Nilendu Prabhakar

Highly organized and detail-oriented project manager with a passion for driving successful project outcomes through effective planning, communication, and team collaboration.
 

Technical Project Manager

• Performed and provided strategic workforce planning for each project at hand
• Oversaw strategic workforce planning, monitoring, and adapting as needed
• Maintained project objectives to ensure proper alignments to business goals and stakeholders’ requirements.
• Managed/oversee cost budgets for each project to ensure projects stay within allotted budgets and report out status to Senior Leadership weekly. 
• Monitored production and quality to customer/stakeholder/sponsor standards.
• Defined project schedules, allocated workforce resources, and monitored progress.
• Aligned project objectives with company goals, and make sure project team is clear on objectives
• Ensured projects stay in scope, on time, on schedule, completed within defined cost/budgets, and deliverables are delivered to stakeholder(s) on-time.
• Reported on project progress, offers viable solutions and opportunities as they arise
• Successfully managed software projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Led cross-functional teams, collaborating with stakeholders, developers, UX/UI designers, and QA engineers to align project goals and deliverables.
• Expertise in utilizing Jira, Figma, and Trello to track project progress, manage tasks, and facilitate efficient team collaboration.
• Proficient in agile methodologies, particularly sprint planning, execution, and retrospective, to drive iterative development and meet project objectives.
• Hold daily scrum meetings (over 2 -week sprint cycles) to receive daily statuses from each team member on their workloads to ensure there are no impediments to their progress, and to gauge work finished % completion rates.
• Employed effective resource management strategies to allocate tasks, balance workloads, and optimize team productivity.
• Proactively communicated project status, updates, and risks to stakeholders and team members, ensuring transparency and facilitating informed decision-making.
• Identified and resolved issues and risks.
• Maintained standards and monitored scope with project quality (Workforce Planning, Data Analytics, Project Burndown Rates, Cost & Budgeting Reports).

Bachelor in Civil Engineering