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Hari Priya Vuddaraju

Seattle,WA

Summary

Strategic Technical Program Manager with over 3.5 years of expertise in agile methodologies. Skilled in timeline and resource management as well as fostering collaboration between engineering, product management, and stakeholders. Strong communication skills and a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions in fast-paced environments

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Program Manager

Buzz Smart Assistant
10.2023 - Current
  • Served as TPM for Buzz, an AI-based rent collection tool that manages tenant communications for ~200K properties
  • Drove the adoption of an AI integration project into a rental tenant communication tool, saving the communications team 200 potential manual hours. Participated in planning the rollout, resolving blockers, and optimizing AI models using Retool.
  • In close collaboration with engineering and business leaders, I translated business needs into project scopes and optimized daily messaging workflows. This resulted in a 45% reduction in daily run times
  • Through gap analysis, improved communication processes for evicted and past residents, increasing message generation efficiency by 15% and saving the team roughly $10K monthly
  • Led the migration of ~50 documents to Confluence and Lucid charts, facilitating efficient knowledge management, faster onboarding, and team collaboration

Program Manager/Business Analyst

NPO Technologies
02.2023 - 09.2023
  • Analyzed donor info, social media campaign (FB, Instagram) results and user engagement logs to gain insights into improving donor base and increasing ROI on ad spend for Action for Cheetahs (NPO)
  • Managed a program that used AI for audio-to-text conversion to automate meeting minutes and synopses post-board meetings
  • The project saved 3000 manual hours and aided non-profits in scaling in areas with low internet connectivity
  • Led data analysis and developed PowerBI dashboards for insights on ad spend, efficiency, and subscriber growth

Business Analyst

Tomax (Acquired By Salesforce)
10.2012 - 11.2013
  • Drive requirements gathering and UAT validations with clients. Notably, I contributed to projects involving esteemed clients such as Hallmark, Party City, GPC, and Les Schwab, ensuring alignment with their requirements and expectations.
  • Working closely with development teams, I facilitated the identification and resolution of API defects, maintaining a consistent defect closure rate of 30%.
  • I actively participated in API testing for Tomax retail web software, contributing to a significant 20% reduction in post-release defects.

QA Engineer

LANDesk Software
02.2012 - 08.2012
  • Developed and maintained automated test scripts using JUnit & Selenium for SaaS web & mobile based applications.
  • Lead QA Scrum meeting and ensure alignment with software developers and business analysts to design strategic testing plans.
  • Documentation of test cases (using TestTrack Pro), interpreting and summarizing test results and metrics.

Software Test Engineer Intern

Myriad Genetics
02.2011 - 06.2011
  • Created an automated regression testing suite using JBehave (TDD framework) for a DNA testing and information storage web application.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Accomplishments

Project Management: Trello, JIRA, Linear; AWS: S3, Athena, RDS, Lambda; DB: Hive, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL; Programming: SQL, Python; BI: PowerBI, Tableau; Testing: Selenium (WebDriver & IDE), JUnit; Others: Miro, Advanced Excel, Jenkins, GIT, Retool AI, Confluence

Timeline

Technical Program Manager

Buzz Smart Assistant
10.2023 - Current

Program Manager/Business Analyst

NPO Technologies
02.2023 - 09.2023

Business Analyst

Tomax (Acquired By Salesforce)
10.2012 - 11.2013

QA Engineer

LANDesk Software
02.2012 - 08.2012

Software Test Engineer Intern

Myriad Genetics
02.2011 - 06.2011

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Utah

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