Arun Kumar P
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Project Manager with over 15 years of experience leading cross-functional teams in Agile environments. Proven track record as a Scrum Master, facilitating seamless project execution, fostering collaboration, and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles. Skilled in driving product development from concept to delivery, optimizing workflows, and enhancing team productivity.
In addition to project management expertise, possess strong analytical skills as a Data Analyst, adept at leveraging data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions and improve project outcomes. Proficient in data visualization, statistical analysis, and database management. Demonstrates exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving abilities, with a commitment to delivering high-quality projects on time and within scope.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Manager (Projects)
Cognizant Technology Solution
Bangalore
2021 - Current
- Managing interdependencies and coordination across projects to ensure that information relating to project deliverables, risks and issues are effectively communicated between stakeholders and that key performance indicators are monitored and evaluated.
- Defining business strategies and organizational policies to enable the strategic coordination of multiple major projects and initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness of projects.
- Successfully engaging stakeholders and removing impediments for targeted delivery, managing monthly release cadences, and ensuring compliance with stage gate processes
- Prioritize and manage bug fixes reported by users or identified through system monitoring.
- Plan and deploy regular updates and patches to address security vulnerabilities and improve system functionality.
- Ensure the system complies with relevant regulations and industry standards.
- Provide ongoing support to customers for any issues or queries they encounter.
- Ensure adherence to SLAs regarding response times, issue resolution, and system uptime.
- Regularly review and update SLAs to align with customer expectations and system capabilities.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solution
California
2016.09 - 2020.08
- Gathering data from various sources such as databases, data warehouses, APIs, and external data sources
- Cleaning and preprocessing data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency
- This involves handling missing data, removing duplicates, and transforming data into a usable format
- Applying statistical and analytical techniques to interpret data, identify trends, patterns, and relationships
- Implementing data quality checks, validation processes, and data governance practices to ensure high-quality data
- Documenting data analysis methodologies, findings, and recommendations for future reference and knowledge sharing
- Ensuring data privacy, confidentiality, and ethical use of data in compliance with regulations
- Performing data validation and reconciliation between source and target systems to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and integrity during ETL processes
- Implementing data quality checks and validation rules to detect and report data anomalies, inconsistencies, and outliers
- Proactively identifying opportunities to optimize ETL testing processes, enhance test coverage, and improve overall data quality and reliability
- Environment: ADF, Cosmos, SQL, Unix, Hive, Hbase, Databricks, Hbase
Senior Quality Engineer
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Bangalore
2010.01 - 2016.03
Senior Quality Engineer
Keane Inc
2006.09 - 2009.12
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
P E S College of Engineering
Mandya 2001.04 -
Skills
Project Planning
Risk Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Team Management
Budget Management
Agile Methodologies
Scheduling and Planning
Project tracking
Root Cause Analysis
Data Validation
Data Cleaning
Data profiling
Certification
Microsoft, AZURE Fundamentals AZ-900
Timeline
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solution
2016.09 - 2020.08
Senior Quality Engineer
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
2010.01 - 2016.03
Senior Quality Engineer
Keane Inc
2006.09 - 2009.12
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
P E S College of Engineering
2001.04 -
Manager (Projects)
Cognizant Technology Solution
2021 - Current
Microsoft, AZURE Fundamentals AZ-900
AWS, AWS Cloud Practitioner
SaFe Agile, Safe Agilist
Google, Google Project Management
Azure, Azure AI fundamentals
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