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Shirish Kamble

Shirish Kamble

BANGALORE,Karnataka/India

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Title: Project Manager

Shirish Kamble, PMP, ITIL

F303, Purva Iris, MS Officer’s Colony, Cox Town, Bangalore 560005

Ph: +91 988 616 7131       Email: [email protected]

Resume for Delivery Manager/ Sr. Project Manager/ PMO Functions/ Service Delivery Manager/ Project Manager

Executive Summary

  • Highly motivated and Successful Project Management professional with leadership skills in forming, motivating and leading high performance technical teams in IT projects with team sizes varying from 20 to 30.
  • Working experience on End to End Project Management involving all process groups and knowledge areas (except Procurement Management).  
  • Having total 16.4 years of proven IT experience. Experience in managing multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 companies. Has led long, medium and short term projects simultaneously with multi nationals with technical complexities from different platforms (Mainframe, MSBI, Java) and completed them on time and within budget.
  • Ability to understand business requirements, articulate a vision, evaluate risks and define roadmaps to strengthen IT services.
  • Building client relationship, increase in business services provided to client.
  • Active participation for defining Departmental Road Maps, Development Plans, short term goals and long term goals.
  • Expert in defining, designing and implementing IT Service Operations and define strategy for Improving the services to provide value add in terms of cost benefits, Resolution timeframe to the organization. 
  • Worked on projects related with Banking domain, American Payroll and Insurance domain.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of CMM processes and SDLC processes.
  • An individual having comprehensive knowledge in CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MVS, Z/OS etc.
  • Multiple time visited USA, Europe for project assignments.

Key Areas of expertise

  • Delivery – Project Management, Service Operations, System Management, Software Development, Risk Management, Change Management, Quality Management, Stakeholder Management, Escalation Management, Resource Management.
  • Process and methodologies – Incremental, Waterfall, Agile
  • Languages and Databases – COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, Oracle 7.0, PL/SQL, SQL FORMS 3.0, Javascript.
  • Operating Systems – Z/OS, MVS, Unix, Windows 2000.

As a Project Manager in ITC Infotech (Client Danske Bank, Denmark), Team Size 20 to 30), successfully managed

  • End to End Projects executing involving Initialization, execution, monitor and control and closure.
  • Forming, motivating and capability building for team converting them into high performance technical teams in IT projects with team sizes varying from 20 to 30.
  • Building client relationship, increase in business services provided to client.
  • Implementation of Best Practices in the projects, regular project status meetings, conducting brainstorming sessions, Daily stand up meetings, implementing low cost resources as a backup and then grooming and mentoring them to become billable resources.
  • Taken initiatives of Inducing proper project related trainings, using the right tools and technologies and having right combination of resources to execute projects on time and within budget.
  • Part of Task Force for the Productivity Program to increase productivity from Offshore Development Center. 
  • After understanding client’s operational challenges initiated new projects in the area providing solutions in terms of operational efficiency and resource optimization. This provided client cost saving and early completion of their deliverables.
  • Periodic review of performance of Service Operations and define, develop and implement organizational level strategy to control measurements to provide value add to business.
  • Part of Danske Bank situation Management in case of major issues for support services.
  • Ensuring adherence to SLAs for support services.
  • Team’s yearly appraisals and people management. 
  • Involved in pre-sale activities like preparing proposals, presentations.
  • Active participation for defining Department’s Road Maps, Development Plans, short term goals and long term goals.
  • Major Achievements:
    • Shared Idea and then provided solutions to client for their day todays operational issues and got two more projects IIRS and SYSTGUARD of Euro 0.25 Million each to ITC Infotech.
    • Through Productivity Program raised resource utilization from 68% to 85% at Offshore Development Center.
    • Brought down Incidents count from 12000/Year to 7000/Year.

As a Project Leader in Lionbridge (Client Beverly Health Care Corporation, USA), Team size 8

  • Responsible for planning, scheduling, work estimations, reviews, meeting quality standards for Payroll,  FORMS and APECS etc application maintenance and enhancements. Analysis & Resource Estimation for IT work Requests.
  • Clarifications meetings with client and getting requirement document signed from client to ensure that we have understood the requirements correctly.
  • Making sure Knowledge transfer to offshore team from Beverly – US team.
  • Responsible for Weekly project status reporting with client, Monthly status meetings with Lionbridge director.
  • Ensured effective preparation of matrices for the project (effort variance, schedule variance, utilization, batch abend ratio, network connectivity, productivity).
  • Assisted colleagues in solving their technical difficulties, functional difficulties, bug fixing.
  • Involved in developing few small Projects from execution to closure.
  • Major Achievements:
    • Maintained, enhanced and processed weekly Payroll successfully all these years without any miss making sure that payrolls are in compliance to changes in Federal Laws, State Laws.
    • SUI Processing and Tax Processing for all employees without any major escalations.

 

As a Senior S/W Engineer, Software Engineer

  • Requirement analysis.
  • Work estimations.
  • Effective preparation/ modification of the technical documents as per requirements.
  • Effective coding, preparing test plan, testing and implementation in production.
  • Reviews of Estimations, code, test plan, test results and deliverables.
  • Assisted colleagues in solving their technical difficulties, functional difficulties, bug fixing.
  • Major Achievements:
    • While working in ATOS Origin, lead new development of 120 modules for CARD System and delivered the project in time and in budget.
    • While in Aerospace Systems limited, worked for “GE Medical’s Rapid Response project (Maintenance + Enhancement + 24*7 Support) successfully. It was critical project from business perspective.

CERTIFICATION 

  1. PMP in Good Standing, PMP Number 1476385, Original Grant Date: 29 December 2011, Expiration Date 28 December 2014.
  2. ITIL® v3 Foundation 

AWARDS 

  1. Discretion Award from CEO of Lionbridge USA in 2006.
  2. Organizational Level appreciation award from Danske Bank 

TRAININGS (MAJOR)

  1. Certified SCRUM MASTER training at ITC Infotech.
  2. Project Management Professional at ITC Infotech.
  3. Account Management at ITC Infotech.
  4. CMM Level 5 at Atos Origin India Pvt Ltd.
  5. Quality Management at Patni Computers.

TRAININGS (MAJOR)-Soft Skills

  1. High Performance Presentation Skill at ITC Infotech.
  2. Speech crafter (Part of TOAST MASTER) at ITC Infotech.
  3. Communication Skill at Atos Origin.

WORKSHOP 

  • Successfully attended workshop on Microsoft Project Planner 2007 in 2009.

ACADEMICS

BE (Computer Engineering) from Walchand Engineering College, Sangali, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra