Amulya Lakku
St Louis,MO
Summary
Results-driven Technical Program Manager specializing in orchestrating complex programs across Agile and hybrid frameworks. Consistently delivers projects on schedule and budget, leveraging strong stakeholder engagement and risk management practices to drive cross-functional collaboration and ensure alignment with business objectives.
Overview
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Certification
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Program Manager
Spectrum
St. Louis, MO
06.2023 - Current
- Led multiple Agile teams as the senior technical program manager within a Release Train, facilitating sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and cross-team syncs while driving execution across eight concurrent workstreams.
- Managed a portfolio of technology projects across Solution Delivery and Resource Management teams, from initiation through close-out, including budget and staffing.
- Decomposed complex program scope into achievable sprint-level deliverables across eight workstreams using Microsoft Project and Jira, building execution plans with milestones, resource allocations, and dependency maps, ensuring timely delivery of new features and capabilities, updated weekly for program leadership.
- Facilitating all Agile scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint demos, and retrospectives, while coaching the team on self-organization, coordinating with the product owner on sprint priorities to maximize business value, keeping a ten-member delivery team aligned, tracking burn-up/burn-down charts, and applying continuous improvement methodologies to maintain consistent sprint velocity and team productivity.
- Generated bi-weekly executive dashboards in Power BI and SharePoint, presenting real-time program health, milestone completion rates, open risk items, and schedule performance to senior leadership in a clear, data-driven format.
- Maintaining a structured risk and issue register with likelihood and impact ratings for over 35 identified risks, developing mitigation strategies at the workstream level and escalating critical blockers with recommended resolution approaches before they affect the critical path.
- Partnering directly with the Lead Solutions Architect and engineering leads to dive deep into platform capabilities, integration patterns, and cloud infrastructure decisions, translating technical architecture choices into program-level deliverables, schedule changes, and resource adjustments within the master execution plan.
- Executed initiatives spanning multiple teams and integrations across IT solutions, microservices, and distributed systems, providing regular status updates and visibility into technical readiness gates impacting overall program timelines.
- Overseeing change management activities for scope modifications, drafting change request documentation, facilitating impact review sessions with architecture and business teams, and tracking all approved changes against the scope baseline.
- Environment: Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Asana, SharePoint Online, Power BI, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, MS Teams, MS Excel, PowerPoint, O365, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, Microservices, Distributed Systems
Technical Program Manager
PepsiCo
Dallas, Remote
12.2020 - 06.2023
- Drove end to end technical program management across multiple concurrent, cross functional programs from initial conception through design, development, and delivery, aligning outcomes with business and supply chain priorities.
- Partnered with engineering, business, and design stakeholders to define scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and timelines across a portfolio of complex digital transformation initiatives.
- Led and coached cross functional teams including Scrum Masters, guiding them on Agile frameworks, tools, and delivery processes to support large scale technology programs.
- Proactively identified technical, procedural, and logistical challenges across programs and partnered with team leads to drive creative, timely solutions that mitigated risk.
- Worked with business analysts and subject matter experts to validate scope documentation, confirm requirements traceability against original business needs, and manage scope change requests through a formal approval process.
- Balanced strategic and tactical priorities across a diverse program portfolio, nimbly shifting focus to keep initiatives aligned with evolving business goals.
- Directed integration of enterprise systems (SAP, IBM middleware, C4C) that modernized legacy infrastructure and enhanced digital product delivery capabilities.
- Established governance frameworks including RAID logs and status reporting to keep leadership informed and ensure program alignment with business objectives.
- Coordinated with QA and testing teams to ensure UAT planning and execution remained on schedule, tracking defect resolution timelines and reporting weekly testing progress against agreed acceptance criteria.
- Supported program continuity through COVID-19 disruptions, transitioning 12-person delivery team to fully remote operations while maintaining delivery cadence and meeting stakeholder reporting commitments.
- Maintained Jira boards and Confluence documentation for all active workstreams, ensuring team members and state leadership had access to current task status, open decisions, and project artifacts at all times.
- Environment: Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Teams, Zoom, MS Excel, ServiceNow, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, PowerPoint
Technical Program Manager
Qualcomm
Bangalore, India
04.2018 - 08.2020
- Developed, defined, and executed plans of record including schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and risks across a portfolio of enterprise technology programs.
- Developed project charters, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedule baselines for each assigned initiative, maintaining a consolidated portfolio view updated weekly for review by the IT PMO Director.
- Represented programs to leadership and drove alignment across cross functional stakeholders, ensuring consistent visibility into scope, timeline, and budget health.
- Tracked dependencies between parallel workstreams across the IT portfolio, escalating resolution requirements to program leadership when blockers required cross-team coordination or executive intervention.
- Maintained detailed risk logs with input from technical leads, capturing risks related to legacy system integration, microservices API dependencies, data migration timelines, NoSQL database readiness, and third-party service availability across distributed system environments.
- Established rigorous execution discipline through risk management, mitigation, and tracking processes, including schedule trend reporting against baseline for executive audiences.
- Developed program health indicators covering quality, timeline, and budget metrics to proactively flag risk before it impacted delivery.
- Coordinated interdependencies, staffing constraints, and schedule optimization across multiple technical teams to keep programs on a unified delivery timeline.
- Partnered with engineering and business teams to translate requirements into scoped, prioritized plans of record with clear ownership and commitments.
- Led Agile and Scrum ceremonies across distributed teams, improving sprint predictability and reducing delivery cycle times.
- Produced bi-weekly executive project status reports summarizing schedule health, financial performance, active risk items, and decisions pending from senior leadership for each active project.
- Participated in post-implementation reviews following major production releases in a DevOps model, applying continuous improvement methodologies to capture delivery process gaps and recommend framework enhancements adopted into the corporate PMO playbook.
- Maintained Jira boards and Confluence documentation for all assigned projects, ensuring consistent visibility into task status, sprint progress, and open decisions for team members and stakeholders.
- Environment: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Excel, PowerPoint, ServiceNow, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
IT Project Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions
Bangalore, India
08.2016 - 04.2018
- Led end to end delivery of enterprise applications built on Java platforms, managing scope, schedule, budget, and risk across the full project lifecycle.
- Partnered with Java development teams, architects, and business stakeholders to define project requirements, dependencies, and release timelines.
- Facilitated Agile and Scrum ceremonies across Java engineering teams, improving sprint predictability and delivery consistency.
- Coordinated cross functional teams including development, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure to ensure smooth integration and deployment of Java based applications.
- Managed project budgets and resource allocation across Java development initiatives, tracking spend against plan and reporting status to leadership.
- Developed and maintained project plans, RAID logs, and status reports to proactively surface risks and keep stakeholders informed.
- Coordinated with middleware and integration teams (IBM, SAP) to support connectivity between Java applications and enterprise systems.
- Led release planning and go live coordination for Java based application updates, balancing scope, quality, and timeline commitments.
- Applied PMP certified methodologies to standardize project governance across a portfolio of concurrent Java development projects.
- Managed vendor and third-party relationships supporting Java platform delivery and infrastructure needs.
- Environment: Microsoft Project, SharePoint, MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, Waterfall, Zoom, Jira (basic)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Coimbatore, India01-2016
Skills
- Agile
- Scrum
- SAFe
- Scrum@Scale
- Kanban
- CI/CD
- DevOps Model
- Project Planning
- Scope Management
- Schedule Development
- Budget Tracking
- Risk & Issue Management
- Change Management
- Dependency Management
- Release Management
- UAT Coordination
- Continuous Improvement
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- Confluence
- Asana
- Azure DevOps
- ServiceNow
- Power BI
- MS Excel
- PowerPoint
- SharePoint Online
- Status Dashboards
- KPI Tracking
- Milestone Reporting
- Velocity Tracking
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- O365
- Google Workspace
- Digital Payment Solutions
- Cloud Architecture
- IaaS
- PaaS
- Serverless Technology
- Microservices APIs
- NoSQL Databases
- Distributed Systems
- SDLC
- Hybrid Delivery
- Sprint Planning
- Backlog Grooming
- Sprint facilitation
- Team Productivity Metrics
- Project Charters
- Risk Registers
- Business Requirements
- Change Logs
- RACI Matrices
- Meeting Minutes
- Lessons Learned Reports
- Executive Communication
- Stakeholder Communication
- Stakeholder Influence
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Team Facilitation
- Vendor oversight
- Decision-Making Frameworks
- Program Closure
- Decision-Making Frameworks
Certification
PMP Certification, PMI
Timeline
Senior Technical Program Manager
Spectrum
06.2023 - Current
Technical Program Manager
PepsiCo
12.2020 - 06.2023
Technical Program Manager
Qualcomm
04.2018 - 08.2020
IT Project Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions
08.2016 - 04.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham