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Somashekar N

@somashekarn

Project Manager and Program Manager at Mphasis Limited

Bangalore

Mphasis LimitedVTU

IT professional with 16+ years in Telecom products and Logistics. Agile Project Manager and Program Manager with expertise in Agile planning and leadership while working with cross-functional and geographically distributed Scrum teams. Highly skilled in project management processes and championing ongoing process improvement initiatives by adopting Agile/Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe best practices with strong business results.

Experience

Project Manager and Program Manager

Mphasis Limited

Jun 2021 - PresentBangalore

Working on the project EU Sort ART/Condor on the Location Translation, Geopolitical, Asset Core, Product UI and Dispatch Modernization for FedEx project. Responsible for Invoice generation, PRRISM Update, TRMS update, VMO Resource update and Manager authentication update. Handling four scrum teams: Product Edge, Asset Core, Dispatch Modernization, and GeoPolitical. Facilitating SAFe ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily standup, Iteration Reviews, Demo & Retrospective.

Project Manager

Nokia Networks

Jun 2015 - May 2021Bangalore

Managed AMF, SMF, UPF products with continuous delivery. Served as Scrum Master managing monthly sprints with Agile ceremonies. Managed 3 teams of 20 people globally. Facilitated PI planning, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings. Developed flowcharts and traceability matrices for process flows.

Senior Software Engineer (Business analyst, Scrum Master)

Nokia Network Pvt Ltd.

Aug 2008 - Jun 2015Bangalore

Delivered Paco products with SGW, PGW. Worked as business analyst and scrum master. Coordinated weekly estimation meetings for story points. Conducted user interviews to identify process pain points and monitored development progress to ensure project scope and budget compliance.

Software Engineer

ZTE India Pvt Ltd.

Dec 2006 - Aug 2008Bangalore

Worked on PaCo products (SGSN, GGSN and gateways). Responsible for analysis, coding, unit testing, regression testing, and implementation of new requirements. Handled production fixes, version control, and creation of technical specification documents.

Education

VTU

Bachelor of Engineering

Electronics and Communication

Jan 2006

Licenses & Certifications

SAFe® Agile Certified

• No expiration

PMP Trained

Nokia

• No expiration

CSM Agile

• No expiration

Open stack Cloud Certified

• No expiration

Linux and VMware Certified

• No expiration

Skills

Java
Java Spring boot
Shell
Perl
Python
Cloud
JIRA
Version one
SharePoint
Confluence
MS Project
MS Visio
Teams
Azure
GitHub
GitLab
Jenkins
PCF - Pivotal Cloud Foundation
Peoplesoft test Orchestration CI/CD
VMware
OpenStack
RHEL
Docker
Container
Kubernetes
Selenium Web Driver
Robotic Framework
Telecom Products (5G, 4G, 3G)
Logistics
DevOps
Apache Tomcat
IBM WebSphere
Weblogic
Agile/Scrum
Kanban
SAFe