ANANTHARAJ P
Chennai
Summary
A highly experienced project and program management professional with 11+ years of industry expertise. Demonstrated ability to successfully implement solutions for potential clients, ensuring timely delivery and excellent quality. Skilled in managing communication between client, technical, and management teams. Expertise spans across diverse domains including Fintech, Healthcare, OTT, On-Demand, and more. Adept at mitigating project risks and ensuring client satisfaction. Well-versed in leading multidisciplinary teams and overseeing solution development on various technology stacks, while adhering to approved budgets and timelines. Holds PMP certification, Engineering, and MBA degrees, showcasing proficiency in project management methodologies and business administration.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Contus Tech
07.2020 - Current
- Manage and drive end to end project life cycle like defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables for application setup and associated infrastructure.
- Responsible to develop detailed project plans, including tasks, timelines, resource allocation, and budgets.
- Responsible for overseeing the completion of requirement definitions, functional and technical specifications, architecture definition, database design, technical implementation, unit and integration testing of systems for product development and delivery.
- Closely work with PMO team to ensure appropriate Project & Change Management Frameworks are integrated.
- Managing project (Agile & waterfall) budgets, and organizational changes to enable decision-making and project reporting to stakeholders and ensuring which are aligned with established OKRs and and KPIs
- Providing appropriate project reports & risks, following up, holding online meetings, and, if necessary, in-person meetings as part of customer service
- Assessing complicated requirements with a variety of stakeholders and deciphering what is required to finish the delivery
- Quality Assurance: Implement strict quality control measures to guarantee the highest standard of work, managing the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) effort
- Cross-functional coordination: Collaborate with teams from different areas and different geographies of the organization to ensure seamless project execution
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline setup and management, using tools like Jenkins, BitBucket and also strong
understanding of DevOps principles and practices, including automation, configuration management, and
monitoring.
Product Manager
CASPERON TECHNOLOGIES
02.2019 - 07.2020
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget constraints
- Maintains product management staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees
- Developed products and projects by identifying potential business; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time- integrated plans
- Ensure customer satisfaction throughout the product/project life and support the Business Management in ensuring the organization meets its commercial objectives for the project and develops its relationship with the customer
- Met clients to get the requirements and convert them into BRD and take care of the entire software development cycle
- Coordinated with architecture, infrastructure, and engineering while supervising application configuration and support
- Deep understanding of product features and functionalities
- Attend the Project Progress meeting on a regular basis and bring up project-related topics
- Identified clients' problems and gave technical solutions to improve business to meet competitive requirements
Team Leader
CASPERON TECHNOLOGIES
08.2015 - 02.2019
- Regulated and co-coordinated testing processes and standards across multiple and simultaneous projects and departments, for various browsers, countries and mobile devices
- Taken full responsibility for all phases of testing and the management of the testing activities within a development and complex project
- Oversaw the timely and cost-effective completion of the agreed-upon scope with quality, meeting customer expectations and meeting deadlines
- Managed the delivery phase against the agreed baseline per defined project management methodology to manage and reduce overall risks and issues and to maximise profitability while managing scope and other changes and taking action to recover any discrepancies
- Coordinated resources effectively to meet project deadlines and achieve desired results
- Drive communication between the testing, development, and BA teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage
- Held over the responsibility to plan, develop, coordinate and lead software release activities
- Developed presentations & proposals, perform customer presentations.
Software Engineer
iMindSoft
01.2013 - 07.2015
- Tested large-scale website and mobile application projects
- Developed estimates for all relevant test activities
- Ensured the successful implementation of the test plan and test cases
- Performed responsibilities of conducting quality assurance testing of software deployed in the system
- Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.
Education
MBA - Technology Management
Anna University
Chennai07.2017
Bachelor of Engineering -
Anna University
Chennai03.2011
Skills
- Agile
- Jira
- Project Planning
- Cloud - AWS
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Change Management
- Quality Assurance
- Conflict Resolution
- Risk, Governance and compliance
- IT Service & Delivery Management
- SDLC
Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute
Tools
- Jira, Basecamp, Microsoft 365, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Google Analytics, Slack, Firebase, Active Directory, AWS, Azure
Domain Expertise
- Corporate IT Web
- Mobile and Tv Application and Infrastructure
- Banking and Financial Services
- OTT
- On-Demand
- Enterprise Chat Applications
Timeline
Project Manager
Contus Tech
07.2020 - Current
Product Manager
CASPERON TECHNOLOGIES
02.2019 - 07.2020
Team Leader
CASPERON TECHNOLOGIES
08.2015 - 02.2019
Software Engineer
iMindSoft
01.2013 - 07.2015
MBA - Technology Management
Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering -
Anna University
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