Zain Gulel | Technical PO/PM

Specialised in

Agile Project Management and dabble in coding

Budgets

Succesfully managed numerous projects varying in size from small to as large as 120 FTE. The budgets ranged from £50k up to £18m.

Teams

Taking great pleasure in working with teams and having directly managed up to 4 teams simultaneously totalling to a headcount of 34 FTE.

Sector

My experience in the Engineering, Logistical, Manufacturing and Public Sectors including FTSE 100 companies, have taught me to be versatile and flexible.

Technical

Always working on improving my technical knowledge. Whether that is teaching myself to code in Javascript, Python, PHP or learning about Microsoft Azure.

About Me

A little bit about what I do

Your projects are in safe hands

Over 16 years’ experience in IT and a solid history in implementing IT solutions in the Engineering, Logistical, Manufacturing and Public Sectors including FTSE 100 companies. Conceptualised and managed full software development lifecycle projects ranging from £50k to £18m in budget and managed multiple teams up to 34 FTE. Coming from a technical background and backed by multiple Agile / Project Management certifications and years of experience, I am more than qualified to get the job done.

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Professional Scrum Master

Certified SAFe® Agilist

PRINCE2 Foundation

PRINCE2 Practitioner

PRINCE2 Agile Practioner

Agile PM Foundation

Agile PM Practitioner

Career Highlights

MMT Digital

Technical Product Owner

Uppingham, UK

May 2021 – Present

As an agency-side product owner, I am responsible for delivering digital products and services in an agile environment. The products vary from a range of digital web-based projects, including CMS implementations, web applications, e-commerce platforms, mobile apps and microsites for a range of clients.
Currently working with our customer BP to deliver a large web app.
Platform Housing Group

Product Owner

Birmingham, UK

Jan 2020 – May 2021

Joined the organisation as part of an extensive digital transformation programme to move to Microsoft Azure and implement Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Enabled the development team to manage their development portfolio harmoniously following Fortis and Waterloo's merge by implementing a development appraisal tool 'Proval' and 'Sequel' by SDS.
Introduced Adobe Signature to enable the business to continue to operate during the pandemic and saved the business over £50k in Opex. Improved response time of contracts and documents sign off from up to 4 weeks down to 1 week.
Rolls Royce

Project Manager / Product Owner

Derby, UK

Apr 2018 – Dec 2019

Led an Engine Health Monitoring software development & migration project to Microsoft Azure Cloud using the Scaled Agile Framework as part of a large complex £18m Digital Twin programme involving over 120 FTE.
Delivered a £2.5m Fleet Planning Tool software development Agile project, from inception through deployment. Managing 30+ developers, testers, data scientists, business analysts, solution architects and Scrum Masters, across 4 Scrum/Kanban teams in UK and India.
Improved the UX/UI and increased forecasting capacity by 50 times, enabling scenario modelling capability.
Kuehne + Nagel

Business Systems Project Manager

Birmingham, UK

Apr 2018 – Dec 2019

Planned Waterfall-led implementations of SAP S/4HANA (ERP), SAP EWM and completed proof of concept. Secured successful sign-off and planned entire project lifecycle for £12m implementation of SAP S/4HANA solution.
JCB

IT PROJECT MANAGER

Rocester, Uttoxeter, UK

Mar 2017–Oct 2017

Implemented a Siemens Teamcenter 11 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Site consolidation (4-tier solution).
Enabled a central repository for all PLM users avoiding duplication effort.
Completed an automation project for accounts payable (600k invoices per annum into SAP via OpenText Optical Character Recognition). Cleared the ever-increasing invoice backlog; saved £100k+ OPEX for the business in headcount reduction.
Rolled out a complete UK LAN upgrade, increasing business connectivity performance and bandwidth from 100MB/s to 1GB/s, improving network reliability and resiliency. Reduced number of outages and enabled implementation of future projects, including Ms Office 365.
Walsall Housing Group (whg)

IT PROJECT MANAGER

Walsall, UK

Mar 2016–Aug 2016

Co-managed IT Transformation Programme, overseeing implementation of new processes, introducing gated Waterfall approach (PRINCE2 methodology), standardising internal procedures and increasing efficiency.
Managed and delivered an automated mobile solution (Xmbrace Dynamic Resource Scheduling and 1st Touch) reducing headcount in planning team and improving trades appointment allocation and distribution
Neovia Logistics

IT Project Manager

Desford, UK

Feb 2014–Mar 2015

Successfully managed $3m cloud transformation migration projects delivering time and cost-sensitive solutions in the EMEA region to Daimler, Mercedes, Bombardier, Harley Davidson, Jaguar Land Rover, Caterpillar, and Volkswagen.
Completed 9 warehouse and office migrations on time and at cost in a politically challenging environment across Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Russian Federation, and UAE, successfully avoiding $3.3m per month penalty clauses.