Experience
Two decades of shipping.
Sep 2026 — Present
Hikmah Tech
Technical Program Manager
I take each product from idea to launch, working hands-on with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor) as the engineering team.
- NahPets (nahpet.ae) — a complete operating system for a pet grooming salon, on the web and the salon's own iOS and Android app: booking, live location tracking of mobile groomers, online payments, a lead CRM, a campaign manager, and a Claude-powered chat and voice assistant that books appointments
- BloomPath — a platform for Al Hayy's children's therapy and education programs that connects the organization, teachers and parents, with drag-to-book scheduling, automatic teacher matching, weighted assessments, and session notes with photo, video and audio, on web, iOS and Android
- ENN — an accounting app for UAE small merchants that guides them through purchases, sales and expenses so their records stay ready for VAT reporting, without the complexity of a full accounting system
Claude CodeCursorn8nReactReact NativeFirebaseSep 2025 — Aug 2026
Remote
Bolt
Implementation Manager
Managed end-to-end implementation of checkout and payments products for enterprise retail and eCommerce partners, owning scoping, onboarding, testing, go-live and stabilization across concurrent workstreams.
- Coordinated Sales, Product, Engineering, Account Management and Support teams, governing partner dependencies, risks and integration timelines
- Served as primary integration owner from sales handoff to launch, managing milestones, escalations and executive stakeholder communication
Aug 2019 — Sep 2025
San Francisco
Infosys Equinox
Technical Program Manager / Scrum Master / Senior Project Manager
Led multi-workstream eCommerce programs and platform stability for enterprise clients including GAP, YoungLiving and NuSkin.
- Led incident resolution and platform stability for Infosys Equinox e-commerce, reducing MTTR by 45% over 6 months and ensuring 99.95% uptime across mission-critical services
- Established a three-tiered application support framework that streamlined issue resolution for enterprise e-commerce operations, boosting L3 ticket resolution from 10% to 60%
- Drove Agile PI planning and cross-vendor collaboration, ensuring timely, value-driven delivery across multiple Scrum teams and program workstreams
- Spearheaded technical program management and cloud modernization for GAP, overseeing globally distributed teams and aligning deliverables with governance standards
- Led process harmonization at NuSkin by integrating ServiceNow and Jira — incident management in ServiceNow, all other workflows streamlined through Jira
Jan 2019 — Aug 2019
Menlo Park
E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley
Scrum Master
Scrum Master for a cross-functional Agile team, facilitating all Scrum ceremonies and keeping delivery aligned with project goals and timelines.
- Led the modernization of Partner Integration by migrating RSU data from a legacy system to RESTful services, improving data accessibility and system efficiency
May 2018 — Jan 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
Kohl's
Senior Program Manager / Service Delivery Manager
Service Delivery Manager for the microservice APIs consumed by Kohl's applications, predominantly the mobile app.
- Point of contact for every service issue across the mobile platform
- Ensured the Kohl's mobile apps were released to production every week
- Coordinated multiple Scrum teams from different vendors
Nov 2013 — 2018
San Jose
PayPal
Program Manager / Scrum Master / Member of Technical Staff
Managed critical cross-functional programs during the eBay split, supporting 100M+ daily transactions and coordinating 10+ global engineering teams with zero-downtime holiday delivery.
- Led an Agile transformation coaching 3 newly formed global Scrum teams, improving velocity by 40% and delivery predictability from 72% to 95%
- Delivered scalable RESTful API solutions for PayPal's notification systems, reaching 80% adoption across engineering teams within one year
- Coached newly formed groups on the Scrum process, supporting PayPal's platform scalability and engineering excellence goals
Feb 2010 — Sep 2013
Cupertino
Apple
Project Manager (Infosys, onsite at Apple)
Ran the PMO for emerging technology projects, leading onsite tech leads and offshore delivery teams.
- Worked with architects on solution design, secured sign-off from senior management, and owned release planning, implementation and cutover
- Delivered Apple's Work Management System (WMS) with 25 developers across San Jose, Chennai and Mangalore
- Led the HR Merlin migration from a legacy language to Cocoa with a 25-person team across four locations
- Led the cross-functional survey opt-out project across 4 Apple systems (ACD, EDW, IDMS and Chatterbox)
- Ran design reviews with the business and UI teams to sign off on screens
- Partnered with ADP on payroll data transfer for a new retail rollout
JavaPL/SQLOracleCocoaJSPRESTJMSXSLTJBossUnix shellAug 2004 — Jan 2010
Bangalore
Infosys
Senior Project Manager · Project Manager
Led distributed delivery and support teams for Cisco, Solectron and Ingram Micro — owning people, quality, risk, budget and schedule management.
- Senior Project Manager (2008–2010): led a 25-member distributed team maintaining and enhancing Cisco applications across support and enhancement tracks
- Pre-sales team member for new service delivery engagements — defined customer application integration diagrams and resource models for proposals
- Project Manager (2004–2007): managed a 30+ member support team for Cisco, Solectron and Ingram Micro, verifying delivery against SLAs
- Stabilized a Cisco development project during UAT, resolving multiple issues to the customer's satisfaction
- Partnered with the Six Sigma team to run the Ingram Micro team at a six-sigma level
- Planned deliverables from the Bangalore offshore development center and submitted monthly operations reports to the client
JavaEJBPL/SQLJSP.NETSQL ServerBusiness Objects
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