Plaban Mohapatra

Email ID: adchnp@r.postjobfree.com

Contact #: 805-***-****

Summary

15+ years of experience in IT industry.

8+ years of experience in Program Management, Project Management, Financial Management, People Management, Software Development, Strategic planning, P&L and RFP.

3 years of experience as an early stage entrepreneur

Black belt in problem-solving with a "Get It Done" attitude, analytical Thinking, data-driven mentality and strong business judgment with a strong interpersonal skills and Entrepreneurial mindset.

Title From To

Entrepreneur Mar 2017 Till date

Sr Delivery Manager July 2016 Jan 2017

Program Manager Sep 2011 July 2016

Project Manager Jan 2009 Sep 2011

Team Lead Oct 2007 Jan 2009

Programmer Nov 2005 Oct 2007

Leadership Training & Certification

Global Project Management

Program Executive

Management Development Program

Amazon AWS Cloud Business Professional

Amazon AWS Cloud Technical Professional

Amazon TCO & Cloud Economics

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Sciences and Engineering with First Class from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Orissa, India. (1999 – 2003). Page 2

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Engagement #1 …Entrepreneurship (Mar 2017 to till date)

Drove from zero to one lifecycle as a founder. Converted a discussion at coffee table into a full fledge product.

A hi-tech Mobile app product “FlashTry”, which is an Augmented Reality based apparel shortlisting mobile app, where user can scan the mobile app against barcode in the apparel and the same gets draped in user's profile, eliminating fitting room tryouts. Link for the app demo -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZAGjWo-lI

As a Founder-cum-program manager, worked with development team designing the product roadmap, app layout, test case scenarios, logo design, deployment plan, go-live testing, collecting early customer’s feedback and taking it back to the product team for enhancements/bug fixes.

Preparing Revenue strategy

Business plan deck preparation

Investor approach for angle funding

**Due to lack of needed fund in order to move forward, the FlashTry initiative was stopped.** Engagement #2

Client: Los Angeles County

Engagement: July 2016 to Jan 2017

Employer: CGI

Responsibilities as Sr Delivery Manager:

Responsible for Business development for LA County public sector account.

Driving the opportunity from a conceptual stage to contract negotiation

Responsible for maintaining pipeline forecast

Working closely with Solution architect team, product team and account management team on that target opportunity

Going over Board correspondence daily basis and extracting IT opportunities from the same.

Attending weekly Board cluster meeting to get insight into IT priorities of the county

Meeting with county department leadership for relationship building.

Keeping an eye on ESMA (Enterprise Service Master Agreement) notifications for solicitation requests.

Understating pain point of departments and putting together unsolicited proposals

Attending government conferences to understand client’s strategy and also build relationship

Conducting competitor analysis

Working with external vendors for potential partnership with CGI

Step Deck preparation and DFA (Deal Financial Analysis) document preparation.

Attending Internal Account Planning sessions, Strategy sessions etc. Page 3

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Engagement #2

Client: Farmers Insurance Groups (‘FIG’), USA

Engagement Jan 2009 to July 2016

Employer: CSC

Responsibilities as Program Manager:

Understand and interpret project scope, gathering business requirements, review of functional specifications, developing project estimates, participating in regular project meetings for assigned projects, preparing and completing required project deliverables

Experience in a project management environment, leading cross-functional project teams following applied PMI practices in daily project management.

Full Cycle SDLC and full Scrum cycle for Software Development

Responsible for end-to-end management of project, i.e. all phases of project from concept, project planning, development, execution, monitoring to project close down.

Accountable for project schedule, financials, and deliverables

Experience in both Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) methodology.

Responsible for building a program plan, resource plan, overall schedule and risk mitigation plan

Implement best practices in portfolio management, optimization, and reporting.

Manage project budget and resource allocation

Supporting senior leadership in RFP preparation

Perform risk management to minimize project risks

Coordinate and interact with internal and external integrators to ensure business application requirements are achieved

Facilitate issue resolution - Identify customer issues, develop effective solutions and successfully manage the communication to the customer.

Manage communication-Facilitate and lead effective project meetings, manage change and conflict, and develop resource planning estimates to manage project workload and productivity

Manage Risk-Lead risk management within project teams, ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans

Provide positive leadership to the project teams to successfully achieve project goal. Establish project measures to ensure the projects are delivered on-time, within budget and with quality.

Manage resources (both on-site and remote) – Lead, coordinate, facilitate, and motivate all associated project resources to gain alignment on project goals and deliverables

Managed project budgets in excess of $5M

Managed projects with 30+ team members

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Technical Environment : Mainframe, Java, VB, .NET, Pega, Documaker, HATS Engagement #3

Client: Farmers Insurance Groups (‘FIG’), USA

Engagement Oct 2007 to Jan 2009

Employer: CSC

Responsibilities as Team Lead:

Point of contact for the team members for all Technical and Functional related assistance.

Work closely with Release Manager to identify the high risk items and discuss the review approach, testing approach etc.

Resolve queries of team members.

Attends Business and Functional Walkthru sessions along with SMEs.

Attends Estimate review meetings Engage in Design Review, Code Review, UTR Review

Engage in Production Issues and provide support as needed

Daily hand-shake meeting with Offshore lead Programmers

Back-up contact for Release Manager

Engagement #4

Client: Farmers Insurance Groups (‘FIG’), USA

Engagement Nov 2005 to Oct 2007

Employer: CSC

Responsibilities as Programmer:

Preparing PSD / Analysis of PSD if already provided by Clients and providing the Task estimates. Preparing coding specification document, Coding.

Preparing Unit test scripts, Unit testing, AIT scripts and AIT testing.

Reporting USR (Unit Statistical Reporting) and PICS (Policy Issue Capture System) to Federal and State bureaus.

Reporting of Commercial Auto Liability Insurance to various state bureaus.

Resolve queries of team members.

Involved in all the stages of the Software Development lifecycle SDLC like analysis of the requirement, preparation of design document, development and testing, production implementation and post production support.

Conducting technical and functional training sessions for the new resources to impart them with sufficient knowledge to take up work independently.

Coordinating with junior resources and providing them with necessary handholding to ensure quality deliverables and adherence to deadlines.

Maintaining quality of the project as per the standards.

Keep the management posted on the status of the work in progress and ensure effective coordination and information sharing between offshore team members and the onshore counterparts.

Involves in bringing innovations to the system

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