This document contains a summary of Ankit Rathi's work experience and qualifications. He has over 4 years of experience in project management and managing IT projects for global clients. He is skilled in Agile methodologies like Scrum and managing relationships with stakeholders. He has expertise in technologies like PHP, Drupal, Magento, and WordPress.

1. ANKIT RATHI
78746-55355 & 94609-71510 ankitrathipm@gmail.com
SUMMARY
 Expertise in Project Management and managing all aspects of IT Projects and successful in
delivering to global clients.
 Around 4.8 + years of prominent experience in various disciplines related to IT product
management.
 Practicing Agile methodologies in multiple projects and working as a Scrum Master.
 Experienced in managing internal and external relationships with all stakeholders and
operational teams to ensure smooth project management and customer service.
 Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to lead/manage large
conference calls.
 Ensuring that process surpasses achievement of delivery & service quality norms for clients.
 Understanding business process, requirements and translating it to product development
teams.
 Involved in Presales with Sales Team to understand RFP’s, providing inputs, creating a proposal
for clients. Involved in sales call as per the needs.
 Involved with design and development and testing teams on day to day basis to go over the
progress and ensuring daily goals are met and progress is being shared with all stakeholders.
 Expertise in managing Web Applications.
 Technologies – PHP(Drupal, Magento, Wordpress, Laravel) and .Net
 Beginner in managing .Net based applications.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
 Project Management
 Client Management
 Presales Executive
 Team Management
 Expertise in Project Management Tools like JIRA.
 Requirement Understand and Analysis.
 Project Execution
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sigma Info Solutions, Bengaluru, August 2011 to Present
Project Management:

2.  Understand project scope.
 Based on the analysis of the type of the project provide inputs on project methodology to senior
stakeholders.
 Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs on activities/ tasks, task level
estimates, schedule, dependencies, risks etc.
 Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs to testing strategy,
configuration, deployment, hardware/software requirement etc.
 Analyze in detail resources required for every phase, conduct estimation of time utilization of
different resources and activities, prepare resource and development plan or provide inputs and
review with PM.
 Participate in KT sessions conducted by customer/ other business teams.
Requirement Understanding and Analysis:
 Along with the Business Analyst, gather requirements (functional and nonfunctional) from
customer.
 Analyze requirements for feasibility with regards to testing and implementation.
 Provide inputs for requirements prioritization.
 Debrief team on the requirements gathered and seek feedback.
 Participate in client calls and seek clarifications if any.
 Provide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenarios.
Design:
 Understand various functional and non-functional requirements and HLD in order to provide
inputs to create LLD and review.
 Recommend make/ buy or alternate solutions.
 Provide inputs in designing end to end solution from a technical perspective.
 Walkthrough the design along with PM to the customer and coordinate to seek signoff on design
and other artifacts.
Coding:
 Guide team in coding as per design.
 Define the Development framework, reusable templates based on the organization repository
and past experience.
 Allocate modules to developers for coding.
 Provide inputs for setting up development environment.
Testing Management:
 Provide inputs to testing strategy / approach at a high level.

3.  Review test cases written by team.
 In case of small projects, review/ guide for SIT and other testing.
 Provide support for development of unit/ integration test cases as required.
 Check if peer review is completed at each step of test execution.
 Monitor defects raised and closed.
 Conduct root cause analysis to avoid repetition of defects.
 Follow up with team assigned for rework on code defects and close the same.
 Attend QA audits as and when required.
Deployment:
 Understand release and deployment environment and provide inputs for release/deployments
plan.
 Resolve issues that arise during project deployment/ closure.
 Check that all action items mentioned in the deployment checklist have been completed.
Project Execution Monitoring & closure
 Provide status inputs to the project manager.
 Support Project Manager in creating a weekly status report including tasks achieved in the week
and plan for next week.
 Provide guidance to team through SDLC.
 In case of change in the project, support in creating a first level impact analysis.
 Support project manager in gathering all documents required for audits and maintain them
regularly.
Service Support and Maintenance:
 Create transition plan.
 Provide transition walkthrough to the maintenance team.
Stakeholder Management:
 Understand internal stakeholders (Account Manager, Project Managers etc) and client
expectations.
 Follow through on commitments, achieve timely resolution of issues.
Knowledge Management:

4.  Provide guidance to team members to maintain all documentation related to project.
 Create/ guide creation of knowledge articles on the problem, workaround solutions, best
practices, new methodology implemented, retrospection report etc.
 Monitor and report the usage of knowledge articles.
People Management:
 Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.
 Conduct training or knowledge sharing sessions.
 Mentor team members in project teams with respect to product and domain skills on projects.
 Conduct technical, face to face interviews.
 Conduct / support managers in conducting appraisals for team members and share final ratings
with the relevant stakeholders.
 Coordinate with the project/program manager in understanding how the employee can better
contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.
Sales Support:
 Understand RFP.
 Participate in ongoing calls with the vertical team members.
 Provide references.
 Create relevant parts of the proposal and identify the case studies to be included.
 Provide time and resource estimates based on technical complexity and type of work done
earlier.
 List out the challenges, dependencies, assumptions and timelines required for the project under
guidance.
 Provide inputs on technology preference based on the project requirements.
 Review with the applicable vertical teams and incorporate their feedback.
Accomplishments:
 Spot award for completing various projects on-time and meeting expectations of stakeholders.
 Loyalty award for completing 3 years in an organization.
EDUCATION
 B.TECH with Information Technology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab.
CERTIFICATION

5.  Certified Scrum Master

6.  Certified Scrum Master