Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Additional Information
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ProjectManager

Chethan Kumar

Summary

Seasoned Project Manager with 15+ years of experience in Project Management, in ALM, Finance & Accounting, Semiconductor, Retail, and Healthcare domains. Sound knowledge of Delivery Management, Project Planning, Business Process re-engineering, Resource Planning, Stakeholder Management, and Product Management.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Sutherland Global Services
Bangalore
05.2021 - Current
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Requirements Catalogue, Software Development, Testing, and Deployment of EHR Application for one of largest hospital groups in Saudi Arabia.
  • Deliverable Templates, Onboarding of resources, Project Plan, Process Flow/Workflow documents, budgeting.
  • Worked on modules like Front office, Biomed, RCMS/OP Billing, Operation theatre, Materials Management, Nursing, Doctor, Laboratory, Physiotherapy, Blood bank, IT Admin, RIS/PACS, Laundry, Diet, and Death Management
  • Identifying gaps as is with JCI (Joint Commission International), HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), and CBHAI Standards (Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions)
  • Facilitated various scrum events like Daily standup, Planning, Refinement, Review, and Retrospective meetings with proper time boxing.
  • Early identification of issues, risks, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions.
  • Story point estimations, defining DOR and DOD, capacity planning, time boxing meetings, cross-functionality, and developing T-shaped skillset

Associate Project Manager

UST
Bangalore
02.2010 - 04.2021
  • Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
  • As Project Manager accountable for software development, platform validation, and automation for one of the largest chip manufacturers in the world
  • Successfully planned and executed releases and contributed to improving performance and usability of client applications thereby increasing user satisfaction.
  • Built, led, and coached a team of developers and testers in agile methodologies & best practices to achieve a consistent sprint velocity with high quality.
  • Instrumental in Driving cross-functional and cross-geo teams by interacting with Sponsors, Program Managers, and multiple Development Teams
  • Over and above regular earning, claimed rewards for quality delivery for 3 years consistently- demonstrating commitment and ownership.
  • Instrumental in developing low-cost model to hire resources on DevOps with niche combination skills to curb high OpEx, helped improve EBITDA
  • Successfully executed and delivered T&M and OCB projects and accelerated P&L from 22% to 40% and exceeded well on EBITDA and GPM consistently.
  • Supply Chain Analytics, Business consulting, and forecasting for global finance team including Revenue Recognition, Inventory Allocation, and Optimization.
  • Collaborated with various stakeholders for formulating methodologies and implementing efficient solutions to streamline reconciliation of channel inventory and sales revenues across EMEA and NA retail distributors.

System Software Engineer

IBM India Software Labs
Bangalore
03.2007 - 02.2010
  • Requirements Gathering, Stakeholder Management, Requirement Elicitation, Requirement Communication, and Management.
  • Significant project experience in various phases of project life cycle encompassing initial study, analysis, design, development, maintenance, testing, and production support
  • Conducting UAT sessions with business users, providing them with Test Scenarios and controlled testing environment, and obtaining user sign-off on same.

Education

Master of Science - Quality Management

BITS Pilani
Rajasthan

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Karnataka

Skills

  • Agile, Scrum, SAFe Agile
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Resource Management
  • GIT, Jenkins, Team City
  • AWS Cloud
  • Tableau, Power BI, Splunk
  • DOORS, Requisite Pro
  • MS Project, MS Visio, Share Point
  • TFS, Rally, JIRA

Accomplishments

    Directed multi-million-dollar projects with a team of 60+ Developers, QA, DevOps Engineers, Business Analysts, and Project Managers spread over multiple geo-locations.


    End to End Project Management - including project plans and estimates, resource planning, scoping, and requirements gathering through implementation and deployment


    Experience in driving product and application development activities encompassing requirements elicitation, design reviews, prototype development, coding, testing, deployment, and production support of application/product.


    Managing Project Budget, including Revenue and Profitability forecasting.


    Entrepreneurship mindset- Tapped new business opportunities to add revenue.


    Chartered RFPs/SOWs, Planning, Scope, Technical Review documents. Prospecting opportunities, Presales, and closing business deals, including negotiating contracts.


    Excellent Technical, Communication, and Interpersonal Skills with strong Customer Orientation & Client Interfacing Skills.


    Established reporting, KPIs, and process improvements to ensure visibility of the portfolio of efforts to critical stakeholders and leadership.


    Excellent leadership and people skills with the ability to build a long-lasting relationship with clients and vendors to ensure efficient delivery of services


    Tracking status of project deliverables and milestones, source of documentation, guidance, and metrics on the practice of the daily operations and execution.


    Servant leader helping new teams to practice agile using Scrum. Possess a clear understanding of Agile Principles, Agile Manifesto, and Scrum Values.

Certification

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Certified.

SAFe Agilist Certified.

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Certified.

ITIL Foundation Level Certified.

CSTP (Certified Software Test Professional) Certified

Additional Information

Awards and Appreciations:


Sutherland Global Services:

‘Wall of Fame’ award from Sutherland Global Services for Delivery Excellence in 2022.


UST:

Above and Beyond Call of Duty (ABCD) award in 2020.

Ussociate of the year-2020 award (1st Runner Up).

UST Star PM award for exceptional delivery and leadership in 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Passionate entrepreneurship and Execution Mindset award.

Delivery Excellence award for KPMG account.


IBM:

IBM Thank You! Award and “Excellence in Execution”

‘Star of the Project’ award from Telelogic for Delivery Excellence.


Paper Submission

· Published Dissertation on Improvement of Product Quality and Standardization of Agile Practice- Bug Debt in 2013

· White paper on IBM DOORS and DWA Integration.

Timeline

Project Manager

Sutherland Global Services
05.2021 - Current

Associate Project Manager

UST
02.2010 - 04.2021

System Software Engineer

IBM India Software Labs
03.2007 - 02.2010

Master of Science - Quality Management

BITS Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University

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