Sujata Sawardekar

• Project planning and prioritization using backlog grooming and stand up meetings
• Review Efforts Estimations, Perform Resource Planning
• Organizing and facilitating the sprint planning, grooming, retrospective meetings
• Responsible for release management activities ensuring quality of release items and adhering to schedule
• Plan monthly releases in coordination with development, enterprise release management team and operations team
• Change management and coordination
• Coordinate with development, operations and change management team for code deployment in non-production environment
• Coordinating release planning meetings, standups, release retrospective meetings and managing release artifacts
• Ensure the quality and timely delivery of the deliverables for each release by ensuring that required testing is complete and testing evidence is available
• Ensure awareness of IT Service Delivery Processes within the team
• Oversee and monitor software releases to completion
• Be the point of contact & primary coordinator for dealing with all the issues for an Offshore-Onsite model through effective communication techniques/stand up meetings
• Identify and implement project level as well as Process improvements and document them
• Tools: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, ServiceNow
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.

• Project planning and prioritization using backlog grooming and stand up meetings
• Review Efforts Estimations, Perform Resource Planning
• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team
• Organizing and facilitating the sprint planning, grooming, retrospective meetings
• Participate in review of planning artifacts (High level Design, System Requirement Documents, Application design)
• Risk identification, monitoring and mitigation
• Change management
• Ensure awareness of IT Service Delivery Processes within the team
• Be the single point of contact & primary coordinator for dealing with all the issues for an Offshore-Onsite model through effective communication techniques
• Report on progress and highlight relevant issues and problems to customer and senior management
• Identify and implement project level as well as Process improvements
• Ensure the quality and timely delivery of the deliverables
• Responsible for release management activities ensuring quality of release items
• Defect tracking, monitoring and coordinating with Development and QA teams to get them addressed within SLA
• Coordinating release planning meetings and managing release artifacts
• Oversee and monitor software releases to completion
• Tools: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint ,ServiceNow
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.

• Discussing and documenting the need of migration with the team of technical architect, tech leads and QA and PMs
• Collaborating with various stakeholders and getting buy in for the migration, define scope and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate between Business and IT teams to convert requirements into user stories
• Working with teams located at different locations and the client representatives for smooth migration at each client site
• Project planning and prioritization using scrum backlog grooming and stand up meetings and smartsheet
• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of scrum team
• Organizing and facilitating the sprint planning, grooming, and retrospective meetings
• Review Efforts Estimations, Perform Resource Planning, organize human resources using smartsheet and develop the necessary skills required for the project
• Risk identification, monitoring and mitigation
• Ensure awareness of IT Service Delivery Processes within the team
• Be the single point of contact & primary coordinator for dealing with all the issues for an Offshore-Onsite model through effective communication techniques
• Driving performance measures & implementing best practices for daily operations
• Identify and help procure hardware required if any
• Report on progress and highlight relevant issues and problems to customer and senior management
• Identify and implement project level as well as Process improvements
• Ensure the quality and timely delivery of the deliverables
• Tools: Rally, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
• Client:
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.

• Project planning and prioritization using scrum backlog grooming and stand up meetings
• Customer Collaboration
• Delegation of work items, defining roles and responsibilities of team members in onsite/offshore model
• Responsible for working with business partners to identify and mitigate potential risks
• Quality control
• Provide support for risk assessment
• Escalate issues, concerns and risk proactively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Technical assistance to the team in code review and in writing DB quries, stored procedure etc to validate data
• Identifying training needs of team
• Tracking and managing changes
• Facilitating and participating in technical and code reviews
• Release management
• Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint

• Planning by prioritizing customer, employee, and organizational requirements using scrum backlog grooming and stand up meetings
• Coordinating among various stake holders to acquire hardware resources, softwares and technical resources
• Work with business team to define scope and acceptance criteria
• Work in collaboration with IT teams to convert requirements into user stories , high level design and estimates
• Identifying risk, monitoring and assessing them
• Define risk mitigation strategies and discuss it with the team
• Maintain Risk log and risk register
• Change management
• Maintaining and monitoring staffing, levels, Knowledge-Skills-Attributes (KSA), expectations and motivation to fulfill organizational requirements
• Driving performance measures & implementing best practices for daily operations
• The required Technical Assistance to the team

· Working collaboratively with the CEO, marshaling limited resources to the most productive uses with the aim of creating maximum value for the company's stakeholders.

· Planning and setting up infrastructure and forming team.

· Identifying payment gateway for the ecommerce website and collaborating with them for seamless integration.

· Developing and cascading the organization's strategy/mission to the lower-ranking staff and implementing appropriate rewards/recognition and coaching/corrective practices to align personnel with company goals.

· Planning by prioritizing customer, employee, and organizational requirements.

· Maintaining and monitoring staffing, levels, Knowledge-Skills-Attributes (KSA), expectations and motivation to fulfill organizational requirements.

· Driving performance measures & implementing best practices for daily operations

· Providing the required Technical Assistance to the team

· Identifying Potential Clients and providing assistance for Proposals

· Stakeholder / Client Management and managing feedback and improvements

· Identifying and strategizing various training needs for different accounts.

· Develop training plans and work with various teams to implement the same.

· Manage technical and domain assessments

· Execute mentoring program and SET boot camp

· Identify risks, prepare mitigation strategies and plan and monitor them.

· Identifying and setting up infrastructure by collaborating with various teams.

• Maintain and update knowledge management portal for Nordea
• Manage Rendezvous application – a tool from L&T Infotech, used by client to provide feedback
• Collaborate with onsite team and client to understand issues and concerns
• Identify resource, hardware, software needs of the project and provide projections to senior management
• Maintain and update Process handbook
• Facilitate internal assessments for Nordea resources

• Understanding and documenting the need of migrating the old assessment engine to ASP
• Collaborating with various stake holders to ensure smooth upgrade
• Requirements gathering and analysis
• Project planning, scheduling and execution, monitoring day to day activities
• Delegation of work items, defining roles and responsibilities of team members
• Risk identification, monitoring and mitigation
• Escalate issues, concerns and risk proactively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Quality control
• Change control and change management
• Technical assistance to the team to ensure performance and security of code and DB
• MS Office 2003, MS Project, Java, Struts, Eclipse3.3, MS SQL server

• Project planning, scheduling and execution, monitoring day to day activities for maintenance project
• Prioritizing bugs features and CRs based on severity
• Change management
• Onsite–offshore coordination
• Customer Collaboration
• Delegation of work items, defining roles and responsibilities of team members
• Risk identification, monitoring and mitigation
• Technical assistance to the team
• Facilitating and participating in technical and code reviews
• Change and Release management
• Project Professional 2007, MS Office 2003, Eclipse3.3,Java, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle10i

• Project planning, scheduling and execution, monitoring day to day activities
• Onsite–offshore coordination
• Client communication
• Delegation of work items, defining roles and responsibilities of team members
• Risk identification, monitoring and mitigation
• Technical assistance to the team
• Facilitating and participating in technical reviews including code reviews
• Release management

• Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to increase productivity and maintain quality standards.
• Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures and quality requirements.
• Worked with team to identify areas of improvement and devised solutions based on findings.
• Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response.
• Responsible for Project planning and execution
• Client interfacing and reporting
• Application and DB design
• Configuration and release management

• Reviewed and incorporated latest technology innovations and development strategies to improve build speed, quality and end-user experience.
• Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate software errors and inefficiencies.
• Optimized performance through testing and tuning of applications.
• Worked with users to gather requirements and evaluate ease of use.
• Developed programs from ground up using measured, market-focused approach to eliminate waste and streamline implementation cycle.

• Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to increase productivity and maintain quality standards.
• Held weekly team meetings to inform team members on company news and updates.
• Evaluated customer needs and feedback to drive product and service improvements.
• Supervised team members to confirm compliance with set procedures and quality requirements.
• Worked with team to identify areas of improvement and devised solutions based on findings.

• Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
• Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.

• Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
• Participated in software field testing to verify performance of developed projects.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Translated customer requirements into written use cases.
• Designed customized solutions for proposals to potential customers.