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Samita Giri

Plano,TX

Summary

PMP certified Project Manager with over 17 years of experience leading large enterprise projects from inception to delivery, ensuring technical feasibility and stakeholder expectations. Proven expertise in project planning, leading cross functional team, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, effective communication, and delivering business value. Proven experience in driving software development, system testing and user Acceptance testing (UAT) for large scale projects and programs. Adept at aligning project objectives with strategic goals, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery for projects across Banking, Utilities, Education, Technology, Airlines sectors. Recognized for strong leadership, problem-solving, conflict resolving, analytical skills and process improvement skills. Currently expanding skills on Guidewire Policy center.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Northern Trust
09.2024 - 05.2025
  • Leading the Enterprise Data Masking initiative of masking highly sensitive PII fields for 1300 applications across all non-productions environment using Delphix , thereby adding great business value of protecting sensitive customer information and achieving compliance while continuing development, testing and analysis using realistic data.
  • Managing end to end from driving kick off, planning, executing, budgeting, implementing and procuring sign off thereby ensuring masking sensitive data for each application are completed successfully.
  • Overseeing a globally distributed team of 15 cross functional professionals.
  • Collaborate with application owners, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and clear communication on project goals and deadlines.
  • Develop detailed project plans, allocate resources, set timelines, and collaborate to build a shared understanding with stakeholders.
  • Coordinate with the team and other project managers to ensure smooth project execution, closely track project progress and address any roadblocks.
  • Facilitate daily stand-up meetings to enhance team collaboration, identify and clear impediments to maintain workflow efficiency.
  • Mentor the team on processes and best practices and maintain dashboards and documentation (Epics, Features, User Stories) in Azure DevOps (ADO) , create and update confluence pages for project documentation and knowledge sharing.
  • Consolidate updates from various teams, ensuring accurate and up-to-date reporting.
  • Prepare enterprise-level status reports to provide stakeholders with a clear overview of project progress, risks, and key milestones.
  • Ensure adherence to process, present data-driven insights using charts, graphs, status report to senior leadership team, raise escalation, proactively identify risks and develop mitigation strategies

Technical Program Manager

Microsoft
04.2024 - 09.2024
  • Led the development of core platform services project from end to end based on .NET Tech stack in implementing a new application for an access management system within the Vetting Services of the Third Party Risk Engineering track. Delivering business value to improve security, compliance, and automate access level configuration, access request submission, approval processes, and timely access reviews. By doing so, it eliminates a costly manual process, saving approximately $150,000 per quarter.
  • Leading a global team of 12 cross-functional members across multiple time zones.
  • Involved in requirement gathering, documenting business requirements as user stories in ADO.
  • Supervising and tracking front end UI and Back end API team from end to end delivery, resolving conflicts, removing impediments.
  • Effectively coordinating cross functional team including Technical Engineering Team, Testing team, product owner and other partner groups.
  • Facilitated project meetings such as Daily Stand up/Team Synch, Sprint Planning, Retrospective and Demo.
  • Coaching team about Agile methodologies, ensure adherence to processes.

Project Manager

Los Angeles Unified School District
01.2022 - 03.2024
  • Led numerous Hybrid model projects for the Educational client ensuring project completion meeting business benefits of technological advancements, reduced vulnerabilities, and on time and within budget delivery.
  • Led a cross functional team of 12 members including developers, DBA, DevOPS , and testers across multiple time zones.
  • Spearheading large scale application and database migration project, transitioning existing systems from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments
  • Initiated modernization and upgrade programs from version 5 to 6 of .Net Framework, modernizing APIs from services to web APIs, and implementing Azure AD authentication. These efforts significantly enhanced performance and enabled effective monitoring through AppDynamics.
  • Overseeing the management and planning of weekly status updates to the client's senior leadership team regarding the remediation of security vulnerabilities identified by the Tenable scanner. This involves ensuring compliance with SLAs and maintaining effective coordination with DEVOPS, DBA, and OS Infra teams. Through this collaborative effort, we successfully resolved over 5000 backlog issues across both production and non-production ON PREM servers within three months. Given the project's high visibility, it's critical to achieve timely closure of security issues within SLAs.
  • Managed and successfully executed a project involving a vendor transition from Smarty Street to ESRI endpoint for address standardization and verification. This transition resulted in significant cost savings through the elimination of subscription expenses.
  • Led a challenging project focused on developing an Early Ed application to replace an incumbent 3rd party Kinder System. Despite constantly evolving requirements, oversaw the implementation of 40 intricate UI screens. Through efficient process streamlining, we achieved successful project delivery.
  • Collecting business requirements, formulating user stories within Azure DevOps, and assigning tasks to respective team members. Coordinating with the team to ensure timely and within-scope delivery of tasks.
  • Planning tasks, assignment to team and monitoring project team members' progress against their commitments
  • Hosting a daily meeting with all stakeholders to review planned release tasks. Any changes to scheduled release items must be promptly updated in Azure DevOps.
  • Developing comprehensive migration strategy and roadmap in collaboration with different key stakeholders ensuring seamless transition from on premise to Cloud
  • Effectively collaborating with downstream partner teams, architects, testing teams, subject matter experts (SMEs), development teams, UAT teams, business analyst (BA) teams, and offshore teams to ensure seamless task execution and overcome any obstacles.
  • Track project progress by generating clear and concise status reports, maintaining detailed project and release plans, and proactively identifying potential issues.

Project Manager

United Airlines
01.2019 - 12.2021
  • Led the delivery and operations of multiple Agile projects in the role of Project Manager accomplishing successful implementation of modernization projects leading to improved scalability, elimination of security vulnerabilities and reduced downtime.
  • Managed and led a globally distributed team of 20 cross functional professionals for Dot Com and Personalization Applications to the AWS cloud, including the migration of API endpoints, and the upgrade of the React Framework from version 15 to 17.
  • Engaged in sprint planning, stand up meetings, sprint review and retrospectives and facilitate demos.
  • Involved in organizing project team, mentoring them , facilitate meetings, resolving conflicts, removing roadblocks to ensure continuous progress
  • Led the backend team for the Inflight Manuals app project, which involves transitioning from the current app to an iOS mobile app. This initiative aims to provide approximately 20,000 inflight users with digital access to manuals.
  • Developed migration strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure seamless migration of applications from On Premise to Cloud.
  • Involved in staffing, resource management, budgeting, invoicing, project code creation, and resource allocation. Responsible for onboarding and offboarding teams, generating resource demand, hiring subcontractors, managing personnel, tracking team timesheets, preparing project status reports, drafting Statements of Work (SOW), maintaining timesheets, and generating timesheet reports for billing and invoicing.

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Allen
05.2017 - 12.2018
  • Demonstrated adaptability and proficiency by taking on Scrum Master Responsibilities to streamline a complex agile project that had fallen behind schedule for the educational client.
  • Guided and mentored development team consisting of UI and API developers for developing a new application to enhance the services and offerings for students such as enrollment, scheduling of courses, assessment, training programs for the client.
  • Spearheaded the sprint ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Sprint Review and demos.
  • Engaged in timely coaching and mentoring the team on Scrum principles and process.
  • Engaged in removing impediments, resolving issues and conflicts during project executing, monitoring and reporting sprint progress using JIRA.
  • Ensured clear communication with development team, testing team, Product Owners and other partner teams.
  • In the role of Business Analyst, collaborated with business owners to understand the requirement, prepared specification documents for development and testing team.

Technology Lead

Florida Power and Light, Southern California Edison
01.2013 - 04.2017
  • Recognized for consistently delivering projects with excellence in the role of Technology Lead for multiple clients.
  • Led Mainframe projects for multiple utility clients, both onshore and offshore, showcasing my capability to lead projects effectively from inception to completion ensuring smooth delivery.
  • Received accolades and awards for assuming ownership as the primary point of contact for CIS Billing areas and successfully delivering numerous projects for Florida Power and Light. Demonstrated seamless project execution both onshore and offshore.
  • Implemented large-scale projects utilizing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, while serving as an onsite coordinator leading a team of 10 individuals.
  • Acted as the offshore lead and effectively implemented a couple of intricate projects for Southern California Edison.
  • Engaged in requirement analysis, client interactions, onsite-offshore coordination, aiding the Business Analyst team in drafting functional documents, and overseeing reviews. Led the development team, provided mentorship on Agile processes, participated in Sprint planning, daily scrums, and retrospective meetings. Assisted the team in resolving impediments.

Module Lead

Florida Power and Light
01.2010 - 12.2012
  • Elevated to the role of Module Lead for the project, where independently worked a complex module thereby contributed significantly to the success of the project within the utility’s domain for Florida Power and Light.
  • Engaged in analysis, design, and development, unit testing, and reviewing of team members' deliverables. Provided support during project implementation, coordinated between onsite and offshore teams, and directly interacted with clients.

Developer

American Express
05.2007 - 12.2009
  • Recruited directly from college, underwent training in Mainframe Technologies and subsequently worked with client as a part of their team. Successfully executed numerous projects within the credit card domain of the UK portfolio.
  • Engaged in requirement analysis, coding, unit testing, and the preparation of design documents and implementation plans for launching AEME Centurion products in the Bahrain market, as well as the launch of SBS Platinum Charge in the UK, Spain, Germany, and France markets.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Telecommunication

Biju Patnaik Technological University
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
01.2007

Skills

  • Project Management skills: Project Lifecycle Management (Initiation to Closure), Scope Management, Schedule management, Budgeting, Resource Planning & Allocation, Risk and Quality management, stakeholder management
  • Soft skills: Leadership, Coordination and Collaboration, strong analytical skill, Problem solving, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence, Team building, Coaching, Mentoring
  • Business Analytical skills: Business Analysis, Requirements gathering, Data driven decision making
  • Technologies: Familiarize in execution of projects in Tech stack such as Net Framework, ASPnet, React, Azure cloud, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines CI/CD, Azure Functions, Cloud, SQL based applications, Mainframe, basic understanding of cloud services, application hosting operational practices, and technical planning, basic understanding of Python, Gen AI, IT Infrastructure and Service Management domains
  • Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Hybrid
  • Tools: Azure DevOps (ADO), JIRA, SSMS for SQL queries, Visio, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, Clarity, Service Now, Collibra, Confluence, Power BI, Service Management Ticket console, SharePoint, Teams, Exploring functionalities of Guidewire Policy center

Certification

  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Scrum Master CSM from Scrum Alliance
  • Completed a one-year Transitioning into Leadership program at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM C) successfully.
  • Microsoft Certified Az900 Azure Fundamentals
  • Certified SAFe 6 Agilist.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

  • RJ Systems, Implementation Partner – Cogniti Technologies (Coforge); September 16th 2024 – Till Date; Contract
  • Infosys Limited, May 28th, 2007- September 13th, 2024; Full Time

Timeline

Project Manager

Northern Trust
09.2024 - 05.2025

Technical Program Manager

Microsoft
04.2024 - 09.2024

Project Manager

Los Angeles Unified School District
01.2022 - 03.2024

Project Manager

United Airlines
01.2019 - 12.2021

Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Allen
05.2017 - 12.2018

Technology Lead

Florida Power and Light, Southern California Edison
01.2013 - 04.2017

Module Lead

Florida Power and Light
01.2010 - 12.2012

Developer

American Express
05.2007 - 12.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Telecommunication

Biju Patnaik Technological University

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