Anil Damarla
Cary,NC
Summary
Detail-oriented professional with experience in Banking, Mortgage, Utility, and Consulting industries. Proven ability to manage projects from inception to completion, delivering results on time and within budget. Skilled in developing processes that improve business efficiency and documenting functional requirements. Expertise in project planning and facilitating design workshops, user acceptance testing, and business process continuity.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Enterprise Senior Project Manager - Fraud Prevention Team
Truist Bank
02.2025 - 04.2026
- Directed and managed project development and delivery from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
- Manage all project tasks including schedules, budgets, and resources, to ensure that quality solutions are delivered within time and cost constraints.
- Coordinated project planning, scheduling, and activity management to achieve on-time delivery of high-quality enterprise releases.
- Set and managed project expectations with team members and stakeholders to foster clear communication and accountability.
- Own and drive the end-to-end software release process.
- Lead cross-functional teams—including Engineering, QA, Product Management for releases of varying size and complexity.
- Communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders and represent the Release Management team with clarity and leadership.
Delivery Manager – Agile & Waterfall
Webster Bank
Southington, CT
04.2024 - 02.2025
- Led and managed team of developers, QA, and business analysts to execute tasks and achieve project delivery goals.
- Managed budget and resources for delivery, allocating tasks to team members and ensuring project adherence to timelines.
- Develop and implement delivery plans, including defining project scope, milestones, and timelines.
- Identify and manage risks to the delivery, including developing contingency plans to mitigate potential issues.
- Tracked progress and adjusted plans to keep the delivery on track.
- Communicated with stakeholders, including team members and clients, to provide updates on delivery progress and address concerns.
- Work with clients or other stakeholders to ensure that their needs and expectations are met.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to team members to ensure that they have the skills and support they need to complete their tasks.
- Worked remotely to facilitate project collaboration and team communication.
Project Manager / Program Management
Truist Bank
Raleigh, NC
12.2019 - 02.2024
- Lead large cross functional teams in the deployment of enterprise-wide projects and programs.
- Direct multiple projects as project manager, leading a team of internal staff and external vendors in delivering business solutions.
- Create project plans to fit stakeholder and customer needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes, full accountability for project results.
- Developed and implemented project roadmaps and milestones, led key stakeholder engagement and accountability, and communicated project status with relevant stakeholders.
- Perform project tracking through clear and concise status reports and time management reports; proactively identify potential issues and track project member progress against commitments.
- Managed vendor relations, contract negotiations, and project budgets while tracking expenditures and costs to maximize savings and meet deadlines.
- Liaised between project sponsors, stakeholders, developers, and analysts; fostered strong professional relationships with external IT vendors to ensure seamless integration of applications.
- Define project roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with the Customer, including project scope and objectives to ensure a cross-functional understanding amongst project team members.
- Learn from recent projects to identify and recommend improvements, cost saving initiatives, and substitutions to positively impact current and future project budget or schedule.
- Drove development, implementation, training, and support of enterprise project management methodology to enhance project delivery consistency.
- Leveraged Microsoft Project and Clarity PPM tool to define project plan and tasks associated with the projects in flight.
- Hands on experience with Rally for defining and leveraging features and user stories and leveraged Service Now (SNOW) for release management (Break fix and Monthly Releases).
- Working with Product Owner and senior management to understand and communicate the product vision and project scope.
- Reviewed the L0, L1, and security blueprint design documents with the help of solution architect prior to monthly releases.
- Led design sessions to identify effective solutions across design and business teams.
Senior Consultant
Fiserv
Hartford, CT
12.2018 - 11.2019
- Defined strategies for success of projects & programs, authored business plans, and established tactical goals for various clients, consistently exceeding client expectations and objectives.
- Documented business and functional requirements (IRD, SRS and Test Cases) for projects such as LIBOR, Deposits and Loans.
- Worked on enhancing DNA (Core Banking Application) to support LIBOR (Interest Rate Swaps), Retail and Commercial Banking (Deposits & Loans) functionality.
- Engaged with customers to conduct in-depth client site reviews, gathering and analyzing business requirements for implementation.
- Conducted gap and risk analysis, resolving open issues with effective solutions.
- Authored solutions document and transition plan, detailing innovative solutions to shape future state call flows.
- Served as one of seven subject matter experts tasked with developing a pioneering business strategy to integrate multiple lines of business into a unified service and product offering.
- Tuned system performance through extensive testing to enhance functionality.
- Communicated software enhancements recommendations to staff and clients, supervised, advised, and mentored consultants and other team members.
IT Project Manager
Ditech
Fort Washington, PA
08.2018 - 12.2018
- Leading moderate to complex business and/or technology projects from initiation to completion.
- Oversaw and managed all aspects of an assigned project to align with company strategy, commitments, and goals.
- Oversaw moderate to large projects and programs, ensuring adherence to timelines and objectives.
- Develop project plans, provide status reporting, resolve issues, and manage project risks to ensure the business benefits and project timelines are met.
- Created and managed project plans in a dynamic environment, adapting to meet evolving requirements.
- Collaborated with project resources to identify and manage project costs, ensuring alignment with budgetary goals.
- Partnering cross-functionally with customers and delivery teams to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery.
- Understanding and capturing business requirements while evaluating how to break them into smaller distinct deliverables.
- Demonstrated ability to establish structure in project management, effectively organizing work in a dynamic environment.
- Applied critical thinking to assess situations, determining when to escalate issues or explore alternative solutions.
Senior Business Analyst
Consolidated Edison
Bronx, NY
11.2017 - 08.2018
- Led team across broad technical, financial, and business disciplines. Focused team on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
- Manages cross-functional programs identifying resources, timelines and critical path activities and budgets.
- Communicated project scope, schedule, and budget to business stakeholders and technology team, ensuring alignment and understanding.
- Collaborates with change management and transition teams to implement training and integrate legacy systems with new systems and processes, facilitating smoother transitions.
- Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.
- Communicates effectively between the team, functional management, and senior management in a timely and efficient fashion.
- Gathered and documented reporting requirements through meetings with business users, enhancing clarity for project deliverables.
- Worked with Legacy system manager to document the legacy system decommissioning process.
Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager
Freedom Mortgage
Cherry Hill, NJ
09.2014 - 11.2017
- Gather requirements from Product Owner / Subject Matter Experts, created product backlog, sprint backlog and managed User stories.
- Balanced stakeholder interests to align project outcomes with performance and quality goals.
- Lead process improvements and drive change management initiatives to drive efficiency.
- Utilized structured method to organize requirements to address crucial business rules and requirements.
- Liaised with project managers to analyze feasibility, including technical, cost, and operational aspects of projects, facilitating informed decision-making.
- Developed and implemented process efficiencies and continuous improvements, resulting in decreased cycle time and enhanced quality.
- Analyzed strategic financials, reporting, and forecasting.
- Logged defects in Defect Manager, monitored their status, and tracked them to closure using Jira. Participated in test execution and defect reporting using Jira.
- Partnered with senior leadership on growth potential.
Senior Business Analyst
PHH Mortgage
Mount Laurel, NJ
06.2012 - 08.2014
- Led planning meetings with business users and stakeholders to define project scope and align objectives.
- Coordinated conference calls and working sessions, facilitating JAD sessions with business, IT, and QA teams to address Morgan Stanley data feeds and CCR requirements.
- Collaborated with end users to obtain and transform business requirements into functional needs.
- Validated business processes with subject matter experts, including mortgage servicers and underwriters, ensuring compliance with established rules and guidelines.
- Created Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Documents.
- Directed multiple mortgage-related compliance updates to loan origination and processing systems.
- Prepared use cases and numerous models including use case, activity, and state diagrams for reports, notifications etc.
- Key Achievements: Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications.
- Served as liaison between business users and technical team during project lifecycle.
- Attended test cases reviews to ensure all requirements were covered and accurately tested.
Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager
TD Bank
Mount Laurel, NJ
01.2011 - 05.2012
- Executed project planning, allocated resources, and monitored progress to stay within budget.
- Facilitated communication through regular checkpoint meetings and communication plans to ensure project transparency and stakeholder engagement.
- Managed risks and issues by identifying potential problems and developing mitigation strategies.
- Conducted quality checks and managed change processes to maintain project standards.
- Supervised four staff handling consumer bill pay upgrade project to improve online bill pay use for electronic payments.
- Prepared and included functionality allowing capability to integrate with Fiserv Check Free RXP online bill pay.
- Developed policies, procedures, narratives, and process flow charts to enhance operational efficiency across multiple teams.
- Led meetings confirming accuracy of process/mapping document with multiple business and technical teams.
- Partnered with developer and operations teams and end users to learn about existing system and new system opportunities.
- Wrote and edited Business Requirement Document to ensure completeness and compliance with standards.
- Key Achievement: Studied business processes and recommended efficiency and profitability improvement options to maintain marketplace status.
Business Analyst
Mercury Systems Inc
Princeton, NJ
10.2004 - 12.2010
- Worked with stakeholders to secure Business Requirement Document acceptance and approvals.
- Authored and reviewed Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document documentation for correct details.
- Led meetings to confirm accuracy of process/mapping documents with business and technical teams.
- Managed project development for an application, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and facilitating timely delivery.
- Oversaw Joint Application Development meetings to connect with developers and operations groups and business users to learn system functionalities.
- Acted as liaison between system users, technical groups, and development team to develop testing strategies through test case execution for User Acceptance Testing.
- Assisted in preparing policies, procedures, narratives, and process flow charts to enhance clarity and efficiency for multiple organizational teams.
- Accessed database through SQL queries.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Computer Sciences
Post Graduate Diploma -
Computer Applications
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- Agile/Scrum
- Lean Methodology
- Fraud Detection Systems
- Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Gap Analysis
- Feasibility Analysis
- Business Process Modeling
- Project
- Incident Management
- ALM
- Jira
- Rally
- Clarity PPM
- Open Workbench
- Visio
- Process Improvement Tools
- Data Visualization Techniques
- Tableau
- MS Excel
- Access
- DB2
- SQL Server 2005
- SQL Server 2008
- Windows
- OSX
- Version Control Systems
- Issue Tracking Systems
- Data Integration Tools
- Data Warehouse Solutions
- Business Objects
- Cognos
- ERP Implementation
- SharePoint
- Visual Studio
- Office Suite
- Caliber
- SAP CRM
Personal Information
- Title: Project Manager / Program Manager
- Visa Status: US Citizen
Timeline
Enterprise Senior Project Manager - Fraud Prevention Team
Truist Bank
02.2025 - 04.2026
Delivery Manager – Agile & Waterfall
Webster Bank
04.2024 - 02.2025
Project Manager / Program Management
Truist Bank
12.2019 - 02.2024
Senior Consultant
Fiserv
12.2018 - 11.2019
IT Project Manager
Ditech
08.2018 - 12.2018
Senior Business Analyst
Consolidated Edison
11.2017 - 08.2018
Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager
Freedom Mortgage
09.2014 - 11.2017
Senior Business Analyst
PHH Mortgage
06.2012 - 08.2014
Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager
TD Bank
01.2011 - 05.2012
Business Analyst
Mercury Systems Inc
10.2004 - 12.2010
Bachelor of Science -
Computer Sciences
Post Graduate Diploma -
Computer Applications