Aravind Nallan

IT Senior Business Analyst | Product Owner

o Proven expertise in gathering, analysing and documenting Functional, Non-Functional requirements, Integration requirements. Analysed AS-IS & TO-BE Business Process for Grid Modernization & Technology Improvement Program initiatives in US - National Grid -

· Advanced Distribution Management System [OMS, DMS & DSCADA]

· Energy Management System Upgrade

· Geographic Information System – Network State Engine [Snowflake]

· Electric Incident Reporting System

· MV-90 Upgrade Project

· Enhancing End User Capabilities (Zscaler, End Point Security, Enhancing Wireless Network, VDI Initiative)

· Rollout of Enterprise Mobility Management System

· Cloud Orchestration (To spin Dev, Test & Production environment via Azure)

IT Project Manager | Scrum Master for National Grid

· Managed team of 50+ IT experts from all over the world for a Data Centre

· 90% of IT Projects were completed ahead of schedule and with-in budget

· Report Project outcomes / Risks to the appropriate management channels and escalated issues, as necessary according to project work plan.

· Managed Project Financial Workbooks, Accruals, guided to create Investment Paper

· Plan Iterations to fit the Business Requirements by communicating with the product owner & business stakeholders

· Managed the project schedule and budget for 10 projects

· Facilitated Scrum Framework – Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews & Sprint retrospectives

· Collaborated with Product Owners, Team members, Architects and other Scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress

· Led Sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement

· Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving culture barriers and logical challenges

Senior Consultant for Lloyds Banking Group & Barclays Bank

• Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams for project execution.

· Quality Management System – Transformation:

· Perform gap analysis of existing Quality Management System with the model (CMMI V1.2 Level 3 and ITIL)

· Conduct workshops on Software Development Lifecycle & defined Quality Management System

· Perform Internal Audits and provide GAPs Assessment Reports based on ITIL, ISO & CMMi Framework for IT Delivery

Consultant | Quality Manager for British Telecom UK

· Establish Testing Center of Excellence

· Definition, Deployment and Improvement of the IT process across the account

· Enhance the identified Testing Processes / Practices with the GAPs identified against IT Test practices

· Supported the Change Management Process to the enhanced testing practices

• Highlighted undetected organisational needs to improve business performance.
• Applied data toward developing optimum objectives, strategies and plans for