Samit Chandra, Project Manager in Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Samit Chandra

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Bio

Samit is a scrum master and project manager with expertise in Agile methodologies, including SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban, development, and QA testing. He excels in risk and stakeholder management and has successfully delivered projects using tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, Asana, and Rally. Notably, Samit delivered an app for image recognition on mobiles and premium collection for an insurance client, achieving zero defects and receiving client appreciation. His experience spans B2B and B2C.

Project Highlights

Web Service for Order Management (Client: Zürich Financial Services)
Delivered an order management application built on the web services (GV replacement).
New Application for Premium Collections (Client: Zürich Financial Services)
Developed a new application for insurance premium collections and deployed it with zero defects. The client much appreciated its value.
Image Recognition App (Client: PepsiCo)
Launched a new app in various geographies, contributing to sales revenue.

Expertise

  • Agile Project Management
  • COBOL
  • Functional Testing
  • IBM Mainframe
  • Manual Software Testing
  • QA Testing
  • SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master
  • Scrum Master

Work Experience

Scrum Master (Client Project: PepsiCo)

2022 - 2024
Venpa Staffing (C2H Tiger Analytics)
  • Established the Agile ways of working and iterative and incremental (Sprintwise) deliveries by facilitating and leading sprint ceremonies (refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives). It was very appreciated by the client.
  • Led team in PI Planning sessions and Scrum of Scrums events for planning PIs and resolving risks and dependencies. Ensured communication channels between scrum teams and product managers to discuss progress, timelines, and schedules.
  • Led the development of an image recognition app to enhance sales, which end users field-tested. Sales reps capture images of retail stores’ shelves that stock food products and use the images to compare planograms and realograms and generate reports.
  • Incorporated deep linking with a legacy app and the machine learning models integrated with the front-end code. Utilized the CI/CD deployment pipelines.
  • Launched the app in various geographies like Saudi Arabia, India, and the USA.
  • Gained proficiency in tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, Asana, and Rally for backlog management and query development to create monitoring dashboards.

Agile Project Manager | Scrum Master (Client Project: Saxo Bank)

2020 - 2022
Xebia Group
  • Led team to integrate an online investment bank into the acquiring (main) firm's ecosystem, including the client data to CRM and trades enablement for all asset types.
  • Performed the role of agile project manager and led the development and enhancement of features for the client's trading platform.
  • Handled the integration and testing of investment banking products. Ensured rigorous testing to ensure that no defects pass through.

Principal Consultant | Project Lead (Client Project: Morgan Stanley)

2011 - 2020
Genpact - Headstrong Capital Markets
  • Led a team of application developers working on features development and enhancements for investment banking client (Morgan Stanley) on order management application pertaining to back-end features integrated with the front-end UI.
  • Built web services to replace the legacy grapevine services for the trading platform wherein financial advisors place fixed income and equity trades for clients validated at the front and back end before getting executed at the exchange.
  • Led the development team in all phases of SDLC, including requirement gathering and analysis, design, build, testing, and deployment.
  • Coached team members on the Agile way of working and strategized the use of the Jira tool for the project during the Agile transformation.

Senior Software Engineer (Client Project: Zürich Financial Services)

2007 - 2011
Computer Sciences Corporation
  • Joined the team as a software engineer and was promoted to a senior role. I traveled on-site to Germany to coordinate the building and management of a new application and coordinated with offshore team members as the onshore project coordinator.
  • Created high-level and detailed designs of the new application Atriga and led the offshore team in developing and testing APIs and online screens.
  • Developed and tested new online screens for back-office end users.
  • Delivered the project for a new Insurance Premiums collection application with zero defects, which was highly appreciated by the client.

Project History

Web Service for Order Management (Client: Zürich Financial Services)

Delivered an order management application built on the web services (GV replacement).

Accomplished the build and integration of the new web service for submission and the execution of equity and fixed-income orders that replaced the legacy grapevine services.

The new web services built at the back end were integrated with the front-end application. Before integrating them into the application, the API testing of the back-end service was completed using the SoapUI tool.
With the new web service in place, trading orders submitted go through the business logic at the back end and are processed more efficiently.

New Application for Premium Collections (Client: Zürich Financial Services)

Developed a new application for insurance premium collections and deployed it with zero defects. The client much appreciated its value.

Coordinated with the developers, testers, and stakeholders from Germany and India and handled regular reporting. The project was successful, and we developed a new application to collect insurance premiums.

The new application was built to collect insurance premiums and payouts and highlight defaulters to reduce the company’s burden of missing premiums. Easy-to-use screens were created for the client's back-office teams.

Some Relevant Projects

Synchronization of all the client data between platforms.

WORK DONE
• Worked as a manual QA on the data synchronization (investment banking clients) from Binck Bank to Saxo Bank platform, as the latter acquired the former.
• Worked as a developer for the migration of data (insurance policies) to a new platform for premium collections.

Image Recognition App (Client: PepsiCo)

Launched a new app in various geographies, contributing to sales revenue.

Developed an image recognition app with capabilities built on machine learning and React Native technologies. We incorporated deep linking and machine learning models into the app to recognize SKUs and enhance sales. It captures images of food items stocked on shelves of retail stores and identifies missing SKUs that need to be stocked. It generates a report by comparing a planogram with a realogram and enables sales reps to stock the missing items, thereby enhancing sales.

Education

2024 - 2024

Training Certificate in Project Management

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi - Delhi, India

1999 - 2003

Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University - Jaunpur, India

Certifications

AUGUST 2023 - PRESENT

Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP)

Kanban University

AUGUST 2023 - PRESENT

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

JUNE 2020 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 2020 - PRESENT

SAFe 4 Agilist

Scaled Agile, Inc.

AUGUST 2010 - PRESENT

LOMA 280

LOMA

Skills

Tools

SQL, JCL, Jira, Asana, Rally

Paradigms

Agile Project Management, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Azure DevOps, B2B, B2C, Testing

Industry Expertise

Insurance

Other

Scrum Master, IBM Mainframe, Functional Testing, COBOL, Projects, Waterfall Methodology, SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master, QA Testing, Manual Software Testing, CICS, Project Planning, IBM Db2, Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM), Project Management, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum of Scrums, Delivery, IT Projects, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Coding, Business to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Consumer (D2C), Sales, Data, Promotion, Cross-functional Collaboration, UI Testing, Web Services

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