Atul Arora

• Deliver Creative Design, React Native front end based and Java based backend/services projects
• Provide direct hands-on program management. Standup PODs from ground up, prepare story point estimate-based Sprint plans
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Lead and participate Scrum of Scrums meeting to ensure project and program objective alignment across the board. Also work with program and release managers to ensure business value delivery
• Improved project transparency by maintaining and updating physical and digital Agile tools, including Jira and Confluence
• Proactively identified potential risks and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize negative impacts on projects or business operations
• Assist in filling the roles based on the expected capacity alongside RMs and ensuring the overall project is delivered within the allocated budget.

• Provide direct hands-on project management (Agile,waterfall & Hybrid models) for key cross-functional enterprise projects in SAP, Warehouse Management Systems (Manhattan's WMS), Pricing, ECOM, Salesforce and Infrastructure
• Business case validation, vendor selections and project onboarding
• Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams
• Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management
• Ensured regulatory compliance by closely monitoring adherence to industry standards and guidelines throughout the project & program lifecycle
• Collaborate with key stakeholders in making organization level technology decisions for software development and business intelligence / reporting
• Worked closely with enterprise technology architect to formulate enterprise level system flows mapped to business processes
• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives

Key Initiatives

WMS Upgrade, Coupon Promo Pricing (SAP PMR), Kyriba (Treasury Management), CoStar (Lease Management System), Amazon Direct Fulfillment, SAP Enhancements, Apple Pay, Infra upgrades and Change Catalyst for IT teams to adopt Agile execution methodology

• Driving and managing global retail and finance projects
• Execute project from its discovery to production implementation
• Business case validation, vendor selections and project onboarding.
• Managed POD team comprising Functional (Business Analyst) and Technical leads, Oracle ERP and Oracle BI & Essbase Developers, QA and support staff
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Created, communicating and managing risk management plans.
• Prepared and presented daily, weekly and monthly stakeholder management and communications

Key Initiatives

• Automating customer receipt accounting and a web portal allowing a wholesale customer to view their account and make payments via the portal
• Ship from Store capabilities across all regions by implementing flattening inventory view for Omni channels

• Worked with multiple clients to provide leadership and effective technical project / program management to successfully deliver initiatives
• Foster strong relationships with and between functional and technical stakeholders driving projects to success
• Provide succinct project/program insights to senior stakeholders/business sponsors enabling them to make required project decisions
• Responsible for daily, weekly and monthly stakeholder management and communications
• Created, communicated and managed risk management plans
• Provide direction and guidance to team members enabling them to execute projects per the PMO standards

Key Clients

• Kellogg’s, MI | TPM: Big Data based projects
• TD Bank, NJ | TPM: Risk and Regulatory reporting
• Coach Inc, NYC | Project Manager: SAP production and IBM Netezza Data warehouse based projects
• Citibank NA, Belfast, UK | Project Manager (integration partner): FX & MM Back office automated business operation flow migration from Oracle Flexcube to new scalable Web stack

• Worked as a software development project manager.
• Travel to client locations for initial business meetings and gather requirements
• Lead 14+ member team covering mix of varied technologies like Mobile Java Platform, J2EE, Core Java, .NET and PHP Lamp stack
• Technical guidance for core java/java mobile projects during development meetings
• Interacting with technical writers to document, verify and validate product features and functionality
• Collect and analyze quality data from reviews and tests
• Mentored junior developers and engineers through onboarding process and long-term team contributions
• Ensure adherence to CMM Level3 quality processes.
• Created, communicated and managed risk management plans
• Create and publish daily, weekly and monthly stakeholder management and communications

Coded and maintained high performing software gateway adaptors to connect with multiple virtual markets (such as Bloomberg, ION, Market IT and EBS) to fetch FX and MM price book to traders desk for market making, trading and hedging activities.

Software designing, development and production support for Sprint Telecom