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Priyanka Rao K B

Priyanka Rao K B

Senior Project Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced Senior project manager, 14+ years of IT experience with top-notch implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical, and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams.

  • Team Leadership: Adept at managing cross-functional teams, driving process improvements, and ensuring customer satisfaction.
  • Strategic Planning: Proven track record in strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
  • Pre-Sales Expertise: Skilled in pre-sales activities, including proposal development, RFP Responses and client presentations, ensuring seamless transition from sales to project execution.
  • Project Estimations: Skilled in creating accurate project estimations to ensure realistic project planning and execution along with the appropriate people/resource loading and plan.
  • Methodologies: Expertise in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  • Alignment: Strong focus on aligning technology solutions with business objectives.
  • Financial Management: Proficient in invoicing and timesheet management to ensure accurate billing and resource allocation.
  • Problem-Solving: Exceptional problem-solving skills and a results-driven approach.
  • Innovation: Committed to delivering innovative IT services that enhance organizational efficiency and performance.
  • Domains: BFSI, Retail, Travel, E Commerce, Telecom etc
  • Technologies: Robotic Process Automation, Azure Data Lake, Azure Dev Ops, Predictive Analytics, Gen AI, .net, Test Automations, React JS



Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior Project Manager

Happiest Minds Technologies
04.2021 - Current
  • Worked on different domains like BFSI, Retail, Travel, Ecommerce
  • Handled projects on different technologies and domains like RPA, Azure Data lake, Predictive Analytics, Gen AI etc
  • Handled multiple clients and projects in parallel and accomplished successful delivery of projects.
  • Handled multiple clients with projects >2M USD in a year.
  • Worked on pre sale activities like Proposals, RFP responses, Estimations, SOWs
  • Actively involved in account mining activities to identify new opportunities to grow the accounts.
  • Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
  • Timesheet management and Invoicing to client based on the engagement model.
  • Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
  • Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress, and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
  • Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
  • Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
  • Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.

Project Manager

Acronotics
6 2020 - 04.2021

Acronotics is start up from Bangalore which started in 2017.Acronotics automation and AI experts work closely with leading global firms across multiple industries to build cutting edge robotic automation & artificial intelligence solutions, enabling our clients to boost organizational productivity, realize substantial cost savings, gain competitive advantage through smart data analytics, and deliver an enhanced user experience to their clients Team Size: 25 Tech: AA2019, UiPath, IQ Bot, Python, Machine Learning

Achievements.

  • Successfully proposed and delivered RPA and IDP solutions to no of clients.
  • Actively participated in Process Discovery workshops to identify new processes which are fit for automation.
  • Successfully trained teams and delivered projects in Agile(Scrum) methodology on time.
  • Successfully handled Managed Support Model for various no of bots across organizations.
  • Successfully handled the releases of our own product by prioritizing features, functionalities and acted like a virtual product owner.
  • Worked in Two in a Box model with sales for account mining and more revenue.
  • Enhanced overall project success by conducting thorough post-project evaluations and incorporating lessons learned into future efforts.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.

Project Manager

Real Soft, Inc
04.2019 - 06.2020

Real Soft, Inc. (RSI) is a US-based global software solutions company, a pioneer in providing professional services and delivering business solutions. RPA is one of the services which is catered to AT & T, Thundra, TIAA and other medium sized clients from New Jersey. Team Size : 12 Tech : Automation Anywhere, Uipath (RPA), Agile(Scrum), Project Management, SLA Tracking, RPA Support

Achievements

1. Successfully proposed and delivered Uipath bots for the business processes which successfully saved 10 to 50 FTEs.

2. Tracking Sprint targets and Sprint accomplishments along with

SLA adherence.

3. Driving team to follow all Scrum Ceremonies, With a sole focus on Project Deliverables.

4. Reduced the no of support tickets crossing SLA.

5. Tracking Sprint progress based on user stories and tasks to be completed based on the feature implementation.

Project Manager

AppsComm Technologies Inc
03.2015 - 03.2019

Dedicated Website, e-Commerce and Digital Marketing company who are experts in all forms of Digital Marketing & Strategy including SEO, SEM, PPC, Email marketing and Social Media Marketing, along with Bespoke Software Development, RPA Solutions, Custom Web-based Solutions, Video production etc. Team Size: 20 Tech : Agile (Scrum) , Project management, Woo Commerce, Adwords, UiPath

Achievements

1. Successfully delivering dynamic website, e commerce development with start to end project management and strategy.

2. Successfully executing Digital Marketing strategy for various clients with different domains of business like Real Estate, Interiors, Solar Services, Hotels and Restaurants.

3. Introduced a new concept of Lead Generation to Clients and successfully gathered more business to company.

4. Delivered more than 20 Dynamic websites and two e commerce portal for clients.

5. Product Backlog, Identifying sprint backlog and sprint monitoring.

6. Daily scrum meetings, Sprint Review and retrospective meetings.

7. Automate using RPA to minimize the regular mundane works like Salesforce data feeding from Excel, PDF data extraction, Translation etc using UiPath

Senior QA Engineer

Actiance India Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2012
  • Socialite Engage is a product (web service) which aggregates data from Face book, LinkedIn and Twitter and displays it.
  • It allows user to post on all the networks and different profiles simultaneously.
  • It will show the metrics of comments and likes we are getting from each network.
  • Mainly used for marketing purpose and admin can moderate or block the user posts.
  • Software quality assurance and testing in a wide variety of environments.
  • Team Size : 10 Tech : Java, Unix, Sql Achievements.
  • Writing a shell script to patch code into test environment which saved half n hour time every day.
  • Finding critical areas of testing process where automation can be introduced.
  • Reported critical bugs which were making the product deviating from core functionalities.
  • Facilitating other testers by providing numerous social media accounts for testing.

Application Developer

IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 09.2011
  • Handled the team of 5 as a team lead to deliver time bound critical projects and completed on time.
  • Rated outstanding performance in the yearly performance rating.
  • Delivered 200+ Inventories for UAT and End to End integration testing which helped to fast pace the testing.
  • Gave the idea of implementing Environment tool which is used to get Sanity Testing report of every application on Daily Basis.
  • Best Onsite Coordinator tag for coordinating with onsite and AT&T teams regarding UAT.
  • Identified numerous critical test flows and built a complete regression test suit for sales application which brought down testing time almost 80%.
  • Trained members on using RFT automation to build regression test suits for their Application.
  • Prepared scripts on ITCL framework and Hybrid Framework (Data Driven & Structutal) which was efficient and time saving for regression testing.

Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra
08.2008 - 10.2009
  • Joined as a fresher and had responsibilities of Manual Testing.
  • Client : British Telecom (UK).

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

BNM Institute of Technology
09.2004 - 05.2008

Skills

Agile Methodology - Scrum

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Additional Information

Father’s Name : Late Mr Bhaskara K S

Mother’s Name : Late Mrs Vijayalakshmi

Date of Birth : 18th October 1986

Permanent Address : S2, 3rd Floor, Sriniketan Apartment, 7th Main, Dattatreyanagar, Hoskerehalli

Nationality : Indian

Mother Tongue : Kannada

Languages Known : Kannada, English and Hindi

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Interests

Cricket

Badminton

Cultural Activities

Timeline

Advanced Certified Scrum Master

04-2024

Certified Scrum Product Owner

03-2022

Senior Project Manager

Happiest Minds Technologies
04.2021 - Current

Certified Scrum Master

03-2020

Project Manager

Real Soft, Inc
04.2019 - 06.2020

Project Manager

AppsComm Technologies Inc
03.2015 - 03.2019

Senior QA Engineer

Actiance India Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2012

Application Developer

IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 09.2011

Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra
08.2008 - 10.2009

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

BNM Institute of Technology
09.2004 - 05.2008

Project Manager

Acronotics
6 2020 - 04.2021
Priyanka Rao K BSenior Project Manager