Jamal Shah is a Senior Advisor and Program/Project manager, certified PMP and an MBA with over 25 years’ experience in management consulting services and project management at top tier firms. He combines strong cross-functional and cross-industry experience with a customer centric, goal-oriented attitude, to manage multi-vendor, multi-location projects at all levels of technology initiatives. Jamal has extensive experience in managing customer and outsourced resources across multi-vendor environments in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, power generation, utilities, transportation, and other sectors. He has led many strategic and tactical transformation projects that required close collaboration and consensus building on goals and scope with senior business executives and other layers of business stakeholders. Jamal is adept at communicating technical issues to business stakeholders and business requirements and issues to technical stakeholders. HIGHLIGHTS • Over twenty years’ of IT and digital program and project management experience at top-tier consulting firms (Accenture, KPMG, Nolan Norton) helping clients identify needs, and understand, quantify, and implement solutions to increase revenue, reduce costs, and manage risks. • Project and product life-cycle experience from Envisioning to design, development, release and post release support – while collaborating with and building consensus among multiple stakeholder groups. • Hands-on experience of leading over 100 IT Transformation initiatives for clients, ranging from definition, development, integration and delivery of $4M to $60M+ projects. • Hands-on experience of delivering multiple projects in parallel, including on Azure Cloud, using Azure AI/ML, security and related services. • Hands-on experience of articulating and building consensus on shared values and goals across multiple business and technology partners, and programs to achieve desired outcomes.
August 2008 - April 2022
Toronto, ON, Canada
June 2011 - December 2013
Toronto, ON, Canada
February 1997 - July 2008
Toronto, ON, Canada
September 1994 - January 1997
Toronto, ON, Canada
January 1989 - August 1994
London, UK
Industry: Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products
Topic(s): Project & Program Management
IT Strategy,
IT Transformation,
IT Infrastructure,
Machine Learning,
Change & Implementation,
Balance Scorecard,
Benchmarking & Best Practice,
Business Case,
Innovation Strategy,
New Business Build
Program Management