Ankit Sharma, (Pmp)® Email & Phone Number

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 locations. • 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 mobile apps by overseeing a team of 60 cross functional FTEs across design, research, product, data and engineering.• 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 2M $RLY to Rally.io participants each week. Conceived of and launched Rally.io across alternative L1 chains, initially with Solana, through the development of a front-end and an SDK enabling token minting, liquidity through token bonding curves, token vesting schedules, transfers and a suite of controls for token states and metadata.

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 (Number of Incidents/Revenue Generated) by 27 percentage points in the first 2 quarters of the product roll out.

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 baselines.• 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 monthly basis.• 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%. • Aligned the appropriate steering committees, stakeholder groups, & executive leadership on the strategic goals by providing regular status updates based on the Communication Plan to avoid any ambiguity throughout PDLC.• Standardized the PMO best practices, & procedures according to the PMI's (Project Management Institute) Agile methodology. Conducted quarterly PMO training sessions for 13 PMs, resulting in increased efficiency by 30% by eliminating silos.

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 million per annum.• 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