Lakshmi Sirisha Sonti
Project Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
IT Project Management Specialist experienced in end-to-end project delivery and stakeholder management. Delivered complex projects on time and within budget through strategic planning and resource optimization. Focused on driving impactful outcomes and fostering collaboration, consistently exceeding client expectations while maintaining compliance with procedural standards.
Overview
3
3
Certifications
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Mobilution IT Systems
12.2024 - 04.2026
- Monitored and governed end-to-end project progress, ensuring on-time delivery and stakeholder alignment.
- Developed and executed cutover plans/runbooks detailing activities, ownership, timing, and coordinating change windows, milestones, and communications.
- Oversaw change control processes including intake, impact assessment, prioritization, and securing necessary approvals.
- Orchestrated remediation efforts, SIT, Mock cutover, Cutover planning, and Hypercare activities.
- Led weekly stakeholder meetings, status calls, and leadership reporting to ensure alignment on scope, timeline, and dependencies.
- Maintained RAID, action, and decision logs with defined ownership and deadlines; proactively managed mitigation strategies and escalations.
- Facilitated release readiness activities procedures such as checklist reviews and sign-off tracking, supporting go/no-go decision forums (as directed by leadership).
- Generated executive-level status reports (RAG, schedule, budget, RAID, decisions), enhancing predictability through consistent metrics and milestone tracking.
- Client : Deloitte
Project Manager
IBM/Kyndryl
04.2018 - 11.2024
- Executed multiple projects with competing priorities across diverse service lines, aligning objectives with corporate strategy and overseeing geographically dispersed teams to deliver tailored client solutions.
- Planned and executed projects in compliance with client requirements, ensuring IT standards and stakeholder accountability, while mitigating risks and addressing issues to maintain deliverables and timelines.
- Conducted daily progress oversight, management meetings, and stakeholder reviews, facilitating performance evaluations and fostering collaborative engagement through internal and joint business sessions.
- Maintained rigorous adherence to procedural standards, leading project reviews, ensuring documentation accuracy, and coordinating technical teams and vendors via conference bridges.
- Exercised end-to-end ownership of project delivery, devising and monitoring schedules, addressing milestones, and resolving impediments to achieve optimal outcomes.
- Developed executive-level presentations to communicate project status and key insights, enabling informed decision-making and strategic alignment.
Senior Operations Professional
IBM
11.2011 - 03.2018
- Leveraged expertise in tools such as TWS, ESP, OPC and Control-M across mainframe and distributed environments, monitoring jobs and critical flows while ensuring seamless coordination with clients for scheduling and issue resolution.
- Managed job actions including force completion, resubmission, holding, releasing, and deletion based on support team requests, while addressing long-running jobs and notifying appropriate teams for swift resolution.
- Created and tracked tickets for job failures via ServiceNow, executing actions as per the Runbook, notifying analysts based on job priority, and escalating issues to application owners when necessary.
- Prepared and updated support documentation, incorporated new work steps, and provided comprehensive daily and weekly reports to account management for performance tracking.
- Conducted technical training sessions for freshers and new hires, organized weekly team meetings with on-site counterparts and clients, and fulfilled work requests within stipulated timelines.
- Performed scheduled server upgrade changes, executed temporary job schedule modifications, and actively participated in project transitions, preparing knowledge transfer documents to ensure operational continuity.
Engineer-Technology Analyst
CSC (P) Limited
01.2008 - 11.2011
- Designed and managed schedules and job configurations, ensuring timely updates to documentation and seamless execution of all jobs.
- Resolved scheduling-related issues, handled ad-hoc scheduling requests, and facilitated the movement of elements from development to production environments.
- Monitored job execution and critical workflows, coordinating with clients and support teams to address requests for force completions, restarts, and ad-hoc executions.
- Scheduled and executed jobs per support team requirements, facilitating smooth system operations and timely processing of requests.
Education
B. Tech - Mechanical
JNTU
Skills
Skills: Project Management(Waterfall/Agile/Hybrid), Stakeholder Management, Risk and Issue Management, Release Management, Change Management, Incident Management, Governance and Compliance, Documentation
Technical Skills: Mainframes JCL, TWS/z(OPC),TWS/d, Control-M
Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI.
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Mobilution IT Systems
12.2024 - 04.2026
Project Manager
IBM/Kyndryl
04.2018 - 11.2024
Senior Operations Professional
IBM
11.2011 - 03.2018
Engineer-Technology Analyst
CSC (P) Limited
01.2008 - 11.2011
B. Tech - Mechanical
JNTU