Akash Kumar
Email: (kumarakash312@yahoo.com)
Mob no.: +91 9999501691
Project Manager
Executive Summary
Certified Working professional having approximately 12 year 2 months of work experience as Project Manager and Scrum master in IT industries and Investment banks with technical exposure across agile methodologies, which provides me an environment conducive to growth and nurture my skills which bring out best in delivering quality and complete set of value to the organization.
Technical Skills
• Agile project Management, Scrum Ceremonies, ADO, JIRA, E2E project management and reporting, Data Migration/Ingestion, Data Governance
Experience
Project delivery manager (CSM, ISTQB) The Dotcom LLC Feb’24
PEPSICO: Roles and Responsibility: Agile coach, ADO, Stakeholder management, project management, Product development, Project delivery, Scrum Ceremonies
• Led 3 cross-functional Scrum teams, guiding them through the full Agile lifecycle and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Engage and coordinate with key stakeholders, including data owners, data stewards, business leaders, IT teams, and legal/compliance departments.
• Foster communication and collaboration between different teams and ensure all stakeholders understand their roles and responsibilities in the governance process.
• Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews, driving team engagement and accountability.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to prioritize backlog items and create clear, actionable user stories, resulting in a 30% increase in sprint velocity.
• Implemented process improvements that reduced the average sprint cycle time by 20% and increased team efficiency.
• Tracking project milestone, EPIC, US, and tasks in ADO
• Draft RACI, RAID log -Risk assessment document to track health of project
• Developing and implementing a comprehensive data governance framework to ensure that data is accessible, accurate, secure, and used responsibly across the organization
• Help team by creating use case for development of perfect scenario base example to add additional features
• Adherence to follow data governance policies and its implementation
• Performance sprint planning, meeting, review, and retrospection with team
• Monitoring and prioritization of requirements on JIRA, ADO
• Allocation of tasks and regularizing the task and put story points, prepare team velocity and burndown report of the user stories
Scrum Master and PM (CSM and ISTQB), Kynatech May’23
GSK: Requirements prioritization, Agile project management and reporting – GSK
• Oversee the work of cross-functional teams, including Salesforce developers, business analysts, QA specialists, and functional consultants
• Frame strategies to transfer data from different OT to IT networks.
• Ensure the right tasks are assigned to the appropriate team members based on their skills and expertise.
• Organize regular status meetings, communicate project updates, and maintain transparency with all team members and stakeholders.
• Conduct user testing and gather feedback to iterate on product designs.
• Analyzing requirements and evaluating whether existing requirements are being met and whether any gaps or misalignments are contributing to the issue.
• Ensure smooth execution of project phases, including design, development, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
• Handle change requests from stakeholders, ensuring changes are evaluated for impact on the timeline, budget, and scope
• Create Use case or architecture diagram on Draw IO or Miro for better and clear understanding of data migration
• Tracking project milestone, EPIC, US, and tasks in JIRA board
• Data ingestion through ADF from Raw layer to foundation layer as per GDPR guidelines
• Development of entire data flow and refection of any change on UI portal
• Ingestion modernization of ADF framework and HVR tool
• Replication of data from different sources like SAP HANNA, SQL, Oracle, or OT network to cloud
• Help team by creating use case for development of perfect scenario base example to add additional features
• Setting up of DQ framework with architect, Validation of Source and Target data
• Adherence to follow data governance policies and its implementation
• Performance sprint planning, meeting, review, and retrospection with team
• Allocation of tasks and regularizing the task and put story points, prepare team velocity and burndown report of the user stories
• Manage requirements and prioritization of work for setting up of ADF framework
Project manager, Puresoftware technologies Sep’21
Client: Deutsche Bank
• Maintain a strong working relationship with the client, ensuring that their needs and expectations are met.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of project plans, milestones, and risk registers.
• Provide senior management with regular progress reports and KPIs.
• Act as the primary contact for internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams (e.g., technology, business, risk, compliance).
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues clearly and proactively.
• Oversee testing and validation processes to ensure the Salesforce implementation meets business requirements and quality standards
• Creating process maps or flowcharts helps teams to visualize the end-to-end processes related to the problem. It helps in identifying potential bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or areas where errors may occur
• Identify and address data quality issues, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to implement corrective actions.
• Working on creating a FAST UI/UX for S&P global
• Managing and making visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of requirements for future product development and perform UAT on behalf of business
• Showcase wireframe, mockup through Figma, Draw.io, Miro
• Handle change requests from stakeholders, ensuring changes are evaluated for impact on the timeline, budget, and scope
• Drafting Scope of work for the project
• Project Management - Agile and daily status tracking along with Product owner
• Engage a network of business stakeholders and manage relations between them and the central Data Management team
• Handling team and performed Individual contributor role in complete data research of Equites and Fixed income
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the effectiveness of data governance and data quality initiatives.
Assistant Manager, MetLife Global Operations Support Center. Nov’18 - Sep’21
Roles and Responsibility
Data management: Assistant Manager (Market research)
• Detailed analysis of stakeholder project and capture timelines, Draft SOPs, and framework to gather more data for Functional and Non-Functional requirements
• Worked of middle office movement and projects like fixed income securities like bonds, derivates and Indexes & its implementation
• Develop and maintain documentation outlining the end-to-end data lifecycle, from data acquisition and storage to processing and disposal.
• Implement testing and validation process to ensure EDM systems meet all compliance and quality standards
• End to end monitoring of the projects and schedule Kick off meeting to brief the project all about and showcase project scope, timelines, cost involved, and resource required
• non-technical users. Interact with technical resources for problem resolution.
• Examine relevant information and identify patterns or trends that could be indicative of the root cause which involve looking at historical data, performance metrics, and other relevant data source
• Scheduling daily touch point and checkpoint Scrum meeting with all stakeholders involved in project delivery
• Follow agile methodologies and report project development on JIRA
• Responsible for liaising with internal client and external client to fully understand data content and document detailed business requirements as per SDLC
• Preparing RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) Mapping of BRD and TCs for governance team.
• Follow up of project as per Agile methodology in project from development to UAT
Senior Associate, IHS Markit Financial Information Services Ltd. May’15 - Nov’18
Deutsche Bank: Reference Data and Corporate Action team
• Worked in reference data team and capture all corporate action events
• Helped in implementation of STP data like mapping, testing, and onboarding
• Successful in maintaining Golden copy data against data vendor like EDI, Euroclear and WM
• Capturing corporate action events through MT564 file and other file
• Helped team in finding relative data sources for all bond universe
• Maintain and daily check of bonds of IBOXX and ITRAXX indexes.
• partner with end-users to understand and analyze complex business problems and define business needs for new and/or enhanced services or optimize/streamline business processes.
• Validation of golden data through Reuters data and FactSet
• Help in setting up of business requirements of operation related changes are properly documented and functional/business consideration is identified for each solution. Ensure alternative approaches are evaluated in working with internal and external stakeholders.
o Complete onboarding of Fixed income project from Germany to India and support in its service
o Setting up of Data research team for complete data classes like Fixed Income and Equities
o Gathering data from different data providers like Bloomberg and Reuters
o Involved in domain testing for fixed income and capital market securities
o Involved in fixed income project implementation
o Data validation and onboarding of Data vendors like EDI for field related query
o Worked on Bloomberg terminal and Refinitiv, IDC portal for detail operations research
o Working knowledge of SQL, Advance Excel and basic of Python
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
• Working Knowledge of SQL, Macros, and advanced Excel.
• Strong on BRD and RTM and providing all data to QA team on time.
• Achieved quarterly on-boarding target in a month by on-boarding like Perfect filing vendors.
• Ability to perform in a high-pressure environment.
• Positive, proactive attitude and ability to work well in teams.
• Demonstrates exceptional skills in maintaining strong relationships with senior members of onshore teams, addressing their needs, and maintaining a high level of satisfaction.
Operation Executive, Bank Of New York Mellon. Jan’13 - Apr’15
Roles and Responsibility: Reference Data and Corporate Action team
• Worked in Asset Servicing, maintaining high end settlement through SWIFT, BACs, Cheque
• Processing of deals like Purchase, sell, transfer in & out.
• Corporate action through all live Golden vs Staging and DTCC.
• Providing subject matter expertise to the team in critical functions like Mapping Exception, Quality Checks etc.
• Preparation of various QC reports and monitoring timely completion of team's daily deadlines
• Train New joiners on Macros, advance Excel etc.
AREAS OF COMPETENCY:
• Data Framework developments
• Project management
• Capital market
• Stakeholder management
• Digital transformation
• JIRA, Azure DevOps- Tools
Education
• PGDM in Finance from SIMMC from 2011 – 2013
• Graduation from St. Xavier’s College from 2008 - 2011
Achievements
• CBAP Certified BA
• PMI from IIL Lucknow
• ISTQB and CSM Certified
• CFA level 1 cleared
• Saved Financial Losses of around 25k Pounds - appreciated by senior management.
• IET (Industry Essential Training) graduates from BNY Mellon university.
• Completed training Program on navigate through risk, Lean awareness and six sigma