Ijaz Rashid

Experience Summary
• 1.3 year experience as Sr. Director Engineering & IT. Hired team of software engineers (including technical architect/lead) and QA engineers for development of cross platform mobile app using Xamarin framework for android and iOS. Performed R&D to finalize App framework by comparing Xamarin, Unity, Cocos2dx, phonegap & Titanium. Performed R&D to ensure that all required (built in) components are available in Xamarin to meet the project requirements. Developed the solution architecture and design for application to ensure reusable component based approach. Performed POC to resolve technical issues. Lead the project till delivery.
• 2 year experience as Product Manager. Defining new features in the product, Monitoring performance of existing feature to decide improvements, Analysing competitor products for new features/changes, Defining sales strategy with producer/sales lead to achieve revenue targets (including new users acquisition & their retension), Oversighting the Project Managers to ensure ontime and quality delivery by all leads (Development lead, QA lead, Graphics lead, Customer Support lead) to meet sales & revenue objectives
• 5.5 years experience in project management as per PMI standard. Managing multiple projects with team size 40+ resources, Performing requirement gathering, analysis, Onshore & Offshore communication,(participating in) effort estimations, developing project plans (Developed plans & schedules including, Development, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management etc) and monitor their execution, Supervising project development, configuration and quality assurance activities.
• 2 Years experience as Solution architect, defining architecture of product as per requirements. Responsible for technology selection, framework definition, technology synchronization between different modules (as per product philosophy) and Application design synchronization with technology.
• 5 years experience in analysis, design systems using object-oriented methodologies (Objectory) and tools like rational rose + implementation of windows based applications using C++/VC++, ATL COM / DCOM, MFC, Win-32 API, XML, ASP, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle.