KAPIL KALIA

Relationship builder
Tenacious
Adaptable
Kapil Kalia - The Clock is Ticking | Product Management | Project Management | Planning | SDLC

KNOW ME

9+ years of experience as Technical Program Manager with a track record of managing technical operations along with optimizing processes by employing effective project/program management & quality management principles to drive growth. Armed with the CPD Project Management certification and possesses demonstrated capability in conceptualizing and executing multi-million dollar products while ensuring 100% success rate in achieving company goals in an extremely competitive business environment.

Professional Skills:

​#Technical Project & Program Management #Product management #Process improvement & implementation #Agile Delivery/SDLC #Stakeholder management #Risk Assessment and Mitigation (RAID Log) #Root Cause Corrective Analysis(RCCA) #Cross-team collaboration #Planning #Leadership #Problem solving #Conflict resolution #Result-driven #ITGC & IFC Audit Collaboration #FinTech/Banking #Saas/Logistics #Insurance

Career Progression

Qualification

Certificate

Project Management Certificate (2015) by The CPD Certification Service, London, UK

Master’s Degree

MSc. in Computing(2012 – 2014), University of West London, London, UK

Bachelor’s Degree

B Tech. (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering(2007 – 2011), Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

Schooling

HSC (Non-medical, 2007) awarded CBSE certificate, B.C.M Sr. Sec. School, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

SSC(2005) awarded CBSE certificate, B.C.M Sr. Sec. School, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Achievements

● More than 6 years of Program and Project Management experience in handling multiple products & projects.
● Extensive experience in directing and motivating cross-functional engineering, multi-location teams.
● Managing a RAID log to manage/log the documents, or track the risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies of a project.
● Managed projects with team sizes ranging from 10 to 55, working on different technologies and located in different time zones.
● Experience of working with business and engineering stakeholders to collect, analyse and document Business Requirements.
● Experience in preparing Project Management Plans(including Change & Risk Management plans) using SMART analysis.
● Excellent knowledge and experience in Effort and Cost estimation techniques.
● Worked with development, testing, release and support teams to coordinate the project plans and efforts during development, testing, application release and final handing over to support.
● Expertise in using different PM tools such as JIRA, Trello, Asana, Clickup up for project planning and progress tracking.
● Experience with Agile/SCRUM and SDLC methodologies.

Work Process

Insight

Understanding the goals, key objectives and effect of your product/project.

Analysis

Examine the current process, conflicts and team structure of your organization.

Brainstorming

Analyse the current process, finding the gaps and finalizing the process to overcome the gaps, conflicts and maximum productivity.

Process Implementation

Setting up the project management tools, communication channels, process within the cross-functional teams to bring the great minds together to achieve the final goal.

Recommendation

Thinking

Analysis | Exploring

I am comfortable in dealing with numerical data to understand problems and solve them, I tend to be factual and use evidence to support the hypothesis.

I am curious and like to explore new ideas and approaches. When faced with a problem, I tend to think out of the box and enjoys considering a wide range of alternatives, I look for opportunities to learn and thrive in roles which offer me novelty and variety, On the flip side, I  may get bored in routines and at times may be perceived as overly optimistic or having impractical ideas.

Execting

Quality | Result Driven

I pay attention to details and enjoy delivering work that is of a high standard.

I tend to be systematic, methodical and organised and deliver within deadlines, I am reliable, disciplined and driven to achieve goals.

Connecting

Networking | Collaborating

I display empathy towards colleagues and find it important to listen to their points of view, I likely to involve others in key decisions and plans, I give credit where it is due and delegate easily when necessary.

I am someone who feels at when connecting with new people and generally has a well-developed network.

Progressing

Leadership | Resillience | Adaptability

I recover quickly from setbacks and do not let negativity pull them down.

I view failures as learning opportunities and an intrinsic part of the route to success.

I am comfortable with working in rapidly changing environments. I enjoy discovering new cultures and approaches and the learning opportunities these bring.

I enjoy taking the lead in groups and consider others opinions when making decisions.

I enjoy being in charge and am lively and talkative in groups. I am comfortable sharing their ideas and tend to be assertive and dominant.

I am focused and drive their team towards desired outcomes irrespective of obstacles.

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