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Education
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MEENU SAPROO

MEENU SAPROO

Lead Technical Program Management
Bengaluru

Summary

  • Lead Technical Program Manager (Telecom and eRetail) with 20 years of experience, go getter; translates strategy into action, executing relevant plans brilliantly. Leads an operational unit of multiple Programs and work as a subject matter expert.
  • Deliver complex Programs with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key business priorities
  • Establish new or improve existing Agile delivery methodology to deliver the Program goals Initiate and shape Program with ambiguous scope and uncertain delivery approach
  • Create and track a plan to deliver the Program goals, including the technical implementation plan
  • Provide expert advice and guidance on Program delivery (Recruit, Mentor and Coach aspiring TPMs and supporting Engineering/Product teams)
  • Work closely with Business stakeholders, Product and Engineering Managers to validate the Program's strategic goal, define the success metrics and criteria.
  • Understand trade-offs in software delivery, using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to obtain the best value and solution
  • Am able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations
  • Proven expertise in various aspects of Program, Project and Product Management, Test Management, Test support, Customer interaction, LAB Management and Product testing
  • Key competencies in functional analysis for Core Telecom and e-retail solution Development projects with hands-on exposure across Requirement analysis, System study, Gap Analysis, User Acceptance Tests, Migration, Release management and Go Live support.
  • Innate strengths in identifying and developing potential accounts and retaining their business association with augmented customer services.
  • Create and validate financial forecast, with Programs value of 5+ million£ (pounds).

Meticulously organized Technical Program Manager with 20+ years successfully uniting internal and external forces to achieve peak efficiency. Careful overseer of disparate departments with widely varying levels of technical knowledge. Practiced at maintaining harmonious operations while meeting frequently discordant needs of internal personnel, business channel partners and customers.

Meticulously organized Technical Program Manager with 20+ years successfully uniting internal and external forces to achieve peak efficiency. Careful overseer of disparate departments with widely varying levels of technical knowledge. Practiced at maintaining harmonious operations while meeting frequently discordant needs of internal personnel, business channel partners and customers.

Work History

Lead Technical Program Manager

Tesco HSC
07.2022 - Current

As a LTPM I am responsible to Lead large-scale, multi-disciplinary technical programs from inception through delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.

  • Maximized ROI for technology investments through careful analysis of requirements, cost-benefit assessments, and stakeholder input.
  • Collaborative and innovative Process leader who's passionate about creating and scaling Operational Processes. The role also is accountable for owning and delivering on approach to Technology Process Excellence in Store Operations domain.

Technical Program Manager

Tesco Technologies
06.2018 - 06.2022
  • End to end ownership of cross-functional projects, including product definition, roadmap planning, resource planning and project execution.
  • Along with business initiatives, you will also lead the definition and execution of strategic projects aimed at reducing the total cost and time to market for launch.
  • Trade-off and best possible tactical solutions to support critical consumers.
  • Projects Worked on: Digital Clubcard Mobile App, Mobile Microsite, Tesco New Tills, Grocery Home Shopping Cut Over - Enterprise Customer Order - UK/ROI, Decommission the legacy stack - Real Time Sale and Grocery API's, Marketplace (Latest on-going project)

Engineering Project Manager

Aricent Group
09.2004 - 01.2015
  • Manage onsite resources at Juniper.
  • Manage the customer releases.
  • Interact with Juniper Management to support new and ongoing requirement.
  • Projects Worked on: Juniper E-series Routers EM as Onsite Manager/Release Manager (On-Site JUNIPER Networks), Alcatel-Lucent MUSE-NPO as Sr.Test lead, Alcatel-Lucent GSM- OMC-R as Test Lead, Lucent GSM- OMC OA&M as Test Engineer, Motorola GSM OMCR as Test Engineer (On-site MOTOROLA)

Software Engineer

BAeHAL Software Ltd
10.2002 - 02.2004
  • Code Evaluation.
  • Testing of backend Module.
  • White box and Unit Testing.
  • Functional Testing.
  • Modification of the code in VC++.
  • Projects Worked on: Thales as software engineer, Data Generator 3 as Software engineer/ Test engineer

Software Engineer

e-NET India
02.2001 - 02.2002
  • Developed an e-com application for Online Exam, Online Recruitment and online shopping.
  • System Designing & Development.
  • Responsible for coding in Java.
  • Form validation using JavaScript.
  • Testing of backend Module.

Education

B.E. - Instrumentation

PREC. Pune University
01.1996 - 01.2000

Masters in Web Designing and Development - Web Development

WebCease Infotech
01.2000 - 01.2001

Post Graduate - Retail Management

IIT Kharagpur
06.2021 - 12.2021

Skills

Agile methodologies

Certification

Retail Management

Accomplishments

  • Decommission of 15-year-old monolith mainframe systems for real time sales data within a span of 1.5 - 2 years.
  • Part of large-scale transformation Program which is spread across complex Monolith Systems to new Enterprise APIs.
  • Delivered a very complex Mobile Program on entirely new platform within 4 months.
  • Delivery key features for Digital Clubcard Mobile App (Payquik, passbook).
  • Distinction of managing Application and Services Telecom projects, Motorola GSM, Alcatel Lucent OMCR Project, Alcatel Lucent NPO, and Juniper E-series to name a few.
  • Handled the Program with Capex Cost of 3+ million £ (pounds).
  • Associated closely in providing technical solution to various customers and onsite support globally.
  • Credited for implementing the Web Automation using QTP.
  • Recognized by Motorola Management for exemplary contribution towards Motorola OMCR PM testing.
  • SNAP award in Aricent for drastic reduction in FR count open in the product.

Area Of Expertise

  • Strategic Planning / Visioning & Tactical Execution
  • Expense Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Stakeholder/Client Relationship Management
  • Agile Methodology / Problem & Change Management
  • Team Building & Leadership
  • Manpower Planning and Scheduling
  • Software & Application Lifecycle Management
  • Maintenance Management/Post Release Support

Interests

Trekking

Running

Spending time with family and Pet Ceasar

MEENU SAPROOLead Technical Program Management