Enayat Shaikh

About Enayat Shaikh

PROFILE:Highly accomplished and focused IT executive with a strong track record of delivering highly complex projects. Exceptional expertise gained from 24+ years of experience in software development projects for Health and Human Services. Demonstrated ability to influence key decision-makers and stakeholders to gain consensus and approval for technology advancements and projects that drive increased efficiencies, cost savings, and enhanced team productivity. Full project life cycle experience in delivering business applications & programs that include Medicaid for Families, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, Child Care, and Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information Systems. Experience includes implementation in 6 states and counties.Experienced in leading cross-functional teams in the execution of activities that drive results and support key initiatives. Specialization in solution analysis & development, leading design sessions, requirements management, and functional design, along with development, testing, training, and implementation experience. Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative. Excellent verbal & written communication skills, exceptional technical documentation capabilities, positive attitude & creative problem-solving ability. SOFT SKILL HIGHLIGHTS:Leadership – Ability to rapidly assume strong leadership role and influence others to perform better to meet aggressive deadlines and react positively under pressure situations.Sales – Excellent sales and marketing skills and ability to work with government & private sector clients.Communication – As a seasoned communications leader, I can weave together people, processes, and platforms to drive business success.Change Management – Ability to drive change by leading, engaging, and inspiring individuals and teams. A leader of people who can transform businesses to deliver sustainable change for long-term success.

Experience

1. Solutions Delivery Lead Change Management

   Peraton

   Mar 2019 — Present · San Diego County, CA, US

   Integrated and transformed blended teams to optimize business analysis, requirements development, and user acceptance testing services.• Led and collaborated with various technical, business, and testing teams, including Business Analysts, Testing (manual and automated), SOA, Curam, COGNOS, and INFORMATICA.• Expanded team capabilities by developing hybrid and modular approaches to align with changing software development needs, such as Waterfall and Agile/Scrum, Iterative, etc.• Implemented and sustained processes and procedures for AGILE methodology within the CWSD project for multi-vendor blended teams.• Led the effort to evaluate, approve, customize, and implement the ALM Octane tool, resulting in embedding the voice of the customer and business measurements to continuously analyze and improve applications and service delivery.• Plan, develop, and work with leadership to deliver communications and creative engagement activities, driving understanding about changes.• Assisted in project budgeting, resource allocation, forecasting, and other related activities for major infrastructure upgrades and restructuring.• Successfully executed various application enhancement & and break-fix releases, SOA enhancements, account provisioning automation, reporting transformation, and data dictionary projects.• Influenced key decision-makers and stakeholders to gain consensus and approval for significant enhancements which increased data currency by 98%, and the BING Maps fix, which reduced cost overheads by 99%.• Guided the team in creating awareness, defining, and implementing processes for automated regression testing (DevOps), Project Release Management, value-added test planning, and execution, as well as overall testing quality improvement initiatives.• Conducted site visits post-implementation to reinforce & and measure the effectiveness of change and evolve plans as needed to best drive adoption and reduce the risk of initiatives.

Education

• M H Saboo Siddik Polytechnic

  Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

  1990 — 1993

• M.H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering 8-Shephard Road Mumbai 400 008

  Bachelor of Engineering, Production Engineering

  1993 — 1996

• Iowa State University

  Masters, Industrial Engineering, Information Technology

  1996 — 1998