Ninad Vaidya Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai

• Maintain quality standards in the APAC region projects and supporting the Area Managers• Monitoring, reviewing and auditing APAC region projects in their pre-sales and delivery phase• Reporting on deviations, oversee reporting quality metrics and ensure high standards• Training, coaching and supporting Project Managers in application of standards, processes and tools• Organizing and executing internal project audits and supporting ISO 9001:2015 audits

Mumbai

I had a short stint with Upstox (RKSV Securities Pvt. Ltd.) as a Senior Project Manager. My responsibilities included coaching product and delivery teams on Agile, introducing project implementation processes and best practices, and implementing Agile across the delivery teams.

Mumbai

• Managing projects/programs – IT development (Waterfall, Agile), Infrastructure and Cloud Transformation, Legacy Application Upgrade, PoS application setup, etc. – spanning across multiple locations with a budget range up to USD 200,000 and project team size of up to 25 members• Working closely with stakeholders and vendors as a part of distributed Agile teams (IT development, Infra/Network, DevOps, Compliance & Risk, Cyber, Legal and Info Sec) across Mumbai and UK• Helping with project estimation (cost and effort), change management & impact analysis, risk management, project testing, project support & creating RACI matrix• Managing sprint ceremonies for Scrum of Scrums, release planning, Agile estimation and velocity planning, sprint release backlog tracking using JIRA board, Agile velocity metrics for tracking quality and productivity• Mentoring/managing a team of 3 Project Managers

Mumbai

Mumbai Area, India

I worked as a Project Manager-Scrum Master for Mobile team where we built smartphone and iPad applications; and Managed Portfolios team where we transformed and enhanced old legacy-based web pages into an improved re-platformed version.Responsibilities and Achievements –• Established new self-organizing scrum teams by training on Agile fundamentals and coaching• Coordinated with other Project Managers-Scrum Masters to synchronize project management methodologies and best practices• Trained the team on JIRA. Worked with the team to facilitate and improve JIRA processes and workflow• Coordinated the execution of software development with product, design and development teams and external team dependencies• Coordinated with product management, design and technology teams on sprint planning, task assignment, velocity and reporting• Identified and managed project risks and issues, defining and recommending appropriate risk mitigation and contingency plans• Release Manager responsibilities including coordinating pre-requisites, release plan, execution and communication

Mumbai Area, India

I was a Project Lead-Scrum Master for British United Provident Association (BUPA) project to implement the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality in the routine activities of Insurance and HealthCare and automating the processes for the same in BUPA Health and Wellbeing’s customer and member data. The web application integrated the functionality of CRM to carry on processes from creating leads to converting them into opportunities, covering marketing strategies, creating a customer and maintaining healthy relationship with them.Responsibilities and Achievements –• Facilitated adoption of Scrum by the team• Established new self-organizing scrum teams by training on Agile fundamentals and coaching• Enabled collaboration and cooperation within the team, removed barriers and impediments/roadblocks• Ensured that the team meets the definition of ‘done’• Worked with Product Owners in maintaining priority of user stories• Ensured team’s progress and success is highly visible to all stakeholders using product and sprint backlogs and burndown charts• Tracked each task from the sprint backlog through daily standup meetings• Facilitated sprint showcase, retrospective and planning sessions• Assisted the Product Owner in communicating updates and impediments/roadblocks, and backlog and release plan maintenance

Mumbai Area, India

I worked as a Project Lead for Centre for Health Care Services (CHCS) project that included migration of the policy administration system from legacy admin applications (CAPSIL systems) to InsPro platform.Responsibilities and Achievements –• Performed quality checks of team's output to ensure high standard of quality• Ensured team is using best practices with regards to source code management and promotion• Ensured appropriate level of documentation is created• Ensured a healthy positive work environment oriented to open communications and cohesive team effort, helped resolve conflicts• Provided guidance to the team including keeping a focus on professionalism as well as communication & interpersonal skills• Mentored new/inexperienced team members• Kept the project manager informed of task accomplishments, issues and status

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

I worked as a Project Coordinator for the Agent Microsite application. For this project, the Enterprise Internet Solutions (EIS), in partnership with Agency Office Management, worked on the evolution of the application by providing additional capabilities and design enhancements.Responsibilities and Achievements –• Accountable for project effectiveness in meeting established goals and targets• Ensured the preparation and delivery of all project events and meetings and production of all necessary documentation• Took responsibility for the effective flow of information between team members and reporting on project progress• Performed the role of Risk/Issue/Change/Dependency coordinator for the project• Assisted the Project Manager in defining project goals, objectives and success criteria• Helped identify and document project constraints and assumptions• Ensured that IT security and quality requirements are met• Assisted the Project Manager in creation and completion of key deliverables• Outlined requirements, communicated project specifications and clarified competing priorities• Assigned tasks, communicated project status, monitored project for scope creep and timelines• Developed and maintained good working relationships with other departments, external vendors

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

As a Mainframe Tech Lead for client State Farm Insurance, I was Involved in preparation of functional design, technical design, impact analysis, functional test cases, solving incidents, peer reviews, analysis, design, coding, testing of modules by using Mainframes technologies like COBOL, JCL, DB2

Mumbai Area, India

I began my career as a Mainframe Developer working on multiple projects for General Electric (GE) – GE Medical Systems, GE Plastics, GE Card Services, GE Aircraft Engines and GE Fleet Services