About

Manish Taneja is a highly experienced Program Manager with over 19 years of progressive expertise in leadership roles. He has worked as a Project, Program, and Service Manager and has extensive experience working as a Program Manager, Project Manager, Business Consultant, and Scrum Master with global fortune 500 clients. Manish has managed multiple large and complex projects using Complete Software development life cycle (SDLC), QA Test Management, Systems, and Service Management in agile, SAFe, and waterfall delivery methods across multiple work streams. Manish has led geographical cross-functional teams across broad technical, financial, and business disciplines. He has focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget, and with the desired results. Manish has defined processes and tools best suited to each project and has moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals. He has created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and WBS. Manish has mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial & statistical data. He has anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments. Manish has been honored with Star Performer for 3 quarters in recognition of outstanding results. He has provisioned out-of-the-box solutions using MS Project and Portfolio Management to clients and customized reports/solutions based on client requirements. Manish has worked as a Senior member of Agile COE team and performed analysis, coaching, and guidance to project teams on Agile methodology. He has managed integrated projects by ensuring impacts, dependencies, and financial implications are addressed across multiple workstations. Manish has been a corporate recruiter for fresher and lateral hires in HCL, Infosys, NaviSite, and IBM. Currently, Manish is working as a Program Manager at IBM, managing a portfolio of cross-functional projects from original concept through final implementation. He is focused on ensuring the various activities are coordinated, critical path activities are achieved, and projects are successfully completed on time and within budget. Manish has directed project closure activities, including formalized and communicated the project acceptance, gathered lessons learned, completed documentation, hand-off of project deliverables, transitioned mutually agreed-upon issues to downstream functional groups, and completed post-implementation review to identify areas of improvement. Manish has previously worked as a Professional Services - Cloud Project Manager at Navisite and as an Information Technology Project Manager at HCL. He has completed an MBA in IT and Systems from Icfai and a