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Nitin Kandavelli

Nitin Kandavelli

IT

Summary

Process Manager with excellent track record in collaboration across departments to evaluate, design and implement business processes. Consistently improved processes and managed change among stakeholders using positive approaches. Well-established data analysis experience.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Project Manager

Aapoon Digital Private Limited
12.2023 - 6 2024
  • In the Election Commission, Telangana, multiple reports are submitted and circulated across the state as soon as the election code begins
  • Some reports also run during the non-election code period
  • Due to the nature of these reports, many human errors have occurred in the numeric calculations during submission
  • We have developed an app that meets their requirement ensuring all the practical issues faced are covered.

Process Manager

Aapoon Digital Private Limited
12.2023 - 06.2024
  • Managed the customization and deployment of the APSCHE Messenger, a tailored version of the aapoon messenger application designed specifically for the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education. The project included features like broadcast messages, role-based chatting, and group segregation for students and faculty.
  • Requirement Analysis: Gathered and analyzed detailed project requirements, translating them into a clear and concise Business Requirement Document (BRD).
  • Project Documentation: Created a comprehensive Project Plan, including a Stakeholder Register, Quality Assurance Plan, and other critical project management documents.
  • Project Initiation: Led the Project Kick-Off Meeting, fostering a collaborative environment and ensuring all team members were aligned with project goals.
  • Progress Monitoring: Maintained meticulous progress tracking using Jira and manual methods to ensure timely completion of project milestones.
  • Client Delivery: Completed the project, delivering all necessary documentation and providing a smooth handover to the client.

Process Manager

Aapoon Digital Private Limited
11.2021 - Current
  • Aapoon digital private limited is a software company established in Jan 2020
  • In aapoon, there are two applications, messenger and meet
  • Messenger is a messaging platform, and meet is a video conferencing platform
  • Both applications are in the development phase as of now
  • However, the beta version of both applications is available to download from App Store and Play Store.
  • Collaborate with team members to develop timelines, sprints, and tasks to complete for upcoming projects.
  • Build policies and educational materials to update team members, managers, and stakeholders on Scrum & Agile methodologies.
  • Lead the development and QA teams through all stages of the project development process, from creation to implementation, launching new software application solutions in the past eight months.
  • Documenting business requirements.
  • Drafting Functional Specification documents and functional requirements documents.
  • Advanced project management and task delegation abilities
  • Effective leadership, team building, and communication skills
  • Extensive knowledge of backlog management
  • Enhanced sprint planning skills

Tech Lead

Cognizant
03.2018 - 10.2021
  • Ally is ranked 19th on the list of largest banks in the United States by assets, is the largest car finance company in the U.S., and serves over 6 million customers
  • Via its Smart Auction online marketplace for auto auctions, launched in 2000, the company has sold more than 5 million vehicles including 281,000 vehicles sold in 2018
  • The company provides financial services including car finance, online banking via a direct bank, corporate lending, vehicle insurance, mortgages, credit cards, and an electronic trading platform to trade financial assets.
  • Experience using JIRA, Service now, Splunk, AppDynamics, Control-M, Ansible, and Run deck.
  • Monitoring the email alerts caused due to memory issues and reboot issues and acknowledge them within the SLA.
  • Debugging the email alert and finding the root cause.
  • Checking the application performance using consoles and application URL tabs.
  • Sending day-to-day timely reports on the application status.
  • Categorizing, Creating, and modifying the change tasks in excel sheets.
  • Incident communication & escalation.
  • Approving the changes to be performed at Data Centres by verifying the change window.

Senior System Support Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 02.2018

· Managing the high priority incidents with severity as 1, 2, and 3 to their fastest resolution.

· Involving with the technical and higher management levels and providing Major Incident Communications (MIC) to the higher levels.

· Incident assessment & categorization

· Incident response facilitation & coordination

· Incident communication & escalation

· Drive production excellence & improvement

· Lead daily business production readiness call for review & reporting incidents within each region (APAC, EMEA & America)

· Create transparency and visibility of the production environment

· Working closely with business, technology, and vendor partners to improve overall Front-to Back IT service delivery

· Deliver real-time and historical operational and business focus reporting

· Incident Hygiene

· Data Center Services – Incident logging and reporting

· Involvement in Incident Review Board (IRB), Problem Review Board (PRB), Post Incident Review (PIR).

· Approving the changes to be performed at Data Centers by verifying the change window.

· Attending CAB Meetings and publishing the minutes to the internal teams which could affect the Infrastructure or Services etc.

System Analyst Trainee

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
06.2015 - 02.2016
  • Novartis International AG, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies by both market capitalization and sales
  • Novartis is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
  • Conducting Post Incident Review (PIR) meetings with internal technical teams to understand the root cause of the issue.
  • Follow up with the concerned teams on updates regarding the action items to be handled.
  • Identifying and updating Known Errors during the Problem review process in a Known Error Database.
  • Performing the Problem management activity for both reactive (root-cause analysis) and proactive (trend analysis) within GTIS (Group Technology Infrastructure Services).
  • Categorizing and prioritizing based on the severity and level of impact.

Publishing of Daily, Weekly & Monthly reports of Incident & Problem records.

Education

10th -

Narayana Concept School

12th - undefined

Narayana Junior College

B. Tech - undefined

Malla Reddy Engineering College

Skills

Advanced project management and task delegation abilities

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance, Aug 2021

Accomplishments

  • Got project role-based promotion to a higher level
  • Best newcomer of the Project (2)

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: K. Narender
  • Date of Birth: 02/12/93
  • Address: Plot No 739, Road No 21, TNGOs Colony, Phase 2, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500032.

Tools Worked On

· Service Now

· BMC Remedy

· Business Objects Info view

· I-SAC

· I-Prod

· Control M

· Splunk

· AppDynamics

· Apica

· ProteanJ

· Ansible

· OKTA

· SQL

· Confluence

· Slack

· Jira

· Figma

· Clipchamp

Timeline

Project Manager

Aapoon Digital Private Limited
12.2023 - 6 2024

Process Manager

Aapoon Digital Private Limited
12.2023 - 06.2024

Process Manager

Aapoon Digital Private Limited
11.2021 - Current

Tech Lead

Cognizant
03.2018 - 10.2021

Senior System Support Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2016 - 02.2018

System Analyst Trainee

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
06.2015 - 02.2016

10th -

Narayana Concept School

12th - undefined

Narayana Junior College

B. Tech - undefined

Malla Reddy Engineering College
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