SAI MANISH YADAV DAUNABHOINA

• Delivering and leading all phases of banking software implementation projects for various banking clients. (PNB, KBL, FABG, Yes Bank, Al Maryah etc)
• Facilitate teams’ planning and tracking activities while coaching in Agile principles
• Implemented Agile mindset by conducting burndown chart, team velocity analyses, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Analyzing Project Scope and Key Milestones and come up with a high-level project plan.
• Responsible for developing reports and templates to provide weekly Status Reports to management/stakeholders summarizing completed Milestones and Tasks.
• Ensure that requirements are thoroughly and clearly defined and meet stated objective(s).
• Performs all project management processes for diverse IT projects i.e., initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and closing process.
• Invoke and Manage Change Management Meetings in case of new or changed requirements.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.

● Plan and manage multiple IT projects and aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements.

● Define, translate and document detailed project requirements.

● Maintain requirements documents by updating changes, tracking open issues, and notifying internal teams and client of changes.

● Perform periodic risk assessment and minimize risks through appropriate planning and escalation.

● Act as a Communication hub between cross functional teams distributed across the globe to collaborate and ensure project deliverables are accomplished in defined time and cost.

● Worked with the technical teams to standardize and document the implementation and upgrade process

● Present, discuss, and explain ideas coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.

● As a Project Manager responsible for managing multiple projects across locations that deals with physical security risk to HSBC.

● Managing and leading team members, allocating resources among team members and guiding them during the project, till final delivery.

● Worked intensely with Security Teams and Infra Management Teams to develop Standard Security Policies and Vulnerability Policies for HSBC internal infrastructure.

● Handling internal projects with regards to Performing Security Audit, Vulnerability assessment on HSBC servers and analyzing, providing appropriate solutions as required.

● Project governance that deals with non-functional requirements as per HSBC standards.

● Work with Management Team on Resourcing, Cost and Budgeting of the Project

● Report Key Project Milestones and Project KPI’s to all major stakeholders and internal Executive Team.

● Create Project Management Plan and Share it with Key Stakeholders and Clients for Sign-off

● Getting the applications, infrastructure security tested to avoid cyber threat.

● Co-coordinating business and 3rd party vendors as a part of service sustainability program and ever greening process.

● As a Project Manager responsible for managing large and medium scale projects initiated under Avaya Professional Services in the APAC and EMEA Regions.

● Managed Professional Services Team (System Architects & Engineers) and Business Partners Teams to design and deploy Unified Communication, Contact Centre and Networking Infrastructure for large and small customers belonging to multiple industry segments namely Banking, Health, IT etc.

● Worked on multiple projects as a resource to perform Security Auditing, Security Hardening and Vulnerability Assessment for banks and financial services providers like BACI, DBS, ACB, Maybank, SCB, Manulife, UBL and ING etc.

● Work with Management Team on Resourcing, Cost and Budgeting of the Project. Handled Projects with net-worth of 45 million USD

● Handled Critical Escalations (directly impacting Revenues) by working with the Clients, internal Engineering and Operations Team to resolve them at the earliest.

● Worked closely with Product Team to get major issues fixed by prioritizing key issues.

● Report Key Project Milestones and Project KPI’s to all major stakeholders and internal Executive Team.

● Invoke and Manage Change Management Meetings in case of new or changed requirements.

● Create Project Management Plan and Share it with Key Stakeholders and Clients for Sign-off

● Also liaised with Avaya University (Avaya’s L&D wing) to conduct on-premises and Online Training for Clients and Business Partner Teams.

● Awarded Avaya Center of Excellence Award for delivery and good client feedbacks.

● Have exposure to working and understanding Client requirements in the BFSI, Oil&Gas, Technology, Healthcare and Entertainment space.

● Handle Critical escalations and provide Technical Support for production environments and providing solutions relating to Sun/Oracle Hardware and software issues.

● Analyzing and troubleshooting SUN hardware issues from desktop to Enterprise level.

● Providing support for Sun Mid-range and Entry level servers

● Upgrade and Maintain OS Versions.

● Install Patches/Patch Bundles.

● Work on ILOM,ALOM,ELOM.

● Installation of new disk group creations and file system creations

● Performing daily admin activities like online disk replacements, growing file systems, hardware and software problems on Solaris.

● Systems Troubleshooting on Sun Ultra Enterprise Servers (E450, E420R, E250), Sun fire (Sun Fire T1000, T2000, T5120, T5220, V880/V890 /V490/V480 /V240 /V210 /V440)

● Troubleshooting the StorEdge products (3310, 6120, 6140) .

● Installing and configuring Veritas Volume Manager.

● Configuring Raid 0, 1, 5

● Installing Packages & Patches in Solaris Machines

● Installation, configuration, and Administration of Apache HTTP server.

● Setup SQUID caching proxy server with advanced content filtering.

● Usage of Third-Party tool like SUN ILOM, to monitor the temperature and observation of Cluster Servers {Master Nodes & Computer Nodes}

● Carried out operations for Configuration, Remote support, Backup & Restoration, process & memory management, Patches up gradation, Security implementation for UNIX & Linux servers & clients.

● Carried out activities for Samba, Http, Squid & ftp servers configuration.

● Carried out activities regarding LVM, SNMP & RAID configuration.

● Handling operations concerning with installation of LINUX operating system, resolving boot related issues and dealing with User and Group Administration.

● Execute operations related to Patch and Package Management in Linux and scheduling the cron, anacron and at Jobs.

● Basic System Configurations { Printer, Router, Network }

● Deployment of software using rpm, yum etc.

● Troubleshooting Hardware & Software problems and lending support.