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Lakshmi Priya P.U

Lakshmi Priya P.U

Senior Lead PMO
Chennai

Summary

With over 15 years of experience in project management operations, I have successfully handled multiple portfolios to implement core business objectives. As the PMO Manager for Asia Pacific and Middle East operations, I managed multiple accounts across various locations with team sizes exceeding 250, resulting in an annual revenue of over $30 million USD. My strong knowledge and understanding of project specifications, technologies, methodologies, processes, standards, and deliverables enable me to provide effective support. I also excel in setting delivery standards for operational areas, implementing quality systems and procedures, and ensuring adherence to SLAs and business services. My proficiency extends to end-to-end execution of application development, maintenance, transition, and engagement operational and financial activities. Additionally, I am highly competent in project execution and monitoring, audit and compliance, change management, escalation management, budgeting and estimation, portfolio management, training, process optimization, and cost optimization.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Lead PMO

Bahwan CyberTek
1 2022 - 07.2024

provide Project Management /operational support to all Application Support & Development projects for the multiple accounts supported.

  • Played a vital role in setting up project management office tools, process & control to improve the governance of the projects.
  • Rigorously followed up /worked with project teams to develop culture by following best practices and process.
  • Worked with technical leads to increase resource utilization, improve margins and optimize pyramid.
  • Restructuring documentation on SharePoint & Confluence and ensure its updated regularly.
  • Performing Project Management duties. (Staffing, Onboarding, Forecast, Invoicing, Financial reporting, metrics reporting etc.)
  • Worked closely with resource management team/Recruitment team to fulfill open demands.
  • Work on Effort/Estimation pricing tools and help in preparing payment schedules for pursuits and create CR documents and SOW.
  • Own & Maintain Effort planning tools ETC (Estimate to complete) to ensure margins and other financials are in line with the budget.
  • Support and help project / team with their operational issues/challenges.
  • Coordinated for HR connect sessions, account/ leadership meeting, team level monthly recognitions, Client visits & domain trainings.
  • Supported multiple accounts spread across multiple locations with team sizes > 250+

Project Manager, PMO

Media8 Pvt Ltd
06.2019 - 01.2022
  • Coordinate budget process including control and report on program costs and deviations from budget/plans.
  • Assist in development and maintenance of global rollout schedule.
  • Maintain master repository of key program documentation regarding quality audits, global procedures and QMS.
  • Arrange meetings for project team including co-ordination of project team meetings and external events.
  • Monitor status of project and distribute information accordingly to respective team members.
  • Project controlling tasks including reporting/statistics.
  • Content-related tasks such as presentation preparation for team or customer meetings.
  • Act as Financial Project Analyst is focal point to capture and report financial and other metrics of engagement(s) and/or project(s).

Lead PMO

Media8 Pvt Ltd
12.2013 - 05.2019

Delivery and Contractual Reporting

  • Preparation of Weekly and Monthly Contractual reports.
  • Preparation of Weekly and Monthly delivery status report, Tracking sheet, etc.
  • Preparing Governance report which is shared with customer on monthly and quarterly basis and work on action plans relating to Customer Escalations.
  • Helped in preparation of Business Continuity Plan for account.
  • Created Induction Manual and maintain same.
  • Created process documents for various PMO activities to ensure smooth process flow.
  • Preparation of various presentations for PMO.

Operations and Logistics

  • Space Management for project teams.
  • Support Networks & Infrastructure related needs of the project teams.
  • Arranging logistics required for Customer Visits and advertisement campaign.
  • Support for project related travel and reimbursement.

Invoicing and Resource Management

  • Coordinating with delivery team, Finance team for timely completion of invoicing
  • Preparation of FTE Roster for Revenue projections
  • Resource Fulfillment (Forecast, Follow up, Closure, Allocation, Release) with support from RMG team.
  • Managed vendor relationships, staff augmentation, and contract management for freelancers.

Associate PMO

Media8 Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 11.2013

Instrumental in handling Client Service, Project Management, Account Strategies, Media Plan & Digital Sales (Including New Sales Pitch).


• Building strong relationships with Google channel managers to acquire new projects.
• Responsible for preparing Quarterly business new acquisition & renewal Projections.
• Building a strong relationship between both internal and end advertisers.
• Strongly coordinates with internal team to follow roadmap suggested for each accounts.
• Responsible for meeting each advertiser account’s scope.
• Responsible for SMB success rate through Digital campaigns & services.
• Responsible for winning renewal process, UPSELL & CROSSELL.
• Highest Client Retention winner.
• Coordinates in organizing external and internal inhouse events, business meetings.

Education

Master of Computer Applications - Information Technology

Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, India
06.2005 - 04.2008

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

University of Kerala
Kollam, India
01.2000 - 01.2003

Skills

Scrum Methodology, SAFe

Certification

ITIL_V4 certified

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/22/1982
  • Nationality: Indian

Languages

English
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil

References

References will be furnished as per request.

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Accomplishments

  • Recipient of prestigious employee of the year awards twice.
  • Founded and operated academic coaching institution successfully.
  • Created a successful merchandising business model that was implemented company-wide.
  • Collaborated with team of 250+ in the development of a mission critical project for one of the biggest defense establishment.
  • Served as a Techno Manager and scrum master during a critical project development timeline.
  • Seamlessly handled resource allocation for 8 different projects in parallel

Affiliations

  • Society of Women Engineers

Additional Information

ITIL_V4 certified Professional

Software

MS Office

Power BI

Atlassian JIRA

Atlassian Confluence

ServiceNow

Oracle RDBMS

BMC Control-M

Timeline

Project Manager, PMO

Media8 Pvt Ltd
06.2019 - 01.2022

Lead PMO

Media8 Pvt Ltd
12.2013 - 05.2019

Associate PMO

Media8 Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 11.2013

Master of Computer Applications - Information Technology

Bharathiar University
06.2005 - 04.2008

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

University of Kerala
01.2000 - 01.2003

Senior Lead PMO

Bahwan CyberTek
1 2022 - 07.2024
ITIL_V4 certified
Lakshmi Priya P.USenior Lead PMO