Vijay Thoota

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About Vijay Thoota

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Seasoned management professional with 18+ years of diverse experience leading & implementing large application development and cloud (Salesforce) projects. Served in pivotal roles as a project manager, program manager, Scrum Master, Business analyst, Ingenium consultant in diverse industries - Critical Event Management, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Banking & Life Insurance. Managed successfully many Full life cycle of software & business programs & Software development Life cycle involving preparing charter, planning, procedures, client/user interactions, requirement gathering & analysis, user interviews, data discovery, setting SLA's, High Level Design HLD, Low Level Design LLD, prototyping, designing, developing, code review, testing, UAT, intergration, deploying, documentation, maintaining & auditing. Have a working on-site experience with clients in Spain, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Africa. Expertise in producing quality & competitive proposals for RFPs, implementing high-quality solutions within varied engagement models and methodologies, executive business presentations for business stakeholders and Leadership. Define and develop project strategy/plan, Scope & objectives, project governance & guidance to the entire team for smooth execution. Ensure qualities of the deliverables are maintained by following standard QA and testing processes, Release management and ensured on-time delivery using project management methodologies. Adeptly manage Scrum activities and ceremonies - orchestrating Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Sprint Demos & POC's, managing the cross-functional teams to ensure a successful project execution in a collaborative environment. Focus on Project Plan Tracking, Stakeholder Management, Communication Management, Risk/Issue/Defect Management, Conflict Management, Scope & Change Management, and Servant Leadership. Focus on Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving through Root Cause Analysis, Systems Thinking approach, and Effective Communication for successful program/project outcomes. Specific hands-on experience in JIRA, Confluence, Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Scales Agile Framework(SAFe), Visio, Lucidchart, Sharepoint, Figma, Aha, Kano, Asana, Service Now.