Sahil Sharma

Senior Project Manager | Delivery Management

Salary / Daily rate

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product ManagementDesign ThinkingProject Management (PMO)Project OwnerJenkinsTesting & QAOracle DatabaseMongoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerSQL QueriesBitbucketPostmanDatadogConsulting ITLinuxScrumJiraAgile CoachingSQL databases

Languages

English (Native)

About me

Intro

Senior Project Manager with 18+ years delivering complex IT projects across financial services and telecommunications. Led 60+ member teams, managed multi-million dollar initiatives, and specialized in system integrations, data migrations, and Agile delivery. Expert in stakeholder management and risk mitigation for enterprise-scale transformations.

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Work experience

Delivery Manager

Questrade Financial Group

Dec 2021 - Dec 2024

3 years 1 month

Toronto, ON, Canada

● Led 4 delivery teams with a team size of approximately 60+ members for the project ● Was the main point of contact for Insurance Directors, other LOB’s Managing Directors within/outside insurance for the entire project execution ● Presented in Steering committee for CIO level updates held every two weeks across the IT department ● Proficient in planning, managing, and delivering projects using Agile methodologies, ensuring iterative development, continuous feedback, and alignment with evolving business needs to achieve timely and high-quality outcomes. ● Establish overall project milestones and plan based on the scope and resources using JIRA. ● Led MSSQL to MongoDB data analysis and migration. Also, enabled successful coordination between Insurance and Audit/Security/KPIs (Data Warehousing) teams ● Led the solution for ARS/Fortus/Power Broker/CSIO Integrations ● Ensuring overall project milestones, resourcing, scoping, dependencies managing/mitigating risks not just within insurance team but outside with IT teams & external vendors ● Led technical discussions with cross-functional teams to define and implement solutions to mitigate risks and achieve milestones in a timely manner. ● Closely monitor the development of the product to ensure that it follows and has business focus ● Assisted in technical decisions being made regarding the solution & how they impact the business along with active participation in solutioning, mapping and assisting other teams for design wherever needed. ● Assisted as Backup Product Owner for making quick decisions and prioritizing Epics/Stories for development. ● Use appropriate strategies to identify and manage risk during the project life cycle and closely monitor the development lifecycle of the project and ensure post go-live support, SLA’s, etc.

TM7 Tech

May 2018 - Dec 2021

3 years 8 months

Toronto, ON, Canada

Project Manager - Aha Insurance

May 2018 - Dec 2021

3 years 8 months

Toronto, ON, Canada

Led 'Aha Insurance (Personal Insurance)' Customer/Broker/Underwriter Insurance platform which was extended to multiple carriers for better pricing and quoting resulting in higher sales. ● Responsible for ensuring the end to end delivery for the project till go live and post-production support ● Single handedly managed the integration & implementation with Fortus APIs for rating ● Enabled multi carrier rating for Aha insurance which included addition of 3 new Insurance carriers to the platform ● Led and ensured rating price match for multiple Insurance carriers added to the system ● Effectively managed the interaction between business and UX team to enable customer centric results for customer facing portal with user journeys, personas creation and end to end customer/user life cycle ● Provided reviews of documents holding technical solutions for new features and conducting reviews with the external team ● Prioritizing and distributing work within the 2 agile teams to meet sprint goals and major milestones. ● Responsible for automating project builds for continuous development via Jenkins. ● Ensuring testing/production readiness/releases/post deployment support is available with SLA’s as per business requirements

Project Manager - C-Quence Insurance

May 2018 - Dec 2021

3 years 8 months

Toronto, ON, Canada

Led 'C-Quence Insurance (Commercial Insurance)' Commercial insurance platform with Willis Tower Watson’s Radar Live rating system for brokers/underwriters supporting commercial industry insurance. ● Understand business strategies & roadmap, planning effective stakeholder management strategies. ● Prioritizing and distributing work within the team to meet sprint goals and major milestones. ● Single handedly managed multiple vendors, risks, dependencies both outside/inside the organization ● Overlooked sprint goals/ceremonies for the scrum teams and ensuring the completion in a timely manner by mitigating risks ● Worked closely with the Data Warehousing team and helped established data flow ● Reviewed & Defined KPI for DWH teams along with audits for tracking updates/views on the database ● Establish overall project milestones and plan based on the scope and resources. ● Coordinating and overlooking entire test plan and execution before first go-live to ensure smooth production deployment while maintaining SLAs

Tata Consultancy Services

Jan 2006 - May 2018

12 years 5 months

Johannesburg, South Africa

Solution Architect & Project Manager

Oct 2014 - May 2018

3 years 8 months

Johannesburg, South Africa

Vodacom Enterprise Business Unit (EBU) / Consumer Business Unit (CBU) projects listed below which covered sales, provisioning and after sales support for EBU/CBU customers. Multiple small & large projects ran in parallel in a highly complex and integrated Telecom stack. ● Actively managed multiple projects encompassing multiple systems on the Vodacom OSS/BSS stack for Enterprise customers ● Managed client communication with multiple vendors, alignment of delivery, representing Steering Committee sessions, transition management and trainings in multiple projects ● Led the transformation program for value based credit vetting which enabled customer profile based vetting instead of product based vetting enabling upsell and more revenue for Vodacom ● Led the team consisting of 8 TCS Senior business analyst and consultants in the Vodacom consumer IT design team ● Provided requirements in BRS, created design as HLD and managed end-to-end delivery for BSS projects on Geographical Number Portability optimization ● Managed initial scope & provided requirement reviews for enterprise One bill Invoice project and lead it till design approval stage ● Provided solution for contract renewals for enterprise customers which enables renewals for yearly and longer contracts/agreements with new contracts ● Managed client communication with multiple vendors, alignment of delivery, representing Steering Committee sessions, transition management and trainings in multiple projects ● Active part of IBM WebSphere Technical Excellence Group at TCS for solution mapping and assisting other clients for solutions entailing OSS/BSS/Middleware/Online

Development Lead & Solution Architect

Mar 2008 - Oct 2014

6 years 8 months

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa · Hybrid

Worked for 'Neotel (Pty) Ltd - Enterprise/Consumer Telecom' on Self Service platform for Consumer/Enterprise/GNP/Transnet customers in multiple projects spanning across a timeline of 6+ years. Projects were delivered to provide a 360 view to the Neotel customers through online platform presence ● TCS Solution Architect under Neotel IT Client side at Johannesburg and Development Lead at Mumbai Offshore ● Leading a team of 20+ associates while ensuring end-to-end deliveries of projects from startup to production rollout. ● Implemented credit card payment functionality with iVeri for Neotel for payments for consumer customers ● Enabled roadmap for customers to move from online to mobile. Provided POC for mobile applications. ● Provided the architectural framework and single handedly migrated Neotel’s website running on WebSphere Portal 6.1 to 8.0 on all environments consisting of development, SIT, UAT and Production. ● Upgraded/Migrated multiple components like – WebSphere application server, WebSphere portal server, HTTP server, Caching proxy, Edge server, Search server as part of online migration ● Implemented credit card payment functionality iVeri payment gateway, Transnet Portal, GNP andConsumer Portal were designed and lead successfully into implementation ● Enabled Disaster Recovery project compliance for Neotel ● Integrated credit verification integration for EBU customers via TransUnion web-service interfaces ● Successfully designed and implemented SFDC to GE SmallWorld and Geneva integration for enabling sales team to check coverage ● Process & Portal server lead for projects handling requirements of integrating multiple backend systems with front end applications like portal as part of TCS IBM WebSphere Technical Excellence Group

Java Oracle Developer

Jan 2006 - Mar 2008

2 years 3 months

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I worked in 'Tata Communications Ltd – BSS Retail' project as a developer ● Requirement Analysis and Gap Analysis ● Designing the code Implementation methodology ● Enhancements to the existing prepaid PL/SQL procedures for consumer updates using Geneva commit/no-commit APIs ● Planning for the Implementation of the Admin Module Implementation ● Integration with Geneva Billing server for prepaid rating using JMS Queues ● Integration with other systems using JDBC ● Small Enhancement while implementation for Geneva for prepaid extend functionality on Point of Sales


Education

Govt. Engineering College Bikaner

Bachelor of Engineering - BE


Licenses & certifications

Prince2 Practitioners

Issued: Aug 2013

Certified by APMG International

Prince2 Foundation

Issued: Jun 2013

Certified by APMG International

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