Amit Kumar

About Amit Kumar

A Senior IT Professional, having diversified experience in driving large engagements such as Project Management, Delivery Management, Process Automation and Development across multiple domains; proven initiatives in developing, managing & executing projects with quality & accuracy-> Forward-focused IT Delivery Lead with expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning & implementation which includes scope management, activity sequencing, estimation, risk analysis, quality management and so on-> Performance-driven professional with excellence in client engagement; set up project delivery strategy, operations readiness & internal controls in the organization-> Natural Leader, who has successfully led and motivated team towards growth and success in the organization; created a clear & compelling view of future through coaching and execution; groomed the team with technical expertise on various facets as per requirement of the project.Current Role:Drive development, implementation, training, and support of the enterprise project management methodology. Lead cross functional teams in the deployment of enterprise-wide projects. Led multiple projects as project leader, leading a team of internal staff and external contrators in delivering business solutions-> Involve in to core development activities, includes developing packages, procedures, functions, triggers, Oracle Forms, Shell scripts, SQL scripts, as per the client requirement-> As a part of Continuous Service Improvement, developing a automation script to reduce the monotonous and monitoring tasks, which are getting identified-> Create project plans to fit stakeholder and customer needs and deliver with-in budget on desired outcomes, full accountability for project results-> Define project roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with the Customer, including project scope and objectives to ensure a cross-functional understanding among project team members-> Learn from recent projects to identify and recommend improvements, cost saving initiatives, and substitutions to positively impact current and future project schedule-> Participating in meetings, conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, & business go/no-go reviews and maintaining release repository.

Experience

1. IT Delivery Lead

   IBM

   Aug 2023 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

   Playing a key client-facing role in Europe & Middle East for delivering a impactful solutions, aligned with the Business goals.• Managing a cross functional team of nine, overseeing incremental delivery through effective sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, and sprint retrospectives.• Developing a Automation script for Application access request, which will reduce the cost, equivalent to 3 FTE in every quarter. • Developed and Delivered multiple features for Corporate Base Data application, includes (COPP Integration, SSCM Integration for Head Office Connections, SSCM Integration for GLN No, Exchange Rates feature etc.)• As a part of continuous improvement, developed & delivered process automation script for daily supplier mapping and extracting Base data report which has saved almost 50% of the manual effort. • Successfully managed a critical database migration to Cloud, ensuring no data loss and downtime.• Helped the customer to resolved multiple long pending issues with my guidance and support. • Helping the team to resolved the critical issues by utilizing my technical and leadership skill.• Involve into Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Resource Alignment, Work allocation, Estimation, Project Plan Preparation & review, Stakeholder Management, Scrum Meeting, Project Status updates.

Education

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  Master's in Computer Application, MCA

  2004

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Senior Management Program, Executive Leadership and Management