Vikash Kaushik
Puducherry,India
Summary
Experienced Project Management Professional with 9+ years of successful track record in handling various project management activities like initiation, planning, monitoring, controlling, budgeting, executing, reporting and RAG status for the entire project. Proficient in utilizing tools such as Microsoft Project, JIRA, and MS Excel to effectively oversee the entire project management process. Hands-on experience in monitoring multiple projects through the entire project cycle and managing the day-to-day detailed aspects of projects.
Ability to develop and implement detailed project plans to monitor and track project progress. Proficient in ensuring on-time delivery by ensuring effective coordination of resources and workforce. Combining strong technical aptitude with experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Team Leader
Eaton Corp.
Pondicherry, India
08.2022 - Current
- Currently Working on Salesforce CRM implementation project for FSL.
- Organized Fit-Gap meeting to have a quick demo of standard Salesforce functionalities and understand high-level business requirements.
- Create user stories, acceptance criteria, development hours and prepare sprint planning while working with Dev team.
- Schedule weekly connect with BPOs, FA, BA and other stakeholders to understand requirements in a detailed way and refine user stories for the development team.
- Develop and maintain project budgets, track project expenditures, and identify opportunities for cost savings.
- Communicate, facilitate, train and govern project management process and performance of projects to agreed project management baseline.
- Provide weekly project status updates to the leadership team highlighting current health and key risk along with mitigation plans.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery. - Conduct sprint retrospective with BPOs to understand what went wrong and what works best to improve upcoming sprints delivery.
- With Salesforce Field Service implementation, Average Annual benefits - productivity improvement of cost $23.3K with an additional revenue gain of $451K
Assistant Manager - PMO
Valuelabs LLP
Hyderabad, India
02.2021 - 08.2022
- Collect and analyze project requirements by meeting different stakeholders, and organizing workshops and interviews.
- Prepare a high-level overview of project in terms of scope, schedule, budget, skills and resources required and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain project management templates, tools, and best practices to ensure consistency across all projects.
- Schedule and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks and take corrective action as needed.
- Prepare Sprint retrospective dashboard for feedback and future sprint improvements.
- Prepare personalized end-user training documentation, Plan and monitor OCM with the help of the L&D team.
- Prepare and present weekly and monthly project progress dashboards for stakeholders' buy-in throughout project delivery.
Associate Consultant - PMO
Capgemini
Gurgaon, India
06.2018 - 02.2021
- Conduct projects on-boarding activities like Project code creation, billing schedule, skills and resources required and budget allocation.
- Facilitate team induction, kick-off meeting and required access to different tools and applications.
- Track and report project progress to project stakeholders through the project communication plan.
- Create and develop detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
- Facilitate PMO governance meetings including setting up agenda, MOM and action tracking.
- Track and maintain risk tracker to ensure all risks are documented and tracked within the stipulated time.
- Maintain SOP documents, training plans, and documents repository with version control.
- Prepare presentations to explain revisions, enhancements and process improvements of the organization's systems and programs.
Project Associate
Eaton Power Quality Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi, India
02.2015 - 11.2017
- Facilitate workshops to understand project scope and collect project requirements.
- Produce quality standards, checklists, report templates, and processes.
- Planned, executed, and controlled assigned projects, ensuring work performed complied with contractual requirements.
- Connect with managers weekly to provide detailed project reports and milestone updates.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Provide ongoing cost and estimate analysis reporting and managed cost allocation.
- Schedule and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Reported regularly to stakeholders on project budget, progress and key risk areas.
- Identify risk, create a risk register, and focus on risk mitigation by risk impact and priority.
- Creating lessons learned and key changes and OCM updates after each iteration cycle.
- Analyze project performance data to identify areas of improvement for the next sprints.
Operation Support Executive
Canon India Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon, India
09.2013 - 02.2015
- Support customer to resolve their issues through incoming calls and emails.
- Support customers through initial troubleshooting steps to resolve issue on call.
- Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment.
- Improve productivity by providing CSR performance feedback for corrective actions.
- Routinely prepared and evaluated CRM reports to identify problems and areas for improvement.
- Track and manage incoming paperwork Keep all members of team up to date with current information according to client requirements.
- Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Engineering
Kurukshetra University
KurukshetraSkills
- Project Management
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
Program Management - Stakeholder Engagement
- Risk Management
- Data Analysis
- Project Planning
- Budgeting and Cost Control
- Resource Allocation
- Project Governance
- Lessons Learned Documentation
- Status Reporting
- Microsoft Project, JIRA, Asana, Trello
- Requirement Gathering
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI) management
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master – CSM
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Project Management Professional - PMP
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Advanced Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Team Leader
Eaton Corp.
08.2022 - Current
Assistant Manager - PMO
Valuelabs LLP
02.2021 - 08.2022
Associate Consultant - PMO
Capgemini
06.2018 - 02.2021
Project Associate
Eaton Power Quality Pvt. Ltd.
02.2015 - 11.2017
Operation Support Executive
Canon India Pvt Ltd
09.2013 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Engineering
Kurukshetra University
- Certified Scrum Master – CSM
-
Project Management Professional - PMP
-
Advanced Certified Scrum Master
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