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Ajaykumar Penchala

Ottawa,ON

Summary

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT Hands-on, decisive leader with 12+ years’ experience across Manufacturing, Healthcare, Assurance and Banking Domains. Known for maximizing opportunities, increasing productivity. With a keen eye for detail and a disciplined approach to execution, excels at creating new programs, driving mission-critical projects through to completion, and consistently delivering on-time and within budget. Complex Project & Program Leadership | Operational Excellence | Agile & SCRUM Methodologies Applications Development | SDLC | Strategic Planning | Risk Mitigation | Process Improvement | Cost Reduction Project Team Leadership | Key Stakeholder Relations | Cross-Functional Communication | Contract Negotiation || API| | SQL | .NET | System Integrations | SAP| Data Analysis | | AZURE |Project SharePoint | Excel | VSTS | Word | PowerPoint | OneNote | Outlook | PMP – Project Management Professional

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Application and Infrastructure Project Manager

Price Waterhouse Coopers
Ottawa
02.2018 - Current
  • Brought in as IT Project Manager and directed 7+ small projects involving SDLC process for application development, and IT infrastructure
  • Steered projects across all project phases, from ideation to completion, by implementing and ensuring compliance with established SDLC process
  • Consistently hit all milestones and deliverables
  • Liaised between project stakeholders, developers, and analysts; established strong professional relations with external IT vendors via internally integrated applications
  • Developed and implemented project roadmaps and milestones, led key stakeholder engagement and accountability, and communicated project status with relevant stakeholders
  • Managed vendor relations, contract negotiations, project budget, and deadlines, and focused on maximum cost savings in tracking project expenditures and costs of materials, labor, and services
  • Managed delivery of complex projects involving work with other divisions in US and abroad; ensured problem and roadblock resolution
  • Managed Project delivery and lead SIT/UAT testing, API Testing Production rollout and post-production warranty support
  • Developed Key project goals and worked collaboratively with cross-functional teams to achieve them in timely and effective manner

IT Project Lead

Standard Bank of South Africa
Johannesburg, SA
04.2014 - 02.2018
  • Led key aspects of projects and implementation activities for creating and configuring software for various distributed and mainframe systems with integration points for Banking Systems
  • Throughout tenure, consistently progressed in leadership responsibilities from small projects to larger, more critical projects
  • Supervised implementation of SCRUM and Agile project management strategies for numerous virtual and physical servers with unique storage requirements and software stacks
  • Driven Daily standups and monitored status of project to achieve Sprint goals
  • Retrospect of sprints to identify process improvements
  • Established and strengthened productive partnerships with external IT vendors, collaborated with project stakeholders, and developers, and supported teams to develop, test, deploy, and maintain systems
  • Oversaw process for selection, installation, and integration of IT vendors with current applications

Sr. Consultant

Laboratory Corporation of America
Hyderabad
06.2011 - 04.2014
  • Worked in Collaboration with senior project manager to define project goals and established timeline and plan to achieve them
  • Collaborated with other team members to create fresh brand ideas and project initiatives
  • Handled overall management of workflow in project applications

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

Osmania University
Hyderabad
2011

Skills

  • Customer Relations
  • Quality Assurance
  • Dependable and Responsible
  • Critical Thinking
  • Task Prioritization

Timeline

Application and Infrastructure Project Manager

Price Waterhouse Coopers
02.2018 - Current

IT Project Lead

Standard Bank of South Africa
04.2014 - 02.2018

Sr. Consultant

Laboratory Corporation of America
06.2011 - 04.2014

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

Osmania University

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