أنتوني Jesa

Heading Data & Analytics function for Sales Strategy, Business Operations, and Digital Transformation

Saved multi-million dollars per Annum - Program managed setting up of centralized Business intelligence competency center consolidating scattered capabilities effectively leveraging incremental delivery by adopting Agile based Scrum and BDD methodologies
•Reduced costs by 9 million USD per Annum - Performed Business Analysis, Solution Analysis and drove successful Project Execution by managing the end to end interface between IT and Business to develop an enterprise content search solution for financial data services provider
•Project Managed Customer/Market Research projects - To deliver the required Web solutions of various ‘Statistical Analysis’ and Dashboards for North American customers - of Royal Bank of Canada, Vancity, Manpower and Caremark
•Piloted and Implemented -To manage projects and streamline issues tracking implemented JIRA organization wide

Matrix Team: 8 to 24)

Leading the software team to deliver the required Web solutions of various ‘Statistical Analysis Reports’ and Dashboards for fulfilling clients’ Market Research requirements by being the, single point of contact for customer ensuring project delivery. Implemented a project management solution (JIRA) successfully to manage projects, track bugs/issues. Led projects providing Web Dashboard’ solution for ‘Customer Survey’ results of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Vancity, Manpower and Caremark
•Preparing Effort and Cost Estimation by taking inputs from senior developers and communicating to client teams
•Coordinating with research teams, clients and key members of management to sign-off Business Requirements
•Guiding the developers to ensure that solutions are developed as per functional/non-functional requirements and managing change requests from clients
•Ensuring that the software solutions are thoroughly tested and identified bugs/issues are fixed
Organizing ‘User Acceptance Testing’ sessions and enabling the solutions to go live
•Conducted daily sync up meetings with delivery and onshore team
•Conducted weekly project review meeting with customer
•Resource ramp up and ramp down per project requirement
•Involved in analyzing business requirements to define the scope of work. Capture and document functional and technical requirements
•Involved in providing solution, planning and estimation of applications along with the team. Evaluated new technologies which met business needs
•Facilitated product demonstrations and address customer queries
Role \[BA and PM\]
Designed and guided the development of a High-Level Intelligent System to manage the collection of financial data programmatically to achieve automation of manually intensive processes saving the enterprise cost, improving time to market and quality. Successfully led the production teams’ transition to new system by driving consensus to overcome resistance. Played a key role in implementation of `ISYS' search software in the Document Workflow and integrating with Document Warehouse and development of Workflow Issuing conditions for various business processes
•Communication, co-ordination activities with Stakeholders, Project management and end-users
•Developing System Design based on business requirements by translating them into Functional & Technical Specifications
•Defining and documenting Process Workflows and Data Modeling
•Designing GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the application software
•Project effort estimation using Function Point counting approach
•Designed reusable and highly configurable systems
•Recruit team members from resource pool and also contingent resources from market.
•Guided project team with technical and business logic related inputs / suggestions through the project life cycle
•Supported the implementation by actively addressing problems and discussing with end users during support period
•Incident Management whenever issues are identified in the form of system failures or data quality issues reported by customers via Client Management/Customer Support team
•Unit Testing the applications during development, providing inputs for Test Plan & Test Cases for QA Testing and facilitating UAT
•Tools and Technologies Used: ISYS Search Engine, Apache Lucene, Visual Studio, C#, VB.NET, VBA, SQL Server 2005, SQL Reporting Services, Visio, Microsoft Project and JIRA













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Program Managed execution of CRM re-platforming where the goal was to reduce costs and increase agility by transforming customer service and support applications by migrating to a cloud native PaaS platform. The project involved application portfolio assessment, creating a transformation roadmap, pilot re-platform of identified applications/modules and post migration support.
•As the Scrum master for the engagement, facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations
•Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to arrive at the minimum viable product for delivery
•Effectively collaborated with product owners in preparation of scope / backlog for upcoming sprints
•Took responsibility of delivery and management of tasks
•Coached team members on Agile principles, protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
•Tracked and effectively communicated sprint progress, velocity, release progress to all affected teams and management; tracked, managed and mitigated risks
•Validate delivery is consistent with terms outlined in the statement of work
•Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
•Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
•Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product
Role \[Scrum Master\]
Program managed Technology Enabled Transformation of a centralized Business intelligence competency center effectively leveraging incremental delivery by adopting iterative approach of Agile methodologies. Set up multiple scrum teams to develop different pieces of the solution and responsible for integration and successful go-live
•Primary PM / scrum master for the engagement, responsible for end to end delivery of the project
•Responsible for customer, partner & stakeholder management
•Implemented Agile project management practices and relevant scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
•Responsible for release and sprint planning, maintaining product backlog, burn down charts and other metrics
•Managed Capacity planning, Project plan creation, Status reports, Burn down charts
•Propel - MRS Resource on boarding, Project financials, Milestone completion form, Support Invoicing etc.
•Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
•Validate delivery is consistent with terms outlined in the statement of work
•Mange continuous delivery - CI/CD pipeline for seamless deployments