Prashant Chaturvedi

Project Manager for business and IT systems with 10+ years of experience in managing projects adding business value, relationship management, business resilience and continuity, organizational change and development in legacy and cloud environments. Projects have included customer-facing roles in the technology, banking, and consumer goods industries. Strong foundation of knowledge around Azure cloud services and cloud migrations.

Experience of building and delivering robust and highly available solutions managing complex projects. Flexible, driven, assertive, and self-directed with expertise in project documentation & leadership, analytical acumen and strong problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, critical thinking.

Senior Manager-Program & Project Management at LTI Mindtree (2023-08 – Present)

Lead the collaboration of resources, project scope, technical documentation, software development, project planning, plan development, reporting, risk management, project budgeting, project schedules, project governance, meeting minutes, sprint planning, tracking projects. Managed clients directly to apprehend requirements; designed systems from scratch & executed projects while working with 10-15 cross-functional teams.

• Led end-to-end migration of 150+ on-premise servers to Azure cloud, reducing infrastructure costs by 35% and improving system uptime from 97.5% to 99.9%
• Built detailed project plans, RAID logs, and dependency tracking, reducing project risks by ~30% through proactive mitigation
• Maintained project status and vendor compliance via weekly status meetings/actions, resolve issues, status reports & communications with project stakeholders through performance indicators
• Led governance meetings, status, risks and mitigation plans to executive stakeholders
• Led end-to-end program delivery within an Agile Release Train (ART), coordinating multiple Scrum teams to ensure alignment with business and technical objectives
• Managed and mentored a team of Scrum Masters, driving consistency in Agile practices, ceremonies, and delivery standards across teams
• Owned program-level roadmap planning, execution tracking, and stakeholder communication across engineering, product, and business teams

Project Manager/Scrum Master at Cognizant (2022-07 – 2023-08)

Worked on migrating the EOL retirement solution identity and access management to cloud solution as per customer needs and coordinated with teams on-site and offshore in different time zones.

• Successfully collaborated on the review of project management results, relevant documents, and reports, to identify problems, influence, recommend and track progress on corrective actions

Project Manager at Zen3 Infosolutions (A Tech Mahindra Company) (2021-04 – 2022-06)

Worked with Azure Core Compute Team leading end-to-end project life cycle, governance, and continuous improvement of next generation features for Compute.

• Collaborated with several teams to announce general available migration tool to migrate existing Cloud Service (classic) deployment to Cloud Services (extended support)
• Coordinated with internal services and business stakeholders with 3M+ VMs committed to using tools to migrate production workload. Migration tool enables successful migration 95% of the time
• Focused and led the team on business objectives and provided leadership to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results. 10K+ customers migrated 40K+ VMs within 1 of the 3 years of retirement leading to a -46% usage drop

IT Project Manager at Ernst & Young LLP (2020-10 – 2021-04)

Handled end to end technical project delivery accountability for automation of Order to cash supply chain space for client which involved migration of key deliverables to cloud space. Defined processes and tools best suited to project and safeguarding strategic direction of organization.

• Project helped the client achieve 40-50% productivity improvements in processes including credit, collections, invoicing, cash application & deductions

IT Project Manager at Tata Consultancy Services (2016-06 – 2018-10)

Assisted in determining operational feasibility through analysis, problem definition, concept development, system design, flowcharts, visioning, product requirement analysis, process improvement and manage proposed solutions for timely resolution ensuring customer satisfaction.

• Investigated client complaints of missing implementation Azure cloud infrastructure setup; studied server setup steps & executed a project that automated 60% of the process; led to a decrease in manpower from 9 to 6 (33%)

Technical Project Coordinator at HCL Technologies (2012-10 – 2016-05)

Worked with the manager to negotiate with client to undertake a project for migration of Microsoft Exchange environment; achieved zero-defect application brought 40% reduction in server infrastructure costs, less turnaround time being the single point of contact.

• Worked as Cloud Administrator (SME) on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, data center, disaster recovery and providing technical skills on architecture

Master of Business Administration in Business Administration – Singapore Management University (2020-01 – 2020-01)

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science – Uttar Pradesh Technical University (2012-06 – 2012-06)