Arun Vittal Jagannath
Markham,ON
Summary
Experienced Senior Project Manager, consistently delivering successful small to large-scale business critical projects. Demonstrated career progression from Developer to Senior Project Manager, showcasing a deep understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project management methodologies. Skilled strategist adept at planning and overseeing multi-million-dollar projects, with a proven track record of effective communication and collaboration with C-Suite executives. Recognized for aligning business objectives with technology solutions, leveraging strong leadership and people management capabilities to drive success across global delivery teams and vendor relationships.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Wipro Limited
11.2024 - 05.2025
- Client: Ministry Of Transportation Ontario
- Team Size: 175
- Budget: CAD 26M
- Managing an Agile based delivery of a Java Full Stack solution using Behavior-Driven Development process for the Ministry to administer Driver License, OPC Card, Vehicle Registration Issuance, maintenance, monitoring and control. This solution would be used by Service Ontario, MTO users and Private Issuers to serve customers throughout Ontario at service locations, call centers, and central offices.
Program Manager
Wipro Limited
12.2022 - 11.2024
- Client: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, Ontario
- Team Size: 150
- Budget: CAD 22M
- Managed transformation of Guidewire Suite of applications – PolicyCenter, Billing Center and Contact Manager from On-premise (V7) to SaaS
- Managed all phases of SDLC in a hybrid model
- Coordinated with onshore and offshore teams for the transformation
- Collaborated with Business and Stakeholders to align on the project scope
- Managed resource allocations, project plan, schedule and forecasting using MS MPP
- Provided daily communications, sprint retrospective, and regular snapshots of project velocity.
- Provided progress updates to stakeholders
Sr. Project Manager
Everest Re Insurance
05.2022 - 11.2022
- Managed the delivery for Reinsurance portfolio.
- Managed all phases of project delivery of Microsoft .Net and Guidewire projects in a hybrid model
- Coordinated with onshore and offshore teams for development of the project
- Collaborated with Business and Product Owner to align on the project scope
- Managed project budget, resource allocations, project plan, schedule and forecasting using MS MPP
- Tracked user stories using JIRA and update daily progress during team meetings.
- Provided daily communications, sprint retrospective, and regular snapshots of project velocity.
Senior Project Manager
Allstate Insurance
04.2020 - 12.2021
- Modernization of a Mainframe application to .NET as part of Client’s roadmap to exit legacy system. Activities encompassed Reverse Engineering, Design, Build, Testing, Deployment and Lender Migrations.
- Managed all aspects of modernization of Mainframe based application to Microsoft .Net platform
- Coordinated with onshore and offshore teams for development of the project
- Presenting Project Status to C, V and D - Suite within the Client Organization
- Managed project budget, resource allocations, project plan, schedule and forecasting using MS MPP
- Tracked and maintained user stories using Microsoft DevOps and updated daily progress during team meetings
- Provided daily communications, sprint retrospective, and budget burn rate
- Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as the team attempted to transition to Agile Methodology
Senior Project Manager
Wipro Limited
04.2009 - 05.2021
- Client: Shell Information Technology
- Budget: USD 4-10M
- As a part of BG Integration program, managed the migration and rationalization of BG applications in Tunisia to Azure, AWS & SaaS, and to decommission Data centers in Egypt, Tanzania and Tunisia
- Managed enhancements to the on-premise Identity & Access Management solution of CA SiteMinder, catering to new business requirements
- Spearheaded Infrastructure project on On-premise and AWS for the IAM solution, CA SiteMinder
- Managed Service delivery of 3000+ business critical middleware interfaces (both - B2B and E2E) and Applications in 24
- 7 mode
- Managed infrastructure commissioning of next generation middleware platforms on virtual and AWS environments
- Managed implementation of monitoring solutions for SPLUNK, SCOM and Custom Middleware Enterprise service framework
- Managed support of business-critical Integration services, comprising of BizTalk and SSIS interfaces for Global Functions in 24
- 7 mode. Interfaces integrated SAP, bespoke applications, Products and HP’s Service Manager.
Senior Software Engineer
Bearing Point Business Consulting Pvt. Ltd
07.2007 - 03.2009
- Senior Software engineer responsible for Design, Development and Testing of BizTalk interfaces integrating insurance domain products like Guidewire, etc. Technologies used BizTalk, SQL, MQ Series, MSMQ, .Net, XML.
Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard
05.2003 - 05.2007
- Integrated HP’s Global Service Desk system and Customer/Partner workflow systems using - BizTalk, XML, XSLT, SQL and .Net.
- Developed and supported various applications using VB, SQL and .Net.
Software Engineer
Sumukha Technologies
06.2002 - 05.2003
- Developed solutions catering to Banking and Pharmaceutical verticals using VB, Crystal report and SQL.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Kuvempu University
06.2012
Skills
- Project/Programme Management
- Waterfall/Agile methodologies
- RAID analysis and reporting
- Budget and Cost Management
- Change Management
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Other Soft Skills
- Knowledge of Capital Market & Insurance and Energy domains
- Presentation, Reporting and Documentation
- Leadership and Team building
- Technical Skills
- Guidewire
- Azure DevOps
- Service Now
- MS Azure
- MS Project
- JIRA
- MS Office Suite
- Identity & Access Management
- Infrastructure (On-premise and Azure)
- Middleware (BizTalk)
- ETL (SSIS)
- Modernization (Mainframe to Net/Java)
- Application Migration
- Data Center Decommissioning
- Migration to SaaS
Languages
English
Hindi
Kannada
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ 900)
- Working towards PMP
Timeline
Program Manager
Wipro Limited
11.2024 - 05.2025
Program Manager
Wipro Limited
12.2022 - 11.2024
Sr. Project Manager
Everest Re Insurance
05.2022 - 11.2022
Senior Project Manager
Allstate Insurance
04.2020 - 12.2021
Senior Project Manager
Wipro Limited
04.2009 - 05.2021
Senior Software Engineer
Bearing Point Business Consulting Pvt. Ltd
07.2007 - 03.2009
Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard
05.2003 - 05.2007
Software Engineer
Sumukha Technologies
06.2002 - 05.2003
Master of Science - Information Technology
Kuvempu University
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