Shelina Mulji

Current

• Management Consultant at Self Employed

Past

• Relationship Manager (IT) / Project Manager at BCAA
• Senior IT Consultant at BC Housing
• IT Applications Quality Manager at Business Objects

• Snr QA Consultant at NETELLER
• Director Business Development / Project Manager at Synergy Computer Consulting
• Consultant - Project Manager at Centre for Wellnes and Community Wellbeing
• Manager, Quality Services at TELUS
• Senior ORACLE Analyst / Testing Supervisor at ATS Canada Ltd and KIRMAC Information Technology
• Founder / Project Manager / Systems Architect at Sheltec Computing Center Ltd, Kenya
• Project Manager / Senior Systems Analyst at Software Technologies Ltd (ORACLE Distributors), Kenya

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Education

• British Computer Society
• PMP Certification

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Shelina Mulji’s Summary

A results oriented, entrepreneurial and seasoned IT professional with over 10 years experience in directing and contributing to sophisticated projects at BCAA, BC Housing, TELUS Enterprise Solutions, Business Objects an SAP Company, Chancery Software, Kenya Stock Exchange, Caltex Oil (K) Ltd and Kenya Department Of Security Intelligence.

• Good knowledge of Project Management Processes and Methodologies.
• Extensive experience and involvement in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle
• Well versed with Industry best practices: Capability Maturity Model (CMM), ITIL, RUP and Agile

Track Record:
• Successful in founding and building a small sized software company, developed product roadmap and met financial goal in 1st year.
• Excellent track record in managing projects ranging from $125,000 to $5million in capacity of project manager and/or project quality manager.
• In-depth knowledge and skills in QA and Testing methodologies (e.g. risk-based testing) and the different test types (functional, performance, data conversion and user acceptance tests)
• Skilled at defining and optimizing Release Management process, Defect Management process and Risk Management Process to enable a seamless QA process for the Total Lifecycle Development
• Successful track record in leading, developing and hands-on implementing effective QA processes, tools and QA framework for effective automated and manual testing
• Strong experience working with change management experts to develop and implement organizational level and/or department level change management plans and training
• Experience working in various technologies: Banyan Vines (Mainframe), ORACLE 5 to 8i (client-server), EJB, Java, JBOSS, Websphere, Struts, Html

Shelina Mulji’s Specialties:

• My philosophy: Enable my client by sharing my knowledge and providing excellent customer service
• I take pride in doing things differently in order to gain effeciency and to increase knowledge sharing

Shelina Mulji’s Experience

• Relationship Manager (IT) / Project Manager

  BCAA

  (Non-Profit; Insurance industry)

  December 2008 — November 2009 (1 year )

  - Project Management, Customer Management and BA

• Senior IT Consultant

  BC Housing

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  May 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  - Defined and Implemented Test Automation Roadmap and Framework. (Mercury suite of tools)
  
  - Project Manager (QA):
  Designed and implemented quality process and managed project test cycles that enabled successful development and testing of 11 internal builds within timeframe of 3 months. This enabled on-time go-live of the AER project with no pending critical and high defects

• IT Applications Quality Manager

  Business Objects

  (Public Company; BOBJ; Computer Software industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year )

  - Developed and managed quality capability of Program Management (PMO) Group that managed a portfolio of approximately USD $7 Million

• Snr QA Consultant

  NETELLER

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  - Worked with the QA Management team to conduct GAP analysis and helped in creating QA department roadmap. (QA group had 58 people with a QA Director)
  - Part of the On-Line gambling administration system project, developed QA methodology for project applying Agile methodology building bi-weekly business functions
  - Created manual and automated test scripts (using Ruby-Watir) to accelerate bi-weekly regression testing cycles

• Director Business Development / Project Manager

  Synergy Computer Consulting

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  April 2004 — February 2005 (11 months)

  - Business Development - RFP Responses and followup plus technical consultant
  - Project Management and QA Advisor

• Consultant - Project Manager

  Centre for Wellnes and Community Wellbeing

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2003 — February 2004 (7 months)

• Manager, Quality Services

  TELUS

  (Public Company; TU; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 8 months)

  Columbus Group
  - Developed the QA Department
  - Created and managed multiple project QA schedule and resource allocation
  - Grew QA team by 200%
  - Developed and successfully implemented Web Solution Methodology and issue/defect management system
  
  * Columbus group got acquired in 2001
  
  TELUS Enterprise Solutions (TES)
  - Created Quality Management practice with value-add service offering to the TES consulting team
  - Continuous process assessment for projects size $1 million to $ 3 million. Prepared GAP analysis and presented to development teams and executive management team
  - Change Management plan and implementation

• Senior ORACLE Analyst / Testing Supervisor

  ATS Canada Ltd and KIRMAC Information Technology

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 5 months)

• Founder / Project Manager / Systems Architect

  Sheltec Computing Center Ltd, Kenya

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1995 — March 1998 (3 years 3 months)

  - Developed shrink wrapped solutions for verticals: Aviation, Manufacturing, HirePurchase and Stock Brokerage
  - Sheltec was the first company in Kenya in 1994 to implement SQLServer / NT 4.0 solution
  - Developed product roadmap and budget plans; created project charter, project statement of work, project management plans (including training and implementation plans)

• Project Manager / Senior Systems Analyst

  Software Technologies Ltd (ORACLE Distributors), Kenya

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1991 — December 1994 (4 years )

  - Extensive experience using ORACLE*Case and Developer*2000
  - Developed customized Budgeting, Manufacturing Module and Stock Exchange Post Trading System
  - Created System Architect (data models, ER diagrams, functional requirements, use cases) using ORACLE*Case Tools
  - Developed and managed Customer Support department
  - Developed pre-sales technical solution prototypes for large organizations that had complex business process engineering requirements

Additional Information

Shelina Mulji’s Interests:

Hiking, Swimming, Cooking and eating authentic quality food