Pooja Garg
General Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Professional managerial candidate with deep understanding of operational excellence and team leadership. Proven ability to drive growth and enhance productivity through strategic planning and effective resource management. Emphasizes collaboration and adaptability to meet organizational goals, showcasing excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
General Manager
Pasupati Realcon
Noida
04.2023 - Current
- Managed cross-functional resources and physical assets to meet project timelines and uphold quality standards.
- Led structural design planning to address evolving needs and behaviors of target audience segments.
- Finalized interior specifications and finishes for both semi-finished and fully-finished units.
- Evaluated market data to establish competitive selling price brackets for residential units.
- Built an ML-based demo tool for property valuation, using multimodal data inputs to model price estimation.
Software Engineer II
Walmart
Bangalore
01.2020 - 03.2023
- Working as a software engineer in the IMS - Inventory Management System for Sam's Club.
- Developed the Spring Boot application for special order tires listed on Sam's Club inventory, which receives requests from Upstream, checks inventory in IMS, rechecks inventory in the vendor real-time system, creates orders at the vendor side, and passes the dummy order ID to the downstream system.
- Managed dependencies effectively.
- Playing the role of scrum master in IMS from March 2020 to the present date.
- Aligned the project with Agile methodologies by driving scrum, PI planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint-related activities, retrospectives, and sprint demos.
- Improved various Agile and engineering metrics, such as product backlog, blockers, automation coverage, IMS velocity, burndown, and estimation of ad-hoc work for future sprints.
- Developed Sprint and Kanban boards to visualize workflow and enhance team collaboration.
- Created a standard process document for IMS.
Lead Consultant
Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
Bangalore
05.2016 - 01.2018
- Generated comprehensive reports
- Developed reporting tool for Sanofi to generate monthly PO penetration and paid-on-time reports.
- Extracted raw data from SAP system through RA, involving multiple steps, including data cleansing and manual manipulation by business operators.
- Designed 4-layered architecture to enhance user report generation, comprising RA system, presentation layer, business layer, and data layer.
- RA system, presentation layer, business layer, and data layer.
- Environment: Core Java, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Roo, D3.js.
Lead Consultant
Morgan Stanley
Noida
03.2014 - 02.2015
- Managed Datalink rebalancing project.
- Datalink is a middleware that provides enterprise data (positions, transactions, securities, etc.). to downstream consumers (OMS systems, reporting applications, etc.)
- Analyzed request patterns from consumers, identifying that critical and non-critical requests were processed on the same servers, leading to resource contention.
- Identified resource contention issues impacting system performance and response times.
- For example, reporting applications would typically send heavy requests, thus hogging resources.
- Collaborated with front office teams to ensure critical consumers received prioritized resources for faster response times.
- This project was to segregate the Datalink environment so that critical consumers would be given dedicated resources, ensuring that they would not be impacted in case reporting applications sent heavy requests and hogged resources.
- And post to this activity, it involves providing equity characteristics stats to end users.
- Environment: Java, Spring, Hibernate, shell scripting, MS Excel, Unix, XML, Autosys jobs.
Lead Consultant
Agilent Technologies
Noida
11.2011 - 02.2014
- Collaborated with CCI/SAME team on project initiatives.
- Agilent’s singular focus on electronics and measurement helps scientists, researchers, and engineers address their toughest challenges with precision and confidence.
- Facilitated use of Agilent’s products and services, enabling customers to achieve breakthroughs that drive measurable advancements.
- Developed user-friendly interface for Agilent's site, enhancing customer education on products and services while streamlining features like quoting, pricing, and checkout.
- Utilized Java, XML/SOAP, ORACLE database, SFTP, FTP protocol, and STRUTS 1.1 framework in project development.
- Assisted with BATIS system management and support.
Consultant
Morgan Stanley
Noida
02.2011 - 10.2011
- Managed PWM STP workstation operations.
- TP Workstation is an order management system for Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management division.
- Supported trading from exchanges across four regions (EU, NA, AP, ZU).
- The application also connects with the portfolio rebalancing application, from where the orders are fed automatically into the STP workstation.
- Managed trades on sales side using STP workstation, a key application for PWM.
- It involves the creation of orders, sending them for market execution, booking and settlement, commission calculation, and reporting.
- Implemented numerous enhancements and fixes to provide an increasing set of facilities to business users.
- Environment: Java, Spring, XML/SOAP, Sybase, Autosys Jobs, FIX Protocol, Shell Script, Eclipse 3.4, SQL.
- Advantage, Perforce.
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra
Noida
07.2010 - 11.2010
- SingTel Developers Forum.
- SingTel (Singapore Telecommunications) was providing communication in Singapore, and the SingTel Developer Forum (DF) would be a part of SingTel to provide a platform for mobile application developers to post their developed mobile applications and have a revenue share while selling the applications.
- Participated in SingTel initiatives to enhance communication services.
- Developer Forum (DF) is the platform for mobile application developers to host.
- DF also provides a platform to do testing on different types of mobile devices.
- Facilitated market entry for developed applications while sharing revenue with platform provider.
- Enabled users to share ideas, code, applications, and blogs through dedicated modules.
- DF maintains the mailing facility for each user.
- DF allows the user to chat with any other online users.
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra
Noida
01.2008 - 06.2010
- Contributed to .NET development projects, focusing on coding and implementation.
- Developed 50+ screens for selecting the CSV or Excel file, and read the data to enter into the database.
- Developed 50+ screens for file selection and data import, streamlining data entry process for water resource management.
- Gradually shifted to Java and developed the application in Java, which requires a login password, authenticates, and creates a role-based access.
- Transitioned to Java, developing an application that implements secure login, user authentication, and role-based access control.
Education
Masters of Technology - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
04.2001 -
Executive Program For Young Managers -
06.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science - Computer Science And Engineering
06.2007
Skills
* Project management
* Sprint planning
* Agile methodologies
* Risk management
* Process improvement
* Stakeholder communication
* Customer relations
* Team building
* Effective leader
* Problem-solving abilities
Project management
* Problem-solving abilities
Timeline
General Manager - Pasupati Realcon
04.2023 - Current
Software Engineer II - Walmart
01.2020 - 03.2023
Lead Consultant - Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets
05.2016 - 01.2018
Lead Consultant - Morgan Stanley
03.2014 - 02.2015
Lead Consultant - Agilent Technologies
11.2011 - 02.2014
Consultant - Morgan Stanley
02.2011 - 10.2011
Technical Associate - Tech Mahindra
07.2010 - 11.2010
Technical Associate - Tech Mahindra
01.2008 - 06.2010
BITS PILANI - Masters of Technology, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
04.2001 -
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta - Executive Program For Young Managers,
Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University For Women - Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science, Computer Science And Engineering