VINAY MURTHY
SENIOR IT PROJECT MANAGER
Kogarah,NSW
Summary
PRINCE2 | Agile Scrum Master | ITIL Certified Pragmatic and hands-on Senior IT Project manager with 16 years of experience in the IT industry with extensive working knowledge in Software deployment, Cloud, Azure, Incident management, Problem management, IT infrastructure, Build the process, change management, requirement elicitation, implementation and maintenance of applications with adopting agile and scrum processes. Managed large IT transformation projects for multiple international organizations across geographies UK, India, US and Australia.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior IT Project Manager /Scrum Master
Westpac Banking Corporation: Infosys Limited
Sydney
08.2019 - Current
- Playing a role of Senior IT Agile Project Manager/ Scrum Master for Middleware project team
- Responsible for Project Planning, requirements gathering, estimation, resource management, delivery, financial management, Vendor management
- Working with Service Owners, Engineers, Product Owners and Business Analysts to work through executable solutions to meet business needs
- Developing change management procedures for seamless delivery
- Leading and facilitating Scrum events using Agile practices, tools and processes and create consistency of delivery practices across the teams
- Playing crucial role in liaising with cross-functional teams across business and technology
- Managing a high-performing technical team as a people manager, and build productive relationships with stakeholders
- Refining and managing the change plan for several releases to deliver agreed capabilities and support business benefits delivery within agreed time and budget
- Identifying, monitoring and reporting on issues and/or problems associated with the change
- Ensuring change related risk (people, operations, organizational) is identified and managed within desired levels at CAB
- Active Management of risks & issues, Status reporting to various stakeholder groups
- Responsible for continuously improving the Agile maturity and scaling of practice across teams
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
- Managed minimum of 60 projects each year while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements.
Senior IT Project Manager
Northern Trust: Infosys limited
Chicago, Bangalore, USA, USA
10.2016 - 08.2019
- Managed Wealth Management application support for 120+ applications Incident, Problem and Change Management, 12 clusters and was involved in transition management, Vendor Management, people management, cross-team coordination, communications, project management, team building and implemented ITIL processes
- Played a Key role as Knowledge Transition Manager for 120 + Applications from incumbent vendor at Chicago, USA
- First to Introduced Agile methodology-Kanban in the Application support domain
- Responsible for Monthly Governance Report in Wealth Management Tower
- Responsible for mining new opportunities and work on proposals/pipeline as per business needs
- Provided outstanding service to clients through effective communication and prompt issue resolution to facilitate future business opportunities.
- Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
- Produced reports and updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
IT Project Manager
Royal Bank of Scotland – Williams & Glyn: Infosys limited
London, UK, UK
12.2013 - 10.2016
- Managed multiple application deployment pods (85 members) to help build RBS’ vision of “Bank in a “Box” at London UK
- Adopted agile methodologies as per organizational strategy
- Managed and responsible for project delivery of IT Infra Design review and consulting, Build Documentation review acceptance and Implementation/Rollout of 150 applications, across multiple environments, with 55+Strong Technical team members (GDM) over 2 years
- Managed project end-to-end from planning until implementation and closure; including Senior Stakeholder Management, proactive Risk management and Change Control Management
- Responsible for Starting the Project, defining process, Resource Management, Role fitment and bringing the Quality to ISO level with Knowledge Management.
- Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for clients by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
- Developed project management roadmap to define project objectives, timelines and milestones.
- Analyzed architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project requirements.
IT Project Manager
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Infosys limited
Bangalore, India, India
01.2009 - 11.2013
- Managed support and enhancement projects for 170 Applications in Financial, Wealth Management and trading platforms from three different locations
- Tasks and responsibilities included Incident and Change management, Ensure Service level agreement(SLA)are Met, Service reporting, Outage management, Problem management calls and reviews, process improvements, risk management, contract renewal, program finance, client liaison and resource management
- Played a role as Quality anchor for the project to ensure Project is adhered to ISO 20k standards
- Acquired Good Knowledge in Proposals, Billing models( T&M and FP), Estimation models, Due diligence, Operation execution, Risk Analysis, BCP ,Gap analysis, Lean and Six sigma methodology
Technology Analyst and Lead
City Stanley Smith Barney, Infosys limited
Bangalore, India
02.2008 - 12.2008
- Service delivery, Change management, Incident Management/Problem Management/Outage management
- Worked proactively on service improvement initiatives
- Actively and extensively involved in “Lift & Shift” activity to move the application from Citi Smith Barney infrastructure to Morgan Stanley infrastructure.
Software Engineer-Developer / L3
CITI Gateway, Polaris Software Ltd
Chennai, Mumbai, India, India
10.2005 - 12.2007
- Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Performed duties in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines.
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
Education
Bachelor in Engineering - Computer Science
VTU University
06.2001 - 06.2005
Skills
Project planning and development
Project Management
Risk mitigation planning
Project budget allocation
Agile Scrum
Programming Languages : Java, Oracle, Unix, Azure, C, PL/SQL
IT Infra Transformation & Migration
Quality assurance: ISO 20k/CMMI
Software Development Lifecycle
Tools: MS office, Jira, ServiceNow, Remedy, Confluence, Control M, Autosys
Stakeholder management
Multi-Vendor Global Delivery Model
Middleware : MQ, WebSphere and WebLogic
Excellent Communication
Waterfall methodology
Critical Thinking
Accomplishments
- Awarded "KM RNR" , "Star of the Month", "GEM" and "FSI INSTA" from Infosys Banking and Capital Market practice group
- Managing project at ISO 20K Standards, faced multiple internal/external audits
- Improved overall Quality of the delivery by reducing reporting efforts through Six Sigma process. Overall cost reduction was USD 50k/ year
- Supervised team of 50+ staff members.
Certification
PRINCE2
Timeline
Senior IT Project Manager /Scrum Master
Westpac Banking Corporation: Infosys Limited
08.2019 - Current
Senior IT Project Manager
Northern Trust: Infosys limited
10.2016 - 08.2019
IT Project Manager
Royal Bank of Scotland – Williams & Glyn: Infosys limited
12.2013 - 10.2016
IT Project Manager
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Infosys limited
01.2009 - 11.2013
Technology Analyst and Lead
City Stanley Smith Barney, Infosys limited
02.2008 - 12.2008
Software Engineer-Developer / L3
CITI Gateway, Polaris Software Ltd
10.2005 - 12.2007
Bachelor in Engineering - Computer Science
VTU University
06.2001 - 06.2005