Abhishek Sengupta, IT Project Manager

Abhishek Sengupta

IT Project Manager

Tech Mantra Global

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.TECH
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

IT Project Manager at Tech Mantra Global
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2023

● Deploy Customer Data Platform (Digital Transformation, Tier 1, Budget - 1.8 million $) solution for the client.
● Drive RFP Process and Vendor Selection and Work with Solution and implementation Partners for timely launch with high quality.
● Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
● Ensure that the project stays on track within the scope and within budget
● Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
● Ensure resource availability, onboarding, and allocation
● Vendor Management- RFP & SOW process.
● Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
● Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
● Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
● Report and escalate to management as needed
● Manage the relationship with all stakeholders
● Perform risk management to minimize project risks
● Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
● Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
● Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
● Meet budgetary objectives and adjust project constraints based on financial analysis
● Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members
● Use and continually develop leadership skills
● Manage multiple projects in parallel.

IT Program Manager at Paraminfo - Dubai Islamic Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2022 to January 2023

● Deploy Core Banking Migration (Digital Transformation, Budget Approx 2 million $) solution for Client (Oracle FLEXCUBE to TEMENOS T24 platform).
● Manages project throughout the project lifecycle including planning, analysis, design, development, deployment, and closure.
● Develops and maintains critical project deliverables, communication plans, and status reports.
● Manage scope for Core Banking Migration Project.
● Perform Impact analysis for changes impacting the Core Banking project.
● Manage and coordinate the implementation of the Core Banking system.
● Defines and evaluates problems and plans effective solutions.
● Manage requirements gathering, customizations, testing, training, and deployment for Core Banking Migration projects.
● Work with stakeholders to determine and prioritize project objectives, critical success factors, and risks.
● Coordinate with vendors to ensure the project progresses on schedule and within the prescribed budget.
● Manage Project teams effectively.
● Establish healthy working relations and partnerships with businesses, vendors, and peers.
● Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across the Projects
● Update and maintain the Risk Log, Action Log, Decisions Log, and Issue Register
● Ensure cross-project dependencies are managed and the dependency log is accurately maintained.

Project Manager / Scrum Master at Tacme - Roads and Transport Authority
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2021 to July 2022

● Deploy GIS software and Performance Management System dashboard for RTA EXPO 2020 Project.
● Work closely with the project sponsor, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and schedule for new initiatives
● Manage program and project teams for optimal return-on-investment, and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives
● Experience in delivering mobile application projects (Process Improvement) in order to optimize the on-time performance
● Planning out the blueprints for software (SDLC) projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance.
● Participating in and supervising each stage of the project.
● Determining and overseeing consistent testing, evaluation, and troubleshooting of all products in all stages of completion.
● Delivering completed software products to clients and performing regular checks on the products' performance.
● Optimize the project portfolio, balance capacity against demand, and align plan and resources with project execution.
● Evaluate the project value in order to assign resources to the most important projects, and start work at the appropriate time.
● Ensure the delivery of services is aligned with the contract and Service Level Agreement to minimize disruption.
● Monitor operational matters and quality performance of software services.
● Identify the area of improvement based on quality metrics and satisfaction surveys.
● Provide operational service levels in sync with service level agreements and be a point of contact for delivery issues.
● Develop and manage the budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives
● Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders
● Setting project goals and coming up with plans to meet those goals
● Maintaining project timeframes, budgeting estimates, and status reports.
● Provide effective assurance of rapid recovery and restoration and application availability through the implementation.
● Experience in leading high-performing and self-organizing cross-functional teams (Level 1, Level 2) to deliver all components of the allocated work within baselined time, cost, and scope.
● Optimize the sequencing and timing of approved projects based on resource constraints and dependencies.
● Perform a team-facing role within projects/releases/programs, using Waterfall and Agile project management methodology.
● All incidents through the Service Desk Function, including bugs, issues reported by the users, technical staff, or those automatically detected and reported by event monitoring tools.
● Analyze the operational performance (e.g., incident management, complaint management, case resolution, etc.) to assess the impact on the end-users.
● Knowledge of Product Analytics / Customer Insights tools like Google Analytics, and Mix panel.
● Conducting risk assessments for projects
● Knowledge of CI/CD framework.
● Responsible for enacting scrum values, principles, and practices.
● Involved in all Agile Ceremonies, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
● Responsible for effective Sprint Backlog Management.
● Support Product Owner in effective Product Backlog Management.
● Helps the development team in their sprint deliveries by removing impediments

● Efficiently manage the schedule and resources of the project team to fulfill customer requirements and meet implementation Deadlines.
● Hands-on development, DevOps, and Agile delivery skills.
● Hands-on experience in the project tracking tools like JIRA, ASANA, ZENHUB, and TRELLO

Project Manager / Scrum Master at The Emirates Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2010 to September 2020

● Implementation of automated and optimized task allocation system - Resource Management System (RMS) in Emirates Engineering to streamline the engineering operational procedures and improve the airlines on time performance.
● Manage each project’s scope and timeline.
● Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and challenges
● Elicit, document, and analyze business requirements, processes, and workflows
● Collaborate with technology teams to design solutions that meet business needs.
● Monitor the project progress and identify the potential risk and deviation from the plan.
● Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
● Maintain accurate and up to date documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
● Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g., from customers or stakeholders)
● Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
● Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
● Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
● Develop team schedules and assist in the successful onboarding and training of team members.

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.TECH
  • at Rajasthan Technical University
  • May 2008
Bachelor's degree, B.SC
  • at University Of Calcutta
  • May 2003

Specialties & Skills

IT Project Management
Six Sigma Green Belt
Certified Scrum Master CSM
Agile Software Development
Program Management
Project Management, Program Management, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Operations Management,
Product Road mapping, Customer Focused Design, Product Innovation, Product Launch, Product Marketing
People Management, Risk Management, Task Estimation, Enterprise Design Thinking
Operational Excellence, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Inventory Management,
Strategic Planning, Business Excellence, Team Development, Quality Control (QC), Process Improvement
Project Implementation, Quality Control, Solution Development, Risk Assessment, Strategic Planning
Technical Product Management, Product Development, Product Strategy, Product Road mapping
Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Coordination, Business Intelligence, Data Analysis
Competitive Analysis And Benchmark, Demand Planning and Forecasting, Organizational skill
Strategic Thinking, Analytical, Team Management, Risk Planning, Project Scoping and Planning
Collaborative, Impact Assessment, Leadership Management, Project Coordination
Stakeholder Management, Budgeting and Cost Analysis, Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution
MS Office, Tableau, Power BI, Minitab, JIRA, DFSS, DMAIC, DMADV, Data Visualization (DataViz)
Scrum, Kanban, Lean Manufacturing & Transformation, Inventory Control, Sales and Operations Planning
Regression Analysis, Work Management Software, and Digital Tools, DevOps, Jira, Asana, Trello

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Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Bengali
Expert

Memberships

Emirates Skywards
  • Team Leader
  • February 2015
Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Member / Volunteer
  • February 2020

Training and Certifications

Cyber Security Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2023
Cyber Security Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2023
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Project management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Red Learning
Product Management (Certificate)
MS Project (Certificate)
Google Analytics (Certificate)
CISCM (Certificate)
CISCP (Certificate)
LSSGB (Certificate)
LSSBB (Certificate)
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner (Certificate)
Scrum Master (Certificate)
Agile Project Management (Certificate)
Google PMP (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Travel, Music, Sports, Photography