Neeraj Agnihotri
Noida
Summary
Senior Manager with 23+ years experience in product engineering, professional services, and bespoke application development within top IT product and service companies. Results-driven IT Professional who collaborates with diverse, multi-geographical teams to take a pragmatic approach to software development and resolve complex business issues. Extensive experience across various verticals such as Publishing, Oil and Gas, Telecommunication, HCM, and Investment banking. Skilled in updating and working closely with executive leadership. Seeking Senior leadership roles in Software Engineering.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Manager
UKG
10.2021 - Current
- Leading 6 Engineering teams (3 in India, 3 in US) for 3 functional areas in UKG Pro Suite. Around 60 direct/indirect reports.
- Responsible for defining and executing appropriate development and QA strategies to ensure that the functional teams continuously meet their objectives in terms of the scope, timelines, and the quality of the releases.
- Coordinate with Product team to define delivery roadmaps. Monitor Risks, Issues, Change Requests, Delivery schedule and Releases.
- Evaluation and assessing delivery outcomes and results and strive for continuous improvement and engineering excellence leading changes that drive efficiencies into existing operations processes.
- Coordinate between various internal and external teams to resolve issues, impediment and conflicts. Provide direction and support to teams and apply required interventions to achieve delivery outputs and targets.
- Responsible for functional teams’ utilization, profitability margins and people management (attrition management, resource planning/training etc.)
Program Manager Technology
Innodata Inc.
Noida
07.2011 - 10.2021
- Managed the complete development, software releases, post go live support and enhancements for the multiple Projects and Product development.
- Maintained a project plan that communicates tasks, milestone dates, status, and resource allocation. Managed Project Risks, Issues, Change Requests, Delivery schedule and Releases.
- Manage entire client Interactions and Stakeholder Communications including conducting demos, UATs, weekly status reporting, daily standup calls, governance meetings.
- Responsible for ensuring that the Project Quality is up to agreed standards and minimal regression defects and that the project adheres to Compliance/audit requirements and agreed SLAs.
- Managed Liaison and partnerships with strategic vendors (for Licenses, Infrastructure, Resources, Outsourcing) to deliver best in class operations.
- Provided presales support for RFI/RFP responses. Conducting POCs.
- Managed team by offering support and constructive feedback to improve skills and maximize potential. Monitored staff performance, continually seeking ways to improve team delivery for optimized financial success.
- Used excellent problem-solving and issue-resolution strategies to rectify difficulties quickly and effectively.
Advisory System Analyst
IBM India
Gurgaon
06.2007 - 07.2011
- Worked as Sr. Documentum Consultant & Team Lead; Implemented Documentum ECM Framework and developed several Enterprise level Content management solutions for an oil and gas exploration major.
- Helped define software development project plans, including scoping, scheduling and implementation.
- Established software development best practices, leading consultations with dev and executive teams.
- Worked on numerous software development projects on Java, Documentum, Struts simultaneously without supervision, achieving tight deadlines.
- Managed and created software development projects from beginning to finish without difficulties or assistance.
Sr Associate Technology L1
Sapient Corp
Gurgaon
11.2006 - 05.2007
- Worked on development of Customer Portal for a client, which was a leading mobile service provider in U.K Worked on its
- Design and Development of modules that communicates with Stellant Content Server.
- Wrote and developed new and well-tested code for various features in customer portal.
- Evaluated project requirements, identified challenges, and proposed alternatives using research and data.
- Kept pace with changing coding standards and requirements and maintained updated software.
- Wrote clean and dynamic code, leveraging expertise across multiple programming languages to meet diverse requirements.
Sr Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
Gurgaon
09.2004 - 11.2006
- Worked as Sr Software Engineer & Team Lead for a leading Investment Bank with operations virtually in every country.
- Wrote and developed new and well-tested code for different software projects using Java and Documentum Technologies.
- Built and maintained code libraries used to produce consistent and reliable code.
- Worked onsite at client premises in London for period of 9 months.
Sr Software Engineer
Cellnext Solutions Ltd
New Delhi
06.2002 - 09.2004
- Started as Intern
- Worked as Sr Software Engineer & Team Lead for a leading Investment Bank with operations virtually in every country.
- Wrote and developed new and well-tested code for different software projects and for different clients using Java, C, WAP, HTML.
- Integrated third-party applications into existing software, enhancing features and performance.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management - Distance Learning
Institute of Management Technology
Ghaziabad01.2009
Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology - undefined
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-B)
Bangalore01.2002
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication
Rohilkhand University
Bareilly, UP01.2001
ISC XII - undefined
01.1996
ICSE X - undefined
01.1994
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Innovative & strategic thinking
- Planning & Budgeting
- Onboarding and developing New Teams
- Process Improvement
- Leading Digital transformations
- Project, and Program Management
- Handson Experience in Java, J2EE, C, Documentum, Mark logic, XML
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Operations management
- Data-driven decision making
- Talent development
- Resource allocation
- Analytical thinking
- Performance evaluations
- Hiring and training
- Goal setting
- Team building
Awards
UKG – Onboarded and developed an entirely new Team at Noida to help with Payment Services., Innodata – Successfully Led the Digital Transformation of Bibliographic platform for a US based Professional Association for Language & Literature, Innodata – Successfully led the engineering teams for development of RBSource Portal for US based publishing major., IBM – Received a letter of appreciation from the Client Cairn India Management for leading development efforts on Cairn Incident Management System for their HSE and IT department.
Projects
Garn Doc Ai
This is the project done to automate
Mbs Direct Digital
Timeline
Sr Manager
UKG
10.2021 - Current
Program Manager Technology
Innodata Inc.
07.2011 - 10.2021
Advisory System Analyst
IBM India
06.2007 - 07.2011
Sr Associate Technology L1
Sapient Corp
11.2006 - 05.2007
Sr Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
09.2004 - 11.2006
Sr Software Engineer
Cellnext Solutions Ltd
06.2002 - 09.2004
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management - Distance Learning
Institute of Management Technology
Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology - undefined
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-B)
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communication
Rohilkhand University