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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Designing and planning the program while proactively tracking its progress, addressing issues, and implementing corrective actions.• Defining the program's governance arrangements to ensure structured management.• Overseeing quality assurance and maintaining the program's overall integrity, focusing on internal consistency and alignment with infrastructure planning, as well as compliance with corporate, technical, and specialist standards.• Managing the program's budget and performance on behalf of the Project Sponsor, overseeing expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits, and striving to maximize ROI.• Mitigating risks to the program's successful outcome by initiating additional activities and management interventions whenever gaps or issues are identified.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Delivered end-to-end projects using Agile methodology, including requirements gathering, design analysis, development, testing, implementation, and support.• Conducted biweekly governance report calls with the Steering Group Committee, involving the COO, Directors, Head of Deliveries, and other stakeholders.• Collaborated within a matrix organization to manage project dependencies among stakeholders.• Executed projects within agreed timelines by mitigating various challenges, such as policy changes, cross-functional team conflicts, resource attrition, scope creeps, infrastructure issues, and defined processes.• Assessed project feasibility by working with IT hardware and network teams, estimating efforts and costs, preparing business cases, and presenting them to the CU team for project approval.

Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Client: Major Pet food manufacturing companyHandling 3 projects such as, BizTalk (Interfaces) Migration project, One-Navision V2 Alignment and Disaster Recovery activities in V2 countries under One Navision scope, while managing IBM and Royal Canin contractors for the activities of the 3 projects, using conventional project management tools and techniques. Administering cross functional teams across the tracks (testing, development, business analysts, business intelligence, operations, and client strategy). Working with client business subject matter experts to develop and introduce business requirements, for enhancing the client business operations. Conducting QA testing efforts and performing defect resolution / issue management through JIRA. Facilitating stakeholder relationships by leading cross functional team meetings with directors and client leadership

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Directly collaborated with client senior management teams, board members and stakeholders throughout all phases of transaction advisory and execution of a major M&A project, while providing support for activities relating to the close process for successful transactions, including assistance with review of transaction close documents. Worked on assignments in all elements of project execution, including valuation, deal structuring, financial analysis, sales documentation, due diligence, and project negotiations. Engaged on assignments in deal origination, including forming and maintaining client relationships, delivering proposals, and involving in industry-specific events.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Client : Major European steel manufacturing companySuperintended Tata Steel Cold Mill Information system development and maintenance project using Prince2- Agile methodologies. Advised stakeholders on technology, analysis, process improvement, and design. Performed tasks central to program progress, including scheduling, budgeting, and accounting, and resource management.

Kolkata Area, India

Analyzed client's business requirements and processes through document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis. Performed reverse engineering of existing application programs and functional specifications to unfold the application into a technical document. Translated stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverable such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow / process diagrams, data flow / data model diagrams also Business requirements document (BRD) was one of the key deliverables.

Kolkata Area, India

Managed a team of 9 and created a Business Requirement document (BRD) and Functional Requirement document (FRD) and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) related document. Used ITIL Concepts and Service Now incident and problem management tool through the life cycle of incidents, problems, and changes. Performed requirement gathering and elicitation created a detailed design and development in MSM (end-to-end) project.

Trivandrum, Kerala

Worked with developers to design algorithms and flowcharts. Produced clean, efficient code based on specifications, while integrating software components and third-party programs. Verified and deployed programs and systems. Troubleshot, debugged, and upgraded existing software, whilst gathering and evaluating user feedback. Recommended and executed improvements. Created technical documentation for reference and reporting.

Bengaluru Area, India

Assessed and performed systems utilization and headroom reports to assist in troubleshooting and performance tuning. Provided status reports to direct manager and director-level leadership. Tracked application performance metrics and report out to management. Create, maintain, and manage to project plans. Assisted in defining and coordinating team projects and activities. Helped ensure team performance meets or exceeds defined Service Level Agreements.