About

Abdulla Khan Pathan is a Senior Program Manager with 14 years of experience in the IT industry. He has executed various engagements in both Agile and waterfall development methodologies. He has extensive experience in Scrum Master and Program Management, with achievements driven experience in Agile & Scrum Methodologies for Large Scale programs. Abdulla is skilled in facilitating Scrum ceremonies, regular sync up with cross-functional teams, and resolving cross-functional dependencies to ensure product delivery on time. Abdulla has engaged in activities like analyzing market and competition, assessing value, creating story maps, and prioritizing stories and epics to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy. He provides effective risk management and stakeholder management to ensure engineering teams are always aligned with organizational objectives. Abdulla's major focus area is providing leadership and drive for planned releases, right from planning until customer release phase. Abdulla has experience working closely with development and business teams like Product Owner, Product Line Managers, Marketing Teams, Business Heads to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements. He is a skilled communicator with extensive experience managing business relationships with clients, prospects, partners, and board members. Abdulla has previously played roles like Test Lead & Project Manager. He has experience in Test Management, Customer defect management, and interfacing with stakeholders for mapping requirements. Abdulla has worked for companies like Radisys and Sai Technology, where he played the roles of Scrum Master and Software Engineer, respectively. Abdulla has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from JNTU. He is certified as an Advanced-Scrum Master. Abdulla has experience in Telecom Domain Program Management for EMS/NMS products to manage 2G/3G/4G/5G Technologies. He is an expert in Product Development Life Cycle, Agile project management, and defect tracking life Cycle. Abdulla is strong in accelerating and optimizing software test and release processes through best practice methodologies, continuous process improvements, and motivational team building.