Project Manager

Ranadheer Kanathala

**** **** **** *** ******* GA 30024 ? 770-***-**** ?

***********@*****.*** ? www.linkedin.com/pub/ranadheer-

kanathala/15/a77/910/

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Dedicated, results-oriented Project Manager and Scrum Master, with over 13

years of progressive real-world experience and leadership with expert

problem solving, time management, and facilitation, motivational speaking,

team leading and multi-tasking skills that is dedicated, results-oriented

and has over 13 years of project experience.

professional experience highlights

< Responsible for assembling the project team, developing the project

work plan, and managing the expectations, deliverables and results of

all internal and external project resources for the roles and

activities defined in the plan

< Communicated project status and risks to all project stakeholders and

manages the change process for each assigned project.

< Lead and provide work direction to a project team to determine project

scope, devise and maintain a workable plan, and to develop and deploy

the solution in accordance with the needs of the project

< Responsible for tracking project milestones and making necessary

adjustments to the project plan or resources to maintain customer

commitments

< Develop and maintain all project manager deliverables throughout the

project lifecycle

< Identified project risk, develop a project risk management plan and

actively manage risk throughout the project lifecycle

< Gather and review data to evaluate accuracy and processes to confirm

best approach is in practice

< Develops and/or monitors vendor deliverables in compliance with

binding statements of work

< Serve as project communication clearing house for all formal project

status reporting

< Responsible for delivering software and industrial product development

projects.

< Scrum Master: Led the Agile project at Ista, resulting in adoption of

Agile in early.

< Managed launches of new cloud based products (Replicon, Green Hopper)

< Managed the Marketing User Acceptance Testing efforts

< SharePoint admin for the organization and projects that I worked.

< Business strategist; plan and manage projects aligning business goals

with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive

advantage and bottom-line gains.

< Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial

acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their

respective teams.

< Experience with Project Server and Microsoft SharePoint, MS Project

and MS Excel

< Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able

to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables

that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

< Has the ability to build strong relationships with all teams and to

turn planning into reality.

< Experience in working and managing multi-disciplinary teams of varying

sizes and complex programs of work.

< Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines.

Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure

project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the

desired results.

< Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and

statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in

rapidly evolving global business environments.

< Defined processes and tools best suited to each project.

< Managed Bimonthly releases

< Managed daily scrum meeting, retrospective, retrospective follow-up

and team meeting on day to day basis.

< Experienced in reviewing product backlogs and sprint backlogs,

managing voting sessions

< Moved between Agile and waterfall approaches depending on project

specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps,

plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

< Managed the communication plan effectively by keeping necessary

parties (Stakeholders) involved at each phase of project life cycle.

Ensured the team s informed with status on timely manner.

< Worked with Product owners in prioritizing the sprint backlogs and for

internal/ external releases. Assessed business implications for each

project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and

cost targets.

< Managed Projects Involving QA activities (QTP, Test Link, SOAPUI,

Deploy IT, TFS)(Offshore/Onshore)

< Weekly status updates on project to steering committee presenting Burn

down charts, Earned value charts, Financials, Weekly reports status to

team and higher management

< Worked closely with Product Owner and Scrum team for the successful

deliveries of user stories

< Resolved numerous project issues including resource shortages,

tactical matters, scope creep

o And divergent business and user needs.

< Strong knowledge on Scrum practices, Scrum Master, Product owner roles

in agile methodologies.

< Experienced in conducting agile key meetings including daily Standup,

Sprint Planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective.

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Key Skills

Project Management: IT Project Lifecycle Value-Added Leadership

Custom Software Requirements Analysis Cross-Functional

Development ROI Analysis Supervision

Systems Engineering Costing & Budgeting Team Building & Mentoring

System Project Scheduling Client Relations &

Migrations/Integrations Testing/QA/Rollout/Support Presentations

Enterprise wide Business & IT Planning

Implementations Vendor Management

Technical skills

Configuration tools: Anthill, ClearCase, Pvcs, Visual

SourceSafe, JIRA, GIT

Databases: Oracle 9i, Microsoft SQL Server,

DB2, MS Access, MySql, Deploy IT, TFS

Database Front-end tools: TOAD, DB Explorer, SQL Plus

UNIX Front-ends: Hummingbird Exceed, WinSCP, Putty,

Telnet

Testing Tools: QTP, SOAP UI, TEST LINK,

QUALITY CENTER, UNIX

Programming Languages: C, C++, COBOL, Java, ASP, NET,

VBScript, TSL

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports 8.0,

Hyperion, iNET XML

Software Methodologies: OOA/OAD/RUP, SixSigma, SDLC,

Agile, Scrum

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project 2010, Agile

Craft, version1

academic qualifications

. Master in Computer Applications (MCA) - Kakatiya University, India

. Bachelor degree in Computer Science (BSE) - Kakatiya University,

India.

CERTIFICATIONS

. Agile Training - Agile Scrum Master

. Lean Six Sigma Black belt. (Excellence Ashram, LSSBB-2001048)

key competencies

. Goals orientated, Business analysis, Automation, Change management,

Risk Analysis, Portfolio management, Test planning, Methodologies,

Procedures, Reporting, Escalations, Communication, Adoptability,

Demonstration, Governance, Compliance, Contract management, IT

infrastructure/Design, Lean Six Sigma Black belt.

Professional Experience

Scrum Master / Release Manager

Aurea Energy Solutions (formerly ista North America)-Alpharetta, GA

Jan 2012 to till date

Projects:

1. Release schedule Management

2. Developing web service requests (API)- High Budget Project

3. Jira-Green Hopper implementation

4. Replicon

5. Regression

6. Global Services

7. Tempo Project

8. Maintenance (Backlog Ticket)

Scrum Master

< Projects that fall in agile methodology, I worked with stakeholders

and product owners in finalizing the product backlog monitored the

scrum teams to make sure all the teams sprint backlog selection is

intact with internal release goal.

< Managed two scrum teams (Client Services and Client Operations) with

strength of 9 in each team

< Communicated the status of the sprint to steering committee through

status reports (PDF templates).

< Handled Sprints by leading key agile activities including Sprint

Planning, Release Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint

retrospectives.

< Introduced Release planning, Agile Kanban boards, and Project Burn

downs. Also facilitated stand-ups and coached the team on Agile

< Monitored the status/Velocity of each sprint with Burn down chart

< Worked closely with offshore teams in India, Germany and Poland as

well as onshore, assigning tasks and checking the execution status.

< Closely worked with scrum team in removing impediments and controlling

the WIP in any given point of time during the sprint.

< Tracked resource availability status for upcoming sprints on share

point(Planned vacation schedules)

< Attended scrum of scrum meetings

< Compared the statistics on similar projects and realistic expectations

are set for individual teams. Reviewed the results in retrospective

and new ideas from the team are considered for next release to improve

the process.

< Created Dashboards in Jira/Green Hopper for more invisibility on User

stories in pipe.

< Involved and worked closely with Product owners in creating User

stories and Acceptance criteria.

< Prioritized tickets based on scrum standard Large, Medium, T-shirt

size

< Captured the Burn down velocity, Actual velocity and Project

completion date in Burn down charts

< Conducted Book Club sessions on technology learning and process

learning (Agile process and Exts technology) and implemented as we

learn. This added value to Ista and to team member's carrier.

Project Manager

< Estimated and develop project plans in accordance with the client's

needs, through proposal scoping, project start up, execution and

completion.

< Managed teams related project teams to meet organizational objectives,

ensuring that cross-project

< work is feasible and meets specific sales objectives

< Identified and managed overall project dependencies and ensure project

deliverables stay on-time, on-target and on-budget.

< Identified, prioritize manage and implement initiatives to improve the

customer experience and improve quality across the customer facing

processes

< Actively managed project plan, deliverables, dependencies and outcome

for selected project(s) as approved by senior management and key

stakeholders to ensure that the project goals and objectives are

achieved within the project timeframe

< Prepared communication plan and related project status reports to key

stakeholders and governance bodies (as appropriate) to provide project

updates on activities and deliverables, as well as risks and

mitigation strategies.

Release Manager

< Created Release plan and communicated with the team before the Release

night.

< Substantially increased release efficiency by recommending bi-monthly

releases over quarterly releases, which actually provided

opportunity for the teams to deliver more RFEs and OTFs in shorter

cycles. This lead to High customer satisfaction.

< Managed the release activities in different environment QA, UA, Prod.

Communicated the release statistics and conducted lessons learned for

each lease.

< Monitored and published the release criteria for internal releases.

Escalated the issues that are keeping release at high risk in meeting

release criteria.

< Always maintained a communication plan for each release clearly

defining the intended people and the expected communication time

period.

< Published the business release notes with details of each release

content.

< Implemented the lessons learned feedback for upcoming releases.

Documented the data for historical storage.

< Conducted postmortem session after each release with agenda including

post production issues and feedback. Set action items on individual

teams (QA, Dev, Support, and DB.etc) to make sure the output of these

meetings is carried over and utilized in making future releases more

successful.

Project Manager

Verizon Wireless. Alpharetta, GA

May 2011 - Dec 2011

Verizon wireless operates the nation's most reliable wireless voice and

data network, serving millions of customer. They also have Wholesale

business with both Prepaid and Post Paid options.

Projects:

1. RSS Billing test automation.

Responsibilities:

< Developed the business case for billing regression test automation

project with emphasis on ROI.

< Create project plan including detail WBS, Success criteria, Scope,

Risk management, Communication management, issue log.

< Produced several reports on releases statistics for team visibility

and tracking.

< Managed cost budget to allocate overall cost estimate to individual

tasks.

< Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-

day issues with emphasis on SDLC.

< Served as Automation Product owner to implement wholesale accounts

billing and customer care solutions.

< Managed 10 to 15 technical resources as well as authored Statement of

Work.

< Tracked software customization, defects and issues via Quality Center.

< Reduced the regression test execution time significantly by phases.

< Ensure integrity and delivery of each phase with respect to time,

budget, scope, change, risk and resources.

< Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity,

quality and project success criteria.

< Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking

resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling

new projects.

< Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking

metrics and project outputs.

< Applied effective project management methodologies and control

techniques.

< Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across

multiple delivery groups and/or projects.

< Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an

effective transition into production.

< Maximized productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively

communicating project status, issues and risks to internal

stakeholders and top management.

< Successfully completed the automation project with reducing 2 months

period to 5 days with automatic trigger.

Project Manager

TSYS Loyalty, Alpharetta, GA

Sept 2008 - May 2011

TSYS offers clients fully integrated end-to-end loyalty solutions that meet

the specific needs of the organization. TSYS Loyalty is a leading provider

of loyalty marketing solutions for financial institutions. The company

specializes in applications for credit- and debit-card issuers, hosting

payment programs for more than 40 national and regional financial

institutions in the United States, including two top-10 banks.

Projects:

1. Software upgrade

2. Database migration

3. Enterprise implementation

4. By weekly release management

Responsibilities:

< For software upgrade project, from web based to web services bases

using API requests Managed a team(with Dev, QA, BA, Client reps) of

through all phases including Initiation, planning, execution, control

& monitor, closing.

< As a result, achieved a seamless, defect-free migration at 5% percent

below budget with no unscheduled downtime, due to careful planning and

strategic resource allocation.

< For Database Migration project, guided a team of eight in the

migration of legacy Sybase database to Oracle Database using

Extraction Transformation and Lading technology tools (Informatica).

< With this, reduced inefficiencies and the time needed to fill

requisitions by 15 percent.

< For Enterprise implementation, directed global rollouts of IMAgent

product updates to multiple clients .including Chase, Capital one,

RBS, Home depot, Sears any many other clients

On this project I ensured timely releases, through diligent planning,

neutering vendor relationships and partnering with the client reps to

develop realistic forecasts.

< Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external

customers through direct and timely contact over the phone, through

the mail services or physical presence.

< For one of the ongoing projects 'Bi-weekly release management':

Managed the release capacity and team velocity for each release.

Monitored and controlled the project with proper planning of what goes

in to each release. Result of this project is continuous.

< Gather and review data to evaluate accuracy and processes to confirm

best approach is in practice.

Senior QA / Business Analyst

Equifax, Alpharetta, GA

July 2003 - August 2008

Projects:

1. Interconnect

2. Apply, Eid Verifier

3. Eid Compare

4. Eid Connect

5. Nexgen

6. Decision Power

7. VRU.

Responsibilities:

< Created Business Requirement Specification documents, System

Requirement/Design Specification documents.

< Actively Participated in review meetings to follow through Business

Requirements (Use Cases) and Design Specifications and provided key

technical and usability feedback.

< Interacted with the offshore teams India, Canada and assigned project

tasks.

< Setup Test Harness/ Test data and established best team practices

< Managed Defects on Requirements, Application, and Data Base, in

Quality Center.

< Created approach documents which were extremely helpful for

Development team to create technical design documents and for QA team

to create test scenarios.

< Monitored performance based on performance base lines set for each

project.

< Managed Defects state in Quality center. Generated useful reports for

the teams on defects progress.

< Responsible for sending release noted for internal stakeholders and

clients.

< Responsible to ensure defect status is 'closed' at end of each

release. Followed up on any outstanding open issues.

QA Lead / Admin

New Mexico Child Support Enforcement System, NM

August 2001-June 2003

Technical Project Manager

Infinity Solutions

Jan 1998 to-August 2001

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