HARSHAD KULKARNI

Current Address: 17030 North 49th Street, Apt – 2073, Scottsdale, AZ - 85254

Mobile: (+1) 480 427 5680

E-mail: harshad_ak_77@yahoo.co.in

OBJECTIVE

Seeking innovative & challenging position as Scrum Master/Product Owner, Senior Project Manager or

above in a professionally managed & dynamic organization which provides opportunity for development

and greater responsibilities to contribute towards organisation.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

15+ years of software development experience working with Global marquee clients and partners with

progressive responsibilities in services and product organizations like Mindtree, IBM,KPIT with multi

dimensional industry experience working on various domains at global client locations in executing large

software projects in Agile & Waterfall methodologies implementing processes, managing client and

vendor/partner relationship. Skilled at initiating new projects, project estimations, project planning,

resource management, building high performance teams, risk management, issue resolution, project

monitoring and controlling, and successful completion.

International exposure includes working in France-Paris, United Kingdom-London, USA-Phoenix

enabling me to adapt effortlessly to various geographies and work cultures.I have been involved in wide

range of software applications, systems and platforms development in various domains spanning across

Airlines, Travel & Media services, Telecom BSS, Healthcare,Embedded systems, Application

migration,Systems Integration and software product developments combined with good analytical, logical

skills, people management and Leadership skills.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering

– Karnataka University Dharwad, India

– 1995 -1999 (E&C)

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

  § Certified Scrum Product Owner – CSPO – Valid till June 2017

  § Certified Scrum Master – CSM – Valid till March 2017

  § Mindtree Certified Project Management (MCPM) Gate1 Score – 70%

  § Mindtree Certified Project Management (MCPM) Gate2 Score – 75.75%

  § 2014 – Spot Award for managing complex projects in Amex account

  § 2013 – Pat on the Back Award

  § 2012 – Best Manager Award

  § 2011 – Best Project Team Award in Mindtree

  § 2010 – Customer Appreciation Award in Mindtree Ltd

  § 2009 – Full Year Award for best project in maintenance category Mindtree Ltd

  § 2008 – Technical Appreciation Award – Mindtree Ltd

  § 2007 – Half Yearly Award for Best Project in Mindtree Ltd

  § 2006 – Represented E&TS department in IBM Technical Talk/Forum

  § 2005 – Quality Practioner for E&TS in IBM

  § 2000 – 2005 - Active member of Linux and open source forums

TRAINING

  § Certified Scrum Master – GoodAgile

  § Certified Scrum Product Owner – Effective Agile Development

  § Enterprise Portfolio Management(ePM) - SITA

  § ECPM – Executive Certificate in Project Management – i2M Academy

  · Leading Performance and Leading Projects – Mindtree Ltd

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  · Creativity & lateral thinking – IBM

  § Embedded Linux and Device Drivers – IBM

Management Skills

  · Agile project Management

  · Program Management

  · Project Management

  · Process Management

  · Change Management

  · Client Management

  · Delivery and Operations Management

  · Cross functional Team Management

  · Managed Services – Application Maintenance &

Production Support

Technical Skills

  · Rally Agile Software Tool

  · Comverse - Kenan Arbor BP10

  · EMC Doc Science – Xpression4.0

  · Redwood Chronacle Version7.0

  · ETL Tools – Talend,Pentahoo

  · Application Server – Jboss5.0,Tomcat

  · Oracle 9i,10,11g,MYSQL,XML,HTML

  · C,C++,Java,PL/SQL,Shell, Perl Scripts

  · KPI and SLA Management

  · Presales Management

  · Telecom Billing Operations

  · Mediation, Data Processing

  · Customer Care and Billing

  · Fraud and Revenue Management

  · Invoice Management

  · Financial Reports

  · Data and Application Migration

  · IBM – SIMICS,Hypervisor,Firmware

  · Microcontrollers,JTAG,Smartchip

  · CMVC,SVN,ICE,IDE,Debuggers

  · Linux Kernel, BSP,Board Bringup

  · BIOS,Hardware Diagnostics,IPL,BL

  · Compilers,Assemblers,Programmers

  · Device Drivers – UART,I2C,RTC,LCD

  · Windows 95 to Windows 7.0,

  · Unix Flavours – Solaris8,10, AIX,

  · Linux Flavours – Red Hat 8,9, RHEL 5.8

  · Microsoft Office, MS Projects,Visio, IBM RPM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Project Manager at Mindtree Ltd.

  · Embedded Linux, RTOS,uC-Linux

  · 8,16,32 Bit controllers –

Motorola,ARM,TI,PPC,SH,PIC

  · Clarity – PM Tool

Client: American Express

Location: Phoenix,Arizona,USA

Role: Scrum Master – Agile Projects

Responsibilities

• Managing agile projects for American express in GBST- HR Technologies business unit

• Currently playing a role of scrum master for one of the large agile software program

• Co-ordinate and plan program release plans, project iterations and agile software estimations

using user story points

July.2013 – Till date

• Responsible and accountable for sprint planning, daily standup meetings, product backlog

refinement and grooming with product owner & development team

• Helping Portfolio managers with program RAID – Risks, Isues,Assumptions,Dependencies

• Leadership Qualities - By Mentoring, coaching, guiding the team on business objectives,

values,continuous improvement & skill development

2. Project Manager at Mindtree Ltd.

Client: SITA

Location: Paris, France

Role: Onsite Project Manager – SITA Paris

Responsibilities

Apr.2010 – Mar.2013

• Communication & Co-ordination between distributed scrum teams to remove impediments/Blocks

• Sprint Show and Tell, Sprint review Retrospective meetings with the all the concerned stake

holders to identify the better ways of managing the sprints and delivering high quality outputs

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• Managed large size projects in SITA billing software systems and applications for very large

customers in the air travel industry - airlines, airports, ticketing and passenger solution lines

• Played a role of onsite Project Manager for one of the large multiyear managed services program

for SITA’s Billing application operations and software maintenance

• I was responsible for managing monthly production billing cycles generating around 100+ Million

dollars with stringent SLA’s and KPI’s

• I was responsible for managing software applications for high quality invoice generation

• Project scope definitions, Project Sizing, Effort estimates, WBS, Resource loading and Schedule

Management

• Project cost estimations, Budget determination and Quality control planning

• Project stakeholders Management – Direct and indirect project stake-holder management for

SmartBill program by providing the useful and latest project information on a regular basis

• Project Risks/Issue Management – Identifying key risks and critical issues impacting billing cycle

and providing the Risk mitigation, Issue resolution plans in daily production status meetings with

SITA billing team

• Contract management and SLA management for all the applications within the SITA smartBill

portfolio

• Mindtree SPOC for all technical, functional feasibility study for SITA’s application outsourcing

needs and new billing initiatives and projects

• Mentoring senior members of the team on explicit/implicit needs of customers, effective

delegation of tasks, Timely review, inputs and feedback to team members

• Performance management for my team members

3. Project Manager at Mindtree Ltd.

Client: SITA

Location: London, United Kingdom

Role: Onsite Project Manager – SITA

Responsibilities

Dec.2008 – Apr.2010

• Co-ordination between distributed teams like Billing, Pricing, Finance and various other SITA and

its customers teams in Paris, Atlanta, London, Geneva and Bangalore

  · Project Initation,Planning, Execution,Monitoring and Control, Project Closure

  · Review of production plans, billing cycle post mortem meetings, SLA/KPI reports for AOP, Billing

finance and audit reports for BRR

  · Project stakeholders Management – Direct and indirect project stake-holder management for

SmartBill program by providing the useful and latest project information on a regular basis

  · Act as SPOC from operations team for all high revenue escalations related to SITA’s key customer

enquiries on Billing and Invoicing

  · Project Risks/Issue Management – Identifying key risks and critical issues impacting billing cycle

and

  · Participation in quarterly release and Fastrack prioritization meetings responsible for prioritizing

fixes for critical production issues

4. Project Manager at Mindtree Ltd.

  · AOP continuous system improvement - Identifying the critical and high impact processes in billing

cycle, fine tuning and building proactive process pre and post checks

  · Software requirement Analysis, Unix, C Application Design(HLD,LLD), Design and Code Reviews

• Test strategy, Integration and System test plans, reviews, UAT test plans review

Client : SITA

Location : Bangalore

Role: Project Management Office – Bangalore

Responsibilities

Nov.2006 – Dec.2008

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• Identifying and developing project management methodology, best practices and standards

• Monitoring compliance with project management standards,policies,procedure and templates

• Co-ordinating communication across projects in SITA Account in Mindtree

• Highlighting program risks and issues during Steering committee meetings and tracking of the

action items

• Preparation of PMO reports and distribution to various stakeholders

• Tracking of project progress and updating Program dashboard

• Reviews and monitoring of SOW, CR, RFPs for all projects within the SITA group in Mindtree.

• Coordination with various line functions like Quality, Operations, Finance and Sales support for

project related assistance

• Management of program finances, Purchase Orders,Invoices,Payments and Receivables

• Part of PMO group I was involved in quarterly audits, MSA changes and updates, Rate card

updates and circulation to project teams

• PMO - Business continuity planning and ODC Access management, Security and ISO Audits

5. Technical Lead at IBM India Ltd.

Client : IBM Rochester

Location : Rochester, Bangalore

Role: Tech Lead and Onsite Co-coordinator – IBM Rochester,Minneapolis,USA

Responsibilities

• Onsite Co-ordinator and Tech lead for designing the independent validation suite for DD layer

• FSP - IBM eclIPZ server - To converge and unify the service processor for IBM’s I, p, z series

• ADAL: Additional Device Abstraction Layer, this is a hardware independent layer which provides

API for high level Applications

Jan.2005 – Nov.2006

• Device driver for UART, RTC and Component owner for IPL, diagnostics within the FSP system

  · Software requirement Analysis, Linux, C Application Design(HLD,LLD), Design and Code Reviews

  · Unit testing, Non Regression Testing and Production release

6. Systems Executive at KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.

Client : Renesas Corporation

Project: SH/H8 Board Bring up

Location: Pune

Role: Tech Lead

• SH-Mobile solution engine is basically a SH7300 based SH3 DSP, a product of Renesas, a global

semiconductor giant used for mobile & hand held applications for consumer electronic market.

Mar.2004 – Jan.2005

• UITRON ( RTOS), HEW IDE , GNU SH/H8 cross compilers,c,win-2000

• I was involved in writing the drivers for HD66773 graphics (Frame Buffer -LCD), RTC & diagnostic

software and KPIT GNU Tool Development (compilers, assembler, linker, debugger for SH/H8

series of microcontrollers)

  · Requirement Analysis, SH-Linux, C ,HLD,LLD

  · Unit testing and Documentation

7. Senior Embedded Engineer at Advance Micronic Devices Ltd.

Project: MF-POS – Multifunction Point of Sale Terminal

Location: Bangalore

Role: Module Engineer

Jul.2002 – Mar.2004

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• POS terminals are widely used for electronic cash transaction by banks & credit card authorization

(EMV). Point-of-sale terminal is a very user-friendly and easily opera table terminal, designed to

process credit and debit card transactions securely.

• The plug & play option makes the product customizable & can be used for several other

applications such as barcode scanner, Electronic Cash Register (ECR), Electronic Purse (e-purse),

standalone Printer.

• MCF-5249 (Motorola Cold fire),Uc-linux,COLILO,C,Device drivers

  · I was involved in Requirement Analysis, software design, coding, unit testing and documentation

8. Software Engineer at Nutrax Software Pvt Ltd.

Jun.2000 – Jul.2002

Project: Zipfone,PCO an Advanced Payphone System

Location : Bangalore

Role: Software Engineer

• The Zipfone is an advanced payphone instrument, which is fully programmable & user friendly.

The zipfone has all the regular STD/ISD features. It is designed for easy upgradeability for card

and coin operations.

  · It has its own Real time operating system (RTOS) which manages all its resources i.e. various

hardware & software’s applications running in the system. The Software/firmware is compliant to

EMV, ISO standards & security features - Involved in software coding, unit testing

LANGUAGES – VERBAL & WRITING

  § Fluent and well versed in English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi

  § Basic French

Harshad Kulkarni

17030 N 49th Street Apt -2073

Scottsdale – AZ - 85254