Lavanya Nallamothu

• As part of Enterprise Safety and Sustainability program, strategically plan and implement upcoming software upgrades, effectively mitigating vulnerabilities and minimizing risks
• Spearheaded infrastructure upgrade program to address the vulnerabilities in support of Enterprise Safety and Sustainability program
• Drove the data migration project to upgrade IBM Db2 warehouse to enterprise recommended version
• Led strategic planning sessions with key stakeholders to ensure alignment with overall strategy
• Coordinated Vendor selection and contract negotiations
• Coordinated multi-team efforts, fostering engagement and transparency through regular updates to senior management
• Engaged with stakeholders to maintain transparency, providing clear and regular updates on project progress and changes
• Managed risk assessment and mitigation strategies, ensuring compliance with HSBC's internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and establish clear goals for successful execution.
• Facilitated effective communication among team members by conducting regular meetings and promoting a collaborative working environment.
• Planned, monitored and analyzed project costs to meet financial goals.

Project 1: Built Enterprise Data Assets to support risk and regulatory reporting by moving from legacy ETL application built on AbInitio with Teradata distribution layer to Informatica Master Data Management solution to consolidate and create golden copy of customer, business and third parties.

• Drove Annual and Quarterly (PI) planning sessions for defining roadmap, documenting Objective key results and tracking through lifecycle.
• Led Waterfall to Agile transformation by planning team trainings, defining team structures, sprint cadences and helped team navigate through the transformation journey.
• Spearheaded implementation of key functionality like moving to near-real time integration with source systems using event driven messaging systems like Kafka, Integration with third party systems by connecting to API services.
• Cultivated strong relationships with stakeholders, business partners, and product owners to drive alignment and collaboration in support of future roadmaps and goals.
• Partnered with architects to align architectural designs (Microsoft Visio) with project requirements and ensured that all changes are documented and communicated to required stakeholders.
• Coordinated Data Governance audits, including Data privacy, Data Quality; and addressed the findings.
• Worked on integration with Collibra for metadata management and Data lineage.
• Conducted scaled and scrum events such as Scrum of scrum (Coach Sync), Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, and Sprint Reviews, fostering a collaborative and productive team environment.
• Managed budgets exceeding $5 million while effectively controlling costs through diligent financial oversight.
• Provided regular updates to business, IT leadership, and other key stakeholders regarding status, milestones, issues, prioritization, escalations and issue resolution.
• Crafted and maintained project plans and schedules to meet organizational objectives.
• Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
• Coordinated and managed user acceptance testing (UAT) including API testing using Postman, system integration testing (SIT), and other testing activities, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and timely defect resolution.
• Planned and orchestrated releases including preparing runbooks, coordinating change request process, engaging DBAs and other partner teams during release, facilitating release huddles, sending out release notes, monitoring any post-install issues and facilitating resolution.
• Leveraged velocity, burndown charts, burnup charts to drive improvements and achieve predictable team performance.
• Created and maintained SLA and OLA documents with upstream and downstream systems.
• Coordinated cross-team dependencies, removing impediments and ensuring smooth project delivery.
• Managed all project timelines, operations, and communications, both internally and with clients.
• Conducted regular status checkpoints, coordinated meetings, provided timely updates, tracked milestones, and ensured visibility into project risks, dependencies, and potential delays.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to implement CI/CD pipelines, enhancing code quality, accelerating delivery timelines and reducing downtime for Business teams.
• Nurtured strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, building trust and credibility that facilitated smooth collaboration on shared goals.
• Prepared comprehensive reports and dashboards for senior management using different tools like Power BI, SAP BI reporting tools, power point, excel, Jira, Confluence and others.
• Mentored junior project managers and team members to enhance their skills and career growth.
• Streamlined project management processes by implementing agile methodologies, resulting in improved efficiency and reduced costs.
• Conducted post-project evaluations to identify areas of improvement and implement corrective actions for future endeavors.

Project 2: Consolidation of Enterprise Reports tools to preferred tools (Power BI, Tableau and SAS) to drive operational efficiency and cost savings

• Coordinated with enterprise team to gather all licensing and usage information.
• Created surveys to assess usage and feedback from all impacted teams.
• Presented overall objective and goals to impacted teams across various lines of business.
• Facilitated office hours to address questions and concerns of impacted teams.
• Supported annual capacity planning, managing and monitoring resource utilization.
• Created business cases, project charters, Statements of Work, and essential documentation for projects and products, including conducting cost-benefit analysis, stakeholder analysis, and defining project boundaries, milestones, and key deliverables.
• Cultivated strong relationships with stakeholders, business partners, and product owners to drive alignment and collaboration in support of future roadmaps and goals.
• Partnered with architects to align architectural designs with project requirements and ensured that all changes are documented and communicated to required stakeholders.
• Managed comprehensive project execution plans, including budgeting, resource allocation, and progress tracking.
• Facilitated decision-making, issue resolution to drive consensus among team members and dependent teams.
• Managed vendor relationships and resource allocations.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including QA, development, and business users, to define test cases and acceptance criteria.
• Provided knowledge sharing and mentoring to team members, documenting processes for continuous improvement and fostering culture of learning and development.
• Worked with team for release planning and track release activities.
• Conducted project closure activities, documenting lessons learned, and reviewing project performance.
• Ensured adherence to Wells Fargo's Project Management Tool, processes and quality standards.

Project 3: SSRS reporting – Creating dashboards for Area managers to provide them snapshot of sales and performance

• Coordinating with development team and Area managers for building dashboards for their portfolio.
• Ensuring service level agreements are updated and reports are refreshed accordingly.
• Negotiated conflicts within project teams to ensure smooth project execution and maintain high morale.
• Implementing customizations as requested by Branch managers.
• Presented regular status reports to executive leadership, providing insights into progress made toward achieving key milestones.

• Implementation of prioritized enhancements and technical debt for syndicate loans processing system called LoanIQ.
• Supported senior project and program managers with tracking milestones and internal project management framework adherence.
• Documented and managed RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies) logs.
• Managed project budgets including periodic forecasting, refining forecasts, monitoring actual spends, deriving variance and remediating it.
• Managed team SharePoint to including creating pages, defining permissions, version control and document retention
• Created project status reports and presented it at the appropriate forums.
• Oversaw change control processes to ensure all requested modifications were properly documented, assessed, approved, and implemented throughout the project lifecycle.
• Developed internal project management systems and communications to facilitate successful operations.
• Organized and participated in meetings and workshops to foster shared project approach and track progress.
• Championed the adoption of project management software tools to improve communication and collaboration among team members.
• Liaised with team members to resolve issues that impacted project delivery.