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Rohan Powar

Rohan Powar

Technical Project Manager & Scrum Master
6 Misty Cres Rocky Hill,CT

Summary

Overall 20+ years of work experience that includes 17+ years IT and 3 years Non-IT experience. Last 12 years’ experience with one of top 3 P&C Insurance company in Hartford with Cross-functional & enterprise-wide IT groups (especially Portfolio Managers, Software engineering, DevOps, QA, DEV and Release Management, and various Product Manager) for coordinating projects end to end. Instrumental ' Technical Project Manager ' bringing 7+ years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies. Demonstrative Scrum Master with 3 years of experience and background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Hands on experience working in Agile & Waterfall delivery models and transformation journey. Experience of spearheading application development & enhancements using Microsoft stack (.Net and SQL primarily) including consultation during requirement gathering, development & post- production. Good understanding of DevOps, Release Management, ITIL framework, tools & processes. Familiarity of RPA tools such as UiPath, Automation anywhere, CICD process, Cloud service offerings (AWS and Azure), Jira, Rally boards.

  • Visa Status : H1B valid until July 2024. I-140 approved in 2015.
  • Need H1b transfer for joining and GC assistance down the line.

Overview

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Certifications
5
5
years of post-secondary education
21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Project Manager

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Hartford, CT
07.2014 - Current
  • Managing >$1.5M project and a team of 25 members (6 onshore + 18 offshore) in delivery of IT service operations that meet business needs.
  • Engaged with business stakeholders to understand use cases, define requirements, and perform business analysis.
  • Applying project management discipline to develop plans, define scope, document requirements, and manage budget/schedule/resources for a complex group of projects.
  • Collaborating with managers and other engineering teams to deliver complex/cross-functional projects.
  • Interfacing and communicating with Software Engineering and QA teams, Product Managers and Customer support teams on a regular basis.
  • Collaborating to define core business objectives in order to deliver the best product, program or project with the most efficient use of company resources.
  • Engaged in consistent and transparent communicate project risks, progress, launches and retrospectives across all stakeholders, Software Engineering groups and Senior Mgmt.
  • Working with cross-functional teams within technology domain in order to manage multiple projects that have conflicting needs and priorities.
  • Managing the visibility and transparency of dates, upcoming milestones and release dates throughout the Sprint development & technology modernization activities.
  • Leading discussions on requirements, design, implementation, and validation.
  • Utilizing technical background to help drive resolution to complex technical issues across various teams.
  • Providing technical leadership and mentorship to Software engineers and team leads.
  • Coaching and mentoring team members for career development.
  • Participating in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings to discuss scope, roadblocks.
  • Responsible to negotiate, plan and manage all release activities, comply with Enterprise Change and Release Management (ECRM) standards and related procedures across development, system & user testing and production implementation.
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
  • Driving continuous improvement in the change & release management area and engaged in identifying issues, risk/exposure, look for improvements & opportunities within standard activities, make suggestions, vet with appropriate stakeholders and implement.

Scrum Master

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Hartford, CT
01.2018 - Current
  • Accountable & responsible for maintenance & enhancement of 12 intranet (10 windows + 2 web) applications used by ITSM group.
  • Leading in a matrixed environment from a position of influence, taking a servant-leadership stance to remove impediments to progress as identified by the team.
  • Participating & leading cooperative efforts with project team members representing multiple diverse groups and teams.
  • Facilitating Agile ceremonies (such as Daily Stand Up, Retrospection, Spring Planning, Backlog grooming), collaborating with the team and product owner for continuous improvement and guiding the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
  • Collaborating with Product Owner to ensure the backlog items are prioritized based on business value and ready for the team.
  • Maintaining the backlog and user stories in CA Rally board for iteration planning, status tracking.
  • Assessing Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
  • Actively managed and removed team obstacles and protect the team from external interruptions and distractions.
  • Responsible in establishing clear communication to stakeholders, business community and management.
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins. Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload and also provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

Project Leader

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Hartford, CT
11.2009 - 07.2014
  • Responsible for performing impact assessment for infrastructure changes that were scheduled by Software Engineering group.
  • Assessed impact technically & accurately and share the same with Line of Business so that there will not be any outage to the application's production environment and impact to the business.
  • Acted as a liaison between the core engineering team, Line of Business, clients and offshore to ensure that nature, scope and complexity of a core initiative is identified accurately.
  • Led the software design and Proof of Concept for existing and new systems and participated in the software development process for existing and new systems.
  • Coming from application development background with Microsoft platform, I was responsible for development/enhancement of application(s) using Microsoft stack (mainly .Net and SQL) and end-to-end activities.
  • Analyzed requirements and prepared functional and software specifications for software systems solutions.
  • Managed 1 Onshore + 10 offshore member team to ensure deliverables on time, tracking issues and reviewing each of the deliverable before sharing that with customers, timesheet management, and team management.
  • Observed progress of each project, examined risks and coordinated contingency plans and also managed team meetings and discussed project's goals and objectives.

Onshore Coordinator

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Hartford, CT
06.2009 - 11.2009
  • Successfully transitioned PEDF and PEDCR applications from development team to PASD team.
  • Lead Knowledge transition activities within multiple teams to ensure app teams were on same page & well versed with the technologies and complexities of the application.
  • As onshore coordinator, played important role as liaison between offshore team, PASD team, Dev team and the PASD shared service managers.
  • Established and updated work schedules to account for changing staff levels and expected workloads.
  • Managed filing systems for electronic and hard copy documents to keep organized records.
  • Established positive working relationships with colleagues, manager and customers through regular communication and effective anticipation of needs.

Team Leader

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Pune, MH, India
10.2007 - 06.2009
  • Led a team of 15 members for defect fixing & minor enhancements.
  • Responsible for delivery of the team.
  • Engaged in Client interaction, Status call, in preparing understanding requirements, change requests, analysis for the implementations and preparation of design documents and the estimates, writing the required packages for the module, enhancement in the existing module if applicable, Code construction, reviews, Unit Testing, Configuration Control using TFS.
  • Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
  • Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties.

Software Engineer

Synechron Technologies
Pune, MH, India
04.2006 - 10.2007
  • Responsible for developing module independently.
  • Prepared Understanding requirements, change requests, Design and develop the given modules,.
  • Wrote all the required Stored Procedures for each module, Enhancement in the existing module if applicable, performing bug fixing, responsible for Build and Release process and Code construction, reviews, Unit Testing, Configuration Control using VSS.
  • Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features and correcting code.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.

Software Engineer

Norlink IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Pune, MH, India
03.2005 - 04.2006
  • Engaged in understanding development standards & scope of product, change requests & service requests.
  • Studied required inputs & corresponding Outputs given by new third party tool, finding Changes to make in original code to fit new third party tool, improving modules to cope up with new generic requirements and Unit Testing.
  • Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features and correcting code.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.

Junior .Net Developer

Infoweb Solutions
Pune, MH, India
08.2003 - 03.2005
  • Customer interaction to understand requirements.
  • Prepared documentation for existing system and new changes.
  • Responsible for software development using VB 6.0, Microsoft VB.Net, SQL and to perform Unit testing.

Education

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA - Computer Science And Advanced Computing

CDAC
IET, Pune
02.2001 - 08.2001

Bachelor of Science - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY
Kolhapur, MH, India
06.1995 - 12.1999

Skills

IDE : VS2017/2015/2012/2010/2008/2005/2003

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Certification

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals – AZ 900

Quote

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Timeline

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals – AZ 900

01-2021

Certified SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master

12-2020

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

12-2020

Informatica certified – Data Governance and Data Privacy (Foundation level)

10-2020

AWS Solution Architect – Associate

07-2020

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

12-2019

Automation Anywhere – Certified Advanced RPA Professional

11-2019

SAFe 4 Certified Practitioner

05-2018

Scrum Master

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
01.2018 - Current

Technical Project Manager

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
07.2014 - Current

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ITIL v3 Foundation)

11-2013

Certified Scrum Master

06-2013

Project Leader

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
11.2009 - 07.2014

Onshore Coordinator

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
06.2009 - 11.2009

Team Leader

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
10.2007 - 06.2009

Software Engineer

Synechron Technologies
04.2006 - 10.2007

Software Engineer

Norlink IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd
03.2005 - 04.2006

Junior .Net Developer

Infoweb Solutions
08.2003 - 03.2005

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA - Computer Science And Advanced Computing

CDAC
02.2001 - 08.2001

Bachelor of Science - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY
06.1995 - 12.1999

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