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Diwakar Saini

Diwakar Saini

IT Project Manager
Zurich

Summary

Self-Organized and self-motivated IT Project Manager bringing forth over 15+ years of experience worked in Telecom, Energy & Power & IT Consultancy industries. Responsible for the end-to-end client delivery from initiation through the whole life cycle (Agile and waterfall), ensuring projects/programs are delivered successfully.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Lead Consultant

Infosys Ltd. (Working for Sunrise LLC at OnSite)
02.2024 - Current

Responsibilities are same as mentioned in below role.

Lead Consultant

Infosys Ltd. (Working for Sunrise LLC at Offshore)
9 2021 - 02.2024
  • Develop program schedules and monitor milestones, managing end to end delivery of features to production inline with B2C product roadmap.
  • Develop and deliver OKR's for Onboarding experience journey, Digital transformation journey for Sunrise.
  • Work with data analysts for data retrieval and dashboard preparation in Google analytics to create relationship between data & product which helps product owners to synthesize where to focus and bring change in the product with a customer centric approach.
  • Achieved - Increasing app initiated purchases, Boosting customer retention, Improving onboarding experience
  • Lead, mentor and coach Product Owners, agile squads on agile framework implementation and to ensure high business value.
  • Develop and maintain agile dashboards/metrics (Velocity Charts, Cycle time, Lead time, Sprint Burn-down, Backlog Health, Cumulative flow) in Jira.
  • Ensure, encourage balanced backlog to deliver valuable features for customers, reducing technical debt, ensuring high business value, and enabling product stability.
  • Work closely with Business Analysts, Solution Designers, UX/UI team, DevSecOps team on product backlog, release management, test automation and other organization activities.
  • Work closely with multi-disciplined, cross functional teams of product owners, business analysts, UI/Ux Designers, IT architects, developers, data analysts and quality assurance experts to drive estimates, delivery plans and retrospectives.
  • Identify dependencies, manage engagement risks, and flag issues early and ensure it's mitigation with teams and Tribe partner's across organization.
  • Conducting scrum ceremonies, ensuring scrum values, and helping teams to become High performing.
  • Managing releases with Client's IT Operation Excellence Governance teams to ensure delivery commitments as per release plans and ensuring business validation during nightly roll-outs.
  • Promoting transparency through healthy communication and data Integrity.
  • Prepare project lifecycle documentation and project management plans.
  • Prioritize projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and target delivery date.
  • Managing software quality index.

Technical Support Expert

Schneider Electric
11.2019 - 09.2021
  • Product road-map preparation with product offer manager and prioritizing product backlog with PO for Energy Automation solution.
  • Triage customer issue and plan it's fixes with development team to ensure customer satisfaction
  • Worked as L4 Support technical expert for energy software solution, providing solution to customer queries as per client SLA.
  • Maintaining customer FAQ's on major, minor releases and known issues.
  • Participating in controlling and execution of all timely developments related to program (performances, planning/delivery, cost, risks, budget)
  • Coordination with release manager for ART software release dependencies and risks.
  • Used Salesforce for ticketing systems to manage and process support actions and requests.
  • Researched energy automation, power metering product and issue resolution tactics to address customer concerns.
  • Identified potential sales and cross-selling opportunities and informed supervisor, added as opportunity in salesforce.
  • Updated technical support best practices for use by team globally.
  • Documented support procedures, knowledge based articles, processes and solutions in centralized systems, enabling user self-service.
  • Improved overall user experience through support, training, troubleshooting, improvements and communication of system changes with major releases.

Projects handled:

A. EcoStruxure Power Metering Expert

B. PowerLogic PM series Energy meters

Engineering Manager

Siemens Ltd.
06.2015 - 11.2019
  • Identification of new digital opportunities & assessment of market competition
  • Responsible for end to end engineering of automation projects for gulf region.
  • Supporting pre-sales, tendering team in tender submission and providing customer demos on Siemens Automation Product line.
  • Managing project execution and timely delivery of product at customer site.
  • Risk identification, creation of mitigation plan.
  • Finalization of technical product specifications, documents and getting stakeholder approval
  • Engaging different teams - Product development, Application support, Engineering and commissioning team to achieve smooth workflow process and to meet project deadline.
  • Reduced engineering costs during FAT and complete engineering cycle.
  • Design & configuration of Bay Control Unit, PAS & SCC solution.
  • Preparation and approvals of engineering documents FDS, signal list, Load Dispatch Center IO List, FAT & SAT procedure, BOM, SCS Architecture.

Projects Handled:

A. Construction of three new 400kV GRID STATIONS AT SOHAR IPP-3, OMAN (OETC)

B. Upgrading Adam Grid Station from 2x40 MVA to 2x125 MVA, OMAN (OETC)

C. 132/33kV Yanqul Grid Station, OMAN (OETC)

D. 132/33 kV SUBSTATION FOR OTTCO FACILITY AT RAS MARKAZ “EPC2”. OMAN (OETC)

E. Elco Steel 220/33kV GIS Substation

F. 132/22kV Substation at South Samkha, AbuDhabi (TRANSCO)

G. 33/11kV Shyampur Substation, Dhaka (DPDC Bangladesh)


Product Owner (Assistant Manager)

Schneider Electric
04.2010 - 05.2015
  • Getting inputs from internal/external stakeholders and gathering ideas for new product features
  • Defining road map and prioritizing backlog of work to meet vision in timely manner
  • Planning and coordination with development & test team
  • Worked as bridge between product management requirements and development team.
  • Creating business cases, representing the use of product and its return on investment with marketing team & stakeholders
  • Creation of user stories in Azure DevOps, maintaining product backlog and ensuring agile scrum ceremonies.
  • Risk identification and creation of mitigation plan to eliminate identified risks.
  • Management of development, technical documentation and test activities.
  • Presenting product updates, demos to stakeholders.
  • Validation of PACiS energy management solution for new enhancements.
  • Integration of third party Protection IED's on IEC-61850 protocol with Schneider automation solution.

Projects Handled:

A. EcoStruxure Grid Engineering Advisor: Formerly known as Substation Engineering toolsuite based on IEC-61850 protocol.

B. Integration of MiCOM, Sepam, SEL, ABB Protection IED's on IEC-61850 protocol.

C. IED Cloud engineering tool

D. PACiS Automation Solution

Engineer

Teamlease India Private Limited (Deputed At Schneider Electric)
07.2009 - 03.2010
  • Performed manual System testing of Energy automation Solution application.
  • Test Management: Test planning and performed test execution.
  • Performed regression test cycle, perform Alpha testing and functional test cycle on new software builds.
  • Bug management in TFS, devtrack tool

Education

Senior Management Program

Indian Institute of Management
Kashipur, India
07.2023 - 09.2024

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

MIMIT
Malout, India
07.2005 - 06.2009

Skills

Agile Project Management-SAFe, Scrum, Spotify, Kanban, ScrumBan

Certification

Certified SAFe 6 Lean Portfolio Management, SAFe Agilist®, Certified ScrumMaster® by Scrum Alliance

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Accomplishments

Increased In-App purchasing

Improved Customer retention

Efficient budget management using Lean Budget Guardrails

Improve Onboarding Experience resulted in higher Mobile App ratings

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

Hybrid

Timeline

Lead Consultant

Infosys Ltd. (Working for Sunrise LLC at OnSite)
02.2024 - Current

Senior Management Program

Indian Institute of Management
07.2023 - 09.2024

Technical Support Expert

Schneider Electric
11.2019 - 09.2021

Engineering Manager

Siemens Ltd.
06.2015 - 11.2019

Product Owner (Assistant Manager)

Schneider Electric
04.2010 - 05.2015

Engineer

Teamlease India Private Limited (Deputed At Schneider Electric)
07.2009 - 03.2010

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

MIMIT
07.2005 - 06.2009

Lead Consultant

Infosys Ltd. (Working for Sunrise LLC at Offshore)
9 2021 - 02.2024
Diwakar SainiIT Project Manager