Mag. SAMARTH KARNEKAR

• Led the scrum teams and drive the agile projects which helps to develop a consolidated business and technology roadmap to ensure that resources, interdependencies and business priorities are effectively aligned. • Developed, optimized and implemented agile strategies using technologies and concepts to ensure reliable operation across the projects. • Provided intensive agile coaching, training and support to Scrum Masters, teams and agile coaches. on agile projects while mentoring SME’s.

• Led strategic Release Planning and tactical Iteration Planning sessions. • Conducted daily stand-ups in two-week Iterations, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning • Coached leaders and teams through the transformation and provided the necessary training and references to enable the ideal management and team structures • Provided reporting at the team and LOB level on team performance against agile measurements • Mentored and trained Scrum Masters, teams and agile coaches

Spearheaded end-to-end service transition and transformation projects on a global scale including the successful transition of 113 FTE’s from Italy to India for Vodafone. Migrated all IT infrastructure and business processes to achieve objectives. Key Accomplishments: • Prepared transition plan, staffing plan, risk identification & mitigation and delivered accurate & timely financial forecasts for project planning and decision-making.

Orchestrated the end-to-end project lifecycle from inception to production release for a range of application and infrastructure initiatives. Successfully managed several simultaneous projects including a major data-center migration/upgrade, testing, implementation, and configuration. Key Accomplishments: • Led a data centre migration for Credit Suisse Bank that produced an 8.3 % cost saving worth €5.7 million.

• Managed End to End projects which includes planning, estimating, staffing, organizing IT operations and also monitoring and dealing with critical issues and risks areas. • Ensured that all infra deployment & app releases are scoped, built, tested and implemented to agreed schedules and that the team shall adopt a zero-defect policy. • Effectively handled kickoff meetings (internal & client) • Sign off the official Project completion with the client

• Lead of scrum teams as Agile Project Manager • Provided vision and direction to the Agile development team and internal & external stakeholders throughout the project and created requirements • Ensured that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on. • Planned and prioritized product feature backlog and development for the product • Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities • Assessed value, developed cases, and prioritized stories, epics and themes.

•Developed moderately complex software in C, C++, C#, Java, assembly language, or other selected languages for various products and/or applications consistently following coding standards and in accordance with applicable software development methodology and release processes •Utilized software engineering tools such as CMS, build processes, and debuggers in the SDLC process •Created and executed designs for small sets of new functionality as part of a software project Performed as a technical leader

Agile methodology , Scrum Practices

Business Administration General Management

Computer Science & Application Software Development Project Management Oracle/VB/.NET/JAVA C/C++

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Computer Science Software Development