SUMALATHA VOMMI

• Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
• Reported on status for each project to appropriate stakeholders.
• Proactively evaluating the project activities, building contingency plans, executing the corrective action and monitoring the issue resolution to mitigate risks such as scope and budget Variance
• Estimating the work effort and timeline, identifying conflicting priorities and providing schedule management for various projects
• Updating the resource management tool upon project completion to document the experience gained and skilled set
• Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy
• Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management.
• Monitor and report on important changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies.
• Conduct monthly forecast maintenance.
• Address demand-related issues in a timely and effective manner

• Working with global project teams on large projects/programs as an Associate Project Manager
• Support the program/project manager in the development of project plans and project related artifacts like SOW, Project Charters, Project Management Plan, Risk and Issue Logs, Resource Plans, Schedules, Change Requests, Resource Requests, Cost Estimates, Implementation and Transition Plans, Closure Reports, Governance and Process Review Checklists.
• Manage all activities related to tracking of effort/actuals/cost on the project through Cost Management Plan.
• Responsible for providing administrative support to project manager in order to ensure that the project proceeds within the agreed tolerances of time/budget and delivers a fit for purpose outcome to the customer.
• Coordinating with team members for work progress, managing project information and metrics, monitoring and performing analysis of variances and communicating appropriately via Project Dashboard Reporting Tool.
• Regularly managed the project Risk by maintaining a Risk Log and mitigated it wherever possible.
• Creating monthly demand plan for forecasting the Resource Demand for the projects.
• Performing PCQA (Process Compliance & Quality Assurance) - Internal and external Audits compliance
• Conducting phase/gate project reviews at all the relevant times with the stakeholders.
• MIS Reporting (WSR, CSR, Cost Reports, Timesheet Reports)
• Process Checklist execution
• Responsible for attending project related meetings and preparation of minutes of the meeting

• Accountable for managing service delivery to one or more client accounts promoting the continuous improvement of productivity, service quality, customer satisfaction and to ensure that Service Levels are achieved, with a role of Project Coordinator.
• Participate in the proposal submission stage to help with technology inputs to the project teams.
• Report generation following a predefined script as well as preparation of custom reports for project needs.
• Administration of risks and issues by conducting review meetings and follow up till closure.
• Help with implementation of Accenture standard project management methodology.
• Project work plan management support; keeping track of plans, budget, quality standards, deliverables and dependencies.
• Project metrics reporting and project finance management.
• Facilitation of internal and external meetings.
• Monitoring of relations between project areas and active improvement submission.
• Leading and coaching a small team of junior project support specialists (program control services members).
• Organizing project resource management.
• Change management methodology and support its implementation in the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with IT Project Manager to document and update timelines for delivery of project milestones. This includes the dependencies, issues, risks and actions arises in the project
• Tracks completion of activities identified in delivery timelines
• Prepares status update and presentation decks for regular team and management updates
• Assists in creation of Project Steering Committee presentation decks for the whole program and create minutes for the meeting
• Prepares and disseminates notes/minutes and action items arising from regular team meetings and meetings with vendors
• Follows up on completion of action items
• Update document repository with copy of presentation materials and minutes
• Assist in completion of project documents and artifacts in accordance with project governance standards
• Works closely with Project Manager to document the Project Plan
• Creates the Weekly Project Status Report which contains the current phase/activities/milestones of the project. Coordinates with the Business Lead to get inputs for status from the business side.
• Maintains the document repository of the project by uploading relevant documents in the shared drive and files the physical copies
• Addresses audit action items coming out from the process compliance check
• Identifies, analyzes, mitigates and reports project risks and issues