Poonam Subhash Vaidya
Craigieburn
Summary
Project Manager with over 18 years in the IT industry, managing projects across diverse domains. Mobile App Development and Website development projects in cross-functional agile teams setting, skilled in leading cross-functional teams, stakeholder management, and driving projects to completion on time and within budget.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
BYTE MATRIX
Sydney
02.2024 - Current
- As the Project Manager, leading the delivery of a Website Development project in agile environment, reporting to the Program Manager
- Project Planning: Developed a detailed project roadmap for a Website Development project
- Defined project scope, timelines, resources, and deliverables, aligned with business objectives
- Sprint Management: Facilitating sprint ceremonies, maintaining 85% completion of sprint tasks within the projected timeline
- Stakeholder Engagement: Delivering bi-weekly reports, ensuring alignment and transparency
- Provided status updates on milestones, timelines, and risks
- Risk and Issue Management: Proactively identifying and mitigating risks, reducing project delays by 20%
- Team Facilitation: Removing blockers and facilitating collaboration, achieving a 25% improvement in team productivity over 3 months
- Acting as a Scrum Master to foster collaboration within cross-functional teams, including developers, testers, and UX designers
- Resource Allocation: Allocating tasks based on team skillsets, ensuring 90% resource utilization efficiency across sprints
- Continuous Improvement: Monitoring project velocity and key performance indicators (KPIs), and refining processes to enhance team productivity and project efficiency
- Budget Management: Tracking and managing the project budget, ensuring costs are within approved limits and reporting any potential overruns
- Documentation and Compliance: Ensuring all project documentation, such as sprint reports, user stories, and project artifacts, is accurate and up to date, maintaining compliance with organizational standards
- Change Management: Managing scope changes efficiently by ensuring that all changes are evaluated and communicated properly, balancing client requests with project goals
Program Manager
FLR SPECTRON
05.2021 - 12.2023
- As the Program Manager, led the delivery of multiple projects in agile environment, directly reporting to CTO
- Managed concurrent projects, ranging from 3 to 10-person teams, overseeing up to 7 projects simultaneously
- Orchestrated over 15 projects spanning diverse domains and technologies including e-commerce, WordPress, and Mobile App development (Android and iOS), as well as React/Angular websites
- Spearheaded the delivery of the 91K USD Re-platform project, which encompassed a technology upgrade, enhanced accessibility, and content/animation modifications
- This project required coordinating with demanding stakeholders from 4 companies situated in various geographic locations
- Led the delivery of E-commerce B2C project using Magento, which involved online selling of mobility products to the end users
- This project needed managing constantly changing customer requirements with tight delivery timelines
- The product ensured superior online shopping experience to the end users
- Led the delivery of 50K USD Job Management Mobile App Development project for Android and iOS
- This app was a complete game changer for the client as it helped them manage their repair jobs
- Managed 227K USD Application Support project with a team of 5 Application Support Specialists and Developers who supported the Document Management System and migration from old desktop version
Project Manager
Hexaware Technologies
12.2019 - 04.2021
- Led a team of 19 highly skilled developers, testers, and specialists responsible for the $1.2M project at Hexaware Technologies
Project Manager/ Test Manager
Remote Software Solutions
08.2017 - 11.2019
- Took over the management of a major 300K USD Document Management System project which was veered off schedule and managed to deliver the project within timelines, earning recognition throughout the organization
- This enabled the client to adhere to their commitments of project delivery to end clients
- Helped with the 100% successful migration for 3 clients for their desktop application to web application version of the Document Management System
Test Lead
Continuum Managed Services LLC
01.2016 - 07.2017
Test Lead
Mastek India
06.2012 - 11.2015
Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2010 - 05.2011
Test Team Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
04.2007 - 07.2010
Sr Software Engineer
Patni Computer Systems
12.2003 - 03.2007
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Amravati University
01.2003
Skills
- PRINCE2 Agile
- Project Management
- Scrum Master
- Agile transformation
- Project Governance
- Project Documentation
- Project Estimations
- Project Budgets
- Project Charter
- Project Scheduling & Costing
- Risk Register
- Forecasting
- Project Baselines
- People Management
- Resource Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Customer Satisfaction
- Continuous Process Improvements
- Embedding Agile principles and ceremonies
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Business Analysis
- Capacity Planning
- Client Reporting
- JIRA Administration
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint
- Azure DevOps
- Trello
- Team Foundation Server
- Edit Plus
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Eclipse
- Bizagi
- TestRail
- Compuware QA run/QA Load
- JMeter
- Quality Centre
- Cucumber – BDT Framework
- Zephyr
- Katalon Studio
- C
- Java
- C#
Accomplishments
- Recovered Derailed Project: Assumed roles of Scrum Master and Project Manager for an urgent project off-schedule. Delivered on time, avoiding penalties, and earning organizational recognition.
- Led the delivery of projects in multiple domains - E-commerce, Document Management System, Job Management System, School Information Management System; Website development on multiple platforms like WordPress, Strapi, PHP, .net, HubSpot; Mobile App Development on Android and iOS using Ionic, React Native.
- Led Mobile App Development: Managed the 'Corporate Mobile App' project, utilizing the latest market technologies. Upskilled team on Android and iOS platforms as one of the first managers to undertake such an initiative.
- Managed challenging clients, cultivated strong relationships with clients, fostering excellent work rapport. Due to this, granted the honour of conducting interviews on the client side per the request of the Client Manager.
- Portrayed excellent people management skills: Resolved team morale issues, mediated conflicts among team members, and collaborated with the Product Owner to ensure the development pace of a large team remained on track.
- Embraced the role of Scrum Master offshore, marking the first instance for all teams, as Scrum Mastering had traditionally been handled solely by onsite members. Subsequently, Scrum Mastering responsibilities transitioned to offshore teams.
- Established the Testing Department from scratch, implementing test processes, metrics, and resource allocation across various projects.
- Served as an onsite coordinator in the USA for a networking project.
- Salvaged a project for the company that was on the brink of failure, marking a significant achievement considering it was my inaugural project as a newcomer.
Membershipandcertifications
- PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner Certification for Agile Project Management, AXELOS UK, GR649026967PV
- PRINCE2 Agile Foundation Certification for Agile Project Management, AXELOS UK, GR659026266PV
- Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org
Timeline
Project Manager
BYTE MATRIX
02.2024 - Current
Program Manager
FLR SPECTRON
05.2021 - 12.2023
Project Manager
Hexaware Technologies
12.2019 - 04.2021
Project Manager/ Test Manager
Remote Software Solutions
08.2017 - 11.2019
Test Lead
Continuum Managed Services LLC
01.2016 - 07.2017
Test Lead
Mastek India
06.2012 - 11.2015
Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2010 - 05.2011
Test Team Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
04.2007 - 07.2010
Sr Software Engineer
Patni Computer Systems
12.2003 - 03.2007
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Amravati University
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