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Faizan Qureshi

Senior Project Manager

Gurugram, India • +91 99102 84455 • faizan.qureshi@hey.com • linkedin.com/in/faizan-qureshi-pmp

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/project-manager-mid

Professional Summary

PMP-certified project manager with 5 years delivering software and digital-transformation projects on time and on budget across fintech and retail. Owns the full lifecycle — roadmaps, scope, JIRA-driven Agile/Scrum execution, risk management and executive reporting — for projects up to ₹3.5 crore. Track record of rescuing at-risk delivery, coordinating cross-functional teams of 12–15, and mentoring associate PMs into independent ownership.

Skills

Delivery: Agile/Scrum, Kanban, SAFe basics, Roadmaps, Release planning, Dependency management

Governance: Budgeting (P&L tracking), Risk management, RAID logs, Change control, Vendor management

Reporting: Executive status reporting, Stakeholder management, KPI dashboards, Steering committees

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet, Power BI, Slack

Core Competencies

Agile · Scrum · PMP · JIRA · stakeholder management · budgeting · risk management · delivery · roadmaps · reporting · change control · mentoring

Work Experience

Project Manager — Paywise Technologies (Series C fintech)

Aug 2022 – Present

Gurugram

  • Own end-to-end delivery of a payments-platform program (4 squads, 14 engineers), shipping 9 of 10 quarterly roadmap milestones on time across two years.
  • Manage a ₹3.5 crore annual project budget, closing the last three fiscal years within 4% of plan through disciplined forecasting and change control.
  • Drove an Agile transformation — JIRA workflows, biweekly sprints and a RAID-log cadence — that cut average cycle time 31% and lifted sprint predictability to 92%.
  • Rescued an at-risk regulatory release by re-baselining scope with stakeholders and adding a risk-burndown review, delivering 2 days ahead of the compliance deadline.
  • Mentored 2 associate PMs and standardized a status-reporting template now used across the PMO.

Associate Project Manager — Mosaic Retail Group

Jun 2020 – Jul 2022

Mumbai

  • Coordinated a 12-person team across the rollout of an omnichannel inventory system to 60 stores, completing the program 3 weeks early.
  • Built the program roadmap and stakeholder-communication plan for 6 department heads, holding executive reporting to a single weekly dashboard.
  • Reduced scope-creep incidents 45% by introducing a formal change-request process and impact analysis.

Projects

Velocity — PMO reporting toolkit — −80% report prep

A reusable status, RAID and budget-tracking toolkit adopted across the delivery org.

  • Standardized executive reporting in Power BI, cutting status-prep time from ~4 hours to 45 minutes per program.

Tech: Reporting, PMO, Power BI

Interactive 3D Portfolio

WebGL portfolio built on Eliorexa, linked from this résumé.

  • Curated delivery case studies and metrics into a reactive 3D showcase — fast, accessible and reduced-motion safe.

Tech: three.js, Storytelling, Web

Education

MBA — Operations & Strategy

2020

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

First Class · Specialization in Operations Management

B.Com

2018

University of Mumbai, Mumbai

Certifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) — Project Management Institute (PMI) (2023)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) — Scrum Alliance (2021)