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Manas Srivastava

Manas Srivastava

New Delhi,India

Summary

Agile Project Manger with 11 years of expertise and background in service leadership roles. Coordinates daily operations through strategic staff and resource planning; proactively meeting evolving consumer demands.

Extensive domain expertise for Retail and Consumer Goods, EdTech, Travel, Food-delivery, Supply Chain Management verticals.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Project Manager / Scrum Master

HCL Tech
05.2023 - Current
  • Lead the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure
  • Develop and maintain project delivery plans, budgets, and timelines
  • Communicate project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders and senior management
  • Managed core Agile ceremonies in team environments: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives
  • Manage project scope and changes in scope, schedule, and budget
  • Identify and mitigate project risks and issues
  • Diagnose current state of Agile practices and suggest improvement actions
  • Coach teams and help them improve their Agile maturity

Deputy Manager

Deloitte
Bengaluru
05.2022 - 01.2023
  • Acted as a servant leader and coach for 3 Agile Scrum teams, ensuring the effective use and practice of the Agile framework
  • Managed 100% of the Scrum process from initiation to management to delivery
  • Facilitate, coach, mentor team members to follow all the agile best practices and create an Agile environment
  • Create and manage project plans; monitor and review project progress and timelines
  • Led technical delivery teams with in-depth understanding of processes and techniques to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Manage day-to-day execution of project implementations
  • Work with Product Owners and Client teams to ensure healthy and prioritized backlog
  • Conducting all Scrum Ceremonies - Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Demos, Sprint Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming and Sprint Planning
  • Managed workforce planning, compiling information for informed decision-making.

Assistant Product Manager

Whitespectre
Barcelona
02.2021 - 05.2022
  • Involved in product development on a b2b SaaS commerce platform for companies who work with direct sellers, distributors, and ambassador
  • Aid and support clients to roll out digital transformational changes across their business
  • Integrated the product needs with external API integrations and created a product roadmap for a seamless product development
  • Forecasted and managed the team budgets and schedule using analogous and parametric approaches along with EVM reports
  • Tailored the product backlog to produce the MVP and planned the releases and sprints based on the required time to market
  • Helped the organization in increasing the sales by demoing the in-house product to multiple potential clients
  • Identified project risks and created appropriate risk response strategies

Product Quality Lead / ScrumMaster

Whitespectre
Barcelona
09.2015 - 05.2022
  • Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status and budget of each project
  • Create a detailed project management plan and other project documents
  • Assign, prioritize, and supervise project tasks
  • Identify, prevent, and manage risks
  • Track project performance using appropriate KPIs, metrics, tools, and techniques
  • Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies
  • Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work
  • Manage sprint backlog items and tasks
  • Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual)
  • Lead the team's efforts towards continuous improvement

Quality Assurance Lead

QA Infotech
11.2011 - 08.2015
  • Worked with specialized team for project migration across different platforms
  • Worked as QA Lead for building the micro-services-based ROR architecture from scratch
  • Coordinating with multiple project teams (cross-brand) who to resolve their queries and issues
  • Helped the team understand the business needs and making productive suggestions to management
  • Wrote, reviewed, and approved documents to preserve Quality Assurance
  • Analysing risks and working on their mitigation
  • Identified key automation areas and recommending software solutions to meet business strategies
  • Client demos on every sprint
  • Handle invoices, using Open ERP, of all projects.

Education

MCA -

IP University

New Product Development -

IIM Bangalore

BSc (Hons.) Chemistry -

Hansraj College, Delhi University

Skills

  • Agile Development and Best Practices
  • Agile Frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, XP
  • Product Management – ProductBoard, Productplan
  • Dev Ops - CI/CD, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Heroku, Azure
  • Project Tracking - Jira, Bugzilla, Trello, Asana, Azure, Confluence
  • HTTP monitoring - Charles
  • Design Tools - Invision, Zeplin
  • Analytics - Heap, Mixpanel, GA, New Relic, Splunk
  • Marketing Platform - Customerio, ExactTarget

Languages

English
Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Proficient (C2)

Certification

  • CSM - Certified Scrum Master
  • PMP Training - Project Management Professional
  • Six Sigma Yellow/Green Belt

Timeline

Project Manager / Scrum Master

HCL Tech
05.2023 - Current

Deputy Manager

Deloitte
05.2022 - 01.2023

Assistant Product Manager

Whitespectre
02.2021 - 05.2022

Product Quality Lead / ScrumMaster

Whitespectre
09.2015 - 05.2022

Quality Assurance Lead

QA Infotech
11.2011 - 08.2015

MCA -

IP University

New Product Development -

IIM Bangalore

BSc (Hons.) Chemistry -

Hansraj College, Delhi University
Manas Srivastava