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Amruta Beri

Summary

Technical Project Manager with extensive experience at FactSet, specializing in project management and agile methodologies. Successfully increased customer retention by 10% through effective data analysis and stakeholder engagement. Skilled in risk assessment and team empowerment, fostering high performance in dynamic environments.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Project manager

FactSet
NYC
11.2020 - 08.2023
  • Day to day sync up on the existing technical stories in the sprint.
  • Tracking milestones for the project. Build Roadmaps to meet product oriented release schedules.
  • Coaching/ Empowering the team to enhance team performance.
  • Keep Stakeholders updated on the progress of the project.
  • Conduct Trainings and support team with analysis of technical issues.
  • Implementing best practices within the team to keep code quality to FactSet standards.
  • Collaborating with SME’s and other teams we consume information from and align deliverables to maintain smooth workflow.
  • Work closely with the Product Owner to make enough work available for the team.

Technical Lead

Becton Dickinson
NJ
02.2018 - 07.2020
  • Collecting different sales data from different manufacturing units.
  • Analyzed customer data to identify trends and patterns, resulting in a 10% increase in customer retention.
  • Developed predictive models to forecast sales and optimize marketing campaigns.
  • Created dashboards and reports to track key performance indicators and communicate insights to senior management.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decision making.
  • Conducted data cleaning and preprocessing tasks to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
  • Performed ad-hoc analysis to support business operations and strategic planning.
  • Assisted in the development of data visualization tools to enhance data reporting capabilities.
  • Presented findings and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

Scrum Master

State Street
Boston, MA
08.2017 - 01.2018
  • Making the team aware about Agile concepts - especially scrum mode of Agile.
  • Help team evolve as they progressed from waterfall to agile mode of development.
  • Followed client’s governance process of Tollgates procedures, processes and documentation.
  • Generated detailed integrated project plans and track them.
  • Educating PO with epics breaking so as to form smaller stories for the team to work.
  • Training team with estimation techniques like MoSCoW and dot voting.
  • Helping an agile office with metrics data.
  • Resolving day to day impediments.
  • Experience in team formation stages forming, storming, norming, performing.
  • Initiated CI/CD efforts by suggesting tools like Jenkin, Selenium and Sonar tools hence making the team understand the importance of TDD and also test case automation for repeatable functional test cases.
  • Implementing pair programming, reviews and refinement sessions for requirements.

Scrum Master

Tieto Software
Helsinki, Finland
11.2009 - 09.2014
  • Originally hired as a Java developer, promoted to Team Lead, and promoted again to Scrum Master position.
  • Promoted to Scrum Master because of excellent Client relationship management, and written, oral communication, and presentation skills.
  • Worked as a Java developer and was promoted with progressively increasing responsibilities to Team Lead and then to Scrum Master.
  • As a Scrum Master managed two teams comprised of seven members each.
  • Acted as a Specialized Scrum Master managing each sprint in terms of handling ceremonies, Sprint planning meetings, complexity point estimations, future story analysis, task breakdown, and retrospectives.
  • Responsible for Sprint planning, daily stand-up, retrospectives, backlog grooming, burn down charts and velocity reports, and release plans.
  • Responsible for demonstrations to product owners.
  • Led an initiative of implementing DevOps throughout Banking and Finance projects which was recognized at an organizational level for one of the Best Initiatives of the Year.
  • Utilized tools such as Jira Strong experience in working with the agile lifecycle, and/or tracking, and process management.
  • At time was responsible for Project Management activities during Initiation, Planning, Executions, Monitoring & Control and Closing phase.
  • Lead a team, defining systems analysis approach, deliverables and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and creating project plans using Microsoft Project tools.
  • Facilitated JAD sessions.
  • Coached team in the use of JIRA in order to track the use case mapping to estimations, executive briefings, reporting of scrum metrics, burn up and process improvements.
  • After the burn in period, the team was able to execute 80%-90% of user stories over multiple sprints with either steady or increased velocity.
  • Initiated and Reviewed migration plans, resource plans and technical transition plans while coming up with a blue-print to be followed by all future migration projects.

Scrum Master

Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd
India
08.2008 - 10.2009
  • As a team lead was responsible for Project Planning, Requirements Analysis, Resource Management, Risk Management, Management of Compliance Management and Delivery Management.
  • Created and maintained Resource Management plans including learning plans, schedule and technical training sessions with the help of Cognizant Academy.
  • Conducted Team Member mid-year and year-end appraisals and nominated them for promotions based on performance.
  • Created resource transition plans for multi-locale teams based out of Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Berlin.
  • Created service proposals and sheets for profitability, resource loading, productivity and effort estimates.
  • Identified risks and prepared risk mitigation and contingency plans.
  • Maintain the Risk Portal and monitored risks to closure.
  • Provided weekly and monthly status reports to the PMO team and respective project stakeholders.
  • Administered Change Control procedures and formulated guidelines for the Change Requests in terms of SLA (Service Level Agreements).
  • Conduct recruitment drives for project requirements based on technology and domain experience and the magnitude of the project to meet the timelines of the project.
  • Prepare detailed feedback documents and co-ordinate Client interviews for short-listed candidates.
  • This also includes forecasting staffing requirements so that it could be aligned with the budget fitment of the project.
  • Used Cognizant 2.0 to ISO and CMMI for adherence to processes to maintain quality standards identified by Cognizant.
  • Measured project KPIs and accordingly prepared High Maturity Practices (HMP) documents such as control charts, causal analysis graphs, Fishbone charts and Gap analysis difference sheets.
  • Tracked the progress of the project plan based on a planned to actuals matrix and identified deviations, if any and accordingly prepared contingency and mitigation plans.
  • Involved in designing user interfaces and usability experience aspects.

Persistent Systems Ltd.
India
08.2007 - 01.2008
  • Application Development
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Enterprise Implementations
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Release Management
  • B2B Integrations
  • QA and UAT Management
  • Team Building & Leadership

Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
India
02.2004 - 07.2007
  • Application Development
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Enterprise Implementations
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Release Management
  • B2B Integrations
  • QA and UAT Management
  • Team Building & Leadership

Education

BS -

Computer Science
India

Master of Management Science -

India

Skills

  • Project management and agile methodologies
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Data analysis and insights
  • Roadmap creation
  • Risk assessment

Environment

  • Java / J2EE
  • JDBC
  • JSP Servlets
  • SQL
  • Struts
  • Spring
  • Swing
  • My Eclipse
  • Net Beans
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Jquery
  • JSF
  • GWT
  • Rich Faces
  • Apache Tomcat
  • MS SQL Server 8.0
  • MS Access
  • Informix
  • JPA
  • Hibernate

Key Clients

  • IBM Cedara
  • Software Corporation
  • AT&T
  • GE Financial Assurance – AWS (Auto Warranty Systems)
  • GE Financial Assurance

Timeline

Technical Project manager

FactSet
11.2020 - 08.2023

Technical Lead

Becton Dickinson
02.2018 - 07.2020

Scrum Master

State Street
08.2017 - 01.2018

Scrum Master

Tieto Software
11.2009 - 09.2014

Scrum Master

Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd
08.2008 - 10.2009

Persistent Systems Ltd.
08.2007 - 01.2008

Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
02.2004 - 07.2007

BS -

Computer Science

Master of Management Science -

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