Rao Naeem

• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
• Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.

· Manage and Lead 3 Banking projects across MEA region.

· Drove technical initiatives for large enterprise systems to align with long-term business strategies.

· Identified value opportunities to exploit product for maximum business effectiveness.

· Led several DevOps teams engaged in software development for enterprise applications.

· Researched and adopted new technologies to add value to existing offerings.

· Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.

· Defined parameters for API and data acquisitions.

· Automated monitoring and security measures to reduce required employee attention.

· Built product feature lists with stakeholders.

· Designed support structure needed to confirm scalable application rollouts.

· Supervised architecture, design and implementation of company-wide platforms and applications.

· Enhanced interfaces to promote better functionality for users.

• Lead and Manage Team
• Develop 1 new application and added support to existing application
• Trained new developers and programmers on company standards for design and review
• Monitored ongoing operation of assigned programs and responded to problems by diagnosing and correcting logic and coding errors
• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development
• Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality
• Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects
• Developed clear specifications for project plans using customer requirements.

• Worked on VOIP applications and delivered 3 projects on same domain
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
• Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team
• Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools
• Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.

• Worked and delivered 10 plus small applications and 1 big application
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance
• Participated in architecture, design and implementation of mobile application features using Objective C
• Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.