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Syed’s strengths span technical program management, solution architecture, cloud migration, product vision, cross\-functional leadership, resource optimization, and delivery management\. He combines a software\-development background with strategic facilitation and people management, making decisions based on business objectives and project delivery rather than technical ego\. Syed has experience building teams from scratch, defining scope, timelines, and resource allocation, and resolving technical disagreements among senior team members by balancing technical merit and business goals\. His record includes accelerating FedEx delivery\-package scan\-data migration to Microsoft Azure by 66%, leading a 27\-person technical team, and creating a real\-time Power BI dashboard that rendered in more than one second\. He also led Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s GridSwift mobile work\-order and asset\-mapping implementation across Windows tablets, iPads, and iPhones, and has led a large\-scale program comprising 12 projects with six direct\-report project managers\. ## Services - Operations Management - Scala - Python \(Programming Language\) - Cross\-functional Team Leadership - Production Support - Resource Management - Budget Management - Big Data Analytics - Data Pipelines - Enterprise Architecture - Product Management - Visio - ServiceNow - Confluence - Jira - Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery \(CI/CD\) - Agile Application Development - Technical Documentation - Regulatory Compliance - Elasticsearch - Cloudera - Customer Relationship Management \(CRM\) - Risk Management - Data Visualization - Microsoft Power BI - Product Development - Data Migration - Cloud Applications - Amazon Web Services \(AWS\) - Microsoft Azure ## Highlights - Leads strategic design and implementation of next\-generation technology solutions for energy\-sector clients as Principal Consultant at Capco Energy\. - Leads digital\-transformation initiatives focused on operational efficiency, innovative\-tool integration, long\-term business objectives, and sustainability goals at Capco Energy\. - Accelerated FedEx delivery package scan\-data migration from on premises to Microsoft Azure by 66% while reducing memory requirements\. - Led a 27\-person technical team to create a data pipeline that migrated FedEx data in manageable incremental chunks\. - Designed and developed a real\-time Power BI dashboard for FedEx, rendered in more than one second, to identify lost and stolen packages quickly the work saved millions of dollars in costs and prevented significant lost time\. - Defined product vision and created architectural diagrams, flows, and production plans for FedEx solutions while resolving strategic roadblocks\. - Led Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s GridSwift mobile work\-order and asset\-mapping implementation at Accenture\. - Deployed GridSwift across Windows tablets, iPads, and iPhones using Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps\. - Delivered GridSwift integration with field operations, real\-time updates, task management, and geospatial asset tracking, improving productivity, response times, and maintenance and inspection data accuracy\. - Defined the vision, goals, and outcomes for Ingram Micro’s Google Cloud Platform migration\. - Guided multiple Ingram Micro internal teams to deliver migration work on time, within budget, and according to business requirements\. - Directly oversaw Ingram Micro’s production\-support team and coordinated cross\-functional teams to improve efficiency and collaboration\. - Implemented Agile project management in Jira at Ingram Micro through epics, user stories, and tasks, increasing productivity\. - Managed multiple global teams delivering cloud\-based products and solutions at PwC through Tata Consultancy Services\. - Designed operational procedures and cloud\-based IT solutions for PwC clients in banking, media, HR, and merger\-and\-acquisition contexts\. - Created and maintained the Insight Platform for PwC internal and external clients\. - Managed four development teams and developed roadmap reports for upper management at Comcast\. - Served as product\-to\-development liaison, maintained product backlogs, led Agile ceremonies, and created Jira and Confluence reports and multi\-team roadmaps at Equifax\. - Defined user stories, prioritized backlogs in VersionOne and Jira, applied Agile SAFe, and led Program Increment planning at Freddie Mac\. - Developed a Java web service at Freddie Mac for storing, retrieving, and updating documents on HDFS\. - Built Apache NiFi ingestion workflows from legacy mainframe systems to Hive tables and automated HDFS document versioning and archiving with Oozie at Freddie Mac\. - Installed, configured, and indexed Solr Cloud used HBase, Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Hive, HDFS, and related Big Data technologies at Freddie Mac\. - Provided training on application support and Big Data technologies and conducted end\-to\-end performance testing and benchmarking at Freddie Mac\. - Helped install and configure a Hadoop cluster and developed HDFS ingestion and analysis workflows using Sqoop, Flume, Pig, MapReduce, Hive, Oozie, and Hive UDFs at Purity\. - Developed Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, servlet, ETL, SOAP, REST, JDBC, SQL, and PL/SQL applications at Purity\. - Improved Cablevision IT\-team performance through internal development processes and internal support applications, while providing VoIP customer technical support\. - Obtained New York State Life and Health Insurance licenses and a New York State Mortgage Broker license at Primerica\. - Interviewed more than 100 people for hiring positions at Primerica\. - Collected and corrected GPS positioning data and enhanced the BusTools application at Clever Devices\. - Led a large\-scale program comprising 12 projects and six direct\-report project managers, while building teams, defining scope, timelines, and resource allocation\. ## Experience - **Principal Consultant at Capco Energy** (2025\-10\-01–present) — As the Principal Consultant at Capco, I lead the strategic design and implementation of next\-generation technology solutions for clients across the energy sector\. My role is to lead digital transformation initiatives, optimizing operational efficiencies and ensuring seamless integration of innovative tools that align with each client's long term business objectives and sustainability goals\. - **Senior Manager Program Management Office at Accenture** (2024\-06\-01–2025\-09\-01) — Led the successful implementation of the GridSwift mobile work order and asset mapping application for Berkshire Hathaway Energy, deploying across Windows tablets, iPads, and iPhones\. • Leveraging MS Azure and Azure DevOps, guided the team to deliver a solution that seamlessly integrated with field operations, enabling real\-time updates, efficient task management, and geospatial asset tracking\. • This project significantly enhanced field workforce productivity, reduced response times, and improved data accuracy for maintenance and inspection activities\. • Led the successful implementation of the GridSwift mobile work order and asset mapping application for Berkshire Hathaway Energy • Deployed the solution across Windows tablets, iPads, and iPhones • Utilized Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps to guide the development and deployment process • Delivered a system that seamlessly integrated with field operations, supporting real\-time updates and efficient task management • Enabled geospatial - **Technical Project Manager at FedEx at Tata Consultancy Services** (2023\-06\-01–2024\-06\-01) — Partner with stakeholders across the company to design and architect successful solutions to address complex business problems, including application deployments and data migration to MS Azure\. Define a cohesive product vision, creating multiple architectural diagrams, flows, and production plans\. Discover and resolve strategic roadblocks and enable maximum efficiency\. \- Increased data migration speeds 66% while also lowering the amount of memory required to perform the task, saving extensive technical debt\. Vastly improved the efficiency of FedEx’s migration of delivery package scan data from on\-premises to MS Azure\. \- Led a technical team of 27 to interpret business requirements, devise solutions, and implement changes to create a data pipeline, improving the efficiency of data migration by chunking data into manageable sizes and executing the migration in increments\. \-Designed and developed a PowerBI Dashboard to display real\-time data \(rendered within >1 second\), allowing FedEx t - **Senior Delivery Manager at PwC at Tata Consultancy Services** (2022\-07\-01–2023\-02\-01) — \-Managing multiple global teams to ensure delivery of cloud based products and solutions \-Designing operational procedures to support external clients \-Implementing Cloud based IT solutions to complex challenges in the banking, media, HR, merger and acquisitions, among others, industries \-Maintaining project budgets and resources for multiple global teams \-Providing production support for multiple internal and external teams \-Designing cloud based infrastructure for building technical solutions inhouse \-Createing and maintaining the Insight Platform for internal and external clients \-Maintaing the overall delivery of solutions, support and maintenance of industry leading products - **Senior Project Manager at Ingram Micro at Tata Consultancy Services** (2022\-06\-01–2023\-06\-01) — Defined the vision, goal, and outcomes of the migration to the Google Cloud Platform \(GCP\) project guided multiple internal teams to complete project deliverables on time, within budget, and as per business requirements\. Directly oversaw the production support team\. Coordinated cross\-functional teams to raise efficiency, encourage collaboration, and unify project efforts\.  Deployed Agile project management methodologies in Jira, creating epic/user stories/tasks, resulting in increased productivity\. - **Senior Project Manager at Comcast at Tata Consultancy Services** (2022\-01\-01–2022\-07\-01) — \-Strategize, design, implement and maintain program initiatives that reflect the organization objectives \-Managing 4 development teams to ensure program level initiatives are met \-Developed roadmap inclusive reports to upper management \-Overseeing resource management for multiple teams to ensure timely product development \-Working with Product Owners, Architects and managers to promote product development/progression - **Senior Project Manager at Equifax at Tata Consultancy Services** (2020\-08\-01–2021\-12\-01) — \-Liaison between product team and development team to accurately create and execute the development of new features/enhancements \-Created and maintained product backlog ensuring full and complete tickets \-Conducted various Agile ceremonies including Stand\-up, retrospective, planning and technical meetings \-Created and maintained multiple reports to upper management within Jira and Confluence \-Created product roadmaps for multiple co\-dependent teams \-Maintained a healthy and productive work environment within multiple teams - **Senior Project Manager/Tech Lead at Freddie Mac at Tata Consultancy Services** (2017\-09\-01–2020\-07\-01) — \-Defined user stories in product backlog based on requirements from product management, other PO’s and stakeholders \-Prioritized and maintained product backlog using VersionOne and Jira \-Worked with Agile SAFe methodologies to ensure more transparency and offer more flexibility \-Conducted and prepared Program Increment planning meetings \-Responsible of defining definition\-of\-done, acceptance criteria, NFR’s and functional requirements \-Worked with product management, business owners and various stakeholders to define and understand requirements for the vision and development of the product \-Participated in iteration planning meetings, backlog grooming sessions and retrospective meetings \-Worked with multiple upstream and downstream teams to ensure smooth transition of work using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies \-Always maintained a clear and concise communication with all teams involved - **Software Engineer at Freddie Mac at Tata Consultancy Services** (2016\-06\-01–2017\-09\-01) — \- Developed a web service in Java to store, retrieve, update documents on HDFS\. \- Installation, configuration and indexing of Solr Cloud for searching\. \- Utilized Hbase for storing incremental loads of new data \- Developed Apache NiFi work flow code to ingest data from legacy mainframe systems to Hive tables \- Experience with Spark using Databricks and streaming services with Kafka \- Developed optimizations of Hive, Hbase, HDFS, Solr Kafka, Spark and Spark streaming \- Using Agile methodologies for Iteration and release planning\. \- Developed various Oozie jobs to automate document versioning and archiving in HDFS\. \- Created various documentation to audit development of application\. \- Using GIT repository to track code development\. \- Provided trainings to various teams on application support and Big Data technologies\. \- Executed End\-to\-end performance testing and benchmarking\. \- Highly involved in the overall end\-to\-end application development\. - **Project Manager Technical Lead at Purity** (2013\-09\-01–2016\-06\-01) — Involved in installation and configuration of Hadoop Cluster\. • Imported and exported data between HDFS and Relational Systems like MySQL and Oracle in to Hive using Sqoop\. • Worked on parallel jobs using various stages like Joins, Map\-Side Joins Lookups, Filters, Copy, Sorts, Partitions, Forks, Sequential File, Data set and Merge\. • Implemented business logic by writing UDFs in hive and used various UDFs from Piggybanks and other sources\. • Developed workflows using Oozie to automate loading of data into HDFS, preprocessing and analyzing data using MapReduce, Pig and Hive jobs\. • Developed data pipelines using Flume, Sqoop, Pig, Chained Mappers and map reduce to ingest data into HDFS for analysis\. - **Software Developer at Purity** (2011\-02\-01–2013\-09\-01) — Designed and developed Java based applications • Worked on Data warehouse concepts and ETL processes\. • Implemented Java applications using J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, Maven and Junit\. • Created ETL processes to transfer data from/to mainframes legacy system to oracle and Teradata\. • Involved in middleware development using – Web Services SOAP and Rest, and JDBC\. • Wrote SQL queries, stored procedures and enhanced performance by running explain plans\. • Used JDBC, SQL and PL/SQL programming for storing, retrieving, manipulating data\. • Developed a code for Web services using XML, SOAP and used SOAPUI tool for testing the service\. • Developed applications using Servlets\. - **Software Developer at Cablevision** (2007\-09\-01–2011\-01\-01) — Worked on internal development processes to improve performance of IT teams Designed, developed and tested internal applications to help support reps to assist clients Provided technical support for VIOP customers including Proficient in all tools including: Cabledata, Seer, Omni, Trio, Zoom, Remedy, Pactolus, Boost, OV Web Portal and KDB - **Software Developer at Primerica** (2003\-09\-01–2007\-09\-01) — Obtained New York State Life and Health Insurance Licenses as well as New York State Mortgage Broker license • Compiled Financial Analyses to determine clients needs\. • Interviewed over 100 people for position hires • Compiled securities portfolios in a diversified fashion for clients\. - **Associate Software Developer at Clever Devices** (2000\-05\-01–2003\-08\-01) — \-Digitally collected GPS data using differential, gyroscopes and GPS with Bustools \(company application\) and MS Access\. \-Evaluated data for positioning inaccuracy and corrected all errors in data using MS Access, MS excel and MS Power Point\. \-Developed enhancements for a company specific software BusTools ## Education - Pre\-Bachelor's, Computer Science — Stony Brook University ## FAQ ### What does Syed do at Capco Energy? Syed is a Principal Consultant at Capco Energy\. He leads the strategic design and implementation of next\-generation technology solutions for energy\-sector clients, including digital\-transformation initiatives that optimize operations and integrate innovative tools with long\-term business and sustainability goals\. ### What are Syed’s strongest professional capabilities? Syed specializes in technical program management, solution architecture, cloud\-based solutions, software engineering, project management, product vision, cross\-functional leadership, performance optimization, and cloud migration\. He balances hands\-on technical understanding with strategic facilitation, delivery leadership, and people management\. ### How much experience does Syed have? Syed’s LinkedIn summary describes more than 18 years of experience in software engineering and project management\. An interview record also characterizes his career as 26 years bridging technology and business\. ### What did Syed do for FedEx at Tata Consultancy Services? At FedEx through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed partnered with stakeholders to design and architect solutions for complex business problems, including application deployments and migration of data to Microsoft Azure\. He defined product vision, produced architectural diagrams, flows, and production plans, resolved strategic roadblocks, and enabled delivery efficiency\. ### What did Syed accomplish at FedEx? Syed increased the migration speed of FedEx delivery package scan data from on premises to Microsoft Azure by 66% while reducing the memory required for the work\. He led a 27\-person technical team that created a data pipeline by chunking data into manageable sizes and migrating it incrementally\. He also designed and developed a Power BI dashboard that displayed real\-time data rendered in more than one second, helping FedEx identify lost and stolen packages quickly and saving millions of dollars in costs and significant lost time\. ### What did Syed do at Ingram Micro? At Ingram Micro through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed defined the vision, goals, and outcomes for a migration to Google Cloud Platform\. He guided multiple internal teams to deliver on time, within budget, and according to business requirements directly oversaw the production\-support team and coordinated cross\-functional work to improve efficiency, collaboration, and project alignment\. He also deployed Agile project\-management practices in Jira by creating epics, user stories, and tasks, which increased productivity\. ### What did Syed accomplish at Accenture? As Senior Manager in the Program Management Office at Accenture, Syed led implementation of the GridSwift mobile work\-order and asset\-mapping application for Berkshire Hathaway Energy\. He guided delivery with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps, deploying the solution across Windows tablets, iPads, and iPhones\. The system integrated with field operations, supported real\-time updates and task management, enabled geospatial asset tracking, and improved field\-workforce productivity, response times, and maintenance and inspection data accuracy\. ### What did Syed do at PwC? At PwC through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed managed multiple global teams delivering cloud\-based products and solutions\. His responsibilities included designing operational procedures for external clients, implementing cloud IT solutions for banking, media, HR, and merger\-and\-acquisition challenges, managing budgets and resources, providing production support, designing in\-house cloud infrastructure, creating and maintaining the Insight Platform, and overseeing delivery, support, and maintenance of industry\-leading products\. ### What did Syed do at Comcast? At Comcast through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed strategized, designed, implemented, and maintained program initiatives aligned to organizational objectives\. He managed four development teams, developed roadmap reports for upper management, oversaw resource management for timely product delivery, and worked with product owners, architects, and managers to advance product development\. ### What did Syed do at Equifax? At Equifax through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed served as liaison between product and development teams for new features and enhancements\. He created and maintained product backlogs, conducted Agile ceremonies including stand\-ups, retrospectives, planning, and technical meetings, maintained Jira and Confluence reports for upper management, developed roadmaps for co\-dependent teams, and supported productive team environments\. ### What did Syed do as a Senior Project Manager and Tech Lead at Freddie Mac? As Senior Project Manager and Tech Lead at Freddie Mac through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed defined user stories from product\-management, product\-owner, and stakeholder requirements\. He prioritized and maintained backlogs in VersionOne and Jira applied Agile SAFe practices prepared and conducted Program Increment planning defined definition of done, acceptance criteria, non\-functional requirements, and functional requirements and worked across upstream and downstream teams using Agile and Waterfall methods\. ### What was Syed’s software\-engineering work at Freddie Mac? As a Software Engineer at Freddie Mac through Tata Consultancy Services, Syed developed a Java web service for storing, retrieving, and updating documents on HDFS\. He installed, configured, and indexed Solr Cloud used HBase for incremental data loads developed Apache NiFi workflows to ingest legacy\-mainframe data into Hive and worked with Spark through Databricks and streaming services through Kafka\. He optimized Hive, HBase, HDFS, Solr, Kafka, Spark, and Spark Streaming automated document versioning and archiving with Oozie used Git created audit documentation trained teams on application support and Big Data technologies and conducted end\-to\-end performance testing and benchmarking\. ### What did Syed do as Project Manager and Technical Lead at Purity? As Project Manager and Technical Lead at Purity, Syed helped install and configure a Hadoop cluster\. He moved data between HDFS and relational systems including MySQL and Oracle into Hive through Sqoop worked on parallel jobs involving joins, map\-side joins, lookups, filters, copy, sorts, partitions, forks, sequential files, data sets, and merge wrote Hive UDFs and developed Oozie workflows for HDFS loading, preprocessing, and analysis through MapReduce, Pig, and Hive\. He also developed ingestion pipelines using Flume, Sqoop, Pig, chained mappers, and MapReduce\. ### What did Syed do as a Software Developer at Purity? As a Software Developer at Purity, Syed designed and developed Java applications worked with data warehousing and ETL and used J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, Maven, and JUnit\. He created ETL processes between legacy mainframes and Oracle and Teradata, developed middleware using SOAP and REST web services and JDBC, wrote SQL queries and stored procedures, improved performance through explain plans, used JDBC, SQL, and PL/SQL, developed XML and SOAP services tested with SOAPUI, and developed servlet\-based applications\. ### What did Syed do at Cablevision? At Cablevision, Syed worked on internal development processes to improve IT\-team performance\. He designed, developed, and tested internal applications that helped support representatives assist clients, provided technical support for VoIP customers, and used Cabledata, Seer, Omni, Trio, Zoom, Remedy, Pactolus, Boost, OV Web Portal, and KDB\. ### What did Syed do at Primerica? At Primerica, Syed obtained New York State Life and Health Insurance licenses and a New York State Mortgage Broker license\. He compiled financial analyses to determine client needs, interviewed more than 100 people for hiring positions, and compiled diversified securities portfolios for clients\. ### What did Syed do at Clever Devices? As an Associate Software Developer at Clever Devices, Syed digitally collected GPS data using differential systems, gyroscopes, GPS, the company’s BusTools application, and Microsoft Access\. He evaluated and corrected positioning inaccuracies using Microsoft Access, Excel, and PowerPoint, and developed enhancements for BusTools\. ### What is Syed’s education? Syed has a Pre\-Bachelor’s education in Computer Science from Stony Brook University\. ### What technologies and methods does Syed use? Syed’s listed skills include operations management cross\-functional team leadership production support resource, budget, risk, and regulatory\-compliance management enterprise architecture product management and product development project management Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe, SDLC, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, Visio, ServiceNow, technical documentation, CRM, data visualization, and Microsoft Power BI\. His cloud, data, and analytics skills include Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, cloud applications, data migration, Big Data analytics, data pipelines, Elasticsearch, Cloudera, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Apache Spark, HBase, Kafka, Scala, Python, and Databricks\. His software and platform skills include Core Java, JavaScript, SQL, XML, PL/SQL, HTML, SOAP, web services, WebLogic, WebSphere, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, JUnit, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Teradata, Unix, Unix administration, Linux, Windows, Apache Tomcat, Ant, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Office\. ### How does Syed lead programs and teams? Syed has built teams from scratch and defined project scope, timelines, and resource allocation\. He has led a large\-scale program consisting of 12 projects with six direct\-report project managers\. He also optimizes resources and delivers under budget constraints through approaches including code reuse and mini proof\-of\-concept efforts\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/syed\-ali\-a87ab8114