Varun Sood, Professional Coach

Varun Sood

Professional Coach

Haworth Solutions Inc

Location
Canada - British Columbia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering
Experience
19 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 8 Months

Professional Coach at Haworth Solutions Inc
  • Canada - British Columbia
  • My current job since July 2018

• Training and coaching business and technical users across India, Middle East and Americas on Primavera P6
• Delivered over 80+ high volume PMP, PgMP, Agile, Primavera P6 Coaching and Consulting assignments globally and helped over 500+ participants getting certified by Project Management Institute
• Coached 12 female employees in New York for 2 months as part of UST Global ‘Step It Up America’ initiative and enabled them to get job ready to join Xerox, New York, as Project Coordinators and Managers
• Actively involved as Professional Mentor with SFU for Beedie Mentors in Business Program (January-June, 2019)

Sr. Program Manager at HCL Technologies Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • March 2016 to June 2018

• Delivered Risk and Compliance Academy Program as part of CRO organization and covered 100K+ employees by training, certification and awareness programs on Risk and Compliance at HCL Development centers
• Designed and implemented strategy for Agile adoption from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement
• Devised strategy to proactively identify changes to the customer strategy, desired outcomes, business environment and technology trends that could potentially impact the type, level or utilization of services provided and accepted the changes to strengthen the business relationships and deliver project objectives
• Established the Risk and Compliance PMO, hired and coached 16 management trainees followed by their final placements with key accounts as Project Coordinators
• Managed Enhanced Compliance Risk Assessment on key accounts, this had direct impact on business profitability as there was increased compliance to contractual terms and awareness of risk
• Managed the quality criteria, requirements and handover points between the service design, service strategy and service transition of Risk Management training and awareness sessions on SAP platform as outlined by ITIL Service Management best practices
• Launched 112 e-learning modules covering Information Security, Business Continuity, Privacy including GDPR and Enterprise Risk Management at SuccessFactors LMS, with British Standards International (BSI), SAP and Internal Development Teams

Program Manager at Softclouds
  • India - Delhi
  • August 2013 to February 2016

• Increased business unit revenue by 300% through using Scrum Methodologies, resulting in efficient, continuous, consistent release of high quality software
• Shortened time to market for feature releases with standardization of deployment & release processes
• Orchestrated the successful transition from the Waterfall process to the Agile framework (Scrum)


• Developed and presented the business case for organizational change management to executives, and got the same approved by Sponsor
• Improved team effectiveness by facilitating consensus building activities and training on ITSM, DevOps and Scrum practices
• Established the Change Control Board, planned and managed the change control meetings for effective tracking and resolution of requested changes
• Envisaged & supported the COE initiative on e-Citizen for client by defining best practices of industries in e-Gov Programs
• Consulted and trained clients in UAE, Kuwait and India in generating insights and values from Primavera P6
• Enabled 100% billing conversion and collection in agreed timeframe for ICT Projects as per contract by monitoring schedules, aligned milestones and deliverables

Program Manager at HCL InfoSystems Ltd
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2010 to August 2013

• Recognized as Youngest Project Manager (Year 2010) and Program Manager (Year 2011)
• Consistently exceeded the 10% profit (PBT) target set by the organization for BFSI Business Unit
• Established and documented program governance framework and support model for Public Sector ICT Programs as part of PMO
• Created communication model and program reports for effective stakeholder engagements, this included close coordination with senior government and public sector officials (Planning Commission & Govt. of India)
• Managed authentication service track of UIDAI (World's largest IT based social initiative of Govt. of India)
• Managed 10K Data Center Infra Build Project in Delhi using IT Service Management best practices

Lead Consultant/ Project Manager at iCreate
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2008 to October 2010

• Planned flagship business intelligence product Biz$core (Commercial off the shelf 'COTS' Banking BI Product) releases in close coordination with Business Product Owner
• Led design, development and maintenance of deposits functionality using .NET and Oracle Technologies at multiple Banks
• Performed version maintenance of components for all clients using Team Foundation Server VS-2005

Software Developer at Tata Consultancy Services
  • India - Mumbai
  • September 2004 to January 2008

• Led the design & development using Microsoft VB.NET and Oracle PL/SQL of branch cash & branch offline functionalities as per business process re-engineering requirements
• Prioritized & released technology components to over 15000 branches of leading national Bank and updated Configuration Management Database using PVCS

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering
  • at Rajiv Gandhi Technological University
  • June 2004

Specialties & Skills

Training
Project Management
Program Management
MS Project
Microsoft Project
Program Management
Project Management
Scrum Agile
Unifier
Primavera P6

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Punjabi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
May 2019
SAFe Agilist (Scaled Agile Framework) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
Program Management Professional (PgMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2015
Valid Until:
August 2019
Prince 2 Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
Valid Until:
August 2019