Vedant Sahay
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Mississauga, ON, Canada
Toptal member since February 9, 2021
Vedant is a project manager with extensive experience leading a portfolio of software implementations from inception to completion across several industries and domains, including media, environment, health, and safety (EH&S), manufacturing, and IT consulting. Vedant excel at liaising with customers and technical teams to deliver business value while ensuring budget, risk, schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction commitments.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Program Management
- Agile Project Management
- IT Consulting
- IT Program Management
- IT Project Management
- IT Service Delivery
- Software Implementation
- Team Leadership
Work Experience
Senior Project Manager
Firstlight Media
- Coordinated with the architecture and engineering teams to deliver next-generation product features and customer projects via the implementation of over 350 product stories and over 5,000 man hours of development effort within a year.
- Coached teams to ensure adoption of Agile and DevOps practices and ensured that the ceremonies were not just ceremonial.
- Setup the automation and dashboard in Atlassian Jira to record metrics for product and technical stories and the management of dependencies.
Senior Project Manager
AT&T
- Managed the end-to-end delivery of complex media applications for a leading content provider in South America; included video-on-demand, live and kids content offerings rolled out to 1.5 million subscribers across 48 countries and in three languages.
- Led several internal functions including client software development kit (SDK) development, media processing, content management, UI development, middleware services, and quality assurance to deliver on time, within specs, and within budget.
- Managed multiple vendor engagements including the statement of work (SOW), delivery status, renewals, and escalations for client UI development and user management services.
Manager, Professional Services
Intelex
- Architected and managed Intelex product implementations to improve environmental health and safety (EHS) processes for over 40 global customers in various industries.
- Managed teams of project managers, consultants, and solution architects.
- Took on several troubled accounts mid-flight and turned them into referenceable clients.
- Interfaced with product management to assist with design of interfaces for Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), Ontario and WorkSafe British Columbia and developed solutions for adherence to regulatory mandates across North America.
IT Project Manager
Husky Injection Molding Systems
- Worked as a member of strategic initiatives group and collaborated with procurement and finance teams to analyze global IT spending and effected a cost savings of $1.3 million far exceeding set transformation targets.
- Conceptualized and developed an automated framework for analyzing IT spending to improve financial accountability.
- Analyzed month-to-month spending and helped reallocate misclassified telecom spends (totaling over $600,000) for accurate budget forecasting.
- Spearheaded efforts to automate monitoring and optimize telecom spending across the organization.
Project Manager
Collabera
- Led the strategic process-improvement initiative at AT&T to plug revenue leakage worth $500,000 and achieve compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Identified opportunities that led to new business worth $1.7 million by demonstrating value in replicating existing revenue monitoring model to business customers and reseller accounts.
- Spearheaded a personal initiative to institute an online interface to serve as a knowledgebase and streamline the user request process for Verizon’s DSL support team.
- Managed a 14-member team handling DSL ordering workflow at Verizon; improved system availability and optimized resource allocation by instituting process automation.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
- Led every aspect of project delivery—including planning and budgeting, change management, quality assurance, risk management, communication with all teams, and liaising between client and technology teams.
- Ensured the on-time, defect-free delivery of 12 process improvement projects—some featured in General Electric's (GE) newsletter.
- Reduced the cycle time from ten weeks to two weeks for GE Healthcare’s annual physical inventory reconciliation.
Project History
Delivery of an Over-the-top (OTT) Media Application for One of the Largest Production Studios
Delivered back-end services and a client app for an OTT media app on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, web, TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes) across 48 countries and three languages—improved app ratings by 50% within six months of launch.
The application was rolled out to over 1.5-million paid subscribers across 48 countries (in South America) in three languages. Complexities included managing regional entitlements, regulatory requirements, and customized storefronts for each country.
We also rolled out a "kids" application for the same customer, voted among "Best Applications of the Year" by Apple, Inc.
I was also responsible for delivering the entire solution, executive reporting, escalations, budgeting, and risk management. I ensured the successful transition to the ongoing support team and service level agreement (SLA) compliance throughout the project's lifecycle.
Analysis and Reduction of IT Spending at Husky
Partnered with procurement and finance teams to analyze global IT spending and effected cost savings of $1.3 million—exceeding transformational targets set by management.
I set up a centrally managed repository providing visibility into misclassified and recurring spend that could be eliminated and/or renegotiated.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree in Project Management
Queen's University - Kingston, ON, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra, India
Certifications
SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile
Agile SAFe 4 Practitioner
Scaled Agile
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Skills
Tools
Jira
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Agile Product Management, Lean Project Management
Industry Expertise
EH&S, Architecture
Other
IT Projects, Consulting, IT Consulting, IT Project Management, IT Program Management, Leadership, Team Leadership, Remote Work, Customer Success, Software Implementation, Product Delivery, Agile Practices, Project Management, Innovation, IT Service Delivery, Project Delivery, Content Management Systems (CMS), IT Business Analysis, Mobile, Mobile Applications, Stakeholder Management, Agile Program Management, Training, Product Management, Media Production, Data Analysis, Training & Training Content Development, Product Owner
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