Ajay Kulkarni
Pune,Maharashtra
Summary
Dynamic Project Manager with 19 years of experience driving successful outcomes in complex IT projects. Expertise in Agile Project Management and people leadership fosters high-performing teams that consistently meet deliverables on time and within scope. Proficient in mentoring teams on Agile principles while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. A strong communicator skilled in resolving conflicts and managing stakeholder expectations, committed to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and efficiency. Ready to leverage comprehensive experience to enhance project delivery in a challenging new role.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Manager
EPAM Systems
Pune
04.2023 - Current
- Implemented processes and procedures to ensure compliance with Agile/Scrum
- Principles
- • Mentored and coached team members to improve their understanding of
- Agile/Scrum Principles and best practices
- • Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and
- Other agile ceremonies
- • Ensured sprint deliverables and objectives were met on time and within
- Budget
- • Collaborated with product owners to prioritize tasks and ensure product
- Requirements were met
- • Resolved conflicts and challenges within the team in a timely and effective
- Manner
- • Facilitated retrospectives to identify areas of improvement and ensure
- Continuous improvement
- • Responsible for release planning and execution. Defining release timelines
- And deadlines together with the customer and the team to make sure that
- What's planned and expected can be delivered on time
- Governing the delivery of applications across stakeholders, handling
- Complicated engineering issues, and making sure the design, code and overall
- Solutions are of top-notch quality
- People management. Working closely with Resource Management Organization
Development Manager
Capita India PVT LTD
Pune
08.2020 - 04.2023
- Flui Technologies is the leading provider of critical utilities and infrastructure software in the UK and Ireland
- Responsibilities:
- Co-ordinate with product owner to groom and decide priorities of backlog items
- Work with people outside of the team to resolve external dependencies and roadblocks that are blocking the team
- Creating different agile metrics like Sprint Burndown Report, Velocity
- Epic and Release Burndown, Defects management metrics
- Created dashboards on ADO to track progress of scrums
- Co-ordinate with deployment teams to deploy releases on different environments
- Built relationships across the firm with supporting functions, including
- Operations, R&D, Finance, HR, Infosec and Compliance
- Leveraging these relationships to resolve project risks and issues as they arise to ensure a seamless delivery of each transition
- Designed and monitored project schedule and project manager assignments
- Responsible for Team and People management (professional and personal care aspects)
- Leading unit level initiatives to build technical competency to meet the needs of the team or unit
- Responsible the team for meeting the best software engineering practices, quality processes and methodologies
- Promoting and instill a culture of continuous improvement and efficiency to the software/business processes through out-of-the-box thinking on product and processes by utilizing or creating new software engineering tools and different innovation techniques
- Create Project plans, Risk Register and all project artefacts required as per
- Internal Change Management Framework
- Monitor and report Project health on Schedule, Quality parameters and using
- Internal tools
- Produce effective progress reports for assigned projects to keep Stakeholders apprised of Status, Issues and Risks, Scope changes, Resource changes
- Milestones achieved
- Working with recruitment team to recruit new people in the team
- Carrying out annual appraisals of team members
Technical Architect
NetCracker Technology, Solutions (I) Pvt Ltd
Pune
04.2016 - 07.2020
- Client: TELUS Communications, Shaw Communications, Cogeco Inc, Canada
- T-Mobile, Netherlands (Deutsche Telekom)
- Project Description: Worked on Customizing NetCracker Products for different
- Telecom providers
- Responsibilities:
- • Onsite work experience on client side
- • Involved in development of Rest API for integration with other systems
- • Customization and development of UI screens in NC framework
- • Involved in development of SOAP API, TBAPI for integration with other systems
- • NC report development
- • Involved in coding and testing of application
- • Performing Code reviews within the team
- • Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing
- And Integration testing
- • Creating Unit test cases and mocking of the code
- • Creating high level and low-level design documents
- • Following agile principles of software development
- • Following continuous integration and continuous development process
- • Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins, Sonar etc
Senior Software Engineer
TomTom India Pvt. Ltd
Pune
11.2014 - 04.2016
- Client: Inhouse development of TomTom GPS navigation devices
- Project Description: Project Name : QA-Rules
- Business Unit : Content Production Platform
- Project Description: Developing business rules for the inhouse product cartopia
- Responsibilities:
- Involved in coding and testing of application
- Performing Code reviews within the team
- Preparing builds, deploying on the environments
- Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing and Integration testing
- Creating Unit test cases and mocking of the code
- Involved in discussion with business analyst to understand the requirement
Senior Java Developer
SunGard Solutions(I) Pvt. Ltd
Pune
04.2011 - 11.2014
- Domain: Capital Markets, US based Institutional Broker-Dealers
- Product Name : Phase 3 UI
- Responsibilities:
- Involved in detailed design, coding, testing and creation of technical specs of enhancement application
- Performing Code reviews with the team, design reviews with the Architects
- Preparing builds, deploy and Co-ordinate with the release management team to ensure that the proper process is followed during the release
- Creating Low Level System Design documents
- Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing and UAT
- Developed the phase3 screens using Java, Applets, JSP, Servlets, Jquery, XML
- XSL and HTML
- Creating Unit test cases
- Preparing Build Script using ANT and Maven
- Preparing various documents like Release notes, Technical Specifications
- Product Installation documents
- SSO implementation of Phase3 Web UI
- SSL implementation of Phase3 Web UI
- Signing of Jar’s for SSL implementation
- Responsible for using AJAX framework with Jquery for developing new screens in Phase3 Product
- Worked on IPP business process manager tool for Mutual Fund networking project
- Working on IPP business process manager tool for Exception Management project
- Working on Oasys application which is Trade Allocation tool based on the
- Spring MVC framework
- Solely responsible for entire Phase3 Web UI
Senior Java Developer( Senior SME)
Amdocs India Pvt. Ltd
Pune
12.2009 - 03.2011
- Astro DTH service Provider in Malaysia
- Project Description: Amdocs have products for Telecom Domain
- I was working on customization of Amdocs Order Management System product for client Astro
- It involved development of different modules in Java and SQL
- Responsibilities:
- 3 Months of onsite work experience with the client Astro, Malaysia
- Worked extensively on design and development of Revenue assurance reports and critical reports which involved writing Sql scripts on oracle database
- Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing
- Integration testing and UAT
- Responsible for closing the backlog of production related issues
- Involved in development and customization of Amdocs Order Management
- System for Client Astro
Java Developer
Oracle Financial Software Services
Mumbai
03.2006 - 11.2009
- Citibank
- Domain: Retail Banking
- Project Description: Worked extensively on design and development of project web-refresh for client Citibank based on Java Technologies
- Responsibilities:
- Worked extensively on design and development of project web-refresh for client Citibank which involved technologies like Core Java 1.4, JSP, Servlets
- JavaScript, Jquery, Struts 1.2
- Performing Code reviews with the team, design reviews with the Tech Leads
- Preparing builds, deploy and Co-ordinate with the release management team to ensure that the proper process is followed during the release
- Providing End to End support for the testing activities during System Testing
- Integration testing and UAT
- Maintain source code using IBM Rational Clear case
- Responsible for closing the application related issues
- Coordinating with the integration and testing teams
- Design and execution of test scenarios, test cases and experience in
- Functionality Testing
- Good exposure in Design Patterns for Web
- Responsible for closing the backlog of production related issues
- Involved in Documentation of technical specs and other project related documents in all phases of application development
Education
MBA - Executive MBA(GENERAL MANAGEMENT)
01.2011 - 02.2013
Skills
Project management
undefinedTimeline
Project Manager - EPAM Systems
04.2023 - Current
Development Manager - Capita India PVT LTD
08.2020 - 04.2023
Technical Architect - NetCracker Technology, Solutions (I) Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 07.2020
Senior Software Engineer - TomTom India Pvt. Ltd
11.2014 - 04.2016
Senior Java Developer - SunGard Solutions(I) Pvt. Ltd
04.2011 - 11.2014
SYMBIOSIS INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT - MBA, Executive MBA(GENERAL MANAGEMENT)
01.2011 - 02.2013
Senior Java Developer( Senior SME) - Amdocs India Pvt. Ltd
12.2009 - 03.2011
Java Developer - Oracle Financial Software Services
03.2006 - 11.2009
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