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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
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Praveen Murugesan

Project Manager
Praveen Murugesan

Summary

Professional Project Management Specialist with 10 years of experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance. Oversee resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Monitors projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions.

Overview

10
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education
3
Certifications
2
Languages

Work History

Ascendion
Bangalore

Project Manager
03.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Lead and Manage the Development and Delivery for Huron Healthcare.
  • Lead a 30-member team across 3 development tracks – AEOS, IOPS and Healthcare.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
  • Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations.
  • Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
  • Developed and implemented strategic project plans to meet business objectives.

VRIZE
Bangalore

Project Manager / Scrum Master
10.2021 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • Leading the development and delivery for Zaxby's.
  • Responsible for end-to-end delivery leading an 25-member team across 3 development tracks - Mobile, Web and Microservices along with DevOps and Application support.
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
  • Helping the Scrum Team focus on creating high-value Increments that meet the Definition of Done
  • Represent the scrum teams in scaled, horizontal, or organization level processes and events as needed
  • Lead workshops & training sessions to educate individuals on Agile Values, Principles, and Practices
  • Negotiate achievable deadlines and discuss the same with the team considering the following features are in place: Objective, Process, Estimating duration, Schedule development and Schedule control
  • Consulted with stakeholders to determine the scope of the changes that will be introduced in the IT systems.
  • Ensure the activities carried out are documented and in accordance with client prescribed quality standards, methods, and procedures
  • Managed communication across departments to schedule and plan bi-weekly company all-hands meetings to ensure the team was bought into projects and the overall company mission

HCL Technologies
Bangalore

Scrum Master
05.2020 - 09.2021

Job overview

  • Acted as a Scrum master, leading the delivery of all sprints and interaction with product owners
  • Monitored the Sprint Burndown and conducted daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team
  • Monitored and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks, and activities directed toward completing the project goals
  • Prioritizing the sprint backlog for the teams and helping the teams to continue with their deliverables without any impediments
  • Facilitate all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, refinement meetings, sprint demo, sprint retrospective, release demos
  • Facilitate and plan for Go-Live activities
  • Coaching the team on agile principles and processes
  • Track and remove external and internal impediments for the scrum team
  • Track and report scrum team velocity and other important KPI's.

Cognizant
Coimbatore

Product Specialist
12.2013 - 05.2020

Job overview

  • Facilitates Agile Scrum rituals including Daily Stand up, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Demo,
  • Retrospective, and Scrum of Scrums
  • Managed communications related to the project - to and from the client as well as internally - with all stakeholders including weekly status reports and status update calls with clients
  • Used JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking, and managing sprints, created Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts
  • Creating initiatives depending on the business's requirements and needs
  • Work with Product Owners/Business Analysts to intake work to all Agile teams assigned
  • Build queries to retrieve data from Oracle SQL DB to validate the loads updated in the Facets environment
  • Perform Configuration Unit Testing for Health care products like Hybrid, Shell, Custom and Specialty
  • Build configuration in Test/Pre-Prod environments, perform testing, and validate the test results.

Education

Dr NGP Institute of Technology
Tamilnadu, India

Bachelor Of Engineering from Electronics And Communication
05.2009 - 05.2013

University Overview

GPA: 7.1

Skills

    Agile Methodologies

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Certification

Professional Scrum Master - PSM 1

Accomplishments

  • Best Buddy Award for Professional & Personal balance rapport with the team,2015
  • Best Service Delivery Team for above and beyond performance,2018
  • Leader of the Quarter (03/2022) for 99% on track delivery across tracks

Timeline

Project Manager

Ascendion
03.2023 - Current

Project Manager / Scrum Master

VRIZE
10.2021 - 01.2022

Scrum Master

HCL Technologies
05.2020 - 09.2021

Professional Scrum Master - PSM 1

02-2020

ITIL Foundation

05-2015

Product Specialist

Cognizant
12.2013 - 05.2020

CCNA

03-2013

Dr NGP Institute of Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering from Electronics And Communication
05.2009 - 05.2013
Praveen MurugesanProject Manager