Ashish Jain

Experienced Senior Manager specializing in Solution Delivery, excelling at orchestrating multiple projects concurrently with precision, while driving business growth and efficiency through strategic planning and executing key improvements. Proficient in cultivating an open culture of information exchange and dedicated to streamlining processes, reducing costs, and optimizing organizational efficiency. Actively pursuing new opportunities with a growth-oriented company

• Strategic project planning, product road map planning, and budget planning for driving business growth and efficiency.
• Effective management of multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring project sign-off and precise risk management.
• Cultivating an open culture of information exchange and collaboration with clients, while efficiently handling change control and work order management.
• Streamlining processes, reducing costs, and enhancing organizational efficiency through scope planning, delivery management, and vendor management.
• Expertise in IT project and program management, utilizing Agile and Hybrid principles.
• Leading end-to-end software development projects across the SDLC stages: analysis, design, implementation, and production support.
• Assessing risks, creating mitigation and contingency plans, and implementing Agile-based iterative development models with DevOps, CI/CD, TDD, and BDD.
• Participating in system specification reviews to ensure alignment with software architecture.
• Serving as a Scrum Master, overseeing project planning, monitoring, controlling, and configuration.
• Ensuring adherence to CMMI quality processes through internal/external audits.
• Strong skills in IT application support, collaboration, team-building, and communication.
• Conducting business analysis, requirement studies, and functional specification, including application integration.
• Coordinating resources, tracking projects, and providing status reports to clients.
• Conducting code reviews, optimizations, testing, and UAT for high-quality application delivery.
• Mapping business processes, defining specifications, and ensuring successful project outcomes.
• Resolving client issues, designing product solutions, and managing process development.
• Leading technical, cross-functional, and remote teams for scalable IT solutions using Microsoft and Open Source technologies.
• Keeping up with research and development of the latest web and mobile technologies.
• Ensuring quality delivery, team management, and effective project processes for web and desktop applications.
• Establishing communication channels, providing progress reports, and assessing risks throughout the SDLC.
• Coordinating interdependencies and interdepartmental collaboration across projects.
• Utilizing project management skills for planning, monitoring, controlling, and defining coding guidelines.
• Successfully handling fixed price and T&M projects in the onsite/offshore model.

• Created project assets and tailored project processes based on banking customer requirements, setting and monitoring quality goals and leading process improvement initiatives.
• Successfully interacted with customers from the RFP stage to understand and meet their requirements.
• Managed mid-to-large size project teams of up to 125 personnel for national and international accounts.
• Efficiently handled operations related to project delivery and post Go-Live stages.
• Developed customizable solutions, overseeing both Assessments and Content Delivery.
• Implemented SEI CMM processes applicable to various projects, ensuring adherence to project implementation life cycle and management processes.
• Maintained quality documentation as per SEI CMM standards across all relevant areas of work and deliverables.
• Conducted milestone analysis, generated reports, scheduled projects, and tracked margins, while identifying value-adding processes.
• Re-engineered a legacy VB 6 application with no technical documentation into a web application.
• Created product-based and technology-independent Solution Accelerators for Education, Exports, and BFSI industries, contributing to customer wins.
• Directed IT engineering services and operations in areas such as Business Solutioning, Product Engineering & Development, Application Management, Transformation & Integration of Enterprise Systems, and Quality & Process management.
• Implemented MLC component to deliver high-quality and interactive content, manage classes, courses, schedules, and standards reporting.
• Designed a workflow system for competitive insurance quotations.
• Monitored project performance using tools like Blazemeter and JMeter, taking corrective actions for variances to the plan.
• Delivered customized applications for Export documentation and Shipment Monitoring, resulting in significant time savings and improved quality.
• Developed a framework for the QA team using Selenium and TestStack/White.
• Implemented a mechanism to prevent unauthorized access to the application and enforce licensing restrictions.
• Developed and implemented EDI logics for multiple exporters and buying houses, including importing sample images from Excel sheets.
• Implemented Tincan API's and SCORM 2004 to track learner's activities in an LMS.

PMI Agile & PMI Waterfall