Animesh Nayak

• 12+ years of IT experience in Oracle ERP, Oracle SQL, Cloud apps and Data Science & Analytics as a Program and Technical Project Manager having technical expertise in Oracle PeopleSoft ERP, Oracle SQL, Microsoft Dynamics, Selenium-Java.
• Domain expertise has been in Banking, Finance, CRM, ERP, Data Engineering and Data Science (Python) and Healthcare
• Have been primarily responsible for Managing projects - Creation of Product Backlog Items, Managing and Prioritizing the backlog in line with Release Timelines, requirement gathering, planning, estimation, backlog grooming, driving deliveries and reporting internally and to stakeholders.
• Responsible for Create and Review SoW, Planning Scope Management, Collect Requirements, Defining Scope and Create WBS.
• Responsible for planning Project Schedule & Activities, Plan & Estimate Cost, Determine Budget.
• Involved in Planning, Managing and Monitoring Project Communication.
• Responsible for Risk Management, Implement Risk Response and Monitoring Risks
• Stakeholder management and Procurement Activities are a few other key activities I have been driving regularly.
• Plan, Manage and Controlling Quality are other responsibilities I have been actively driving.
• Resource Management like Plan and Estimate Activities of Resources, Acquiring, Develop and Manage Teams.
• Have used Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint extensively for all Product Management and project leading activities
• Responsible for stakeholder management, gathering requirements, analyzing from Design and Architecture standpoint, refining and creation of Epics & user stories.
• Responsible for evaluation of product development at each stage, providing PO sign-offs on user stories, actively involved in Sprint Review and Effort Estimation/Story Sizing.
• Responsible for setting Goals & Product Strategy for product’s success, acting as a bridge between customers and development team to drive away any misinterpretation at every stage of development.
• Mapping out dependencies, identifying risks and having a risk mitigation plan well in advance has been my critical responsibility.
• Responsible for creating Customer Journey maps and presenting it during the Sprint/product review phase to various customers.
• Have also worked as Scrum lead for capacity planning, customer communication, creating Sprint reports and burn-down, team velocity charts, effort deviation, productivity, defects density, capacity leakage and utilization, handling other wide range of metrics and project tracking and posting regular updates to customers, managing scrum calls, retrospective calls.
• Actively working with the Release Management team to monitor release readiness and various checklists of each item.
• End to End Test management activities like planning, test execution, test monitoring and governance along with Test Automation in various projects
• Worked extensively as Techno-Functional Program and Project Manager for various projects in PeopleSoft FSCM modules like Account Payable, Account Receivables, Billing, eProcurement, Purchase Order, General Ledger, ServiceNow, Salesforce, TIBCO and Data Science & Analytics
• Have experience as a QA Lead in Test management and testing. Have used JIRA, Selenium (Java) for various QA activities. Preparation of test data and execution of test cases to ensure application functionality meets the user requirements.
• Experienced in requirements gathering from clients, validating functional specification, preparing technical/test design documents, design customizations, carry out estimations and reporting.

PMP Qualified and have been responsible for Budgeting and Forecasting, Project Governance, LifeCycle Activities and Plans, Estimation, Schedule, Risk Management Plan, Quality Assurance, Metrics Management, Resource Planning and Training, Defect Management, Information Security etc.

• 09/16/2022, Present, Abzooba - UST, Data Science and Healthcare, Project Manager
• 02/14/2022, 06/17/2022, Wolters Kluwer, Tax & Accounting Digital Platform, Senior Technical Project Manager/Product Owner
• 10/12/2018, 02/12/2022, Credit Rating Org, ServiceNow and Salesforce, Scrum Master/Team Lead
• 06/02/2015, 09/31/2018, California Government, FisCal Lead Developer, AP, PO and ePro Implementation specialist
• 10/01/2012, 06/01/2015, Cargo Service, HR Application Developer, Payroll implementation for FedEx HR system Oracle PeopleSoft FSCM

Date of Birth: 08/08/88

• Guitarist and Pianist and singer for gospel records (non-profit)
• Love different sports like Cricket, Tennis, Badminton and Chess

• Multiple awards in the organization and client appreciations for successful delivery of critical projects

• PMP, CSM certified
• Oracle Peoplesoft Dev certified