Mustafa Pathan
Dubai
Summary of Career
1. Led large scale projects execution with cross functional teams that span multiple business units and vendors for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget and project quality criteria.
2. Defining project milestones, preparing project plans, quality plan, configuration management, implementation and software release plans. Managed the relationship with the business stakeholders, internal resources and external vendors throughout project cycle.
3. Conducted the project planning activities and managed the execution of projects according to plan from Initiation to closing. Provided detailed, concise and accurate project reporting and maintained comprehensive project documentation.
4. Balanced the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost and scope) to meet the expected business value. Managed blocking issues and timely communicated project issues to account management and delivery management.
5. Proactively identified changes in work scope and ensured appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline.
6. Assisted during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal especially in the area of delivery model, project structure, organization, scope, estimation and risk assessment. Participated in RFPs, SOW development (T&M, FP), and SLA negotiations.
7. Managing schedules, risks, costing, profitability, resources, audits, quality & process to achieve KPI goals. Coach and guide all supporting teams throughout the project lifecycle.
8. Participated in setting Change Management internal tools and processes, promoting standards of Project Management.
9. Worked as an Agile transformation coach during applications transformations from Waterfall to Agile.
10. Coordinated with management to develop project release plan.
Experience as IT-Projects Manager
27 January 2006
31 July 2018
IT-Projects Manager
Experience as IT-Projects Manager
First Abu Dhabi Bank
15 April 2019
To date
IT-Projects Manager
Bachelor 31 May 1999
Bachelor of Engineering (Computers)