Avinash Kumar

Project Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led major technology releases at Walmart.
  • Developed fundraising strategies for VC firms.
  • Coached teams in Agile methodologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a versatile Project Manager with expertise in Agile methodologies across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementAgile LeadershipBusiness StrategyProduct ManagementAgile CoachingScrum MasteryAgile MethodologiesBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

ConfluenceJiraResource ManagementFundraisingScrumRPA DevelopmentScaled Agile FrameworkCapacity PlanningUiPathProject Portfolio ManagementAgile EnvironmentBusiness AnalyticsProject PlanningMicrosoft ProjectAgile Application Development

About

I believe in perseverance and dedication. The more you hustle the more you grow, the greater you search for details, the greater are your chances to uncover pearl. I do not like myself to get identified by limited things. I believe in knowing more and making use of the known knowledge. I do not try to bind myself to a particular professional domain. I am someone who wants to try multiple things, I like to explore new ways of solving new problems.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
4 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Walmart

Project Manager

Jul 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · India

  • Oversaw a team of 20+ professionals to successfully manage 12+
  • major technology releases per year with projects ranging from
  • $50,0000 to over $ 90,0000 requiring 12,000+ resource hours.
  • Lead all aspects of projects, including capacity planning,
  • resource allocation, project documentation, client engagement,
  • and change management.
  • Enhanced project-wise efficiencies by creating 13+ filters and a
  • dashboard in Jira to monitor the progress of 350 to 400 bugs and
  • enhancement tickets.
  • Addressed and resolved project risks, roadblocks, and obstacles
  • while securing resources to efficiently complete deliverables.
  • Managed seven Scrum Masters across the Solution on a day-today
  • basis.
  • Coordinated Solution Train and Agile Release Train events including
  • Program Refinement, Pre & Post Planning, PI Planning, Inspect and
  • Adapt (I&A) as SaFe Expert.
Agile MethodologiesConfluenceProject ManagementAgile Leadership

Cloudfeather games

Chief Operating Officer

Oct 2020Jul 2021 · 9 mos · India

  • Assisted CEO in developing and implementing actionable business
  • strategies, charting out fundraising avenues and pitching to large
  • VC firms with AUM over 1 billion USD.
  • Managed the company’s commercial digital products (B2B SaaS) as
  • CBO in the early phase of the startup from conceptualization to
  • GTM strategy development.
  • Established and maintained agile processes to manage scope
  • over the project lifecycle, setting project quality and
  • performance standards, and assessed and managed risk across,
  • multiple projects.
  • Coached
FundraisingBusiness StrategyProduct Management

Pocket52

Agile Coach

Apr 2019Aug 2019 · 4 mos · India

  • Coached Software Development teams and Implemented Scrum
  • and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Practices.
  • Unified Java platform team which enabled data, news, analytics
  • financial and risk tools, applications, infrastructure, and
  • services.
  • Worked with the Center of Excellence (CoE) and continuous
  • delivery practice team.
  • Coached RPA development teams to evolve like Agile projects
  • and priorities to meet business needs, ensured communication
  • of project progress, status, issues, and problem resolutions in a
  • timely manner, communicated vision, and roadmap, and
  • developed and influenced consistent Agile practices.
  • Coached development teams through agile transitions by
  • infusing a complete understanding of the Scrum framework and
  • its benefits.
  • Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing
  • the aspects of agile software development that help them
  • achieve their goals without creating churn on development
  • teams.
  • Led the adoption of tools, artifacts, and ceremonies to
  • promote a better investment in team productivity,
  • communication, and autonomy.
Agile MethodologiesProject ManagementAgile Coaching

Frontleague ventures pvt ltd

Scrum Master

Aug 2014Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos · India

  • Responsible for effective recurring status meetings with the
  • product, portfolio, and delivery managers.
  • Managed and improved the team's health.
  • Worked closely with the Product Owner to define project scope
  • and objectives.
  • Worked effectively with Scrum teams to identify and solve the
  • roadblocks.
  • Guided team through the continual improvement processes
  • infused with Agile concepts & methodologies, which led to the
  • adoption of an Agile mindset, as a result, the team experienced
  • Improved requirements-gathering processes and hence improved
  • story writing procedure evolved which led to an increase in
  • customer satisfaction.
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog
  • grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
  • Acted as the interface for infrastructure provisioning – Capacity
  • analysis, planning, and addition of resources to survive peak
  • season.
  • Designed digital transformation strategies for multiple giant IT
  • organizations.
  • Defined project KPI and published release plan.
  • Managed four projects each year while maintaining adherence to
  • budget, schedule, and scope requirements.
  • Operated under Scrum and SAFE frameworks to efficiently
  • organize and carry out project tasks.
  • Produced Velocity, burn down, defect spill over and test coverage
  • reports for each Sprint and updated customers and senior
  • leaders on progress and roadblocks
Agile MethodologiesScaled Agile FrameworkScrum Mastery

United breweries ltd.

Senior Business Analyst

Jul 2012Jul 2014 · 2 yrs · India

  • Worked on requirement gathering with the client and created
  • PDD & Solution Design Document (SDD).
  • Strong hands-on applied working experience in Bot design,
  • development, UAT, and hyper care management using UiPath.
  • Assisted product teams to identify test automation gaps, and
  • developed solutions to address them.
  • Coordinated with business analysts, and external vendors
  • during the execution process.
  • Designed robotics automation process solutions in
  • accordance with standard design principles and Conventions.
Business AnalysisProject Management

Education

Indian Institute of Management Nagpur

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing

Jul 2017May 2019

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