Pinakini Kurutkar

· Led sprint reviews and planned regular meetings to promote full team engagement.
· Worked and reviewed the planning, initiation,execution, monitoring and closure phases throughout the project keeping cost, schedule, and timely customer communication in mind.
· Collaborated with external stakeholders, product owners, team members, solution architects and sales to define solutions and drive progress.
· Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.

· Outlined work plans, determined resources (capacity planning), wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.

· Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.

· Directed geographically distributed teams, transition and standardization of processes, resulting in maximized team resources and management.
· Monitored progress and adapted changes to align with the scope if necessary.
· Monitored and managed team performance to attain target metrics, SLAs, KPIs both individually and as a team unit in alignment with the organization goals.

· Executed projects for multiple banks, healthcare providers ,commercial, residential and public works projects.

· Prepare project plan and follow waterfall/agile methodology to deliver the project and end to end service delivery.

·Facilitate and ensure communication between the internal stakeholder and external stakeholder along with customer to meet the timeline.

· Accelerated progress by continually reviewing performance, budgets and project timelines.

· Coordinate development of risk mitigation / contingency plan.

· Responsible for handling enterprise customers and deliver links to customer on IPVPN, MPLS and fixed lines on fibre and copper. Ensure deliverable on time, scheduled with quality.

· Handle escalations, assign tasks to team, prepare weekly/monthly reports for the team of 25.

· Allocate tasks to resources, track, prepare, monitor and share status report to customer to manage their expectations

· Prepare periodic reports, project documentation, deliverable, status updates and presentation.

• Understand the requirement, existing architecture, key business issues, future technology requirements and developing an integrated and cost effective solution/tool.
• Organize project activities that may require interdepartmental meetings and communication ensuring completion of the program/project on schedule and within budget constraints
• Organized project activities that may require interdepartmental meetings and communication ensuring completion of the program/project on schedule and within budget constraints
• Developed custom solutions based upon clients' strict requirements.
• Provided and implemented cloud solutions like SAAS and IAAS.
• Participated in software and hardware migrations.
• Managed product delivery roadmap.
• Conducted timely meetings with internal teams, business partners and customer updating the schedule and delivery timelines
• Identified risk and issues and providing mitigation plans.
• Worked on streamlined process for delivering technical RFP/RFI content.
• Created monthly forecast templates and resource management allocations for approved projects.