Samaya Prakash Sahoo

actkqc@r.postjobfree.com Upper Humber Drive, Toronto +1-647-***-****

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/samayasahoo

Objectives

I have 15+ years of experience, of which 7 years as Sr. Project Manager practicing Agile [Kanban, Scrum] and contributing business values by developing and executing strategies, long-term vision, while leading the Project to achieve measurable business growth.

I always strive to drive excellence by transforming “as-is” Project into “to-be” industry leaders, simultaneously keep costs low and output and morale high. I am tenacious to ensure that my organization can rapidly, reliably and repeatedly deliver a quality product to the market and not stop till the right solution is found.

Education

Indian Institute of Management 2008 - 2010 Software Development Management

R V College of Engineering 1996 - 2000 Bachelors in Engineering

Experience Overview:

Project Management Practices undertaken:

oComplete Schedule - Capability - Budget control from Product Backlog – Release Backlog - Sprint Backlog.

oCreate Project Templates for Agile Scrum and other customizable project templates

oCard Walls monitoring in sync with Customizable multi-dimension story boards

oFunctional Workflow and team workflows burn rate tapping

oRegular chat/conversations to keep team in sync/collaboration and ensure smooth GitHub Integration

oConstant Reporting of Progress, forecasting charts and Cycle Time Analytics

oStreamlining Project Life Cycle to Phase Gate Reviews

Implementation of End-to-End Quality check points at:

oQuality Dashboard & Retrospective Survey of Key throughput points

oRelease management with Risk based topology

Keeping a close tab on Project Budget Attributes - 1.Project Budget Snapshot [outlining Vs actuals committed Vs remaining budget), 2.Approved Budget, 3. Budget versus Actuals (monthly burnout)

Manages the relationship with key customers, vendors & service providers to deliver effective, efficient IT service to support & enable business strategies & objectives.

Taking ownership/facilitate/ making decisions and ensuring that different verticals or departments are aligned to the decision making process, including the employees and contractors.

Oversees the entire bidding process, from initiation to execution, directs the evaluation of competitors' strengths and weaknesses to increase the bid winning ratio.

Responsible for ensuring two-way communication on organizational initiatives, group’s issues and employee concerns and work in tandem with the multiple departments for the same.

Conduct Team building, identifying resource gaps and developing development plans to enhance capabilities.

Jyotiprakash International Inc. Sr. Project Manager Consultant Sep2015 – Till Date

Credit Transaction System Enhancement & Integration project Role: Kanban Project Manager & Agile Coach Domain: Credit Card Project Cost: $1.2 M USD Application: Credit Card Transaction Processing module and BI Dashboard Technology /Environment – Java, Apache, I Dashboard

Enhance existing financial systems to allow adaptable for credit card transaction interfacing and also with payment gateways.

Interfaced reporting and analytics module for Credit Card Behavior Score, Performance Monitoring and analysis Dashboard.

I was responsible for Backlog prioritization, Sprint Planning-Implementation-Closure, Release Management, release documentation review & release handover.

I was responsible for coaching the team/s and moving from Waterfall to Agile Process.

Working closely with multiple cross functional and Business teams for successful implementation of the

A high Quality Flow based delivery approach is implemented successfully in this project with :

oQuality Dashboard & Retrospective Survey of Key throughput points.

oRelease management with Risk based topology

NISG Designation - Sr. Consultant Role Sr. Project Manager Dec2012 – Aug2015

1.Treasury Management System 2012 – 2015 Client – finance Department/MINISTRY

Role: Integration Project Implementation with legacy Treasury System and Scrum Master Process : Agile - Scrum Domain : Financial Services, Pension & ERP Project Cost : $10M USD Duration: 30Months Application : Oracle Finance & Oracle Treasury Technology /Environment – Java, Weblogic, Oracle 11g, Oracle Financial reporting, BI Reports

The existing COTS Treasury System of Oracle Finance Application was integrated with BESPOKE modules – ERP and Pension

The project was implemented with a risk based project scoping and implementation approach for the Software and then migrating high risk based servers.

The application was fine tuned to meet very high-end performance goals as close to 600,000 Government employees access it on ongoing basis, because of this success it was awarded as the best project of the state in the Year 2015.

Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities and ensuring synchronization between Delivery and Client

2.Integrated Excise Management System [IEMS] 2012 – 2015 Client – Excise & Revenue Dept./ MINISTRY

Role: Project Management of Phased New Implementation, and Scrum Master cum Project Owner Process: Kanban Domain: Supply Chain, Storage Management & Logistics Management Project Cost : $10M USD Duration: 18Months Technology/Environment – Websphere, Java, DB2, Business Object Reports, Clustered Environment

I was involved from initial phase of Process mapping to Business solution Creation to RFP to Project Implementation.

This project was implemented in two phases, Phase I covered -Supply Chain & Storage Management System, Phase II covered - Vehicle Management system with Geo Tagging/Fencing/Locking

3.State Data Centre NISG 2012 – 2015 Client – IT Department/MINISTRY

Role: Tier III Data Centre Implementation and Operation Project Management in Waterfall model Project Cost : $12M USD Project Implementation Duration : 24 Months

Successfully implemented all Hardware, Software and Network modules of Tier III Data Centre and mitigated from 12 months slippage [before I joined] to less than 8 months slippage [after I joined] on Go Live.

Structural control, usage and efficient monitoring using tools such as HP Enterprise Management System [EMS], Honeywell Building Management System [BMS] & CISCO Network Management System [NMS]

Drafting State Policy of - Data Security, Standard Operating Procedure, Data Interoperability, mailing policy, Hosting policy.

SDC houses the State Exchange Server and also all critical applications such as Services Gateway & Payment Gateway.

FICO [Fair Isaac Corporation] Sr. Manager Feb 2006 to Nov2012

1.Origination Manager 2008 – 2012 Client – 1.Scotia Bank- Canada, Core Logic - USA

Role: Sr. Project Manager & Agile Champion Process: Kanban, RUP Domain: Baking and Mortgage Project Cost : $ 5M Technology/Environment – Websphere, Java, DB2, Business Object Reports, Clustered Environment, Multi-Tenant

Started with POC to eventually growing into full project then adding two customers for COTS implementation with varying Business Solution.

As-is-to-be mapping of legacy products [approximately 10 No’s] to a new single Risk and Service based product and then mapping the potential product requirement to future client requirements.

Sets performance goals and career development plan for direct reports, coach employees, conducts 1:1 meetings to monitor progress & provide quality feedback on regular basis.

Specific mapping for checklist verification for Deployment in multimode clustered environment of IBM power servers and mapping outcomes to Release candidate initially and Go live at end.

2.TRIAD – Authorization 2006 – 2012 CLIENTS – 1.EVERBRITE BANK & 2.Bank of Communication –China, 3. Banco Santander –Spain, 4.Citibank & 6.WaMu –USA, 7.EDCON Financials –South Americas

Process : RUP - Agile Domain : Banking- Credit card, Risk Management Portfolio Management, Capital Market Project Cost : $ 2M Technology/ Environment – IIS, VB, MSSQL, IBM Mainframe, CICS Online, XML, Business Object Reports

Mainframe High transaction oriented and very stable system but as the system was a legacy system adaptability implementation at client side was a major challenge in the project, this was overcome by taking an incremental approach of technology updating including reports to Business Object Reports.

TRIAD had a very lean head count and geographically distributed team, thereby ensuring every person was SPOF, this put a lot of limitation on process implementation of coherence between members. I could overcome this in a phased manner stabilization of technology and geography.

I was responsible for performance goals and career development plan for direct reports, coach employees, conducts 1:1 meetings to monitor progress & provide quality feedback on regular basis.

3.Precision Marketing Manager 2009 – 2010 Clients – BestBuy USA

Role : Project Manager Process : RUP-Agile Domain : Retail & Analytics Project Cost : $ 0.4M Duration : 1.5yrs

Website and logistics analytics development project. KPI’s were developed based on score card Campion challenger model

4.Retail Action Manager 2010 – 2011 Clients – SAM’s Club USA

Role : Project Manager Process : Agile Domain : Retail & Retail Analytics Project Cost : $ 0.5M Duration : 1yrs

Website analytics development project. KPI’s were developed based on score card Campion challenger model

5.ADAM – Predictive Analytics FICO 2007 – 2012 Clients – Captive

Role: Project Manager Process: RUP - Agile Domain: ETL, Analytics Project Cost: $ 0.2M Duration: TRIAD Release

6.Triad Analytic DataMart (TAD) FICO 2009 – 2011 Clients – Captive ETL, Data Extraction & Decision

Role: Project Manager Process: RUP - Agile Domain: Data Warehouse Project Cost: $ 0.2M Duration: TRIAD Release

Wyse Technologies Sr. Automation Engineer Feb2005 to Feb2006

Client – WALMART Role : Creation of an Enterprise framework for Performance, Regression test lab

AMADEE Sr. Engineer Sep2000 to Jan2005

CLIENT – DAIMLER CHRYSLER Automobile Industry Maintenance and Support for SAP ERP and Maintenance module

Skills

Project Management Tools used:

Microsoft Project, Quick Base, HP Quality Center, Charts, Jira, Trello, MS Visio.

Project Processes

Scrum Agile, RUP-Agile, Kanban, Lean, RUP-Agile, Iterative modeling,, Waterfall,, Work Breakdown Structure, Rational Unified Process [RUP], POC, Campion Challenger Modeling

Compliance skills:

SLA and SLG monitoring/evaluation, RFP creation-evaluation-response, Quality Audit, Business Process Reengineering

Business Process Skills

Business Process Enablement, Risk Management, Loss Prevention, Productivity enhancement, Value System Based Leadership

Software Architecture:

Websphere Commerce Platform, Clustered Multi node- Load Balancer, WAS, WPS, Windows Servers, ADS, Desktop Virtualization, Citrix, RDP, Tarantella, COBOL, JCL, AIX, Teradata, Deployment Manager, Exchange Server, Services, payment and SMS Gateway Server, SAN Storage. SAS, MS Suite, Jenkins. Oracle Finance, Oracle Treasury, SAP ERP, SAP CRM

Domain Expertise:

Banking and Financial Services [10yrs]

Retail - Analytics, Branding & Promotion [4yrs]

Origination, Credit Card, Fraud & Risk modeling [6yrs]

ERP & CRM [8yrs]

Data Center Management [3yrs]

Loan & Mortgage [6yrs]

Retail, Supply Chain Management & Logistics [3yrs]

Business Intelligence [8yrs]

Big Data & Analytics [3yrs]

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