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LABHAM MEHROTRA

Chicago,IL

Summary

Results-driven Project Manager and Scrum Master with 10 years of experience leading complex tech and transformation initiatives across private and public sectors. Proven success in dynamic pricing, infrastructure upgrades, and cloud migrations. Skilled in aligning cross-functional teams, managing budgets, and delivering business outcomes. Experienced across financial services, procurement, consulting, manufacturing, and education, with strong leadership in Agile environments and stakeholder management.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2017
2017
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Project Manager

VistalTech Inc
01.2024 - 05.2025

Client: INRS/Archkey Solutions (Jan 2024 – Nov 2024)

  • Led the implementation of PLM solutions and drove internal business transformation projects, leveraging years of experience in aligning technology with organizational goals.
  • Lead multiple client-facing IT projects using Agile and hybrid SDLC methodologies to deliver enterprise solutions on time and within budget.
  • Define scope, manage resources, track risks/issues, and coordinate cross-functional teams.
  • Oversee multi-million dollar budgets and present project updates to clients and executive stakeholders.
  • Ensure compliance with IT policies and facilitate retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.Client:

Parkland College (Dec 2024 – May 2025)

  • Leading end-to-end SaaS migration of Ellucian Banner ERP system for a public college.
  • Supporting implementation and coordination for pilot business units in collaboration with internal IT and vendorteams.
  • Coordinating environment planning, cloning, and technical configurations.
  • Managing integrations with third-party vendors including Nelnet, Modern Campus, and Parchment.
  • Overseeing data validation efforts, test planning, and cutover strategy to ensure a smooth transition.
  • Tracking milestones and risks in Smartsheet and Azure DevOps; reporting weekly to executive stakeholders.
  • Aligning UAT planning with institutional needs and mitigating risks through proactive issue resolution.
  • Serving as the primary point of contact for cross-functional coordination and governance reporting

Project Manager

Softura
05.2023 - 01.2024

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, Softra 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 sprint 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.

Agile Project Manager

GlobeTax
07.2021 - 03.2023
  • 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.

AVP, IT Project Manager

Capgemini
01.2018 - 07.2021
  • 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 methodologies to improve project execution
  • 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 Financial business and IT teams to upgrade Fraud management software provided by SAS to Synchrony. Work with DW Warehouse (DW) teams 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.
  • Last Project 3: Mainframe application teams had to change from FICO to Vantage 4.0. Managed a team of 35+ people for this project.

Data Project Manager III

Caterpillar/ISG
07.2017 - 01.2018
  • 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 in accuracy
  • 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.
  • Applied advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, utilizing pivot tables, complex formulas, and data analysis tools to support reporting and planning. Created visual dashboards and performance reports using Tableau for executive insights and data-driven decisions. Used SQL extensively for data manipulation, extraction, and reporting needs.
  • Worked as Liaison between Information Analytics, Operations Team and Capacity Planning department
  • Project: 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.

Business Data Analyst

Trinity Globatech
01.2014 - 07.2015
  • 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

Education

Management Information Systems

University of Illinois

Computer Science and Engineering

MGMCET

Skills

Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe Project Management Tools: SharePoint, JIRA, Jira Align, MS Project, Plainview, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Confluence Documentation/Design: MS Visio, Project Charter, BRD Database: MySQL, Oracle, Access, Oracle EBS, ALM Other Tools: SAS (statistical analysis system), SAS E-Miner, Tableau

Certification

Certified Scrum Master, PMP, SAFe Agilist 5.0

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

VistalTech Inc
01.2024 - 05.2025

Project Manager

Softura
05.2023 - 01.2024

Agile Project Manager

GlobeTax
07.2021 - 03.2023

AVP, IT Project Manager

Capgemini
01.2018 - 07.2021

Data Project Manager III

Caterpillar/ISG
07.2017 - 01.2018

Business Data Analyst

Trinity Globatech
01.2014 - 07.2015

Computer Science and Engineering

MGMCET

Management Information Systems

University of Illinois
LABHAM MEHROTRA