Project Manager
Gap Inc.
Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months
- Initiated and incepted Project Management Team for Gap Mumbai Analytics
- Manage Analytics projects via Agile- Scrum-Lean Project management framework- Big data Projects. Includes Hadoop, R, Hive and Pig technologies
- Train, educate and transform the Mumbai Analytics Team on Agile framework and processes
- Propose and implement new processes for tracking and transparency for stakeholders
- Estimate Project completion and track progress via Burn-ups and Velocity charts
- Facilitate meetings, JIRA Story boarding and various other Scrum ceremonies
- Proactively identify, follow up and remove blockers/ issues
- Facilitate retrospectives to identify and implement improvements
- Maintain project documentation and facilitate communication among internal team and stakeholders via weekly/ daily Status reports, Video calls and Dashboards
- Developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
- Organise and facilitate Mumbai Learning Academy Technical and Domain trainings
Planning and deployment of Trade Finance software development and project management processes based on the prescribed Project Life Cycle for TPS- Trade Processing System (Greenfield Development Project).
Utilize Lean/ Agile scrum framework to schedule and lead Sprint Planning/Reviews, Daily Standups and various other team meetings.
Analyzing and forecasting resource requirements.
Participation in project estimating activities. Facilitate post implementation reviews, Lessons Learned and Retrospectives.
Work closely with the development team and cross functional teams with members from Product Management, Business Analyst, Production Support and Technology
Risk Identification; track and report KPIs on project/sprint progress and drive
resolution of issues. Measure, track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to stakeholders and management in order to provide visibility into overall project progress and status.
Co-ordinate with other workstreams to manage Integration functional gaps, Performance and interdependencies. Defect management via HP ALM