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North Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

•Optimize network performance by delivering quality, cost-effective network uplift, to contribute to a positive customer use experience. •Drive Operational efficiency and cost improvements across the program to achieve improved customer experience.•Develop and operate self-healing capabilities and compliance to process maturity levels.•Deliver projects within prioritized scope, allocated budget, and agreed with timelines.•Monitor financial performance in line with IOP (Budgeting, tracking and forecasting Opex)o Track budget vs actualso Manage cost accruals.o Validate vendor payment claims/Invoice.•Develop plans to integrate Projects relevant to network performance operation.•Innovation & Continuous Improvement•Perform the root cause analysis to identify problems and develop solutions.•Creating Project Charters, Define Project Scope, Effective impact assessment, define timelines, maintaining & tracking risk register, RACI matrix, communication plan, change management and deliver against timelines.•Impairing training to teams on tools features and functionalities•Arranged and led agile ceremonies such as daily scrum, retrospectives, sprint planning, sprint demos, and backlog refinements•Facilitated Team and Cross-team Retrospectives to build rapport and common understanding among teams•Coached and empowered teams to be high performing through self-organization and cross-functionality•Coached Product Owners to groom and manage features, develop user stories, and improve the overall quality of the Product Backlog for further planning•Efficiently utilize Scrum of scrums for collaboration and inter-dependency tracking •Owned Release Planning activities that gather and aligns Stakeholders, Project Management, Engineering, and the Development teams•Championed a culture of transparency and open feedback which increased quality & health of retrospectives•KPI’s management using governance tools like JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint & MS Project

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

•Analytical problem-solving skills and ability to operate in a time-critical project environment.•Spearheaded a team in handling the end-to-end project delivery starting from the analysis on an existing platform, modifying the existing solution, proposing solutions, Continuous improvements, upgrades, & new deployments•Established strategic project goals, project plan baseline, project scope & deliverable, resource planning & utilization, and monitoring project's performance criteria to meet/exceed organization's objective in parallel to client expectations.•Assist the design team in organizing and archiving project files. •Coordinate the weekly design team meetings including taking notes and distributing action notes. •Involved in front-ending full life-cycle program management across the phases of the project.•Owned and Managed senior Level Governance Processes and driven continuous improvement in the management of those processes.•Undertake Quality Checks and attend Quality Review meetings for each deliverable milestone.•Identified and aligned complex requirements of clients and devised effective solutions by conducting brainstorming & mind mapping sessions with the customer and internal cross-functional teams. •Established, coached, and implemented Agile guidelines. Acquiring Product Owner approval on acceptance criteria, driving scrum ceremonies, and risk management. •Manage the team's self-organization and accountability for delivery to achieve continuous improvement and Inter-team engagement and dependencies tracking •Providing training on JIRA and Confluence tools to other iteration managers and managing JIRA under the program.•Kanban board set up on an Epic scale for each project & Capture, interpret and refine Agile metrics•Waterfall to Agile successful transition•Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Delivery tracking, and Agile Feature Team Management Manage all scrum events, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, review, and retrospective.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

•Developed an Integrated Project schedule and RACI matrix for responsible ownership of each task. •Prioritized work schedules in consideration of the needs of team members and project milestones.•Built relationships across a variety of stakeholders including internal and external customers. •Engaged stakeholders to gather progress on performance goals, key initiatives, and achievements. •Planned, prepared, and facilitated workshops across all levels to achieve the program objectives.•Made sure that coordination improvements are realized through regular communication and interactions.•Managed project budgets and preparing financial reports for management•Accomplished project coordination and project documentation for Seacom cables.