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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Smruthi Mary

Smruthi Mary

Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced with planning and executing comprehensive project plans. Utilizes strong leadership and organizational skills to guide teams and ensure project milestones are met. Track record of implementing efficient processes and achieving project goals.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Accenture, Client - Astrazenca
09.2022 - Current
  • Financial management & tracking
  • Creation of programme status reports, maintenance of programme charters
  • Risk & issue management and onboarding of team members
  • To help scrum teams and programme members adopt Hybrid agile practices and methods, embedding agile values and mindsets to the programme
  • Coordinate and facilitate the agile release train events (RTEs) and processes
  • Prepare & Own the project plan, and manage plan execution of 3 organizations (Accenture, Oracle & AstraZeneca)
  • Assist workstreams (Business Process, Change Management, testing, Integration, Scrum Team) and teams in delivering value according to the plan, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive improvement
  • Leading a team of 59 from Accenture Technology Center in India, China, Europe, US.
  • Keeping projects on budget, tracking progress, and analyzing project data to identify areas of improvement
  • Ensuring all project strategies follow company standards, as well as the regulations when applicable
  • Prepare & participate in Client visits, India
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
  • Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.

Project Manager

Accenture, Client - GlaxoSmithKline
08.2021 - 09.2022
  • Responsible for End-to-end delivery of the project, from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort estimation, data migration & testing and quality management in adherence to GXP guidelines and norms
  • Work directly with the client in delivering the project by understanding the business strategy and goals
  • Leading a team of 13 from Accenture Technology Center in India, and all the activities performed by different workstreams - Data Migration, Validation & testing
  • Build StarLIMS skills and in-depth knowledge in LIMS Domain
  • Manage & maintain customer relationships throughout the project even in tough situations
  • Prepare materials for 'Lab of the future' and present to the clients

Project Manager

Accenture, Client - Galderma
06.2020 - 08.2021
  • Responsible for End-to-end delivery of the project, from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort estimation to system development & testing and quality management in adherence to guidelines and norms
  • Work directly with the client in delivering the project by understanding the business strategy and goals
  • Drive client meetings such as Weekly Status Reporting, Steering committee meetings
  • Leading a team of 17 from Accenture Technology Center in India, China, Sub Contractors and all the activities performed by different workstreams such as Custom Reports, Interfaces, Data Migration, Validation & testing, Configuration, Business process & training
  • Built Argus skills and in-depth knowledge in PV Domain
  • Manage & maintain customer relationships throughout the project even in tough situations
  • Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Accenture, In-house Product
05.2019 - 06.2020
  • Responsible for end-to-end delivery of FHIR Release R1.0 (GA Date – 21-Feb-2020) & R2.0 (GA Date – 12-Jun-2020)
  • Responsible for Planning of the releases, schedule, estimation, scope identification & Finalization
  • FHIR being new from both Technology & domain perspective, Upskilled 7 resources to perform automated API testing using REST framework, Junit, Postman and Jmeter automation tools
  • Trained 4 resources on Life Sciences
  • 100% automation of OQ test cases that saved 35% of execution effort in R2.0
  • Managed issues and mitigated the risks , especially on Infrastructure
  • Scaled up 4 resources in Agile methodology

Business Analyst Lead, Data Curation Lead

Accenture, In-house Product
01.2018 - 05.2019
  • Define Business process workflow, propose solution on the business pain points and perform feasibility check, perform system analysis, impact analysis and gap analysis
  • Epic and User Story creation in RTC (including AI models), document the technical & testing challenges, gather story points through planning poker, user story grooming to the development team, user story closure
  • Responsible for the BA deliverables: Requirement artefacts (Business and Solution requirements document), FRA document, Scope and Development Version Request Memo, User Manuals, Defined Data Curation Strategy, Data Curation Summary Report, Release Notes, Requirement Traceability Matrix
  • Review of the test scenarios, pre-execution test scripts in RQM
  • Defect management, User Story management and backlog management, update PVF roadmap
  • Gather data asks specifications for AI Model training , Model Scoring and Model testing, data curation and data management

Business Analyst

Accenture, Client - Pfizer
08.2016 - 01.2018
  • Requirements Analysis & Management
  • Business requirement gathering, system and gap analysis
  • Responsible for the BA deliverables -Requirement artefacts(Business and Solution requirements document), Requirement Traceability Matrix
  • Defect management, Resource Management, Scope Management & Change Requests management

Test Lead, Lotus Notes Senior Developer

Accenture, Client - Covance
04.2012 - 08.2016
  • Development and unit testing of the Trial Tracker application using Lotus Notes script
  • Resource Management, Scope Management, Change Requests Management
  • Defect analysis and resolution
  • Responsible for the Testing deliverables of Siebel CTMS – Validation Master Plan, Test Plan, Test Scenarios & Scripts authoring, Requirement Traceability Matrix , Test Report

Lotus Notes Developer

Accenture, Client - Royal & Sun Alliance
10.2010 - 07.2011
  • Development and unit testing of the Trial Tracker application using Lotus Notes script
  • Resource Management, Scope Management, Change Requests Management
  • Defect analysis and resolution

Lotus Notes Developer

Accenture, Client -National Australian Bank Europe
01.2008 - 10.2010
  • Development and unit testing of the Trial Tracker application using Lotus Notes script
  • Resource Management, Scope Management, Change Requests Management
  • Defect analysis and resolution

Education

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Skills

  • Project management
  • Project planning
  • Project scheduling
  • Customer relations
  • Client relations
  • Schedule management
  • Strategic planning
  • Team collaboration
  • Project tracking
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Staff management
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Risk management
  • Document management
  • Scope management
  • Project estimation and bidding
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Processes and procedures
  • Productivity improvement
  • Agile methodology
  • Resource Management
  • Forecasting
  • Business analysis
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Functional & business requirements
  • Deliverable tracking
  • Progress reporting
  • Project development and lifecycle

Accomplishments

• Star Performer – FY24

• Accenture Celebrates Excellence FY24

• Life Science Linchpin – FY23

• Life Science Linchpin – FY22

• Stewardship (Facilitator of Learning) FY22

• Accenture Celebrates Excellence FY21 – Extra Mile

• Star Performance Award – FY20

• Life Sciences ARDYS – FY19

• LS Star Performance Award – FY19

• Accenture Celebrates Excellence FY16 – Path Finder

• Accenture Celebrates Excellence FY13 – Client Champion

Certification

Business Analysis - Expert Competent - FY24

Oracle Argus - Advanced Competent - FY24

Life Sciences - Advanced Competent - FY23

Life Sciences R&D - Advanced Competent - FY23


Timeline

Project Manager

Accenture, Client - Astrazenca
09.2022 - Current

Project Manager

Accenture, Client - GlaxoSmithKline
08.2021 - 09.2022

Project Manager

Accenture, Client - Galderma
06.2020 - 08.2021

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Accenture, In-house Product
05.2019 - 06.2020

Business Analyst Lead, Data Curation Lead

Accenture, In-house Product
01.2018 - 05.2019

Business Analyst

Accenture, Client - Pfizer
08.2016 - 01.2018

Test Lead, Lotus Notes Senior Developer

Accenture, Client - Covance
04.2012 - 08.2016

Lotus Notes Developer

Accenture, Client - Royal & Sun Alliance
10.2010 - 07.2011

Lotus Notes Developer

Accenture, Client -National Australian Bank Europe
01.2008 - 10.2010

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Smruthi Mary