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Ayesha Imran

Espoo

Summary

Certified Coach and PRINCE2 certified IT Project Manager with 8+ years of experience across project management, service management, and agile ways of working. Strong in facilitation, stakeholder communication, and coaching style support during change. Certified teacher in Finland, motivated to build formal competence in study and career guidance through HAMK Professional Guidance Counsellor Education.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Project Manager

Bluefors
08.2022 - Current

I manage internal IT and data projects from idea to rollout, working closely with business stakeholders, IT and external partners.

  • Lead cross functional projects in BI and data warehouse, CRM (Salesforce), ERP and internal IT tools
  • Apply our project model with gates: create project charters, plans, schedules, risk and communication plans, and keep scope, budget and timelines on track
  • Run governance and steering meetings, prepare clear status updates and decision proposals for business and IT leadership
  • Coordinate daily work with internal specialists and vendors, plan resources and follow up on progress in Azure DevOps, Jira and Planner
  • Own the Salesforce access refactoring project: run requirement workshops with each department, define role based access and prepare proposals for approval
  • Lead BI reporting projects from requirements to go live, including testing, user training, release planning and hypercare follow up
  • Improve ways of working by introducing project templates, backlog practices and an operational readiness checklist for smooth handover to Service Management
  • Maintain thorough project documentation so support teams and future projects can reuse decisions, designs and lessons learned

Scrum Master

Siili Solutions
09.2020 - 07.2022
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Facilitating Scrum events meetings and workshops.
  • Supporting the Product Owner and the team.
  • Protecting development team from outside distractions, impediments, and team conflicts.
  • Addressing problems through Risk Management and contingency planning.
  • Educating and supporting Scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
  • Building strong trust and collaboration with other teams.

Service Manager

Siili Solutions
04.2020 - 07.2022
  • Service Manager responsibilities includes:
  • First line support and main contact for customer.
  • To manage customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Coordinating, supervising with the teams and co-operating with stakeholders included in the projects.
  • Addressing problems through Risk Management and contingency planning.
  • Customer invoicing and managing the forecast.
  • Ensure SLA delivery to the customer, provide escalation support as needed.
  • Handling multiple projects, meet deadlines and adapt to a changing business environment.
  • Team coaching in Agile environment and one to one coaching.
  • Preparing training materials and conducting training's independently for customers.

Project Manager

Siili Solutions
Helsinki
02.2020 - 07.2022
  • First line support for customer.
  • Creating and maintaining project documentation.
  • Time management.
  • Communicating with all stakeholders.
  • Addressing problems through risk management and contingency planning.
  • Customer invoicing and managing the forecast.

Managing Spare parts

Huawei
Helsinki Area
07.2019 - 01.2020
  • Managing Spare Parts for two different projects.
  • Customer satisfaction concerning spare parts delivery.
  • Managing Finland warehouse stock for Spare parts.
  • Managing PRs/POs for two different projects.

Technical Writer

Open-Xchange
Espoo
11.2018 - 06.2019
  • Responsible for Technical Documentation of Open-XChange Oy product OX Dovecot Pro.
  • Technical review of old documentation and understanding of technical aspects of the product in order to create logical and readable documentation.
  • Created configuration and administration documentation for the Dovecot mail server.
  • Created and collected technical content and formatted it using the Sphinx documentation framework and used Git version control.
  • Part of the Development Scrum Team and participated in Scrum activities, includes Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

Trainee Lecturer

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Espoo
01.2019 - 03.2019
  • Teaching Java Programming (Object-Oriented Programming) to absolute beginners.

Jr.Software Developer (Intern)

Work Ahead
Helsinki Area
07.2018 - 08.2018
  • Code documentation, Testing, Assisting in customer meetings and customer training.
  • Independently made builds on IOS and Android, conducted user acceptance testing of new features, and reported issues with screen-casts and charts to the team.
  • Created and tested files from technical specifications.
  • Managed users and roles for customer accounts with a custom commandline tool.
  • Used modern time tracking and kanban-style collaboration tools.

IT Expert (Communications)

Aurinkoinen Hymy ry (Finland)
Helsinki Area
05.2017 - 11.2017
  • Communications and Web development.
  • Updating Social media. i.e. Web development and Facebook.
  • I was especially praised for my co-operation skills, as well as independent, prompt, and precise manner to work.

Project assistant at Huawei (Documentation Specialist and procurement PR/PO)

Huawei Technologies
Helsinki Area
09.2015 - 12.2016
  • Managing documentation and project support, as a Documentation Specialist.
  • Responsible for maintaining the main BTS database for Suomen Yhteisverkko Oy network in Finland.
  • PR/PO specialist in a 4G/5G network tower installation project.
  • Professionalism in using the ERP System.
  • Maintaining all site documentation in MDO database and assist in other aspects of project support.
  • Follow-up and reporting on internal processes, end-to-end like coverage black-hole optimization with new site/sector established, support the project management and other administrative duties at the project office.
  • Professional communication and coordination with Huawei partners and with internal Huawei team for the development processes.
  • I was acknowledged for my capabilities to learn new skills fast and to adapt the multicultural environment. My hard work, professionalism and dedication has resulted in a huge success of project.

Internee

Tellabs Oy/Coriant Oy
Espoo
05.2014 - 07.2014
  • My main task was creating an inventory of agreement data identification numbers and development of a Python script to transfer selectively documents from a global document archive to SharePoint utilizing the identification numbers.

Education

Professional Teacher Education - Pedagogical Studies

HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences
Hämeenlinna
06-2019

Master of Science - Web Intelligence and Service Engineering, Mathematical Information Technology

University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä
12-2017

Skills

  • Prince2 Certified Project Manager
  • People skills
  • IT project management
  • Coaching (Certified Coach)
  • Facilitation and training delivery
  • Inclusive communication
  • Supporting people through change and uncertainty
  • Conflict handling and difficult conversations
  • Process and development
  • Cross-functional leadership

Certification

• PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management
• International Coaching Certification
• SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc. Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Languages

  • English, Full Professional
  • Finnish, Limited Working
  • Urdu, Native or Bilingual

Timeline

IT Project Manager

Bluefors
08.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Siili Solutions
09.2020 - 07.2022

Service Manager

Siili Solutions
04.2020 - 07.2022

Project Manager

Siili Solutions
02.2020 - 07.2022

Managing Spare parts

Huawei
07.2019 - 01.2020

Trainee Lecturer

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
01.2019 - 03.2019

Technical Writer

Open-Xchange
11.2018 - 06.2019

Jr.Software Developer (Intern)

Work Ahead
07.2018 - 08.2018

IT Expert (Communications)

Aurinkoinen Hymy ry (Finland)
05.2017 - 11.2017

Project assistant at Huawei (Documentation Specialist and procurement PR/PO)

Huawei Technologies
09.2015 - 12.2016

Internee

Tellabs Oy/Coriant Oy
05.2014 - 07.2014

Professional Teacher Education - Pedagogical Studies

HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences

Master of Science - Web Intelligence and Service Engineering, Mathematical Information Technology

University of Jyväskylä
Ayesha Imran