Praveen Rajan

Project/Program Management - Verizon Strategic & Planning (S&P), managing various program towards Strategy and Employee Enablement & Experience

• Successfully strategized and program managed 5+ initiatives pertained to Data Science, AI and Generative AI from Employee Enablement and Experience stand-point
• Orchestrated with multiple stakeholders ranging from Security, Legal, Governance team to build enterprise level data governance to cater current demands
• Managed a team of 10 for Data Visualization tool from strategic dashboard for Employee/Vendor Governance, Workforce readiness and other initiatives pertained to VZ India Strategy
• Leveraging various exploration on NLP using transfer learning* using pre-built LLMs (Google BERT etc)
• Involved with AI&D team for projects such as churn analytics using Machine Learning
• Program managed GEF (Global Enablement Factory) and helped several Data science and AI project to complete Technology readiness transition to VZ India for onboarding project from USA that saved 70% of operational cost

Worked as Project Manager in Standard Chartered Bank, Host company: Synechron Technologies. Agile project management. Technologies managed: Pega
and Java

• Programmed 10+ products with overall project value of more than $2 million on legal and compliance space
• Headed a team comprising of 20+ stakeholders across 10 organization, with minimum 3 projects on WIP on a give time
• Chaired multiple critical projects and migration on Java, Pega technologies with 90% success rate and amplified quality assurance
  with more XP techniques
• Orchestrated major transition towards operational excellence by implementing agile methodology from waterfall and acted as
  catalyst towards enriching agile agile mindset with training and coaching
• Reconciled 15% of the operational expenses by being lean yet without compromising the project success

Agile Project Management

• Successfully headed 5 products and delivered successfully with multiple releases and Sprints, directing 10 people
• Chartered major transition towards Agile methodology and DevOps culture to convert manual work through automation by saving
  effort to 60%

• Strategized building a DevOps culture to achieve continuous integration on a scrum project. Created from Road-Map to implementation for overall successful transition of team comprising of 15 people

Java developer and Automation QA Senior Analyst. Java, Spring MVC, and worked in Selenium, J-Unit, IBM Rations tools and acted as a scrum master for a small development team for a brief period of time

• Led 2 teams as a Scrum Master on a web based application
• Successfully delivered projects with 95% success rate with Zero defect delivery (for 2 years) with got top rating on 3 continuous years
• Worked on a factory mode and contributed towards the transition for over 21 (mini-apps) applications successfully via Scrum
• Managed as lead toward entire project life cycle ranging from integration, planning, risk, resource to schedule management