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Pritesh Bhole

Cambridge,Cambridgeshire

Summary

Dynamic professional with experience leading cross-functional teams, optimising software development processes, and implementing Agile practices. My strengths include stakeholder collaboration, KPI improvement, and operational excellence, ensuring successful project delivery and continuous improvement.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Program Manager

NatureMetrics
09.2022 - Current

Responsibility

  • Delivery of NatureMetrics' intelligent platform, focusing on digitizing infrastructure to enhance scalability robustness.
  • Enhance development of machine learning capabilities to deliver effective metrics for ESG reporting laws, resulting in the creation of a new digital revenue stream.
  • Delivered new ERP systems (CRM, BC, HR) through strategic vendor and system procurement with objective of improving data quality and streamlining business process enhancing organizational scalability and efficiency.
  • Delivery and procurement of new LIMS system to achieve substantial improvements in lab processing times and data capture efficiency.
  • Digitization and migration of data infrastructure with a focus on enhancing data transparency and accessibility, facilitating better data-driven decision-making
  • Agile mentorship across the organization, fostering a culture of collaboration and user-centric thinking to improve ways of working.

Achievements

  • Successfully led and delivered the MVP of NatureMetrics' intelligent platform within a budget of $1.2M.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product, technical, architecture, bioinformatics, and machine learning specialists. Utilized an agile approach to provide metrics for ESG, TNFD, and other reporting standards, resulting in the creation of a new digital revenue stream.
  • Delivered predictive modelling for ecosystem condition metrics by closely working with machine learning and product teams, using agile methodologies.
  • Managed the delivery, scoping, and procurement of an ERP system in collaboration with sales, operations, and finance teams. Negotiated contracts, licenses, and SLAs with various vendors. Achieved effective delivery within a $1.5M budget using a hybrid approach of waterfall and agile methodologies, leading to a 20% improvement in order processing timelines and a 30% increase in data quality.
  • Directed the integration project between ERP systems to enhance data flow, streamline processes, and improve data accuracy and efficiency.
  • Delivered a new HR system within a $105K budget, streamlining the IT processes for employee onboarding and offboarding in collaboration with an external IT vendor.
  • Scoped, procured, and delivered a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), negotiating contracts, licenses, and SLAs within a $600K budget. Achieved a 40% improvement in lab efficiency and a 50% increase in data accuracy.
  • Implemented a new data warehouse system to enhance data accessibility, usage, and transparency.
  • Provided mentorship to junior Project Managers and IT Operations Leads, fostering their growth and development.
  • Improved project management and documentation processes by implementing JIRA and Confluence.
  • Enhanced IT support and issue resolution capabilities by implementing service desk processes and policies.
  • Established sustainable processes across cross-functional teams for end-to-end project delivery.
  • Delivered Agile coaching and mentorship, driving continuous improvement in Agile practices.
  • Created, implemented, tracked, and reported on the IT roadmap to C-suite stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Technical Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

HDR UK
08.2021 - 09.2022

Responsibility

  • Delivery of dataset search engine with Data linkage to improve accessibility.
  • Digitalisation of data access request for dataset to improve efficacy around access time.
  • Implement support policies around product with respect to ITIL process.

Achievements

  • Delivered search engine portal for dataset search using metadata, leading to 40% increase in access requests.
  • Led digitization of dataset access request processes, achieving 50% reduction in turnaround time.
  • Leveraged metrics to identify and implement improvements in team performance and processes, effectively capturing and analysing their impact.
  • Employed Agile methodologies to build and nurture collaborative, cross-functional teams that deliver substantial business value with in-house and offshore vendor team of software engineers.
  • Established and guided new Agile teams, focusing on backlog creation, delivery cadence establishment, and financial management.
  • Designed comprehensive service desk processes and procedures, ensuring adherence to Service Level Expectations (SLE).
  • Developed and implemented robust acceptance criteria, overseeing product delivery validation with both internal and external teams.
  • Documented and approved process changes and designs in Confluence, actively contributing to design of all technical solutions.
  • Supported CTO in maintaining technical roadmap and sprint planning, collaborating with delivery organizations on budget adherence, resource allocation, and capacity planning.
  • Facilitated regular design workshops with stakeholders to ensure alignment and gather valuable feedback.
  • Created prototypes and proofs of concept for software solutions as needed, demonstrating innovative approaches to problem-solving.

Software Developer

EMBL-EBI
09.2016 - 08.2021

Responsibility

  • Development of the content management, monitoring and tracking system for organisation’s financial and infrastructural capacity planning and management.
  • Development of cloud portal to help scientist to spin up cloud infrastructure with one click within company environment.
  • Design, develop, and maintain software applications according to specifications and requirements, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Develop and execute unit and integration tests to ensure software quality and functionality.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse requirements, translating them into technical specifications and actionable tasks.
  • Participate in Agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to ensure efficient and effective project delivery.

Achievements

  • Developing a content management, monitoring and tracking system for the organisation's financial and infrastructural capacity planning and management helped tracking, reporting and planning infrastructure need over year.
  • Analysing and mapping stakeholder interests based on interest power grids and RACI matrixes.
  • Facilitating workshops to reach a consensus As-is To-be model and identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) and KPI for the project.
  • Working with stakeholders to prioritise the product backlog with various techniques like MoSCoW, Weighted Scoring or the 100$ bill.
  • Developing low fidelity mock-ups and prototypes using balsamic for stakeholders.
  • Jointly analysing risks and impacts with development teams and project managers.
  • Creating user stories that capture system process flow with functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Creating the functional process flow, ER diagram and class modelling for the system to understand the details of implementation.
  • Scrum implementation in teams, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review demos, and making improvements from sprint retrospectives.
  • Implementing user stories using Spring Boot and Angular frameworks.
  • Crafting and implementing the RDBMS database for the system along the lines of the ER diagram.

Education

Master of Science - Computing And IT

Northumbria University
Newcastle Upon Tyne
01.2016

Skills

  • Agile Coaching and Agile framework Implementation
  • Product Development Methodologies
  • Stakeholder Management
  • User-Centric Design Processes
  • Team and Relationship Building
  • Excellent Communication, Collaboration and Teamwork
  • GAP Analysis and Requirement Gathering
  • Leadership and Mentoring
  • Budget Administration
  • Collaboration tool - Jira, Confluence, Miro, Figma
  • Prototyping tools: Balsamiq, Figma
  • Visualisation tools: Kibana, Redash, Tableau
  • Databases: RDBMS and NoSql
  • Coding Languages: HTML5, JavaScript, Typescript, Java

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Master II (PSM2, Scrum.org).
  • Business Analysis Practitioner (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT).
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM1, Scrum.org).
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO1, Scrum.org).
  • Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK, Scrum.org).
  • Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS, Scrum.org).
  • Professional Agile Leadership (PAL, Scrum.org).
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner.

Personal Information

Nationality: British

Timeline

IT Program Manager

NatureMetrics
09.2022 - Current

Technical Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

HDR UK
08.2021 - 09.2022

Software Developer

EMBL-EBI
09.2016 - 08.2021

Master of Science - Computing And IT

Northumbria University
Pritesh Bhole