Amit Shahi

About the Candidate

Amit Shahi MBA, PMP, CSM
Profile

 

Seasoned PMP certified Project Manager with 6+ years of proven results in I.T. Telecommunications and Financial Services.  Competent in handling projects in Waterfall and Agile methodologies, SDLC, Resourcing, Communication, Scope Management and Cost-Benefit Analysis.  Experienced with the use of PMBOK methodology and project tracking tools, forecasting, risk management, issue management and organizational change management.  Strong team builder, mentor, facilitator and motivator.   Superb communication skills and experienced in private and international milieus.

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Bell Canada, ON

March 2022- Present

 

Project Manager

 

•      Responsible for all aspects of project management for assigned product development projects

•      Creates cohesive project plans with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones.

•      Discuss with solution architects and other technical consultants to build the Proposals.

•      Manages the approved plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, time, and quality parameters;

•      Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors and summarizes progress of projects;

•      Prepares reports for stakeholders regarding project status;

•      Builds and maintains effective working relationships with team members and other departments involved in the projects;

•      Identify and help implement process and reporting improvements while ensuring that sufficient resources are available to meet project goals;

•      Assess project risks / process opportunities and communicate results to senior management; initiate action plans as necessary;

•      Ability to assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem in a timely manner and in the best interests of the organization.

 

 

PMIOVOC Ottawa, ON

Oct 2021 – Present

 

Partnership and Outreach Officer

 

 

•      Develop new and maintain existing partnerships with a variety of external stakeholders;

•      Develop and deliver presentations on project management to a variety of target audiences;

•      Build a network of partners in industry, academia and public service;

•      Promote chapter’s offerings among project managers;

•      Create and leverage opportunities to expand the Chapters services to academia, public service and other business professionals;

 

Environment/Tools: Agile, MS office, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Teams,

 

 

 

Accenture

Sep 2021- March 2022

 

Marketing Expert/ Project Manager

 

·      Responsible for overlooking the flow and execution progress of our marketing initiatives, campaign and creative and communications intake processes.

·      Manage project timeline, budget, reporting and scope of key projects within marketing operations, ensuring key milestones are met

·      Provide recommendation to the senior management

·      Design and develop the winning solutions while collaborating with executive teams

·      Ensure proper documentation, notification, escalation, tracking and follow up of all incidents.
Environment/Tools: Agile, MS office, CRM, , SharePoint, MS Teams,

 

 

 

Harris Computers, Ottawa, On

May 2021 – Aug 2021

 

Project Manager

 

Worked on Integrations, Migration and Data Infrastructure projects, where 4 projects were in scope with 25 resources and budget of $1.5 M.  100% regulatory compliance

 

·       Identified risks, worked with PMO department along with cross functional teams to ensure business timelines were met, participated in CAB/TAB, ensured UAT signoffs from teams, provided cost benefit analysis, reviewed contract and invoices for various vendors), prepared MOU/SOW and business case

·       Proactively managed changes on Remedy from initiation till closure

·       Developed, monitored project budgets, end to end project delivery, collaborated with cross functional teams (data center operation, software teams) and escalated issues to the management when required

·       Created and prepared logical work break down structures for the project

·       Defined milestones, chaired team meetings, identified critical path, collected project requirements, Lead IT infrastructure deployments and performed effective change management

·       Accessed Agile tools to understand project health, report status, created presentations for steering committee, managed dependencies, lead scrum sprint meetings, daily standup meeting and managed product backlog

 

Environment:  Agile, MS Office, Workzone, SharePoint, MS Planner, MS 365, Miro, MS Project, Remedy,

 

 

 

 

Kognitive Marketing, Ottawa, On

Dec 2018 – Apr 2021
Project Team Lead /FMR

 

·       Worked on the Gas Event project by Canadian tire financial services, resource size was 30. Successfully implemented the gas events in the Ottawa region

·       Worked on the waterfall environment, set up project plans for financial institution project using PMP tools and methodologies

·       Oversee the work on financial tracking and reporting work for the program.

·       Responsible for creating the weekly status reports and presentations for the senior management.

·       Created and managed project charter, Project budget, Project communication plan, WBS, risk register, communication plan and team log

·       Responsible for performance, cost, scope, schedule, quality and appropriate business measurement for the project as per the project charter

·       Controlled, documented and tracked project related items, including issues, risks and its resolutions, dependencies and budgets

 

Environment: Waterfall, SharePoint, MS Planner, MS office, WebEx, MS Project, Miro

 

 

 

Shahi Motors, India

July 2016 – Nov 2017

Project Manager (After Sales)

 

Supported multiple projects through their development life cycle. Implemented the sky watch technology on Automobiles using the embedded systems. This project is B2C, with more than 100 stakeholders

 

·       Led and directed all phases of the project such as initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure

·       Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives by setting realistic timelines and checkpoints.

·       Worked with SME, consultants to build the proposals to achieve goals

·       Accountable for the overall program execution.

·       Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for clients by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations

·       Developed the project budget plans and managed the progress

·       Executed a personalized project plan for the team which includes quality, time and cost

·       Monitored milestones, and ensure that they are completed within the time, scope and budget.

 

Environment:  MS Project, MS Office, Slack, Miro, Adobe Connect

 

 

Shahi Motors, India

Sep 2013 – June 2016

Project Manager (Networking and electronics)

 

Data center Setup (operating system, hardware and network) project with $1 M budget. The scope of the project to build a new data center with facility upgrade, purchase of complimentary equipment (storage and intel servers) by selected vendors, and configuration and migration servers, storage, network and virtualization of platform to setup high – transaction

 

·       Ensured effective scope management throughout  the project for multiple line of business like data migration  at Data Center Build during SDLC process

·       Lead team meetings for virtual teams to capture minutes and updated project plan on MS project

·       Prepared statement of work, change requests on Servicenow and maintained deployment schedules

·       Created communication plan, project charter, issue logs, RACI, quality checklist, identified priorities for the IT deployment for network devices, servers, storage and backup infrastructure upgrades with a budget of $1 M

·       Worked with three teams including hardware/software/network and 3 contractors with estimated budget of $1 M meeting planned, time, cost and scope using waterfall model to archive goal as per define scope

·       The data center gained highest conformance credit of Green Data Center and Disaster Recovery Standards. Power consumption rated as 50% less than existing data centers with the same processing capacity using Zero Idle Technique for workload placement

·       Worked on waterfall methodologies (Project: Data Center Build) for software/web application development, created reports on JIRA, maintained documents on confluence and worked with security teams

·       Managed projects on clarity tool by creating project forecasts, cost benefit analysis on excel creation, critical path, and removed roadblocks, estimated costs for resources, hardware and software

 

Environment:  Agile, MS Office, Remedy, MS Project, SharePoint

 

 

 

Educational Background

Ontario Graduate Certificate in Project Management
Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON

Aug 2019

 

Masters of Business Administration Degree

Lovely Professional University, India

Equivalence completed by IQAS- equivalent to MBA
Bachelor of Engineering and Technology Degree –

Electronics / Telecommunications
Eternal University, India

Equivalence completed by IQAS- equivalent to electrical engineering degree

 

Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

 

 

 

 

Skills and Attributes

 

Project Management Professional
PMP

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Business Agility

The Project Manager’s Guide to Scope Definition and Management.

Technology Strategy
IT Project Management

IT Infrastructure and Maintenance

Project Budget and Estimation

Business Leadership
Change Management

Procurement Management

Team Management

Cross-Functional Team Delivery

Relationship Management

Core Management Traits
Infrastructure upgrade

Conflict Resolution

Issue & Risk Management

IT support and Training

Requirements Gathering

Professional Workshops
Leading a Virtual Team – LinkedIn

Risk Management – LinkedIn

Soft Skills Training
Communication and Personality Development – CNH India

Office Tools
MSOffice, MS Excel, MSWord, MS PowerPoint, MS Exchange, MS Outlook, MS Project, Visio, Work Zone, SharePoint, MS planner, Slack

Security Clearance
Enhanced Reliability in progress, Eligible for Secret II

Language Skills
English, Hindi and Punjabi

Volunteer Work
PMIOVOC – Partnership and Outreach Officer

 

Memberships and Associations
PMI

Scrum Alliance

Awards and Recognition
Best Performer – 2015