SHEKAR KURUGODU MULLANGI

Mob: 966-***-**** E-mail: ad5bzs@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Motivated, result oriented IT professional, forward thinking, capable and committed Project Manager having 20+ years of experience with a proven ability to meet agreed deadlines, co- ordinate work and defined testing methodologies within a structured environment. Having first class executive leadership, negotiating and communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third-party test teams. Have handled a team of 30 – 40 members for a major client project at Infosys. Manager Experience

Solid management skills, demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environments

Developing and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organization.

Assist in defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business processes in collaboration with other CDI and Customer stakeholders

Daily Management and coordination of all technical and logistical aspects of a project including timelines, risks, risk mitigation strategies, action items and change requests

Work with the Scrum Master to track user stories and correlate data to prepare weekly/monthly reports for management/business review

Leading and co-ordinating the scoping, technical requirements gathering, estimating and planning for single or multiple projects or work streams

Managing an agile software development process, working with Developers, Testers and Business Analysts

Translating scope and requirements of a technical nature to wider stakeholders of all levels

Documents and understands what the technical environment dependencies are for each project to support an end to end integrated environment

Facilitate sessions with Product Managers, internal and external stakeholders to analyze business and user needs and to deliver necessary artifacts (use cases, user stories, functional requirements specifications, UI designs, mockups, workflows)

Participate in the process of documenting technical best practice and standards for production of accessible assets

Act as a liaison with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis

Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages.

Managing and reporting on the allocation of IT budget.

Develop, manage implement, communicate, and maintain a quality plan to bring the Company’s Quality Assurance Systems and Policies into compliance with quality system requirements.

Effectively interact with the Technical, Development, and Production team to maintain product quality; ensuring that targets are achieved.

Assisting technicians with checking patterns/specification and construction, identifying and resolving production impracticalities in an appropriately timely manner, and to make a final decision on quality according to company standards and requirements.

Ensuring all quality & production issue by Auditing & Controlling

Working professionally with vendors to ensure system standards are met for software, hardware and protected health information.

Conducting the appraisal discussions and preparing the performance appraisal reports

Taking full responsibility for all phases of Project management activities within a development and complex project

Select project standards for all phases, influencing all parties to conform to those standards and manage the client relationship with respect to all testing matters

Provide direction and guidance for project process improvements and establishing policies

Develop presentations & proposals, perform customer presentations

Identifying, managing and recording risks and issues across the full project life cycle Domain Experience

Banking, Manufacturing, Automotive, Energy and Utilities, Insurance and Health Care Employment History

Organization Designation From Date To Date

Ascendion Engineering Project Manager Jul 2023 Mar 2024 ITC infotech Project Manager Feb 2022 June 2023

Whatfix Project Manager Sept 2019 July 2021

Infosys Technologies Project Manager June 2015 Aug 2019 Tata Consultancy Services Associate Consultant June 2014 May 2015 Wipro Technologies Lead Consultant May 2012 May 2014 Logica Pvt Ltd IT Consultant Nov 2007 April 2012

Tata Consultancy Services IT Analyst May 2003 Nov 2007 Educational Qualification

B.E in Computer Science in the year 2002 with Distinction, 76%

P.U.C from Karnataka PU board in the year 1997 with Distinction, 75%

Secondary School from SSLC Board Karnataka in the year 1995 with Distinction, 78% Signature Achievements

Received Gold award and Silver award for best performance in the Intel project Project Summary

CITTA – DATA RESERVOIR – BIG DATA

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Supporting the Executive Product Manager in delivering their Product aspirations in a timely and cost effective manner

Developing key relationships with internal teams and external suppliers to deliver a multi team solution where you will be required to influence roadmaps more often than have direct control of priorities

Facilitate, communicate, collaborate, negotiate between customer and technical teams to bring features to closure

To act as a first point of escalation and resolution for all problems, obstacles and opportunities on a project

Support the multi-disciplined project teams and encourage strong team working both within and beyond the team

Develop and manage project documentation

Participate in the daily, sprint and retrospective sessions

Developer/Manager of a portfolio of projects with multiple clients

Work closely with Customers to gather requirements, manage project deliverable and exceed customer expectations

Proactively communicate and manage project details to internal and vendors

Provide regular status updates, manage project schedule, maintain and drive closure of Action registers, track content forecast and delivery

Work closely with internal product owners to ensure customer require product requirements are documented and delivered on schedule WHATFIX

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Present plans and proposals to executive management, persuading and negotiating for resources

Manage the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and review vendor deliverables

Prepare project status reports and keep team, management, clients and others informed of project status and related issues

Analyze impacts to client change requests and findings from evaluations to determine potential impacts to other technologies or platforms

Establishes formal mitigation plans for time/scope changes from original plan

Teamwork - Balance team and individual responsibilities; exhibit objectivity and openness to others' views; give and welcomes feedback; contribute to building a positive team spirit; put the success of team above own interests; support everyone's efforts to succeed

Planning and Organizing - Coordinating time and prioritizes tasks to ensure work is completed effectively

Decision Making – Comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions and develop appropriate testing strategies

Communication - Clearly convey information and ideas both verbally and written

Define and refine Agile metrics to understand team performance

Work with members of the Conversant Product and Engineering teams to manage the most important organizational Initiatives to success

Manage and supervise multiple projects, including complex and outsourced projects

Provide project leadership to assigned team members

Coordinate with management and project stakeholders to ensure projects are appropriately staffed

Establish and maintain a positive and effective working relationship with senior management, internal departments, and external contacts in order to facilitate agreement on, and meet, project goals and objectives

Create and maintain project plans and other associated project artifacts INFOSYS

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate Project activities as per standards and process.

Assisting in the coordination and management of all out-sourced technology specialists, contracts, partners and vendors.

Identifying opportunities for improvement and/or cost savings within IT.

Identifying and overseeing IT training for the organization.

Communicating directly with the VP of IT on a regular basis and participate in regularly scheduled meetings.

Supervising and providing advanced technical, analytical, project management, IT security, and policy guidance to the Desktop Support supervisor and to multiple senior- level Desktop Engineering Technicians.

Exercising broad judgment to manage complex software and hardware life-cycles, including budget planning and execution of IT-related purchases and services.

Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Sprint Grooming, and Release Planning

Working in a global team environment and communicating effectively across multiple cultures

Manage changes in project scope, identifying potential crises, and devising contingency

Involved in the preparation of risk assessment and capacity management and make recommendations management about the application performance under various load capacities.

Responding to immediate production issues, investigating fixes needed with developers and business and create test cases to test the changes made for immediate deployment in production.

Actively involved in the technical discussions in the teams and added value to the same with experience. Helped team members to set their objectives and prepare their competency improvement plan. Guides the team members by providing the appropriate opportunities to achieve their objectives and improve competencies to help them grow in their career

Closely observes the performance of the engineers on both the deliverables and competencies. Provides the appropriate feedback (both the appreciations & focus areas) in a timely manner as part of the performance appraisal process TCS

Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Proactively oversee project activities and work with management and project stakeholders to troubleshoot and insure quality resolution of project related problems

Continuously review the effectiveness of current processes and procedures to identify and lead process improvement initiatives

Being accountable for revenue targets and billability goals

Facilitate decision making with stakeholders, balancing the needs of different constituencies and facilitating consensus

Proactively identifies risk areas and critical tasks to keep project on track

Understands process, recognizing potential issues and consequences of changes during Software Development Lifecycle

Development of detailed work plans for projects and supports project team members in the creation of a formal WBS for their work

Accountability for project scope, timeline, budget and success measures

Coached, mentored, and led levels 1, 2, and 3 support personnel within the technical team environment.

Implemented and managed day-to-day operations over in multi-location environment.

Held responsibility for coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.

Handled tasks related to financial plan preparation and reconciled capital and operational budgets.

Built credibility, established rapport, and maintained effective communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including external stakeholders. WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES

Role: Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

Ensured that all project tasks associated with enterprise systems are identified, delegated if necessary, and completed within allotted timeframes.

Provided support and counsel to peer management team in an effort to achieve Information Technology and/or individual peer team goals.

Provided monthly reports, at minimum, to senior management regarding enterprise systems statistics, performance, trend analysis, and security.

Communicated with clients and peers regarding policies, technologies, and enhancements as they apply to enterprise services.

Responded to the needs and questions of clients concerning their access to enterprise systems resources, capabilities, and enhanced functionality.

Directed the design, development, and maintenance of systems, programs, and systems software to meet the firms technical information needs.

Managed all software licenses. Established IS policies, standards, practices and security measures to ensure effective and consistent information processing operations and to safeguard information resources.

Established and maintained relationships with contractors, outside vendors, and equipment suppliers.

LOGICA

Role: IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

Managing day-to-day IT operations, planning, researching, and executing IT projects, monitoring and performing maintenance on the physical and virtual server environment

Maintaining project schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), issue/decision logs, meeting summaries and status reports to ensure effective, ongoing communications across all team members.

Designed tools, reports, charts and graphs for senior management to provide ongoing, at-a-glance summaries of project status and application prototype performance.

Collaborated effectively with project, product and program managers to ensure project deliverables remained on track and aligned with business goals and expectations.

Analyzed product portfolio data to identify areas for improvement and assisted PMs in implementing the improvements. Contributed to an innovative solution that resolved problematic GUI and compatibility issues without compromising release readiness, budget or deadline.

TCS

Role: IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

Develop progress reports, goals and quality improvement plans to ensure high quality services are being provided

Prepare and maintain project documentation, including meeting notes, status reports, and change management and client approval documents

Prepare and present regular progress reports to management and client

Support day-to-day execution of project implementations

Support Client Integration and Automation & Infrastructure team through coordination of various internal projects

Talk directly with an engineer on what you can do to help solve any problems holding them up

Communicate with stakeholders to get responses on open questions or relay status any risks/issues on open items

Chase down an open question on an operational issue so we can resolve it before it becomes a larger problem

Identify a resource conflict and work with members of the team to get ahead of it

Review project schedules with the customer and all internal teams that will be effected by the project activities

Assist the project manager in creating and maintaining the overall project schedule

Prepare meeting materials and take meeting minutes to share with the project manager for review

PERSONAL DETAILS

Permanent Address: #124,5th cross,1st Main, Soundarya Layout, Sidedahalli, Hesarghatta Main Road, Bangalore - 560073

References: Bhaskar KM, Altera (Allscripts), Bangalore Divyashree Shivashankar, Epsilon India, Bangalore

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