Sameer Bhegade
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FastTrack for Dynamics 365 - Success by Design
MicrosoftDec, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
MicrosoftJul, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 4 Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.Oct, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
Scaled Agile, Inc.Dec, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Advanced Scrum Master
Scaled Agile, Inc.May, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
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Experience
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Hitachi Solutions Canada
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Canada
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Project Manager
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Aug 2022 - Present
- Ability to manage project scope, risk, quality, cost, change management and schedule - Working with project sponsor to develop project communications, set direction and goals, and determine priorities - Facilitating risk assessment/mitigation sessions and follow through risk management with a balanced and business priority-driven approach - Leveraging a solid understanding of the project management life cycle and related principles, methodologies and best practices and improves such… Show more - Ability to manage project scope, risk, quality, cost, change management and schedule - Working with project sponsor to develop project communications, set direction and goals, and determine priorities - Facilitating risk assessment/mitigation sessions and follow through risk management with a balanced and business priority-driven approach - Leveraging a solid understanding of the project management life cycle and related principles, methodologies and best practices and improves such processes and execution - Manage and execute project budgets as well as ownership of project P&L - Assist with the discovery and development of SOW’s, Change orders, etc. - Participate in Steering Committee deliverables if required as part of project delivery process - Provide leadership and communication to both customers and internal Hitachi Solutions stakeholders on project progressions, challenges, threats, etc. - Participate in ongoing process improvement within Hitachi Solutions around practice, delivery teams and methodology initiatives - Achieve a revenue managed portfolio of $1.7M or better - Periodically support sales by providing estimates for new opportunities - Performs other duties or tasks as assigned or required - Complete Annual Review process for all team members - Provide first line escalation point to your team on project and professional matters Show less - Ability to manage project scope, risk, quality, cost, change management and schedule - Working with project sponsor to develop project communications, set direction and goals, and determine priorities - Facilitating risk assessment/mitigation sessions and follow through risk management with a balanced and business priority-driven approach - Leveraging a solid understanding of the project management life cycle and related principles, methodologies and best practices and improves such… Show more - Ability to manage project scope, risk, quality, cost, change management and schedule - Working with project sponsor to develop project communications, set direction and goals, and determine priorities - Facilitating risk assessment/mitigation sessions and follow through risk management with a balanced and business priority-driven approach - Leveraging a solid understanding of the project management life cycle and related principles, methodologies and best practices and improves such processes and execution - Manage and execute project budgets as well as ownership of project P&L - Assist with the discovery and development of SOW’s, Change orders, etc. - Participate in Steering Committee deliverables if required as part of project delivery process - Provide leadership and communication to both customers and internal Hitachi Solutions stakeholders on project progressions, challenges, threats, etc. - Participate in ongoing process improvement within Hitachi Solutions around practice, delivery teams and methodology initiatives - Achieve a revenue managed portfolio of $1.7M or better - Periodically support sales by providing estimates for new opportunities - Performs other duties or tasks as assigned or required - Complete Annual Review process for all team members - Provide first line escalation point to your team on project and professional matters Show less
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Infosys
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager/Scrum Master
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Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
As a Scrum Master: • Actively manage delivery of value through Stories throughout the cadence of Sprints & Product Increments, including team productivity, velocity, completion rate, & overall product quality • As a Scrum master – Guide, coach, motivate & act as a servant leader for the team with the goal of increasing productivity, engagement & morale • Organize & facility Scrum/Agile ceremonies, conduct them in time-bound & effective manner; conduct Sprint Planning &… Show more As a Scrum Master: • Actively manage delivery of value through Stories throughout the cadence of Sprints & Product Increments, including team productivity, velocity, completion rate, & overall product quality • As a Scrum master – Guide, coach, motivate & act as a servant leader for the team with the goal of increasing productivity, engagement & morale • Organize & facility Scrum/Agile ceremonies, conduct them in time-bound & effective manner; conduct Sprint Planning & Execution • Proactively enable & promote the Flow of work by working to remove impediments & timely aligning of cross-team dependencies • Proactively collaborate with fellow Scrum Masters & Stake holders to deliver shared business value • Backlog Grooming: Work with PO/BA to ensure stories are detailed enough for teams to estimate & progress, prioritized & walked through the team • Sprint Planning: Create capacity view, gating for stories & conduct sprint planning & facilitate sprint plan as a outcome • Appropriately escalate program-level & portfolio-level issues as well as opportunities • Embrace, promote, model, mentor & evolve Agile / LEAN Principles As a Project Manager: • Serves as first point of contact for Infosys Development team, establishing and maintaining strong relationship with stakeholders by effectively managing expectations and inspiring confidence in delivery Facilitation of show and tell sessions. • Manage all day-to-day activities for in terms of project scope, planning, staffing requirements, delivery and change scheduling. • Identifying risks and preparing mitigation plan. • Achieved 150% improvement in revenue for Infosys Development team, managing zero defect deliveries in-spite of challenging workload & schedule, helping maintaining client expectations. • Participating in Portfolio and steering committee meetings, preparing & presenting status reports to stakeholders, managing project financials. • Periodically review improvement process improvements and optimization ideas.
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Technology Lead
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Feb 2012 - Jan 2017
• Providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the Network & Provider domain • Participating in Requirement Elicitation and Gathering/Backlog grooming. • Interact with multiple stakeholders across – Business, Architecture, Program Management, Legal & Regulatory entities to gather requirements through JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions and documentation of Requirement Specifications. • Performing detailed system impact analysis and estimate the effort for… Show more • Providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the Network & Provider domain • Participating in Requirement Elicitation and Gathering/Backlog grooming. • Interact with multiple stakeholders across – Business, Architecture, Program Management, Legal & Regulatory entities to gather requirements through JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions and documentation of Requirement Specifications. • Performing detailed system impact analysis and estimate the effort for the change. • Participate in the PI planning and work with Product Owner (PO) to prepare the plan for the sprint level deliverables. • Coordinating and working with the offshore team for development and involved all phases from requirement gathering, design, development, testing and Production deployment. • Design, Development & Test planning, Status tracking – Work Breakdown Schedule (WBS), identifying risks and preparing risk mitigation plan. • Reviewing work of offshore team members, ensure that it is as per the laid down specifications by project/client, and meets the desired quality standards. • Providing technical know-how, support, mentoring & coaching team members on technology, business & other project specific aspects. • Providing project specific performance feedback to its team members. • Worked on training needs identification for team members. • Preparing Test strategy and data setup coordination. • Conduct demos with project team to review the deliverables prepared. • Preparing implementation plans and activities, supporting release & post implementation activities. • Reviewing the system periodically to identify areas of improvement & opportunities for business value ideas/cost saving. • Maintaining different database such as of resource allocation sheet, checklist for testing & coding and prepare weekly status report and monthly Metrics. • Interpersonal skills, Counseling/ motivating team & addressing their concerns. • Working with client managers to getting feedback & areas of improvement.
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Technology Analyst
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Nov 2006 - Feb 2012
Roles & Responsibilities: • Providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the WGS – claims and member domain for WellPoint • Participating in Requirement Elicitation and Gathering. • Performing detailed system impact analysis and estimate the effort for the change. • Creating Design, Development & Test planning, creating offshore status tracking and reporting. Preparing Test strategy and data setup coordination. • Develop the service-oriented architecture to allow… Show more Roles & Responsibilities: • Providing Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the WGS – claims and member domain for WellPoint • Participating in Requirement Elicitation and Gathering. • Performing detailed system impact analysis and estimate the effort for the change. • Creating Design, Development & Test planning, creating offshore status tracking and reporting. Preparing Test strategy and data setup coordination. • Develop the service-oriented architecture to allow consumers using different technologies like – JAVA, .NET connected successfully to the backend Mainframe applications using MQ’s, CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). • Allocating tasks to offshore team members and reviewing their work, ensure that it is as per the laid down specifications by project/client, and meets the desired quality standards. • Providing technical know-how, support, mentoring & coaching team members on technology, business & other project specific aspects. • Defect Prevention (DP) activities like preparing DP report, Brainstorming & doing Root Cause Analysis on DP report, list DP action items so that number of defects are reduced in future releases. • Knowledge Management (KM) activities like preparing KM artifacts – Tools and BOKs. • Mentoring the offshore resources.
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Education
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2002 - 2006
Pune University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics Engineering
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