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Navin Ulaganathan

Mckinney

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with over 7 years of experience in roles such as Scrum Master/PM at Quant Systems for Western Union and Project Manager at IBM for the AT&T account in the Telecom domain. Additional experience includes Project Manager positions at MPInfotech and Bharat Electronics Ltd, specializing in Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Certified Scrum Master with expertise in software development life cycle, facilitating scrum ceremonies, and tracking project efforts. Skilled in project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, closure, risks management, issues management, change management, and dependency management. Proven ability to manage teams onsite, offsite, and offshore globally.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

SCRUM MASTER / PM

Western Union through Quant systems Inc
05.2023 - 09.2023
  • Helping the development team to overcome impediments, facilitating meetings with expertise outside of the team.
  • Coaching team members on Agile, scrum framework and Kanban approach.
  • Facilitating all Scrum Events.
  • Conducting Planning, grooming sessions, Stand up’s, Retrospectives and Reviews.
  • Thoroughly reviewing the user stories following INVEST principles.
  • Discussing with Product Owner and Business stakeholders if any clarification is needed.
  • Analyzing and identifying scenarios that do and do not exist in real time scenarios.
  • Conducting planning poker meetings for estimations of User Stories.
  • JIRA management ( Creation of project, User Stories, allocating for team members and monitor closely on timelines).
  • Running projects using Kanban approach.
  • Scheduling meetings within the team to discuss issues, defects , scope etc..
  • Publishing metrics at the end of each sprint.
  • Project: Defrauder( Fraudulent tool) , EU Data Pipeline.
  • Role and Responsibilities:

Project Manager (As Intern)

MPINFOTech
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Creating EPICs , User stories .
  • Tracking Defects, Risk management.
  • Conducting daily standup calls with the team .
  • Retrospective meet with Scrum team .
  • Used JIRA as project Management Tool , team communication done Via Slack Technologies Used : AWS ( Amazon Web Services )
  • Process : AGILE , DevOps
  • Project on Cloud Transformation , Agile Development Environment: MRADAR, DevOps STUDIO.
  • Incorporated newly adopted Agile approaches using Atlassian (Confluence and JIRA), including product backlog prioritization and grooming, daily standup, sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones; and track project milestones and deliverables, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical paths.
  • Managed, tracked, and reviewed project deliverables regularly in order to report weekly status to senior management.
  • Role and Responsibilities:

E2E IT Project Manager

IBM through Artech Info Systems
09.2015 - 08.2017
  • In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) project life cycle methodologies including traditional Waterfall model as well as Agile/Scrum across the span of various projects.
  • Facilitated daily stand-up SCRUM meetings and guided team.
  • Experience with pulling together weekly status reports from teams and keeping track of Projects.
  • Lead team through sizing of User Stories, burndown chart, and used Rally for managing backlog.
  • Conducted Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective meetings.
  • Facilitated the Product Backlog grooming meeting and helped Product Owner.
  • Overseeing sprint planning, sprint demo, and sprint retrospective.
  • Handled projects in AVPN (AT&T Virtual Private Networking), SDN (Software Defined Networking) for AT&T
  • Manage approved projects and has accountability to ensure Milestone and Decision Gates artifacts are completed
  • Produce the Project Plan (IBM ADM PM Workbook) and Project Schedule. Manages project funding, schedule and quality.
  • Collect the customer requirements from the AT&T Program/Project Manager, monitors and reports project status, coordinates and participates in post implementation reviews and project evaluations.
  • Responsible for working with IBM 1st and 2nd Line Managers and Project Teams to identify, document and track risks in either the PM Workbook or VIDUR Tool; track project dependencies in the VIDUR Tool.
  • Work with the Supplier Project Manager and IBM 1st and 2nd Line Managers to coordinate schedules, track the status of dependencies, and resolve issues and problems. Initiates escalation if necessary.
  • Collect project event status, update VIDUR weekly for earned value status.
  • Approve HLD, AID, Design, Development, Test and Deployment Readiness Packages for IBM team.
  • Involved in Risks Management, Issues Management & Dependency address to the management in time.
  • Establish standards and procedures for reporting and documentation (Auditing).
  • Interface with the AT&T Program/Project Managers. Successfully manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders (onsite – Client Vendor Management).
  • Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
  • Evaluate the outcomes of the project formulated during the planning phase as Lessons learned in this project and documented for future references.
  • Duration : September 2015 to August 2017
  • Project : AVPN – AT&T Virtual Private Network, SDN (SDWAN) Client : AT&T
  • Role and Responsibilities:
  • Tools Used – IBM Specific
  • IBM VIDUR-This tool is used for tracking all projects in a program in terms of schedule, cost, risks, dependencies, change requests and issue management and tracking. This tool is used to track and report individual applications as well as entire project schedule management as well.
  • RallyDev– To Manage the agile projects
  • RunRateTool (RR Tool) - This is a complete E2E test status tracking tool. Progress of System test, pairwise test, integration test are tracked in this tool.
  • Estimation data repository - This tool used for opening, generating and approval of estimates for a project. This is extremely useful while tracking CR estimates. As a project manager, I am responsible to initiate estimates and track until closure.
  • Tools Used – AT&T Specific
  • PRISM: This is a complete end to end tracking tool that helps track project status, open estimates, financials and generates reports accordingly. This is the interface between IBM and the client.
  • IBARR – This tool to track financials for a project on a per month basis (authorized by the client) .

Project Manager

Bharat Electronic Limited
08.2013 - 08.2015
  • SQL Scripts Creation for the Data Centre Purpose - primarily used for data segregation, merging quality check, etc.
  • Analyze and provide technical resolution to MySQL database related problems
  • Database Migration ,upgrading Database Versions and Converting Backup to different Databases.
  • Personalization of data such as checking for correctness of all the fields before data has been sent for card production, running utilities to correct the errors in various fields.
  • Merging and splitting of the SQL backups based on the necessity.
  • Providing Technical Support for Clients, Data Centres for Troubleshooting and generating Custom Reports.
  • Played a pivotal role managing several vendor companies on setting up the initial infrastructure and further operation across Tamil Nadu.
  • Work as part of a team and provide 24 X 7 Production Support.
  • Duration : August 2013 to August 2015.
  • Project : NATIONAL POPULATION REGISTER (NPR)
  • Client : Registrar General of India (RGI), New Delhi
  • Role and Responsibilities:

PMO / Project Manager

Bharat Electronic Limited
08.2010 - 07.2012
  • Vendor Handling, Infrastructure Arrangement, Providing Technical support for data centres, troubleshooting and Maintenance, Managing MIS Reports.
  • Explaining the weekly status of the project to the client through video-conferencing on a weekly basis.
  • SQL Scripts Creation for the Data Centre Purpose - primarily used for data segregation, merging quality check, etc..
  • Analyze and provide technical resolution to MySQL database related problems
  • Installation of client tools on user machines and establishing connectivity to databases
  • Database Migration ,upgrading Database Versions and Converting Backup to different Databases.
  • Personalization of data such as checking for correctness of all the fields before data has been sent for card production, running utilities to correct the errors in various fields.
  • Planning for backup, recovery, and fault tolerance of the database.
  • Collocating backup of all the Data Centres and Maintaining a Centralized Database System.
  • Centralized Backup Maintenance and Recovery from the backup.
  • Merging and splitting of the SQL backups based on the necessity
  • Played a pivotal role managing several vendor companies on setting up the initial infrastructure and further operation across Tamil Nadu.
  • Duration : August 2010 to July 2012.
  • Project : Socio Economic Caste Census(SECC)
  • Client : Ministry of Rural Development,National Informatics Centre (NIC) Registrar General of India (RGI), New Delhi
  • Role and Responsibilities:

Education

Certified Scrum Master -

01.2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

05.2009

Skills

  • Telecom Domain : OSS/BSS , VPN , Cloud, SDN
  • Software Process : AGILE ,Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall Methodologies , DevOps
  • Tools : JIRA,Confluence, IBM VIDUR, Rally Dev, TDP, Estimation Data Repository (EDR), AT&T PRISM, IBARR
  • Application software : C,Core JAVA, MySQL, Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Power point)

Timeline

SCRUM MASTER / PM

Western Union through Quant systems Inc
05.2023 - 09.2023

Project Manager (As Intern)

MPINFOTech
01.2018 - 12.2018

E2E IT Project Manager

IBM through Artech Info Systems
09.2015 - 08.2017

Project Manager

Bharat Electronic Limited
08.2013 - 08.2015

PMO / Project Manager

Bharat Electronic Limited
08.2010 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Certified Scrum Master -

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