Vijay James PMP, CSM, KMP, ITIL
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French Elementary proficiency
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Willians Ribeiro Cunha
During the time we worked together, Vijay served as Project Manager / Agile Team Lead and contributed significantly to the project to understand the Scrum rules, allowing the team to be self-directed and be multifunctional, thereby helping the team to create high value aggregate for our sprint iterations. Vijay has always demonstrated a deep understanding of Scrum's practices and principles, and real-world experience always acts as an excellent facilitator and mentor. His Agile knowledge also helped us find best practices to overcome impediments and improve the velocity of the scrum team and also contributed significantly to our solutions . His technical skills and in-depth knowledge and best practices have always been strongly emphasized, with Vijay being naturally a leadership trait with in-depth leadership experience with global teams and is an asset for any organization.
Kareninne C.
Working with Vijay at the Secure Workplace Portfolio has been a very pleasant experience. During the time he has worked in my team, he has demonstrated a huge sense of commitment and ownership on the areas he was responsible for. On top of his main tasks, he was always keen in learning and going the extra mile to support the success of the program. His positive attitude and skills as a Project Manager allowed him to keep growing his responsibilities both with the portfolio but also taking bigger challenges within IBM. Vijay is a true leader, hands on and enthusiastic and these qualities have been recognized by the organization when he was selected to be part of a global leadership development program called IBM Service Corps. As an alumni of the same program and being able to watch Vijay's growth over the years is something that makes me really proud of. I would strongly recommend him to management / leadership roles as he can easily adapt to different segments. Success Vijay!
Willians Ribeiro Cunha
During the time we worked together, Vijay served as Project Manager / Agile Team Lead and contributed significantly to the project to understand the Scrum rules, allowing the team to be self-directed and be multifunctional, thereby helping the team to create high value aggregate for our sprint iterations. Vijay has always demonstrated a deep understanding of Scrum's practices and principles, and real-world experience always acts as an excellent facilitator and mentor. His Agile knowledge also helped us find best practices to overcome impediments and improve the velocity of the scrum team and also contributed significantly to our solutions . His technical skills and in-depth knowledge and best practices have always been strongly emphasized, with Vijay being naturally a leadership trait with in-depth leadership experience with global teams and is an asset for any organization.
Kareninne C.
Working with Vijay at the Secure Workplace Portfolio has been a very pleasant experience. During the time he has worked in my team, he has demonstrated a huge sense of commitment and ownership on the areas he was responsible for. On top of his main tasks, he was always keen in learning and going the extra mile to support the success of the program. His positive attitude and skills as a Project Manager allowed him to keep growing his responsibilities both with the portfolio but also taking bigger challenges within IBM. Vijay is a true leader, hands on and enthusiastic and these qualities have been recognized by the organization when he was selected to be part of a global leadership development program called IBM Service Corps. As an alumni of the same program and being able to watch Vijay's growth over the years is something that makes me really proud of. I would strongly recommend him to management / leadership roles as he can easily adapt to different segments. Success Vijay!
Willians Ribeiro Cunha
During the time we worked together, Vijay served as Project Manager / Agile Team Lead and contributed significantly to the project to understand the Scrum rules, allowing the team to be self-directed and be multifunctional, thereby helping the team to create high value aggregate for our sprint iterations. Vijay has always demonstrated a deep understanding of Scrum's practices and principles, and real-world experience always acts as an excellent facilitator and mentor. His Agile knowledge also helped us find best practices to overcome impediments and improve the velocity of the scrum team and also contributed significantly to our solutions . His technical skills and in-depth knowledge and best practices have always been strongly emphasized, with Vijay being naturally a leadership trait with in-depth leadership experience with global teams and is an asset for any organization.
Kareninne C.
Working with Vijay at the Secure Workplace Portfolio has been a very pleasant experience. During the time he has worked in my team, he has demonstrated a huge sense of commitment and ownership on the areas he was responsible for. On top of his main tasks, he was always keen in learning and going the extra mile to support the success of the program. His positive attitude and skills as a Project Manager allowed him to keep growing his responsibilities both with the portfolio but also taking bigger challenges within IBM. Vijay is a true leader, hands on and enthusiastic and these qualities have been recognized by the organization when he was selected to be part of a global leadership development program called IBM Service Corps. As an alumni of the same program and being able to watch Vijay's growth over the years is something that makes me really proud of. I would strongly recommend him to management / leadership roles as he can easily adapt to different segments. Success Vijay!
Willians Ribeiro Cunha
During the time we worked together, Vijay served as Project Manager / Agile Team Lead and contributed significantly to the project to understand the Scrum rules, allowing the team to be self-directed and be multifunctional, thereby helping the team to create high value aggregate for our sprint iterations. Vijay has always demonstrated a deep understanding of Scrum's practices and principles, and real-world experience always acts as an excellent facilitator and mentor. His Agile knowledge also helped us find best practices to overcome impediments and improve the velocity of the scrum team and also contributed significantly to our solutions . His technical skills and in-depth knowledge and best practices have always been strongly emphasized, with Vijay being naturally a leadership trait with in-depth leadership experience with global teams and is an asset for any organization.
Kareninne C.
Working with Vijay at the Secure Workplace Portfolio has been a very pleasant experience. During the time he has worked in my team, he has demonstrated a huge sense of commitment and ownership on the areas he was responsible for. On top of his main tasks, he was always keen in learning and going the extra mile to support the success of the program. His positive attitude and skills as a Project Manager allowed him to keep growing his responsibilities both with the portfolio but also taking bigger challenges within IBM. Vijay is a true leader, hands on and enthusiastic and these qualities have been recognized by the organization when he was selected to be part of a global leadership development program called IBM Service Corps. As an alumni of the same program and being able to watch Vijay's growth over the years is something that makes me really proud of. I would strongly recommend him to management / leadership roles as he can easily adapt to different segments. Success Vijay!
Credentials
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Having Difficult Conversations
LinkedInMay, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
SAP S/4HANA Cloud - Support and Success Essentials for SAP Cloud Solutions
SAPMay, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Artificial Intelligence for Project Managers
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Business Acumen for Project Managers
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Change Management for Projects
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers (Blinkist Summary)
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Executive Leadership
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Kanban System Implementation
Kanban UniversityDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Leadership Skills for The Future
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Learning Program Management
LinkedInDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Kanban System Design®
Kanban UniversitySep, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Project Management: Technical Projects
LinkedInJan, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
ITIL® Certificate in IT Service Management
PeopleCertMar, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
IBM Agile Explorer
IBMJan, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Corporate Service Corps Alum
IBMDec, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Digital Marketing
MSME Technology Development Centre, Govt. of India OrganizationAug, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
Certificate of Japanese Language Proficiency N4
Japanese-Language Proficiency Test CertificateJan, 2009- Nov, 2024 -
Certificat de langue Française - Niveau Un
Alliance Française de MadrasMay, 2006- Nov, 2024 -
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Project Management InstituteNov, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
Scrum AllianceJan, 2016- Nov, 2024
Experience
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ILLUMITI
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Canada
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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Feb 2023 - Present
★ Responsible for the implementation of SAP ByD ERP solution (FIN, HR, SCM). ★ Served as Acting Project Director during the medical leave of Senior Project Director. ★ Provided leadership guidance to PMs and presented project status reports to Vice President, Project Delivery. ★ Acted as point of escalation for project issues and facilitated decision-making processes. ★ Created project artifacts to establish a structured framework in adherence to Global PMO. Industry… Show more ★ Responsible for the implementation of SAP ByD ERP solution (FIN, HR, SCM). ★ Served as Acting Project Director during the medical leave of Senior Project Director. ★ Provided leadership guidance to PMs and presented project status reports to Vice President, Project Delivery. ★ Acted as point of escalation for project issues and facilitated decision-making processes. ★ Created project artifacts to establish a structured framework in adherence to Global PMO. Industry Verticals: ★ Mining (Uranium, Gold, Silver, Potash) industries ★ Technology (Semiconductor) industries Technology and Tools used: SAP Business ByDesign, SAP Enable Now, SharePoint Document Library, DocuSign, ClickUp, Teams, SmartSheet
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Cloud Solutions Project Manager
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Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
★ Successfully delivered multiple SAP implementation projects ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivering projects on time and within budget. ★ Developed and maintained strong client relationships serving as a trusted advisor and addressing client concerns and expectations throughout the project life cycle. ★ Managed project budgets, tracked financials, and reported project status to client PM, ensuring cost-effectiveness and financial transparency. ★ Led project team… Show more ★ Successfully delivered multiple SAP implementation projects ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivering projects on time and within budget. ★ Developed and maintained strong client relationships serving as a trusted advisor and addressing client concerns and expectations throughout the project life cycle. ★ Managed project budgets, tracked financials, and reported project status to client PM, ensuring cost-effectiveness and financial transparency. ★ Led project team from project kickoff, facilitating blueprint creation, solution walkthrough, data migration, user acceptance testing, cutover preparation, solution adoption, and production tenant deployment, ensuring adherence to project milestones, quality gates, and standards. ★ Proactively documented and managed project issues through appropriate escalation channels facilitating critical decisions and timely resolutions.
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Casa Foundation
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Canada
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Program Manager
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Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
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Skills for Change
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Canada
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Non-profit Organizations
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100 - 200 Employee
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Project Manager, Programs and Strategic Initiatives
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Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Project Manager/ Scrum Master: B2B Enterprise Integration
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Apr 2015 - Feb 2018
★ Digitally integrated USD billion-dollar business partners into IBM’s payment gateway - Sterling Commerce for various lines of business, facilitating the digital transaction for order and invoice management with overall program budget exceeding $8 million ★ Lead team of 12 comprising of EDI developers and life cycle management operations support specialists and extensively collaborated with distributed scrum teams ★ Lead Project Management delivery through Jira, Atlassian Confluence, MS… Show more ★ Digitally integrated USD billion-dollar business partners into IBM’s payment gateway - Sterling Commerce for various lines of business, facilitating the digital transaction for order and invoice management with overall program budget exceeding $8 million ★ Lead team of 12 comprising of EDI developers and life cycle management operations support specialists and extensively collaborated with distributed scrum teams ★ Lead Project Management delivery through Jira, Atlassian Confluence, MS Project, Trello and Slack ★ Increased project deliverables by 30% by through Agile practices of the social contract, daily scrum, iteration planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospective meetings and managing team mood ★ Program focal for IBM Global Privacy assessment (GPA) effort in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), I developed Subject Matter Expertise and led the effort to support assessments for 27 applications.
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Pro Bono Consultant - IBM Corporate Service Corps
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Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
★ I'm a proud IBM Corporate Service Corps alumni. CSC is IBM’s competitive leadership program and corporate social responsibility, that has a 10% selection rate among qualified candidates. ★ I was deployed in the city of Fes, Morocco in October - November 2017, to partner with Faculty of Science Dhar Mahraz, in Fes, Morocco. ★ Teaming with Professor Adnane Remmal (Inventor of the Year 2017 – EPO), I created a project design to incubate organic agri-business start-ups that would benefit… Show more ★ I'm a proud IBM Corporate Service Corps alumni. CSC is IBM’s competitive leadership program and corporate social responsibility, that has a 10% selection rate among qualified candidates. ★ I was deployed in the city of Fes, Morocco in October - November 2017, to partner with Faculty of Science Dhar Mahraz, in Fes, Morocco. ★ Teaming with Professor Adnane Remmal (Inventor of the Year 2017 – EPO), I created a project design to incubate organic agri-business start-ups that would benefit the youth of Fes.
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Project Manager - Change Management
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Feb 2009 - Apr 2015
★ Managed a secure environment within the enterprise through change management targeting 380,000 employees across IBM worldwide locations with an overall program budget exceeding $750K ★ Lead a team size of 4 comprising of project and communication specialists ★ Managed Modern Browsers project which eliminated 99% of the legacy browsers in IBM ensuring malware eradication and information security of the enterprise ★ Communicated with Leadership and Directors for Senior Vice Presidents… Show more ★ Managed a secure environment within the enterprise through change management targeting 380,000 employees across IBM worldwide locations with an overall program budget exceeding $750K ★ Lead a team size of 4 comprising of project and communication specialists ★ Managed Modern Browsers project which eliminated 99% of the legacy browsers in IBM ensuring malware eradication and information security of the enterprise ★ Communicated with Leadership and Directors for Senior Vice Presidents corporate communications ★ Drive 100% compliance and end-user adoption
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Education
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2021 - 2021
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Business Edge Program -
2002 - 2005
Loyola College
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science -
2011 - 2013
Symbiosis (SCDL)
Corporate Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Sponsored by IBM), International Business, Marketing -
1999 - 2002
Bishop Heber College
Bachelor in Science, Physics
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