Nitin Barnes

• Led cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives and client expectations.
• Implemented Agile methodologies, enhancing project delivery efficiency and fostering a culture of continuous improvement among team members.
• Managed project budgets and resource allocation, optimizing costs while maintaining high-quality deliverables and client satisfaction.
• Engaging with the steering committee and sponsor for needs assessment, and preparing the project charter.
• Requirement and Scope Management: Responsible for conducting workshop sessions and gathering requirements for new business solutions with the customer's business solution group and LTIMindtree business analyst teams.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and define project scope, facilitating clear communication and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Solutioning: Responsible for finalizing and reviewing the business solution documents, and understanding documents for new business requirements.
• Resource Management: Responsible for estimations, resource loading planning, as per the calculated timelines. Resource onboarding, coaching, and mentoring of team members for team building.
• Cost Management: Costing, budgeting, and approvals for new requirements, and conducting review sessions with the delivery and account team. Project cost control.
• Preparations of project proposals, SOW, conducting walkthroughs, and approvals with internal and customer stakeholders.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors and suppliers, securing favorable terms for the organization''s benefit.
• Project planning, resource planning, schedule planning, and management of each phase of the project delivery, as per customer-set priorities and business deadlines.
• Conducted risk assessments and developed mitigation strategies, ensuring project continuity and minimizing potential disruptions.
• Invoicing the customer for delivered milestones, as per the proposal and purchase order.
• Quality Management: Internal project audits with the delivery excellence team, ensuring no NCs.
• Project Status Reporting and Communication Management: Conducting weekly, monthly, and quarterly business review meetings with internal and customer-side stakeholders.
• Presented regular status reports to executive leadership, providing insights into progress made toward achieving key milestones.
• Stakeholder Management: Delivered a high level of service to clients to extend business relationships and encourage further projects, high customer satisfaction, and increased business revenues, aligning priorities, goals, and objectives.
• Nurtured strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, building trust and credibility that facilitated smooth collaboration on shared goals.
• BCP coordinator for the account. Leading yearly BCP testing, such as Call Tree and WAR testing. Maintenance of BCP plans.
• Procurement Management: Engage with the procurement team for the procurement of required licenses.
• Margin Improvements: Preparation and reviews of the margin improvement plan with key stakeholders.
• Utilized project management software to track progress and report on key performance indicators, enhancing visibility for stakeholders.
• Championed process improvement initiatives, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions that increased operational efficiency and project outcomes.
• Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.
• Adapted quickly to unexpected challenges or obstacles encountered during project execution, devising creative solutions without compromising objectives.
• Developed comprehensive project plans, identifying risks and mitigation strategies for timely completion.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams to determine timely delivery and compliance of project requirements.
• Led cross-functional teams for successful project delivery within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Conducted post-project evaluations to identify areas of improvement and implement corrective actions for future endeavors.

• Organize a kick-off meeting with project team members, and key stakeholders.
• Collection of requirements with SMEs from the customer business team through workshops, meetings, requirement document analysis, and clarifications.

• Engaging with SMEs to facilitate the creation and documentation of business solutions to define the scope, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.

• Create a high-level project budget, and secure approvals from the finance.
• Establish project resource estimations, requirements, and resource breakdown structure.

• Securing customer sign-offs on the project scope, schedule, cost baselines, and performance metrics shared as part of a proposal.
• Facilitate the creation of a requirement traceability matrix.
Estimation and project budget creation using organizational templates.
• Creation of a detailed activity list, project schedule with major milestones.
• Creation of a resource calendar. Mentoring and coaching of the project team for team building. Identify impediments and blockers, and implement workarounds and solutions.

• Identification of major risks and development of risk response strategies.
• Project execution, monitoring, and control.
• Manage quality audits and reviews with delivery excellence team.
• Periodic project status reviews with the key internal and customer stakeholders.
• Effective conflict management.
• Facilitate the creation, maintenance, and review of test plans, test results, defect trackers, and the requirement traceability matrix.

• Engage with the stakeholders (internal and external) to discuss project issues, concerns, and clarifications.
• Change Management: Manage and track the implementation of approved change requests.
• Updating the project performance baselines upon approval of the change requests through a project-level change control board, communication, and securing sign-offs from the customer teams.
• Risk assessment, risk response planning, and risk reporting.
• Manage and conduct production deployment, and facilitate KT sessions.
• Create a final project report and lessons learned register. Formal closure of the project.

• Stakeholder engagement and communication with some of the customer operations and business teams for issue resolution and new requirements gathering.

• Leading the architecture design and reviews with the internal and customer technical teams for issue resolution and new requirements gathering.
• Ensuring seamless and effective project development and communication between the internal and customer stakeholders.
• Leading and tracking the closure of production defects as per the defined SLAs.
• Leading internal daily status meetings with team to set the day agenda and targets.
• Identification of impediments and blockers and ensure timely resolutions.
• Mentoring and coaching of team members and effective conflict management.
• Submission of monthly timesheets to the customer finance team for monthly invoicing.
• Leading Project risk assessment, development of appropriate risk responses, Risk reviews and reporting.
• Management of project virtual teams with high level of diversity.
• Leading reporting and reviews of Project Status and Progress to senior management and customer stakeholders on Weekly\Monthly Basis.
• Overall project health analysis.
• Have experience in handling Production Support project and customer escalations.
• Communicated effectively with all key stakeholders, including project teams, internal clients and external parties.
• Interacted with cross-functional teams in such areas as analysis, architecture, build and deployment.
• Contract renewal and resource management as per customer requirements.
• Preparation of Statement of Work and securing approval from the customer teams.
• Management of contractual resources and project allocation/extension.
• Engaging with the delivery excellence team for quality audits and ensuring timely closure of observations raised.Leading the architecture design and reviews with the internal and customer technical teams.
• Leading business and technical solutioning of new requirements and production issues with the team.
• Ensuring seamless and effective project development and communication between the internal and customer stakeholders.
• Leading and tracking the closure of production defects as per the defined SLAs.
• Leading internal daily status meetings with team to set the day agenda and targets.
• Identification of impediments and blockers and ensure timely resolutions.
• Mentoring and coaching of team members and effective conflict management.
• Submission of monthly timesheets to the customer finance team for monthly invoicing.
• Leading Project risk assessment, development of appropriate risk responses, Risk reviews and reporting.
• Management of project virtual teams with high level of diversity.
• Leading reporting and reviews of Project Status and Progress to senior management and customer stakeholders on Weekly\Monthly Basis.
• Overall project health analysis.
• Have experience in handling Production Support project and customer escalations.
• Communicated effectively with all key stakeholders, including project teams, internal clients and external parties.
• Interacted with cross-functional teams in such areas as analysis, architecture, build and deployment.
• Contract renewal and resource management as per customer requirements.
• Preparation of Statement of Work and securing approval from the customer teams.
• Management of contractual resources and project allocation/extension.
• Engaging with the delivery excellence team for quality audits and ensuring timely closure of observations raised.

As a System Engineer
• Handling of Production Support activities.
• Collaborate with the customer technical team for resolution of production issues.
• Reporting of critical production issues to internal team lead.
• Monitoring and support of production environment.
• Writing Perl and shell scripts for automation of production monitoring and support activities.

As a Consultant & Project Lead
• Engage with customer business team for new requirement gathering and analysis.
• Provide technical insights into estimations of new requirements.
• Developing code using java and J2EE technologies.
• Unit testing of developed code to ensure alignment with business requirements and quality.
• Support testing team and track successful completion.
• UAT & Production support.
• Mentoring and coaching of team members.
• Tracking of development and delivery through daily stand-up meetings.
• Code reviews.

As a Technical project Manager
• Engage in building Software Architecture and reviews.
• Creation of Technical Program specifications documents.
• Help the team members resolve technical issues, impediments and blockers.
• Engage with customer business team for requirement gathering and analysis.
• Development of code for critical modules using java, J2EE and Java frameworks (Like Struts, Spring and hibernate etc.).
• Tracking of Project tasks with the team for timely closure as per the schedule plan.
• Project Status reporting to Senior managers and customer stakeholders.
• Engaging in Project risk assessment with senior management team.
• Engaging in time and resource estimations of new projects or requirements.
• Coaching and mentoring of team members.
• Creation and Maintenance of technical documentation like HLD, LLD and program specifications.
• Support internal business team in developing and maintaining business documents.