Sowmya Ganta
Agile Project Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
Performance-driven Vice President with 19 plus years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President
Wells Fargo
Hyderabad
07.2023 - Current
- Led the agile transformation journey and brought considerable changes
- Guided scrum teams on Agile/Scrum practices and values, reducing service delivery timelines from 20 days to 10 days and generating 10 days earned per cycle
- Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
- Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
- Developed and maintained reports, including Dashboards, Vendor Metrics Reports, and Scorecards to provide valuable insights for decision-making
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Reported sprint, release retrospective notes, and metrics like Burndown, Burn up, and Velocity to upper management and the team, maintaining comprehensive dashboards
- Conducted sessions with product owners, application managers, and development teams, leading to a reduction in technical challenges
- Prepared and presented monthly executive reviews, leading to improved stakeholder alignment and an increase in project approval rates
- Managed project go-lives, achieving a 100% success rate in deployment with zero critical issues reported during initial rollouts
Senior Manager
Silicon Valley Bank
Bangalore
04.2022 - 07.2023
- Create and drive product development schedules including tracking issues, managing risks, resolving problems and communicating status
- Help run agile by having keen look at the changes coming and implementing the change management effectively
- Work with the business leadership in defining, prioritizing and achieving strategic objectives and, ensuring projects delivered meet the approved business requirements
- Maximize client satisfaction with work done
- Come up with the estimations for the project working with Dev Leads and the Designers
- Communicate and solve the impediments the team is facing
- Worked across 3 time zones to support the global team in meetings and projects
- Protect the team from external noise
- Set the expectation to the team on the work to be delivered
- Guide the team in achieving the goals
- Create key metrics and identify opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release management process
Agile Project Manager
NCR Corporation
Hyderabad
11.2019 - 04.2022
- Provided guidance to other scrum masters as RTE for 4 teams in the road map
- Conducted Scrum of scrums to analyze the impediments and help the other teams
- As RTE attend all Solution meetings and update status and resolve inter team dependencies
- Organized PI plannings considering all the risks and dependencies from other RTEs in the solution train
- Conduct sessions on different topics of agile to the team to refresh the learnings
- Coordinate with PO/BA to maintain healthy pipeline for the teams for upcoming sprints/PIs
- Participated in release activities
- Conduct RCA for the items raised in UAT
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
Manager
Capgemini
Hyderabad
02.2015 - 11.2019
- Leaded/guided the team for addressing business issues
- Responsible for incident management and problem management
- Responsible for resource management
- Conduct annual appraisals
- Coordinating with multiple teams and engaging teams such as AD, QA, Infrastructure to maintain stability
- Identified problematic areas and suggested automation proactively and reduced manual efforts
- Handled client visits for all accounts and provided inputs
- Ensuring contractual service support requirements are understood and managed
- Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
- Streamlined workflows by identifying bottlenecks in existing systems and implementing appropriate solutions.
Senior Software Specialist
NCR Corporation
Hyderabad
12.2007 - 02.2015
- Developed business applications using VS.NET2005, 2008 & Data base as SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005
- Supported the existing products by addressing the production issues on time & meeting the requirements of clients with in specified time
- Prepared functional specifications, design documents and unit test reports as per SPL standards
- Worked on enterprise architecture to develop sequential, class and package diagrams of the components
- Analyzed the design documents and developed the code for the business applications
- Got widely exposed to ATM hardware technologies of various devices and trained on development of existing products & experience in using NUnit and NCover utilities
- Developed applications as per the customer requirements in ‘Activate’ applications & was simultaneously involved in component, integration and unit testing of those
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Hyderabad
08.2005 - 12.2007
- Gained experience in developing web applications using .NET, in Client/Server environment
- Hands-on Experience with VS.NET2003, 2005
- Preparing the documents for projects according to ISO standards
- Meeting the requirements of clients within the specified time
- Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of the software.
- Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
- Developed comprehensive documentation for software applications, enabling easier maintenance and user support.
Education
M.C.A - Computer Applications Development
Osmania University
Hyderabad 07.2002 - 06.2005
B.C.A -
Nagarjuna University
Vijayawada 06.1999 - 06.2002
Skills
Project coordination
Service Delivery Management
Requirement Gathering
Release Management
Impact Analysis
Team leadership
Strategic planning
Coaching and mentoring
Decision-making
Process improvement
Results-driven
JIRA
JIRA Align
Web Services
Development
Results-driven
JIRA
JIRA Align
Web Services
Development
Personal Information
- Notice Period: 60 days
- Date of Birth: 07/06/82
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Vice President
Wells Fargo
07.2023 - Current
Senior Manager
Silicon Valley Bank
04.2022 - 07.2023
Agile Project Manager
NCR Corporation
11.2019 - 04.2022
Manager
Capgemini
02.2015 - 11.2019
Senior Software Specialist
NCR Corporation
12.2007 - 02.2015
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd
08.2005 - 12.2007
M.C.A - Computer Applications Development
Osmania University
07.2002 - 06.2005
B.C.A -
Nagarjuna University
06.1999 - 06.2002