Jigneshkumar Chauhan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Program ManagerPhilips Healthcare, Bangalore• Worked closely with program sponsor, product management, cross-functional teams, and other program stakeholders to plan and develop program charter, roadmap, resources, budget, and timelines for new initiatives in alignment with organizational strategic goals and objectives.• Produced and represented accurate Program performance reports to executive leadership and program governance for alignment on program KPIs and key benefits.• Managed critical program risks throughout program life cycle which helped to stay on track for program success, regular review of risk register during Phase gate review and milestone review for strategic alignment.• Collaborated with PMO director, Program Steering Committee and program core team to introduce and implement standardized program methodology and tools to reduce cost and increase team efficiency by approx. 50% across program components.• Maintained organizational standard of stakeholder engagement and satisfaction; use stakeholder mapping tool for UpToDate program communication.• Managed globally distributed teams with diverse array of talented professionals with their active engagement.• Conducted lessons learn at major milestones and implemented learning for program success.• Provided strategic direction, leadership and project governance for key component projects which successfully supported program for quality and on time delivery to key markets• Implemented an effective product workflow training program for field service engineers which resulted in a 15% drop in critical errors while boosting efficiency by 50%.• Collaborated and worked with five globally distributed teams for the on time program delivery with 10% less than forecasted cost and a month earlier than scheduled timeline

Bangalore

• Preparing plan and schedule according to the defined project milestones• Weekly Project Kernel Team meeting to review project status, critical issues and dependencies• Collaborating and coordinating with across functions such as Marketing, Customer Support, Design Transfer, Regulatory, Quality, Development, Verification on weekly basis to share overall project status and overall delivery schedule to end customers• Discussion of change requests with major stakeholders and ensuring timely completion• Managing day-to-day relationship with all stakeholders and resolution of all issues and concerns• Managing cross project dependencies and conflicts• Ensuring project deliverables promptly for all major milestones• Managing project risks, preparing mitigation and contingency plans• Project progress reporting on weekly, monthly and on ad hoc request to management • Managing multivendor field complaints through defined process and ensure addressing customer complaints within defined timeline• Following Agile scrum methodology for projects

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developing project scope and schedule in alignment with Engineering and Marketing• Managing risks and dependencies with all verticals including quality, regulatory, privacy and security, product marketing, customer support, engineering, design transfer and external vendors• Managing up-to-date communication and regular project status updates with key stakeholders• Analysis of current processes and proposing ways to improvise team efficiency and productivity• Deriving key project metrics to check project health on sprint basis• Customer centric mindset and working towards end customers need with customer support and marketing• Managing cross-functional and cross-team stakeholders with project requirements

Bangalore

RTE:• Facilitating PI planning Event• Facilitating PI planning readiness by fostering preparation of vision and backlogs. • Listen and support teams in problem identification and decision making• Assist tracking feature execution progress through out Program Increment• Facilitate weekly ART meeting with major stakeholders such as SMs, POs, System Engineers and Project Managers• Help managing risks and dependencies between trains• Facilitate system demos and solution demos• Drive relentless improvements via Inspect and Adapt workshop; assess agility level of the ART and help them improve

Bangalore

•Human resource staffing per program needs and priorities• Part of Development Forum where best development practices across teams are discussed and approved as Way of Working• Prepared teams towards code quality and was part of initiative- “verification as customers” to reduce customers’ escalations• Introduced Performance and reliability tools for enhancing reliability during code development, which in turn helps to achieve higher product quality• Unit code has been mandated for legacy applications• Developed key team members to move to next level and take on more responsibilities• Managed teams’ performance appraisals

Bangalore

• Understanding Business Requirements• Preparing automation tests scripts using QTP and Winrunner from manual test cases.• Reviewing of test scripts.• Deploying and executing automated test scripts for regression testing.• Reporting defects in PVCS tool.• Performing Sanity, Functionality and Regression Testing.• Participating in Review meetings, Test progress update meetings & Weekly T-Cons with global onsite team for discussions on ongoing projects.

Gmite, Business Administration And Management, General, A

One-year General Management Program for IT Executives from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Jan 2018.

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Activities and Societies: Project management Have studied different modules of project management and completed PMP certification.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), It & System

Activities and Societies: Project management case studies Have studied general management and IT specific management subjects in distance.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 62%

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