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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Core Offering/Technology Programmes/Projects managed: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Migrator o Enterprise Vault and Mailbox Migrations (on prem to M365)o AD Domain Migrationso G-Suite to M365 Migrations Modern Workplace o Intune Deploymento Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)o Microsoft Defender ServicesDuties:• Design, plan, communicate and manage a diverse portfolio of projects• Leading and managing a diverse delivery team• Managing a program of work with multiple project workstreams• Managing stakeholders across Technology and Business including Senior Executives/Leadership and SMEs• Managing scope, schedule and budget for projects• Initiating Program/Project governance and reporting frameworks• Facilitating project communications, scheduling and resource allocation between business units and professional services• Developing detailed project plans• Driving execution, monitoring, and controlling of project plans and validation of project deliverables. Charged with communicating, collaborating, and creating synergy at all levels of organization.• Conducting project reviews and collating detailed reports for Leadership team

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Projects handled: Storage Block Commissioning and Migration Datacenter Exit New Datacenter Node Commissioning OVM Cluster Upgrade and Migration Automation CloudX – Product developmentDuties:• Managing projects across Datacom AU and NZ each with their own distinctive characteristics• Delivering projects simultaneously across multiple customer accounts• Drove execution, monitoring, and controlling of project plans and validation of project deliverables. Charged with communicating, collaborating, and creating synergy at all levels of organization.• Managed multiple vendor partners, initiated, and tracked network and data center hardware procurement, and managed all related budget items and costs while working with Finance• Drove the process of deploying production data centers from initial requirements gathering to completion.• Negotiated new and renewal colocation contracts for power, bandwidth, and space• Align closely with the Infrastructure Security leaders to develop infrastructure with disciplined security controls• Conducting project reviews and collating detailed reports for Leadership team

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Projects handled: Windows server 2016 Upgrade Activate (self-service) upgrade  AppDynamics Automation Service Design Projects Decommission Projects Sharepoint Multiplexing Migration Continuous Delivery M365 Cloud Transformation Projects Azure CloudOpso Operational Excellenceo Platform Enhancements Platform Integration Project (Legacy to Salesforce)o AWS Environment setup including CI/CD pipelinesDeliverables as Project Manager▪Spearheading projects including planning & execution aspects with minimal supervision; providing inputs on major issue resolutions; working with diverse teams ▪Evolving repeatable processes for managing the day-to-day activities by multiple Team besides maintaining a process for managing the optimal deployment of resources with differing priorities and working practices. ▪Defining project scope and schedule while focusing timely delivery of value, leading project status and meetings, preparing and distributing progress reports▪Delivering Technical projects within time, workforce and quality constraints by coordinating between the infrastructure groups with an effective communication plan and reports.▪In collaboration with all stakeholders, estimating and monitoring costs, timescales and resources used, and acting where these deviate from agreed tolerances; Identifying, assessing and managing risks/conflictsDeliverables as Scrum Master: Working with the Product Owner to groom Product Backlog, define release strategy and support release activities to the Scrum team and increase the Velocity by reducing waste, improving efficiency and resolving impediments for the team Implementing Scrum from ground zero to facilitate Release Planning, Backlog Refinement Sessions, Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.  Publicizing the team's progress and successes for high visibility to product owner/stakeholders via Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown and Assigned v Resolved matrix

Wellington, New Zealand

Consulting, Build and Manage services for startups, small and medium organizations.Offshore development servicesJust-in-time/on-demand resourcing

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

As a Test Lead, I ensure the provision of quality software testing services for projects and products as specified by the clients/PMs/Test Manager. Taking on the lead to deliver specific projects and work closely with the senior testing resources to take responsibility for the design and delivery of test scripts, the production of effective testing reports and information for other project leaders to ensure overall successful delivery.

Hyderābād Area, India

Organizing & leading all the relevant Scrum meetings (ceremonies) according to the agreed upon iteration frequency. Help conduct backlog grooming sessions and ensuring that the story clarity index is maintained for all the groomed stories. Preparing complete Plan with accountability of defining scope, setting timelines, analysing requirements, prioritising tasks, identifying dependencies, evaluating risks & issues.Motivating and directing team members for achieving the committed sprint deliverablesReporting daily & at-the-end sprint status to business and IT stakeholders and monitoring sprint progress and outstanding issues.

Hyderabad Area, India

Projects managed in this role:1. Web application (digital) development projects a. Reliance: Jio Money Card - Semi-Closed loop prepaid web application b. GTech: Michigan Lottery "Won Card" c. Gtech: Illinois Lottery d: TMS: Educate CardHighlights of this role included:☛ Playing an imperative role in leading end-to-end project activities while establishing a smooth communication between the Internal Teams, Deliver Manager, Onsite PMs, and External Client Delivery Manager on project management aspects☛ Coordinating with cross-functional project teams including members from Development, Quality Assurance, Build and Configuration, Network, Fraud & Risk and Change Control Board for smooth and timely deliverablesI offered a seamless service in monitoring project progress and outstanding issues, overseeing smooth implementation of the project through onsite and offshore team coordination; maintaining documentation on process and procedures.

Hyderabad Area, India

CTS hired me as a Programmer Analyst and there I rose to the level of Project Lead. During my engagement I was administering project team resources and external vendor resources with accountability of dealing with team enquiries, reporting potential risks and tracking and monitoring projects against time, effort and cost. I was also functioning as an inseparable part of QA Department in the development of “Fusion Application” and demonstrated highly nurtured testing skills by assisting the team in implementing the testing best practices.In addition I served as a Subject Matter Expert for crucial modules of the application and managed the testing lifecycle spanning preparing and executing test cases, reviewing and updating the test cases as per the new enhancements in the application and prepared defect reports, test case reports and weekly status reports.Other highlights of my role include:☛ Interfaced with onsite team through conference calls to discuss on project open issues and involved in the daily task allocation and sending daily status to state side team☛ Administered project team resources and external vendor resources with accountability of dealing with team enquiries, reporting potential risks and tracking and monitoring projects against time, effort and cost

Hyderabad Area, India

Commenced career as a Test Engineer and got promoted to the post of Team Lead, I contributed in testing of NexOS Application as a notable part of QA Department thereby contributed in successful launch of the NexOS application in 2008. I was facilitating as single point of contact (SPOC) between Off-Shore QA Team and On-Site associated Project Manager and established a smooth channel of communication for effective project deliverables. I also maintained defects summary of every build based on release in test status document in prescribed format and directly reported to On-Site associated Project Manager.In addiction I participated in weekly client project meeting for giving an insight on current project testing activities and conducted internal meetings to discuss the features, domain technical functional workflows. Other highlights of my role include:☛ Accredited with an award by the client for the performance excellence and work commitment with “Certificate of Excellence Award”☛ Played a significant role in preparation of training plan and conducted the training sessions for a new associate, thereafter During my association I was involved in review meetings, walkthroughs and conference calls and prepared MOM for meetings and status calls and regularly updated the SharePoint for future reference. I also shouldered the accountability of managing monthly release cycle and developed as well as presented Project Metrics to the team and LOB

Hyderabad Area, India