Shubham Pande

I leveraged my long experience in supervising & delivering projects of varying size and complexity within time, budget, and quality parameters, and ensuring successful delivery in collaboration with global business stakeholders to provide utmost customer satisfaction. Throughout, I have been involved in developing relationships with business stakeholders and leadership teams across geographies and departments; presenting changes, issues, risks, and contingency plans to balance project resources, schedules, and scope. • Leading and managing high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with scope, budget, timeline, and quality standards • Utilizing agile project management techniques to monitor progress and track key milestones and deliverables • Evaluating and approving proposed project plan modifications, conducting stakeholder meetings to enhance workflow efficiency • Maintaining proactive communication with customers, team members, managers, and stakeholders to fulfill resource requirements • Developed and implemented strategic initiatives to optimize the SDLC, resulting in a 25% decrease in product development cycle time and a 40% increase in team efficiency • Streamlined the multi-site production release process by implementing standardized procedures, resulting in a 30% reduction in release time and improved overall operational efficiency

At HSBC Technology, I enjoyed the elaborate career progression and learning curve which took me to the management position. I deployed my keen business acumen in benchmarking practices on SDLC, optimizing processes, and increasing operational efficiency, while setting measuring, and tracking KPIs with Product Management, Engineering, Product Solutions, and Program Management teams. I steered project management activities, including project scoping, estimation, planning, risk management, team management, and quality management. Accomplishments during this association are enumerated as: • Led, coached, and managed 2 global development teams of over 15+ Engineers/QA, working closely with various stakeholders to devise the strategy • Executed end-to-end project management for cross-functional initiatives, achieving a 20% reduction in production time through the implementation of agile methodologies and streamlined workflows • Led the development and implementation of a comprehensive change management plan, resulting in a smooth transition with zero major incidents and significant time savings • Setup measurable framework for periodic monitoring and participated in change control process for interconnected programs • Implemented data-driven strategies in a banking IT transformation program, resulting in a cost savings of $250k per year through process streamlining and automation • Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and was recognized as a top performer within the organization • Orchestrated the implementation of a streamlined CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 50% and enabling faster feature releases • Built strong, trust-based relationships across the department, including VP’s direct reports, key cross-functional leaders, and employees at all levels

I was promoted by the corporation to provide strategic direction, leadership, and project governance for a multimillion-dollar application project portfolio, which successfully supported a population of 5000+ end-users across the globe. • Managed a cross-functional team of 70+ individuals dispersed across three locations (US, India, UK); facilitated effective collaboration and communication to ensure smooth project execution and delivery. • Provided leadership and governance for a 4-million-dollar application project portfolio, driving strategic direction and achieving successful implementation for 5000+ end-users across the globe and driving business growth. • Implemented a comprehensive reporting framework to deliver timely project reports across the entire project lifecycle, enabling efficient tracking of project progress, identification of bottlenecks, and proactive mitigation of risks. • Produced detailed project reports for five simultaneous projects, encompassing budget estimation, scheduling, and resource planning, resulting in informed decision-making and alignment among project teams, stakeholders, and sponsors. • Introduced automated testing procedures, leveraging tools like Selenium and JUnit, resulting in a 40% reduction in testing time and accelerating product delivery by 2 weeks per release cycle. • Streamlined business priorities and vision through effective utilization of Scrum and Kanban Agile practices, resulting in a remarkable 50% reduction in product release time, enabling faster time-to-market and increased business value. • Collaborated with Solutions Architect to produce 10+ use cases, data model, and architectural roadmaps; optimized software designs resulting in reduction in system errors and increase in overall performance. • Led cross-functional initiatives to identify and address root causes of production defects, driving a 40% reduction in customer complaints and enhancing overall business focus on quality assurance.

• Led Development team and DevOps team of 14 engineers to provide solutions for improving the main product “CARM for Corporates” (Lending system). • Provided regular program status updates and reporting to stakeholders at all organizational levels, employing tailored communication strategies to translate complex concepts into accessible language; enabled effective cross-functional collaboration and alignment towards shared goals. • Implemented data-driven decision-making by introducing sprint metrics tracking and analysis, enabling the team to proactively identify bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation, resulting in increase in overall project efficiency and customer satisfaction. • Spearheaded the establishment of toll gates and quality checkpoints for all project milestones, resulting in on-time deliveries and ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements. • Implemented DevOps principles, fostering cross-functional collaboration and automating key processes, leading to a remarkable 50% reduction in overall development time. • Developed and executed a comprehensive multi-site production release strategy, utilizing agile methodologies and continuous improvement practices. • Mentored and coached a team of 10 engineers, facilitating their professional growth and achieving an increase in productivity through personalized development plans and targeted skill-building initiatives.

• Lead and actively participates on project teams, clarifying business needs and requirements, performing analysis, design, development, integration, and maintenance of systems across the enterprise. • Responsible for driving development activities and standards necessary for ensuring products and policies meet end-user business requirements. • Understands the technical concepts, architecture, systems, development methods, and disciplines associated with the defined projects, applies the knowledge to deliverables, and leverages it to accelerate project completion • Demonstrate leadership abilities to our clients with the deployment of software upgrades, enhancements and fixes that are coordinated based on release schedules • Help developers resolve both technical and functional issues • Experience of working with on and offshore models, multi project, multi-location teams for proving support in development, maintenance and support projects. • Advocating an appropriate level of innovation and automation focus in the software development process. • Experience of delivering projects using Scrum methodology and/or Agile practices working to tight deadlines, with both local and remote development team