arjav r. shah , pmp®
Project Manager at U.S. Department of Homeland Security
dhs project/program management | agile strategy , inc. | professor @ umd
u.s. citizen ; m.s . engineering management ; founder flatcube ( www.flatcube.io )
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
https://www.linkedin.com/company/us-department-of-homeland-security
Contractor: CACI International, Inc.
- Oversee and manage technical IT projects including NOC, EOC, and NOSC planning and implementation, Data Center and Cloud Migration planning and implementation, EIS transition planning and execution, HSEN Network hardware / software and tools installations and Hardware, software, and tool upgrades that effect the HSEN infrastructure.  
- Direct a matrixed technical team including subject matter experts (SMEs), field technicians, and other appropriate expertise as needed to develop, design, document, implement and manage small and large scale projects to perform outside the scope of O&M activities. 
- Ensure compliance with the DHS SELC process through all phases of the life cycle (planning, requirements definition, design, development, integration, test, disposition, implementation, operations & maintenance) as well as deliver the appropriate SELC artifacts as defined by the level of the project.
- Responsible for the management, scheduling, and coordination of special projects activities
- Support in the development of special project ROMs including solution development
- Provide leadership to a cross-functional team, managing team resource assignments, projected task completion dates, prioritizing activities based on customer requirements and SLAs.
- Work cooperatively with engineering leads to plan and direct tasks based on priority and manpower availability.
- Oversee individual operational projects from identification of requirements, analysis and design, development, end-user testing, deployment, and production support.
- Communicate effectively with a wide variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
- Exercise broadly delegated authority for planning, directing, coordinating, administering, and executing many routine and complex projects
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Project Manager
Agile Strategies, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-strategies-inc
- Management consulting firm in Germantown, MD providing business solutions including but not limited to program/project management, IT support, system integration, and operations/maintenance supporting various federal, state and local government and non-government agencies.
Germantown, Maryland, United States
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President
University of Maryland
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-maryland
Project Management (Fall 2020 & 2021, Summer 2022)
- This course provides a comprehensive overview of project management, focusing on the needs of information resources. The course covers the concepts and techniques for planning and execution of projects including developing work breakdown structure, estimating costs, managing risks, scheduling, staff and resource allocation, team building, communication, tracking, control and other aspects of successful project completion. Semi-synchronous. Taught over 100 students. 

Competitive Business Intelligence (Spring 2021)
- The intelligence process and how to build business advantage by the collection and analysis of the capabilities, vulnerabilities, market positioning and strategic planning of competitors using open source information. Taught 20+ students 

Emerging Technology & Risk Management (Fall 2021)
- Course coveres emerging tech including but not limited to AI, blockchain, biotech, space exploration, alternative energies, etc. 
- how businesses will implement emerging technologies and the risks associated with it. Taught 30 students
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Adjunct Professor
Flatcube
https://www.linkedin.com/company/flatcube
Flatcube is the free video conferencing channel that eliminates the friction in virtual meetings so that your remote team can focus on solving the problems at hand.

Flatcube's mission is to give you and your team the work-life balance you deserve: without sacrificing productivity. We aim to provide the right tools for your team to collaborate effectively, no matter where each of you chooses to work. We're shaping the future of the workplace, one cubicle at a time.

Keep your team on topic:
How much time does your team spend discussing unrelated topics? Align your team members in meetings using our integrated agenda management.
- Build an agenda that everyone can prepare for ahead of the meeting
- Check off every topic of discussion as you go within the meeting interface
- See how long you spent on each item on your agenda

Save and spread the knowledge:
Taking notes is supposed to help you focus on the meeting, not distract you from it. Accomplish more with Flatcube's built-in note-taking functionality.
- Take important notes without switching windows
- Share your notes during and after the meeting

Plan your next steps:
After a meeting is over, it can be tough to recall what the next steps were. With integrated features for action item management, you can plan your next steps on the spot so that you won't forget them.
- Create action items as soon as they come up
- Link your action items to your Jira or Trello board
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Founder
Aligned Trading
https://www.linkedin.com/company/uptrades
Monthly subscription business model currently priced @ $97/mo. 

Susbscription gets you entry into our chatroom and channels that include our opinions on the stock market. We also post our opinions and ideas on option trading - specifically covered calls and cash secured puts to put out some of our thoughts on how to generate 1-2%+ (per week) consistent income from option premiums. Not advice/recommendations.
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Founder
U.S. Department of State
https://www.linkedin.com/company/doscareers
Contractor - DIGITALSPEC, LLC

· Support a service-based IT SMO, employing IT project and program management processes.
· Develop and maintain project/program schedules for planning, executing and controlling.
· Implementation of program management plans, methodologies, processes and tools.
· Identify and collect information necessary to prepare and maintain program schedules.
· Manage/coordinate governance and change control processes for scheduling.
· Prepare, write, and edit management reports and briefings describing schedule planning, execution and control.
· Review, analyze, and report on schedule and other management issues.
· Prepare management presentations, milestone deliverables, weekly status reports, etc.
· Program delivery integration management: Integrated Master Schedule, Project Management Plan, quality, change, and resource management
· Maintenance and management of SMO tools, templates, risks, and issues
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Project Manager, SMO Analyst
U.S. Department of State
https://www.linkedin.com/company/doscareers
Contractor — DIGITALSPEC, LLC

• Succeeded in a high visibility (24x7) environment while brainstorming solutions in a time sensitive manner
• Managed IT Service Management (ITSM) tools, including BMC Remedy or ServiceNow
• Responsible for manually testing and opening problem outages for servers and web sites that are not responding
• Use knowledge of standard/non-standard operating procedures to resolve difficult operating problems
• Testing and maintaining servers for the Department of State (DoS) to ensure they are up and running
• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations
• Active directory management
Washington, DC
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Enterprise Engineer
Desai & Shah
• Ran digital marketing campaigns to drive traffic to firm
• Grew the company’s social media to over 11,000 followers in less than 3 months
• Set up virtual private network (VPN) and office servers at remote locations using SonicWall/TeamViewer
• Performed backups and increased server capacity, consulted in necessary memory space needed
• Troubleshot windows computers and solved processor errors and network errors
• Set up additional technology infrastructure for new employees
• Migrated local E-File cabinet to Cloud Citrix Sharefile for security
19785 Crystal Rock Dr, Germantown, MD 20874
IT Analyst
Agile Strategies, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-strategies-inc
• Executed a plan for a domestic client through project initiation to build a payment gateway software for discord that helps automate small businesses and prevents fraud
• Successfully managed and coordinated with all stakeholders, across the enterprise, and across regions to ensure that project deliverables were delivered on time
• Managed, assessed, and delegated a developer team in an Agile work environment to deliver necessary features needed for the application to meet all criteria
• Led a services management and IT support team to monetize the software into generating over $450,000 of volume in less than 9 months
• Ensured adherence to product processes, quality standards, and deliverables through examples of congressional mandates vs. user stories
• Collaborated with subject matter experts to update processes and procedures
• Converted over 1000 leads into clients in less than 9 months using Salesforce and other management tactics like ACT database and cold calling/messaging
• Created workflow rules and other actions on Salesforce to automate the application and generate opportunities from leads for business process improvement
Germantown, Maryland
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Project Lead
CMPE Capstone of UMBC
• Developed detailed project execution plan and managed all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring processes, testing, documentation, and on-time delivery within budget constraints
• Demonstrated consistent ability to lead a cross-functional team of four and deliver technical solutions while mitigating or removing hurdles / obstacles
• Operated in an Agile work environment to ensure conflict prevention and customer satisfaction throughout all steps of the design implementation
• Initiated project planning, project initiation, project implementation, and project reporting using Gantt Charts, Network Flow Diagrams, System Boundary Diagrams, Work Breakdown Structures, System Requirement Reviews, Preliminary Design Reviews, Conceptual Design Presentations and more to meet the requirements of the customer
• Established strategies to maintain effective communications with all key stakeholders
• Provided overall communication and interfaced with all areas affected by the program/project including cross-functional stakeholders, business sponsors, and vendors
• Excellent communication, problem solving, conflict / resolution management, active listening, time management, and interpersonal skills
• Used Xbee communication (wireless) to implement our design
Batimore, MD
Project Lead
Blue Bird Marketing Group
https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-bird-marketing-group
Mount Airy, Maryland
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Account Manager
EventTracker
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eventtracker
8815 Centre Park Dr. #300-A Columbia, MD 21045
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Intern
Master of Science - MS
Engineering Management
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/
Bachelor of Science - BS
Computer Engineering
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/
Helped lead this intercollegiate Indian Garba/Raas dance team by creatively fostering the teams self-confidence and inventively creating dance steps that contributed to the overall dance, contributed roughly 35 hours per week of practice while currently attended school, compete at various national intercollegiate competitions
UMBC Raascals
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C++
Computer Science 202
C++ Data Structures
Computer Science 341
Circuit Theory
Computer Engineering 306
Computer Architecture
Computer Science 411
Digital Design
Computer Engineering 212
Electronic Circuits
Computer Engineering 314
Engineering
Engineering 101
Probability, Statistics & Random Processes
Computer Engineering 320
Professional Practice
Computer Engineering 349
Python
Computer Science 201
Systems Design & Programming
Computer Engineering 310
Advance Custom VLSI Design
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Capstone for Computer Engineering
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Malware Analysis
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Operating Systems
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Environmental scientists and engineers often study the activity of the biological class  Aves  in Linnaean taxonomy (birds) i.e. what they eat, where they fly, etc. However, since humans cannot keep up with the movement of the species, several machines and programs have been developed in order to track the bird’s motion. With the help of our customer, we have researched and investigated a way to overcome the problem of uncertainty within bird activity. We developed a radio-frequency identification bird tracking system (bird feeder) that detects when birds with RFID tags want to feed, and dispenses food accordingly. This data is immediately recorded and sent back to the customer’s database with the use of Xbee communication (used to send and receive information wirelessly). Thereafter, whenever a bird has relocated to a different bird feeder, all relevant data will get recorded and sent to the customers database. The Xbees work like relays in a “Mesh Network”. There will be an Xbee connected to the bird feeder at all times, another on the top of the customer’s building, and another near the receiving end computer. With more Xbees relaying the information, the range is almost limitless.
Radio-Frequency Identification Bird Tracking System
This project is to design, implement and simulate in VHDL, and do the layout for a cache block described below. Part 1 Submission only requires code and descriptions. Layouts and other descriptions have been added in this Part 2 Submission. I have my state machine, decoder, registers, cache, output enables, memory addresses, CPU addresses, signals (busy, start, reset, read, write, clock etc.), multiplexers, memory data, CPU data, hit/miss, and other essential parts of this project all described in their respective sections listed below; Layouts are also there. 
Also provides detailed instructions to develop a cache block described I the latter section using Cadence® Virtuoso software. Included is the code for individual components and their description. Details include decoding, programming specifications, and descriptions.
Cache Memory State Machine
Able to design, calculate, and implement the values of the electrical components for the circuit to
have carrier frequencies range from 540 – 1600 kHz, and signal frequencies of 20 Hz – 20 kHz
Audio Amplifier
• Used Cadence to design schematics for the various components of the Intel 8086
microprocessor.
• Wrote a technical report to program and explain the functionality of each of the components of the
Intel 8086 microprocessor in terms of the aforesaid schematics designed using Cadence.
Intel 8086 Microprocessor Board
Health
Frederick Memorial Hospital
https://www.linkedin.com/company/frederick-memorial-hospital
Discharged patients and took them in a wheelchair to their desired location until they were completely healthy, getting patients ready for pick-up, answering phone calls for the front desk
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Discharge Wings Volunteer
Children
UNICEF
https://www.linkedin.com/company/unicef
Helped children whose lives were at risk in developing countries, aided in setting up programs with different schools that were making an effort to work with UNICEF to give to those in need
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Vice-President (High School)
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional (PMP)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubham1arora
College Park, MD
Shubham Arora
Masters of Science in Information Systems | Graduate Assistant@ UMD| President @SMSA | Track Representative MSIS 21-22
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akanksha-bapna-927972102
Potomac, MD
Akanksha Bapna
Brand Strategy Consultant at MEDHEN ORPHAN RELIEF EFFORT A NJNON PROFIT CORPORATION
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanu-huq-93206b198
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Amanu Huq
Impact Consulting Fellowship at University of Maryland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoa-tommy-pham
Centreville, VA
Hoa (Tommy) Pham
Financial Integration Analyst at MBO Partners
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-b-876141181
Catonsville, MD
Patrick B.
Program Management, Employee Health and Well-Being at Erickson Senior Living
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-lakanu-677342185
Waldorf, MD
Andre Lakanu
Recruiting Coordinator at NCSA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-baghdadi-bab798171
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Sasha Baghdadi
Neuroscience Student at University of Maryland, Pre-Med
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shadman-huda-750b73224
Manassas, VA
Shadman Huda
Help Desk Technician
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulbrazack
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Abdul Basit Razack
Information Science Student at University of Maryland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-pati%C3%B1o-3bb630178
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Carlos Patiño
Bilingual Accountant
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-vyas-930b87163
Clarksburg, MD
Anjali Vyas
Ophthalmic Technician at Family Eye Care & Surgery
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meaghan-davis-4a6026173
Washington, DC
Meaghan Davis
Student at American University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbyrneii
Columbus, OH
Tim Byrne
Director of Admissions & Financial Aid
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kinjal-shah-465226198
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Kinjal Shah
Associate Scientist, Drug Product Development at GSK
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambrosia-chen-b7753216b
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Ambrosia Chen
Ophthalmic Technician at WASHINGTON EYE INSTITUTE, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hitaishi-ramani-65350b84
United States
Hitaishi Ramani
L'Space Proposal Writing and Evaluation Experience Academy at NASA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanlewis711
United States
Stan Lewis
Founder/ CEO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-whitman
Mayport, PA
Michele Whitman
Founder at Michele Whitman Marketing Agency
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-buzby-96945617
San Diego Metropolitan Area
Stephen Buzby
Founder at HiVE GAMiNG
Darian Irannejad
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Professor Shah taught me in INST408O - Project Management for Information Science at UMD. He was great! He has amazing communication skills — if I ever had a question on an assignment he'd always respond back instantly. The way he organized the course made it extremely easy for the students to follow along and complete every assignment on time. Professor Shah even created a sample schedule for us to utilize. This schedule included the dates for when we should start and finish assignments, which ultimately helped with our time management. All in all, Arjav was a great professor. I wish him the best of luck in the future! Cathryne Rowe
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        It was such a pleasure working with Arjav for close to three months. In that short time, he not only excelled at the core elements of the marketing internship -- like copy writing and copy editing -- but also learned other tasks that extend well beyond the scope of his role, like email marketing, event planning, and even outbound calling. One of the things that I found so remarkable about Arjav was his willingness and ability to jump in and quickly do whatever it took to help us succeed in driving business results. In fact, his taking on outbound calls to invite potential attendees to Secure Bermuda aligned with a sharp increase in RSVP’s. This rare mix of productivity and ambition sets a great example for the rest of the team, and explains why everyone loves working with Arjav -- no matter where they fall on the org chart. I am sure Arjav will be very successful in any business endeavor he chooses to pursue in the future.    
Engagement Pod Group offered by Goodman Lantern
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the engagement group
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Uversity by Chegg
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