Sanjay Kumar Gupta
Project Manager
Parsippany
Summary
Project Manager and PMO leader with 16+ years of experience driving enterprise programs, complex migrations, and digital transformation across Mainframe, Cloud, and Distributed platforms. Skilled in Agile delivery, PMO governance, RAID management, stakeholder alignment, and cross‑functional team leadership across global locations. Led major Mainframe → AWS migration initiatives ensuring on‑time delivery, governance compliance, and operational continuity
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager, PMO
Avis Budget Group Inc.
10.2024 - Current
- Provided end‑to‑end PMO governance for a multi‑phase modernization program migrating core mainframe applications to AWS, ensuring alignment to scope, roadmap, architecture standards, and enterprise change‑management policies.
- Established and maintained program dashboards, RAID logs, dependency maps, burn‑up/burn‑down charts, and status reports, enabling proactive risk mitigation and informed decision‑making for leadership.
- Drove timeline, milestone, and budget adherence across cross‑functional squads (Cloud, Mainframe, QA, Networking, Security, Data, DevOps), facilitating weekly governance ceremonies and executive steering‑committee updates.
- Managed phase‑wise migration waves—Discovery, Assessment, Remediation, Build, Test, Cutover—ensuring each stage had clear entry/exit criteria, acceptance documentation, and stakeholder sign‑offs.
- Coordinated with engineering and cloud architecture teams to track cloud‑readiness, environment provisioning, API integration dependencies, and regression testing progress, ensuring zero slippage on critical paths.
- Enforced change‑control, compliance reviews, and documentation standards (SOWs, IRs, test evidence, migration runbook), strengthening audit readiness and operational transparency.
- Partnered with business owners and SMEs to validate functionality during parallel runs and UAT, ensuring operational continuity and smooth transition plans post‑migration .
PROJECT MANAGER/ Product Owner
Avis Budget Group Inc.
12.2018 - 09.2024
- Project: Application maintenance and development for Avis Budget Car Rental
- Oversaw Distributed applications (LDB, CCS) which gives customers the ability to seamlessly rent a car using their mobile phone, without the need to interact with a counter agent.
- Being Project Manager, managed delivery of this Agile based project.
- Fostered relationships with vendors to promote positive working relationships and made sure there was no slippage in schedule
- Coordinated with global team in USA and India (~size 25)
- Program Management and Project Status Reporting to Tata Consultancy Services and ABG Directors & VP as per the Project Management Procedures, Policies and Guidelines
- To engage with ABG business team in analyzing the various business and functional needs and optimal solutions for improvising performance and or enhancement opportunities
- Oversaw high profile projects for by planning, designing, and scheduling phases.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives
- Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders
PRODUCT OWNER
Genworth Financial
07.2017 - 10.2018
- Project: Application maintenance and development for Genworth Financial.
- Product Owner for Parts Request application
- Finalized user stories and created UI wireframes and mock-ups for the application
- Led analyst team to help them accomplish their goals
- Coordinated between teams to prevent reoccurrence
- Created functional requirements' documents for Repair Order Management System
- Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls and enhancing overall performance
- Provided sign-off for releases from a functional stand-point
TECHNICAL SYSTEMS ANALYST
Vanguard Inc
07.2016 - 06.2017
- Project: Application maintenance and development for Vanguard Inc.
- Understanding and Analysis of Client requirement that includes impact analysis
- Worked as Scrum Master on Agile method.
- Implemented fixes in production with proper testing & Enhancement of jobs
- Coordinated with global team in USA and India (~size 15)
- Continuous client interaction to ensure an open communication loop is maintained with reference to queries and issues
- Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation and user support for platform transitions
- Understanding and Analysis of Client requirement that includes impact analysis.
- Coding, Unit testing, System testing, UAT Support and Implementation
TECHNICAL LEAD
NORTHEAST UTILITIES (Eversource Energy)
05.2014 - 06.2016
- Project: Application maintenance and development for Northeast Utilities.
- Undertook process improvement initiatives by analyzing batch cycles and decommissioning obsolete and high frequency jobs
- This decreased hardware utilization, improved operational overhead and led to monetary savings for customer
- Onsite Lead for finance team, understanding and Analysis of Client requirement that includes impact analysis
- Performed root cause analysis for incidents and defined SOPs (standard operational procedure) for resolution
- Designed and monitored required support structure needed to confirm stable and scalable application rollouts
- Built product feature lists with customers and internal stakeholders
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC, USA
01.2010 - 04.2014
- Project: Application maintenance and development for Avis Budget Car Rental (Back Office Systems).
- Designed an online application which would be triggered from Mainframe as well as off-mainframe using Cobol and IMS DB
- Handled Various Projects with costs
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge in private wiki for education of newly hired employees
- Participated in software field testing to verify in-situ performance of developed projects
- Coordinated with project management staff on database development timelines and project scope
Education
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering
Pune, INDIA01.2009
Skills
- Project Management Tools: MS Office 365, SharePoint (Cloud), MS Projects, MS Teams, Clarity PPM, Service Now, Jira – Atlassian, Waterfall and Agile Project Management methodology
- Languages: COBOL, JCL,
- Databases: DB2, Oracle
- BI & Tools: Tableau, Visio, Excel, Jasper, Zendesk, TFS, Visual Studio, Miro
- Certifications: Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I & II), Agile Delivery Foundation, ITIL 2011 Foundation, IBM Certified DB2 Associate
- Project planning and development
- Task prioritization
- Client relations
- Software development lifecycle
- Project management
- Project scheduling
- Project planning
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Document management
- Project scope
- Agile methodology
- Team collaboration
- Project tracking
Timeline
Project Manager, PMO
Avis Budget Group Inc.
10.2024 - Current
PROJECT MANAGER/ Product Owner
Avis Budget Group Inc.
12.2018 - 09.2024
PRODUCT OWNER
Genworth Financial
07.2017 - 10.2018
TECHNICAL SYSTEMS ANALYST
Vanguard Inc
07.2016 - 06.2017
TECHNICAL LEAD
NORTHEAST UTILITIES (Eversource Energy)
05.2014 - 06.2016
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC, USA
01.2010 - 04.2014
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering