Project Manager, Project Management, Scrum Master, Agile
Resume:
ANIRUDDHA KULKARNI
•+1-240-***-****•acb09c@r.postjobfree.com•6 Carriage Walk,
Gaithersburg, MD
Summary
Certifications – Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), ITIL v3
Foundation
6 + years of progressive experience and expertise in the field of Project Management
2 + years of experience in implementing Agile methodology for application development and
enhancement
2 + year in role of PMO implementing and mentoring best practices across the organization
Extensive experience working with stakeholders and resources in NA, EMEA, APAC
Extended expertise in end to end development of software applications
Copious experience in SDLC methods Waterfall & Agile – RAD, JAD, SCRUM, XP
Well versed in risk analysis & management, release management, business analysis, requirement
analysis
Professional Experience
Project Manager
Adobe Systems, May 2012 – Nov 2013
Role & Responsibilities
Establishing PMO for Sales Operations – Templates creation, mentoring, implementing best
practices
Release Management; Project Planning & Execution; Producing high and low level project plans
Create and analyze reports on track status, issues and risks and report the major risks and issues to
the Project leadership and stakeholders
Work with the Enablement effectiveness team, Enablement programs and project managers to
summarize routine and ad hoc analysis/ reporting of enablement activities.
Assess business impact of issues and risks to the projects
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Drive projects using PMI frameworks, Agile methodologies and standardized practices and
approaches for repeated project engagement and measurement across the Sales Ops and Enablement
organizations and its stakeholders
Ensure all Enablement programs are initiated with clear learning and/or business objectives, KPIs
and plan for tracking plans through to completion and measurement of program value/ effectiveness
Highlighted Projects
ChanneLink Dash –
Description The project was conceptualized to develop a new system which offers scalable,
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fast and efficient solution to reporting needs of 1000 + global users. This system utilizes SAP
HANA database and MicroStrategy reporting tool. Implementation of this new system phased out
the legacy SQL BW based reporting tool.
Contribution as Project Manager – Representing business stakeholders; Managing entire
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change management activities for users across the globe; Reporting statuses and escalations to
higher management; Collaborating with IT team to drive release management; Monitoring and
tracking UAT progress; Creating, tracking and maintaining project schedule
SFDC Case Management
Description – This initiative was an effort to streamline the case management process within
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salesforce.com platform. Introduction of numerous custom features in case management process
to reduce average case handling time
Contribution as Scrum master – Lead Scrum of 8 to achieve desired goals of project; Sprint
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designing, tracking deliverables, ensuring each sprint achieved its goal, drove sprint planning,
review and retrospective meetings; Collated continuous feedback from stakeholders and help
maintaining product backlog; Reporting statuses and escalations to higher management
Fields Skills Manager – Competency Management System
Description – Implementation of competency management tool to assess & create inventory
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of skills of the global field agents across the enablement vertical of Sales organization. Tool is a
vendor supplied product (COTS) customized for specific use of Adobe Sales organization
Contribution as Project Manager – Collaborated with various teams to help them participate
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in this initiative; Drove competency map creation and assessment of skills for various teams,
validation and presentation of skill verification data analysis to business stakeholders; Reporting
statuses and escalations
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Enablement Datamart
Description – The aim of this project was to create a common repository of all the data
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related to enablement activities across the sales organization. The end result of this project was to
develop an extensive reporting tool based on SQL database and MS excel cubes which could be
used by analysts to create custom reports and dashboards
Contribution as Project Manager – Representing business stakeholders; Collaborating with
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vendors to get necessary data access where required; Collecting reporting and dashboard
requirements from stakeholders; Collaborating with Business Intelligence team to develop
datamart; Reporting statuses and escalations
New Hire Onboarding Content Overhaul
Description – Aim of this initiative was to review and overhaul the training content used for
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the training new hires in Sales organization. This was extremely critical initiative since average new
hire onboarding time within Adobe is very high compare to market average. Goal of this project
was to strategically design the training content which was scalable, repeatable and measurable.
Contribution as Project Manager – Collaborated with various business unit heads to get buy
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in on concept of Digital university; Collaborated with extended team of SMEs to review and create
training content; Collaborated with Infrastructure team to implement content on common and
accessible platform; Implemented assessments to measure effectiveness of training content;
Arranging training for the trainers on new content
Senior Associate Program Management
Sapient Consulting, Oct 2011 – Apr 2012
Role & Responsibilities
Supervising & Managing strategic initiatives of EA operations team
Manage relationships with the team leads and third party partner and/or vendor relationships
Derive and drive issue and risk resolution solutions to ensure effective delivery and mitigation of the
business impact.
Ensure that regular risk reviews of the project take place; Support the team Leadership in effectively
communicating the risks to the client
Participating with PMO to implement and advocate best practices
Analyze project metrics to ensure compliance to quality
Drive the compliance of SLAs and make strategies to overcome non compliance
Highlighted Projects
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Single Sign On for Oracle EBS
Description – The goal of this world wide initiative was to successfully implement Single Sign
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On for all users on Oracle e business suit and receipt management application using Oracle
Identity management. Successful implementation would result in better user experience in terms of
using Oracle EBS.
Contribution as Project Manager – Accountable for overall project management;
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Collaborated with vendor (Oracle) and drove project according to milestones and timelines;
Manage resources from Sapient allocated for this project; Anchored meetings and calls with
business stakeholders and vendors; Reported statuses and escalations
Hardware management System
Description – This project was directed to develop a web based hardware inventory
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management system for physical and virtual servers used across EA organization. The business
case for this effort was to be able to regulate and optimize use of hardware for all projects and
initiatives. This tool was envisioned to work in tandem with Release Management tool to ensure
availability of environments for weekly/ monthly releases
Contribution as Project Manager Managed this project from conception to closure by
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delivering on milestones at planned timelines. Worked with team of developers and testers.
Collaborated with IT Infrastructure team to gather requirements of new tool. Weekly status
reporting to stakeholders and senior management.
Project Manager
Planmatics – CareSystems, May 2007 – Jun 2011
Role & Responsibilities
Project managed the development of nurse scheduling software; implemented of SDLC methods;
Created and tracked product development to ensure timely releases
Implemented software at various client locations
Gathered user and functional requirements from clients; documented and prioritized requirements
Collaborated with team of developers and QA to ensure all requirements are met
Detailed gap analysis of legacy systems and managing the change management activities
Provided consultation to USPS for various process optimization projects
Highlighted Projects
Healthcare Information System – CareWare – Nurse Scheduling Software
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Description – The purpose of the CareWare is to create optimized nurse schedules in a
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hospital satisfying all the preferences of the nursing staff. It is a single integrated system which
forms an interface with Human Resources, Payroll and Census / Acuity systems to provide
consolidated information to the Nursing managers and IT staff.
Contribution as Project Manager – Accountable for implementation of application at client
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location; Responsible for entire change management activities such as trainings, release notes,
training documentation, etc.; Ensuring client requirements and feedback are incorporated in the
product; Demonstration to application to existing and prospective clients
Postal Operations – FORESITE – parcel forecasting application
Description – The purpose of the FORESITE application is to generate forecast of the
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number of parcels to be sorted in parcel sorting centers of DHL network. This application generates
daily, weekly and monthly forecast values that facilitate the determination of staffing needs at parcel
sorting centers.
Contribution as Project Manager –Lead team of 5 to conceptualize the forecasting
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application; Coordinated sessions to gather high level business requirements; Eliciting user
requirements and documentation; Created project documents such as Project Charter, project
scope, requirements documents, project timelines etc.; Monitored, tracked and reported project
progress to stakeholders
Postal Operations – VPA – Value Add Process Assessment
Description – The VPA tool is an MS excel based application developed to identify the value
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adding and non value adding processes in USPS mail sorting facilities. The tool also estimates the
investment that can be made to improve the efficiency and calculate the Return on Investment.
Contribution as Business Consultant – Developed excel based analytical tool for Value Add
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analysis; Conducted detailed process analysis and created detailed process maps at various USPS
sorting centers; Formulated recommendations to improve individual process efficiency; Conducted
training sessions for USPS industrial engineers to implement and utilize Value Add analysis tool
Education
Master of Science from University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Bachelor of Science from Institute of Engineering & Technology, India
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