Project Manager Senior

Arvind Deglurkar

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SUMMARY

Arvind is a seasoned Enterprise Delivery Lead and Program Management Professional with over 25 years of experience with outstanding strategic planning, execution, monitoring, change management and resource balancing skills. Arvind is adept at delivering efficient solutions for productivity improvement and IT products to address complex business challenges and customer needs across different industries in mid to large size organizations.

• Demonstrates ability to deliver large Agile and Digital Transformational programs.

• Able to manage a project portfolio of deliverables in a matrix organizational structure working with a large and diverse resource pool.

• Executed multiple full life cycle, multi release projects using Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies with a variety of technologies and platforms.

• Experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating internal resources, onsite and remote resources and third-party vendors to support timelines and deliverables. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Secura Insurance Companies

Senior Project Manager/ Agile Coach April 2024 – Present Secura Insurance is upgrading their legacy business critical Insurance Agent facing products to improve both the user experience and overall Quoting process, while expanding their service offerings in multiple markets.

• Started up and stabilized a product team that focused on building a new Insurance Agent Dashboard. Established and stabilized another larger team that focused on building the critical Quoting product for Insurance Agents and integrated it with the Dashboard.

• Facilitated Product road-mapping with stakeholders and helped align Product Increment planning activities with a larger program involving multiple projects for Secura.

• Worked closely with a larger program to visualize work being managed in a hybrid Waterfall-Agile environment.

• On-boarded multiple vendor resources on the product teams to address skill gaps and enhance delivery timelines.

• Helped build the practice of value-based prioritization and delivery and aligned external specialized vendor resources with clients’ Agile practices to enable faster product build.

• Planned on-premises to cloud migration of all environments as per the Cloud Products strategy for the organization. Coordinated cloud-readiness activities across workstreams within the IT organization to gain alignment, remove impediments and enable faster delivery of the building blocks for cloud environments.

• Coached PO, SM and team members on agile values and principles to establish working agreements and agile ways of working through a disciplined practice of team events.

• Set up multiple scrum boards to manage team events, established metrics to monitor and promote continuous improvement of teams’ effectiveness and delivery.

• Tracked and reported monthly cost and budget forecast to monitor financial health. bp

Senior Project Manager/ Agile Coach March 2021 – March 2024 bp decided to reinvent itself and transform from an Oil and Gas company to an Integrated Energy company that adapts Agile ways of working. As an Agile coach, played a pivotal role in bringing Agility to their Oil Refining business at bp.

• Worked with the Oil Refining business and the Central Agile Transformation team to align strategies for enterprise agile adaption, transition from project-to-product mindset and implemented the plan by driving prioritization, transparency and clear communication.

• Facilitated Quarterly Planning, process mapping, value stream mapping for Refining ROLES

• Senior Program/Project Mgr

• Delivery Lead

• Agile Transformation Coach

• Senior Scrum Master

• Technical Lead

• Portfolio & Release Manager

INDUSTRIES

• Financial Services & Banking

• Insurance

• Oil and Gas

• Food Production & Retail

• Health, Wellness & Fitness

• Medical Devices

• Engineering & Government

• Telecommunications

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE

• Agile Transformation

• Product Delivery

• Process Improvement

• Facilitation & Communication

• Budgetary Planning,

Measuring, Control &

Reporting

TECHNOLOGY

• MS ADO, Jira, Rally, MS

Project, MS Office Suite,

Visio; Rational Suite, Clarizen,

PlanView

CERTIFICATIONS

• IC Agile Certified Expert

• IC Agile Certified Professional

• Agile Team Facilitator

• Certified Scrum Master

• Certified Scrum Product

Owner

• Certified Project

Management Professional

EDUCATION

• University of Minnesota,

MBA, Carlson School of

Management

• Texas Tech University, M.S.,

Computer Science

• Osmania University, B.E, Civil

Engineering

business in order to streamline organization and visualization of high value activities.

• Coordinated delivery activities across multiple operation critical teams at the Oil Refinery in a hierarchical organization structure.

• Strengthened Agile mindset and behaviors on the initially launched cross-functional teams by playing scrum master role in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of prioritization, refinement, incremental delivery.

• As a coach, focused on building the muscle to inspect & adapt continuously while improving psychological safety and accountability within team and with individuals.

• Customized coarse design and instruction format for Agile orientation in collaboration with Refining SME’s and trained and launched 20+ teams in Agile ways of working.

• Led a team of 5 senior Agile coaches to organize, prioritize and guide coaching engagements across different business units within bp Refining business.

• Conducted periodic Agile Health assessments to evaluate progress made by the teams and identify improvement opportunities. Wells Fargo

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach February 2019 – February 2021 Wells Fargo Home Mortgage undertook an Agile Transformation exercise which involved standing up around 300+ Agile teams facilitating faster response time to changing market demands in the Home Mortgage industry. As a Scrum master/coach, helped stand up new teams & supported the transformation by changing delivery mindset from Projects to Products

• Joined the team of Scrum Master/coaches & helped stand up a brand-new team to deliver critical regulatory functionality on the centerpiece application for WF Home Mortgage.

• Partnered with Agile transformation leadership to refine approach for Agile adaption without delay delivery of business value.

• Coached and Scrum mastered a team of 7 members (onsite/offshore) + Product owner for 4 months to deliver key functionality.

• Given new responsibility to manage another team of 8-10 team members + Product owner which later expanded into two teams of 8 members each (one team entirely based in India) to deliver a new business critical application that facilitated Employment verification for all home mortgage application in Wells Fargo.

• Successfully delivered a high-quality product under tight timelines, while adhering to Agile principles and methodology.

• The application was developed with best practices of Gherkin syntax, TDD and BDD & deployed using the CI/CD model.

• Regularly conducted PRI planning with the two teams, integration partners and vendors to clearly define roadmap and develop shared understanding and coordination.

• Collaborated with Product Owner to manage MVP, stakeholder expectations, product backlog and teams’ health.

• Primarily responsible for coaching 2 teams of highly motivated technical individuals in Agile principles & agile delivery, supervising scrum ceremonies & removing impediments. Cargill

Senior Program Manager September 2018 –

December 2018

Initiated three projects for the Law function in Cargill to facilitate three SaaS solution implementations and upgrades.

• Set up an Enterprise Legal Management project by identifying business & IT team members, defining requirements & RFP plan.

• Launched the Policy Center 3.0 project to migrate the law function to a new SaaS solution by engaging with the new vendor for planning & conducting the first phase gate review.

• Managed implementation of Single Sign On for an existing application – EthicsPoint.

• Tracked deliverables, statuses & budget for projects in PPM tool - Clarizen & SharePoint. Aramark

Senior Program Manager January 2018 –

August 2018

Managed a team of 3 senior Daugherty resources to design and implement an IT roadmap for the newly merged Aramark and AmeriPride organizations. This exercise expanded to a deeper engagement with Business and IT and led to the creation of an integrated roadmap and the establishment of a new PMO to manage the delivery of the projects on the new roadmap.

• Led a team of 3 senior consultants, interviewed senior IT leaders across AmeriPride and Aramark to facilitate a common understanding of applications, processes and services across the two organizations.

• Facilitated the organization and conducting of a 3-day collaborative IT Transformation Roadmap exercise for all senior IT leaders. Delivered program charters, governance plans and roadmaps.

• Defined new Governance model, trained Aramark and AmeriPride leaders to manage 200 projects on the Integrated roadmap.

• Took over Agile Assessment effort from Agile coach, completed the analysis and provided recommendations for Agile transformation for the combined organization.

• Built the PMO SharePoint site for the PMO leadership to facilitate collection and tracking of all portfolios’ & projects’ artifacts

• Planned, tracked & executed all above activities in multiple sprints with a prioritized backlog & a scrum team. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

Senior Program Manager June 2016 –

November 2017

For its Operation Model Transformation, BCBS MN outsourced a major portion of its IT operations to a vendor, Highmark, to manage new & existing clients’ renewals & claims processing. CCS is a subsidiary of BCBS MN also needed to migrate to the Highmark

• As the Project Manager for Vendor Integrations, responsible for the preparedness of all CCS Vendors to continue supporting clients as they migrate to the Highmark platform.

• Worked with current CCS IT and business leadership and teams to complete a detailed analysis of around 150 existing vendor integrations and finalize the list of 45 vendors.

• Facilitated requirement & design reviews of the integrations with CCS IT & different Highmark workstreams.

• Oversaw the coordination of Highmark teams and individual vendors’ development teams to ensure vendors aligned with the Highmark standards to support migration of clients to their platform on schedule. Ecolab

Senior PMO Consultant March 2016 – June 2016

Ecolab was deploying a home-grown field service application across the globe to facilitate operations for multiple business units.

• Facilitated design and set up of PMO processes to improve cross functional communications for this program.

• Worked IT and Business Unit leadership to build templates that clearly convey the health of the program deliverables and financials for various projects with regards to new product features identification, development, QA and production support. Prime Therapeutics

Scrum Master & Senior Project Manager August 2015 – March 2016 Prime Therapeutics Clinical Review was migrating the Electronic Prior Authorization (ePA) process for existing and new clients to a vendor application suite from CoverMy Meds. This required changes to internal Prime applications & building an Integration framework with the vendor applications. Functionality was delivered by different teams using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Planned, scheduled & coordinated IT deliverables for client migrations, working with business, IT & vendors’ delivery team.

• Successfully completed migration of 2 major clients on to the new system and worked on IT enhancements required for next batch of client migrations and on boarding of a new client on to the vendor system.

• Worked with Prime IT’s Enterprise Web Services team to deliver a suite of web services consumed internally and externally to accelerate the ePA process and reduce human intervention for an Authorization review.

• Tracked the backlog of enhancements that CoverMyMeds was delivering for Prime, coordinating those deliverables in conjunction with Prime IT, business UAT and deployment to end users. Cigna Corporation

Scrum Master & Senior Project Manager December 2013 – June 2015 Managed the Pharmacy Integration Layer, which consists of five applications that facilitate transfer of pharmacy data between various upstream & downstream application and external Claims fulfillment vendors.

• Managed a team of Cigna employees and multiple vendor resources to deliver multiple web services and batch job processes across multiple releases that facilitated transfer of CIGNA clients’ eligibility & benefits data for pharmacy claims fulfillment.

• Monitored development and testing activities using Agile Methodology, internal to the Integration Layer team and synchronized delivery with integration partners who used Waterfall Methodology. Additional Work Experience:

Business Incentive Worldwide - Scrum Master September 2012 – November 2013 Allianz Life - Scrum Master March 2012 – August 2012 Ameriprise Financial - Portfolio & Release Manager July 2011 – March 2012 Wells Fargo Bank - Program Manager February 2010 – June 2011 Medtronic - Senior Project Manager June 2007 – December 2009 3M - CRM Implementation Project Manager March 2006 – June 2007 United Healthcare - CRM Project Manager and Technical Lead April 2004 – March 2006 AT&T Wireless - Siebel Technical Lead April 2002 – April 2004 XO Communications – Siebel Data Integration and Data Integrity Lead January 2001 – April 2002 Kentucky State Dept. of Unemployment Services - Siebel Technical Lead August 1999 – December 2000 General Electric Power Systems – Siebel Software Developer August 1998 – July 1999

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