AATISH CHANDRA

Summary

·   Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master/Project Manager with close to 10 years of IT experience with 5+ years of experience managing large scale waterfall and agile projects in global delivery model.

·   3+ years of experience in managing agile software development projects with complex architecture and integration.

·   Experience leading and working with global teams in development and testing projects. Have a unique blend of business understanding and technical acumen.

·   Experience in Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech and Telecommunications domain

 

Certification/Trainings/Education

Project Management Professional (PMP) – License 1652270

Certified Scrum Professional (CSM) – Scrum Alliance

Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) – License 1660195

Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) – License 1748270

Certified SAFe Agilist (SA) – Scaled Agile Framework

ITIL Foundation 2011 Certified - EXIN

ISTQB – Test Manager Certified

ISTQB – Foundation level Certified

Pursuing SAPM (Standford Advanced Project Management) course – Stanford University

B.Tech in Chemical Engineering (India) – REC Trichy – 2004

 

Professional Experience

AT&T, Dallas, TX

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master            Apr 2014 to Current

The objective of the project is to transform the digital channels to be the preferred channel by customers and to reduce operational costs via increased adoption of eServices and to increase eSales conversion rates.

·   Managed and coached SCRUM teams to deliver high quality software on time

·   Facilitated agile processes for large cross functional teams for delivering portfolio features.

·   Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Stakeholder Demos

·   Facilitated cross-group and cross-functional communications for issues resolution and updates

·   Worked with business product owners, Product analyst and development teams to document and clarify business and user requirements and managed scope of defined features during release lifecycle.

·   Managed both internal teams and offshore vendor teams, project delivery, and ensure proper staffing.

·   Coordinated team details such as account/system access, track time reporting and tools usage

·   Worked as a servant leader to train team on Agile, Process Improvement, promoted effective teamwork and spirit of partnership and ownership

·   Identified problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitated conflict resolution.

·   Maintained transparency by providing metrics and status to senior management and PMO.

·   Conducted retrospective meetings to adapt best practices.

·   Coordinated IST, UAT, PROD release and deployment activities

·   Ensured the development team practiced the core Agile principles

·   Facilitated Scrum of Scrums to ensure cross-team coordination

·   Coordinated with other projects to make projects and program successful

 

Schlumberger Inc, Norway/India                                               May 2009 to Jan 2013

Scrum Master/Technical Lead/ Project Manager

The Ocean development environment is an open software development framework that provides a fast moving unified petro technical desktop environment, simplifying and accelerating the development of software to support seismic-to-simulation, drilling, and production workflows. The scope of this project involved managing entire Ocean commercialization for different Ocean releases.

·   Defined the project plan with milestones, task items, deliverables with timeline & acceptance, Training and mentoring new resources.

·   Managed project schedule, budget, quality, risks, as well as communication and procurement processes.

·   Ensured that necessary agreements/contracts are established and followed up.

·   Requested project resources, allocated work activities, and managed the day-to-day activity assignments.

·   Managed risks, issues and decisions, and take actions to mitigate or correct as required.

·   Managed all phases of the project from requirements gathering and signoff, design, development, QA and product release.

·   Provided timely project status updates to relevant stakeholders, and present progress to steering committee.

·   Hosted and facilitated regular meetings with business and technical resources for status updates, requirements definition, technical design, architectural reviews.

·   Effectively communicated project expectations to stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

·   Maintained appropriate status reports, meeting minutes, and follow-up with business partners and technical resources.

·   Ensured lessons learned are carried forward appropriately

·   Handled transition from waterfall to Agile Methodology

·   Managed a 4 week Sprint Cycle and delivering Business functionality, Defect Remediation, Technical Debt Reduction.

·   Coordinated with the development team to meet the requirements of the business team in developing and testing the functionality of the Ocean framework.

·   Worked closely with business group, stakeholders

·   Played pivotal role in building high-performance team; advised senior management on agile processes, Pro-actively anticipated project risks and issues and ensure adequate mitigation is put in place to ensure delivery is not compromised.

·   Monitored team progress through burn down charts, velocity reporting and sprint and release progress, provided day-to-day reporting of development activities to the PMO and other stakeholders

·   Coached, mentored and trained team members on agile practices.

 

Schlumberger Inc, India                                                                                                Aug 2008 to Apr 2009

Senior Developer

The Portal – (in-House application) is a single point access to the customers who want their modules to get certified. Every customer will register with Schlumberger through this portal. Once the customer is registered, he can upload his module and the module goes through the various stages of the certification process. At every stage mails will be sent from the portal to the customer informing the progress of the certification process. Customer can also register for certification of a module which is linked with an earlier certified module. I was involved in Involved in requirement gatherings, analysis, design, coding and testing, Communication between different teams to make Portal up and running.

 

American Standard, India                                                       Jan 2006 to Jul 2008

Senior Developer

Customer Satisfaction Survey project was to the categorization of different vendors to be further eligible for buying products from the American Standard based on the Customer Satisfaction Survey.

·   Involved in the analysis and development, testing and maintenance stages of the project. Used Perforce for the version control. Created SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate & analyze data.

·   Implemented web-services. Extensively implemented Validators in the Forms for the application. Designed & Developed the User Interfaces using HTML and CSS.

 

 

Microsoft, India                                                                         Sep 2004 to Dec 2005

Developer

This Project was to automate the creation of the reports. Reports were generated on a monthly basis and delivered to the various partners. Scope of the project was to prepare design document, sketch out ETL process and creation of the DTS Packages to make generation of reports fully automated. Responsibilities included creation of DTS package, writing stored procedures and automating.

 

Functional/ Technical Skills

PM Methodologies:              Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, XP

PM/ALM Tools:               MS Project, SharePoint, Rally, JIRA

Languages:C#, ASP.Net, Delphi, JAVA,   AngularJS

IDE’s:                   Visual Studio, Eclipse

RDBMS:SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems:Windows XP/Vista/7, Windows 2003 & 2008 server

Oil and Gas Technologies:Ocean framework, Petrel

Web Technologies:HTML, CSS, XML

Tools/ Applications: MS Office, MS Visio, Perforce, QC