Amit Gaikwad

Amit Gaikwad Associate Project Manager Experienced IT Project manager with a demonstrated history of working in the IT services and product industry with over 2.6+ years of experience. Skilled in Software Project Management, Process Improvement, and IT Service Management, for international prop-tech companies. Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet timeline and budgetary targets, specifically for Android, iOS, React native and angular technologies. WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS Associate Project Manager Eastern Enterprise B.V. 05/2018 – Present Eastern Enterprise is an IT Services Company specialized in crafting software solutions for startups, small & medium enterprises. EE is helping 100+ clients across Europe in creating software solutions. Achievements/Tasks           Leading teams across broad technical, business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired quality results. Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments. Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures. Responsible to manage concurrently multiple key projects under web and mobile applications Development. Managing all aspects of business and project development from initial scoping through strategic and fiscal planning to final delivery. Reviewing the Functional Specification Document (FSDs) to ensure low-level functional Requirements are met. Experience in managing diversified projects with different software development methodology like Scrum, kanban and waterfall Iterative methodology. Prepare sprint planning and provide the same to the product owner to prioritize the backlog. Expectation and relationship management activities with clients. Assisted DM (Delivery Mangers) in maintaining project schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), issue/decision logs, meeting summaries and status reports to ensure effective, ongoing communications across all team members. Responsible for preparing MS Project plans for fixed priced projects, Release planning, progress monitoring, mentoring the Developers and Testers. EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering (BE). University of Pune 06/2012 – 06/2016 Pune,India Courses Major in Computer Engineering. Accomplished BE degree With first class. WORK EXPERIENCE SQA Process Consultant Cybage software Pvt Ltd. 06/2016 – 05/2018 Cybage Software is a technology consulting organization specializing in outsourced product engineering services. . Achievements/Tasks  Strong understanding of all project management aspect and methodologies. Including business risk, resourcing, planning, scrum ceremonies, estimations and scope. To evaluate and audit the different projects in terms to achieve the quality.  Worked Closely with CTO for Process improvement. Moreover, contributing in process improvement agenda of Cybage.  Worked as SQA for Development, Maintenance, Pure QA, Development and Sustained Engineering projects.  Ensure the project follows the agile methodology and its practices by measuring the agile specific metrics and report to management on identified business risks and issues.  Review and Facilitation of business risk and proposing the solution to mitigate them.  Facilitation for Defect Prevention Activities (DPA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in the project.  Knowledge of various SDLC and Project management process. Exposure in handling agile projects and processes. Also, agile specific estimation techniques.  Admin level expertise in handling various ALM tools (TFS, Jira, Confluence) to generate the report and analysis of the project specific metrics.