Jeslin Edison
Project Manager
Trivandrum
Summary
Highly skilled , certified Scrum Master with 3+ years of experience in successfully delivering complex IT projects. Result driven professional with an MBA from IIM Kozhikode, seeking a leadership role where I can leverage my advanced business acumen, analytical skills, and cross-functional expertise to deliver sustainable business solutions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Project Manager
NeoITO
Trivandrum
02.2023 - Current
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of software development projects, from project discovery to deployment.
- Stakeholder Management, Client liaison for scope changes, external dependencies, risks, and impediment resolution
- Lead cross-functional teams of developers, business analysts, testers and network engineers fostering collaboration, driving project success and client satisfaction
- Facilitate Agile transformation and adoption of Scrum practices across multiple teams.
- Work as the BA for a project to gather and document business requirements, ensuring alignment between business needs and system functionalities.
- Refine product backlog items, prioritize work, and ensure alignment with business goals
- Conduct the user acceptance testing (UAT), identified and resolved issues, and provided training to end-users.
- Develop the project plans, timelines, and budgets, effectively managing project scope and resources to meet project objectives.
- Communicate the project progress and risks to stakeholders through regular status updates and project documentation ,.
- Implemented the best practices of writing crisp and clear user stories that deliver value.
- Implemented visual management techniques, such as Jira dashboards to improve transparency and track project progress,
- Lead the sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring effective and efficient execution of project tasks
Project Coordinator
Mindcurv
Cochin
11.2019 - 02.2022
- People Management: Effectively managed the remotely distributed agile team in delivering the project to schedule, budget and scope.
- Led the team and stakeholder meeting right from discovery phase to deployment of the project in adherence to Agile principles. Maintained all the relevant documentation for resourcing, capacity planning and financial planning of the project.
- Boosting team morale and supporting the team towards continuous improvement. Proactive communication and experience in managing Distributed agile teams
- Captured the client requirements and worked with the Product Owner/ Business Analyst to define project scope and objectives.
- Project planning, monitoring and control. Implemented visual dashboards to track the project progress.
- Maintained the RAID log to assess the project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies. Accordingly facilitated in risk mitigation to ensure project deliverables are on track.
- Impediment resolution in a time bound manner and helping the development team in resolving the issues that affect project /release scope, schedule, and quality.
- Facilitating the Scrum events for sprint delivery, ensuring the project deadlines are met.
- Release Manager: Plan release milestones and ensure release are delivered on time in line with customer expectations and within the budget.
- Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews. Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities with the operations team including the execution of the deployment plans and checklist.
Assistant Professor
Thakur College of Engineering and Technology
Mumbai
07.2017 - 05.2019
- Full-time UGC Approved Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering affiliated to University of Mumbai.
- Subjects Handled- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, Data Compression and Encryption, Computer Communication Network.
- Validated the Student Data with respect to Internal Assessments, Assignments, Semester End Exams and Practical exams. Mapped this Student data to Course Outcome, Programme Outcome and Programme Specific Outcome aligned with the Bloom's Taxonomy.
- Prepared the syllabus scheme for two subjects during the Delegation visit for granting Autonomous status to the Institution
Assistant Professor
Atharva College of Engineering
Mumbai
01.2015 - 07.2017
- Subjects Handled- Digital Signal Processing and Processors, Signals and Systems, Digital Communication, Principles of Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing and Processors Lab in Matlab, Digital Image Processing Lab in Matlab.
Assistant Professor
Managalam College of Engineering
Kottayam
07.2013 - 10.2014
- Subjects Handled- Multi Carrier Communication Systems, Information Theory and Coding, Digital Signal Processing, Signal Processing Lab in Matlab, Advanced Communication lab, Analog Communication Lab
- Assisted professors and school administrators with continuous development, review, planning and outcomes evaluation to measure program performance.
Education
MBA (For Working Executives) -
IIM Kozhikode
02.2020 - 02.2023
M.Tech - Communication Enigineering
VIT Vellore
07.2011 - 03.2013
B.Tech -
LBS Institute of Technology For Women
Trivandrum 08.2006 - 05.2010
Skills
Project Management
Team Leadership and Management
Stakeholder Management
Requirements Gathering
Jira , Confluence
MS office tools
Certification
Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I)
Timeline
Project Manager
NeoITO
02.2023 - Current
MBA (For Working Executives) -
IIM Kozhikode
02.2020 - 02.2023
Project Coordinator
Mindcurv
11.2019 - 02.2022
Assistant Professor
Thakur College of Engineering and Technology
07.2017 - 05.2019
Assistant Professor
Atharva College of Engineering
01.2015 - 07.2017
Assistant Professor
Managalam College of Engineering
07.2013 - 10.2014
M.Tech - Communication Enigineering
VIT Vellore
07.2011 - 03.2013
B.Tech -
LBS Institute of Technology For Women
08.2006 - 05.2010