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San Francisco, California, US

• Collaborated with various Product verticals to understand the requirement of a fast-paced start-up in the Blockchain industry to set-up the Program Management Office and best practices for teams across 4 geographic.
• Scaled Rally core product to onboard more than 300 distinct communities by creating new economies using fungible social tokens (creator coins) and non-fungible tokens (utility focused NFTs).
• Collaborated with the Product to formulate product roadmap and executed weekly releases of new features including core NFT marketplaces, token minting, fiat economic functions, consumer facing bot integrations and.
• Collaborated with the Product team to craft Rally Rewards, a unique tokenomics incentive system for $RLY that balanced community growth, inflation, creator incomes and user experience. The system distributed more than.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Created a Big Data solution that allows the Partner Support Managers to manage the complete partner ecosystem successfullyand efficiently for all 3 cloud products (Dynamics, Azure, and Office)
• Created a product roadmap as per the product backlog items and led all the meetings on the sprint iterations.
• Collaborated with cross-organization teams to acquire access to multiple Data Lakes to build the ETL pipelines.
• Managed a team of 9 developers from 4 offshore locations in 3 different time zones to build the Power BI dashboard within the project baselines of time and budget.
• Partner Support Offerings Group leveraged this data analytics platform to create incentive models for the partners across all 3 Microsoft cloud suite products (Dynamics, Office, and Azure).Decreased the Incident Rate.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Managed a portfolio of $11M+ year after year for clients from different industries with programs involving multiple business domains, & technology stacks.
• Steered the Discovery sessions to understand customers’ business problems/opportunities & translated them into strategic goals/KPIs. Created Product Roadmaps, & User Stories to achieve these KPIs within the project.
• Conducted Product Backlog Refinement meetings to refine & prioritize User Stories. Spearheaded Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, & Spring Retrospection meetings with stakeholders across 5 different geographic locations.
• Charted Process Improvement Plan for my biggest client in terms of revenue. Assisted them to adopt strict Agile (Scrum) methodologies on Azure DevOps. Saved ~$30,000/month & increased time efficiency by 35% on the.
• Developed Risk Assessment and Management plans & established resourcing contingencies to remove any unforeseen impediments & roadblocks, resulting in 100% of milestones achieved on time & within budget.
• Closely collaborated with Sales, Account, Technology Groups, and Product Management teams throughout the SDLC resulting in 100% CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) & increased annual customer retention by 17%.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Owned the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) of custom tools for RBC-SAS. Spearheaded a team of 12 associates across 4 geographies; helped the client to manage its syndication & financial services & generate $120.
• Steered the migration of 5 projects from Waterfall to Agile PM methodology. Increased client’s NPV by 2 percentage points QOQ.
• Conducted Cost-Benefit Analysis leveraging NPV, IRR, & ROI techniques to implement Automation frameworks. Reduced the manual working hours by 25% for all execution cycles.
• Leveraged Change management tools to track changes in project scope, proactively identified potential risks & created contingency plans. Resulted in zero post-production defects in 7 project releases.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Implemented Agile project management methodology. Lead & Trained a team of 32 offshore & 6 on-site team members.
• Established project performance baselines via the use of SDLC. Developed WBS mapped to RTM using MS-Project.
• Applied Lean Six Sigma techniques to reduce time to production for financial dashboard prototypes from 16 to 10 weeks.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Scripted automation scripts on HP UFT tool for Integration testing, QA Regression testing and UAT; helped the client in saving 990 manual working hours per quarter.
• Orchestrated SQL queries on Database Tables to collect Test Data, to be used by manual testers.
• Trained 12 new associates on HP’s UFT automation tool for 6-week workshop.

Masters Of Science In Information Systems

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Science