Sanjeev Dutta

Technical Program Manager

O'Fallon, Missouri, United States19 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

16+ years of experience in technical program management.
Expert in Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong program management and Agile transformation skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementProject PlanningAgile MethodologiesProject ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AJAXAndroidCommunicationConsultingDatabasesEmployee TrainingFinancial AnalysisFinancial ReportingInterpersonal CommunicationJSONJava (RIM)JavaScriptMVCMicrosoft SQL ServerMobile Applications

About

Meticulously organized Technical Program Manager with 16+ years of successfully uniting internal and external forces to achieve peak efficiency. Careful overseer of disparate departments with widely varying levels of technical knowledge. Practiced harmonious operations while frequently meeting the discordant needs of internal personnel, business channel partners, and customers. Certified in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and Certified Scrum Master

Experience

Mastercard

4 roles

Director Technical Program Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Maturing the TPM job family within the program, for the Vadodara Community of Practice, and PM Guild.
Work for a team of 8 excellent TPMs. Building, leading, and mentoring the teams.
Planning, executing, tracking, managing risks, dependencies, and negotiating timelines for multiple innovative domains. Creating clear, concise project plans and developing strategies to meet deadlines.
Collaborating with Product, Tech Consultants, Dev, BizOps, TechOps, Legal, Data Privacy, and Corporate Security to ensure high-quality secure products that adhere to scheduled timelines, and compliances and meet budget guidelines.
Coordinating execution and mitigating risks/blockers to meet financial, scheduling, and performance requirements.
Established the program's operating model for effective interaction, clear roles & responsibilities, adoption of processes and practices for faster, cheaper, better deliveries that improved program score by 20%.
Mentoring Program and Team Scrum ceremonies, driving process, and quality improvements.
Review and implement the design, test plans, and reports to ensure the product complies with requirements.

Program ManagementPeople ManagementProject PlanningSystems Design

Principal, Technical Program Manager

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Lead, Technical Program Manager

Promoted

Oct 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Consultant, Project Manager

Jun 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Working as a Consultant with Mastercard at the Vadodara tech hub with multiple responsibilities like Agile Consultant, Scrum Master and People Manager.
As an Agile Consultant, providing coaching to the various Scrum Teams and local leadership team. Also provide Scrum and Kanban consultancy to the project and product teams.
Consulting in the adoption of SAFe 4.0 at the Vadodara Tech hub. Playing the role of a local RTE for Agile Release Trains at Pune and Vadodara Tech hub.
Helping in the strategy building and adoption of ALM (Rally) at the Vadodara Tech Hub. Helping the Scrum Teams with their day to day
Completed the certification of SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA), SAFe Practioner (SP) and ScrumMaster (CSM).
As a ScrumMaster managed two scrum team. Scrum Master of a Scrum team working on Payment domain
Responsible for delivering complex server and mobile cost cutting toolkits. Currently working with a Scrum Team delivering a cost-cutting Wallet platform for multiple initiative as a Scrum Master.
Helping in the adoption of Scrum and XP best practices.
As a people manager, responsible for the technical and interpersonal growth of the engineers in the organization.
Driving goals setting, 1-1s, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly review. Recommending promotions and movement of engineers across multiple teams.
Driving various organization building activities like driving walk-in, technical brown bag sessions, project/product demos, hackathon.

Mutual mobile

Engineering Manager

Jun 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Initially worked as the Engineering Manager of the iOS department for Hyderabad location.
With self-initiative got opportunity to play the role of a Scrum Master for various client projects.
As an Engineering Manager, responsible for the technical, utilization and delivery progress of the iOS department.
Worked closely with the Project Management team to make sure that the iOS team deliver value on time and with excellent quality. Worked with PMO on requirements, deliveries, and project planning.
Drove various organization building activities like the walk-in, technical brown bag sessions, project/product demos, bench time utilization and hackathons. Worked closely with the team in the POC and Prototyping of potential client work. Participated in on-site events and represented the organization at MODS 2015.
Worked on strategic and technical collaboration between India teams and US counterpart. Worked on a strategy to enhance the cross-functional team collaboration.
Worked as a people manager of the iOS team and drove team building activities. Rewarding and recognizing the efforts of team members who have taken the extra mile, review (Yearly/Half Yearly), recommendation for promotions., Goal setting for engineers.
As a Scrum Master lead Scrum teams to deliver multiple global client projects. Removed roadblocks and increased the quality of output.
Helped in the adoption of extreme programming practices like TDD, Pair programming, and lean agile development. Received multiple appreciations for the successful delivery of quality work from the clients and management. Worked with multiple Scrum teams at the same time and delivered value to the clients.

Clarion technologies pvt ltd

Team Leader (Mobile Team)

May 2011 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Ahmedabad

Started working as a Senior Software Engineer for Blackberry and iOS technologies. The last position achieved is Technical Lead of Mobile Business Unit.
As a Senior Engineer working on multiple projects from the global client in Blackberry, Android, and iOS platforms. This included direct interaction with the client and other business stakeholders.
As a Technical Lead built the Mobile Center of Excellence at Ahmedabad and Pune location in India. Participated in Pre-sales activities, Lead and Delivered multiple global client projects.
Worked as a delivery lead of the client projects. Managed the estimation, budgeting, and P&L of the projects. Managed vendor team for the successful delivery of the value to the clients. Planned the Product development, client demos, and deployment strategy. Ensure that project delivery is on time with quality and as per client expectation. Worked closely with the clients to explore areas that will help in the expansion of Client's business.
Participated in the pre-sales activity to win clients by providing technical and strategic assistance to the potential clients.
Managed the bench time of the team by driving innovation and building products that will help in client demo for sales.
Participated in the organization building activities by driving walk-in, technical brown bag sessions, project/product demos.

Kraff softwares pvt ltd

Team Lead -- Product Development

Aug 2006 – Oct 2010 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

Started my career in this organization as a PHP developer.
The last position achieved in the organization as a Team Lead -- Product Development.
Worked extensively on Web product using Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL (LAMP). Worked on the UX using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jQuery).
Worked and managed product development on mobile technologies like iOS, Blackberry, WebOS extensively.
Participated in organization building activities including, recruiting drives, grooming sessions for developers.
As a delivery lead ensured the timely delivery of the quality product as per client expectation.
Apart from the development of products in various technologies like PHP, JavaScript, Adobe Flex, Blackberry, iOS, WebOS Palm, major contribution in the R&D of mobile and non-mobile technologies. The inception of Mobile, QA and Tech Support team in the organization.