LAKSHMI 

(16 Years of Experience)

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

A dynamic professional with 16+ years of experience

• Experienced in leading high performance and multi-disciplinary teams from various geographic locations.
• Experienced in taking care of end-to-end Project Management Activities, from the Kick-off to Closure of the Project.
• Experienced in various project lifecycle methodologies including Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban).
• Experienced in managing projects using Cloud technologies like AWS and AZURE
• Experienced in RAID, Milestone and Finance Management of Projects/Programmes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies

Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban), Waterfall

Management Tools

MS-Office, MS-Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Planview, Twilio

Cloud

AWS, Azure

Certification

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate from Amazon Web Services
• Team Kanban Practitioner from Kanban University
• Certified Devops Foundation from Devops Institute
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (Level 1) from Scrum.Org

KEY PROJECTS

1. ONE ONCOLOGY

Technologies: Programming Technologies – Node.JS, Vue.JS and PostgreSQL

Tools: Twilio, Microsoft Office

Role: Project Manager

Methodology: Agile

Responsibilities:

• Managed End to End Project management including Project Planning, Execution, Tracking and Reporting
• Managed budgeting and financial planning to complete the project on the allocated budget.
• Managed and tracked all Milestones to achieve Program objectives
• Proactively identified and tracked project Risks/Issues and developed mitigation plans to manage risk
• Responsible for Sprint objectives getting met and Scrum ceremonies getting followed
• Resource Allocation Management to effectively utilize the resources available
• Managed Changes in requirements to scope without having impact to Sprint goal

Synopsis: OneOncology – A video conferencing application using Zoom to collaborate between Physicians and Medical Representatives. This involved creating an application to schedule meetings based on the Physician availability and preferences. The application was later upgraded to include feedback process for the meetings.

1. BACS PAYMENTS

Technologies: Programming language – Java, Mainframe

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, Planview

Role: Project Manager and Scrum Master

Methodology: Agile

Responsibilities:

• Managed End to End Project management including Project Planning, Execution, Tracking and Reporting
• Managed budgeting and financial planning to complete the project on the allocated budget.
• Managed and tracked all Milestones to achieve Program objectives
• Proactively identified and tracked project Risks/Issues and developed mitigation plans to manage risk
• Performed the role of an Implementation Manger to make sure Implementation completes with high quality and managed the warranty support.
• Performed the role of Client Manager with Vendor teams.
• Established a new Scrum team by mentoring/coaching the team on Agile Methodology and Scrum Concepts and successfully guided the team to transition from Waterfall to Agile development.
• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies and removed team impediments to allow the team to focus on Sprint goals and deliverables
• Collaborated with Product Owner to create the Product backlog from the Business requirements
• Coached/Mentored the team on the usage of various tools like Jira and Confluence.

Synopsis: Bacs is an electronic Payments system used in UK to make payments directly from one bank account to another. There are two types of payment within the Bacs system: Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit. As part of the UK payments process, Royal Bank of Scotland have to make regular changes in the BACS Payments process within their Bank.

1. W&G BANK

Technologies: Programming language – Java, Mainframe

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, Planview

Role: Project Manager

Methodology: Waterfall

Responsibilities: