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Sumi James

@sumijames

Consultant at UST

Trivandrum, India

USTMadras University

Sumi James is an accomplished IT professional with 18 years of experience, specializing in Project Management and Process Consulting. He has a proven track record of managing large-scale application development and deployment projects, coordinating multiple vendors and geographies. His expertise includes continuous process improvement, conducting internal audits, and driving delivery transformation goals.

Experience

Consultant

UST

ConsultantJan 2006 - PresentTrivandrum, India

Customer: Real Estate Provider (Oct’21 till date). Role 1: Project Manager for Cloud, Salesforce Development and DevOps support. Responsibilities include end-to-end planning and delivery, managing risks, issues, and dependencies between multiple vendors & Geographies (US, Asia). Coordinated distinct functions (HR, Engineering, Finance, Infrastructure & Operations, Sourcing, and third parties/vendors). Tracked project performance, created comprehensive project metrics, and managed SLAs & KPIs. Role 2: ITIL Process Consultant (Apr’19 – Sep’21). Developed a framework (built upon ITIL) to maintain Knowledge management for service-related issues. Improved service value since escalations, reducing them from 100% to 40%. Customer: Transportation & Logistics (Feb’18 – Mar’19). Job Title: Associate Project Manager. Project: WTMS FYE19 TechMod (Fixed Bid Migration project). Executed and delivered specific deliverables as defined within Project Scope. Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily stand ups, and Retrospective meetings. Identified changes/impacts due to various reasons (analysis/design changes, n/w or implementation issues/delays, customer code refactoring issues, and AJS version changes). Data Reconciliation, publishing, and analyzing weekly productivity and quality metrics. Root cause analysis of Project productivity issues and defects. Maintained high ED score by continuous monitoring monthly project delivery and assurance based on Customer Commitment through OptimUST. Planned project onboarding activities and provided training to project team. Customer: Multiple customers of UST (Jun’15 – Jun’17). Job Title: Process Enabler Manager, Delivery Excellence/ Corporate Quality. Conducted periodic reviews to assess Product quality, Process Quality, Customer dimension, and Financial Impact. Enabled Project Managers to capture the right metrics & dashboards related to project life cycle. Expert in identifying critical issues and risks of the

Developer (Mainframe)

UST

DeveloperJan 2001 - Jun 2001Trivandrum, India

Worked on projects including GA WMS Day 2 (Migration & Enhancement), Medicare Part D – APM (Development & Enhancement), and ProServ Retail Margin (Development & Enhancement).

Education

Madras University

Master of computer Application

Computer Application

Grade: 78%

MG University

BSc. Computer Science

Computer Science

Grade: 78%

Licenses & Certifications

Certified SAFe 6 Agilist

• No expiration

Certified Scrum Master

• No expiration

ITIL4 Foundation

• No expiration

DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family

• No expiration

Risk Management ISO 31000:2018

• No expiration

Skills

Project Management
Business Process Reengineering
Process Consulting
Audits & Assessments
Analytical skills
Change Management
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Metrics management
Customer Management
Continual Service Improvement
Process Design & Implementation
Leadership skills
Critical thinking skills
Visio
MS Project
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
COBOL
SAS
JCL
DB2
IMS DB/DC
SAFe 6 Agilist
Certified Scrum Master
ITIL4 Foundation