Amit Rajagopalan

Clients: Bentley Motors, Abrdn Asset Management, GDS, Aviva

Roles: Functional Lead, Delivery Manager, Sr. Scrum Master

• Managed budgets for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring accurate financial reporting and resource allocation throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Implemented new threat management, SIEM and advanced security operations platform with 40% reduction in overall cost of ownership
• Determined areas for improvement and implemented processes to alleviate problems.
• Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
• Worked with team leads and managing leadership, establishing robust talent pool with focus on people and continuous improvement.
• Exceeded customer requirements with accurate and deliverable solutions.
• Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks.
• Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.

Clients: Tesco Mobile, Jaguar Land Rover

Roles: Product Owner, Sr. Business Analyst, Agile Coach

• Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
• Owned and prioritized product backlog.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
• Streamlined techniques to support agile methodology implementations.
• Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
• Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
• Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans.
• Assessed impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders and evaluated potential areas for improvement.
• Produced business requirements, master story list, sprint planning and design documents.
• Worked with Scrum team to test and certify application features before deploying to production.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

• Responsible for management of Digital Transformation Projects, reporting into Chief Transformation Officer
• Prioritizing features and new improvements based on business values
• Developed best practices of agile methodologies with vendor and improved meeting sprint deliverables from 10% to 50% using success criteria
• Analyzing company’s business impact assessment for process changes across energy industry
• Requirement gatherings and analyzing it through workshops, interviews, and workflow analysis
• Created Prioritization Framework for handling change request, new projects, improvements and bugs
• Maintaining post-launch defects through product backlog
• Led execution of user acceptance testing and coordinating business user activities, where necessary
• Led in change management from Waterfall to Agile environment
• Worked to improve Stakeholder management and governance and benefited organization by adopting Scrum practices
  

• Completed in-depth analyses for business optimization projects leading to $10M+ annual savings, $3M+ capital-expense reduction, $5M+ labor-cost savings, and 50% improved financial forecasting
• Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverable's such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams and data flow/data model diagrams
• Defined product roadmap for delivery of features based on requirements and user feedback by working closely with engineering team, designers, product owner and testers
• Worked closely with leaders and business stakeholders to ensure that key initiatives are delivered in timely, coordinated manner and aligned with goals
• Helped deploy processes that allow incremental delivery through Agile methodology, whilst successfully aligning and integrating with other technology initiatives and architectural patterns within organization
• Implemented and monitored critical delivery components, including issue tracking, testing data, CI/CD, and mobile analytics
• Led execution of user acceptance testing and coordinating business user activities, where necessary