Dynamic Staff Program Manager with a proven track record at Goto Technologies, excelling in agile methodologies and stakeholder alignment. Successfully led cross-functional teams to launch innovative products, enhancing delivery cycles and optimizing capacity planning. Adept at mentoring and building high-performance teams, driving impactful change in fast-paced environments.
· Program managed diverse teams of Product Managers, UX designers, and Engineering Managers across geographies (US, India and Germany) for high-performance delivery and help successfully launch numerous GoTo products across Communications (Meetings, Trainings) and IT management (remote support) sectors.
· As Leader/Champion of agile practices, established agile methodologies, restructured delivery cycles (like 8-wk), mentored Engineering/Product managers and coached scrum masters for Lean Agile practices for optimized planning and timely achievement to maximize organizational impact.
· Partnered with leadership and senior managers to establish capacity planning frameworks, improving product completion standards through enhanced team alignment and accountability.
· Program managed Thermo King Refrigeration Controls programs across global geographies (Bangalore, US, and Ireland) to help deliver energy efficient indoor environment control solutions for commercial and residential applications.
· Drove agile transformation for engineering and product teams to ensured high quality on product delivery and stakeholder alignment by starting a Network of Excellence program to drive best practices/knowledge sharing and empowering scrum masters and product owners to be autonomous on agile practices.
· Optimized Jira practices by overseeing backlog health and tracking sprint metrics and managed comprehensive Release Planning to ensure milestone achievement and quality output.
As a Project manager, I partnered closely with strategists and product owners, owned, and delivered comprehensive projects for products like healthcare solutions.
Led and coordinated global teams across Bangalore, Kolkata, and the U.S., ensuring seamless execution, and advised on detailed risk assessments and actionable insights to senior leadership.
As a Scrum Master, I drove multiple processes and mechanisms, such as Big Room Planning, forecasting and capacity planning, and Scrum calls, to drive resolution and mitigate potential roadblocks.
A strong woman leader, a solver, a strategist, passionate about building teams that builds solutions. Moulding and empowering engineers and functional stakeholders - Engineering Managers, Architects, Product Owners, Product Managers, User Experience (UX), Scrum Masters - by instilling trust with transparency, to build solutions that wow the customers and solve customer problems. Work towards being the best agile technologist.