Project Manager - Release Manager at Wipro Ltd (2022-05 – Present)
Client: ANZ Bank. Expertized in Release Management that involves the stages - scheduling the release, coordinating between different teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule and within scope.
- Led end-to-end release management for Windows Server infrastructure upgrades.
- Prepare and review project reports, progress updates, and documentation.
- Synchronize project delivery, testing phases, change activities, and production deployment timing.
- Validate all release deliverables are complete, current, and have stakeholder sign-off before deployment.
- Identify and actively manage release-level risks, issues and cross-team dependencies.
- Coordinate with clients, consultants, and senior management for smooth communication and execution.
- Orchestrated enterprise releases by negotiating scope, planning timelines, and coordinating cross-team effort to align with company roadmaps, delivering 100% of planned releases.
- Provides day-to-day guidance and oversight of team activities; actively work to meet the deadlines.
- Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management.
- Participated and lead CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
- Conducted release readiness review meetings with TVT,BVT teams resulting in Go/No-Go decisions.
- Very good in Creating plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
- Coordinated teams across global time zones to make sure deployments go smooth.
- Managing different meetings like daily huddle calls, BRB meetings, weekly, monthly and quarterly status meetings, project review meetings, escalation meeting, Go live runsheet/change review meetings, Go/No go decisions calls, etc
Project Manager at APPSTEC (2021-03 – 2022-04)
Clients: Mashreq Bank (UAE), Al Rajhi Takaful, Beamtrial. Environment: Oracle Applications 11i, R12 and Cloud (iReceivables, Finance & HCM, Payroll).
- Create project plans, scope documents, schedules and forecasts. Provide timely communication on the impact of changes and decisions.
- Manage project plans and implement projects. Help project team with the design and development tasks
- Planning/scheduling/tracking/monitoring, resource allocation, issue/risk management.
- Participated in Sprint review, UAT migration and Production deployment. Prepared and actively participated in cutover activity.
- Resolves project issues, mitigates risks, and manages scope change requests for all development sprints.
- Managing different meetings like daily scrum calls, weekly status calls, project review meetings, steering committee meeting, escalation meeting, etc.
- Responsible in handling and maintaining different reports – Design documents, Defect log, UAT issue log, production rollout documents (Functional, Technical and Integration documents)
- Driving development teams and engineering teams and executing program of projects against the committed milestone.
- High level of focus on delivery, benefits, identifying opportunities and making a real difference through leadership of change.
- Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives
- Apply critical thinking to select the best way forward and building strong and lasting relationships based on mutual trust.
- Explores alternative perspectives before shaping work that will deliver impactful results
- Manage all project resources, including subcontractors and onshore team.
- Good track record as project Manager for Oracle projects
- Manage complex business.
- Tracking and delivering projects on time (evaluate time, cost and quality)
- Hiring, training, employee & client satisfaction, performance appraisals, conducting annual appraisals.
- Resolve any issues throughout project life cycle
- Tracking the progress of the project and mitigate the risk if any.
- Sending reports such as Monthly Deck, performance report, quarterly feedback report, Weekly and monthly attendance sheet, efforts sheet, billing for invoice
- Excellent problem-solving skills, escalation handling, critical incident management.
Project Manager (Module Lead) at Tech Mahindra Ltd (2017-03 – 2020-03)
Clients: Lam Research and Applied Materials. Team size: 27
- Providing day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer
- Planning/scheduling/tracking/monitoring, resource allocation, issue/risk management and budget management
- Driving development teams and engineering teams and executing program of projects against the committed milestone
- High level of focus on delivery, benefits, identifying opportunities and making a real difference through leadership of change
- Applies critical thinking to select the best way forward
- Builds strong and lasting relationships based on mutual trust
- Explores alternative perspectives before shaping work that will deliver impactful results
- Manage all project resources, including subcontractors and onshore team in US.
- Good track record as project Manager for Oracle and Python Projects
- Manage complex business and logistical challenges
- Tracking and delivering projects on time (evaluate time, cost and quality)
- Hiring, training, employee & client satisfaction, performance appraisals, etc
- Conducting annual appraisals
- Resolve any issues throughout project life cycle
- Tracking the progress of the project and mitigate the risk if any.
- Sending reports such as Monthly Deck, performance report, quarterly feedback report, Weekly and monthly attendance sheet, efforts sheet, billing for invoice
- Excellent problem-solving skills, escalation handling, critical incident management.
Team Lead at Fidelity National Financials (2015-09 – 2016-10)
Lead delivery for cost estimation for fixed price, and T&M projects with Function Point sizing methodology, for leading financial services and banks across APAC
Sr. Analyst at ISGN (2009-11 – 2014-08)
Played a lead role in handling customers in US region, providing status updates on Production support Incidents, Functional issues for Oracle Purchasing & Order Management.
Senior Associate at iGATE Global Solutions (p) Ltd. (2008-04 – 2009-11)
