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Hanish Arya

Kitchener,ON

Summary

Forward-thinking project management specialist confident in leading team members, managing schedules and coordinating resources. Keeps projects on-track with decisive supervision and quick problem-solving. Persuasive in communicating and negotiating with internal team members, vendors and other stakeholders. Hanish excels at taking on extreme challenges, navigating organizational dynamics, and forecasting and mitigating roadblocks to success.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Home Trust Company
03.2022 - 11.2023
  • Engaging IT and business stakeholders; ensuring business deliverables are defined and formalized into a project plan; coordinating business deliverables and timelines with Product and Technology Managers to ensure efficient delivery of key initiatives within scope, time, and budget
  • Worked closely with multi-disciplined teams to drive estimates, delivery plans, identified and managed project roadmap, engagement risks, and flagged major issues early
  • Plan and manage project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables to stakeholders
  • Promote internal and external communication to improve transparency, help radiate information, and remove roadblocks
  • Monitor and report project outcomes and progress towards key results (OKRs), and KPIs while ensuring transparency and alignment with relevant stakeholders on the digital transformation journey
  • Worked with Operation, Technology and Product Management and other key stakeholders to ensure strategy and execution alignment
  • Lead the agile adoption mindset, including ownership, self-organization, continuous improvement, empowerment and resolve dependency across the teams
  • Supported and educated the Product Owner to define and prioritize product backlog items, ensuring alignment with business objectives
  • Outlined consolidated timeline/ project schedule with major milestones, highlighting associated project risk, dependency, and impact
  • Promote internal and external communication to improve transparency, help radiate information, and remove roadblocks
  • Redefined some of the PMO practices
  • Conceptualized and implemented strategy for capturing Project and Program metrics and funneling that information to easy-to understand dashboards.

Agile Project Manager

Iris Software (Royal Bank of Canada)
03.2021 - 02.2022
  • Developed and maintained relationships with senior management, business stakeholders, and technical teams, ensuring alignment of delivery priorities with business objectives
  • Maintained Tactical control of $3M project budget and overall timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule and budget targets
  • Track and report project progress against requirements and project objectives throughout the project life cycle
  • Led implementation of solutions from establishing project requirements and goals to solution go-live
  • Proactively ensured on-going control of project by defining and executing Communication Plan, Risk Management Plan, Issue Management and Change Management
  • Manage changes through established project controls, monitor and track budget to plan monthly, and update forecast as needed
  • Increased team engagement, commitment, and sustained accountability
  • Increased team focus on quality, prioritized bug fixes over new development to limit work in progress and coached product owners to maintain a high level of work approved status
  • Manage vendor and supplier contracts by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
  • Improved planning and communication between among and between teams, established a pull model for work flowing to teams, improving team performance, and enabling team autonomy
  • Biweekly reporting on engagement scope and budget against Statements of Work (SOWs)
  • Worked closely with the Agile Coach and delivery specialists to ensure Agile Delivery Framework and Scrum best practices alignment across the departments and enterprise level.

Project Lead

Capgemini Canada (Manulife Financial)
05.2019 - 03.2021
  • Built a strong rapport with Product Management, and other business stakeholders, and help curate product requirements & lead design sessions to enhance the digital platform area while translating business needs / problems into user stories
  • Prioritize support resources to ensure alignment of daily activities and projects
  • Track and coordinate key project plans to achieve targets
  • Focal point for technology financial management; Support the portfolio financial planning, there by coordinating monthly forecasts, expense reporting and variance reporting
  • Facilitate and support all the scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
  • Use of process mapping to holistically map and document the business processes, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures
  • Maintain transparency regarding program execution including delivery of features, impact of impediments, and quality measures
  • Working directly with other agile delivery specialists and their feature teams to facilitate delivery of the program
  • Continuously improving Agile processes through evaluation, adaptation, and implementation of best practice
  • Drive program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives, Inspect and Adapt workshops, and constantly demonstrating Kaizen mindset.

Senior Project Manager

Royal Bank of Scotland
03.2009 - 03.2019
  • Enhanced development capabilities and drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong program leadership
  • Assist business partners and functions to enhance operational efficiency, reduce operational risk and cost and optimize the way we work through the rapid deployment of robotic automation in key processes
  • Led project initiating activities, developing project charter, identified stakeholder, identified resources, assigned roles and responsibilities, and conducted kickoff meetings
  • Manage the prioritization and execution of enhancements and projects, including communication with key stakeholders and coordination of work effort within internal IT teams, and the business community.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication -

MDU
06-2006

Skills

  • Customer centric, prioritizing business outcomes
  • Collaborative Leadership style, problem solving skills, focused on continuous improvement
  • Self-motivated, a change agent and an effective coach
  • Excellent interpersonal skills Strong communication and collaboration, able to forge strong working relationships with stakeholders
  • Experience leading and guiding multi-disciplinary teams, including teamwork, consensus building and conflict management

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

Home Trust Company
03.2022 - 11.2023

Agile Project Manager

Iris Software (Royal Bank of Canada)
03.2021 - 02.2022

Project Lead

Capgemini Canada (Manulife Financial)
05.2019 - 03.2021

Senior Project Manager

Royal Bank of Scotland
03.2009 - 03.2019

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication -

MDU

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