Naga Shirisha Nandyala Sirigiri
Hyderabad
Summary
Accomplished Program Manager with over 8.5 years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects within IT Industry. Proven track record of delivering programs on time, within scope, and within budget, while driving organizational success. PSM1, SAFe Agilist and ITIL Foundation Certified professional.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
Bangalore
04.2022 - Current
- Lead end-to-end management of ten large-scale programs, overseeing program delivery within budget.
- Successfully delivered 10 programs that improved the performance of key business metrics, like MTTR (90 to 15), CFR, code fixes, CAP cases, and regression coverage (60% to 95%).
- As part of continuous improvement initiatives, we were able to reduce the Relops duration from 10 to 7 days, and improved program velocity by 50%, which helped in picking up more marketable features.
- Coordinated with external stakeholders to align on the timelines for dependencies, such as integration testing, solution testing, and sharing of the EFT image.
- Driving all the key program meetings and presenting status reports through interactive dashboards to different stakeholders, including directors and VP-level stakeholders.
- Created dashboards in JIRA and Confluence for better tracking of program deliverables.
- Managed stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment with program objectives, timelines, and risks.
- Identified and mitigated risks, leading to a reduction in program delays, and cost overruns.
Project Management
Honeywell Technology solutions lab pvt ltd
Bangalore
09.2021 - 03.2022
- Handled two projects DE & IOT which enables ML based analytics solutions to monitor/control critical assets globally
- Conducted Bi-weekly project meetings with associated stake holders, review all outstanding action items
- Developed detailed project plans, tracked milestones, and communicated progress to key stakeholders
- Produce project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to day issues with emphasis on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Coordinating sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
Project Manager/Scrum Master
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
06.2019 - 08.2021
- Handled programs like Automation, IoT, and Mobility using Agile, SAFe, and waterfall methodologies.
- I have successfully delivered 15 mid- to large-scale IT telecom projects worth over $10 million.
- Improved quality by 32% and cut lead time by 21% over the past two years.
- Created the overall project plan and tracked all the testing activities, including requirement consolidation, test planning, test scripting, test execution, and regression automation.
- Drive end-to-end projects, including scoping, project charter, SOW, scheduling, budgeting, specifications, financials, resource administration, quality control, monitoring, managing changes, and closure.
- Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
- Extensively used JIRA for maintaining user story hierarchy, backlog grooming, updating tasks, planning iterations, and release.
- Maximizing the team’s productivity, and helping the team to work as planned, and be on track.
- Review and sign off on deliverables at specified points in the project.
System Engineer
TCS
Chennai
07.2013 - 03.2016
- Developed an automated script for environment configuration using SQL and UNIX, which increased productivity by 70%, for which I received an 'ON THE SPOT AWARD' as appreciation from the client.
- Working knowledge of SQL for advanced data verification and ad-hoc reporting.
- Resolving various tickets/issues raised by the testing team by making necessary changes.
- Configure and maintain network services, including backup and recovery, and maintaining web servers in a Linux environment.
Education
MBA - Lean Operations and Systems
CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Bangalore01.2019
Engineering - Chemical
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Anantapur01.2013
Skills
- IT Project Management - Agile and SAFe
- Process Optimization
- Risk and Issue Management
- Change Management
- Stakeholder management
- Dependency and Scope Management
- Strategic Planning
Certification
- KPMG-certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma
- Axelos certified ITIL 4 Foundation in IT service management
- Scrum.org certified Professional Scrum Master
- Scaled Agile Certified SAFe 5 practitioner
- Scaled Agile Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Practitioner
- IBM certified professional in IBM CE: Descriptive Analytics (IBM Cognos BI)
Accomplishments
- Received the 'ON THE SPOT AWARD' as an appreciation for being an effective team player at TCS for two consecutive quarters
- Managed a critical Agile project at IBM, released the project on time, and received appreciation from the client
- Achieved IBM Super Learner status in 2019 and 2020
- Received special appreciation from the client (Cisco) for leading a CAP case that otherwise has a cost impact on the client
Timeline
Program Manager
Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
04.2022 - Current
Project Management
Honeywell Technology solutions lab pvt ltd
09.2021 - 03.2022
Project Manager/Scrum Master
IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2019 - 08.2021
System Engineer
TCS
07.2013 - 03.2016
MBA - Lean Operations and Systems
CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
Engineering - Chemical
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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