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Safdar Shaik

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Technical Project Manager with 13+ years leading Agile delivery, Jira governance, and cross-team technical alignment.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead technical Agile delivery where Jira governance, sprint predictability, and cross-team dependency management drive on-time, high-quality releases. I want to partner with architects and tech leads, mitigate risk early, and build strong distributed teams.

I’m a Technical Project Manager with 13+ years of experience leading Agile and hybrid delivery across SaaS, IoT, Healthcare, Government, E-Commerce, and Mobile platforms. I specialize in facilitating Scrum ceremonies, enforcing estimation discipline, managing cross-team dependencies, and keeping technical alignment across Frontend, Middleware, and Backend layers—so releases stay high-quality, predictable, and on time.

I’m known for strengthening Jira governance (Jira hygiene, workflow transitions, acceptance criteria, and accurate story breakdown), using Agile performance metrics like velocity and burn-down, and driving capacity planning, risk mitigation, and scope control to prevent scope creep. At Omnicom Media Group, I improved delivery cycle time by 15% and increased resource utilization by 20% through governance optimization, and I’ve repeatedly boosted milestone adherence (98%) and reduced delivery cycle time (12%) through structured reporting and dependency tracking.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Technical Project Manager

Omnicom Media Group

Feb 2023 - Nov 2025 (2 years 9 months)

Led core Scrum ceremonies and enforced Jira hygiene to maintain accurate stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow transitions. Improved delivery cycle time by 15% and increased resource utilization by 20% through burn-down/velocity monitoring, dependency management, and scope control.

Scrum Ceremonies Capacity Planning Risk Mitigation

Project Manager / Senior Program Analyst

Webappclouds LLC

Sep 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year)

Coordinated multi-platform releases across Android, iOS, and backend teams, resolving API and middleware integration bottlenecks. Achieved 98% milestone adherence and reduced delivery cycle time by 12% using structured dependency tracking, risk control, and Jira dashboard reporting.

Project Management Agile Planning Dependency Track Risk Control API Integration Sprint Planning

Project Manager

VMAX E-Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Mar 2021 - Aug 2021 (5 months)

Delivered government and institutional projects within compliance and policy-driven constraints. Improved delivery tracking accuracy by 30% through milestone planning and reporting discipline while controlling scope changes to maintain timeline and quality.

Milestone Governance Compliance Oriented Delivery Project Risk Management

Assistant Project Manager

SMT Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd

Oct 2013 - Feb 2021 (7 years 4 months)

Led Agile and hybrid execution for enterprise and IoT platforms across UAE and India, managing middleware and third-party API integrations to keep frontend-backend consistency. Reduced operational incidents by 60–70% with IoT real-time monitoring and improved incident response time from hours to minutes.

And IoT Monitoring Middleware Integration API Integration Technical Escalation Real Time Systems

Software Engineer

NonVerba Information Solutions Pvt Ltd

Sep 2009 - May 2011 (1 year 8 months)

Developed and supported enterprise applications while adhering to coding standards and quality practices. Improved application stability and reduced defect leakage by ~20% through focused development and support work.

Software Development Coding Standards Application Support enterprise applications Stability Improvement