Swanand Deshpande

About Swanand Deshpande

Result-driven project & program management professional armed with 10+ years of…

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Cognizant

   Oct 2017 — Present

   Assured > 90% on-time weekly releases for COVID-19 Antigen Rapid testing suite of mobile and web applications by working with more than 6 different product workstreams • Designed & streamlined the release process to align the roles & responsibility across the Release, Product, Test, and Quality teams • Spearheaded the delivery of Database, Service Management Office (SMO), L1.5, Cloud, DevOps, and group of project managers as part of large managed services engagement by improving the margins by 20% and increasing revenue by 30% in the first year • Conducted weekly Release Check-in meetings to review release candidates across Product workstreams and ensuring 100% compliance for Stage and Prod readiness documents • Managed Exec. level communications and weekly steering committee meetings providing the highlights, impediments, risks, issues, and mitigation strategies on various critical programs • Trained more than 50 team members on the release & defect management process across business, quality/compliance, and business groups • Spearheaded & Coordinated >$20 million B2B & B2C e-Commerce programs, leveraging multiple delivery partners, to re-platform legacy websites to the strategic solution to Magento • Championed the Similac integration with Quotient (Digital Offers) and adding Amazon, Target as ecommerce retailers initiatives. This helped in increasing the brand reach to Consumers by 20% • Led the Enterprise Digital Asset Management Solution initiative by conducting interviews with divisional representatives to consolidate pain points, use cases, barriers, and assets in scope. Presented the suitable solution options for Vendor selection thru RFI process resulting in the right pick of the Vendor in 2 month time-frame • Drove the initiative to replace Lotus notes based SLC repository with HP Quality Center VERA. Ensured the timely completion of the 6 month long project by working with multiple delivery partners and ensuring the regulation & compliance

Education

• University of Pune

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• University of Pune

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2002 — 2004

Skills

• Itil
• Oracle
• Xml
• Enterprise Architecture
• Client Relations
• Program Management
• Project Coordination
• Solution Architecture
• Vendor Management
• Transition Support
• Integration
• P&L Management
• Process Improvement
• Visio
• Global Delivery
• Systems Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Global Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Management
• Business Intelligence
• Software Project Management
• IT Service Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Sdlc
• Requirements Analysis
• IT Strategy
• Project Delivery
• Service Delivery Management