Prashanth Azharuddin, Pmi-Acp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Responsible for the management of agile projects in the marketing intelligence and digital ecosystems space with a prime focus on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)• Worked in collaboration with product owners to develop overall project management and execution strategies for a plethora of clients in financial, telecom and automotive sectors• Responsible for the maintenance and administration of JIRA and Confluence systems across a multitude of projects, teams and sprint cycles• Facilitated the adoption of agile processes and principles enabling teams to self-manage, self-organize and deliver via effective Lean-Agile practices• Responsible for bringing accountability to teams and take lead on scrum ceremonies• Worked closely with the product owner to ensure project work breakdown into consumable user stories with clear definitions of done• Managed and tracked schedule and budgets through time logging, reconciliations and work order pacing on a week by week basis• Documented and presented project status updates, escalations, design considerations and follow-ups to team and client stakeholders at weekly touch points• Worked on detailed Scope of work documentation and briefs for Digital Transformation projects

Bengaluru Area, India

Directed and drove product build at Buzzinga, a Social Media Listening, Analysis and Reporting Framework that harnesses the power of social media to enable strategic decision making. Based on an in-house PaaS and proprietary crawling technology, Buzzinga enables social listening from millions of sources segregated by geography and industry servicing Digital/Social Media and PR organizations, IT Consultancies and brands.Buzzinga has been accelerated by Kyron, are a part of the Nasscom 10K startup community , a Hot100 startup award winner and featured in CiO India as one of the hottest startups of 2016.

* Managed the lifecycles of code development for client projects; from ideation to deployment* Enhanced the efficiency of the IT development process in the firm by over 25%* Managed multiple project implementations involving requirement planning/analysis, software requirement specifications, scheduling and budget tracking* Introduced the firm to AGILE concepts (including Scrum and Pair Programming) and decreased client time-to-market by 30%* Worked closely with internal and external project stakeholders to gather project specific requirements by acting as a liaison between the business and technical teams* Conduct co-ordination meeting with teams for each phase to define goals and schedule. Involved in effort estimation reviews for activities throughout the phases of a project* Worked closely with the Integration testing team, Developers, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Performance testing team and third-party vendors on test co-ordination, test data setup, Build and Environment co-ordination* Coordinated with User Acceptance Testing team for developing User Acceptance Test (UAT) plan, executing UAT test cases, managing/resolving issues during UAT* Drove sales and marketing with primary business being driven by web scraping services. * Led the team that conceptualized and designed Buzzinga, our social media analytics dashboard* Accelerated by Kyron,* Part of the Nasscom 10K Community* Winner of the Hot100 award that showcases best-in-class tech startups

Chennai - Bangalore - Beijing

* Worked at Wipro Technologies in their process integration team as part of the SAP Competency.* Listed amongst the top ten SAP Exchange Infrastructure contributors worldwide for the year 2006 on the SAP Developers Network

Post Graduate Certificate, Project Management

Pgdbm, Services Marketing

B.Tech, Information Technology