Competencies

KRUNAL ASNANI

Project Manager Capgemini

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E-mail: - adxfkr@r.postjobfree.com; adxfkr@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/krunalasnani/ Software & Application development project, Telecom, AI

& ML, AWS & Azure Cloud - Project and Program

Management

Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Lean), Prince2

Project Initiation, Budgeting, Risk Assessment

Project execution, Communication & Strategy

development

Technical Competences & Business Acumen

Critical Thinking & Leadership skills

Monitoring & Controlling

Program Management

Infra & Ops Management

Resource planning & hiring

Program Management Skills

Communication Skills

Creating & Maintaining weekly dashboard, KT tracker, WSR, QBR & PRM PPTs presenting to the stakeholder both customer and the Sr. management during weekly review meetings. Preparing other project documents as and when required as per customer process for all activity & regularly updating stakeholders. Risk & Time Management Skills

Identify risk, issues and develop risk response strategy in risk assessment log along with mitigation plans.

Ensure scope and change management are in place for the project duration.

Ensure adherence to audit and compliance requirements & implement checks and controls in place to negate breach of policies/procedures.

Project Management and Organizational awareness

Develop the Proposals, Kick-off meetings, Project plan, Identifying and scheduling project activities, Project Deliverables, managing documents & meetings for both fixed and T&M projects. Typically focused on 2-4 mid sized to large customer projects with teams in multiple geographical locations having budget around 10~20M USD.

Chairing daily standup meetings to track progress of each proposal.

Chairing monthly proposal retrospective meetings to guide team towards better approach.

Implementation of all aspects of Project life cycle with different project management methodologies.

Responsible for project metric tracking and managing project financials with profitability.

Ensured billing accuracy, exhibiting project UM% & performing time reporting.

Monitored project progress and outstanding issues; ensuring the quality & timeliness of the deliverables; reporting on the project’s progress and escalated issues.

Close the project to formalize acceptance of the project result and release project resources. Problem solving skills

Preparation and management of proposal strategy, trackers and other MIs required for management reporting.

Ensure key deliverables set for the customer related project are met on time in a seamless fashion. Also, ensuring all the agreed SLA are delivered without any deviation. Leadership skills

Guiding the team to ensure they understand client’s requirements before proposal development and reviewing their strategy for each client proposal.

Identify new opportunities for additional business, provide inputs and renewal evaluation.

Mentoring and providing guidance, motivation to team members, project stakeholders and ensuring resources are achieving project objectives through best practices – Lean, Scrum, Kanban…etc.

Ensure cross-team coordination and dependencies are included, providing input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.

Audit - Quality Assurance and Documentation

Project Plan, On-boarding, HLD, LLD, Issue log, Risk & Dependency, End user guide, Process guide, operation guide, Project related SOP, Lesson Learnt, Project Closures, KT & Transition Planner, Handover document.

Audit Trials, Monthly, Bi-Annually & Annually Project Audits, Documentation like - PCS Dashboard, Serviceability & Traceability Matrix, BCP, Resource competency skills, Bugs, Issue & Incident Trackers. Etc Tools

Professional Summary

Program and Project Management - Service

Delivery - Vendor Management - People

Leadership - Technical Leadership - Operations

Management.

18+ years of experience in delivering AI, ML, AWS, Azure, Agile, DevOps, Telecom, Application &

Software development projects, with 7+years of

experience in core project management.

PMP & Prince 2 Practitioner certified professional with experience in end-to-end project planning

and implementation from scope management,

activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis project delivery to quality management in line with industry’s best practices.

Monitoring and controlling the project activities. Managing compliance and audit aspect associated

with project.

Well-versed with all processes with respect to ITIL, Agile & Waterfall methodology.

AWS Cloud

MPP & Smartsheet - Project Planning & Gantt charts

PEGA Invoicing & Billing

E-Monitoring (E-Mon) Project Engagement Tool(Billing, Revenue & Invoicing)

Procurement Tool - For Vendor PO Raising &

management

R2D2 Tool - Raising hiring requisitions

BGV & Onboarding – Company & Customer tools

Rostering & Shift Management Tools

ServiceNow, Remedy, JIRA, GNATS, Clarity, MS Visio, SharePoint, CRM, GA and HP Service Desk. Etc.

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited

Juniper CTP Products Series - Software & application development, Release Project – Juniper Bangalore

AWS & Python Application Development Project – Cisco Bangalore

vLESS Application Implementation & Support – RedHat & OSP 16 – Cisco & Verizon

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) – Work Fusion Tool – Client Bangalore

Service Now - Device Data Modelling through JAVA & Python coding – Client USA

Telecom EMS (Enterprise Management Services) – Cisco Bangalore

Polycom Corporation

Implementation (High End Video Devices) – Deloitte Hyderabad

Service Now (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Telecom EMS (Enterprise Management Services) – Hyderabad

Wipro Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Telecom & Networks – Transition, Migration & Integration – H.S.B.C Bank - Hyderabad

IT EMS (Enterprise Management Services) – Electronics Arts – Hyderabad. COMPANY NAME LOCATION DESIGNATION TIMELINES

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited Bangalore Project Manager Dec’18 – Till Now Polycom Unified Communications Hyderabad Customer Project Manager Dec’17 – Sep’18 ServiceNow Software Development India Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad Unified Communications Manager Jun’17 – Nov’17 Wipro Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad Project Manager Sep’14 – May'17 Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad Module Lead - PMO Sep’13 – Sep’14 Anthelio Solutions Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad Assistant Manager Jan’13 – Aug'13 MphasiS an HP Company Delhi-NCR Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jan’12 – Dec’12 HCL Commnet Limited Delhi-NCR Technical Specialist Nov’09 – Jan’12 Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd. Pune Senior Network Engineer Jun’09 – Nov’09 Orange Business Services (India) Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad Technical Consultant Sep’06 – Jun’09 CAREER CONTOUR PROJECT’S DRIVEN TILL NOW

CERTIFICATIONS

PMP Certified

Prince 2 Practitioner Certified

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified

ITIL V3 Foundation certified

CCIE Collaboration written exam (400-051)

Cisco Certified Network professional – Voice (CCNP - VOICE)

Cisco Certified in Voice over IP (CCNA – VOICE)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

JCHNP (Jetking Certified Hardware & Network Professional) Course from Jetking, Ahmedabad

AutoCAD (14 & 2000) from I.T.I., (Saraspur) Ahmedabad

Diploma in Computer Ap-plications from Karnavati Computer Classes, Ahmedabad

Project 1: - Juniper Bangalore – Software development & Release

Team size managed – 08 resources.

The CTP project provides the development & maintenance support to CTP series network equipment's (Including CTP 1000, CTP 2000 and CTP 150 Series) developed by Juniper.

Plan and manage release schedules, upgrades and patches, maintenance LINUX.

Working with customers to ensure smooth delivery and implementation of software solutions.

Plan & lead the strategy for Hardware & Software Deployment in the network.

Manage workflow of projects through GNATS tool, ensuring that all necessary reviews are perform and projects are successfully release to production.

Manage all phases of application design--from requirements gathering, coding and prototyping through system testing, integration and deployment.

Project include Linux base systems implement using object orient methodology in Java and C++.

Perform programming and code reviews as needed, as well as troubleshooting

(including debugging and data analysis).

Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects.

As part of Release Management process, we actively manage, plan, schedule and control a software build through different stages and environments.

Co-ordinate with Production Support, Non-Production support & Build teams to get the release package prepared and deployed as per Release plan.

Work with multiple IT teams to create and Publish planned releases for next 6 months on a weekly basis to provide with updated status to all teams.

Collect release feedback from stakeholders for continuous improvement.

Monitoring & maintaining IT infrastructure (both hardware & software) for business operations across units

Provide business requirements and functional specification to delivery team and support them in the overall development and testing process until the final release.

Performing routine audits of systems and software.

Project 2: - Cisco Bangalore

AWS Solution & Deployment: –

Team size managed – 09 resources.

Design and Implement End-to-End solution architecture in AWS Cloud for three AWS environments namely Dev, Stage and Prod.

Migrating customer docker based application into Kubernetes based containerized application (AWS EKS).

Develop Helm charts to automate Kubernetes based application deployment across all 3 environments.

Automate complete Infrastructure deployment using CloudFormation and Helm Charts.

Using best practices and services recommended by AWS (using EKS, WAF, IAM, AWS Secret Manager KMS).

Deployed EKS worker node using Customer “Pre-Hardened Image" on Production environment.

Used FluentD to collect logs from applications/pod and host logs and send them to CloudWatch in real time (Retention period: 90days) also Configured Lambda, CloudWatch Event Bridge and S3 bucket on production. CI/CD Pipeline.

Automated deployment / Upgrade of Application in EKS.

Python Development: -

Worked on a tool for service validation to validate a Customer Application from Customer vEdge to Customer cEdge or Customer WAN to Customer SDWAN which provided a Checklist to follow for Customer Application activity and show commands suggested for collection at various stages It takes-in, inputs of show commands pre and post the Customer Application or rollback activity, compares the status of the device in both stages and provides a report.

Host this tool on AWS cloud without compromising on any of the functionalities.

Following microservices optimization, audit trail, sonar error fixes etc., were worked upon as part of CUSTOMER APPLICATIONS Cloud Customer Application. PROJECT SYNOPSIS - Total resources managed – 39

Project 3: - vLESS Application Implementation & Support – RedHat & OSP 16 - Cisco Bangalore

Team size managed – 11 resources. 2 - Onsite, 9 - Offshore.

Providing a solution for application porting from RHEL 5.x to RHEL 7.x, configure the HA Solution using RedHat Cluster Suite, Customer Application and Support the application.

We have provided the solution for application Customer Application from current Openstack 10 to Openstack 16.

Customer Application, support multi-attach with ESC/CSAR package on OSP16.

Execution: -

Porting of application and configure customer application of RHEL HA cluster support multi-attach feature with ESC/CSAR package on OSP16.

Application deployment for 95 Clusters + FOA.

Application deployment and config Customer Application on VzW production environment.

Integrate Customer Application and config Customer Application with data source ( FDR, NBR, Rf and Gy record using SFTP Interface) on target environment.

Functional testing of application on target environment.

Performance testing of application on target environment

Project 4: - Work Fusion Tool – HPE Bangalore

Team size managed – 12 resources.

Enabled Automation of PO processing by creating a Machine Learning Model using WorkFusion RPA.

ML model was trained over multiple customer applications for each of the PO formats.

Responsible for Data tagging of the POs and for building the RPA BOTs containing OCR

(Optical Character Recognition) and Purchase order segregation Bot (splits documents based on multiple PO Formats).

Workspace is dynamically designed to bring humans in loop so that agents can validate/tag fields manually.

Discard Option in Workspace.

Safe Mode Feature – Routing all PO to Workspace (Switch Based – ON/OFF).

Status update for the PO once enters the ML life cycle.

Email Notification – Fallouts (Switch Based – ON/OFF).

Storing relevant data (used for further processing) in Database.

Storing all the data generated during whole ML lifecycle in Common Datastore.

90% reduction in Average Handling Time.

92% Accuracy.

Education Qualification

MBA – Information Technology

B.Sc. – IT – Information Technology

Agile & SAFe Agile Knowledge

Capgemini Connector manager

certification

Achivements

Received appreciation from HPE & Intelsat customers for best Project Management with fine quality & on-time delivery without any escalations.

Received appreciation for adhering the processes and maintaining high audit scores in offshore audit and best weekly report/dashboard presentation, which was recommended to use for other projects.

Received 5-star rating from our client (HSBC).

Appreciated for writing a blog on ‘How to upgrade to version 9 from different versions of call manager’, which was uploaded on Tech Mahindra blog.

Received best support award from one of our client EFH-ONCOR while working with HCL.

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