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Nagendrra Kalla

Nagendrra Kalla

Agile Project Manager
Bangalore

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Project Manager

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
12.2021 - Current
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
  • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
  • Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
  • Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
  • Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
  • Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
  • Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.

ASSOCIATE Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
11.2017 - 01.2019
  • Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
  • Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Supported senior managers and department leaders by completing projects and problem resolution under tight budgets and schedule demands.
  • Developed and maintained project documentation for reliable records.
  • Led team meetings to assess project progress and plan appropriately to meet delivery targets.
  • Ensuring development team is working effectively, by conducting regular reviews.
  • Helping team to understand and follow goals, scope of work and product domain
  • Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
  • Monitored and tracked project metrics and collected data to share with project members.
  • Documented project progress to fulfill project requirements and establish traceability.
  • Identified and resolved risks to minimize project disruption.
  • Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Creating, scheduling, and assigning tasks to project team and coordinating project work.
  • Providing different reports related to SLA tracking.
  • Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with desired results.
  • Identifying, foreseeing project risk and creating mitigation plan.
  • Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
  • Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
  • Recruited and oversaw personnel to achieve performance and quality targets.
  • Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.

Business Analyst

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
05.2015 - 11.2017
  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
  • Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
  • Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
  • Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
  • Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
  • Developed and maintained data warehouses and data marts to support business operations.
  • Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops and workflow analysis.
  • Evaluate risks related to requirements, implementation, testing processes, project communications and training's.
  • Facilitate monthly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore solutions.
  • Completed in-depth analysis of business process, boosting revenue by 15% in 2019.
  • Liaise between business and technical personal to ensure mutual understanding of processes and applications.
  • Redesigned customer communication and fulfillment protocols, increasing customer satisfaction.

.NET Software Developer

Tech Mahindra
Bangalore
03.2012 - 04.2015
  • Monitored database performance to keep workflows running smoothly.
  • Analyzed, evaluated and developed new web and database applications.
  • Kept leadership up-to-date on current issues and proposed recommendations.
  • Performed vulnerability patching and investigated and mitigated system weaknesses.
  • Resolved hardware and software compatibility and interface design issues.
  • Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
  • Tuned systems to boost performance.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.

Education

PGDM - International Business

Welingkar Institute of Management
Banaglore
06.2018 - 06.2020

B Tech - Computer Science And Engineering

JNRV
Rajasthan
08.2008 - 07.2011

Polytechnic - Computer Science And Engineering

Krupajal Engineering School
Bhubaneswar
05.2005 - 06.2008

Skills

    Project Lifecycle Management

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Accomplishments

  • Resolved critical data issues and ensured Data Integrity & Consistency.
  • Worked on successful Go Lives for Europe,APAC,EAGM,LATAM and ASIA Regions.
  • Continuous High NPS from the customers.
  • Supervised team of 9 staff members.

Software

JIRA/Confluence

Support Central

SFDC

AWS

SQL

DEV OPS

PowerNow/SNow

Certification

Certified Six Sigma Green belt

Timeline

Agile Project Manager

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
12.2021 - Current

Certified Six Sigma Green belt

12-2018

PGDM - International Business

Welingkar Institute of Management
06.2018 - 06.2020

ASSOCIATE Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
11.2017 - 01.2019

Business Analyst

Genpact India Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 11.2017

.NET Software Developer

Tech Mahindra
03.2012 - 04.2015

B Tech - Computer Science And Engineering

JNRV
08.2008 - 07.2011

Polytechnic - Computer Science And Engineering

Krupajal Engineering School
05.2005 - 06.2008

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