Vilas Patel Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 Prepare the Investment brief and get the funding/budget approved Identify the skills required and work with demand management team to ramp up the teams.  Prepare project management plan and set up Agile way of working and processes for smooth deliveries Attend scrum ceremonies, help team achieve the goal and remove impediments or dependencies  Coaching the scrum master to deal with blockers, technical debt and other issues due to unavailability of Infrastructure and dependencies on other stakeholders Ensure team goals are aligned with overall program Goals and we adhere to the guidelines and entry criteria for next phases. Co-ordinate activities like SIT, Performance Test, Pen Test, Market Trial and Market Participant Tests.  Prepare monthly governance reports(PSR) and presenting it to program management executives. Highlight key issues, risks and dependencies and it’s mitigation plan Identify and escalate risks and issues to management, and provide recommendations for mitigating these risks Maintain the resources and budget, approve weekly timesheet and invoices Maintain and track FTS(resource forecast), scope, budget and timelines. If there are variations, as a project manager I am responsible for raising change request for additional(scope, budget, timeline) and get it approved by Steer co.

 Coach teams to adapt Agile ways of working by conducting multiple sessions Create and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that it is prioritized and groomed for maximum efficiency Conducting Backlog grooming session with Product owner and technical architect to ensure team understand the stories defined and has sufficient details and knowledge for a successful sprint delivery Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives Ensure the development team meets sprint goals and delivers high-quality software on time Helping team resolving any blockers or impediments Participate in SOS calls to discuss any cross-team dependencies or to highlight any other issues or help required Sprint review and demo with product owners to ensure story meets Definition of Done  Sprint retrospective to understand what went well, what went wrong and action plan for improvement (Used Trello Dashboard) Discuss improvement plan with Product Owner and put them into actions.  Ensuring smooth monthly release – On time sign off from respective stakeholder Calculating team velocity and capacity, Tracking KPI, Setting up Scrum Boards and Dashboards for customer reporting

United Kingdom, India, Malaysia

I have worked with various Telecom customers as Project/Delivery Manager ensuring on-time and on-budget deliveries. Various projects include Transformation programs, Automation of manual process, Data quality assurance and Revenue Assurance programs. My responsibilities includes :  Prepare project management plan and set up Agile ways of working Along with resource management group, identify the right talents to fill in team role.  Collaborate with stakeholders to identify project requirements and deliverables Lead the design workshops along with TCS, and other architects to strive the design approval from Architect Review Board (ARB) collaborate with internal, external stakeholders, vendors and procurement teams Tracking the project milestones against plan, removing impediments, strategic planning and dealing with unknowns Present Project status and progress to stakeholders, including executive leadership, product owners, and clients Team building activities to boost team morals and motivating team for learning new skills and stepping up to overcome project challenges Maintaining RAID Log, registering risks, discussing mitigation plans and getting it accepted by customer, resolving issues and dependencies, highlighting it’s impact if not resolved on time Managing Project Scope, negotiating with customer for scope and time variations  Tracking Financial milestones and get timely approval for invoicing and payments Creating Business case for new opportunities into Digital and Data Stream for the customer

Usa

 Conduct workshops with SMEs to understand the business requirements and pain points Study the existing processes and highlight problem areas Define scope for new system inline with customer needs Draft requirements and prepare business case Deliver output as per scope definitions Analyze the data and output reports Demo and presentations to customers

India

Started my career as a Full Stack Java developer and successfully handled multiple roles and responsibilities throughout the journey. Gathering the business requirements and translating to a technical solution, designing technical solutions and help team resolve issues were main responsibilities during early tenure of my career.