Hi, I’m
Rahul Deva
Toronto,ON
Summary
PMP Certified project manager with 13 years of hand-on experience spanning program, project, PMO, product and team management. A diverse background in technical and managerial areas with experience in creating visions, strategies, business management and software development projects delivering business critical information for clients in North America.
Overview
13
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Tata Consultancy Services Canada
Project Manager
05.2017 - Current
Job overview
- Currently working as project manager for Data Discovery budgeted at U$2.5M (FY 2023), brand new in-house analytics product.
- Delivered iterative and agile projects critical to regulatory programs and initiatives in Payments domain.
- Working as Scrum master for three different scrum teams.
- Reduced number of issues/risks logged in 2022 compared to 2021 by 75%.
- Delivered 23 Corrective Action Plans , 4 Issue Management and Resolutions and 3 Issue Escalation Reports during FY 2021-2022 budgeted at U$18.5M.
- Direct co-ordination with Internal Audit and ICRM teams - identification/gathering of requirements and problem statements , relaying to tech partners and review solutions before presenting back to IA/ICRM.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Expertise in JIRA project management info system.
- Delivered multiple projects under data governance initiative in Commercial Cards domain.
- Scheduled yearly sprint releases, delivered product backlogs, prepared cost and effort estimation of deliverables.
- Prepared stakeholder register, scheduled monthly Steer Co. calls, monitored and controlled project work, and prepared project end closure report.
- Ownership of 'initiate, execute and closure' of change request for each production release in Change Management tool.
- Owned and managed end to end project's lifecycle in project tracking system.
- Ownership of pre-prod and post-prod implementation activities and artifacts.
- Prepared project charter and cost estimation and presented to investment council for funding approval.
- Prepared Weekly/bi-weekly reports and graphs for deliverables and key accomplishments to business partners and senior management.
- Devised tools and benchmarks to improve team performance and monitor productivity.
Tata Consultancy Services India
IT Analyst
09.2010 - 05.2017
Job overview
- Investigated and addressed system issues to enhance usability and improve functionality, reducing testing efforts by 70% in Cards domain.
- Evaluated and adopted new technologies to address changing industry needs for ex: migration from Synopsis to ODI 10G.
- Designed a solution architecture for TCS in house tool DVT, to improve testing process, generating revenue of over U$2.5M.
- Delivered pre sales presentation and demo of ETL automation solution to stakeholders and business partners in Cards domain.
- Conducted scrum ceremonies as Scrum Master.
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
- Participated in internal audits regarding quality management system.
- Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business requirements.
Education
SRM UniversityChennai, India
B. Tech. from Electrical And Electronics Engineering
06.2010
Skills
- Project planning and development
- New product introductions strategies
- Agile framework and Scrum methodology
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Resource management
- Change management and Control
- Project estimation and Cost management
- Scope and Schedule management
- Work effort planning (BoW) and prioritization
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Business analysis
- Software Development Lifecycle
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional (PMP# 3538341)
- Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) – Foundations
- International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) - Foundations
Timeline
Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services Canada
05.2017 - Current
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services India
09.2010 - 05.2017
SRM University
B. Tech. from Electrical And Electronics Engineering
- PMP - Project Management Professional (PMP# 3538341)
- Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) – Foundations
- International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) - Foundations
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