GOPINATH K S
Chennai
Summary
Determined professional who possess around13 years of experience committed to achieving the objectives of each project and also adept at assigning tasks to team members based on individual strengths. Performance-driven leader skilled at building peak performing teams and willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Seeking a role that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Associate Project Manager
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - Current
- Identifying & assess the Risks, proactively and highlighting & deriving the mitigation steps
- Identified improvement opportunities to infuse efficiency and effectiveness into business processes through optimization, digitization & also by eliminating redundant efforts - Have saved consistently around 1250+man hours for the last 3 years.
- Documenting Root Cause Analysis of production failures and resulting action plans
- Worked closely with product owners to groom the product backlog to ensure the delivery of promised business value
- Acted as a Scrum Master and facilitated sprint planning with scrum team(s) to ensure work is assigned effectively to achieve planned velocity and makes course corrections or adjustments during sprints to deliver on the plan
- Facilitated sprint retrospectives with the team to ensure continuous improvement & removal of blockers
- Responsible for facilitating and coordinating release schedule, release planning, and Go-No decision meeting
- Have shouldered the Change Management process and developed policies and procedures for implementing changes to the production environment.
- Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Supported senior managers and department leaders by completing projects and problem resolution under tight budgets and schedule demands.
Senior Analyst
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 03.2021
- Have ensured the seamless process for ongoing system and user maintenance which includes workflow configuration, SOP updates, etc., and all other configurations due to changing business needs
- Liased between business and technology on bridging the gap and also prepared requirements & testing documents
- Drove a few automation initiatives which in turn helped the team's efficiency up by around 950 free-up hours for the year Fy19-20 & FY 20-21 respectively.
- Serve as the SME for the Cvent platform providing guidance and recommendation for future changes
- Participating in the daily scrum and ensured to refine the product backlog to make it achievable & tracking the progress by closely working with Scrum Teams
- Spearheaded User Acceptance Testing to verify the fulfillment of requirements, resolving any ensuing defects.
Specialist
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 03.2019
- Supported the product owner in maintaining the product backlog and scheduling the next release
- Acted as a Scrum Master and Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives meeting with the team
- Acted as an SME for removing the impediments, mainly the project blockages that impede progress
- Have acted as a Change Agent in the Organization who develops a culture that helps other members to react to changes quickly
- Owner of the change management process that defines the process flow, documented expectations, and implemented training and guiding resources to adhere to the process for all systems and technology changes.
- Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
- Developed and implemented systems to track customer feedback and satisfaction.
Functional consultant
Wipro Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications
- Conducted meticulous GAP analysis while successfully reengineering key business processes to increase operational efficiency and alignment of business unit objectives
- Functional support, E-E Functional testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & CR's discussion
- Conduct routine Change Advisory Board meetings to review upcoming changes, confirming all required approvals have been obtained and ensuring production change requests are updated correctly post-deployment.
- Hold the responsibility of Change Management Champion for my LOB and executed expedited change for the project in a shorter span
- Wrote effective documentation for each client system to deliver comprehensive sets of requirements and alignment with business objectives.
Senior Executive
Wipro Ltd
07.2011 - 12.2013
- Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes
- Have possessed the role of Business Analyst on gathering project/teams need and involved in solutioning as well.
- Have also acted as a Change Management Champion for my LOB and executed expedited changes meticulously
- Provided risk analysis on major implementations and 'pushed back' when risk levels were exceeded
- Designed a central Knowledge Management Portal for a business unit and multiple subsidiary portals for various sub-divisions
- Built a self-help enterprise search model by working on a faceted search system and maintaining knowledge taxonomy and meta-tagging and generating reporting metrics for higher management to report necessary savings achieved during the year.
Education
MBA: HR & Systems -
Velammal Engineering College, Anna University-Chennai
09.2009 - 06.2010
B.Tech: IT - undefined
Saranathan College of Engineering - Anna university, Chennai
09.2005 - 04.2009
Skills
Process Excellence specialist
undefinedCertification
Lean Six Sigma - Yellow Belt, 04/2022 - Present
Accomplishments
- Awarded Best Performer for exceptional contribution for Q1' & Q4' FY 21-22
- Won "Innovator" for incorporating process improvement initiatives on major engagements on Fy 18-19 & FY 20-21 respectively.
- Resolved major issues through effective UAT & regression testing.
- Achieved ~1500+ manhours savings by adopting process excellence initiatives on multiple projects for FY 20 & FY21.
- Awarded Best Change Management SME for implementing major expedited change at a quicker succession and successful adoption rate of 85% in a week.
- Won "Keystone" award for excellent performance consecutively by BU HEAD for FY 13-14,14-15 & 15-16.
- Won "Best Recruit" for excellent performance by BU HEAD for the FY 1112.
Timeline
Associate Project Manager
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - Current
Senior Analyst
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
04.2019 - 03.2021
Specialist
Astrazeneca India Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 03.2019
Functional consultant
Wipro Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2017
Senior Executive
Wipro Ltd
07.2011 - 12.2013
MBA: HR & Systems -
Velammal Engineering College, Anna University-Chennai
09.2009 - 06.2010
B.Tech: IT - undefined
Saranathan College of Engineering - Anna university, Chennai
09.2005 - 04.2009
Lean Six Sigma - Yellow Belt, 04/2022 - Present
Cvent Product Administrator, 04/2020 - Present
Agile Scrum Master, 08/2018 - Present
ITIL Foundation certificate in ITSM, 08/2017 - Present
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