SRINIBAS PATNAIK

• Enhanced team productivity by implementing Agile methodologies and improving communication between cross-functional teams.
• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement, leading retrospectives to identify areas for process enhancement.
• Instrumental in fostering an environment conducive to open communication, resulting in increased trust among team members and improved decision-making processes.
• Established a strong foundation for successful project outcomes through efficient resource allocation and workload distribution among team members.
• Successfully led multi-disciplinary teams towards achieving project milestones while adhering to established budgets and timelines.
• Developed strong relationships with key stakeholders across various departments to enhance collaboration efforts on complex projects.
• Resolved impediments to team progress by proactively identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions.
• Ensured alignment between business goals and technical requirements by working closely with stakeholders during sprint planning sessions.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Developed and introduced IT strategies to improve operational efficiency.
• Coordinated with external vendors to deliver IT project components.
• Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks.
• Managed various IT projects to meet deadlines and customer requirements.
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.
• Assessed and analyzed customer requirements to develop effective IT project plans.

Initiation

• Established close relationship with clients, customer success, delivery and management

Planning & Execution

• Prioritized iteration, drove acceptance testing and delivery of iteration. Authored non-functional requirements and user stories; worked with stakeholders (both internal and external) as needed, developed, and delivered with help of developers.
• Identified resources (internal and external) that are key candidates for participation in User Acceptance Testing.
• Delivered 2X number of story points within 6 months by streamlining Agile delivery process with same number of resources.
• Facilitated product backlog and release planning with client, product owners and development teams.

Monitor and Control

• Established software delivery process for client implementation and UAT plans for cross-functional teams.
• Managed iterative User Acceptance Testing efforts on completed features.
• Identified areas of improvement and facilitate discussions with key stakeholders and drive towards resolution.
• Established Agile development, QA/UAT in software delivery process to ensure quality continuous improvement and delivery.
• Oversight implementation of change management and major incident management process ensured visibility across organization.

• Aptude is US-based IT Consulting Organization. Client: Hub Group, Oak Brook, IL, (Hub Group is transportation and logistics management company in North America, providing intermodal, truck brokerage, and logistics services.
• Delivered business transformation multimodal brokerage application (similar to Uber Logistics) in 6 months, called Hub Brokerage, managing multiple agile global delivery teams and by owning end-to-end responsibility achieving multimillion-dollar incremental revenue and saving.
• Envisioned final product, communicated vision to scrum team; motivated team to subscribe to vision, and see vision through to completion.
• Used requirements to drive design or review of test cases, managed project’s scope, budget, schedule acceptance, and deployment.
• Provided day-to-day and week-to-week tactical objectives to scrum team.
• Provided quick JIT decisions to system-level questions and defect triage.
• Maintained at least 3-4 sprints of well-defined product backlog, which included prioritized user stories.
• Proactively identified, prioritized, and drove mitigation of risks and resolution of product issues.
• Prioritized iteration, drove acceptance testing and delivery of iteration.
• Managed projects by providing leadership and daily management throughout project life cycle.
• Worked collaboratively across all functional departments to drive communication of releases including new features and defects to internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitated and/or participated in agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demonstrations and Retrospectives.
• Worked closely with global software development team and stakeholders to ensure delivery of high-quality product, in accordance with user story and design intent as part of Sprint exit criteria.

• Managed large program insource IT operations support transition from vendor, realizing savings of over $7M with while ensuring business continuity by presenting solid business case at executive level and owning end-to-end.
• Driven batch rationalization by identifying and decommissioning 6000 mainframe jobs that are no longer required which resulted in savings in processing power of more than 1000 MIPs equals ~$1M per year.
• Accomplished world-class Retail application testing center of excellency based out of Pune, India, enabling continuous development, testing, saving of more than $2M every year.
• Managed large global delivery of technical developers and testers, providing on-time project delivery with zero production defects by continuously reviewing and updating regression suite with new functionality.
• Increased Operational Stability by reducing batch failure from ~1000 to ~35 per month in two years by fixing root cause of recurring issues and adhering policies, best practices, and procedures.
• Reduced 60% of resources over 3 years by reducing incidents, automating business service requests, and implementing exception-based alerts, while insourcing additional applications to support.
• Delivered multimillion-dollar Retail applications by managing end-to-end delivery from global team achieving 24/7 development, testing, UAT and deployment.
• Accomplished agile adoption by transitioning multiple projects from waterfall to agile by working as Scrum Master / Agile Coach.

• Managed over 3000 barcode mobile computers rollout across 1000 stores helping store to automate data collection and automation by more than 60%
• Led technology selection and rollout, focusing on organizational planning, provider contracts and supplier service-level agreements.
• Facilitated best user experience for in store applications through continuous support, training classes, webinars, improvements and communication of system changes.
• Performed store rollout and point of sale projects, including defining scope, managing milestones and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders.
• Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop, coordinate and execute technical strategies aligned to client's vision, mission and purpose.
• Coordinated with management teams to plan, develop, align and execute strategies that would meet client's vision, mission and purpose.

• Managed more than 200 barcode and RFID projects by managing team of more than 50 resources at any given point
• Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
• Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with company business goals.
• Developed efficient technical solutions to resolve wide range of barcode and RFID implementations helping partners and franchise.
• Trained test technicians and operators on test hardware and software.
• Identified areas needing improvement within BCIL and Intercode to review with senior leadership and develop plans for improvement.
• Built and improved handheld applications to support company and clients strategies.