Anita Kelkar

***** ********* *****, **** *****, VA 23059 847-***-**** acyr8c@r.postjobfree.com

Technical Project Manager, Software Release Manager and Scrum Master

Seeking opportunity to lead technical projects for software products and information management systems on foundation of my technical background and diligent drive and passion for a seamless project execution while ensuring high-quality delivery on aggressive timelines.

Strengths and Achievements:

End to End project management for Smartphone and Handheld mobile devices with key practices through entire software product development life cycle (SDLC), with CMMI and Agile methodologies.

Extensive leadership experience in project management, over 10 years, with planning, budgets, resourcing, scheduling, risk mitigations and issue resolutions; Managed large projects with a multi-million dollar impact.

Known for meeting or beating the timelines and budgetary targets for high-quality deliverables.

Proficient in leading large and global cross functional teams in USA, Canada, Germany, and India.

Proven leader oriented with strong technical, organizational, analytical, problem solving, communication, and relationship management skills and teamwork skills.

Experienced Agile project manager with various roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile Coach

Project Management, Technology, Software, Tools and Systems

Project Life Cycles: Waterfall, Iterative, Scrum and Kanban with Jira and Version One

Project Management: MS Office 360, MS Project, MS Visio, Sharepoint, Salesforce,

Requirements and Issue Tracking: Jira, Bugzilla, Quality Center, MKS Integrity, DDTS

Software Platforms and Operating Systems: Android, QT, Windows, Linux, OpenRTOS, ThreadX

Software Configuration Management: Clearcase, Subversion, udeploy, Jenkins, Hudson

Programming language: C/C++, Shell Script, Perl, TTCN, HTML

Professional Experience

GiftGanga LLC Glen Allen, VA Jan 2016 – Present

GiftGanga LLC (giftganga.com), with a mission to bring the arts of underprivileged artisans to the global market. GiftGanga enables smaller organizations and individuals with technology and channel to the global market. As a founding principal, I led planning and operations for the enterprise with my technical knowledge and experience.

Managed the funding, budgets and accounting, product sourcing, procurement, and order fulfillment

Hosted multiple community events and created marketing campaign using Google AdWords, Facebook Boost

Capital-one (Commercial Banking), Glen Allen, VA Dec 2014 – Dec 2015

The Capital One is a diversified financial services company offering a broad array of credit, savings and loan products. The project involved discovery, Design, Development and deployment of in-house SaaS and applications.

Integrated Release Manager and Scrum Master

Platform and Application Release Management:

Led the deployment of various applications such as Credit Risk, Credit Servicing Loan, Specialty Financing, Seibel-Sales Relation Manager

Developed and maintained plans; led command center activities on deployments with timely status communication to all stakeholders; developed process improvement for the Release Management

Scrum Master for the Release Engineering team:

Owned SAFe PI Release planning and corresponding Sprints and actively monitored story/task boards

Managed multiple projects with daily scrum, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and backlog grooming

Wistron - Mobile Solutions (acquired from Blackberry), Rolling Meadows, IL Jan 2013 – Apr 2014

Wistron Corporation is a major Original Design Manufacturer. It focuses on ICT (information and communication technology) products, including PCs, Servers, storage, and handheld mobile devices.

Senior Software Project Manager

Software project integration leadership for blackberry and Android smartphones.

Worked with Radio Validation Pre-Certification / IOT teams to define the test strategy and duration plans

Blackberry / Research in Motion, Rolling Meadows, IL July 2008 – Jan 2013

BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM), a multinational wireless communications software and mobile hardware corporation known as the developer of the BlackBerry brand of smartphones.

Senior Software Project and Release Manager

Led and managed end to end software delivery for Product launches across various regions for CDMA/2G/3G

Responsible for the end to end SW project execution (thru’ SDLC), including requirements, design, testing, implementation and documentation; Coordinated release strategy and plans with cross functional teams

Maintained overall schedule and managed risk mitigations and issue resolutions with timely escalations of blocking issues; chaired status reviews with Senior leadership (VPs) ( for schedules, progress updates, risk register, critical escalations, defect burndown, beta reports, quality reports, and strategy discussions)

Delivered software releases for New Product Introductions, maintenance releases on a cadence, and emergency patch requests on exceptional cases

Software dev lifecycle and release management process improvements

Software Release Readiness review process and tool enhancements

Release Notes / Known Issue List documentation process

Motorola, Libertyville, IL Aug 1997 – May 2008

Motorola, Inc. was multinational telecommunications corporation. Motorola's mobile devices business was a pioneer in cellular telephones. It delivered iconic mobile devices such as MicroTAC, StarTAC, RAZR, Q, Droid.

Software Project Management – Windows Platform Devices (5/2007 – 5/2008)

Led and managed end-to-end delivery of product software, including SW feature development / integration / system testing / field testing, stress testing, user trials and product launch for mobile devices business (MDB).

Delivered Q9 Windows products for carriers such as Verizon, Telus, Sprint, Alltel, US Cellular, Metro PCS.

Championed key improvement initiatives for release readiness review process and risk assessment tool.

Senior Software Quality Engineer – 3GSM Mobile Devices (5/2005 – 5/2007)

Acted as SQA lead for ‘Capri’ and ‘Canary’ 3GSM Mid-Tier products; participated in Software Defect tracking, Code review activities and intermediate quality audits; Recognized with award as the Quality Champion

Led ISO 9000 Internal Audit team for Software function

Senior Software Engineer – 3GSM Mobile Devices (5/2001 – 5/2005)

Led software development efforts for various platform 2000 (aka P2K) components for 3GSM mobile devices.

Managed Software GSM Feature Database component that involved:

Software configuration management, builds, and releases; led change control board (CCB) for 3GSM

Eflex data population design and coordination across application software components.

Developed Radio link layer software as well as TTCN test scripts for Unit testing

Software Engineer – Automotive and Industrial Electronics (8/1997 –2001)

Real-time firmware development for automobile engine controllers, such as Saab Trionic 9 ECM, Detroit Diesel ECM, and GM Saturn PCM; HWIO/VIOS layer software development and TPU micro-coding for CAM position.

Championed software development for various algorithms for time synchronizing reference sensors, frequency inputs, tachometer outputs, and PWM outputs; TPU development.

AT&T ( Ameritech Cellular), Milwaukee, WI Jun 1995 – Aug 1997

Ameritech, AT&T was a mobile communication service provider in Midwest region in USA.

Cellular System Performance Engineer

Cellular Network analysis and performance management

Provided Software support for Cellular Engineering tools for Network System Performance Analysis.

Supported applications and data support with LAN and WAN servers

Education

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

- Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI June 1995

B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication

- Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India June 1992

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