SZShahram Zamani
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Project and Programme Delivery Lead, Dubai. Open to new roles

A little walk through my journey.

Projects deliver outputs. Programmes deliver outcomes. Twelve years running portfolios of related projects for BNP Paribas, Gaucho, UK government bodies and luxury retail brands, under one roadmap and one governance model. PRINCE2 Practitioner, and I started as a developer, so estimates, scope creep and technical risk get challenged with credibility.

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Shahram Zamani
12+
years in digital delivery, developer to senior PM
£10k to £6m
project budgets owned end to end
36
people led on one portfolio, 13 in-house and 23 outsourced
£250k
annual retainer led on the BNP Paribas account
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OVERVIEW
02What I bring

Three things a hiring manager can count on.

Delivery you can hand over and stop worrying about

I own scope, budget, timeline and margin on every project, run the ceremonies, hold suppliers to their dates and report in a form the board can read.

Technical credibility with the build team

Five years writing Shopify, WordPress and custom CMS code before managing. I can read an estimate, spot a risky integration and have the conversation without a translator.

Comfortable in regulated environments

BNP Paribas deployments cleared data and compliance review in France. This past year I have worked to UAE lender, regulatory and KYC/AML standards, so audit trails and sign-offs are second nature.

WHAT I BRING
03The route so far

Six stops from first commit to running the programme.

Each role added something you can use. Keep scrolling and I keep walking.

3.1
2013
Bravr, London
Apprentice to Junior Developer and Junior PM

A digital marketing agency built on SEO and PPC. Started as an apprentice, then a hybrid role: building sites on WordPress, Shopify and WooCommerce, and project-managing the custom builds done by third-party developers. Around ten sites shipped, small business to enterprise.

Took away: how briefs, timelines and third parties go wrong from the inside.
3.2
2017
Verb Brands, London
Web Developer, then Digital Project Manager

Custom e-commerce builds from scratch for luxury watch and wine retailers and student accommodation brands. Promoted into project management as the bridge between development and operations, owning budgets, timelines, client calls and quality, with SEO and PPC built into every delivery.

Took away: a developer who runs the project spots the risk before the client does.
3.3
2019
UNIT9, London
Digital Project Manager

Government-funded schemes with 8 to 12 partners and budgets from £10k to £6m. Shipped Lifesaver, a CPR and defibrillator training app, during COVID-19. Delivered Microsoft HoloLens mixed-reality projects, including a progress simulator for Bentley Systems.

Took away: multi-partner programmes live or die on governance.
3.4
2022
Roll Studio, London
Programme Manager

Led the agency's largest account, BNP Paribas, a £250k annual retainer across four websites. Rebuilt a strained relationship with a CRM-based change-request workflow and management approvals, scoped extra work directly with BNP directors, and kept the account through renewal.

Took away: a visible, prioritised backlog turns a frustrated client into a partner.
3.5
2023
Treacle Media, London
Programme Manager

Four large e-commerce sites and applications at once for pharma, automotive and retail, with 13 in-house and 23 outsourced people. Restructured the technical team, merged four gallery sites into one selling platform, and cut pitch production from 18 hours to 3 with AI tooling.

Took away: fix the flow first, then the throughput follows.
3.6
2025
Mortgage Finder, Dubai
Product Manager and Senior Mortgage Advisor, CeMAP

Cases from AED 1m to 35m and commercial projects to AED 300m, run to lender, regulatory and KYC/AML standards. Now also working with the product team, automating bank applications and client questionnaires.

Took away: the UAE market, its regulators and how business gets done here.
JOURNEY
04Experience in detail

Pick a role. Scale, method and what I was accountable for.

EXPERIENCE
05Selected work

A few of the sites I have delivered.

Client work from the agencies, each one live and linked, and each one described by what it changed for the client rather than what was built.

Sladmore Gallery website
Treacle Media · 2023 to 2025 · Programme Manager

Sladmore Gallery

Four gallery brands, four brochure sites, and no single place to see the collection. Consolidating them onto one platform put over 500 works into a single searchable archive and gave the gallery one route to market instead of four. The merge needed a custom plugin to unify catalogues that had never shared a system.

Visit sladmore.com
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Martin Moore website
Treacle Media · 2023 to 2025 · Programme Manager

Martin Moore

One of four concurrent builds I ran at Treacle Media under a single governance model, drawing on one shared team of 36 across the whole portfolio. Running them as a portfolio rather than four separate projects is what made simultaneous launches possible.

Visit martinmoore.com
Read the brief
BNP Paribas Real Estate website
Roll Studio · 2022 to 2023 · Programme Manager

BNP Paribas Real Estate

The account was strained when I took it on and renewed when I left. Four websites run as concurrent workstreams under one roadmap, a CRM-based change-request workflow giving 40+ stakeholders a single route into the backlog, and releases sequenced around compliance sign-off in France.

Visit realestate.bnpparibas.com
Read the brief
Strutt and Parker website
Roll Studio · 2022 to 2023 · Programme Manager

Strutt & Parker

The estate agency arm of the same BNP Paribas group account. Run as one workstream inside the programme rather than scheduled on its own, sharing the roadmap, the release gates and the compliance route through France with the rest of the estate.

Visit struttandparker.com
Read the brief
Lifesaver interactive film
UNIT9 · 2019 to 2022 · Digital Project Manager

Lifesaver

A CPR and defibrillator training programme that has reached an estimated one million people since it began. I delivered the 2020 release for Resuscitation Council UK, shipping during COVID-19 when demand for remote first-aid training was at its peak.

Visit life-saver.org.uk
Read the brief
WORK
06How I run delivery

The same five stages on a £10k build or a £6m programme.

Agile where the work is uncertain, Waterfall where the contract is fixed, and honest about which one we are in.

Discover and scope

Stakeholder workshops, requirements, a scoping document and a pricing template the client signs before anyone builds.

Plan and govern

A RAID log, a delivery plan with real dependencies, approval routes agreed up front, and one reporting rhythm.

Deliver in sprints

Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, a visible ticketing workflow, suppliers held to committed dates.

Launch and hand over

Deployment workflows with compliance sign-off built into the schedule, then documentation the client's team can run with.

Measure and improve

Analytics and journey optimisation after launch, so the project is judged on traffic, engagement and conversion, not just go-live.

APPROACH
07Skills and credentials

What I bring to a delivery team.

Delivery
  • Project and programme management
  • Agile, Scrum and Waterfall
  • Scope, budget and timeline ownership
  • Stakeholder and client management
  • Risk, dependency and change control
  • Vendor and third-party coordination
  • Resource planning and team leadership
  • Regulatory compliance, KYC and AML
Technical
  • E-commerce platform delivery
  • API and payment gateway integration
  • CRM and booking system integration
  • UX/UI and website delivery
  • Conversion optimisation and analytics
Tools
Jira Trello Monday.com Slack Figma Google Analytics Hotjar Shopify WordPress Magento WooCommerce Drupal
Credentials
PRINCE2 PractitionerPeopleCert
Google AI Professional CertificateGoogle via Coursera, July 2026
Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice (CeMAP)London Institute of Banking and Finance, September 2026
MBA, in progressKnights College, expected August 2027
SKILLS
08Contact

If you need a delivery lead who has done this before, let's talk.

I reply within a working day. A 20-minute call is usually enough to tell whether I fit the programme.

shahram_zamani@hotmail.co.uk +971 58 563 0145 linkedin.com/in/shahram-zamani
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At a glance
Roles
Programme Manager, Senior Delivery Manager, Programme Delivery Lead, Head of Delivery
Location
Dubai
Sectors
Financial services, e-commerce, hospitality, government, pharma, automotive
Methods
PRINCE2, Agile and Scrum, Waterfall
Nationality
British
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