Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint
Jaya Kirtane
Project Manager
Summary
Agile professional with proven track record in product ownership and agile methodologies. Known for fostering collaboration and driving projects to successful completion. Highly adaptable, ensuring alignment with evolving project requirements. Expert in backlog management and stakeholder communication.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Manager / Agile Product Owner
Aldi Sued Digital Services
04.2022 - Current
- Enhanced customer satisfaction with seamless online shopping experiences and user-friendly interfaces.
- Coordinated with external vendors to deliver IT project components.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully launch new e-commerce platforms, increasing market reach and brand recognition.
- Managed backlog of user stories for 2 products simultaneously.
- Analyzed customer feedback to identify areas for improvement.
- Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
- Articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams
- Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
- Built trust among team members by encouraging open communication channels, resolving conflicts professionally, and promoting collaboration across functions.
- Worked on feature development and code implementation on front-end web applications, back-end API services, API portal and API gateway capabilities.
- Reduced time-to-market for new products through effective backlog management and sprint planning.
- Enhanced product development by implementing Agile methodologies and practices.
- Facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and daily stand-up meetings to ensure transparency in the development process.
- Led the creation of detailed user stories to provide clear guidance for development teams.
Project Manager
Provalida GMBH
11.2019 - 3 2022
- Adjusted Sugar-CRM project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications
- Sourced additional resources and staff to meet timeline demands
- Created and maintained Sprint planning timeline schedule to protect company from dead-deal expense while meeting contractual obligations
- Took active role in company growth by consistently providing quality customer service to promote growth and retention
- Delivered project's pre-determined budget in PPM by maintaining time parameters and quality standards
- Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
- Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
- Developed implementation methodologies using Jira Workflow while meeting key milestones
- Modified and directed project plans to meet organizational needs and documented with the use of confluence and gliffy diagrams.
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications
- Developed, implemented and utilized systems to effectively track permits and change order requests
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep team on-task and achieve schedule targets.
Project Management and Coordinator
Atos GMBH
05.2014 - 09.2019
- Retail business background with strong financial acumen in the direct to consumer business.
- Simultaneously manage multiple e-commerce/IT projects of varying sizes with a global, cross-functional team using agile development principles.
- Flexibility and ability to work collaboratively within a matrix, 'virtual' environment.
- Successful International Ecommerce Projects with British Petroleum, Rewe clients
- Worked with Atlassian products for Scrum like Jira, Kanban, and Confluence.
- Daily Kanban report, Progress report, KPI report, Jira statistics and Heat report presentation to the customer.
- Reviewed workload, progress and tests work of development and proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devise contingency plans.
- Tracking and monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverable.
- Solid understanding of web technologies and experience in the full life cycle planning, management, execution and launch of ecommerce projects
- Maintain regular communication with both the customer and internal teams, and constantly manage
Technical Lead
Lester Info Services
03.2012 - 04.2014
- Customization of SugarCRM as per business requirements
- Derived conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver SUGARCRM software and Payroll application according to specifications for usability, performance and functionality
- Managed team of four personnel focused on implementing resolutions and updates
- Developed technical solutions to diverse operational problems
- Established online configuration knowledge base to support functionality by developing robust system application overview
- Mentored junior developers to coach on industry best practices and techniques, resulting in competent developers and greater client satisfaction.
Education
Master of Computer Science -
05.2009 - 05.2011
Bachelor of Computer Science -
05.2006 - 05.2008
Skills
Project Management
Ecommerce/Web Technologies
Incident and Problem Management
Timeline management
Product backlog management
Sprint planning
Stakeholder collaboration
Release planning
Cross-functional coordination
Story planning
Agile frameworks
Project development and Agile lifecycle
Customer engagement
User story creation
Certification
Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner
Software
Project Portfolio Management
Libre
Jira, Confluence
Miro
PHP, SQL Database
Insomnia
Microsoft Sharepoint
Timeline
Project Manager / Agile Product Owner - Aldi Sued Digital Services
04.2022 - Current
Project Manager - Provalida GMBH
11.2019 - 3 2022
Project Management and Coordinator - Atos GMBH
05.2014 - 09.2019
Technical Lead - Lester Info Services
03.2012 - 04.2014
University of Pune - Master of Computer Science,
05.2009 - 05.2011
University of Pune - Bachelor of Computer Science,
05.2006 - 05.2008