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Navyatha Ummineni

Project Manager, PMP, SAFe Agilist, RTE
Hyderabad

Summary

PMP and SAFe certified Project Management specialist skilled in efficiently managing and successfully delivering projects of all sizes in the IT software development industry in various domains. Driving expertise in development initiatives and driving projects to completion based on milestones and excellent communication. Experience delivering SaaS based software solutions.

Agile enthusiast - Building high performance teams and promoting Agile processes to adapt to changing environments with a positive attitude and growth mindset, tailored to meet the organizations' requirements.

Release manager - Building project plans, managing and driving releases successfully.

Relationship builder - Building relationships, trust and collaboration within teams in the Organization

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
5
5
Languages

Work History

Project Delivery Manager

Finbots.ai
2 2023 - Current

Finbots.ai is an AI-powered Credit Risk Modelling solution used by banking and lending platforms.

  • As a Project Delivery Manager, led team to build next generation SaaS based credit risk modelling solution and features by establishing and enforcing project timelines, deadlines and project governance.
  • As a Customer Success Project Manager, leading end-to-end customer implementation & Deployment, ensuring seamless onboarding and integration of the product
  • Developed and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and a thorough understanding of client objectives
  • Implemented project management tools (Jira, Confluence, Hubspot) to track progress, manage timelines, and mitigate potential roadblocks, resulting in a successful project implementation and happy customers
  • Effective Risk Management and implemented contingency plans


Program/Project Manager

ParkourSC
12.2021 - 01.2023

ParkourSC is a leading provider of Integrated Supply Chain solutions.

As a Program/Project Manager, my role includes leading release and program management of ParkourSC digital supply chain operations platform solution and working with multiple release trains and cross functional teams to deliver high quality business solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities -

  • Collaborate with business leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure
  • Build teams to address project goals and objectives for upcoming releases
  • Lead scrum teams in delivering successful releases. Worked with 3 release trains and 6-8 teams with around 80 cross functional team members
  • Release/delivery management
  • Applying lean principles on projects - eliminate the waste, delivering value and Continuous improvement
  • Collaborated with Engineering, DevOps, Product and Customer success teams
  • Worked with SMEs to develop and implement mentoring programs to promote better learner experiences.
  • Identified release obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
  • Leveraged project management processes and tools
  • Implemented Agile, Scrum and Lean Agile practices during development, QA and DevOps cycles for optimizing the flow and maintaining standard quality of the product
  • Agile coach for teams and scrum masters
  • Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or work-streams.
  • Managed cross program dependencies and risks
  • Steered Inspect & Adapt and RCA sessions to identify improvement areas to meaningful outcomes
  • Managing end to end customer deployments
  • Tools - Jira admin & automation activities, Confluence
  • Orchestrated regular Scrum of Scrums and PO sync up meetings

Team Lead /Scrum Master

Aveva
11.2016 - 12.2021

Worked on Aveva Engineering products which caters to multi-discipline engineers in Design/Process projects where they can design and manage engineering data of Plant and Marine projects.

Roles & Responsibilities -

  • Implemented SAFe and lead Program increment planning event for scrum teams of size 9-13 and planning work for 3 months with reasonable estimation
  • Conducting retrospectives and Inspect & Adapt sessions every Sprint / PI
  • Led highly effective RCA sessions
  • Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
  • Reported on updates to project specifications and progress.
  • Continuously checked products for quality assurance according to strict guidelines.
  • Established open and professional relationships with team
  • Mentored newly hired employees
  • Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training and mentoring individuals
  • Technical contribution towards code reviews and Product design

Principal Software Engineer

Steelwedge Software, Cyient
10.2010 - 11.2016

Steelwedge software is an S& OP product. It provides demand and sales forecasting solutions for the clients. Played crucial role in developing next generation solution for Demand and Supply forecasting and product features of legacy product using .net and Java technologies.


Worked on Cityflo projects for Bombardier client in Cyient. Contributed primarily towards design and development of the product using .net technologies.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Technological University
Hyderabad
04.2001 - 03.2005

Skills

Program & Project Management

Scrum/Agile/Lean Agile/SAFe/Kanban

Scope/Schedule/Resource/Risk/Stakeholder Management

Software Development Life Cycle

Value Engineering Initiatives

Change Management

Cross team dependency Management

Release/Delivery management

Tools - Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, MS Project, Confluence, Aha, Jira automation, Microsoft Excel

Experience on design and development of Windows/Web based applications

Accomplishments

  • Recognized for Outstanding performance in leading the scrum initiatives, leading team and project management in Aveva
  • Achieved “Outstanding Performance” award for SCC at Steelwedge.
  • Achieved “Outstanding Team” award for Train Simulator project at Infotech.
  • Received “Outstanding Team” award for NAT TCMS Toolbox project at Infotech.
  • Received “Best Project Execution” award for NAT TCMS Toolbox project at Infotech.
  • Received accolades from Director of PMO, in ParkourSC on successful delivery of releases

Certification

PMP

Interests

Passionate about Indian traditional dance form – Kuchipudi and earned a certification in this dance form

Cooking and binge-watching web series in free time are few of the past time activities

Timeline

Generative AI Overview from PMI

01-2024

Program/Project Manager

ParkourSC
12.2021 - 01.2023

SAFe Agilist

12-2020

PMP

11-2020

Team Lead /Scrum Master

Aveva
11.2016 - 12.2021

Principal Software Engineer

Steelwedge Software, Cyient
10.2010 - 11.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Technological University
04.2001 - 03.2005

Project Delivery Manager

Finbots.ai
2 2023 - Current
Navyatha UmmineniProject Manager, PMP, SAFe Agilist, RTE