Praveenkumar Kumaran
Summary
Senior IT Project manager with 16 years of experience in the IT Industry with proven track record of successfully leading teams in delivering high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in analysis, issue resolution, Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid methodologies, stakeholder management, risk management, resource management , sprint planning . Proficient in working with diversified teams, ability to lead and motivate people and a problem solver. with a delivery focused mindset always love to be in thick of things working with technical team members on helping them overcome challenges at work and mentoring them for their personal growth whilst learning from them.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Lead Consultant
NCS Private Limited
11.2020 - Current
- As Scrum Master – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to improve productivity.
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
- Developed Dashboards and Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
- Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
- Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Lead sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, Tribal chiefs, Chapter heads and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Successfully delivered 5000 Story points for large scale project using Hybrid Scaled Agile framework in complex and demanding workspace.
Associate Project Manager
HCL Singapore Private Limited
12.2014 - 11.2020
- Managed team of 20+ Developers and Quality Analysts.
- Participated in business requirement sessions with Product owners, Participated in designing new features and reviewed the functional and technical specifications.
- Delivered 10+ new projects, 50+ major and minor enhancements to the existing features of the web application, Legacy systems and integrations using middleware.
- Trained and mentored team on design, development and quality delivery.
- Supported senior managers and department leaders by completing projects and problem resolution under tight budgets and schedule demands.
- Generated weekly and monthly status reports for helpful progress tracking.
Project Lead
HCL Technologies Limited
10.2012 - 12.2014
- Lead software development team of 10 plus members
- Managed overall offshore delivery, process design and implementation for global delivery model,
- Prepared technical documentation such as system architecture, functional, design documents, and given technical solutions of the problems.
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Met with manager weekly to provide detailed project report and milestone updates.
System Engineer
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
03.2011 - 10.2012
- Analyze issues reported by client and provide proper solution by program amendment or changes in data.
- Understanding functional requirements and convert them into technical design.
- Provide estimates for enhancements and bug fixes.
- Perform development, unit testing as per design and migration to QA.
- Perform peer review and Independent unit testing/SIT for enhancements done by other team members.
- Weekly status report to client.
Senior Software Engineer
Keane India Pvt Ltd (now NTT Data)
10.2007 - 03.2011
- Application development. It involves requirement analysis, providing estimates, preparing technical specification, coding, performing unit testing, user acceptance support and moving to production.
- Major activities include issues resolution, and planning for month end and year end activities.
- Monitoring application upgrades by Vendors and performing them by coordinating with system engineering team.
- Weekly status reporting to management.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Anna University
India04.2007
Skills
- NET/C# Node Js , Angular
- Confluence/Jira , Azure DevOps
- Kafka , MS SQL, APIs
- CD/CI
- Risk & Stakeholder Management
- Project Management in Waterfall /Agile /Hybrid
- Requirement Analysis
- Integration & Communication
- People Management , Conflict Resolution
- Presentation and Reporting
- Scrum Master
Timeline
Lead Consultant
NCS Private Limited
11.2020 - Current
Associate Project Manager
HCL Singapore Private Limited
12.2014 - 11.2020
Project Lead
HCL Technologies Limited
10.2012 - 12.2014
System Engineer
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
03.2011 - 10.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Keane India Pvt Ltd (now NTT Data)
10.2007 - 03.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Anna University
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP) (08/2021 - 08/2024) Project Management Institute
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
- Future Leaders programme by NUS (Aug 2024)
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Intermediate (B1)
Telugu
Intermediate (B1)
Hobbies
- Active Cricket Player and Umpire in Singapore Leagues.
- As a Proud father of a boy and a girl who are my inspiration and motivation, love to spend time with them.
- Love to learn from people's experiences and interacting with them.
- keen Agricultural enthusiast.
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