Ashish Sharma , ILFORD, United Kingdom

Ashish is an Agile IT Project Manager with over 17 years of experience in Banking and financial services, Telecom and Utilities domain. I specialize in delivering major technology application program in a fast-paced Agile environment of complex, business critical large projects and has successfully undertaken roles at Senior IT project manager, Scrum master, Technology project manager and Delivery manager levels.

He has extensive experience of bringing DevOps best practices and processes that enable integration and deployment of applications maximizing efficiency.

CORE SKILL/COMPETENCIES
· End to end project management using Waterfall and Agile
· Project delivery using DevOps, Scrum, Kanban and good knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe)
· Leading scrum team as Scrum Master
· Large scale projects including Legal, Regulatory and Compliance application changes.
· Proficiency in using Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Project Plan, Clarity, Microsoft Project Server
· Release management and coordination (Continuous integration (CI), Continuous delivery (CD) using Jenkins.
· Working as a consultant in Transformation Program and Automation Garage (Specialization in Data Science / Machine Learning)
· Business and IT Planning, ROI analysis, Budget management, 3rd Party management
· Collaborative technology experience of using WebEx, Confluence, Hive
· Strong leadership skills of a direct/indirect delivery team and associated delivery partners and suppliers both on and offshore
· Stakeholder and relationship management of customer and supplier (External third par-ties) senior management levels
· Statement of Work (SOW), Vendor Relations, ROI analysis
· AWS Certified Solution Architect

Project Management /Project Life Cycle
· Planning, coordination of programs from initiation to implementation
· Produce and track management metrics to ensure project progress
· Stakeholder and relationship management between Product owner, Business team, delivery team and External third parties
· Proficiency in using Microsoft Office suite, MS Project, Clarity, JIRA, Confluence
Leadership
· Lead green field establishment of Artificial Intelligence(AI) lab facilitating Infrastructure, Re-sourcing, Branding, Customer engagement and create proof of concept and propose new so-lution
· Work with senior stakeholders on strategic planning and lead initiatives into result
· Strong team leadership skills of a direct/indirect delivery team at both onshore, offshore and multi geographic location