SAMSON RAJESH KUMAR
Bangalore
Summary
Offering 13+ years of comprehensive experience with a proven track record at Diageo India, I excel in bridging cross-functional teams to deliver projects with a 90% success rate, showcasing my expertise in project scheduling and stakeholder management. My approach combines Waterfall & agile methodologies with strong decision-making skills, driving continuous improvement and effective resource planning.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Delivery Manager
Diageo India
02.2021 - Current
- To control and govern the end-to-end demand process by establishing a bridge among the PDM, PM, and D&T capability teams.
- Defined project scope, goals, timelines, and deliverable that support business goals in collaboration with the PDM, PM & D&T capability team
- Responsible for managing all aspects of Project throughout its life cycle by leading and directing cross functional teams to deliver within the constraints of schedule, budget, and resources
- Ensure that the demand ways of working are followed by the capability teams and take care of performance measurement, reporting & monitoring, and resource requirements across D&T Transform- Corporate Functions, People & Cross- Functional Capabilities
- Responsible for building a high performing team, by defining Team ground rules and team charter
- Establishing project team, participating in, and setting project scope and objectives, and formulating project operation mode, project plan, coordinating various resources to achieve project objectives
- Ensuring timelines are met and projects have the required support throughout the project lifecycle
- Managed proper communication and stakeholder management among cross functional teams throughout the project
- Provide accurate cost estimates to stakeholders in a timely manner and ensure financial management & resource management throughout the project life cycle
- Identifying and resolving issues within the project team
- Identified and managed project dependencies, critical path, project milestones and deliverable
- Ensure the project is delivered with minimal escalations and 90% success rate
- Project methodology identified, actively involved, and contributed for Planning & Managing Scope, Schedule, Cost, Budget & Resource management of the project, including creating Work Breakdown structure, Schedule Network diagram, Activities, Activity Attributes
- Throughout the project, I ensured proper scope definition and schedule management across the cross functional teams for seamless progress of the project within the allocated budget and resource constraints
- Have ensured effective cost and resource management (budget) shared to stakeholders
- Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain good relationships by ensuring effective communication with all parties involved in the project process and help resolve conflict & handle escalations at L3 level if needed
- Deliver on-time, on-budget, highest-quality project and developing trust-based relationships with stakeholders, Business Analysts, PM's PDM
- Facilitating meetings with key leaders and collaborated with project teams to ensure timely decision-making and effective communication between project stakeholders at all levels
- Project Governance, Budgeting, Forecasting & Variance Analysis
- Ensuring the teams are booking their timesheets as per the forecast provided by using valid PlanView.
- Worked on SharePoint site implementation for our Enterprise Solutions Org.
- Communicate with all the CoE's leads to ensure flawless project delivery.
Education
B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering
SVU University
KADAPA01.2010
Skills
- Cross-functional coordination
- Agile methodology
- Waterfall Model
- Cost control
- Project scheduling
- Requirements analysis
- Scope management
- IT Project and Program Management
- Stakeholder management,
- Client management
- Customer relationship management and vendors' experience
- Risk assessment
- Performance monitoring
- Business analysis
- Project planning
- Technical documentation
- Project tracking
- Budget administration
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Scope implementation
- Cost management
- Continuous improvement
- Resource planning
- Decision-making
- Root-cause analysis
- Project team coordination
Professional Strengths And Achievements
- Black Label Award winner for successfully delivering on numerous projects and initiatives.
- Got Certificate of Appreciation Award for successfully Delivering the Projects.
- Nominated as HSE (Health and Safety) Program Manager from our department.
- Won 3rd Prize in National Safety Week Spot Hazard Competition.
- Hard working and goal oriented.
- Respect and consider individualistic differences.
Professional Certifications
- Completed 35hrs of PMP training Program from ShriLearning.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist.
- PRINCE2 AGILE Foundation & Practitioner Certified.
- PSM I (Professional Scrum Master) Certified.
- ITIL V3 & INTERMEDIATE Service Operation Certified.
Timeline
Project Delivery Manager
Diageo India
02.2021 - Current
B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering
SVU University
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