About

Enayat Shaikh is a seasoned Senior Project Manager at Cognizant with over 16 years of experience in cross-functional IT project management, methodologies, and techniques. He is known for his exceptional leadership skills and his ability to mentor teams with purpose, resulting in outstanding outcomes. Enayat is a business strategist who excels in planning and managing projects. He is an excellent communicator who leverages his technical, business, and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams. Enayat is an expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies and is known for his ability to produce high-quality deliverables. He has worked in multinational cultural environments, including India, UAE, and Switzerland, and has experience in the onsite-offshore model. Currently, Enayat is working for Cognizant's customer First Gulf Information Technology at UAE as a Senior Project Manager. He effectively prioritizes and manages multiple complex assignments and clients. His responsibilities include managing and leading the project team, developing and maintaining a detailed project plan, managing project deliverables in line with the project plan, recording and managing project issues, resolving cross-functional issues at the project level, managing project scope and change control, monitoring project progress and performance, providing status reports to the project sponsor, and working closely with the team to ensure the project meets business needs. Enayat has previously worked as a Team Lead/Project Manager at Capgemini, where he was responsible for understanding the requirements from the business and translating them into technical work pieces, delivering prototypes to the client, software development using Java/JSF, Junit, and maintenance of the project. He has also worked at Patni as a Software Engineer, where he was responsible for software development using Java/JSF, Junit, and maintenance of the project. Enayat holds a Master's degree in Computer Management from Allana Inst. of Mgmt Sciences and completed his Bachelor's degree from Anglo Urdu boys high school. He has a strong technical background in Software Engineering, Java, test, and Javascript. With 19.28 years of relevant experience, Enayat is a highly skilled Senior Project Manager who can deliver excellent results in complex projects.