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Nitu Sharma

Nitu Sharma

Sydney,Australia

Summary

A seasoned IT Professional with extensive experience in successful delivery of IT services & programs in the banking sector by applying ITIL methodologies and techniques. A proven track record of leading complex initiatives with close collaboration with Business and Technical teams; enhancing efficiencies with continuous process improvement and implementing strategic technology solutions in alignment with business goals. Expert in producing quality project documentation with focus on delivering impactful changes to banking systems and processes. Dedicated and focused project management specialist with several years of experience excelling at prioritizing, completing multiple tasks simultaneously and following through to achieve project goals. Flexible, detail-oriented and adaptive team player with expertise in equipment operation, staff training and development, customer service and process improvements.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

Infosys
Sydney, Australia
05.2021 - Current

Company Overview: Client: Westpac banking Group

  • Led the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale IT migration project, ensuring completion on time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Conducted detailed project planning, including resource allocation, effort estimation, and risk mitigation.
  • Facilitated daily Agile stand-ups to ensure alignment across cross-functional teams.
  • Developed and maintained RACI matrices, clearly outlining roles and responsibilities across project streams.
  • Collaborated with ISG and IRC teams for infrastructure, risk, and compliance coordination.
  • Maintained consistent stakeholder engagement, providing regular updates and managing expectations across all levels.
  • Oversaw system integration efforts, ensuring seamless transitions from legacy to new platforms.
  • Managed project stage gates using OGATE or similar governance tools.
  • Coordinated all change and go-live activities, including deployment plans, runbooks, and business readiness assessments.
  • Managed the warranty support period, resolving post-deployment issues and facilitating handover to BAU teams.
  • Directed system decommissioning, ensuring compliance and eliminating redundant infrastructure.
  • Oversaw project finances, including budget tracking, forecasting, and variance reporting.
  • Tracked overall project progress using JIRA, ensuring transparency and accountability.
  • Client: Westpac banking Group
  • Received multiple GEM (Going the Extra Mile) Awards, Applause Awards, and formal recognition from senior leadership, including GM-level executives, for exceptional project delivery, leadership, and stakeholder collaboration.

Associate project manager

Infosys Technologies Ltd
Sydney, Australia
10.2018 - 04.2021

Company Overview: Client: Westpac banking Group

  • Server Platform migrations and decommission activities.
  • Data discovery for in scope server migrations.
  • Change management for decommissioning Services.
  • Manage the Firewall catalogue service for the domain.
  • Identify and mitigate issues and risks that may impact customer and stakeholders.
  • Project planning includes development of project plans, costs, schedules, and resource requirements.
  • Reviewing and raising Network Changes on ServiceNow and Remedy Tool.
  • Ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope in line with established project management methodology.
  • Provide reporting on effectiveness of offered IT services, including adaptation, utilization, and consultation to enable effective decisions for ongoing service portfolio, supplier, and management decisions.
  • Monitor, track, and report on the status of project deliverables to ensure time, cost and quality metrics are in line with approved project plans for assigned projects.
  • Risk and issues management involves management of detailed projects, quality and risk plans, monthly updates to senior stakeholders, reporting and analysis of project risks and issues.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships and communications channels with internal and external stakeholders and liaise with project team and stakeholders.
  • Facilitate meetings, daily stand-ups, take meeting minutes, assign action items, and follow up on action items when required.
  • Support Infrastructure Manager on program governance by planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling the project effort and communicating it to leadership team.
  • Liaising directly with third party vendors, to ensure all project deliverables.
  • Manage and use resources across the various projects and programs in the program.
  • Building a robust qualification, reliability, and design verification process. Collaborated with IT and business experts through all phases of a project to ensure delivery of solutions brings business value.
  • Reporting on program performance to executive team and directors.
  • Coordinated testing effort for project and tracked internal and external project risks.
  • Client: Westpac banking Group

Roaming and VAS Engineer

Nokia Siemens Networks
Pune, India
06.2006 - 02.2015
  • Work closely with stakeholders (internal & external), to prepare business proposals, design, contract and deployment from project initiation to close out.
  • Manage, deliver, and coordinate with Construction Contractor and Facilities Management Department for Structural Analysis, Pole Mounting, Fit outs and all other project related construction works.
  • Provide input for Stadium web-based application and develop a feasibility report for deployment as per Infrastructure Upgrade with a brief technical understanding. (Cloud Based)
  • Handling Infrastructure setup and upgrading of Network for IPTV as per guidelines received from Central Team.
  • Worked with senior leadership team to introduce.
  • Liaising with business & technical stakeholders to understand and assess the existing system.
  • Planning of DCN for management of other vendor network elements.
  • Planning of DSL connectivity based on customer project requirements.
  • Implementation of frequency plans (hopping & non-hopping).
  • Generation and analysis of Network Health Reports on cell/TRX/ARFCN levels.
  • Responsible for maintenance of various POI's.
  • Wireless subscriber management and Creation & complaint handling on OMCR.
  • Fault management using Alarm handling, testing the object.
  • Configuring Networking Devices.
  • Performing network Testing.
  • Managing the Network administration of LAN, WAN.
  • Installation, Configuration and Management of Cisco devices.
  • IR35 testing for GPRS Wap, Internet & MMS services in Nokia SGSN & GGSN.
  • Coordination with Customers to meet their technical requirements.
  • Configuration of MRTG for monitoring link status of different ISPs.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering -

Skills

Agile Tools: Jira, SNOW, Confluence, Clarity
Technical Tools: PowerBI, SharePoint, Microsoft O365,

Financial Tools: Clarity, WASP, MPS,
Project Management: ITIL Methodologies, Change Management, Risk Mitigation, Stakeholder Engagement
Soft Skills: Team Leadership, Communication, Process Improvement

Timeline

Project Manager

Infosys
05.2021 - Current

Associate project manager

Infosys Technologies Ltd
10.2018 - 04.2021

Roaming and VAS Engineer

Nokia Siemens Networks
06.2006 - 02.2015

Bachelor of Engineering -

Nitu Sharma