Santosh Ekbote

Background

About Santosh Ekbote

Overall Experience: 21+ Years Delivery Manager \ Project Manager Experience Around 10 Years Other Skills: Scrum Master, BA, Salesforce, Siebel Consultant. • Preparing the Project Plan, Leading project Life Cycle from Start to project Close. • Responsible for preparing an end-to-end plan agreed by business and to ensure that all the objectives are met, and that the solution works as expected. The solution should be tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability, and compatibility with other legacy- and / or external systems. • Preparing the test plan, Test Schedule, Test Estimation, Test Artifacts (Test Scenarios and Test Cases), Test Reports and Issue Register. • Adhered to best practices, standards, and procedures and to Ensure that the quality gates and processes are adhered strictly during delivery execution and ensure that delivery for release scope completed in time with all necessary approvals from business. • Identified cross-project dependencies, Monitored project progress and project risks and issues. Ensure these are tracked/monitored and highlighted to stake holders and make sure that mitigation and BCP plans are in place and no impact to delivery completion. • Lead international, multi-program initiatives in delivering strategic initiatives to support Organization strategic goals. • Preparing the SOW, WO and Work breakdown structure that defines business Objectives, deliverables, and Key milestones. • Preparing the Communication plan and Risk Management Plan. • Preparing RAID, Mitigation and BCP. • Program/PM/Delivery Manager with experience in Program and Portfolio Management, Operations Control, Client relationship, Quality Assurance and in project Audit. • Interfacing with various teams (Front door/ Design/ Development/ Deployment and Business) spread across different geographical locations from requirements of project-to-project closure. • Team Management, Task allocation to the team and monitoring of tasks for running successful project management operations (PMO)teams to drive and deliver complex programs on time, on budget and to the agreed scope. • Conduct process walkthrough sessions with the business stakeholders & drive sign offs. • Provide process related improvements in the team. • Ability to find innovative ways in resolving problems with strong leadership and management skills Supported & Coordinated deployment activities including Change Management readiness. Quotation: • Be Positive, nothing is impossible, everything is possible need patience