Labham Mehrotra

Client-INRS/Archkey Solutions

• Responsible for project leadership across all designated projects with a focus on associated finances and project schedule which includes coordinating all deliverables and requirements across a broad cross-functional project team
• Coach teams on their agile maturity journey and drive adoption of lean and agile practices for continuous improvement
• Lead project planning, scheduling, controlling, and reporting activities ensuring that comprehensive project, risk, and change management strategies are implemented
• Communicate with staff and clients, make decisions and monitor the progress of the project to keep it on schedule
• Facilitate execution without coercion, assigning, or dictating work and will remove impediments, or assist the team in doing so, to allow the team to achieve their objectives
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Project: Streamline the PO processes for clients and have greatly enhanced oversight and decision making.

Client: Brightview

• Lead meetings, track project status, schedule, risks, funds and provide weekly project update to leadership team
• Protect team from interference, and remove obstacles so that the team can deliver sprint goal
• Support development team and product owner in delivering incremental value each sprint for products
• Take ownership for on-time release of deliverables by coordinating schedules with development teams, Softura partners and clients
• Serve as conduit between client stakeholders and software development team, including offshore development team
• Identify impediments and cross-team dependencies and support the team in eliminating and addressing issues and distractions
• Take meeting minutes for all meetings, document issues/action items actively
• Track key agile performance metrics such as spring velocity, sprint burndown, lead time, code coverage, .Net promoter score, etc
• Project: Develop rebate application for Brightview, for the list of items it purchases from vendors.

• Lead daily standup meetings which includes both verbal and email communications to collect and consolidate team updates
• Lead and facilitate effective core Agile including backlog grooming and refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint demos and retrospectives
• Liaison with Infrastructure, Engineering teams, Product Managers, Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineer
• Be point of contact for internal or external communications (e.g., from customers stakeholders)
• Translate approved roadmap projects into well-defined requirements including features, user stories and acceptance test criteria
• Keep teams focused, remove obstacles, manage cross-team dependencies, resolve daily conflicts, and provide coaching and mentoring as needed
• Develop integrated baseline project plans applying estimated models; documents estimating assumptions, refine plans and manage performance against them
• Document deadlines, assign responsibilities, raise issues, and monitor progress throughout Project life cycle
• Foster continuous learning environment helping teams to inspect & adapt functional teams through communication and problem-solving
• Project: GlobeTax's MIDAS helps investors in recovering over-withheld tax through relief at source, quick refund, and post-payable reclaim.

Client: Synchrony Financial

• Lead/Manage cross-functional teams (Waterfall, Agile and business teams) to up to 20 staff on major initiatives and oversee diverse portfolio of projects ranging from $2M to $20M
• In the account manager capacity, supervised the quality of Capgemini resources provided to the client and closed staffing gaps
• Ensure that projects are completed on time and meet established goals and objectives (per project contract) that support financial and competitive goals of organization
• Serve as communication link between onshore and offshore project teams and senior leadership of client and Capgemini leaders
• Regularly manage budget process by updating required work to complete and current budget sections
• Played a pivotal role in managing projects aimed at efficiently managing scope, schedule, resources, and risks, tracking performance variances, formulating monthly health reports, preparing project execution and delivery plan, and attaining organizational goals
• Provide management and technical knowledge while working with teams (onshore and offshore) of data engineers, software developers, data warehouse analysts and QA to arrive at best possible execution decisions
• Designated to handle company's Release Management process for all releases, evangelizing new techniques and technologies to dramatically improve average project return on investment
• Last Project 1: Migration of data from an on-premises data warehouse to Cloud. Used AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate data to Amazon Redshift
• Last project 2: Fiserv was upgrading its Mainframe environment to COBOL 5. Fraud management tool had to be upgraded. Lead/Managed SAS, Fiserv and Synchrony business and IT teams to upgrade Fraud Management software provided by SAS to Synchrony. Work with Data Warehouse (DW) team to incorporate for additional fields to be stored. This upgraded software helped Synchrony Financial to save millions of dollars from Fraud and help Synchrony for better authentication and decision of transactions.

• Responsible for managing 3 Scrum teams
• Provided stakeholder management and effectively communicated project status to team members and project stakeholders, including senior management and executive level leaders
• Identify trends and anomalies in data collected to understand and resolve sources of data inaccuracy
• Collected and compiled data about company's products and services so that senior management had accurate and timely information for making strategic and operational decisions
• Translated technical analysis into actionable results for non-technical senior decision-makers
• Researched, defined and executed system design for projects with Development team
• Worked as Liaison between Information Analytics, Operations Team and Capacity Planning department
• Worked in team environment on design, development, and testing of web-based solutions that helped internal employees in Enterprise capacity planning
• Analyzed and Visualized data to predict what machineries are needed in future.

• Developed queries in SQL developer for new campaigns, and Ad-Hoc requests
• Collect, clean, and prepare data from various sources, ensuring accuracy and integrity
• Created UML diagrams like Design Flows, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams for system analyses and design Developed proposals, negotiated terms and conditions, and implemented contractual agreements with clients
• Created and maintained Business Requirements Documents and Functional Requirements Documents
• Owned product roadmap as well as release plan, sprint goal, and release goal for agile scrum teams.