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RAVI SHANKAR KUMAR, PMP®, CSM®, CSPO® Mail Id: ; Mobile: [login to view URL], +91- 9986166028 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION & CERTIFICATIONS MBA - Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon MCA - Bangalore University, Bangalore, India Certifications: • Certified PMP • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) • ITIL Trained from Aricent’s L&D Center PERSONAL PROFILE An assertive and result-focused Management Professional with 12 years rich experience in Software & IT Industry associated with several Indian Blue Chip Corporations & MNCs. Key areas of expertise: • Manage and engage in delivery with market leaders like Sprint, Hitachi, Verizon Wireless, Globe Ranger, Tekelec, Bharti Airtel, Uninor, Motorola, Intermec, Vocollect etc in Waterfall, Agile and ITIL methodology. • Manage End-to-End software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in line with global best practices. • Good experience of multiple testing frameworks development in multiple environments. • Very good mobility experience with WinCE, iOS, Android environment. • Technical contribution in Solution designing / description, High Level and Low level design development for different product & applications in multi-vendor environment. • Good experience in creation of analytical reports through data mining & modeling, from KPI generation different BI and data warehousing tools and applications. • Involved in Pre-sales activities like proposal development as a response of RFP, RFI preparation. Provided presentation to multiple customers and won business for organization. • Good experience of Service Design, PoCs development in-line with customer requirements. • Specialized in acquisition of new business & work transition, team setup & building, process streamlining & benchmarking and quality delivery in distributed & collaborative environment. • Responsible to keep high level CSAT and ESAT. • Responsible for Stakeholders like Customer, vendor, internal management, infrastructure management. • Innovate and create new systems & processes e.g. automation and design templates, dashboard for effective management of projects.
Verifications
Agile Development Methodologies: In Software Project Managem
Agile Development Methodologies: In Software Project Managem
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Experience
Project Manager
Feb, 2013 - Present
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13 years, 5 months
AwareBase Technology
Feb, 2013 - Present
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13 years, 5 months
Key Role & Responsibilities: • E2E Project Management responsibility as Development, Testing and Deployment & Support for Tina system (MS SQL, ASP.Net, C#, Ajax, JQuery, HTMLCSS) & Mobile applications (Xamarin, Android, iOS, Tabs) i.e. AwareBase Product. • Responsible to fulfill customer expectation for issues in live environment as well as working for future product raod-map / roll out plan with Business Analyst, customer and management. • Accomplishing people management for developers, testers, Business Analyst and UI designers those working with me. • Responsible for pre-sales activity and for co-ordination with Sales & Business Development team on new proposals. Key Achievements: • Process streamlining and benchmarking resulted enhancement in team productivity by 30%. • Implementation of Agile Project Management methodologies (Scrum + FDD). • Minimum attrition (negligible) in my team till now.
Feb, 2013 - Present
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13 years, 5 months
Engineering Project Manager
Feb, 2006 - Feb, 2013
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7 years
Aricent Technologies Pvt Ltd
Feb, 2006 - Feb, 2013
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7 years
Aricent Technologies Ltd, Gurgaon from Feb 2006 to 11 Feb 2013 Engineering Project Manager (Except From Jun 2010 to Feb 2011) Key Role & Responsibilities: Responsible for E2E management of various projects which included defining process, reporting templates, escalation matrix, meet the SLA, functional performance, communication with all stakeholder / vendors to resolve the network issue and managing change and the following: • E2E Project Management (for multiple projects simultaneously) responsibility as Development, Testing and Deployment & Support for IT BAU account (on-site & off-shore). • Project Management responsibility for STP, MNP solution, EIR, IAS and Netboss including customer support activities for BSNL, Uninor & Bharti-Airtel Telecom. Also handled testing, configuration & integration (Node like IN, SMSC, HLR, and USSD) in live telecom network. • Handled development work, Functional & performance (load & soak) testing for different releases of WiMax, GPRS, UMTS/3G, GSM & SS7 product line. • Development of load/packet generator for functional as well as load & stress testing. • Accomplishing pre-sales activity to help Sales & Business Development team to bring new business or enhance existing account. • Responsible for keeping high CSAT, ESAT. • Participation in customer calls (IRs, Sprint / Project Planning, BREA & SREQ review, PRM, Weekly review etc). • Automation framework development & management with STATE (TCL/TK & Expect) tool for API and Functional test cases of WiMax, GPRS and UMTS products in distributed system environment. • GUI test automation using QTP for WiMax, GPRS products, Verizon BGW & VoIP applications. • Accomplished for SNMP automation using Silver Creek for WiMax and GSNLite products. • Accomplished CLI automation using ISS for WiMax product. Key Achievements: • “Snap Award for Individual Excellence” from successfully accomplishment (by Building, training and leadership) of Uninor and WiMax project in new business initiation at organization level. • Multiple “Snap Award for Team Excellence” from Aricent Technologies Ltd for showing the technical as well as leadership capability by delivering quality release. • Build-up 3 successful team from scratch for WiMax, Uninor & IT BAU project and delivered multiple releases with high customer satisfaction and zero attrition. • Gained appreciation of customers like Verizon IT BAU, Uninor, Bharti etc. for the analytical closure report submitted after every release. • Designed Template, Dashboard and procedure for project (IT BAU) status which have been implemented by customer for all other projects and resulted in a saving of 45 minutes daily and provided latest status of project. • Service Design, Templates & reports development for Uninor Project. It has been used by stakeholders including Aricent for other project efficiency improvement. • Recognized by Customer & Management for multiple initiatives like introduction for SNMP automation, agile workshop, process improvement those helped in cost reduction. • Successfully developed single suit with five hundred function automation test in distributed environment. • Resolved multiple issues like routing, business scenario that are coming in real environment. • Successfully ensured incorporation of QA guideline through conducting effective internal audit for other projects in BU.
Feb, 2006 - Feb, 2013
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7 years
Software Engineer
May, 2002 - Jul, 2005
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3 years, 2 months
Microdot
May, 2002 - Jul, 2005
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3 years, 2 months
MICRODOT, Kolkata, India May 2002 to July 2005 Software Engineer Key Role & Responsibilities: Responsible for different releases of three projects as E-Banking, Health Support System and Integrated Purchase & Sales system in development environment of JAVA, Oracle 8i, Visual Basic 6.0, SQL server, Windows 2000 server. GUI automation and test management have been done using QTP, Win Runner & Test Director (QC) for different projects. Provided post-deployment support to customer. Key Achievements: • Successfully developed different form for front end and reports, designed database, Performed Unit Testing, Functional & Performance Testing and debug & bug fixing in the entire project • Recognition from customer and management for saving time due to initiative taken for automation testing using Win Runner.
May, 2002 - Jul, 2005
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3 years, 2 months
Education
Management Development Institute
2009 - 2011
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2 years
MBA - Project Management (Ops) & Finance

India
2009 - 2011
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2 years
Bangalore University
1999 - 2002
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3 years
MCA

India
1999 - 2002
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3 years
Qualifications
• ITIL Trained from Aricent Learning & Development center
2011
2011
PMP
2014
pmi.org
2014
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
2011
2011
Publications
Agile Development Methodologies: In Software Project
Project Dissertation
Agile Development Methodologies: In Software Project Management by Ravi Shankar Kumar The challenges with developing software systems led to a switch from traditional software methodologies like Waterfall towards the Agile software methodologies. These Agile software methodologies have become more and more popular in recent times, and Scrum in particular has been adopted by many companies. The current literature suggests that these Agile methodologies are indeed more effective in project manageme