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Gargi Kuchhal

Summary

Dynamic and results-oriented Project Manager dedicated to aligning project execution with organizational strategy and values. Proven leader with executive experience, committed to driving impactful change through the implementation of strategic initiatives that enhance operational performance. Recognized for fostering collaborative team environments and demonstrating adaptability to meet evolving business needs while leveraging expertise to deliver exceptional project outcomes. Maintains a strong focus on ethical practices, ensuring that all projects achieve their objectives and uphold the highest standards of integrity.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

VP (Technology Scrum Master)

NatWest Groups
12.2022 - Current
  • Dynamic and results-oriented Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience in leading Agile development teams to deliver high-quality software products. Proven track record of facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, and fostering a collaborative team environment to drive project success. Currently handing Java and react.js project
  • Responsibilities
  • Scrum Master (VP)
  • Key Skills
  • Agile Methodologies (Scrum)
  • Team Facilitation and Coaching
  • Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement
  • Continuous Improvement and Retrospectives
  • Stakeholder Communication and Management
  • Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving
  • JIRA and Agile Project Management Tools
  • Working group with different stakeholders
  • Audits
  • Involved in Risk management, PI planning and forecasting
  • Role and responsibilities
  • Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure alignment with Agile principles and project objectives.
  • Coached development teams on Agile best practices, emphasizing self-organization, cross-functionality, and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborated with the Business Team to prioritize product backlog items and maintain a well-groomed backlog for upcoming sprints.
  • Removed impediments and shielded the team from external distractions to maintain focus on sprint goals and deliverables.
  • Monitored team velocity, identifying opportunities for process optimization and sprint goal achievement.
  • Fostered a culture of transparency and trust, encouraging open communication and constructive feedback within the team.
  • Acted as a leader, guiding the team through challenges, resolving conflicts, and promoting a positive work environment.
  • Utilized JIRA to track progress, manage user stories, and visualize team metrics.

Technical Specialist (Delivery Manager)

HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd
11.2021 - 12.2022
  • Working as Project Manager/Delivery Manager for Walmart Account. Have multiple programs running with them as T&M and FPP projects. That are aligned to various technologies i.e. Java, Data Eng, Java support.
  • Responsibilities
  • Project Manager/Delivery Manager
  • Overseeing the entire Walmart account for both T&M and FPP projects.
  • To allocate and control team resources as they relate to individual programs as well as our department's budget as a whole
  • Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects.
  • Decide on suitable strategies and objectives.
  • Coordinate cross-project activities.
  • Cost estimating and developing the budget
  • Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities.
  • Apply change, risk and resource management.
  • Assess program performance and aim to maximize ROI
  • Resolve projects' higher scope issues
  • Resource planning as per customer need for T&M and FPP projects.
  • Baselining of SLA for the project.
  • Creating the proposal that includes costing and ramp up plan
  • Creating and executing the plan for freshers aligned to the account.
  • Resource planning in projects.
  • Financial information about the budget, forecast, actuals, margins, etc.
  • Managing reports and necessary documentation for the client and senior management through weekly and monthly governance call.
  • Coordinating with Walmart procurement team for new requirements and bidding for new projects/positions.

Project Manager

FusionHawk Private Limited
08.2019 - 10.2021
  • Company Overview: Startup company as Part time
  • Our services include the design, development, and implementation of new solutions as well as the ongoing maintenance and support of existing business systems.
  • Conversational AI & UI
  • Chat Bot Framework Capabilities
  • Alexa Skills
  • Google Actions
  • Application Management Services
  • Ecommerce Web Solutions
  • Business applications
  • Mobile Applications
  • Responsibilities
  • Project Manager/Scrum Master
  • To focus on delivering the business value in the shortest time we use Agile Scrum process. By using advocate short, frequent development cycles with working software delivered at the end of each cycle.
  • Create Vision, product roadmap and release plan using Zoho Sprint and project
  • Work planning and effort estimation.
  • Resource allocation and conflict resolution.
  • Maintenance and planning of skills.
  • Coordination of project manager / team leader.
  • Purchase order management, forecasting, budgeting

Team Lead

Accenture
01.2019 - 06.2019
  • Worked as a Scrum master at client side in a JAVA project. Front end in RIA. It was a module of login and authentication for the entire application. 2 Factor authentication was there through Mobile and Email.
  • Responsibilities
  • Facilitate my team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team.
  • Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team in agile methodology using JIRA
  • Responsible to remove the impediments for the scrum team.
  • Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
  • Helps product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
  • Responsible to conduct retrospective meetings.
  • Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting.
  • Coordination of project manager / team leader. Purchase order management, forecasting, budgeting

Project Manager ^ Lead Engineer

HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd
03.2010 - 11.2017
  • EMP(Event Management Platform) , Project envisages to automate AS-IS event management workflow and manage all the KPIs related to client's all events in a single place.
  • Vehicle Infotainment & Advertising (Integration with IVI (In- Vehicle Infotainment) , Smart Phone Application & Advertising) Project
  • Monitoring 2.0 is a platform that allows the user to monitor and view health, status, key business parameters for the organization.
  • Acxiom-ePaas-Development (XDM Rest Services)
  • StarQA Web Application, StarQA is designed to house all brand standards and related Standard Operating Procedures as well as track the progress of new brand standards, exemptions and concessions.
  • E-Health Diary (Android Application) , E – health Diary(Android Application) keeps track of your health condition – tracking your weight, BP, blood sugar etc. Getting all important health related reminders, keeping on top of your flu shots, doctor visits and medications and keeping track of your daily diet and exercise.
  • Technologies
  • Java 6, Struts2, ibatis, Oracle 10g
  • JAVA, Web services (Restful),Hibernate ,Sprint(IOC),Mysql
  • JDK1.7, RESTFUL web services, MySQL, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA and Maven. JIRA – For Agile
  • Android, Java 5.0, GWT, GXT 2.0.1, Rest Web service, Eclipse, MySQL as backend.
  • Responsibilities
  • All over period of HCL
  • Need to be involved in client interaction to get the requirements and raising alarms on deviations.
  • Facilitate creativity and empowerment for the development team.
  • Tracking and monitoring of the team.
  • Involved in technical discussions with team and client.
  • Participated in design and developing the base component of project.
  • Devolvement and code review.
  • Task allocation, task monitoring, issue resolution, conflict resolution, status reporting, mentoring of junior team members.
  • Mentoring and deploying new team members on board adjust and make them productive in on-going development.
  • Close communication with onsite Architects and creation of backlog items, their priority order, feasibility and raising alarms on deviations.
  • Purchase order management, forecasting, budgeting

Analyst Programmer

University College London
01.2008 - 03.2009
  • Web based Trading System (IDT): A web based trading application (IDT) being developed for UCL to automate the process of trading between the departments. The aim of this IDT Application is to enable the process of raising an Inter departmental transfer invoice (IDT), approving it and submitting it to FIS. This process is taking place through a paper form at the moment and involves a lot of time as well as resources. This automated system is built using Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). The major components of the new application are: User interface with which any user (Orderer or Supplier) can create, update, and manage IDTs. This includes assigning IDTs to the appropriate approval and gathering cumulative history information.
  • Technologies
  • Java,Oracle ADF Framework, JSF, JavaScript and Oracle 10G AS server with Oracle 10g DB as backend.
  • Responsibilities
  • Involved in end-user interaction, Requirement analysis.
  • Designing of the Database and Coding.
  • Designing User Interface.
  • Developing Unit Test Cases.
  • Maintain technical documentation to support the operations of applications.

System Engineer

IBM Pvt Ltd
10.2006 - 09.2007
  • VISTA : An application being developed for Swiss Government to automate the process of funds management and insurance that the government provides to its citizens. The whole project is divided into various modules and implements MDSD (Model Driven Software Development). It is being developed using spring framework. The database being used is DB2 and Hibernate is being used to persist the data to the database. Rational Clear Case is being used for Configuration Management and Clear Quest for Defect Management. Development is being done using RSA. Roles include design and development of the server and Client side code of the module assigned.
  • Technologies
  • Java,UML, Rational Software Architect(extension of WSAD), Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, JTest, JUnits, and Hibernate (O/R mapping tool), Springs Core, Apache Commons Logging, JSP and Servlet
  • Responsibilities
  • Coding and development of the assigned Functional Groups.

Software Engineer

iBilt Technologies Ltd
10.2004 - 10.2006
  • Web Based Academic and Management System (WBAMS): The application seamlessly integrates all the student center processes of IIT Delhi; thus enabling a quick and creative analysis of data to facilitate timely and astute decision-making. WBAMS is developed to make the interaction between Students, Faculty and Administration faster and efficient. The application created is an Intranet-based solution portfolio designed to cater to the unique needs of IIT Delhi. The application seamlessly integrates all the key processes of IIT Delhi, such as Academics (PG & UG), Hostel, Accounts, Training & Placement (T&P), and Security & Masters; thus, enabling a quick and creative analysis of data to facilitate timely and astute decision-making.
  • Technologies
  • Java , Struts 1.2, EJB and Oracle 10g DB as backend.
  • Responsibilities
  • Involved in end-user interaction, requirement analysis and use-case development.
  • Designing of the Database and Coding.
  • Designing User Interface.
  • Developing Unit Test Cases and System Design Document.
  • Maintain existing technical documentation to support the operations of applications.

Software Engineer

SAM IT Solutions
08.2003 - 10.2004

Education

Master of Science - Compute Science

MDU
04.2001 -

A' Level (Advance Diploma) - Computer Application

DOEACC, Dept of Information Technology
11.2002

Bachelor of Arts Degree - Computer Application

University of Delhi
05-2000

Skills

Project Management /Delivery Manager

Certification

PSPO: Professional Scrum Product Owner I

CAREER SUMMARY

  • University College London, London, UK, 07 January, 2008 to 31 March, 2009, Analyst Programmer
  • IBM Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, 09 October, 2006 to 21 September, 2007, System Engineer
  • IBilt Technologies Ltd, New Delhi, October 14th 2004 to 3rd October 2006, Software Engineer
  • SAM IT Solutions, New Delhi, August 2003 to 13th October 2004, Software Engineer

Timeline

VP (Technology Scrum Master)

NatWest Groups
12.2022 - Current

Technical Specialist (Delivery Manager)

HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd
11.2021 - 12.2022

Project Manager

FusionHawk Private Limited
08.2019 - 10.2021

Team Lead

Accenture
01.2019 - 06.2019

Project Manager ^ Lead Engineer

HCL Technologies Pvt. Ltd
03.2010 - 11.2017

Analyst Programmer

University College London
01.2008 - 03.2009

System Engineer

IBM Pvt Ltd
10.2006 - 09.2007

Software Engineer

iBilt Technologies Ltd
10.2004 - 10.2006

Software Engineer

SAM IT Solutions
08.2003 - 10.2004

Master of Science - Compute Science

MDU
04.2001 -

A' Level (Advance Diploma) - Computer Application

DOEACC, Dept of Information Technology

Bachelor of Arts Degree - Computer Application

University of Delhi

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