Shaheen Hossain, CSM,CSP,PMP

Current

Agile Mentor and Solutions Manager at Merck & Co., Inc.
Sr. Development Principal at o2o Software, Inc.

Past

Agile coach, mentor and scrum master at Nexius Wireless
Agile Coach at USAA
Technical Manager and ScrumMaster for the iDefense Engineering Team at Verisign, Inc.

Senior Software Consultant at Embarcadero
Development Principal at Millennium Info.
CIO, Sr. VP and Head of the MIS department at Eastern Bank
Sr. Software Consultant and Technical Lead at T. Rowe Price
Principal Consultant at o2oSoft
Consultant at CheckFree
Sr. Software Engineer at Verizon
Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak

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Education

Project Management Institue
SCRUM Master Certification Training
Rochester Institute of Technology

University of Houston

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Shaheen Hossain, CSM,CSP,PMP’s Summary

• Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practioner (CSM and CSP) Agile coach with record of success in globally distributed Agile projects

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Office planning, resource allocation and appropriation

• Hands-on enterprise wide Agile software project management, engineering and development of SOA based n-tier software products

• Experienced trainer in classroom & on-the-job settings, introduce new processes or technologies

• Object-oriented design and programming, architectural patterns and component infrastructure for SOA based distributed software product development

• Efficient product and client relationship management. Excellent communication, presentation skills - ability to present complex material in a simple, easy to understand manner

• Well-developed organizational skills, cross-functional leadership, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced multi-product development environment, UAT enforced re-development

• Developed systems for numerous Wireless, Financial and Network security companies

Shaheen Hossain, CSM,CSP,PMP’s Specialties:

o PMP, Program Management Office,PMO formulation, implementation
o Product road map coaching product owners
o Release, iteration, retrospective coaching, mentoring
o Present, explain complex material in simple, easy manner
o Quality decisions w/ incomplete or uncertain info
o Self-manage workload & priorities
o Excellent verbal & written skills, cross-functional leadership
o eXtremem Programming practices, ie TDD, Pair programming, continuous integration under SCRUM

Shaheen Hossain, CSM,CSP,PMP’s Experience

Agile Mentor and Solutions Manager

Merck & Co., Inc.

(Public Company; MRK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

September 2009 — Present (4 months)

Adoption of Agile and SCRUM at Merck & Co., Inc.'s Research Lab organization
Sr. Development Principal

o2o Software, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — Present (5 years )

• On-site leadership and coordination of all aspects of a professional services engagement, project management, client engagement
• Manage relationships with senior level client executives (e.g., Directors, Jr. VPs, Sr VPs) for existing projects undertaken by o2oSoft.com
• Work on increasingly strategic client opportunities; including new business development, proposal submission, SOW assistance to the clients
Agile coach, mentor and scrum master

Nexius Wireless

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

October 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Consultant: Agile coach, mentor and scrum master at a wireless company in Herndon, VA thru o2oSoft.com.

• Managing multiple SCRUM teams, coaching SCRUM Masters, Product Owners thru in class and on the job training
• Program Management Office formulation, enterprise wide process development, lead, mentor and coach using Agile methodologies including, Scrum and Xtreme Programming
• Coach teams on Enterprise-wide backlog, Product Roadmap, Release backlog, Iteration backlog, user stories. Assist Application Development division to adopt Agile SCRUM principles, practices
• Work closely with development, QA and product management teams to develop, deliver Agile training on Scrum, User Stories, team development, resource allocation and project launch
Agile Coach

USAA

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Technical Manager and ScrumMaster for the iDefense Engineering Team

Verisign, Inc.

(Public Company; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year )

VeriSign Inc, Dulles, VA
Manager and Scrum Master for the iDefense Engineering Team
• VeriSign iDefense security experts scour the Internet for software exploits & cyber threats to provide advanced warning & prioritize response; engineering team understands the business of intelligence data (RSS/XML) reporting, publishing and presentation to the enterprises
• Technical leadership to distributed engineering team on intelligence reporting system challenges
• Manage Agile/SCRUM development team across geographically dispersed locations
• Work with diversified customer service related expectations, meet steep quarterly deadlines
• Scope out quarterly releases, deliver to ensure effectiveness of product management team
• Hands-on management, coordination between multiple delivery channels for engineering solutions brought through and delivered by the systems engineering, development, QA, production deployment teams
Senior Software Consultant

Embarcadero

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EMBT; Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — October 2006 (5 months)

Embarcadero Technologies, San Francisco, CA Jun 2006 – Oct 2006
Senior Software Consultant
• Pre and post-sales consulting for database utility tools developed and marketed by Embarcadero
• On-site customer engagement, professional services delivery, systems architecture and solution delivery for fortune 500 companies
• Post-sales customer contract and engagement management for Embarcadero products
Development Principal

Millennium Info.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Millennium Information Solutions LLC, Silver Spring, MD Jan 2005 – Jun 2006
Development Principal
• Management of distributed large software application architecture, design and development
• On-site leadership and coordination of all aspects of a professional services engagement
• Conduct routine status meetings, manage the engagement scope, direction and progress
• Manage projects with and assist to stay compliance with CMMI Level III
• Communicate expected goals, policies, conduct, roles and responsibilities of team members
• Communicate all process and client changes to direct reports and offshore developers
• Manage relationships with senior level client executives (e.g., Directors, Jr. VPs, Sr VPs)
• Budgetary (multi-million) management of multiple client engagements (4+) at the same time
• Work on increasingly strategic client opportunities; including new business development
CIO, Sr. VP and Head of the MIS department

Eastern Bank

(Privately Held; Banking industry)

January 2001 — January 2005 (4 years 1 month)

Eastern Bank, Jan 2001 – Jan 2005
Consultant at DataSoft and later became Head of IT department at EBL
• Project Management of business and system analysis, design of EBL banking applications
• Interface with multiple different business units, be responsible for combined delivery
• Extensive study of product line, MIS need and setup of Accounting and GL system
• Overseeing and project management of Core Banking Software implementation across EBL
• Internet Banking, ATM/Credit Card initiation project implementation
• Led a team (45+) of technical and functional resources, scheduling, budgeting, security
Sr. Software Consultant and Technical Lead

T. Rowe Price

(Public Company; TROW; Investment Management industry)

February 2000 — December 2000 (11 months)
Principal Consultant

o2oSoft

(Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 7 months)

o2o Software Consulting Assignments Jun 1998 to Feb 2000
T Rowe Price Feb 2000 – Dec 2000
Consultant – Software Engineer/Project Lead
• Designed, implemented Business Objects/Factories in IDL/C++ for back-end DBMS
• Lead Architect (5+ members) for T Rowe Customer Initiative (CI) project

CheckFree Corporation, Owings Mills, MD Jul 1999 – Jan 2000
Financial Technology Consultant – Project Manager
• Project Manager, lead architect for distributed development of existing product in N-Tier

Spirent Communications, Gaithersburg, MD Jun 1998 – Jun 1999
Senior Telecom Consultant - Sr. Software Engineer/Team Lead
Network Management Software (SONET, ATM etc.) Development
• Teamleader for OOA/OOD of CORBA C++/JAVA based network management software product. Led a team of 4-6 developers
Consultant

CheckFree

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Sr. Software Engineer

Verizon

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 1996 — May 1998 (1 year 6 months)

Verizon, Silver Spring, MD Verizon Dec 1996 – May 1998
Internet Center of Excellence – Telecom Systems Group
Sr. Software Engineer/Project Lead: (December, 1996 – May, 1998)
• Led a team of 8+ engineers to deliver distributed, multi-threaded, CORBA compliant Internet applications (interacting with AIN Switches)
• Design and development of a Multi-purpose CORBA IIOP gateway
• Usage of various JDK/CORBA services including Security, Naming, Object Transaction(OTS). Encryption, decryption, digital certificate etc.
• Provide consultancy to numerous internal Bell Atlantic information systems groups
Environment: Sun - Solaris, MS Windows 95/NT, X Windows, Orbix, OrbixWeb, Wonderwall, SUN SparcWorks tools, RCS, GNU tools, Visual Café, JDK 1.x, Rogue Wave, Netscape etc.
Software Engineer

Eastman Kodak

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1990 — November 1996 (6 years 4 months)

Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY Aug 1990 – Nov 1996
Software Engineer, Commercial and Government Systems - Image Information Programs
Systems Manager, Commercial and Government Systems, IRS Program Office
• Multi-threaded, distributed Application development using CORBA compliant Orbix and DCE
• Software integration : build X Windows/Motif user interfaces for ICMS. Assist with CMM implementation, deploy prototype ATM technology.
• Supervise System Administrators, plan of attack, budgets, inventory. Systems and Network administration, connectivity, security, network design, feasibility study
• Oracle and Sybase Database Administration on UNIX platforms
Environment: C/C++, SunOS Solaris 1.x, 2.x, IBM AIX V3.x, SGI - IRIX 5.x, OSF Motif,
X Windows, Sybase V9/10, Orbix, Objectstore ODBMS

Shaheen Hossain, CSM,CSP,PMP’s Education

Project Management Institue

PMP , Certified Project Management Professional , 2008 — 2009
SCRUM Master Certification Training

Certified SCRUM Master , Agile Development Methodology , 2007 — 2007

Certified SCRUM Master Training by Mike Cohn in Denver, CO - March, 2007.
Rochester Institute of Technology

MS , Computer Science , 1991 — 1994
University of Houston

Bachelor's , Management Information Systems , 1985 — 1990

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