Chittaranjan Pattnaik

Supervised a $10M+ portfolio with 25+ direct reports globally. Primary roles and responsibilities include:

Project and Program Management:

• Led teams through successful milestones by implementing strategic plans.
• Manage diverse technology initiatives.
• Establish parameters for project objectives and outcomes.
• Oversee the development of intricate project schedules.
• Managed adherence to deadlines and financial plans.
• Implemented strategies to contend with risk factors.

Resource Management:

• Maximize resource efficiency to align with project demands.
• Coordinate with various teams to secure essential resources.
• Equip project team with necessary skills and tools for success.
• Supervise and inspire project team members effectively.

Stakeholder Communication:

• Relay project status and updates to stakeholders and senior management.
• Monitored and adjusted processes to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Hold frequent meetings for feedback collection and objective alignment.

Budget Management:

• Develop and oversee project financial plans.
• Tracked financial outlays, implementing strategies to reduce costs.
• Maintain budget compliance for project deliveries.

Quality Assurance:

• Established and maintained quality benchmarks.
• Performed routine quality inspections and audits.
• Devised efficiency programs enhancing overall project delivery.

Risk Management:

• Identify potential risks, and develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Established comprehensive risk assessment procedures.

Change Management:

• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and objectives.
• Assess the impact of changes, and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Ensure that changes are properly documented and approved.

Vendor and Supplier Management:

• Evaluate and select vendors or suppliers for IT projects.
• Negotiate contracts and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Ensured adherence to contractual obligations by regularly reviewing vendor activities.

Documentation and Reporting:

• Ensure thorough project documentation.
• Generate regular reports on project status, progress, and performance.
• Prepare post-project evaluation reports for lessons learned.

Technical understanding:

• Possess in-depth knowledge of project-specific technical details.
• Work closely with technical teams to fulfill project specifications.

Team Leadership:

• Lead project teams with strategic direction.
• Foster a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Coach and mentor team members to enhance their skills and capabilities.

Compliance and Security:

• Ensure that IT projects adhere to relevant compliance standards and security protocols.
• Identify and address any security risks associated with the projects.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement within the IT delivery function.

• Project Scope Management.
• Client Management.
• Resource Management.
• Portfolio Risk Management.
• Led a team of over 20 resources at the onsite location and over 50 from offshore.
• Handled a portfolio of over $7 million.
• Understand project functional requirements, and business requirements.
• Costing and controlling the quality of deliverables.
• Analyzing and reporting metrics as per TCS, customer service level agreements.
• Team building and ramping up the team to meet portfolio demand.
• Appraising the performance of the subordinates.
• Compiling monthly production statistics and project metrics.
• Providing strategic and tactical direction.
• Developed a comprehensive end-to-end plan outlining distinct project phases.
• Evaluated individual project estimates for multiple business units.
• Assessed website proposals before customer presentations.
• Present the monthly project dashboard at both the internal and client levels.
• Enhanced customer engagement by delivering tailored technical, logistical, and architectural solutions.
• Supervised multi-shift teams to meet critical COVID deadlines.

• North America digital assets development using open source technologies.
• Plan, execute, monitor, and report on projects using predictive (waterfall) or agile (Kanban, Scrum) models.
• Understand project functional requirements, and business requirements.
• Work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to create scope, requirements documents, user flows, and risk trackers.
• Review of the design of system components developed by the team.
• Ensure that the technical solutions are aligned with the business requirements and technology roadmap.
• Update the project documentation as per the changes, along with development.
• Report to stakeholders with demos, collect feedback, and demonstrate project status using information radiators.
• Cultivated strong relationships with third-party vendors to secure project deliverables for both internal and external teams.
• Coordinate and lead daily and weekly project team and client conference calls.
• Consider all components of web initiatives, SEO, WCAG, development, analytics, design, UX/UI, and support after go-live.
• Budget tracking per project and accumulated programs.

• Digital Marketing Application Development and Support.
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis
• Analysis of the specifications.
• Conducting Status Meetings.
• Estimation and Proposal Decks Preparation.
• Competency management: identification of training needs of resources, and working towards getting it implemented.
• Project Planning and Estimation
• Project Management and Task Allocation to the Team.
• Monitor and manage project deliverables, budget, schedule, and quality.
• Review of the technical solution, approach, and designing the system.
• Risk Management and Mitigation: Identifying project risks, mitigation plans, and prioritization in consultation with the stakeholders.
• Defining responsibilities and reviewing deliverables.
• Providing strategic and tactical direction
• Setting a career path for team members.
• Escalation handling.
• Performed quality inspection for the entire project deliverables.
• Project-wise budget and resource loading.

• Pfizer Canada's website migration in Drupal.
• The objective of the project is to rebuild, develop, or migrate the websites in Drupal, which is the target technology for Pfizer in its IT roadmap.

• This is a CMS-based site that is developed using Drupal.
• This website restricts access for users based on their geolocation or country selection to view product information on the site.
• It allows HCPs to register and log in to access both the corporate and product sections, but for other anonymous users, the corporate section is accessible only.
• The site has been developed using Drupal's multi-site architecture.