Meenakshi Das
Lead Consultant
Benguluru
Summary
Lead Consultant bringing 17 years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Lead Consultant
Infosys Technologies Limited
Bengaluru
04.2022 - Current
- Developed program schedules and monitored milestones as a Release Train Engineer
- Managing sprint scrum teams of an ART for timely completion of a Mainframe modernization project re-arched from mainframes to cloud technologies
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
- Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Collaborated with product owners, product managers, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to create new features, define solutions and drive progress.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives for the ART
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
- Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement.
Technical Lead
Infosys
Bengaluru
05.2020 - 03.2022
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Created Dashboards in JIRA for visual references
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
Technical Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited
Bengaluru
03.2015 - 04.2020
- Developed applications designed for company needs in Mainframes - Cobol, JCL, DB2 for a Financial service organization
- Provided subject matter expertise to project team members and was a technical team lead for a group of 10 people
- Utilized both agile and waterfall methodologies to develop software of varying complexity and business needs.
- Wrote and maintained technical documentation for software applications.
- Performed code refactoring and optimization to improve performance.
- Created REXX scripts for automation testing
- Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
- Assigned tasks to IT personnel and junior module staff, delegating work based on individual employee proficiencies.
- Reviewed quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
01.2014 - 02.2015
- Developed application for capturing customer details in a database using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and lead a team of 8 people
- Troubleshot business logic and performance issues in existing mainframe applications.
- Partnered with technical leaders to align solutions with strategy and standards.
- Performed lead role to complete technical systems design for new and enhanced systems.
- Collaborated with business lines to understand business requirements and participate in development for SDLC documentation.
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
- Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
10.2012 - 12.2013
- Wrote and maintained technical documentation for software applications.
- Performed code refactoring and optimization to improve performance for application in COBOL, JCL and DB2 technology
- Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software applications.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
- Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
03.2007 - 09.2012
- Production support engineer supporting L2 in Cobol, JCL and DB2
- Performed root cause analysis and implemented corrective actions.
- Supervised entire production process and prepared proper documentation.
- Communicated with other team members to enhance process and performance.
- Completed and submitted monthly and yearly reports to support executive decision making.
- Analyzed product and process and provided actionable solutions for changes to processes, products or quality standards.
- Supported the Customer from Onsite Uruguay
QA
Geneva Technologies
Bengaluru
08.2006 - 03.2007
- Experience of Geneva is not counted in TCS as joined TCS through off campus
- Adhered to standardized software quality assurance best practices, policies and processes
- Recorded findings of inspection process, collaborating with quality team to implement corrective actions.
- Consulted manuals and process documents to investigate malfunctions.
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
MVJ College of Engineering, Viswesvariah Technological University
Benguluru 09.2002 - 06.2006
Skills
- Reporting capabilities
Processes and procedures
Disaster Recovery Planning
Risk identification
Customer interaction
Project Management
Problem-Solving
Cobol, JCL, DB2
AWS Concepts, Microservices, Angular
Agile Scrum
Certification
Certified in Safe 5 Scrum Master
Accomplishments
- Lead consultant managing a team of 35 members.
- Received many Infosys Insta awards for my contribution to the project.
- Received client appreciation award and Infosys Rise Kudos award for my detailed and well versed updates
- Received Infosys Delivery award for quality deliverables
- Received appreciation for managing a big team
- Received appreciation for accomplishing a good Scrum team from scratch
Timeline
Lead Consultant
Infosys Technologies Limited
04.2022 - Current
Certified in Safe 5 Scrum Master
06-2021
Technical Lead
Infosys
05.2020 - 03.2022
Certified in PSM1 (Professional Scrum Master1)
07-2019
Technical Lead
Infosys Technologies Limited
03.2015 - 04.2020
Assistant Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2014 - 02.2015
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2012 - 12.2013
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2007 - 09.2012
QA
Geneva Technologies
08.2006 - 03.2007
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
MVJ College of Engineering, Viswesvariah Technological University
09.2002 - 06.2006
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