Wahid FazliArchitect, Product and Portfolio Management
- Led portfolio strategy across 13 business and technology segments and 50+ initiatives, connecting demand, investment, capacity, roadmaps, delivery, and quality across 800+ product managers, developers, and engineers. Led investment prioritization for an estimated $200M annual IT portfolio, including Data Center priorities in a multibillion-dollar CapEx and OpEx environment.
- Established a company-wide Cost of Delay rubric and algorithm-enabled capacity-allocation methods, replacing subjective prioritization with a quantitative basis for investment and capacity decisions. Enabled leaders to direct resources to the company’s highest-priority work, improved request-to-Jira traceability to 98%+, saved 150+ hours per planning cycle, and equipped 100+ product managers through standards and training.
- Led the shift from pillar-based silos to matrixed engineering resourcing and established a core Product Management team to align priorities and capacity across business segments.
- Built a program-management cadence with standardized intake criteria, taxonomy, tooling, reporting, RACI, and quality gates for fiscal-year prioritization and executive roadmap reviews with Product Segment Leaders. Cut ideation-to-implementation readiness from three months to two weeks, covering requirements, agreed scope, and a development plan.
- Partnered with Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders to revise the SAFe delivery model. Restructured innovation and planning iterations to support continuous development while preserving engineering planning context, recapturing 10% of developer capacity each quarterly planning cycle.
- Independently built AI tools and co-developed Command Center, a Jira-integrated project tool that improved reporting productivity and execution insight through natural-language interaction and audience-specific updates. Served as lead consultant throughout development, pilot testing, and production deployment, defining requirements, guiding fine-tuning, and signing off on the final product.