Shelly Gratia Arockiasamy
Alpharetta,U.S.
Summary
Accomplished Agile Project Manager with a proven track record at Purchasing Power LLC, adept at driving major initiatives and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Highly organized and self-motivated, I excel in risk mitigation and project execution, utilizing tools like JIRA and Clarity to deliver impactful results.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager - IT
Purchasing Power LLC
Alpharetta, U.S.
01.2023 - Current
- Project planning, execution, controlling, risk mitigation/escalation
- Weekly status reports on projects (PMO Reports) managed and Project dashboards to executive committee
- Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders
- Coaching the team in Agile
- Successfully delivered a major initiative called Product Information Management-PIM
- Collaborated between cross functional teams and delivered BAU projects
- Took initiative on Process Improvements for the PMO team and implemented it
- Coached the team in Agile methodology and helped product owner in prioritizing backlog
- Established procedures for monitoring system performance post-implementation.
- Monitored progress of the project by tracking activities and resolving issues that arose during execution phase.
- Communicated regularly with stakeholders about project objectives, scope changes, timeline updates, resource allocation adjustments.
- Acted as a liaison between business users and technical teams in order to develop solutions that meet customer needs.
Agile Product Owner
Anthem Inc
Atlanta, U.S.
03.2021 - 01.2023
- Liaison between Business and IT team and represented Business
- Prioritized the requirements based on inputs from business users
- Maintained the backlog
- Wrote user stories for the tech team
- Participated in scrum ceremonies and provided feedback on the demo given
- Accepted/Approved user stories for the Prod move
- Successfully delivered Automation of HEW MC Prime WGS updates
- Conducted 5 PI plannings in the last one year
- Conducted all Scrum ceremonies
- CAQH - Automated offshore exclusion
- Automated HEW reports
- GBD and CSBD GNW automation
- Member Portal and NEXTGEN new intakes
- Many small enhancements that made HUGE difference in the day to day lives of frontline associate
Project Manager - IT
MetLife (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)
Alpharetta, U.S.
07.2014 - 02.2021
- Delivered 12 major initiatives and programs on schedule and within budget over the last 4 years at MetLife.
- Played a key role and was a 'Go to' project manager for a major MetLife initiative - Corvair/Fusion
- Project planning, execution & controlling, issue management and change management
- Weekly status reports on projects (WSR and OMMs) from Clarity and Project dashboards to executive committee
- Project coordination within multiple application teams and act as a single point of contact for a particular project
- Conduct Phase Gate Reviews and maintain all project related documents in Share Point (SP)
- Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders
- Moving some of our project teams from Waterfall to Agile environment by having the collaborate call including both IT and Business teams
- Project: Small Marketing Digital - Create a digital solution in the Small Market that enables MetLife to provide core and voluntary benefits not only through brokers and other intermediaries, but also directly to the consumer, in a low-cost, highly scalable model
- Project: RPP CMS Archive Tool - The CMS data of the RPP application was residing in Tridion platform
- As the Tridion contract came to an end in 2017, the requirement is to move those content from Tridion and UDB to new MS SQL DB/Servers as suggested by architecture and Infrastructure teams
- Project: Brighthouse Financial Transition - Re-Branding - In 2016 MetLife initiated the separation of Brighthouse Financial in the form of a spin-off
- Project: Retail Producer Portal-Phase 1 and 2 - The overall goal of the Retail Producer Portal Redesign is to improve the end-user experience by delivering a mobile friendly, responsive web site that is highly personalized with information that is easy to find
- Project: e-Policy - This project is to provide electronic delivery option for Retail Life policy packets
- Program: Fund Expansion 2015 - This is a major project for MetLife, to implement necessary and desired fund changes for Variable Life Products as part of the annual 'Funds expansion' project
- Project: Fusion/Corvair - Scope of this project is to realign the New England Financial (NEF) producers with the new MET District Agency Index (DAI) s
Project Manager-Functional
CNHI (Case New Holland Industrial - Fiat Industries)
- Conducting Stakeholders' meeting and prioritization exercise
- Steered the activities to get road-map finalized
- Project planning, execution, controlling, risk mitigation/escalation
- Weekly status reports on projects (PMO Reports) managed and Project dashboards to CNH executive committee
- Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owner / stakeholders
- Project: Precision
- Budget: 2.5M - This project is to replace and replicate the functionality of Precision Land Management in this new end user portal (Dealer Portal) and to have the SSO to the various third-party customer sites
- Project: Mobile Dealer Connect
- Budget: 750K - Mobile Application Development for iPad, iPhone and other Smart phones for the Dealers
BSA/Mainframe Technical Consultant
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
- Helping the stakeholders in prioritizing the requirements by conducting JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions
- Analyze business and system requirements, mange development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans and verify bug fixes
- Impact analysis and design of the DB2 changes; Performance analysis and Query optimization of DB2 SQLs
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics
Govt College of Engineering, University of Madras
Skills
- Result Oriented
- Highly Organized
- Dynamic Leadership
- Adaptability
- Conflict resolution
- Problem Solving
- Planning and Execution
- Self-Motivated
- Project Management Tools
- Clarity
- JIRA
- Microsoft Project (MPP)
- Microsoft Teamwork (SharePoint)
- C20
- HP-PPM
- HP Quality center
- MS Excel Pivot Tables
- Graphs
- Confluence
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP#1507932), PMI, 01/12
- SAFe 5 certified Product Owner / Product Manager
- PMI-ACP
Timeline
Project Manager - IT
Purchasing Power LLC
01.2023 - Current
Agile Product Owner
Anthem Inc
03.2021 - 01.2023
Project Manager - IT
MetLife (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company)
07.2014 - 02.2021
Project Manager-Functional
CNHI (Case New Holland Industrial - Fiat Industries)
BSA/Mainframe Technical Consultant
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics
Govt College of Engineering, University of Madras
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