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Avnish Kumar

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Business Process Lead at Tata Consultancy Services

Gurgaon, India

Tata Consultancy ServicesPanjab University Chandigarh, India

Highly skilled professional with more than 6 years of experience managing large-scale traditional Waterfall and Scrum projects. Well-versed in leveraging cross-functional IT, Agile, and QA teams to complete project deliverables on time and within budget. Demonstrated success applying project management best practices, technical expertise, and business acumen to consistently achieve targeted results.

Experience

Business Process Lead

Tata Consultancy Services

•Jan 2021 - Present•Gurgaon, India

Role: Project Manager/Scrum master. Facilitating all scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Facilitate the team improve their scrum practice to increase their effectiveness. Encourage team in self-management and cross functionality. Act as servant leader and support product owner to improve the transparency and effectiveness of the product backlog. Assist with the creation of effective product and sprint goals and product Vision with PO. Safeguard the use of Agile Values, Principles, Scrum values & Empirical processes to improve collaboration and value delivery. Encourage team for Lean adoption. Good Knowledge of Kanban. Tracing impediments to their root cause and facilitate team to continuously improve. Strong knowledge and implementation of metrics with the ability to help teams make better decisions using data. Facilitate organization in effective use of Scrum, Part of Agile COE. Teaching, Coaching, mentoring, building Agile mindset in individuals and teams based on situation. RAID (Risk, Issues, Assumptions, dependencies) management in JIRA.

Project Lead

Tata Consultancy Services

•Jan 2018 - Jan 2020•Gurgaon, India

Role: Project Manager. Project management tracking for all programs with sending out regular communications via summaries. Prioritize Programs based upon business value and inputs from product managers. Capture business objectives, project goals and benefits using Project Charter. Execute project with coordination with IT teams as per plan. Carry out the details of the project charter to deliver services. Ensure to meet key project objectives. Make sure all deliverables have been met and finalize the project. Monitor project progress on daily basis and track the same. Provide ideas and suggestions for improvement to meet timelines. Conduct requirements gathering via various including documentation reviews and analysis of existing process and systems documentation, existing system and process defects and change request analysis, input and output analysis of existing systems and processes stakeholder interviews.

Process Developer

Genpact India Pvt.Ltd

•Jan 2015 - Jan 2018•Gurgaon, India

Role: Subject Matter Expert. Transitioned Travel & Expense project to offshore team and successfully on boarded to operations. Adopted Lean methodology to reduce process waste and derived benefits in terms of saving 300 hours/per year.

Business Administration support

NIIT Ltd.

•Jan 2012 - Jan 2014•Gurgaon, India

Role: Account Executive. Weekly Audit of Centres in the cluster ensuring FSO related activities are completed.

Education

Panjab University Chandigarh, India

Bachelor of commerce

Commerce

Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

A conceptual understanding in Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Insurance and Management. A solid foundation in core Statistical matters.

Licenses & Certifications

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

Issued: Jan 2024• No expiration

System Thinking Practitioner

Target Agility

Issued: Jan 2024• No expiration

Critical thinking for better Judgment and decision Making

LinkedIn

Issued: Jan 2024• No expiration

Efficient Time Management

PMI

Issued: Jan 2024• No expiration

Certified Agile Project Management

PMI

Issued: Jan 2023• No expiration

Agile Certificate of Proficiency

TCS

Issued: Jan 2022• No expiration

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

TCS

Issued: Jan 2021• No expiration

Skills

Agile & Waterfall methodology
Product & Project Management with Jira & Rally
Critical & System thinking Practitioner
Interpersonal Communication
Lean Thinking