Project Management

NITIN GROVER, Project Manager

Portland Oregon ***10 503-***-****

******.******@*****.***

Experience Summary

Seasoned professional with 13 years of experience of IT and business experience including Project Management (development and live Production support) and business analysis & creation of both functional and technical business requirements.

Java development, team lead and project lead with Project plan creation and execution, manage project schedule, cost and risk management.

Efficient and quick manage change to meet requirements.

Resource management and defining roles & responsibilities, project monitoring, tracking and reporting.

Collaborate with stakeholders in defining and managing project executions, discussions with SME and managing multiple vendors.

Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management.

Experienced in monitoring project flow including integration, scope, time and cost, quality management, human resource management, risk and issues monitoring, procurement, and change management

Accomplished in leading teams through all parts of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) starting with project initiation, requirement gathering & analysis, functional design, detail design, development.

Knowledge of project management techniques and tools including MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint.

Currently on H1B VISA in Portland, USA with 5 years done on VISA.

Performing customer facing role - Project manager role for 4 years in USA (Portland). Prior Project Lead and Senior Software Developer experience in UK (Sheffield and London).

Possessing strong analytical skills, an excellent team player with good leadership qualities and strong oral and written communication skills.

Project Management experienced in quickly understanding complex project objectives, generating project scope documentation, building stakeholder consensus to delivery approach.

Expertise in delivery & program Management in application development and maintenance

Finance Banking and Automotive Manufacturing domains.

Organized individual with Strong project management skills, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.

Excellent team and individual leadership, oral and written communication skills and highly flexible.

Delivered and successfully executed T&M and fixed price projects including costing, staffing, schedule, timelines, scope and resource management.

Professional Expertise (13 years)

1.Syntel Consulting Inc. October 2010 to Present (6.5 years)

Client - Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA)

(Project Manager)

2.HSBC Bank Software Development April 2006 to October 2010 (4.5 years)

(Senior Software Engineer and Release Manager)

3.MAIMT, Kurukshetra University, India July 2003 to August 2005 (2 years)

(Research and Development/Lecturer for MCA/MBA for renowned institute)

Core Competencies

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PMBOK Project Management Methodology

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IT Project Management

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Automotive, Banking & Finance - Core Internet Banking

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Technical expertise in Java and J2EE and Support of application

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Project Requirements Gathering

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Clear Communications & Reporting

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Interpersonal Conflict Resolution

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ITIL processes – Incident / Problem / Change management.

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Resource Management

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Release management

Hands-on practical experience

Time, Cost and Scope Management

Virtual/Remote Cross-Functional Project Teams

Risk & Change Management

Project Lifecycle Management

Requirements Definition & Analysis

Project Scheduling

Team Building & Leadership

Project Budgeting & Cost Controls

Experience

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) – USA (Portland, OR) October 2010 to present (6.5 years)

Project Manager ($4 M PROJECT) Managing projects for client Daimler Trucks of North America, Portland, USA.

Roles and Responsibilities:

●Handling Fixed bid Development and Production Support Time & Material projects.

●Project plan creation and execution, manage project schedule, cost and risk management.

●Efficient and quick manage change to meet requirements.

●Resource management and defining roles and responsibilities, project monitoring, tracking and reporting.

●Collaborate with stakeholders in defining and managing project executions, discussions with SME and managing multiple vendors.

●Knowledge of project management techniques and tools including MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint.

●Experienced in monitoring project flow including integration, scope, time and cost, quality management, human resource management, risk and issues monitoring, procurement, and change management

●Participate in creating specifications, and SOW for vendors, contractors and consultants engaged in projects for the company.

●Handling Warranty Online Warranty project end to end involving development, QA testing and BSA teams.

●Handled Browser remediation project in order to migrate application to support latest versions of browsers i.e. to support all versions of IE Browser ranging from IE8 to IE11 i.e. Edge using HTML5 technology.

●Manage all operational staff, outside vendor activities, projects and deliverables related to the day to day operations of the organization. Maintain all company communications and scheduling vital to operations and vendor contracts.

●Manage the design and develop of technical training documents for all operational tasks, regular routines and procedures.

●Consulted on strategic objectives, project portfolio and execution for start-up management training consulting.

●Selected website platform and developed design to meet long term objectives. Deployed approved design.

●Managed business requirements gathering for applications, Designed, developed and support Online Warranty project for DTNA.

●Managed and mentored 8 off-shore development leads in JAVA development. Designed, authored and delivered training materials to new developers thus creating new capacity and skilled resources.

●Managing development and support application used by 30,000 dealers across USA and Europe.

●Managed tracking and final approval of output from Quality Assurance project team.

●Participate in management consulting engagements, defining and refining strategy; in particular focused on processes, procedures and information technology.

●Manage operational aspects of the organization including knowledge management, coordination of resources and project planning and delivery.

●Recognize opportunities to increase automation or outsourcing; plan and execute projects to deliver on savings and increased efficiencies.

●Mentored resources in User Acceptance Testing and QA processes, planning the infrastructure and implementation.

HSBC Bank Software Development India Pvt. Ltd. – UK April 2006 to October 2010 (4.5 years)

Senior Software Engineer Developing and supporting project for client HSBC Bank, UK

●Technical work experience at offshore and onsite in development, live support and maintenance of applications using cutting-edge technologies of JAVA, JSP and Servlets.

●Productions live Support, Release management, ITIL processes – Incident / Problem / Change management.

●IBM Rational Application Developer, MKS Source Integrity, MKS Integrity Manager, MS Access 2003, GSD R12, GSD R6

●PSE PSS front End Live Application Support

Worked as Project Lead / Onsite Coordinator at client side (Sheffield, UK).

Role included doing analysis of different existing internet banking products, analysis on available user data and thereby preparing requirements for Everyday stock product.

Interacting with on shore team for knowledge sharing and code integration.

Handled complete offshore team for the live support application.

Handled entire release management for the live fixes by both our onshore and offshore team.

●HSS MIFID (HSBC Stock Brokerage Services Market In Financial Instructive Directive) Project

Worked at Senior Developer

Role included preparing external and internal design documents, development included work on core java, HTML, JSP, XML, deployments, etc.

Writing services in Core Java – new functionality per UK banking sectors on stock brokerage service.

●HSS (HSBC Stock Brokerage Services) Project

Worked as Developer

Analysis of available user data and thereby preparing requirements for HSBC HSS application.

Understanding the complete architecture framework of HSS internet banking.

Interacting with on shore team for knowledge sharing and code integration.

Role included internal design, development, code integration, code review / testing and deployment.

MAIMT – India July 2003 to August 2005 (2 years)

Research and Development Lecturer

●Teaching and research and development of computing applications including JAVA and .Net

●Application support and maintenance.

Project Management, IT Certifications and Achievements

●PMP 35 Hours PDU [Project Management Professional PDUs] attained, PMP yet to appear.

●Certified “ALISON Business Communication – Managing Successful Team Meetings”

●Certified “Microsoft Software Testing Fundamentals”

●Certified in management processes of Time, Cost, and Schedule and Quality management.

●Long term (5 years) service award from Syntel Ltd.

●CHAMPION and SMART award during Q4 2014 and Q3 and Q4 2015 - Syntel Ltd.

●ITSM (IT Service Management) certified internally at HSBC company level.

●Release manager at Client side (Sheffield, UK) for 1 year with HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd.

●SPOT award (twice) – Individual Excellence award (Feb. 2010 and March 2010) with HSBC Software

●TEAM award twice (2008 and 2009) with HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd.

●Long Service award with HSBC Software Development India Pvt. Ltd. in 2010.

●Worked with clients - HSBC Bank, UK and Daimler Trucks of North America, Market leader in Industry.

●DAC (Diploma in Advanced Computing) certified with 71.64% at ACTS (ADVANCED COMPUTING TRAINING SCHOOL) in 2006

Educational Qualifications

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India - 2003

Masters of Computer Application – 75.74%

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India - 2000

Bachelors of Computer Application – 80.21%

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