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Sukanyaa Padmanabhan

Chennai,TN

Summary

PROFILE SUMMARY A certified scrum master and delivery lead with over 17.2 years of experience in Project management and Agile Scrum methodologies, who thrive on ensuring that complex projects are delivered seamlessly and efficiently. Enhancing skill set with a certification in PMP. Proven history of improving team collaboration and productivity through agile frameworks. Experience in / Knowledge of, Agile Delivery Methodology and helping teams explore, adapt, and optimize Agile-Lean processes, principles, and practices. Demonstrable solid understanding of the fundamentals of the software development life cycle and project management.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Lead and Scrum Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited
2023.08 - Current

Project/ Schedule Management

  • Identify and plan end-end activities required to meet project acceptance criteria.
  • Plan and manage multiple small/ medium size projects/ modules as defined.
  • Identify risks and mitigation strategies and implement same to manage simple small or medium size projects/ modules.
  • Anticipate items that cause schedule delays schedule dependencies and manage them following proper risk management plan.
  • Estimate work plan and track activities closely and report progress on regular basis.

Data Visualization with Power BI:

  • Utilized data visualization techniques from Power BI training to enhance reporting efficiency and clarity for stakeholders. This resulted in 20% increase in actionable insights.

Agile Coaching and Practices:

  • Managed team capacity and velocity proactively before planning with Product Owner.
  • Conducting scrum ceremonies (Daily stand-up, grooming, iteration planning, retrospection) was part of responsibilities.

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering groups, fostering teamwork and information sharing.
  • Setting up calendar invites and conducting sprint reviews and planning ceremonies were essential.

Risk Management and Reporting:

  • Proactively identify any dependencies that might impact project KPIs facilitate agreement with dependency owners and closely track them on plan.
  • Identify and closely track risks in project and follow escalation path.
  • Document risks and issues in project communicate them to all relevant stakeholders and closely track impact.
  • Actively led GDPR audits for project and made significant contribution to percentage of compliance improvement

Delivery Lead

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
2022.04 - 2023.08
  • Project Planning:
    • Plan project scope and objectives, involving relevant internal stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
    • Additionally, involved in estimating project effort and costing for new requirements in USS area.
    Execution and Coordination:
    • Coordinating internal resources and third-party vendors ensuring flawless project execution.
    • Managing changes to scope, schedule, and costs using verification techniques.
    Oracle Database Migration and Application Migration:
    • Successfully headed completion of Oracle Migration from DB 12C to 19C demonstrating expertise in database management.
    • Migrating applications to AWS and Azure AD.
    • Headed migration for Four Applications and completed them without any escalations or issues.
    JIRA Dashboard Management:
    • Handling JIRA dashboards for defects and new requirements helped streamline project tracking.
    • Responsible for Sprint planning and delivery.
    Knowledge Management (KM)
    • Establish KM plan and platform that can be leveraged by new joiners to project.
    • Establish platform to enable knowledge sharing among project team members.
    • Ensure learnings from project are contributed to KM repository.
    • Ensure that organization level KM Platforms (platform and content) is enabled for consumption by project.
    Compliance
    • Actively participated in GDPR compliance audit, ensuring all data processing activities met regulatory standards.
    • Contributed to identifying gaps, recommending corrective actions, and verifying implementation of compliance measures.
    • Increased awareness among team members about importance of GDPR compliance, leading to better data protection practices.
    • Made significant improvements in data handling and processing procedures, enhancing overall data governance, which contributed to great increase in GDPR score from 75% to 94%.

Lead Consultant and a Project Lead

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
2014.02 - 2022.04
  • Project: BT- GST - PMF & PPSR MDM
  • Process Improvements and SLA Compliance:
  • Directed the Production support team to implement process improvements, resulting in a 90% increase in SLA compliance
  • Led to a significant reduction in customer escalations by 40%
  • Oracle Database Migration and Application Migration:
  • Successfully headed the completion of the Oracle Migration from DB 12C to 19C demonstrating expertise in database management
  • Headed the migration for Four Applications and completed them without any escalations or issues
  • Collaboration and Root Cause Analysis:
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams to resolve critical issues
  • Identified root causes of recurring problems and recommended solutions contributing to system reliability
  • Optimizing Performance:
  • Recommended scheduling enhancement for necessary upgrades and patches
  • Reduced processing time through job schedule analysis
  • Code Development and Documentation:
  • Authoring code fixes and enhancements for future releases.

Team Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited
2009.08 - 2014.02
  • As a team lead of the Sales Tool application:
  • Refine new change requests raised by the customer
  • Attend CFT calls to understand and raise concerns on the impact in the application due to the new change
  • Technical Leadership: Led a team of junior associates in developing and implementing a new software solution, resulting in a 30% increase in system efficiency.
  • Innovation and Development: Designed and developed a critical application feature that improved user experience and increased customer satisfaction by 25%.
  • Problem Solving: Successfully resolved complex technical issues, reducing system downtime by 40% and improving overall system reliability.
  • Process Improvement: Implemented automation scripts that reduced manual testing time by 50%, leading to faster release cycles.
  • Mentorship: Mentored junior team members, enhancing their technical skills and contributing to a more knowledgeable and capable team.
  • Client Engagement: Worked closely with clients to understand their technical needs and provided tailored solutions, resulting in a 20% increase in client retention

Senior Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra Limited
2008.10 - 2009.08
  • 1. Successful Data Migration:
    o Migrated over 1 million records from legacy systems to new databases with zero data loss and 99.9% accuracy.
    o Reduced data migration time by 30% through the implementation of automated tools and processes.
    2. Project Management:
    o Led a team of 10 in the successful migration of a data center, resulting in a 20% increase in system performance and a 15% reduction in operational costs.
    o Developed and executed a comprehensive migration plan that minimized downtime and ensured seamless transition for end-users.
    3. Technical Expertise:
    o Designed and implemented custom ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to migrate complex datasets, improving data accuracy by 40%.
    o Utilized programming languages such as Java, SQL, and Python to develop migration scripts and tools1.
    4. Stakeholder Collaboration:
    o Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve migration-related issues, ensuring project milestones were met on time and within budget.
    o Provided training and support to end-user’s post-migration, resulting in a 95% satisfaction rate.
    5. Documentation and Compliance:
    o Created detailed documentation of migration processes, including user manuals and technical guides, to support future projects.
    o Ensured compliance with industry regulations and standards throughout the migration process.

Business Analyst

Tech Mahindra Limited
2007.06 - 2008.10

As a, (with a team size of 6) of One View Business Analyst (In-Life) I was responsible for the following:

  • Refine the In-life requirements regarding the impact, benefit and new processes/changes needs to be put in for the change
  • Co-ordinate with designers, developers and ASG to deliver the change as required and on time
  • Monitoring the change right from the requirement phase to delivery
  • Working for seed data maintenance to help the site/admin team and business to update/create new profiles as per the demand
  • Quality of CR analysis and Solution summary - Assignment ownership and effective initiation of CR
  • Follow effective communication with customer with up-to-date information and guide them through the
  • CR development process
  • Managing the In-life team as and when needed avoiding any escalation, representing on the calls, supporting the development team/E2E team etc
  • In-life OCR delivery process - Internal Application/CR/Query Demos
  • Documenting the critical OCRs worked on, and helpful for the other team members to get the better visibility of typical requirements.

Education

MBA - Human Resource Management

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning
Pune
08.2010

Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering

Anna University
Chennai
05.2007

Skills

  • Project Delivery Management
  • Advanced Scrum Tools Proficiency (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Methodologies
  • Oracle– SQL / Pl-SQL
  • Mongo DB
  • PI Planning / PI Performance Reviews
  • Scrum Ceremonies
  • Compliance – GDPR Audits
  • Data Analysis and Data Visualization
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Application and Database Migration Lead
  • Quality Assurance (QA)
  • Agile Planning and Estimation Techniques
  • Sprint Planning and Task Breakdown
  • Agile Metrics and Strong knowledge on Agile Manifesto and Principles
  • Backlog Grooming and Prioritization
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Practices
  • Process Improvement
  • Risk Management and Mitigation
  • Backlog Management and Prioritization
  • Advanced User Story Mapping
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Automated Testing (Playwright tool)
  • Agile Coaching and Team Facilitation
  • Stakeholder Management and Communication/ Client relationship management.
  • Collaborative mindset
  • Leadership skills
  • Project Planning
  • Project Coordination
  • Client communications
  • Risk management skills

Certification

Certified SAFe 6 Agilist – Issued on: 17 JUN 2024 | Expires on: 17 JUN 2025 | Issued by: Scaled Agile In Certified in Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI – July 2024 Tableau Certified Data Analyst | Aug’2024 PMP Certification – Issued By: PMI | September 2024 (Expected) Data Analytics & Science using AI Mastery – August 2024 (Expected) Certified Python Mastery – September 2024 (Expected)

Additional Information

  • Pat on the Back award – Q4 2023- 2024. Outstanding performer Award in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. Top Performer Award - FY2010-2011 – British Telecom. Dream Team Award – Q2 2022-2023 and Q4 2022-2023. Improved reporting efficiency and clarity for stakeholders using Power BI, resulting in a 20% increase in actionable insights.

Timeline

Project Lead and Scrum Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited
2023.08 - Current

Delivery Lead

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
2022.04 - 2023.08

Lead Consultant and a Project Lead

Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
2014.02 - 2022.04

Team Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited
2009.08 - 2014.02

Senior Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra Limited
2008.10 - 2009.08

Business Analyst

Tech Mahindra Limited
2007.06 - 2008.10

MBA - Human Resource Management

Symbiosis Centre For Distance Learning

Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering

Anna University
Certified SAFe 6 Agilist – Issued on: 17 JUN 2024 | Expires on: 17 JUN 2025 | Issued by: Scaled Agile In Certified in Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI – July 2024 Tableau Certified Data Analyst | Aug’2024 PMP Certification – Issued By: PMI | September 2024 (Expected) Data Analytics & Science using AI Mastery – August 2024 (Expected) Certified Python Mastery – September 2024 (Expected)
Sukanyaa Padmanabhan