A manager with 7+ years of experience in successfully leading entrepreneurial assignments,

requiring strong skills in analysis, strategy, and problem-solving. Has significant experience
working directly with senior management including CEOs and Business Managers. A driven leader
with the ability to energize and motivate teams.

• PMP Certified Professional (Credential ID: 2633268)

• 7+ years of experience in end-to-end project management in software implementation on
medium and large-sized complex projects with contract value ranging from $15mn-$20mn.
• Projects consistently completed within budget and on time while adhering to all Contractual
obligations.
• Led internal project implementation team of 20 people and managed multi-cultural Client side
senior management stakeholders in NA, EMEA and APAC regions.
• Identified and enabled significant cost-saving opportunities for Clients (approx. $5mn)
• Well versed with tools / portals like MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Basecamp, QuickBase,
ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence.
• Hands-on experience of SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid. 

The role involves managing the entire project life-cycle including project kick-off, procurement
followed by infrastructure set-up, issue resolution, and status reporting.

• Simultaneously manage 5-6 multi-million dollar projects to implement enterprise application

across NA and EMEA by collaborating with geographically dispersed team, internal and external
stakeholders.
• Create project plan and monitor it throughout the duration of the assigned project.
• Managing the project financials, creating project budgets, which include Software/Hardware
procurement
• Determine overall schedule, critical paths by deliverable, risks, contingencies and assumptions.
• Manage projects based on the road-map and communicate timely project status updates to all
stakeholders.
• Responsible for project procurement of any hardware or software using Oracle iPro and
coordinate with different teams for setting-up the IT infrastructure.
• Prioritize requirements, identify risks, make quality gating decisions, host daily triage meetings
to delegate items from product backlog.
• Evaluate and track change requests using defined change management process, identify
opportunities for additional revenue and cost saving opportunities.

The role involves managing the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to implementation
including project set-up, kick-off, requirements analysis, solution design, test, production
implementation, post-implementation review, issue resolution, and status reporting.

• Develop detailed project plans, identifying the WBS, and overall project timelines and resources
utilization
• Ownership of accountability for contract management and compliance, Project P&L, client
relationships, and adherence to SLA’s
• Responsible for identifying, mitigating and minimizing project risks
• Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced
• Identify and implement process and efficiency improvement measures for both Client and
Company
• Contributing to capacity building for the team, driving internal training on Product and Project
management
• Proactively communicate the progress of the project including schedule conflict, cost overrun,
risks assessment, new issues, and change requests to stakeholders
• Facilitate scrum meetings with the internal and external stakeholders to identify operational or
performance issues and improvement opportunities

• Created and analyzed business requirements, coordinated with team BAs and Tech consultants
to translate business requirements into functional requirements & managed inter-dependencies.
• Created comprehensive user stories in JIRA for Development & Testing team with defined
scope.
• Created Project plans, sprint plans, risk register updates, requirement traceability matrix, work
breakdown structure and steered effort estimations.
• Defined project scope, project plan & schedule. Managed product roadmap, risks, issues and
resources throughout the project lifecycle for high budget projects (up to 1 Billion USD).
• Managed end to end program across delivery teams including Web, downstream and Data
Reporting systems.
• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up, sprint planning, grooming,
retrospectives meetings to track progress and improve every sprint.

• Created, analyzed, and validated detailed functional and non-functional requirements,

translated into user stories (including wireframes) for CUSIP website & features for several
financial instruments.
• Facilitated and organized daily stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement,
retrospectives and Sprint review meetings. Removed impediments & conflict resolution.
• Created Project Plans, scope, schedule and sprint Plans. Transcribed reports to state progress
towards established goals.
• Conducted Brainstorming sessions, workshops and client interviews to elicit requirements.
• Synchronized with business and IT teams (Dev/QA/Operations) to translate requirements.
Collaborated with UI team to create screen mockups.
• Responsible for Risk identification & mitigation plans, and Quality management plans.

Act as product owner and primary point of contact between the internal team and the client
- Perform analysis and enrich the requirements using wireframing, brainstorming, whiteboarding,
etc. and helping the design team with inputs for user experience enhancement
- Formulate requirements in the form of User Stories with clearly defined objective and
acceptance criteria in Jira reducing verbal communication effort and increasing productivity of
the team by 22%
- Act as the Scrum Master in few of the projects, ensuring all Agile Scrum ceremonies are
diligently practised. Led to on time and in-budget delivery of the product.
- Managing scope changes within a Sprint / Release plan by facilitating impact analysis and
considering modifications to the overall roadmap and release cycles
- Identify and communicate product risks to relevant stakeholders along with risk management
strategies
- Manage and mentor Business Analysts and perform monthly reviews to ensure their and
business' growth
- Client account management for enterprise businesses as well are start-ups, responsible for
helping them grow their business in turn, growing our accounts
- Creating strategic consulting proposals for enterprise businesses and then measuring the
impact of the solutions proposed

* Taking part in Sprint planning and release planning for the product development
* Having an in-hand experience with Scrum Agile methodology for software development
* Performing project risk analysis and scope management during the development life cycle
* Setting and handling change management for the project
* Developing various project artifacts i.e. User personas, Release notes, Feature document, User
manuals, Use cases and Clickable prototypes
* Working as a SME for an Embarkation and checkin domain of our company's software
* Presentation of workable software to the client for an early stage feedback