Ashwani Sharma

Ashwani Sharma

Senior Technology Support

location of Ashwani SharmaPune, Maharashtra, India

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Technology Project & Program Manager Wolters Kluwer

  • Education

    • Savitribai Phule Pune University

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      Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business Administration and Management, General
  • Experience

    • Infosys

      Nov 2012 - Oct 2015
      Senior Technology Support
    • IBM

      Oct 2015 - Jun 2019

      • Enable team in scrum development and product releases according to roadmaps for delivery • Facilitate scrum ceremonies, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review and ensuring full team engagement.• Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to maintain backlog health in preparation for execution.• Guide the scrum team on how to use Scrum best practices.• Protect the team from external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity• Anticipate, addresses and negotiate potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistical challenges) • Foster close collaboration across all team members; encourages cross-training and team support• Helping the teams to become worthy or relevant. Show less • Help the technical manager in the Large Scale implementation programs along with Maintenance/enhancement projects.• Attend bi-weekly component log meetings involving client management team and program management team.• Work with the pre-review team to complete the initial assessment of the impacted groups for new enhancements. • Develop high level project plan in line with the client requirements capturing all deliverables mentioned during the meeting with stakeholders and described in SOW.• Facilitate a kick-off with the development team to ensures R&R and dependencies within the team. Setting short term long term objectives in line with client milestones within the team. • Monitoring & controlling the progress to assess the status, risks and dependencies.• Consolidate the status of all of the enhancements and alert tech managers and the senior management on needing their attention to meet the need by dates.• Provide daily updates on the critical CSRs that have high visibility to the program management team, on the daily progress.• Coordinate with the testing team to ensure the codes are tested and all the open defects are closed, based on the severity of the defects.• Coordinate with the production support team regarding the CSRs that are signed off to be moved to Production.• Coordinate with the quality control team and ensure that the CSRs met all the quality goals.• Go through the reports circulated by the business office team and ensure that the CSR actual effort is within the estimated effort.• Audit and Management of the CSRs includes one of my major responsibilities. It includes regular audit of artefacts. In case of audit miss follow-ups are required to SEs and SMEs assigned to the CSR and ask them to upload or update the documents.• Miscellaneous Activities: Prepare and analyse the phase wise reports on EVA tool weekly to track resource utilization per CSR which helps in the weekly status meeting with Delivery heads. Show less

      • Scrum Master

        Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
      • Associate Technical Manager

        Oct 2015 - Sept 2017
    • Conexus Solutions, Inc.

      Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
      Project Coordinator
    • Mygo Consulting Inc.

      Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
      Project Coordinator
    • Wolters Kluwer

      Apr 2022 - now
      Technology Project and Program Manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Agile Project Management with Jira Cloud: 1 Projects, Boards, and Issues

      LinkedIn
      May 2024
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    • Agile Project Management with Jira Cloud: 2 Lean and Agile Processes

      LinkedIn
      May 2024
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    • Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate

      Atlassian
      May 2024
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    • Scrum: The Basics

      LinkedIn
      May 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • IBM Agile Explorer

      IBM
      Apr 2018
      View certificate certificate
    • Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

      Scrum Alliance
      Feb 2019
    • Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

      IBM
      Mar 2017
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