NV Srinivas,Hyderabad | India

• Monitor & maintain detailed project plans and work stream status for global roll out.
• Analyze, prioritize and consolidates this risk and assess its potential impact on the project/business.
• Prepares and provides effective communication of status reports to the internal clients and project team (CapGemini).
• Communicates with end-users and other stakeholders as needed.
• Works with Business Systems Analysts (Genpact) to develop and conduct end-user testing to ensure user feedback and acceptance.
• Conducts formal review with internal business clients at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
• Identifies risks to the project, creating an action plan for risk mitigation.
• Monitors the project identifying resource needs, performing quality reviews and escalating scope, budget, quality, and timeline issues appropriately, reporting into management as needed. Formulates recovery plans or assesses impact if not recoverable.
• Continuously monitors the actual costs of a project/program versus the budget.
• Conducts in-depth root cause analysis for project budget discrepancies.

• Manage end-to-end delivery of the technology projects/program and ensure that projects are delivered within well-defined schedule and budget.
• Drive projects through all SDLC phases, from initial definition and estimation to production delivery and support.
• Facilitate estimation & planning practices for project development using Agile delivery lifecycle, prepare and maintain overall program delivery roadmap.
• Drive capacity planning activities as part of the multi-year planning cycle, at relevant portfolio planning intervals and as part of on-going portfolio management cadence.
• Build and maintain project plan, including approach, scope, tasks, durations, work efforts, dependencies, and budget planning assumptions, risk profile, resource allocation and deliverable definition.
• Collaborate and communicate with other project managers to coordinate cross-project initiatives and activities.
• To facilitate project level decisions, manage and track leads and day-to-day activities to enable seamless execution. Maintain and manage program level risks, issues and dependencies tracker, keeping track and control on all external and internal dependencies, interdependencies across different project workstreams within the program.
• Run the change control board to manage and control the scope across all project workstreams.
• Manage the impact assessment and approvals across all levels for the change requests. Manage capacity planning, staffing and budget for different vendors across the program. To track, measure and report vendor performance on the program.

• Lead the 24 module complex project for state level to develop, improve and standardize the IT project management, processes tools and technologies
• Financial module was part of ERP Application (24 modules)
• Lead a team of Developers, Analysts, QA and support teamon a large complex project
• Successfully delivered the necessary documentation during each stage of the project and obtain sign off from every required stakeholder
• Diligently managed various requirements ensuring that the course of development can be followed from the initiation to final delivery of the project.
• Liaising with key stakeholders across the technology teams and the business (Internal & External)
• Offered support to the business by defining and planning UAT
• Leading the definition, evaluation and agreement of business solution options/project scope. This will include the evaluation of 3rd party solutions
• Managed Process review and change activities and workshops.
• Participate in Presales, RFP and negotiation meeting & Preparation.
• Identify and align project management strategy with the business goal and strategy as well as delivering solution according to the budget, timeline and resource constraints.
• Manage, document and identify enterprise environmental factor and process asset for all rpoejcts.
• Provided the assistance and work with the IT team and business as the key partner in defining the project roadmap, scopes, schedules, resources and estimates of the project in collaboration with senior management and key stakeholders.
• Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.
• Oversee acquisition of resources and materials as needed before and during projects by talking with customers, team members, managers, and in-house accountants and negotiating price and payment agreements with vendors.
• Anticipate details of future projects by communicating directly with customers and staying informed of relevant trends and industry news.

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