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Kolkata, West Bengal, In

• Heading large-scale projects across various industries, including finance, and technology.• Leading a team of consultants and managers, overseeing all stages of the consulting lifecycle, from initial strategy to project implementation and client delivery.• Foster client relationships by delivering high-impact advisory services.• Collaborate with executive leadership to identify growth opportunities, establish goals, and implement KPIs.• Manage budgets up to $2 million, optimizing resource allocation and project timelines to meet tight deadlines and enhance profitability.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Steering a team of 24+ IT professionals in executing the delivery of ESG Risk Rating tool with an annual budget of $2m.• Implemented Agile methodologies, resulting in a 30% increase in project delivery efficiency and customer satisfaction.• Lead the development of product by developing comprehensive project plans, timelines, and budgets aligned with internal protocols and guidelines.• Prepare and manage project budget for the entire fiscal year based on the roadmap and timelines.• Collaborated with stakeholders including cross-functional teams to define project requirements and scope, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.• Develop, coordinate and deliver staff capacity building initiatives through capacity assessment, gap analysis, training, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing activities to enhance project implementation effectiveness and efficiency.• Assess the maturity of project management practices in the project and lead the development and enhancement of project management systems, processes, and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across projects.• Prepare and deliver regular internal project progress reports, presentations, and briefings to project teams and internal stakeholders, effectively communicating achievements, challenges, and key learnings.• Part of the Agile Core Committee Group responsible for setting up the process and playbook for the entire CITOP unit.

Kolkata, West Bengal, In

• Plan, organize, monitor and control multiple concurrent projects within a program, understand interdependencies and determine the optimal approach to manage them and building the solution using Salesforce technology.• Develop and manage all aspects of project engagement using agile methodology and Scrum framework right from inception, planning, execution, production, communication, resources, budget, change, risks and issues.• Collaborate with Product Managers, Technical Architect, UI/UX team, Development team, Testing team and other stakeholders from different discipline to develop a vision and roadmap for the project. Define processes and tools best suited for each project.• Serve as the primary point of contact for client on daily basis; consulting and finalizing on delivery, engaging with clients to remove any roadblock and ensure stakeholder satisfaction by maintaining strong working relationships.• Assisting team in adhering process and stay on track to ensure project milestones are completed on time, on budget and with desired results.• Ensure that all Agile principles and scrum ceremonies are followed thereby delivering the right business value with agreed standards and quality.• Provide servant leadership to project team by mentoring team members, resolving conflicts and conducting performance reviews.• Manage the financial performance of the project. Record all the project cost and expenses and align with project budget.• Coach the team in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the team and organization.• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of condition and statistical data.• Established and improvise change management process to fulfil successful project transitions.• Prepare and execute communication plan, project status reports, presentation to various audiences that include project team, C-suite, and key stakeholders.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led the digital transformation of lending project for one of the largest banks in India with a team size of 80 cross-functional members using Agile (LeSS) methodology.• Partnered with clients to formulate and deliver exceptional business value through process change and software delivery using Scrum/XP framework.• Engaged with senior management for strategy planning and project progress reviews.• Worked with the Product Manager to define the roadmap - prioritizing the work that needs to be done for each product.• Scheduled and facilitated meetings between key stakeholders from different streams to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for continuous improvement, resolve project issues and mitigate risks.• Mentored and evangelized Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery best practices.• Carried out performance management activities including supervision, goal setting, ongoing performance communication, employee engagement, development, review, and mentoring.• Designed appropriate reporting metrics and health checks to accurately monitor the progress of a project and share the same with the relevant stakeholders, including Directors.• Handled production issues using Kanban framework.• Accountable for budget maintenance and requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring that budgets are being burned effectively using a T&M contract approach so that invoicing reflects the time spent on any given project.• The solution was built using cloud-based microservices architecture deployed on AWS.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

• Empowered and mobilized project managers through innovative, exemplary, and reliable direction.• Defined PMO strategies and policies to enable the strategic coordination of multiple major projects and initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness of projects.• Managed interdependencies and coordination across projects to ensure that information relating to project deliverables, risks and issues are effectively communicated between stakeholders and that key performance indicators are monitored and evaluated• Defined processes and tools best suited for each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.• Provided support to project managers to enhance their Project management capabilities and improve collaborative development and project results.• Monitored and tracked KPIs to measure project process improvement.• Removed barriers, drive decision-making, manage change control, and resolve conflicts due to business issues, technical issues, and resource requirements.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

• Spearheaded the entire Mumbai Technical Team working on different Singapore based client projects.• Provided leadership to teams to ensure projects are delivered within standards, scope, budget, and schedules as identified in the strategic planning process.• Monitored project progress throughout project lifecycle, communicated project progress effectively to senior management through reports, presentations, and individual meetings. Built and provided direction to project teams, created and fostered communication among team members. • Identified resource needs, constraints, and interdependencies. Captured and managed project risks and issues and associated mitigation strategies. • Implemented new process (onshore-offshore development model) within the organization, promote best practices (agile, hybrid methodology, coding standardization, etc.) and adoption of new technologies through training, coaching, and mentoring.• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.• Re-engineered processes to enhance quality assurance and to identify risks and issues at earlier stages during the project; Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing, and QA efforts.• Supported sales via involvement in pre-sales activities; Design, cost and document the solution to be offered to customers.

New York, Ny, Us

• Directed a portfolio of projects and services for the CORE Banking application (Temenos T24) with unique ability to drive change in business and technology implementation.• Led teams across broad technical, financial, and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.• Developed a Strategic planning of program initiative with an annual budget of $8m for 99 branches globally.• Managed deliveries from global virtual team (UK, US, HK) and assisted in country program to ensure timely resolution and delivery.• Handled the vendor on-boarding process in coordination with sourcing team. Worked closely with selected vendors and ensured the delivery of service management strategy.• Built collaborative partnerships stakeholders at all levels to build consensus and turn the proposals into reality.• Generated and delivered project plans, proposals, required documentations, progress reports, and presentations to senior management team.• Managed the project staffing including resource planning, forecasting, and recruiting across all functions required to support the program/project.• Defining KPIs with stakeholders and managing performance of the development teams, along with the managers/leads.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• Managed the delivery of applications budgeting more than $24k for the Treasury Business of the Bank.• Prepared Business Case for Approval of Budgets from the CSC Team.• Represented all the facets of Technology Infrastructure and service delivery inclusive of application support. • Vendor Management: Did Vendor assessment, ran RFPs for vendor selection, on-boarding vendor, measure vendors SLAs and deliverables, report exceptions and work with Sourcing group in continuously assessing the vendors’ performance.• Monitors projects with respect to Cost, Quality and Schedule and takes necessary actions for smooth execution.• Managed Project financials, IT Service Level Agreements & Vendor Performance Level Agreements.• Reviewed the Program risks periodically and create a risk mitigation strategy by involving the right levels of management.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Partnered with Business Project Management staff to manage and deliver customer projects on time and within budget.• Managed projects based on the Onshore-Offshore model with efficient allocation and utilization of resources.• Effective control of the project scope, budget, deadlines and deliverables, reporting, issue management. Performed Quality Checks for individual deliverables.• Prepared all project documentation including estimates, project risk/mitigation plan, comprehensive project plan and quality management.• Provided and presented weekly project status reports to internal and external stakeholders and senior management.• Reviewed, analysed and evaluated change management requests for a thorough understanding of project direction.• Delegated and prioritized workflow for programmers, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, and diligently maintain company's response tracking database.• Tools Used: MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, .NET, C#, SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc.