Aravinda Shenoy

Senior project manager bringing highly credible technical leadership to direct multi-functional project teams engaged in full system development and implementation in high tech environments. Experienced overseeing diverse teams of developers, analysts and quality professionals engaged in complex projects. Solid understanding of project management tools. Project management professional and certified in agile methodology.

Infosys Limited, 06/2004, Present, 20 years, GREEN CARD, Senior Project Manager, Cary, NC, 04/2018, Present, .Net Upgrade, Security Remediation and AWS Migration of 13 websites and COTS applications from Rackspace Servers to VMC on AWS, Modernizing 3 large mainframe application into Java/Angular JS based application and then migrate them from on-premises servers to AWS Cloud as per new architecture, As is (i.e. Lift and shift) migration of 9 P&C applications from on-premises mainframe server to AWS Cloud, Reverse Engineering of RIS (Retirement Income Solution) application using proprietary tool, Application Rebranding - Removing the old branding related images, links, and verbiages from 1300+ client internal applications and external facing websites using a proprietary tool, Below Upgrade and Migration of P&C Application: PowerBuilder Upgrade, Sybase 16.0 upgrade, POC on Informix to SQL Server Migration, BAU application maintenance and enhancements of: BPM (Business Process Management) application, UIS application (Also played the role of scrum master for this application enhancement track), Be the SPOC on all project/program related activities. Create and maintain the project plan. Work closely with Infosys and client management teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to periodically review the project status, risks, issues, and timelines., Interact with business and integration teams and participate in current state analysis to understand various technical set up and integration involved in each of these applications and thereby define the scope, objectives, and metrics for the project., Responsible to manage the project budget/schedule/scope and work with clients to negotiate any changes to these parameters and thereby raise the required change requests., Identify and fulfil project resource demands through internal available resource pool and/or by hiring talents to meet the varying project needs., Manage, monitor, and mentor a US based, and India based team of Architects, Developers, Testers, vendor teams, integration teams and release team to conduct the project tasks as per the plan and to ensure the on time successful delivery of the program., Work closely with Business Team and Technical SMEs to look for options to consolidate the batch jobs and online processes to make the future application lean and clean & thereby achieve productivity improvement., Provide management guidance and support to the team and to remove work impediments to ensure the project stays on track., Prepare, communicate, and present the status report to various client stakeholders., Closely coordinate with various internal and external integration teams to ensure that the application rightly is integrated as per the target architecture., Work with the UAT owners of each of these apps to ensure the UAT is conducted on time and resolve any interdependencies., Create deployment plan, communication plan and hyper care plan and walkthrough this with multiple stakeholders including client PMO team to ensure everyone is on same page and ensure successful production release., Work with job scheduling team to create new batch jobs and ensure they execute without issues., Preparation and presentation of multiple proposals to win new work opportunities for Infosys., Be the scrum master and manage various scrum activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospective and closure meetings etc., Plan and execute the Soft Launch for each of the application for the early detection of the issues (if any)., Plan the deployment tasks, and work with the release management teams to ensure all the process and their SLAs are followed., Project Manager, Cary, NC, 06/2014, 03/2018, Enhancement to 'Direct to Consumer' application, Managing the Application Maintenance & Support activities for all applications under the client's Risk Services portfolio, Accountable for executing and delivering various projects under the portfolio as per customer requirements., Prepare project plan & schedule highlighting different tasks, their sequence, and interdependencies. Baseline the same after obtaining signoff from relevant stakeholders, manage any changes to this plan to ensure on-time delivery of the project., Interact with customer and participate in business and system requirements sessions to define the project scope, objectives, and metrics to measure the success., Work with Development/Architect Team to analyze the requirements and transform them into technical specs., Responsible for keeping track of project budget, schedule and scope and manage the changes as needed throughout the project., Identify and fulfil project resource demands through internal available resource pool and/or by hiring talents to meet the varying project/prod support demands and to backfill attrition., Provide management guidance to the project teams based in US and India and manage/take corrective actions to address client expectations and escalations., Work with the leadership from other accounts to identify and adapt the industry wide best practices and standards into the projects/programs & thereby achieve productivity improvement in the projects managed., Design Review with Technical Leads / Architects to ensure design is in sync with client expectations., Proactively identify new business opportunities and lead the exercise of creating the proposal and there by lead the preparation, discussions, and presentations., Periodic presentation of project metrics and status reports to client leadership., Design the migration methodology using previous case studies and working with leadership from other accounts., Preparation and presentation of multiple proposals to win new work opportunities for Infosys., Manage team performance through performance expectation setting, performance reviews and feedback., Technology Lead, Milwaukee, WI, 11/2009, 05/2014, Implementing the Investment lifecycle workflow related changes for adding new Mutual Funds into client's portfolio, Complete redesign of the accounting data cycle workflow, Automation of manual ledger entries & the corresponding workflow in General Ledger system, Upgrade the calypso tool to leverage new functionalities, Addition of 2 new business units to the general ledger, account payables/receivables, cash disbursement applications, Stabilization of the Universal Life Administration Application, Conduct workshop with clients to elicit the requirements on application enhancement requests., Document the requirements and trace it to code components., Create functional test plan and test cases., Work with offshore team to develop the changes needed for the enhancements as per the requirement., Perform unit testing of the changes to ensure the code is runtime and compilation error free., Review the code changes with client teams and rework as per the review comments., Fix the defects and re-test the changes., Correct the job dependencies and scheduling in Autosys tool., Represent the changes and QA metrics in the weekly test review meetings., Prepare detailed deployment plan along with key milestones., Configuration management using tools like StarTeam, TFS, VSS, Beyond Compare etc., Take the signoff from business to deploy changes to production., Work with job scheduling team to create new batch jobs and ensure they execute without issues., Preparation and presentation of multiple proposals to win new work opportunities for Infosys., Be the scrum master and manage various scrum activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospective and closure meetings etc., Plan and execute the Soft Launch for each of the application for the early detection of the issues (if any)., Plan the deployment tasks, and work with the release management teams to ensure all the process and their SLAs are followed., Programmer Analyst, Milwaukee, WI, 03/2007, 10/2009, Adding 3 new variable universal life products into an existing policy issue and administration application, Adding 2 new fixed universal life products into an existing policy issue and administration application, Perform Application impact analysis., Create High Level & Detailed Level Design Document., Develop the software modules as per the requirements and design., Perform Unit Testing and functional testing of the changes., Fix the defects and re-test the changes., Add new jobs, correct the job dependencies and scheduling in Autosys tool., Create Production Change Ticket and Deploy changes to Production., Provide go-live warranty to ensure changes are working in production as intended., Transition the changes to application support team for maintenance., Software Engineer, Milwaukee, WI, 01/2005, 02/2007, Adding 3 new variable universal life products into an existing policy issue and administration application, Adding 2 new fixed universal life products into an existing policy issue and administration application, Perform Application impact analysis., Create High Level & Detailed Level Design Document., Develop the software modules as per the requirements and design., Perform Unit Testing and functional testing of the changes., Fix the defects and re-test the changes., Add new jobs, correct the job dependencies and scheduling in Autosys tool., Create Production Change Ticket and Deploy changes to Production., Provide go-live warranty to ensure changes are working in production as intended., Transition the changes to application support team for maintenance., Software Engineer Trainee, Mysore, Karnataka, 06/2004, 12/2004

Certified SAFe Agilist, Advanced Certificate in Program Management (Cornell certification), Project Management Professional (PMP), Microsoft Certifications: MS Azure Fundamentals Certificate, MS Certified AI Fundamentals, MS Certified Data Fundamentals, Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Gen AI on AWS, Cloud - An Overview for Sales and Delivery Leaders, Introduction to Python, Infosys Global Agile Certification, Agile Scrum Process & Practice, Infosys Certified Applied Generative AI Professional, Infosys certified Professional - Generative AI for All

Eclipse, TOAD, Rapid SQL, AQT, Autosys, Maestro, Control M, HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, Blueprint, Selenium, TFS, StarTeam, HP Service Now, Remedy, Notepad++, Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio), Textpad 4.4.1, Beyond Compare, MS SharePoint

• Oracle
• SQL Server
• Sybase
• DB2