Project Manager

Chanakya Adibhatla

eMail: *********@*****.***

Mobile - 203-***-****

SUMMARY

Motivated professional with over 15 years of experience and a blend of technical expertise, business acumen and excellent communications skills. Expertise in running Agile projects, envision and forecasting product roadmap, assist teams with SAFE ceremonies. Experience creating artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown charts, and release planning. Extensive experience with project management standards and methodologies (Agile & Waterfall) across varying technology platforms including Web based (Java/J2EE) and data warehouse. A diverse industry knowledge including Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Media, and Banking.

Core Strengths & Expertise

• Agile Project Management

• Large Program Management

• Stakeholder Communication

• Coaching and Mentoring

• Release Planning

• Broad Business Vertical Experience

• Product Vision and Roadmaps

EDUCATION:

MBA – University of Bridgeport, CT

EXPERIENCE:

07/17 – Current Infospan Technologies, Inc partnered with Advantum Health – Piscataway, NJ

Agile PM - Health Home Reporting Portal

HHR Portal is designed to track all the medical records of patients enrolled with various health homes and healthcare providers under Bronx Lebanon Hospital. Reports show the trends how the patients are moving from hospital to hospital so that to give the best quality of services and reduce the costs by preventing redundancy in services. This application monitors the number of patients enrolled into the health home system and assign the patients to various care coordinators under that health home.

Responsible for product backlog planning of entire HHR portal

Facilitate grooming sessions

Facilitate Scrum/SAFE ceremonies

Run daily scrums (stand-ups), resolve impediments/obstacles that are impeding the team’s progress

Demonstrate Sprint achievements to project stakeholders.

Manage project artifacts in Rally

Responsible for Stakeholder communication.

10/16 – 06/17 Bank of America, Newark, DE

Product Owner/Project Manager – FICO/DM9 Platform Migration

DM9 (Debt Manager 9) is a Recovery Platform Migration project that replaces current legacy RMS systems, Bank products and Card products that are being used across Collections & Recovery lines of business. This migration gives Bank of America the flexibility to service recovery (closed side) accounts and collections (open side) accounts products on a single platform.

Responsible for product backlog planning of FICO-DM9 product streams

Initiate & facilitate story intake meetings

Extensively write user stories across products/projects.

Facilitate grooming sessions & identify stories/acceptance criteria for sprint teams

Manage Feature planning and delivery schedule (product roadmap/scope management)

Assist teams with agile process & methodologies (both on-site & off-shore teams)

Facilitate scrum ceremonies as needed (running stand-ups, retro’s etc.).

Managed multiple scrum teams

Manage Risk & TAR items

Manage and report project progress to stakeholders and steering committee.

Responsible for vendor management & stakeholder communication (story delivery timeline).

Key participation in program increment/Big board planning

Manage CA Agile Central (Rally) artifacts (Story points, release, iterations, feature plan etc.)

Manage project financials

Program status reports, weekly stream meetings, executiec decks, system demo etc.

08/15 – 09/16 DNA Healthcare – Piscataway, NJ

Agile PM - Denial Analytics project

This product is to automate the process of analysis and resubmission of claim denials and thereby enhancing the revenues of Providers. This enables the payees and providers to track the claims which are denied and the reason for their denial. Data is shown in the charts and grids for easy navigations and data is grouped and showed based on the payers, payees and providers. And the data can be drill down to month level and day level thus the Manager and Admin can identify the pending claims and so the claims can be assigned or monitored. So based on the data, providers and payee A/R’s can claim them again for the payment to the payers.

Responsible for product backlog planning of Denial Analytics

Prioritize stories for working & elevation sprints in Rally.

Develop Release plan for the entire project

Facilitate grooming sessions & identify stories/acceptance criteria for sprint teams

Coach & assis the team with Agile process & methodologies.

Facilitate Scrum/SAFE ceremonies (planning, demo, retrospective etc.) in SM absense

Run daily scrums (stand-ups), resolve impediments/obstacles that are impeding the team’s progress

Discuss Sprint Burndown/Burnup charts with team & management to resolves any progress issues.

Hold Budget meetings with SteerCo to discuss financials

Manage SAFE ceremony artifacts in Rally

Responsible for Stakeholder communication.

01/14 to Client: Barclays – Wilmington, DE

July’15 Project Manager/Product Owner

Projects: ClickFox CEA: Is a Customer Experience Analytics

US Airways/American airlines Rebrand

Manage Waterfall & Agile projects (Data Warehouse & Web projects)

Responsible for department Roadmap (Product vision, Capacity planning & Forecast) for BAPI (Business API’s – Webservices team)

Manage Confluence-JIRA integration points (scrum artifacts, JIRA issue creation etc.)

Maintain & prioritize product backlog

Initiate & facilitate story intake meetings

Facilitate grooming sessions & identify stories/acceptance criteria for sprint teams

Maintained product backlog in RALLY.

Develop & manage project budgets, strategies and schedule

Manage Project schedule, milestones and deliverables across multiple projects including complex interdependencies and Risk Management.

Managed 3 scrum teams including off-shore team

Engage & facilitate Off-Shore team (BTCI, India) to discuss project progress

Manage vendor communication to deliver data feeds (Adobe, Convergys, Epsilon, ClickFox)

Managed and directed multiple projects using a Project Life Cycle methodology.

Track progress to ensure quality is maintained, milestones are met, and costs stay on plan

Prepare executive level status reports for senior management and stakeholders.

Coach teams with Agile framework and methodologies

Assis teams with Scrum/Kanban SAFE ceremonies (planning, demo, retrospective etc.)

Update story tasks in Rally on a daily basis a generate reports for Sprint burn-down, iteration planning, sprint velocity etc. for team & management review.

Environment: MS-Project, Java, Web Services, TSYS, Transact (Experian), DataStage, Oracle, DB2, JIRA, Confluence, SQL, Control-M, RALLY etc.

04/10 to Client: VANGUARD - Malvern, PA

12/13 Scrum Master/PM

Projects: VOL (Vanguard Online): Is a web interface for Vanguard Australia’s retail clients and advisers of

retail clients to log on; access account; balance information, statements, secure mailbox etc.

Vanguard Canada: Is a new website launched to support Vanguard’s ETFs (Exchange Traded

Funds) in the Canadian market. Vanguard Canadian ETFs are traded on Toronto Stock Exchange. This project was implemented in 5 phases. First phase was new website launch with About Vanguard and content pages. Second phase was new ‘Fund’ launch – started with 5 ETFs for the Canadian market. Third phase comprising of portal site with separate landing pages for Advisors, Institutional; Individual investors and Canada Mobility project (Digital marketing – responsive design etc.). Other two phases were Fund compare tool; Cost compare tool.

Managed several Web & Data Warehousing projects during my sting at Vanguard.

Developed project plan, project charter on waterfall projects.

Implement Agile methodology on various projects.

Performed VPE (Vendor Product Evaluation) on several tools.

Assist Product Owner with prioritizing product backlog

Manage product backlog stories (Front & Back burner user stories) in accordance to sprints.

Responsible for sprint planning /committing, running daily scrums.

Resource planning

Developed project communication plan for International business.

Developing elevation plans.

Facilitate decomp sessions and working closely with business.

Developed process flows for future state using swim lane diagrams.

Liaison between Morningstar and business to identify the datapoints and negotiated the contract to include additional data points for Vanguard Canada business.

Facilitate Budget review meetings with sponsors and present project financials.

Created datapoints API using the Morningstar API builder to assist the development team by mapping the in-house fields.

Conduct CAT (Client Acceptance Testing) with business and obtained sign-offs on IT Deliverables.

Maintain project IT-Key-controls, an organization policy.

Assisted AVT (Asset Vulnerability Testing) team by providing required credentials to conduct AVT on external sites (Ex: ClickJacking, CrossSite scripting, CSRF etc)

Environment: MS-Project, RTMS/BARS (Mainframe systems), Java, JSP, Spring MVC, Teamsite, HttpWatch9.0 SIEBEL, Datastage 8.7, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Control-M7.0, Subversion1.6.1, Agility (In-house tool) etc.

09/08 to Client: BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD (BCBS) - Boston, MA

04/10 Consultant

Environment: MS-Project, RTMS/BARS (Mainframe systems), See Beyond, Java, Oracle Financials etc.

05/05 to Client: ESPN - Bristol, CT

08/08 Consultant

Environment: ASP.Net, C#, TFS, Java, J2EE, Oracle, SharePoint

05/04 to Client: LIQUENT, (THOMSON CO.) - Horsham, PA

04/05 Consultant

Environment: Java, Oracle, Weblogic

01/02 to Client: OOCL - San Jose, CA

03/04 Web Developer

Environment: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Oracle

01/00 to Client: INFORMIX, ISELL PROJECT – Menlo Park, CA

12/02 Developer

Environment: Mainframes, Power Builder, Oracle etc.

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