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Selvapriya Krishnamurthy

Selvapriya Krishnamurthy

Frisco,Texas

Summary

Proven leader in program and project management with 19 years of IT experience contributing to 10+ years of program management, adept at driving complex and time critical initiatives and bringing operational excellence across diverse teams at Amazon ,Toyota and JCPenney. Expertise in data analysis and strategic planning, coupled with exceptional stakeholder management skills, ensured the successful delivery of complex, high-impact projects. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.


Successfully program managed and delivered 8 Million USD programs in retail domain for a Fortune 500 clients in USA. Highly process and detail oriented and hands‐on approach towards problem solving and mitigating risks. Quick learner with attention to detail. scrum certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM) with proficiency in strategizing, planning, executing and successfully delivering complex multimillion programs.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
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1
Certificate
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PG in AI/ML - Business Applications

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3
Languages

Work History

Sr Technical Project Manager

Toyota Motors North America [Contract : Ascentt]
Plano, TX
07.2024 - Current

• Own delivery of chatbots for TBMNC and TMMK business units
• Mentor junior team members towards delivery quality services, and addressing conerns
• Acting scrum master for 2 projects – Battery Brain and Gear Pal – spearheading all scrum ceremonies
• Creating organization level project delivery/plan templates
• Remove impediments for team ensuring zero blockers in delivery
• Perform end to end testing of the products
• Guide/Support product owner with writing acceptance criteria for user stories, prioritizing tasks for the subsequent releases
• Streamlining delivery process for internal organization
• Create end to end architecture documents, and work with enterprise architecture team for approvals
• Work with cross functional stakeholders – Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, enterprise AI, support services teams to ensure end to end product delivery

Program Manager - Privacy, For JCPenney – 1 Year

Solvation LLC
04.2023 - 05.2024
  • Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with privacy policies and regulations resulting in organization level privacy compliance as per state laws
  • Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, managed cross-functional teams , ensuring their support for program initiatives leading to successful delivery and enterprise wide compliance implementation.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end Vendor Governance process by collaborating with Legal, Business Owners, Technology teams, and external vendors, resulting in handling and closing over 50 vendor requests per month
  • Conducted Privacy Impact Assessments for 350 processing activities at JCPenney
  • Developed data maps for systems organization-wide, leading to ensuring application-level privacy compliance for over 300+ applications
  • Worked with filerskeepers team to publish a data retention plan for JCPenney and led the process at organization level, ensuring data retention compliance across all portfolios with 150+ record types
  • Facilitated Privacy training for over 50,000 associates, achieving a 100% completion rate
  • Managed Privacy Rights Automation by working closely with developers, Privacy office team, and data subjects resulting in timely completion of data subject requests
  • Optimized Reporting Process saving 60 SDE hrs per month


[Technology Stack/Tools : OneTrust, PowerBI, SQL, Kubernetes cluster, MS Office, Azure services [storage, compute, monitoring]

Senior Technical Program Manager, 2.5 Years

Amazon
12.2020 - 04.2023
  • Leveraged data to strategize on product roadmaps, and project planning leading to achieving timely delivery on 100% of my programs and business goals.
  • Contributed to PRFAQs for product ideation on Affirm, Mobile SSO
  • Led globally dispersed cross-functional project teams to successfully deliver complex initiatives within budgetary constraints and committed timelines, resulting in external customers, merchants and internal stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Led program kick-off meetings, outlined engineering and business tenets, delivered expected outcomes by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders teams - Business, Product, Go-To-Market, Marketing, UX Designers, QA, Engineering team, Customer Support, Finance, Risk and Compliance, Privacy, Security, BI team, external vendors.
  • Successfully managed multiple simultaneous projects while adhering to strict deadlines leading to organization level goals getting accomplished.
  • Performed timely risk assessments on projects, resulting in mitigating risks by the program launch timelines.
  • Worked with internal security teams for design and code reviews to obtain security approvals
  • Worked with Solutions architect teams to update the Amazon Pay integration guide to keep the references up to date for merchants and solution providers
  • Worked with Product and translations teams to update the help pages so customer support team has the latest knowledgebase of Amazon Pay functionalities
  • Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team, help remove impediments resulting in deliverables getting deployed as committed with no launch blockers.
  • Worked with Business Intelligence team to generate Quicksight dashboards and made data-driven decisions to propose product strategies
  • Optimized resource allocation, effectively balancing priorities and managing competing demands, resulting in projects getting delivered within stipulated budget assignments.
  • Enhanced project visibility with regular status updates, leading to increased stakeholder engagement and visibility. Owned WBR, MBR and QBR reporting to S-team.
  • Owned security issues - worked with BI, Engineering and Risk teams, providing insights using data to prove that there was no customer impact
  • Owned IMR (Infrastructure Market Rate) for the Amazon Pay organization in collaboration with engineering SPOCs from Seattle, Cupertino and India teams
  • Collaborated with product and engineering teams to deliver Operational Plans (OP1 and OP2)
  • Interviewed 15 candidates and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement - contributing to the Hire and Develop the Best leadership principle
  • Alongside TPM role, played multiple roles to cover for product manager, software development manager leading a team of 5 SDEs, mentoring and leading them towards success
  • Promoted tech up-skilling within team by encouraging team members to take AWS certifications, and heading team engagement activities


[Technology Stack/tools : Java, Ruby on rails, Javascript, SQL, AWS Services [Firehose, Glue, Kinesis Redshift, Quicksight, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Cloudwatch..], Microservices, Spring framework, API Hubble, Asana, draw.io, Visio, Confluence, Sharepoint, MS Office]

Project Scrum Master, Product Owner - 9 Years

Infosys [Client : Toyota Motors North America]
09.2008 - 12.2020
  • Owned security/access management portfolio (Toyota Business Gateway) and delivered continuous improvement initiatives leading to effort savings of up to 30% per SDE month for Business Support Systems, and reducing redundant tasks
  • Led Production support team of 12 members - onsite/offshore co-ordination, impact analysis, ticket prioritization, assignment, automation efforts
  • Streamlined requirements intake process leading to 40% reduction in QA bugs, improving productivity of developers
  • Facilitated Agile framework – agile coaching, sprint planning, backlog refinement/grooming, creating epics, user stories, writing acceptance criteria, documenting definition of done and ready, conducting daily stand ups with onsite and offshore teams, sprint reviews, reporting and sprint retrospectives.
  • Assisted Product Owner in refining user stories for better clarity and understanding among the development team members, leading to scrum acceptance from business teams
  • Led architecture and design review sessions, between engineering teams and solutions architect teams, providing design suggestions leading to reduced tech debts
  • Implemented metrics tracking system to monitor project progress through excel reports and burndown charts in JIRA, and identify areas for improvement continuously, leading to improved velocity sprint on sprint
  • Resolved conflicts among team members through open dialogue and constructive feedback sessions, fostering a positive working atmosphere conducive to high productivity levels.
  • Perform testing on deliverables provided by engineering teams, and share test results
  • Remove technical and operational blockers for the teams for seamless delivery of sprints
  • Led sprint reviews to showcase completed work, gather feedback from stakeholders, and prioritize future work items effectively.
  • Handled scope creep from stakeholders by educating them on the Agile execution process, prioritizing requirements.
  • Contributed to pre-sales activities for SET and GST proposal and helped win business deals for the organization
  • Led team engagement activities at organization level leading to team motivation and a healthy work environment.

[Technology Stack/Tools : AWS Cloud Services (IAM, S3, RDS, SNS etc), MySQL Workbench, Jaspersoft Studio, Kafka (Message transmission to cloud from on prem), Serverless lambda, Angular JS, React JS, node Js, JIRA, bitbucket, confluence, Jenkins, PDFBox, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Ant, Log4j, JUnit scripts, SQL Squirrel Client, Redwood Scheduler, MS Visio]

Project Manager - 2.5 Years

Infosys [Client : JCPenney]
09.2015 - 08.2018
  • Partnered and delivered legacy system changes for PI/SL to deliver a highly complex RMS program. Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or resource overloading.
  • Managed a team of 10 developers located globally, with varying programming skillsets
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team's ability to deliver results.
  • Ramped up on mainframe basics to work closely with the engineers and understand the systems better to stay on top of the project
  • SME and SPOC to supply chain systems on client side
  • Cross trained teams on various modules in supply chain reducing dependencies at work
  • Mentored team members on the project delivery best practices, and fostered a culture of quality deliverables
  • Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
  • Developed comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, resource and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.


[Technology Stack/tools : MS Project, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Powerpoint, Host Explorer, Terradata, TOAD for DB2 and Oracle, Eclipse Neon, JDK 1.8, Tomcat 9, TomEE Plus, SVN, Putty, FileZilla, PowerBuilder]

Education

Masters - Business Applications - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX
06.2024

Master of Science - Software Engineering

Periyar University
Salem, India
06.2004

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Data Analysis for Strategic Planning and Decision-Making
  • Process Improvement
  • Critical and Forward thinking
  • Work Planning, Prioritization, Scheduling and Allocation
  • Team/Stakeholder Management and Communications
  • Project Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Change Management
  • Scope Management
  • Cost Management - Estimates and Budgeting
  • Resource Management
  • Risk Management
  • Agile - Scrum Master, Product Owner
  • Effective Negotiations
  • Vendor Management
  • Operational Planning
  • Product Development
  • Reporting and Effective Communications
  • Project Management/Tracking Tools : MPP, Excel, Asana, JIRA, PlanView, MS Planner,
  • Documentation : Word, Powerpoint, Visio, Sharepoint, Confluence, drawio
  • Development and Versioning: Java, C, C, ASP, Bitbucket, GIT, VSS
  • Integration and Deployment : DevOps CI/CD, Jenkins
  • Design Patterns : SOA, Microservices
  • Access and Security : Active Directory, LDAP, e-Directory, Identity & Access Mgmt, Siteminder
  • Data Analytics : Excel, Python, Tableau, SQL
  • Cloud Technologies : AWS, Azure
  • Delivery Methodologies : Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid
  • A/B testing, User Acceptance Testing
  • Privacy and Compliance : OneTrust

Certification

  • OneTrust Privacy Technology Fellow
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • IT Project Management from Indian School of Business
  • R Programming for data analytics (Coursera)
  • Professional Scrum Master (scrum.org)
  • Time Management (Harvard Manage Mentor)

Work Availability

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Quote

As such, there is no right decision in life. If you make a decision and put your everything into it, it will turn out wonderfully.
Sadhguru

Timeline

Sr Technical Project Manager

Toyota Motors North America [Contract : Ascentt]
07.2024 - Current

Program Manager - Privacy, For JCPenney – 1 Year

Solvation LLC
04.2023 - 05.2024

Senior Technical Program Manager, 2.5 Years

Amazon
12.2020 - 04.2023

Project Manager - 2.5 Years

Infosys [Client : JCPenney]
09.2015 - 08.2018

Project Scrum Master, Product Owner - 9 Years

Infosys [Client : Toyota Motors North America]
09.2008 - 12.2020

Masters - Business Applications - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

University of Texas At Austin

Master of Science - Software Engineering

Periyar University

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • · Led and delivered chatbots for internal Toyota businesses that helped reduce mean time to resolve a manufacturing process problems by 90%, and helped reduce battery scrappage rates by 30%
  • Ensured data privacy compliance for JCPenney at an organization level ensuring adherence to applicable state privacy laws [CCPA/CPRA, CPA, CTDPA, VCDPA, OCPA, UCPA]
  • Successfully onboarded more than 50% of merchants and solution providers leading to General Availability of the latest version of Amazon Pay Checkout process
  • Led and delivered Affirm integration with Amazon Pay to meet the business goal of onboarding 15 merchants leading to ~$500K in TPV during pilot with an eventual goal of meeting $3M TPV upon General Availability
  • Led and delivered the compliance automation process in partnership with EverCompliant, to reduce manual URL validation process at Amazon Pay, leading to up to 90+ hrs of effort savings per month for the operations team.
  • Owned IMR (Infrastructure Market Rate) goal at organization level leading to saving $100K in infrastructure budget - planning to execution at Amazon Pay
  • Owned and met security goals at organization level reducing 10-12 red applications on a yearly basis at Amazon Pay
  • Alongside TPM role, played multiple roles to cover for product manager, software development manager leading a team of 5 SDEs, mentoring and leading them towards success
  • Delivered continuous improvement initiatives leading to effort savings of up to 30% per SDE month for Business Support Systems
  • Led innovations on reference architecture leading to 40% reduction in architecture and design timelines
  • Led a team of 20 geographically dispersed SDEs (onsite and offshore), to deliver a $3MM cloud migration program within committed timelines, leading to better performance of the system and customer satisfaction – Migrating Toyota’s Monroney label generation process from On-prem to AWS Cloud.
Selvapriya Krishnamurthy