Somashekar N
@somashekarn
Project Manager and Program Manager at Mphasis Limited
Bangalore
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
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
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.
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.
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
Licenses & Certifications
SAFe® Agile Certified
PMP Trained
Nokia
CSM Agile
Open stack Cloud Certified
Linux and VMware Certified