KUNTAL TAYLOR
Technical Program Manager
Ahmedabad
Summary
Meticulously organized Technical Program Manager with 12.5+ years successfully uniting internal and external forces to achieve peak efficiency. Maintaining quarterly programs while meeting frequently discordant needs of customers. Extensive exposure in all facets of program/project lifecycle, including initiation and planning; execution and controlling, change, risk till the successful delivery. Experience in setting up engineering processes to drive the programs an agile way. Able to efficiently plan and prioritize projects with on-time delivery which includes resource capacity planning, execution, monitoring. Having exposure in forecasting the program/project progress to CXOs. An effective servant leader with excellent communication, team-building skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Program Manager
Hubilo
Ahmedabad
11.2020 - Current
- SPOC for cross function team heads for the
program planning - Develop an overall business planning,
performance analysis, and liaison with business
heads and cross-functional teams to drive growth
initiatives - Established engineering processes using agile
methodologies that enabled engineers to deliver
with more efficiency - Interfaced between business channels and
internal departments, aligning wishes of sales
department to create programs - Planned, monitored and managed company's
quarterly programs for SaaS product - Coordinated and planned operational meetings
to reduce inter-departmental redundancy. - Program roadmap/backlog prioritizations based
on business need - Act as scrum master to help facilitate scrum
ceremonies(Backlog grooming, sprint planning,
daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective) - Identify and remove blockers or dependencies
and the path forward - Schedules, monitored and managed the delivery
of the program - Good at foreseeing the potential risks in
estimated delivery of the program and highlight the same to CXOs with justification and next plan
to complete - Maintain metrics to measure team's progress
- Resource capacity planning and management
- Setup Jira and Confluence for engineering team
for maintaining daily tasks and their progress
including their administration
Scrum master/Project manager
Clarion Technologies
Ahmedabad
06.2019 - 10.2020
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to
promote full team engagement. - Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning,
backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews
and sprint retrospectives. - Assessed each scrum team member's
responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance
each employee's workload. - Collaborated with product owners, team
members, technologists and other scrum masters
to define solutions and drive progress. - Drove Scrum team progress to overcome
obstacles and realize success throughout life of
each sprint. - Acted as go-to resource for engineering team,
providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets
or requirements and handling project changes. - Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum
processes and methodologies to highly effective
teams with goals of improving quality and
productivity.
Team lead/Scrum
HighQ Solutions
Ahmedabad
09.2010 - 05.2019
- Liaising with the management, team or peer team for the development of excellent product
- End to end delivery of software solution starts with requirement gathering to delivery of it using Agile methodology
- Implementing scoring and prioritization models to help assess which requests should be approved
- Providing demo to the stakeholders regarding the current and future trends at the end of each sprint
- Writing user stories and conducting acceptance testing before project delivery
- Guiding & motivating team members to achieve the set targets for potential utilization of the resources
Junior Software tester
Sparsh Technologies
Ahmedabad
09.2009 - 09.2010
- Developed test cases and executed test cases
- Managed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing
- Execution of the Defect Life Cycle
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
GANPAT UNIVERSITY
Skills
Program management
Project management
Agile methodology
Scrum
Kanban
Requirement management
Leadership
Customer communication
Jira cloud administration
Confluence
Resource capacity planning
Program delivery
Risk management
Additional Information
- ADDRESS A-1/5 SHRADDHA APARTMENT, BH , KESHAVBAUG WADI NAVA VADAJ, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380013
Certification
Certified scrum master
Timeline
Technical Program Manager
Hubilo
11.2020 - Current
Scrum master/Project manager
Clarion Technologies
06.2019 - 10.2020
Team lead/Scrum
HighQ Solutions
09.2010 - 05.2019
Junior Software tester
Sparsh Technologies
09.2009 - 09.2010
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
GANPAT UNIVERSITY