Ajay Kumar, PMP®,PMI-ACP®

Project Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 16 years of IT industry experience with a focus on project management.
  • Expert in Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
  • Proven track record of managing diverse teams and projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Project Manager with extensive experience in Agile methodologies and technical project leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementAgile Project ManagementProduct ManagementIt Operations

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsAzure DatabricksBack-End Web DevelopmentC#Certified Information Technology ProfessionalChange ManagementChange Project ManagementClient CoordinationClient RelationsClient ServicesCommunicationComputer Application TrainingConflict Management

About

• A competent professional having over 16 years of IT industry with 9 years of rich experience in managing product implementation & development projects of Microsoft Technologies, Mobile app, Salesforce service cloud and PHP. • Proficient in implementing Agile & Scrum methodology to add value to the deliverables, planned for daily stand-ups, reviews, release, product and sprint backlog grooming & sprint demos. • Experienced in working onsite at client facing role with global customers, delivery managers, project managers, stakeholders and technical teams for securing & executing concurrent projects • Interfacing with client, engineering, cross-functional teams and product management for understanding business needs, analysing & reviewing functional and high-level technical requirements and to translate business requirements to spring deliverables. • Developing standards and processes for all projects by collaborating with the leadership, senior management and project teams across geographies on project initiation, requirements, documentation and implementation. • Successfully managed and supported coding testing and debugging in NET 4.0 Entity Frame Work using C#, .Net 4.0, ASP.NET including various integrations among various applications. • Led projects with diverse clients along with a team of 15-18 members spread across different functional areas and following project lifecycle methodology defined under the process framework, ensuring that deadlines are met • Manage multiple small to medium-sized IT projects (3-6 months), or large-scale IT Projects (6-12 months). All project management activities would be managed from project initiation to the end following System Development Life Cycle Process (SDLC) using Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid. • Playing the role of Scrum Master and ensuring User Stories are delivered by Development Team within Estimated Time and Budget. • Developing project baselines, monitoring & controlling projects with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects • Implement and manage project changes and interventions through Change Requests.

Experience

18 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Capgemini

Project Manager Scrum Master

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • Managing requirements gathering, collating project functional & technical
  • requirements; following up with clients/cross-functional team throughout the project
  • lifecycle to ensure full understanding of needs and concerns
  •  Overseeing Jira administration, Proficiently estimating the complexity and effort
  • involved in each story, while adeptly maintaining a transparent and well-documented
  • output, particularly in the context of Fix and Time & Materials (T&M) projects.
Technical Project LeadershipProject Management

Xperate

Technical Project Manager

Dec 2024Apr 2025 · 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Managing requirements gathering, collating project functional & technical requirements; following up with clients/cross-functional team throughout the project lifecycle to ensure full understanding of needs and concerns
  • Overseeing Jira administration, meticulously curating the product backlog, orchestrating sprint planning sessions, and meticulously crafting user stories. Proficiently estimating the complexity and effort involved in each story, while adeptly maintaining a transparent and well-documented output, particularly in the context of Fix and Time & Materials (T&M) projects.
  • Formulating and executing robust quality standards to govern the production of project deliverables, ensuring an elevated level of excellence and executing robust quality standards to govern the production of project deliverables, ensuring an elevated level of excellence and conformity to established benchmarks.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for the project, responsible for providing daily, weekly & monthly progress reports to key stakeholders
  • Conducting thorough assessments of project processes and outcomes with a focus on continual enhancement, employing strategic analyses to drive ongoing improvements in efficiency, effectiveness & revenue generated.
Technical Project LeadershipProject Management

Ssdb tech services

2 roles

Consultant

Aug 2024Dec 2024 · 4 mos

  • Led requirements gathering and collaborated with clients and cross-functional teams to define functional and technical project requirements, ensuring a clear understanding of needs and concerns throughout the project lifecycle. Managed Jira administration, maintained a well-organized product backlog, facilitated sprint planning sessions, and created detailed user stories. Proficient in estimating complexity and effort for each story, while ensuring transparency and thorough documentation, particularly for Time and Materials (T&M) projects. Developed and implemented quality standards to oversee the production of project deliverables, ensuring high-quality outputs that met established benchmarks and maintained excellence throughout the project lifecycle. Facilitating the onboarding and skill development of new team members.

Technical Project Manager

Oct 2023Jul 2024 · 9 mos

  • Led requirements gathering and collaborated with clients and cross-functional teams to define functional and technical project requirements, ensuring a clear understanding of needs and concerns throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Managed Jira administration, maintained a well-organized product backlog, facilitated sprint planning sessions, and created detailed user stories. Proficient in estimating complexity and effort for each story, while ensuring transparency and thorough documentation, particularly for Time and Materials (T&M) projects.
  • Developed and implemented quality standards to oversee the production of project deliverables, ensuring high-quality outputs that met established benchmarks and maintained excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Facilitating the onboarding and skill development of new team members.
WireframingTechnical Project LeadershipAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementStakeholder Management

Teamlease digital

Project Manager

Oct 2021Jun 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Managing requirements gathering, collating project functional & technical requirements; following up with clients/cross-functional team throughout the project lifecycle to ensure full understanding of needs and concerns
  • Understanding & coordinating for client’s needs / enhancements, customization, software-related issue of clients to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules
  • Analysing & developing competency among the team members, setting individual goals and monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations
  • Collaborated with Development Team Leads for providing weekly project status reports to senior management and stakeholders for decision-making.
Agile MethodologiesSoftware Project ManagementScrumProject ManagementAgile Project Management

Sequelone solutions pvt. ltd

Senior Manager - Product Management

May 2016Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to
  • guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
  • Developed project plans identifying key issues, approaches and performance
  • metrics.
  • Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established
  • schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
  • Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and
  • walkthroughs with potential application users and to develop business
  • requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and
  • user mockups.
  • Developed implementation methodologies to rein in project costs while
  • meeting key milestones.
  • Prioritized workload in order to achieve project/product goals and metrics.
  • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team
  • leads.
  • Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders, including
  • project contributors, business, operational and technical resources.
  • Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for clients by working and
  • coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
  • Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep
  • members on-task and productive.
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address
  • problems.
  • Managed implementation in HONOHR Product.
Agile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsScrumCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)SQLProduct Management

Mynd solutions pvt. ltd.

4 roles

System Manager

Promoted

Apr 2010May 2016 · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Developed project plans identifying key issues, approaches and performance metrics.
  • Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding
  • project demands.
  • Developed implementation methodologies to rein in project costs while meeting key milestones.
  • Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders, including project contributors, business,
  • operational and technical resources.
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Managed implementation in PMS & ESS Applications.
  • Analyzed architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project
  • requirements.
  • Facilitated best user experience through continuous support, training classes, improvements and
  • communication of system changes.
  • Collected customer requirements, directed testing and conducted continuous evaluations to make proactive
  • adjustments to marketing approaches.
  • Administered, supported and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues.
  • Tested programs and databases to identify issues and make necessary modifications.
Agile MethodologiesSQLIT Operations

Technical Lead

Promoted

Apr 2008Mar 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

Senior Software Developer

Promoted

Apr 2006Mar 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

Software Developer

Apr 2005Mar 2006 · 11 mos

Htech

Software Developer

Jun 2006May 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi

  • Delivered and maintained scalable system architecture to support high-availability Internet site with various internal applications.
  • Administered, supported and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers.
  • Collaborated on all stages of systems development lifecycle, from requirement gathering to production releases.
  • Coordinated with project management staff on database development timelines and project scope.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
  • Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating well-organized project plans.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
Software Development

Education

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.)

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