About

Chintamani Umarani is a highly experienced Program Manager at QED42 with over 12 years of experience in the Drupal ecosystem. He has a strong background in project management, account management, Scrum management, analysis, design, and development of web applications using PHP - Drupal. Chintamani has managed several large-scale migration projects, including Drupal 7 to Drupal 8/9 migration with a team size of 6 and a 75+ Drupal site migration project for a Fortune 500 client with a team size of 15. Chintamani is also experienced in supporting marketing and sales teams as a subject matter expert for Drupal and generating RFP responses for Drupal projects. He has excellent account management skills and has supported clients with different requirements beyond the Drupal ecosystem, mainly involving JS projects and WordPress projects. Chintamani is skilled in team time-sheet management, billing management, and invoicing, and has executed and tracked SOWs and Master Services Agreements. Chintamani has been actively involved in various project phases, including requirement analysis, functional specification, design, identifying key modules, effort estimation, and resource management. He has experience in continuous service management and project management and has traveled to Ostrava, Czech Republic, to provide training to an onsite support team. Chintamani is a certified Scrum Master, SAFe 4.0 Agilist, and has hands-on experience of sprint management. Chintamani is skilled in developing web applications using Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP), and has strong conceptual knowledge in software design and SDLC & Agile software development methodologies. He is an Acquia Certified Drupal 8 SiteBuilder, Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAFe Agilist 4.0, and Certified ITIL foundation. Chintamani's past experience includes working as a Technical Project Manager - Drupal at QED42, where he managed a 75+ Drupal site migration project for a Fortune 500 client. He has also worked as a Continuous Service Manager at Tieto, leading Drupal 8 Intranet development and working as a bridge between Product Owners and Vendors, translating business needs into technical specifications for vendors. Chintamani holds a Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) from Sinhgad Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from S.P.College. (Pune University). His tech stack includes PHP, Web, MySQL,