Neha Shinde Pisharody
Technical Project Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced Technical Project Manager bringing 5 years of IT experience with top-notch implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical, and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines. Well-versed in AWS, Agile, Scrum, Kanban planning and deployment.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Technical Project Manager
EOX Vantage
4 2023 - Current
- Established clear lines of communication between stakeholders by creating detailed status updates that kept everyone apprised of critical milestones throughout each stage of the project.
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills by effectively managing diverse teams and maintaining high levels of motivation, even during challenging periods of significant change or tight deadlines.
- Managed 5 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
- Optimized resource utilization by accurately forecasting staffing needs and proactively addressing potential bottlenecks in the project pipeline.
- Successfully delivered multiple high-profile projects on time, ensuring client satisfaction and fostering long-term relationships.
- Assessed and analyzed customer requirements to develop effective IT project plans and wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations.
- Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
- Implemented automated tools for tracking project performance metrics, enabling quick identification of areas needing improvement or intervention.
- Partnered with hiring managers to refine job descriptions and determine ideal candidate profiles by interviewing for vacant positions.
Project Manager
Mactores Cognition Private Limited
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Developed project plans and managed project scope for all projects, using specific methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams, to analyze, gather and validate requirements such as kickoff meetings, joint application designing, develop business requirements documents (BRD) and project planning sessions.
- Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
- Managed 8 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
IT Operations Lead
Wipro
03.2020 - 04.2022
- Clients will have single point of contact to discuss Automation-related activities.
- Responsible for managing 40+ accounts across five key regions (Europe, APAC, ME&A, and Americas 1&2).
- Planned and discussed FTE (full-time employee) release targets with individual account heads for each quarter based on WDB (work done by Bot).
- Developed and maintained strong client relationships to deliver exceptional customer service and problem resolution.
- Planned operations and activities, and led projects.
- Prepared detailed reports on updates to project specifications, progress, identified conflicts and team activities.
PMO Consultant
WIPRO
04.2019 - 03.2020
- Designed technical upgrade paths, incorporating requested functionality and performance enhancements.
- Assigned tasks to IT personnel and junior module staff, delegating work orders based on individual employee proficiencies.
- Schedule and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates pn project status to customers.
- Managed more than 5 client business projects in 2019.
Education
MBA - IT & SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & STUDIES
MUMBAI 01.2019 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Tele Communications Engineering
NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & STUDIES
MUMBAI 09.2013 - 06.2018
DIPLOMA - Information Technology
GURU GOBIND SINGH POLYTECHNIC
NASHIK 09.2008 - 07.2013
Skills
Technical Project planning, development & management
Management Information Systems Expertise
Operations, Governance & Service Delivery Management
Proficient in tool- ServiceNow, MS Office, Jira, Smartsheet, Azure Devops, PowerBI
Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies
Project Management, Scrum Master, Cost Estimation, Sprint Planning, Release planning
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Timeline
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
09-2022
The complete Google BigQuery
09-2022
Smartsheet Project Management
09-2022
Jira
09-2022
AWS Redshift
09-2022
Informatica
07-2022
The complete Agile Scrum Fundamentals
06-2022
Project Manager
Mactores Cognition Private Limited
04.2022 - 04.2023
IT Operations Lead
Wipro
03.2020 - 04.2022
PMO Consultant
WIPRO
04.2019 - 03.2020
MBA - IT & SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & STUDIES
01.2019 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Tele Communications Engineering
NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & STUDIES
09.2013 - 06.2018
DIPLOMA - Information Technology
GURU GOBIND SINGH POLYTECHNIC
09.2008 - 07.2013
Technical Project Manager
EOX Vantage
4 2023 - Current