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Karthik Krishnan

Program Manager

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years of program/project management experience
  • Expert in Agile methodologies and team leadership
  • Proven track record in optimizing delivery processes
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Program Manager with expertise in Agile methodologies and project management across diverse industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesProgram ManagementProject Management

Other Skills

CoachingConfluenceIBM Rational ToolsJIRAKanbanMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ProjectPerformance ManagementProject PlanningPublic SpeakingRational Team ConcertResource ManagementScrumSharePointStrategic Human Resource Planning

About

Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of program/project management experience across the telecommunications, automobile, and manufacturing sectors. Successful track record in leading technical teams, anticipating bottlenecks, optimizing delivery processes, enabling data-driven business growth, and aligning project tasks and communications across cross-functional stakeholders. The role of a project/program manager is something I feel very passionate about as there are always new learning opportunities and it gives me immense pleasure when a project is delivered successfully

Experience

Boom games

Program Manager

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zee entertainment enterprises limited

2 roles

Program Manager - Key Initiatives

Aug 2023Dec 2023 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Program Manager - Sugarbox

Jun 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Led the program management activities for 04 teams with a team strength of 50 approx members.
  • Responsible for implementing and coaching AGILE (SCRUM & KANBAN) practices for project delivery.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and clients to understand requirements, manage expectations, removing day to day impediments, and ensure effective communication for alignment throughout the project lifecycle
  • Weekly and Quarterly report to the Central Leadership Team w.r.t to status updates. Driving and facilitating the quarterly planning cadence for the organization.
  • Setting up Jira and Confluence for the entire org. to plan, track & monitor project deliverables. Setting up the PMO function for the entire organization to standardize & customize processes, documentation templates, and proper communication channels.
  • Conducted breakout sessions to discuss and map dependencies across squads, finalizing technology roadmaps, backlog refinement, and implementing cross-squad dependency plans.
  • Identified potential risks and developed mitigation strategies to minimize project disruptions. ------Proactively monitor risks and take appropriate action to ensure timely resolution.
  • Resource Management - Allocated and managed project resources, including personnel and equipment to optimize productivity and meet project objectives.
  • Responsible for RCA and Change Management at the organizational level, coordinating updates from multiple teams, and presenting comprehensive dashboards and reports to leadership.
Agile MethodologiesScrumKanbanResource ManagementJIRAConfluence+4

Jio platforms limited (jpl)

Deputy Program Manager

Jan 2016May 2022 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Ghansoli, Mumbai, Maharashtra

  • Project managed activities of six applications and more than 60 technical and business associates to deliver customer needs by fast-tracking delivery via process optimization, planning, monitoring, tracking, and reporting across stakeholders.
  • Spearheaded strategic planning division for deployment and post-deployment delivery for various applications in Location Based Services
  • Worked closely with business teams to outline release roadmap, facilitate requirement gathering and adapting to the changing priority as per the defined business strategy
  • Led resource management of over 40 LBS team resources by assigning tasks and resolving dependencies.
  • Piloted regular senior-level collaborative meetings with multiple vendors ensuring efficient budgeting with detailed SOW.
  • Improved operation and performance management resulting in savings of 1 crore and reduction of obsolete staffing from over 60 resources to 10
  • Increased productivity and delivery for 10 (Active 06) projects by implementing AGILE through tools like Rational, SharePoint, JIRA, Azure boards, and MS PROJECTS
  • Ensured consistent and transparent status updates with all cross-functional stakeholders at various levels of the organization
  • Cross-functioned very closely with various business stakeholders to provide accurate resolutions to hardware and customer-related backlogs
  • Delivered a highly scalable SAAS platform of around 79+ Location based REST APIs for 100 million userbases.
  • Delivered Jio Spatial analytics platform & multiple applications with workforce management & delivery tracking solutions
Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementResource ManagementPerformance ManagementVendor ManagementMicrosoft Project+2

Birla tyre india

Team Member- Assistant Engineer

Jul 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Balasore Area, Odisha, India

  • Successfully led the workforce management and daily task allocation by systematic planning, scheduling management, and conflict management with various stakeholders.
  • Effectively led a specialized team of 6, responsible to arrest machinery leakages through quality control and procurement of indigenous equipment
  • Defined, monitored, and improved critical-to-success metrics for the success of tasks across a 35-member team
  • Managed daily scheduling and preventive maintenance measures for over 200 machinery

Flash forge pvt ltd

Junior Engineer

Jun 2012Jun 2013 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area,Maharashtra, India

  • Oversaw the vendor management team to onboard multiple vendors and facilitate international client relationships using effective liaising and business communications.
  • Successfully onboarded one of the biggest projects at Flash Forge with Indian Railways and managed multiple projects for Indian Defense Forces and Indian Ordnance Factory
  • Successfully achieved to convert Flash Forge to OEM of production and manufacturing of Engine Coupling Disk for DLW
  • Led cross-functional teams and vendor management to oversee international client relationships

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Kakatiya Public School, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

XII — CBSE

Jan 2006Jan 2007

NAVAL CHILDREN SCHOOL

Xth — CBSE

Jan 2004Jan 2005

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