Pradnya Naik Kerkar

Pradnya Naik Kerkar

PMP® certified Agile Program Manager with a total IT experience of 20 years and 14 years of experience empowering teams deliver high value software

Pune, India

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About

• PMP® Certified Agile Program/Project Manager with 14 years of relevant experience and a total IT experience of 20 years. • Guiding Scrum teams to deliver solutions using SAFe/Scrum/XP/DAD methodology. • Conducting Agile training/Interviews for a wider audience across the organisation • Exposure to Banking, Transportation, Identity & Access management, Asset Management domains • Past experience of Application development using Java, J2EE, Python etc. • Certifications: PMP, AWS Practitioner, SAFe 4 SSM and Agilist, PSM1, SCJP 1.5 • MS in Advanced Software technology from ISquareIT, Pune, BE-E&TC Goa University, 2000-2004

What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a Program Manager / Technical Program Manager / Agile Delivery role where I can lead complex, cross-functional technology programs. I bring 20+ years of IT experience, spanning software development, Agile delivery, Scrum leadership, and program management, along with PMP certification. My current experience includes managing multiple engineering teams across cloud infrastructure. I also have a diverse background of Banking, Identity & Access Management, Energy etc

Experience

JPMorgan Chase

Agile Program Manager

JPMorgan Chase

Jan 2022 – Present

Travel Platform Hosting, Stability and security Work with 2 squads to provide the AWS infrastructure needed to host the travel platform and provide the stability and security to the platform Successfully performed 6 EKS upgrades. Travel Platform Service Reliability and Performance Work with 3 squads that supports the SRE services like logging, monitoring, observability, alerting, reliability, Tooling and Performance Travel Platform – Platform Ops Work with 1 squad that deals with Cloud cost optimizations, cost visibility, Shared responsibility and Automated governance

AWSEKSCloud cost optimization
JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Agile Project/Program Manager

JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Jan 2022 – Present

Agile delivery, Scrum leadership, and program management. My current experience includes managing multiple engineering teams across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, reliability, security, observability, performance, and cloud cost optimization.

Program ManagementSREAgileStakeholder Management
IBM

Project Manager Scrum Master

IBM

Dec 2015 – Jan 2022

Largest European Bank (8 months) – Mobile Account onboarding, payment, process automation Automated mobile account onboarding and payment process enhancements. Middle East Govt (8 months) – Digital Services for the Citizens Helped the teams to transform 40+ citizen services for Customs, Municipality and Housing Facilitated ceremonies, collaboration, Agile metrics and Reporting Dashboards One of the Largest Shipping Company (7 months) - New Transport Management Oversaw two teams build a new Transport management platform that Improves productivity, Real time visibility and Flexibility and reduces cost compared to the legacy platform Performed dependency management, Integration bug triage along with the other Agile workload Australia’s oldest bank (1 year) - Business Process Transformation Supported value delivery to transform two business processes viz. BBSi and Credit card disputes spanning over 3 Program increments Efficiently helped to reduce delivery risks, Collaborated with RTE and stakeholders to sort dependencies with component and Legacy system teams. Conducted Scrum Master interviews for the Transformation program. Western Australia state govt power company (6 months) - Meter Read Portal enhancement Delivered second phase of the Meter Self Reader web portal to provide a recurring business benefit of 0.4m AUD annually for reduced operating cost on card printing, scanning and postage costs. Supported Production deployment and helped maintain EDM Leading UK Bank (1 year) – Front Desk Automation Automated the business process for Lost, stolen and Damaged cards; Lending; Bereavement from Conception to Production and support Transitioned the team from waterfall to Agile (Disciplined Agile Delivery) in a multi-vendor, multi-component environment - involved Scaling.

Agile metricsScrumDependency management
Persistent systems

Project Manager Scrum Master

Persistent systems

Jul 2009 – Nov 2015

Worked as a Team Lead. Job roles: Scrum master. Previous: Module Lead. Job roles: Lead developer Previous: Senior Software Engineer. Job role: Developer

Persistent Systems Limited

Agile Project Manager

Persistent Systems Limited

Jun 2008 – Oct 2015

OpenEMM Customization (8 months) Facilitated creation and coaching of a cross functional team consisting of Python, Java, test specialists and getting them on board in an agile setup GIAM SelfService UI for ITIM (3 years) Supported in Building customizable Self Service User interface for non admin access. Coached a team of 8 members to transition from waterfall to Scrum, instrumental in helping the team for 4 successful release cycles and awarded a “You made a difference” award for the same.

PythonJavaScrumStrutsITIM APIsLDAP
Computer Associates India Pvt Ltd

Software Engineer

Computer Associates India Pvt Ltd

Jun 2006 – Jul 2008

Software Developer

Java Developer

Computer Associates (CA) India Pvt Ltd

Jun 2006 – Jun 2008

CA Asset Collector (1 year) Handled the database module which pulled data from different databases. I worked on requirements gathering, feasibility study, class design and code. I also did the unit test cases writing and bug fixing CA Agent UI (1 year) Developed custom swing components like checkbox, text field, list box, radio button, branding area etc. Also worked on accessibility and localization. I was involved in the design of the components, coding, writing test cases and QA issue fixing.

JavaSwingDatabase

Education

International Institute of IT, Pune

Advance Software technologies

2004 – 2006

International Institute of Information Tecnology Pune

Advanced Software · Information Technology

2004 – 2006

Goa Engineering College, Goa University

BE · E&TC

2000 – 2004
Goa College of Engineering

Goa College of Engineering

BE · Electronics & Telecomm Engineering

2000 – 2004

Certifications

PMP

PMI

Jun 2026 – No expiry

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

Jan 2024 – Jan 2027

Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)

scrum.org

Jul 2016 – No expiry

IBM Agile achiever

IBM

IBM Design thinking

IBM

Sun certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.5)

Sun

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

Scrum.org

SAFe 4 certified Agilist

SAFe

SAFe 4 certified Scrum Master

SAFe

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS

Skills

Agile Maturity AssessmentDefect densitiesVelocityAgile metricsMuralZoomMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft Azure DevOpsConfluenceJIRAStakeholder ManagementSAFeAgileDependency ManagementRisk ManagementProgram ManagementProject Management

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)Konkani (Native or bilingual proficiency)Marathi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Spanish (Elementary proficiency)