Project Manager
Deloitte USI on contract with Job Cookies India Pvt. Ltd.
Total years of experience :20 years, 8 Months
• Led project lifecycle including initiate, planning, Identification of scope, requirement elicitation, tracking, risk identification and management, scheduling activities, Execution, Monitoring and control, team building, ramping up team, project closure and also engaged team implementation support.
• Leading implementation of SAFe practices across organization. Identified Operational value stream and development value stream. Worked at channel level to come up with release trains.
• Working closely with Product Manager for conducting Program Increment (PI). Lead group discussion on PI readiness check list and made sure even is completed with success. Lead PI level retrospective meeting.
• Implemented use of Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to Identify top 10 Features. Identified Enabler, non-functional requirements and PI objectives working with Business owners during PI event.
• Participate in Daily stand-up calls for clarification on requirement or User stories.
• Work closely with team during sprint planning to clarify requirements related questions and help them to have better story point estimates.
• Always work closely with Business stakeholders during Iteration for future road map and future requirement clarification.
• Worked closely with development team and QA team to clarify functionality related questions.
• Gave system demo to business at the end of each Iteration (Sprint) and also at the end of each PI.
• SME for projects on US Tax regulations for Hedge funds and mutual funds.
• Expertise in implementing various systems as per business needs and reviewing processes related to User Story, Use Case & UAT as per business specifications.
• Strong experience in working with US clients and virtual teams
• Leading 2 release trains each team’s size of 8 members including developers, and QA.
• Experience in creating & presenting mock-ups or use cases to stakeholders to get sign-off, configuring Azure DevOps and managing. Hands-on experience on ADO with Scrum & Kanban templates, maintaining Epics, features & product backlogs, and writing effective acceptance criteria at User story level. Also create Objectives in ADO which got Identified during PI planning.
• Created metrics with Burn-up chart to Identify any risks, burn-down chart to track progress and cumulative flow diagram.
• Created and closely monitor Iteration metrics (team planned velocity, team actual velocity, # stories accepted, unit test coverage, # defects identified etc)
• Successfully delivering software for Tax domain, Audit compliance and data analysis and reporting applications.
• Identified change request and lead discussion to properly document change request. Managed change request with proper approvals from all the stakeholders.
• Lead resource management activity and working closely with leader ship mitigated high attrition risks successfully.
• Managed project delivery as per functional & non-functional needs in line with Agile Methodology.
• Lead in managing processes throughout the project lifecycle.
• Owned creation and control of all project related documents.
• Lead, Manage and successfully, deliver certain projects performed by the practices
• Lead cross functional project teams by task assignment and follows up to ensure on-time completion of tasks.
• Developed and maintained comprehensive project plans; has responsibility for multiple project assignments, project tracking, issue resolution, time gathering and reporting, and communicating project progress.
• Responsible for effective project kickoff, identification of all project stakeholders, Worked with all stakeholders to so have minimum conflicts and smooth communication.
• Developed project plans, estimations, specifications, flowcharts, and presentations. Conducted regular project reviews and communicates the status of projects in both formal and informal settings. Responsible for knowing and communicating a projects status throughout project lifecycle.
• Encouraged collaborative efforts and friendship with on-shore and off-shore team members.
Support consultant for PA, TM, OM and Payroll
• Implementation was done on ASAP methodology Phases
• Defined Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure and Pay Scale Structure.
• Configured Org. Units, jobs, positions. Maintained number ranges and defined planned working times for organization unit.
• Configured master data info types, screen modifications, personnel actions.
• Created Holiday calendar, daily work schedule and Periodic work Schedule for IT 0007.
• Maintained Personnel Subarea and Employee Subgroup grouping for work schedule.
• Designed the input templates, work processes and user interface for PA.
• Defined employee groups and subgroups and assigned the employee status to groups.
• Created required Wage types to different pay level and pay types.
• Generated reports on shift planning, daily work schedule and overtime.
• Maintained object types, number ranges, and info types in basic settings.
• Created the payroll areas as per the enterprise needs and grouped together the personnel numbers that are to be processed and determined the payroll periods
• Time evaluation is done to update the time data for payroll using PT60s
Responsible for all administrative activities
Streamlined the administrative procedure for admissions, maintaining records and filing system.
Arranged seminar with MC Milan, British Council etc.
Implemented training course for new teaching and Non-teaching staff.
Prepare company newsletter, printing promotions and advertising strategies
Organised and coordinated various functions
Posting Job orders in various job sites, finding and delivering Internet Leads