Mufti Ahmed
Project Manager
Summary
Experienced Senior Project Manager ready to provide strong technical direction and strategy development to Agile and DevOps teams across development unit. Highly technical experience in Identity Managment, ServiceNow and MS SQL ETL environments and keen abilities in business management including scheduling, and business development.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Simeio Solutions - Jefferies LLC
Jersey City, NJ
12.2015 - Current
- Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
- Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.
- Produced reports and updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mockups.
- Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities.
- Engineered, maintained and repaired security systems and programmable logic controls.
- Established company-wide security best practices and protocols to mitigate risk of data breach.
Information Technology Analyst
Lazard
New York, NY
05.2015 - 08.2022
- Patched software and installed new versions to eliminate security problems and protect data.
- Broke down and evaluated user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise and probing questions.
- Managed customers' expectations of support and technology functionality in order to provide positive user experience.
- Installed, modified and repaired software and hardware to resolve technical issues.
- Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls and enhancing overall performance.
Information Technology/Quality Assurance Specialist
Circle Of Care For Families And Children
Woodland Park, NJ
05.2012 - 05.2015
- Established network specifications and analyzed workflow, access, information and security requirements.
- Designed proactive preventive maintenance schedules to prevent unnecessary downtime and hardware faults.
- Created patches and solutions to fix bugs in existing applications.
- Provided second-level support for server-class systems.
- Worked with users to determine areas of technology in need of improved usability.
- Installed important security and functionality patches to maintain optimal protections against intrusion and system reliability.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 09.2007 - 05.2012
Skills
Security regulations compliance
Project Scheduling
Infrastructure architecture
Risk mitigation strategies
Cloud implementation
Client liaison
Lifecycle management
JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Simeio Solutions - Jefferies LLC
12.2015 - Current
Information Technology Analyst
Lazard
05.2015 - 08.2022
Information Technology/Quality Assurance Specialist
Circle Of Care For Families And Children
05.2012 - 05.2015
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Montclair State University
09.2007 - 05.2012