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ANTONY AUGUSTUS

ANTONY AUGUSTUS

Toronto,ON

Summary

Seasoned Project Manager with demonstrated experience in championing change, managing stakeholder relations, and conducting portfolio risk assessments with proven success in Digital Transformation and Strategic IT Solutions. PMP certified, adept at managing diverse projects in Banking, Pharmaceutical, and Oil & Gas industries. Supported a $90mn program, overseeing end-to-end PMO activities. Collaborated with culturally diverse teams, supporting both Agile and Waterfall projects. Proficient in MS Project and Excel for project governance, schedule maintenance, and financial reporting. Technical expertise includes SharePoint, MS Projects, Power Apps, and Power BI. Managed stakeholder relations, financial reports, and resourcing requests, demonstrating a unique blend of technical and project leadership skills.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Randstad Canada,
06.2022 - Current
  • Managed end-to-end PMO activities for a $90mn program.
  • Coordinated with stakeholders, including Senior leadership, and provided reports in accordance with communication requirements.
  • Partnered with finance department for financial reports and invoice reconciliation.
  • Responsible for various reporting including Planned vs Actuals, Missing Timesheets, Resource Demand vs Supply, Estimate to Complete.
  • Performed schedule maintenance, project governance, and project plan creation using MS Project and MS Excel.
  • Administered PMO activities, including user onboarding / offboarding, JIRA board management, and facilitation of meetings.
  • Oversaw governance, financial reporting, and PowerBI dashboard updates.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
  • Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement
  • Always communicate team metrics to members to help everyone understand where we stand as team and what needs to be celebrated or improved.
  • Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
  • Resolve team conflicts by utilizing scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect for one another.
  • Shield team from outside interference and thereby avoid impediments that could slow down progress.
  • Developed metrics dashboards and advanced filters in Jira to provide end-users and business leadership with meaningful operational/performance metrics and status reports.
  • Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team and stakeholders

Projects Control Officer

Staffworks Pvt Ltd
02.2022 - 05.2022
    • Supported initiatives specific to Provincial Elections 2022 as a seasoned Project Control Officer.
    • Facilitated various committees and validated assessments for project approval.
    • Processed over 300 CRs in a span of 3 months.
    • Filtered and cleaned data, and created reports, dashboards and visualizations, and performance indicators

Project Coordinator

Pure Staffing Solutions
08.2020 - 02.2022
  • Manage documentation through online (SharePoint) presence for broader Stakeholder Community of Interest
  • Maintained project risks and issues documentation
  • Held meetings with senior leadership for document updates on milestones, deliverables
  • Assisted with development and support of project schedules
  • Reported progress of project on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the project life cycle
  • Performed transfer of knowledge, through written and verbal methods
  • Experienced working in an EPMO / PMO setup – creating, preparing, and communicating various project management methodologies, and accompanying tools, templates, and processes
  • Advanced working knowledge of risk management standards, with a solid understanding of SDLC, PMLC and Agile project management methodologies, to best incorporate various deliverables into enterprise plan
  • Proficient in risk analysis, mitigation planning, project scheduling and cost control
  • Assisted with the continual development and assessment of the EPMO project methodologies, including demand management/intake, change management, risk management, governance, and reporting
  • Ensured all supporting tools, templates and processes are accurate, and in place
  • Managing the existing enterprise roadmap, tracking cross impact and interdependencies between multiple projects, milestones, and other key operational deliverables.

Technical Project Manager

Smartpoint Technologies Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - 11.2019
    • WBS/JRS sessions and consolidate and integrate work breakdown structures data into a comprehensive schedule
    • Implemented regulatory changes (pharmaceutical Serialization Enforcement projects) pertaining to US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) & EMVO
    • Delivered multiple IT projects within Scope, Schedule and Cost and exceeded the expectations of Client (RFXCEL-full stack of track and trace software for pharmaceuticals and FMCG industries) by on-boarding 40+ partners to adhere to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)& European Medicines Verification Organization (EMVO) regulations thus making a significant contribution towards Customer's business
    • Implemented and supported deployments by developing effective project communications, reports, technical documentation, and training materials for diverse stakeholders
    • Developed artifacts including BRD, SRS, Test Cases, Use Cases, User stories and other reusable project documents
    • Using MS Office (e.g., Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Excel) and other tools, responsible for maintaining and updating a broad range of project documentation and information (e.g., status reports and correspondence, agendas of meetings, master project schedule/activity schedules, and application/system libraries)
    • Efficiently elicited requirements from business end users and global stakeholders through facilitation of workshops, focus groups, structured and unstructured interviews
    • Collaborated with technical delivery team members to leverage understanding of business solution functional and non-functional requirements
    • Produced high quality requirements resulting in development of products that meet stakeholders' expectations through application of appropriate business analysis models
    • Organized brainstorming sessions and workshops with manufacturing, QA, IT, Finance, and various other disciplines to identify requirements, Stakeholders, SPOC, and Scope
    • Supported Development & Testing lifecycle and ensured that software solutions are developed and tested as per requirement and meet business needs
    • Demonstrated negotiation skills in gaining buy-ins and influenced stakeholders to resolve conflicts.

Digital Project Lead (EID)

General Electrics
06.2016 - 09.2017
    • Projects: DAQ Upgrade - Real Track Enhancements (IOT - Digital Threads), Short-Term Scheduling Tool (Address Gaps in ASCP), Digital Production Board (Automation & Digitization), designed workflow forms for HR & Engineering Departments (Performance Appraisal)
    • Project Lead for Supply Chain and Brilliant Factory initiatives
    • Managed End-to-End development of applications, right from project initiation through closing
    • Managed Development & Testing life cycles (SDLC & STLC)
    • Identified potential use case within manufacturing unit
    • Proposed to develop stand-alone application to address gaps in Cyberplan
    • RoI was projected at £2M/ year
    • Delivered RealTrack, customized application that allows all stakeholders to exchange information online and reduce bottlenecks by streaming live videos of Pressure Testing
    • Upgraded all Data Acquisition units to be compatible with Predix 2.0 (Cloud)
    • Delivered "Digital Production Board" project within allocated budget of $50k and RoI was estimated as $870k by end of year.

Education

MBA -

Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, UK
11.2017

Level 7 Diploma - Strategic Management and Leadership

Chartered Management Institute
Sheffield, UK
10.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Applications

Loyola College
Chennai, India
2011

Skills

  • MS Project / Clarity
  • Jira / EazyBI
  • Confluence
  • MS Office
  • Waterfall / Agile
  • SDLC
  • Risk Management
  • User Story
  • Team management
  • Effective Communication
  • Coaching
  • Project Planning
  • Estimation
  • Kanban / Scrum
  • SharePoint
  • Power Apps
  • PowerBI
  • Smartsheet / Asana
  • Oracle
  • SaaS - Software as a Service
  • PaaS - Platform as a Service

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Agile Governance
  • Software Testing
  • Power BI Fundamentals
  • Advanced Supply Chain Planning
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • Citrix Certified Administrator

Affiliations

  • Member, Project Management Institute, 2019 Member
  • Chartered Management Institute, 2015

Accomplishments

    RFXCEL Performance Excellence Award - 2019

    GE Above and Beyond Award - 2017

    Sheffield Hallam University Award for Academic Excellence - 2016

    Microsoft Best Performer Award - 2009

Work Availability

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Timeline

Project Manager

Randstad Canada,
06.2022 - Current

Projects Control Officer

Staffworks Pvt Ltd
02.2022 - 05.2022

Project Coordinator

Pure Staffing Solutions
08.2020 - 02.2022

Technical Project Manager

Smartpoint Technologies Pvt Ltd
07.2018 - 11.2019

Digital Project Lead (EID)

General Electrics
06.2016 - 09.2017

MBA -

Sheffield Hallam University

Level 7 Diploma - Strategic Management and Leadership

Chartered Management Institute

Bachelor of Science - Computer Applications

Loyola College

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