainframe z/OS platform and would serve as the centralized repository for all business events and activities that happen at Pershing. This would provide users a view of all activities in an account, an office, or an IBD, accurately and timely. The initial view of the activities will be on a summary level and users would be able to drill down into detail business information directly from the summary display. The user would also be able to view the lifecycle events associated with a request, or its audit trail, and drill into the detail associated with every activity of a transaction’s lifecycle. Activity Engine was built with generic interfaces such that implementation of transactions of new business processes could be done easily and without much effort.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include interacting with onsite clients and team members to obtain complex financial business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, implementing in the form of services, which in turn is used by the presentation Layer (Front End Architecture). It also includes unit and integration testing of applications with Front end and Source systems, which are to be workflow enabled.

# 6 Enterprise Workflow (WF)

Pershing LLC: A Wholly owned subsidy of The Bank of New York Mellon February 2004 – May 2006

Team member

Team Size: 12

Technologies: CICS, DB2, COBOL, MQ-Series, VSAM, JCL, Endevor, File Aid, Xpeditor

Description:

An automated Workflow Management System provides the ability to manage work tasks (transaction processing) by assigning, monitoring, and controlling the life cycle of a business transaction. This way, workflow is a tool that helps enterprises achieve greater throughput, improve consistency, increase efficiency, shorten turnaround times, and eventually improve customer satisfaction.

Enterprise Workflow Engine is Pershing’s proprietary software product that delivers a comprehensive scalable technical solution that can be enhanced and expanded to support re-engineering of business processes, T+1, STP (Straight Through Processing) and other business initiatives.

Pershing’s Workflow Engine runs on the IBM’s mainframe z/OS platform and is implemented as a set of reusable enterprise services that can be invoked from any other platform. The participants of the system can interact with the Engine through the Net Exchange™ Office, Pershing’s proprietary broker workstation for back office investment professionals.

Pershing received silver honors in the 2004 “Global Excellence in Workflow Awards” for the implementation of its workflow engine. The “Global Excellence in Workflow Awards” is instituted by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and the Workflow and Reengineering International Association (WARIA). These prestigious awards are used to recognize organizations that have demonstrably excelled in implementing innovative solutions to meet strategic business objectives.

(Source: http://www.wfmc.org/pr/awards_04_winners.pdf, (http://www.wfmc.org/pr/awards_04_winners.pdf)

http://web.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2004/0402190833.asp) (http://web.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2004/0402190833.asp)

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include interacting with onsite clients and team members to obtain complex financial business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, implementing in the form of services, which in turn is used by the presentation Layer (Front End Architecture). It also includes unit and integration testing of applications with Front end and Source systems, which are to be workflow enabled