Manoj Patole

Objective

Seeking a Solution Architect, Technical Project / Delivery / Program / Engineering Manager position in esteem organization, Offers unmatched talents in managing, end to end project execution, Design/Architecture, Solutioning, change control, Presales, RFPs, Proposals processes. Highly skilled in identifying and communicating issues that may cause margin changes and ensuring that all assigned projects are delivered quality products within set deadlines.

Professional Experience

20 years of experience as Architect / Technical / Project / Delivery Manager / IT Consultant for diverse industries(Bioinformatics, Healthcare, Pharmacy industries, Automobile, Banking etc) and in high-tech environments.

Excellent experience and unmatched talents in Software Designing, Architecture, managing and controlling project scopes and change control processes.

Overview of skills/experience

• Experienced in Designing and Architecture of Software applications, IT-PM, Expertise in Project/Program Managing complete projects on technology, estimates, resourcing, training, risk mitigation, communication, Infrastructure, scope management, recruitment, resource management, performance appraisals-counseling, costing and managing up on status. Guiding teams on design development, test/ testing cycles (assembly, performance, system integration, parallel test), defect management and deployment, Project communication with client, senior management, tech leadership using the cross functional teams.
• Develop and Manage digital technology IT projects with top down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success/high-quality end to end delivery as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.

Of the product as per agreed scope. Technical strategy, Architecture and Design of Software applications and Agile project management

• Define and develop and deliver processes, Practice full software development lifecycle from design to deployment, understanding best practices and trends in software development.
• Project Planning, Project Tracking and Handling Post production Issues.
• Have a strong sense of ownership, urgency to drive, Fulfillment Services and tailored Software Solutions

Technical Skills/Competencies:

• IT-PM (SDLC, Agile-Scrum & Waterfall), MS Project Plan, PM dashboard, Managed Services, Agile-Scrum (SAFe), 
• Languages: Core JAVA, J2EE,PHP ,AngularJS, Perl, HTML, CSS, C, C++,ASP.Net, C#, Javascript, NodeJS
• Other Frameworks MVC frameworks,DNN8-9 framework, Hibernate, Microservices, Wordpress, Magento, Joomla 
• Databases RDBMS(SQL, MYSQL, PostgreSQL),NoSQL(MongoDB, Cassandra),
• Web Technologies: PHP,JAVA, J2EE, ASP,Net, SpringBoot, Microservices , API gateways, HTML, AngularJS, NodeJS, HTML, ReactJS, JavaScript,JQUERY,CSS3, Bootstrap, RestfulAPI, UI and UX, SEO 
• Mobile Application: iOS and Android, Hybrid mobile apps development
• Operation Systems: Microsoft Technologies, Linux(Redhat, REHL, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), OSCAR for HPC Cluster
• IT systems / Server:Cloud server (AWS, Azure), SAAS applications, DevOps, Boomi, ActiveMQ
• Applications/Tools: Jenkins, Sonarqube, Github, Docker, SVN, Basecamp, JIRA, Confluence,MS teams, Slack, ZOHO, Bitrix, Citrix, AI tools, MSProject, schedulers, Data Lake, Databriks, Data Lakehouse, Synapse etc
• Methodologies used: Scrum agile methodologies, Kanban, Github, bitbucket, Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• AI/ML, NLP tools, Data Analysis: ETL, Data warehouse, MLOps tools

DELIVERY / TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER Jan2022–Till date

Citiustech, Pune

• Project Planning, Project Tracking and Handling Postproduction Issues.
• Participate in discovery phase, hands on with coding and other technical activities, lead the planning, execution, and success of complex Medical Data Lake, AI/ML algorithm, Data modelling projects while maintaining engineering standards/best practices and assessing adaptability with new business requirements
• Implement and use of product management techniques/methodologies like scrum Agile
• Create project KPI metrics and have ability in establishing, monitoring and controlling project measurements and control, perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Technical strategy, Architecture and Design of Software applications and Agile project management Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Writing technical documents and Reviewing technical artifacts like design docs, architecture docs

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER Oct2020–Nov2021

GSPANN(Whisk software’s)Hyderabad

• Leadership, mentor, recruiter and people manager(26 members team)
• Project Planning, Project Tracking and Handling Postproduction Issues.
• Participate in discovery phase, hands on with coding and other technical activities, lead the planning, execution, and success of complex technical ecommerce projects while maintaining engineering standards/best practices and assessing adaptability with new business requirements
• Design the technical specifications, planning, designing and implementing software architecture for small scale business solutions
• Implement and use of product management techniques/methodologies like scrum Agile
• Create project KPI metrics and have ability in establishing, monitoring and controlling project measurements and control, perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Technical strategy, Architecture and Design of Software applications and Agile project management Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Writing technical documents and Reviewing technical artifacts like design docs, architecture docs

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER Aug2019 - Feb2020

Sourcebits (Ascendum), Bangalore

• Leadership, mentor, recruiter and people manager(52 members team)
• Develop and Manage digital technology projects (mobile, Java, .Net, Cloud) with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
• Project Planning, Project Tracking and Handling Postproduction Issues.
• Participate in discovery phase, hands on with coding and other technical activities, lead the planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects while maintaining engineering standards/best practices and assessing adaptability with new business requirements
• Design the technical specifications, planning, designing and implementing software architecture for small scale business solutions
• Project Estimations, management of Project Scheduling and Allocations
• Implement and use of product management techniques, including the flexible application of Agile methodology and conversant with Azure devOps Methodology. (Jenkins, CI/CD tools, GIT, JIRA or equivalent)
• Exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment using technology and/or integrating diverse user systems.
• Timely escalations to the management and escalation responses/justification to the client, if any
• Create project metrics and have ability in establishing, monitoring and controlling project measurements and control, perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Leading a 52 members team of developers and disruptors to design and build innovations that can be scaled up and drive measurable value for TaskUs and clients
•  Technical strategy, Architecture and Design of Software applications and Agile project management Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Writing technical documents and Reviewing technical artifacts like technical design docs, architecture docs
• Project: Toyota

PROJECT MANAGER Apr2018 - Aug2019

3i-Infotech (ICICI group), Bangalore

• Delivery of complex IT Projects across diverse technology platforms 
• Software project budget analysis, outsourcing strategies, contract management.
• Agile and waterfall project management methodologies
• Participate in research and designing the technical specifications, planning, designing and implementing software architecture for all business solutions
• Execute high-quality deliverable that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets
• Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement digital projects
• Deliver projects on time ensuring quality standards are met -Drive the requirements for the Product and act as the Product Owner 
• Communicate with the team and ensure all members are on board with delegated tasks
• Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs -Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques

PROJECT MANAGER May2017 - Mar2018

Centurysoft, Pune

• Responsibility is to drive product and content management initiatives associated with the Digital Marketing platform. 
• Understand and analyze user needs and conduct research on markets and contents.
• Develop Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) that meet customer and strategic requirements while providing clear direction to the development and content teams.
• Create, prioritize and maintain the backlog for the teams based on business value, product roadmap and business strategy.
• Participate in research and discovery phase, 
• Design the technical specifications, planning, designing and implementing software architecture for all business solutions
• Lead efforts on competitive analysis that details our competitor’s marketing, sales and product strategies.
• Lead cross functional team of engineers, sales, operations, marketing and other stakeholders from business units to develop, implement and drive product line success.
• Interpreting and analyzing data in order to drive successful business solutions. Proficient knowledge in statistics, mathematics, and analytics. 
• Business operations and analytics tools for effective analyses of data. Successfully interpreted data in order to draw conclusions for managerial action and strategy

SR. PROJECT MANAGER / CTO Apr2014 - May2017

Aarna Systems, Pune

• Worked on Websites300+), Mobile applications(8) and Web Applications(3)
• Participate in research and discovery phase, 
• Design the technical specifications, planning, designing and implementing software architecture for all business solutions
• Work with clients to clearly identify and continuously managed project scope, requirements, dependencies, and deliverables
• Collaborated with technical staff to develop cost, resource, and delivery estimates
• Consistently conveyed the technical, budget, and schedule progress and risks of the project to clients and senior management 
• Collaborated with team members in development and adoption of agile methodologies 
• Coordinated the development team’s efforts throughout the project life cycle/software development phase 
• Taking Ownership and Responsibility of all project deliverables within the development team.
• Monitoring and reviewing developers work and ensuring all standards are followed at all times and quality of deliverables maintained.
• Performed quality assurance on the work produced by the IT project team 

SR. PROJECT MANAGER Jan2011 – Mar2014

Caprium, Pune

• Manage ERP and CRM projects, Websites, Mobile applications and Web Applications development
• Implementation of Software Development Life Cycle, software development methodologies and practices.
• Coordinate and manage a team of developers, designers, coders and other professionals working on various web development projects.
• Participate in research and designing presales the technical specifications, planning, designing and implementing software architecture for all business solutions
• Manage schedules, work assignment, status reports, project budgets, scope of work, milestones, risk, change control, allocated resources, etc.
• Responsible for developing conceptual system requirements and making the final determination on decisions throughout each project.

HEAD IT / R&D, INDIA Mar2009 – Dec2010

Lonza Biologics, Mumbai, London(Cambridge) and Belgium

• The position reports directly to the Vice president, Global Business Head (Lonza). 
• Managed software development Projects, IT infrastructure, Presales, R&D and services in areas of Bioinformatics in Drug discovery process
• Develop Best Practices / Decision trees / Development Plans for process modeling during drug product development
• Support Quality-by-Design and Design-to-Value process development and regulatory filing. Prepare technical reports, summaries, protocols, and quantitative analyses for distribution and/or presentation to project teams and for inclusion in project reports
• Collaborates with senior scientific staff to design, implement, and interpret the data from development projects. Designs and leads specific development work streams autonomously, in line with business priorities, following the Quality by Design framework
• Involved in Documentation and Records: CMC and GMP/CGMP documentation in Preclinical and Clinical phases (laboratory and animal studies, biological and chemistry tests, manufacturing tests and pharmaceutical development studies)
• Onsite Bioinformatics Projects – Cambridge, London, UK and Gent, Belgium

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IT CONSULTANT Jan2007 – Dec2008

Monogram Biosciences, Bangalore/USA

• To develop a Web-based database Application/System for HIV clinical data Analytical Studies in collaboration with Stanford university.
• Building a web-based database Analytical tool application that can relate co-receptor tropism data (which co-receptor that virus is using CCR5, CXCR4 or both (Dual/Mix)) to particular envelope genotypes. 
• Projects: HIV Clinical Database Management System: Patient Data analysis (Genotypic and Phenotypic) web-based tool developed for Research and development in collaboration in Stanford university and Monogram Biosciences Team: Self

DEVELOPER – PROJECT LEAD Apr2002 – Nov2006

CDC-Jalaja Technologies, Bangalore

• Developer/Bio-scientist/Project In-Charge/ Principal Investigator directly reporting to Director and NMITLI (CSIR).
• Coordination with IGIB and Senior Scientists across all 88 CSIR labs and Indian Research Institutes
• Bioinformatics Project management: Team Coordination, project planning and documentation (Manuals, NMITLI quarterly reports) 
• Software Development: Algorithms development, GUI and coding.

  Undertaking Student Curriculum Bioinformatics projects under this project.

Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra State, India 2012

Executive MBA(MBA) from PUMBA, Pune University

Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra State, India 2001

Post Grad. Diploma in Computer Science

Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra State, India 1997

Master of Science (M.Sc)

Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra State, India 1995

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)

Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi