Shahab Bukhari

Seasoned Project Manager with 10 years of experience leading Agile delivery for software houses and digital agencies, specializing in Agile Delivery / SDLC and PMO leadership. Proven track record in project planning, resource allocation, budgeting, risk management, and quality assurance oversight across web and mobile product lifecycles. Skilled at balancing technical understanding with business objectives to drive roadmapping, backlog management, and release coordination. Strong communicator and leader who coaches teams, aligns cross-functional stakeholders, and resolves impediments under pressure to improve predictability and delivery cadence. Familiar with JIRA and Confluence for performance monitoring and reporting, and experienced in instituting process improvements that reduce cycle time and raise delivery quality. Adept at mentoring junior PMs and facilitating strategic decisions, bringing a pragmatic combination of delivery focus and stakeholder collaboration to accelerate time-to-market and optimize financial performance.

Skills

  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Trello
  • PMO
  • SDLC
  • Roadmaps
  • Budgeting
  • RiskManagement
  • QA

Experience

Dec 2021 — Present

Project Manager

Pursue Today

  • Facilitates daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Manages project timelines, backlogs, and deliverables.
  • Collaborates with product owners to prioritize and refine the product backlog.
  • Identifies and removes impediments. Fosters a collaborative team environment.
  • Tracks project performance and communicates status, risks, and issues to stakeholders.
  • Ensures teams adhere to Agile practices and principles.
  • Prepares regular project updates using JIRA dashboards and Confluence pages, producing weekly stakeholder reports that surface velocity, burndown, sprint health, and top risks, enabling the leadership team to make prioritized decisions and reduce unplanned scope creep by 22% over three quarters.
  • Ensures resource availability and allocation.
  • Leads change management for process and tooling rollouts, authored runbooks and conducted training sessions for three delivery teams, resulting in a 30% reduction in onboarding time and improved sprint predictability.
  • Designs and implements PMO-aligned policies, creating Confluence templates and Jira workflows for sprint intake and QA gates that increased process adoption to 88% and cut rework by 18% within six months.
  • Participates in budget and staff allocation for projects.

May 2021 — Dec 2021

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

Contegris Pvt Ltd

  • Works with product owners on backlogs and new requests.
  • Manages the product roadmap visually.
  • Plans deliverables, manages backlogs, and grooms stories.
  • Implements and manages the Agile process for software development and delivery.
  • Conducts Agile process meetings, documentation, and coordination.
  • Implements continuous performance management and documents KPIs.
  • Helps leadership create a performance-oriented culture by introducing 1:1 cadence, OKR-linked sprint goals, and feedback loops, which improved delivery predictability by 25% and reduced high-priority defects by 17% across two quarters.
  • Resolves issues that hinder teamwork, conflicts, and obstacles.
  • Coaches the organization on the transition to a Scrum framework. Guides development teams to higher Scrum maturity.
  • Performs closely with engineers, developers, and product management to influence product development.
  • Facilitates internal communication and effective collaboration.
  • Ensures deliverables meet quality standards at the end of each sprint.
  • Prepares reports and dashboards for team performance visualization using JIRA boards, Confluence status pages, and Power BI to display velocity, cycle time, and defect trends, enabling stakeholders to identify bottlenecks and drive a 19% improvement in cycle time.
  • Serves as the point of contact for external communications.
  • Manages project delivery/deployments for customers. Coordinates with customer, sales, deployment, onboarding, and technical suppo

Jul 2019 — Apr 2021

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Winssol Technologies

  • Determines and defines project scope and objectives.
  • Predicts and manages resources effectively.
  • Prepares budget based on scope and resource requirements.
  • Tracks project costs to meet budget.
  • Develops and manages a detailed project schedule and work plan.
  • Provides consistent project updates to stakeholders via weekly JIRA-status exports and Confluence action registers, including KPIs like earned value and schedule variance, which improved stakeholder alignment and reduced escalations by 28% over two quarters.
  • Manages contracts with vendors and suppliers by negotiating SLAs, establishing delivery milestones, and tracking vendor performance to ensure 95% on-time delivery for third-party integrations.
  • Utilizes industry best practices, techniques, and standards such as Scrum, Kanban, and PMBOK-aligned processes to mature delivery practices and achieve higher sprint predictability.
  • Monitors progress and makes adjustments as needed.
  • Measures project performance to identify areas for improvement.

Jun 2017 — Jul 2019

Project Manager

Hub Sol Technologies LLC

  • Manages multiple, concurrent projects from initiation to closure.
  • Coordinates with stakeholders for project scope, goals, deliverables, and timing, documenting expected outcomes in project charter.
  • Contributes to product design to provide real solutions.
  • Creates detailed work plans, schedules tasks, and identifies resources.
  • Tracks and reports on project milestones and provides status updates.
  • Composes meeting notes and other business communications and distributes action-tracked minutes via Confluence to executive and delivery stakeholders, improving accountability and reducing open action items by 33% within the first quarter.
  • Manages day-to-day operational aspects and scope.
  • Certifies deliverables before passing to clients.
  • Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately in Confluence and SharePoint, and enforced version control practices that passed internal audits with zero critical findings.
  • Works with leadership team to determine evaluation objectives and KPIs, introduced a delivery scorecard measuring velocity, quality, and budget adherence that improved executive visibility and informed resourcing decisions.
  • Engages with clients regarding production details. Builds and maintains strong relationships across the organization.
  • Keeps stakeholders educated of product progress, issues, and risks with mitigation plans.
  • Plans, organizes, controls, and evaluates IT operations by managing a cross-functional team of developers

Feb 2015 — May 2017

Website Developer

Macro Expertz

  • Collaborated with clients to capture functional requirements and translated those into backlog items with acceptance criteria, improving stakeholder clarity and reducing rework during sprints.
  • Established QA and testing processes for front-end features using cross-browser testing checklists and stakeholder sign-off gates that cut post-release defects by 37% and aligned releases with sprint QA gates.
  • Defined design and development standards that were integrated into Confluence templates and enforced in review checklists, increasing consistency and reducing UI rework across projects.
  • Oversaw content release and deployment processes, implementing release checklists, stakeholder review steps, and pre-production QA gates which ensured zero critical production rollbacks over 10 releases.
  • Leveraged front-end technical knowledge in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap to assist technical estimations and prioritization during grooming sessions, enabling more accurate sprint planning and balanced technical debt decisions.
  • Mapped user flows, process flows, and wireframes into backlog stories with acceptance criteria to align design and development teams and accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.

Education

Jan 2017 — Dec 2017

University of Sargodha

Bachelor of Science · Information Technology