Sandeep Bhardwaj, PMP, Technical Project Manager open for Opportunities

About

A certified project manager with total 15 years of experience out of which having 7+ years of experience in Project Management while managing technology upgrade, enterprise system deployment and integration, project management office and custom application development. Proven ability to identify business opportunities and provide management and technical expertise to achieve organizational objectives.

Experience

Bed Bath and Beyond

Jun 2019 – Present

Sr. Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager is responsible for leading the projects by providing thought leadership on digital solutions strategies and optimization and building strong relationships and establishing clear lines of communication with clients, partners, and engineering staff members. The Manager is analytical and uses problem solving capabilities to assure flawless program execution to meet and exceed stated objectives. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Meeting with project sponsors and team members to develop a project charter, roles and responsibilities, risks and release plan. • Broken down the requirements into Features and respective stories using JIRA. • Ensure all projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget. • Develop project plans, goals, budgets and identify resource needs. • Coordinate all internal resources and third-party vendors for the flawless execution of projects. • Continuously reduce business and customer impact due to application issues by ensuring quality standards implementation, performing root cause analysis, publishing results. • Coordinating all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning. • Remove obstacles for project team. • Manage sprint backlog items and tasks through JIRA. • Lead deployment operations in the areas of DevOps and SDLC processes for Distributed Technologies. • Working with release engineers to comprehend code merges and branch ramifications. • Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution. • Coordinating Continuous Integration (CI) to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day while each check-in to be verified by an automated build followed by Continuous Delivery (CD).

Sunlife Financials

Sep 2016 – Jun 2019

Project Manager

As a Project Manager in Sun Life's, responsible for planning, managing, and implementing IT projects in support of Sun Life’s business plans and goals. Having direct responsibility for complete life cycle management and accountability of project initiatives assigned, ensuring compliance to SLF project management policies, standards and procedures. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Manage all phases of Web application development, Mobility Implementation and Technology upgrade projects, including initiation, planning, execution, implementation, and post-implementation activities, leveraging best practice standards and processes set out by the PMO and other industry organizations (including PMI). • Applied Agile methodologies to develop procedures and processes for this upgrade project as well as future development projects. • Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives • Defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes • Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines. • Mentor team members and fostered communication and collaboration resulting in a strong, cohesive and self-directed team. • Deliver project on time and under budget by controlling risks, issues and changes in scope • Lead weekly status and leadership meetings.

Xerox Business Services

Dec 2008 – Sep 2016

Implementation Manager

Managed a team of implementation specialists those were responsible for the implementation of technical systems, software, hardware, or solutions. Oversaw and supported 4 implementation projects. Review external client product demands, developed project plans, and ensured that implementations were completed on time, within budget, and met client expectations. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Created, implemented, and maintained a project plan; coordinated and managed the work relationship with the client’s project team; coached, built and motivated an effective implementation team. • Created, oversaw and managed the successful completion of multiple, complex project work plans, relative to services and solutions, as measured by budget, timeliness, quality, and customer satisfaction. • Provided QA team with project oversight related to verification and validation of all upgrades. • Developed and followed-up on cross-team communication plan encompassing all project work streams for different sites and departments. • Provided regularly scheduled project level detailed reporting on progress against project tasks and milestones, as well as executive scorecard level reporting. • Completed weekly analysis of project status, including scope management, resource scheduling, issue management and budget status.

Hewitt Associates

Jul 2005 – Dec 2008

System Analyst

Implement project requirements by defining and analyzing system problems, designing and testing standards and solutions. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Defined application problem by conferring with clients; evaluating procedures and processes. • Developed solution by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions. • Controlled solution by establishing technical specifications; coordinating production with programmers. • Validated results by testing programs. • Ensured operation by training client personnel, providing support.

Education

Delhi College of engineering

Jun 2016 – Jul 2018

Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Knowledge technology management and Marketing

Jamia Hamdard University

Jun 2003 – Jul 2005

Masters of Computer science , Computer science

Jamia Hamdard University

Jun 1999 – Jul 2003

Bachelors of Information Technology , Information Technology

Sandeep Bhardwaj, PMP

Technical Project Manager open for Opportunities

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