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Preethi - Project Manager

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Preethi kothakapu Sr.Project manager Mail ID: [email protected] Contact: 9408433847 Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/k-preethi-082718319 SUMMARY: Accomplished Project Manager and Scrum Master with over 10+ years of experience delivering complex software and ERP transformation projects across healthcare, public sector, and financial domains. Expertise in Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall methodologies, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams through the full project lifecycle, from planning and requirements gathering to implementation and post-go-live support. Strong background in Oracle Cloud Financials, business analysis, stakeholder engagement, backlog management, and Agile coaching, with hands-on experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, and Rally. Experience leading Agile teams and driving the successful delivery of high-impact software projects. Skilled in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), backlog management, stakeholder communication, and tools like Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps. Experience in conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis and ROI Analysis, NPV, conducting feasibility studies, scope. Collaborated with Oracle consultants and finance stakeholders during cutover and post-go-live support to stabilize financial operations. Establish team working agreement based on scrum values and help build a high performing self-organized team. Demonstrated experience and ability to write detailed Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FRD), and work within tight deadlines. Online systems to support Healthcare Provider Network maintenance. These systems include Provider Contracting, Contact Relationship management CRM, Outreach campaign, Surveys, etc Experienced in managing full-cycle Oracle Cloud Financials implementations, including requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, data migration, UAT, and post-go-live support. Proficient in leading ERP transformation projects involving Oracle Fusion modules such as GL, AP, AR, FA, and Cash Management. Strong track record of delivering Oracle Financials projects for healthcare and public sector clients with complex compliance and reporting needs. Solid experience in vendor software evaluation and end-to- end implement of commercial of the shelf (COTS) and software as a service (SaaS)solutions. Proven leader with excellent communication, negotiation, problem solving, inter personal, organization development and managerial skills. Experience in working with agile lifecycle, and/or tracking, and process management tools like Rally, Version One, and JIRA Provided concise status reporting to leadership, proactively highlighting risks, dependencies, and key milestones. Leverage Confidential TFS (Kanban board) to manage and visualize Sprint and Product Backlog Facilitate estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques. Gather/report all relevant Agile metrics burn down charts and team velocity Expertise in the Capability Maturity Model CMM and Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK, RUP, and Agile Software Development Methodologies TECHNICAL SKILLS: SDLC Methodologies: Safe Agile, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall, and Kanban Work Management Tools: Azure, JIRA, Clarity, MS-Project, MS Share Point, Office One Note. Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Balsamiq, UML, Erwin, Power Designer, TFS, Mockingbird, Microservices, SOA QA Tools: Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, Bugzilla, ClearQuest Technologies: Java & mobile technologies, Cloud & Virtualization Technologies (AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, VMWare), DevOps CI/CD (Ansible, Vagrant, Jenkins, Docker, Puppet) Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS SharePoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, Project Planner Defect Tracking tool: JIRA, Rally, JMeter, Splunk, Kibana Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle ERP/Financial Systems: Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials, Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle EBS R12 (GL, AP, AR, FA, PO, Cash Management) Implementation Tools: Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), FBDI, ADFdi, OTBI, BI Publisher, SOA Suite Project Tools: Oracle PPM Cloud, Oracle Financials Functional Setup Manager (FSM) WORK EXPERIENCE: Client: Charter Communications, Negaunee, MI Apr 2023 till now Senior Project Manager Responsibilities: Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure effective Agile ceremonies. Coach and mentor team members on Agile principles and Scrum practices to improve productivity and collaboration. Remove impediments and resolve conflicts to enable the team to meet sprint goals efficiently. Collaborate with Product Owners to maintain and prioritize the product backlog for continuous delivery of value. Track and report team progress, velocity, and performance metrics to stakeholders. Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging feedback and implementing actionable changes. Championed PMO best practices, governance frameworks, and compliance standards (PMP/PMI, ITIL, ISO, SOX). Ensure clear communication and transparency between development teams, stakeholders, and leadership. Support cross-functional teams in adopting Agile methodologies and improving workflows. Facilitate effective stakeholder engagement and manage expectations throughout the project lifecycle. Promote team empowerment, accountability, and self-organization to maximize productivity and quality. Configured and created JMS Queues and Topics, Connection factory, Data sources and connection pools. Oversaw RFPs, vendor selection, and contract negotiations, achieving 15% cost savings without compromising quality Installation and configuration of Oracle 11g on Sun Solaris, HP, and Window Operating systems. Design and deployed backup and recovery strategy using Oracle Recovery Manager RMAN, Shell scripts, import and export and integrate VERITAS NetBackup with RMAN. Perform database performance tuning activities undertake troubleshooting, research and finding solution of complex database problems by closely monitoring and tuning database performance issues, identifying problems, and implementing solutions ensuring the database is running at optimum speed and with efficiency. Implemented Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies, tailoring approaches to project needs and driving 25% faster delivery cycles. Ability to Scope the business area of analysis by utilizing the project charter to further identify the level and complexity of the business analysis effort. Ability to Support requirements and change management by identifying areas of impact. Elicit critical requirements using various tools and techniques. Led the end-to-end implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials modules including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Fixed Assets. Experienced Agile Software Development professional with outstanding qualifications and track record in delivering and managing Agile software projects. Over three years of hands-on experience as a Scum Master and three years of Cyber Security Analyst with strong communication skills, ability to effectively manage a technical team, quickly comprehend complex subjects and guide products through the full requirement, release and support lifecycle Strong technical command of project management tools: Jira, Rally, Virtual Studio Led three agile teams through a transition into one new delivery team, as Scrum Master and LEAN/Agile Coach. Delivered multiple projects in government/public sector, healthcare, and financial services with strict regulatory compliance Upgrade the even management system (Branded at confidential as a meeting manager) from v6 and v7 Client: State of NY, NYC, NY Jun 2021 Mar 2023 Project Manager Responsibilities: Created user stories, estimated user story effort, developed information radiators and product content, performed quality assurance testing, created product documentation and marketing materials Helped company scale Agile and Scrum best practices across multiple onshore and offshore projects using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) processes and best practices, and facilitated Scrum of Scrums Built OTBI and BI Publisher reports for financial dashboards, audit logs, and reconciliation processes. Facilitated UAT cycles with finance users and resolved critical defects pre and post go-live. Major project success metrics included development of the first fully customer-configurable CRM application for small-to-medium businesses at 58% of the retail price of the closest competitor Served as the primary instructor for Confidential Exam Prep, Agile Project Management and Scrum courses hosted by Confidential at corporate locations and at PMI-sponsored Agile/Scrum Training events including boot camps, dinner meetings, professional development days and other special events Plans the work based on the priority of different projects; identifying the crucial and priority of the project to deliver on time and budget Facilitated Agile ceremonies scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives ensuring delivery aligned with business and technical priorities. Managing all phases of several projects and dispersed project teams to support the NAP it logistics program of work as follows Collaborated cross-functionally to define cloud governance, scalability strategies, and disaster recovery plans for mission-critical system Managed FBDI/ADFdi templates for data migration and validated financial data across test and production environments. Coached the team about testing and TDD that enabled in making a swift transition to test automation. Implemented the concept of Lab-Weeks to foster sense of innovation in teams, three out of the five prototypes build during these lab-weeks got recognition at enterprise level and got budgeted to be full scale implementation projects. Introduced practices like pair programming and test-driven development (TDD). Reverse-Engineering under placed project to upgrade Capital Market application called GPM FileNet. Created business process model pilot project with extends to high level scope to requirements and followed with technological diagrams. Mentored and coached project managers, business analysts, and scrum masters, improving team performance and career progression Provide inputs and updates to the master schedule of all projects under way in the corporate project office. Spearheaded enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives, modernizing legacy systems and improving business agility. Directed end-to-end delivery of large-scale enterprise IT projects ensuring scope, schedule, and budget adherence. Used clarity PPM TO monitor resources hours being charged to the projects. Co-ordinate the design and pre-Implementation meeting and providing the business end plan. Extensive experience with HPSM for creating CO, Analyzing the ASV and ENV. Upgrading a COTS Facilitates management application along with adding a new module and implementing executive- level dashboard reports, to be used by the Executive Leadership team in strategic planning. Client: Bank of America, Charlotte, NC Oct 2019 May 2021 Project Manager Responsibilities: Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure effective Agile ceremonies. Removed impediments and blockers to enable the development team to deliver high-quality software on time. Collaborated with Product Owners to groom and prioritize the product backlog for upcoming sprints. Coached and mentored teams on Agile principles, Scrum framework, and best practices to improve team productivity. Monitored sprint progress and team velocity using Agile metrics and tools like Jira or Azure DevOps. Fostered a culture of continuous improvement through regular feedback and team-building activities. Ensured clear communication and alignment among cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Facilitated conflict resolution and promoted a collaborative team environment. Tracked and reported on sprint performance and project status to senior management and stakeholders. Supported Agile transformation initiatives and helped scale Scrum practices across multiple teams. Worked with the Product Owner to gather business process data and requirement decisions as a product analyst. Handle multiple projects across project teams simultaneously. Drive discovery sessions to gather requirements from clients, while simultaneously guiding them on best practices and recommendations Implemented IAM policies, VPC networking, and security best practices to ensure compliance and data protection in GCP environments Communicate with the business around the team s velocity and projects health while supporting the PMO in reporting on all teams' status. Prepare and lead project plans, documentation, risk mitigation, and resource management as needed for cross-team initiatives and large projects/programs. Resolve urgent issues and remove impediments for the team Lead and facilitated architecture and design of Single Page Applications and Micro-frontends. Analyze and grant access rights for audits, risk & compliance assessment & audit responses using archer. Managed & troubleshot multiple applications using SFDC (salesforce) and ITIL framework on L3. Troubleshooting of incidents using Splunk & violet support tool to drive solutions from the Splunk logs. Reviewed surveys to improve chat box and automate UX. Additional other duties and responsibilities, as assigned. Use of sales cloud for storage and infrastructure. Managed multiple project teams over, 10 developers and vendor teams ensuring we meet the delivery Client: Cardinal Health, Dublin, OH Jan 2017 Sep 2019 Business Analyst Responsibilities: Prepared Business Requirement Specification (BRD) and converted the business requirements into System Requirement Specification (SRS). Acquired Strong Analytical and Critical Thinking skills and evaluated risks related to stakeholder requirements and implementations with the testing processes. Provided input to the Change Management team for pilot processes to effectively meet the client needs and developed Business Specifications. Produced detailed description of user stories, business rules, flows, and data elements required developing new and modifying existing products. Helped various business units to automate GIS data manipulation from one format to another using FME. Cooperated and assisted business and technical personnel during Knowledge Transfer sessions for mutual understanding of processes and applications. Core responsibility involved complete manually testing of the User Acceptance Test (UAT) Conducted a budget planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QAs and Technical Support teams. Acquired Management Skills by collaborating with the quality team in identifying the Root Causes and Non-Value Adding Processes that affected the service desk and modifying the fatal parameters like Quality Scores and Productivity. Performed project assessment and health checks as required to ensure delivery of stated benefits on time and within budget. Maintaining regular contact with clients ensure their satisfaction with the PMO to resolve any issues and to improve their experiences with the PMO. Initiated, reviewed and implemented new process and methodologies or changes to existing process and methodologies. Client: Oracle Financial Services, India Mar 2014 Oct 2016 Business Analyst Responsibilities: Participated in Business Modeling by understanding the needs of the business, and documenting Business Use Cases as well as System Use Cases. Determined deadlines and tasks of the project through MS Project to guarantee the deployment of the project in a timely manner Used MS Visio to create Use Cases and Sequence Diagrams. Assisted development team to translate requirements into technical specifications. Verified eligibility for all departments and completed updates of Managed Care System. Developed automated Test Scripts in Win Runner using Test Script Language (TSL) for Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven Testing, Usability Testing, and Verifying Specific content through using Checkpoints Strong knowledge of SQL to extract data for validating test results Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst user experience business intelligence information technology golang hewlett packard purchase order microsoft mississippi Arkansas Colorado Idaho Michigan New York North Carolina Ohio