Pavan Kulkarni Gururaj
Norcross,GA
Summary
Over 9 years of experience in Scrum Master/Technical project manager/Program manager in Healthcare, Retail, Energy and Travel industries. Proven ability in implementing project’s vision through integration of process, technology & people.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical project manager
CLEAResult Corporation
Atlanta, GA
03.2022 - Current
- Oversee the complete lifecycle of the project
- Act as main point of contact for the project activities & questions
- Assist customer success action planning
- Manage program budgets
- Develop planning documents
- Implement project plan within timeframe and budget
- Manages deliverables
- Monitor and control the path of the project
- Gather information from project team & stakeholders
- Assign tasks to team members
- Distribute information to team and stakeholders
- Ensures that project resources’ needs are addressed
- Work with project team to identify project assumptions, dependencies, issues and risks
- Provide regular status updates
- Ensure project documentation is created, updated, finalized and approved by stakeholders.
Project Manager / Scrum Master
IBM/Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Corporation
NJ, USA
04.2020 - 03.2022
- Build and maintain project vision roadmap
- Oversight of Development Scrum Teams, ensuring developer resources, backlog, and user story management, burn down charts, and presiding over sprint ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective)
- Responsibilities include Agile-based iterative development and managing projects through multiple successful Sprints
- Coordinating with software engineering and business systems analysts to provide seamless, strategic and efficient technical solutions for both internal and external stakeholders.
Project manager /Machine learning Engineer
IBM/McDonalds Corporation
NY, USA
11.2019 - 03.2020
- Develop python and R code for machine leaning and artificial intelligence solution
- Develop ad-hoc features in python and R machine learning models
- Deploy the codes on Production with DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
- Support for baseline run of restaurant’s demand forecasting model
- Support on business questions on the restaurant demand forecasting model (new promotions launch, new products
- Change in machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithm as per client’s need
- Support data feed for real time production recommendations to match demand
- Use analytics and visual recognition to understand the level of in-store inventory for different food ingredients.
Software Engineer/Business Analyst /Program Manager
IBM/Hertz Crop
Oklahoma City / Pune, India
04.2008 - 11.2019
- End to end program management for complex programs
- Implement security compliance (GDPR etc ) programs for Hertz
- Manage & socialize project plans
- Maintain Risk, Action, Issues & Decision logs
- Assist Business user to create project intake, Business case & Net present value(NPV) documents for project initiation and approval
- Engage cross functional teams for deep dive and come up with a technical solution
- Create project management plans, develop project teams, identify system dependencies and constraints, manage stakeholders’ expectations, deliver projects on time and within budget.
Software Engineer
IBM/AmerisourceBergen
Pune, India
11.2005 - 04.2008
- Assist with planning, requirements, design, and testing activities for the project
- Responsible for contributing to overcall project objectives & specific team deliverables
- Production support of batch jobs and ensure SLA adherence
- Prepare technical requirement document by identifying the impacted areas
- Understand timelines and dependencies for each test group and ensure all test activities are completed.
Software Engineer
RS Software/ MCLANE
Kolkata, India
02.2005 - 11.2005
- Gathered business and functional requirements from business case documents and functional specification documents
- Created High Level and Low-Level design documents
- Developed batch applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM.
Skills
- Scrum Master
- Project Management
- PMBOK
- SAFe
- ASANA
- KANBAN
- JIRA
- ADO
- Microsoft Project Management
- Risk Management
- Resource management
- Project planning
- Vendor management
- Cross functional team management
- Schedule management/WBS
- Requirement traceability matrix
- Creating roadmaps
- Procurement management
- Stakeholder management
- Test strategy & Financial management
- General Software & Programming: CRM
- System design
- AWS
- Machine learning
- Salesforce
- Devops
- Python & Mainframe
Educationcertifications
- Bachelor in mechanical engineering, VTU Belgaum Karnataka, 2003
- Business Analyst in Analytics & Data science, SDA Bocconi University
- Safe Advanced Scrum Master – SASM, Safe 5
- QA ambassador, IBM
Generalsoftwareprogramming
- CRM
- System design
- AWS
- Machine learning
- Salesforce
- Devops
- Python
- Mainframe
Timeline
Technical project manager
CLEAResult Corporation
03.2022 - Current
Project Manager / Scrum Master
IBM/Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Corporation
04.2020 - 03.2022
Project manager /Machine learning Engineer
IBM/McDonalds Corporation
11.2019 - 03.2020
Software Engineer/Business Analyst /Program Manager
IBM/Hertz Crop
04.2008 - 11.2019
Software Engineer
IBM/AmerisourceBergen
11.2005 - 04.2008
Software Engineer
RS Software/ MCLANE
02.2005 - 11.2005