Rohit Umaraw
Agile Project Manager
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Summary
An experienced Project management professional with deep expertise in delivering large & complex projects. Skilled in multiple delivery methodologies, expert in building & leading high-performance teams.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Agile Project Manager
Telenor Group (Wipro Ltd)
12.2020 - Current
- Devise ways of work between culturally & geographically diverse teams.
- Groom & build high performance teams.
- Lead the team to develop product backlog of features & requirements.
- Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborate with product owners, team members, platform admins to define solution.
- Schedule and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules, and conflicts.
- Coordinating work across multiple departments/teams, including Sales, finance, Developers, designers, testers, etc.
- Regularly evaluate assumptions & project risks, devise mitigation plans, align stakeholders on risk & mitigations.
- Develop and implement project plans, monitor progress, and ensure successful execution.
- Manage customer communication on project status.
- Manage the project budget & resourcing (attrition, onboarding).
- Providing guidance and training to team members on agile best practices.
Technical Project Manager
Telenor Sweden (Wipro)
11.2018 - 12.2020
- Developed project plans and managed project scope.
- Work closely with customer, professional services, & SMEs for designing a of scalable, flexible, and resilient infrastructure.
- Collaborate with architects, designers to ideate and drive solution (Batch, NT R& real time Data ingestion pipelines)
- Brainstorm with Business Teams, BA & reporting leads for reports & dashboards (Online, Mobile App based & mail-based dashboards.
- Communicated project progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets and specifications.
- Migrated from water wall to agile way of work.
- Managed 4 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
Technical Project Manager
Vodafone Turkey (Wipro Ltd)
Istanbul
01.2015 - 11.2018
- Manage diverse geo-distributed teams (Team size 80+ )
- Drive project execution, track changes, resolve conflicts, and issues.
- Assist & support in Migration from Waterfall to agile way of work.
- Managing Triages, provide status in governance meetings.
- Identify & fix communication gaps, manage issue escalations & resolve dependencies.
- Assist with resource forecasting & onboarding.
Senior Business Systems Analyst
MTS
12.2011 - 12.2014
- Analyzed proposed changes & new requirements for technical limitations and conformation with current technology space.
- Handled implementation of new business initiatives.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
06.2001 - 07.2004
Skills
Agile project management
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Scrum methodology
Stakeholder relationship management
Lean / Six Sigma
Project Management
Certification
WPMP
Accomplishments
- Cost saving of $3 M in opex & capex.
- Consistent high customer satisfaction ratings
- Additional revenue generation of $1.5 million.
Timeline
WPMP
01-2023
SAFe PO/PM
07-2022
Agile Project Manager - Telenor Group (Wipro Ltd)
12.2020 - Current
Prince 2 Agile practitioner
03-2020
AWS Solution Architect
11-2019
Technical Project Manager - Telenor Sweden (Wipro)
11.2018 - 12.2020
Technical Project Manager - Vodafone Turkey (Wipro Ltd)
01.2015 - 11.2018
Senior Business Systems Analyst - MTS
12.2011 - 12.2014
Uttar Pradesh Technical University - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science
06.2001 - 07.2004