Alishah Novin
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14.8
Years of Experience
Education
university of toronto
Companies
microsoft, celero commerce, cognizant, data intelligence group, microsoft, digifonica international inc., gametv, like10 llc
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Experience
2022 - Present
microsoft
Senior Product Manager, Lead
⪠Product Manager for data & payments platform, overseeing new market initiatives, with 2 direct reports. ⪠Manage cross-org data & payment with multiple product and engineering teams. ⪠Organize the Technical Leadership Summit, connecting leaders across 15+ strategic accounts. ⪠Established Remote-First practices across team to focus conversations and aide in productivity across time zones.
2020 - 2022
celero commerce
Director of Engineering
⪠Oversaw 4 Engineering & Data teams of 20+ members, and products generating $5M+/year in revenue. ⪠Established Technical Career Framework to drive the growth for the broader Tech org. ⪠Lead org-wide Agile transformation and DevOps teams â driving lead and cycle times down by 80%. ⪠Improved product uptime to 99.9% and reduced recovery time from 3+ hours to <5 minutes. ⪠Improved issue intake process by introducing a Customer Case Playbook, reducing escalations by >60%. ⪠Secured infrastructure and drove PCI certification for payments-related product. ⪠Named the Nashville Technology Councilâs 2020 Community Leader of the Year.
2010 - 2020
cognizant
Director of Engineering and Product Development
⢠Oversaw product delivery, software roadmap, technical operations & SLAs for business unit generating >$12M+/year in revenue. ⢠Owned 4 products, and managed distributed team of 45 within Cognizant Accelerator. ⢠Served as Hiring Manager for both technical and non-technical roles, across 60 team members. ⢠Scaled our software, operations and product vision to handle rapid growth to 100+ clients. ⢠Implemented hybrid Agile approach to daily operations, eliminating 20+ hours/month in process inefficiency. ⢠Developed internal business management tool with sales, CRM, Kanban, and invoicing functions. ⢠Awarded the Nashville Technology Councilâs 2017 Software Developer/Architect/IT Engineer of the Year.
2009 - 2010
data intelligence group
Senior Software Engineer
⢠Architect, Engineer and Product Owner on projects for organizations such as Asurion, Nissan, and Cognizant. ⢠Through business relationship, role was transitioned to Cognizant / HPA.
2007 - 2009
microsoft
Software Engineer
⢠Part of 6 person âearly-stage experimentsâ team. ⢠Lead engineer on A/B tested product with 1M+ daily transactions. ⢠UI/UX Engineer on successful Bing Cashback program. ⢠Integration Engineer on Microsoft acquisition of âJellyfish.â ⢠Involved in 2 successful hackathon âStormâ events.
2007 - 2007
digifonica international inc.
Software Developer
⢠Part of 7 person start up team ⢠Built billing software for white label VOIP company ⢠Built mobile application
2006 - 2007
gametv
Jr. Web Developer
⢠Built 2 viral Flash web games ⢠Maintained 3 high traffic websites with online community ⢠Originally known as Insight Sports LLC
2004 - 2006
like10 llc
Jr. Web Developer
Experience
98 Skills
.NET
.NET
Agile Methodologies
Agile Methodologies
agile methodologies
Agile Project Management
Agile Project Management
Agile Project Management
AJAX
Artificial Intelligence
Azure
Business Strategy
C#
C#
C#
Communication
Design
DevOps
DevOps
dotNET
Encryption
Healthcare
infra
Infrastructure
JavaScript
JavaScript
Javascript
jQuery
Kanban
Kanban
Kanban
Leadership
Leadership
Leadership
Lean Thinking
Lean Thinking
Machine Learning
Management
Management
Microsoft Azure
Object Oriented Design
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
OOAD
Payments
PHP
PHP
PHP
Presentation Skills
Presentations
Product Development
Product Development
Product Development
Product Launch
Product Management
Product Management
Product Management
product manager
Product Strategy
Product Vision
Productivity Improvement
Productivity Improvement
Project Management
Robotics
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Security
Senior Software Engineer
Software Development
Software Development
Software Engineer
Software Engineering
Software Engineering
Software Engineering
Software Robotics
Solution Development
Solution Implementation
Technical Presentations
Technical Product Management
User Experience
User Interface
User Interface Design
User Interface Design
User Interface Design
User Stories
Volunteering
WCF
Web
Web Applications
Web Development
Web Development
Web Development
Web Services
Web Services
Web Services
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
WPF
Education
2002 - 2006
university of toronto
Bachelor of Science - BS
Double Major in Physics and Philosophy, Minor in Mathematics, with Honors
