Neethu Jose
Bengaluru
Summary
Certified PMP Professional and experienced Scrum Master & Program Manager with 10 plus years of experience in
the IT sector. Delivering high-quality software, on-time and within budget. Expert at driving the adoption and
enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management for multiple Scrum teams.
Keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
SAP Ariba technology pvt ltd
Bengaluru
02.2020 - Current
- Manage relationship with stakeholders, internal and external, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues, manage expectations and stakeholder’s satisfaction on all project requirements to enable positive customer reference and success story.
- Communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
- Conduct project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan through the project life cycle from Initiating to Close.
- Ensure proper use of methodology, tools, procedures and governance to best meet project objectives
- Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work, budget and timeline.
- Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events for risk mitigating action.
- Escalate issues early about the project to account management or delivery management.
- Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards and processes.
- Facilitate the scrum ceremonies
Program Manager
Practo Technology pvt ltd
Bengaluru
04.2019 - 01.2020
- Brought the processes, tools and discipline in place and streamlined Project management.
- Organize and facilitate the release meetings, planning, release stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and demos
- Ensure a strong metrics focused approach is applied in the project planning and delivery
- Implement SDLC for new software development and ensure conformance (could be a hybrid of iterative and incremental development and traditional)
- Highlight the risks, the schedule and effort variances as and when they occur and help the engineering owner with enough insights to take informed decisions
- Support the development managers and project leads as necessary during the entire process of planning through delivery (in terms of tooling and visibility)
- Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
- Facilitate the scrum ceremonies
- Organize demos ahead of releases and ensure relevant sign-offs are obtained before the deliverables go live
- Participate in developing release plans (sequencing) with identifiable critical paths, task dependencies, major milestones
- Plan the risks for the entire set of releases and communicate them frequently
- Coordinate with the required dependent teams to help the engineering owner tie up all the deliverables and arrive at the launch dates
- Track the feedback from retrospectives (PPA – Post Project Analysis) and keep the control system operational with the feedback
- Effective status reporting to all the stakeholders based on the agreed upon frequency.
Associate Program Manager
INMOBI Technology pvt ltd
05.2013 - 03.2019
- Coaching/mentoring of existing development managers/leads and the teams on the project management methodology
- Facilitate the scrum ceremonies
- Custodian of the governance structure for the releases in the business unit (meetings, status reports, dashboards)
- Foster an Agile Culture in the organisation and enable the project teams to deliver faster and frequently.
- Enable the project teams to deliver faster and frequently.
- Keep customer focus, drive the roadmap, and ensure the product meets the market's needs.
- Help business and technical leaders prioritize features, drive technical scoping, allocate resources, plan releases, and post-release monitoring.
- Work with the necessary departments to adapt the latest processes to the needs of our team and monitor adherence.
- Work with development teams to come up with time estimates for work to be done, dependencies, and complexity of work.
- Coordinate product releases with marketing, sales, and development teams.
- Manage numerous products and programs concurrently and strategically, prioritizing when necessary.
- Jira administration for the entire company
Education
Bachelor of Science Computer Science -
Vidya Sagar Women's College
05.2010
Skills
- Team leadership abilities
- Exceptional communication skills
- Project management
- Team management
- Change management
- Scrum Master
- PMP Certified professional
Certification
- PMP Certified Professional from PMI
- ITIL foundation certifications in IT Service Management
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Professional from Scrum Alliance
- Dale Carnegie certifications in advanced communications skills.
Accomplishments
- PMP certified professional
- Managing all projects for one entire vertical, worked with various stakeholders to bring the change management and process in place for a startup company
- Experience in training the team to adopt Agile and Scrum Methodology
- Received multiple spotlight awards
- Performed as Jira Admin for the entire organization
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 01/24/90
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Program Manager
SAP Ariba technology pvt ltd
02.2020 - Current
Program Manager
Practo Technology pvt ltd
04.2019 - 01.2020
Associate Program Manager
INMOBI Technology pvt ltd
05.2013 - 03.2019
Bachelor of Science Computer Science -
Vidya Sagar Women's College
- PMP Certified Professional from PMI
- ITIL foundation certifications in IT Service Management
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Professional from Scrum Alliance
- Dale Carnegie certifications in advanced communications skills.
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