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Shanthi Priya

Dallas,TX

Summary

A certified SAFe RTE / SAFe Agilist / SAFe CSM/PRINCE2 / ATM / IT Project Manager and Business Development with 12 years of experience. Serving SAFe Agile teams, Project Planning, minimize scope change, and controlling project performance. Hands-on SAFe RTE and program manager with Agile, Lean environments, managing projects and resources in a geographically distributed onsite-offshore delivery model. Led large strategic projects / ART (15+) for over 350 personnel both Onshore and Offshore. Served as a Release Train Engineer within the Intelligent Edge Network Solution Train for the Agile Release Train, supporting new network infrastructure. Supported projects by implementing Agile Life Cycle Management tools - “Rally” and “JIRA” to manage the backlog and helped to generate and analyze business metrics to be reported. Guided teams in setting up development environments that enable test-driven development, automated builds, and automated acceptance testing. Led various meetings including the Agile Release Train Sync, Scrum of Scrums, PO-PM sync, Development Managers sync, and other HLA / LLD review calls. Utilized JIRA, Rally, and Confluence for direct management and tracking of Milestones. Contributed to a 15% improvement in revenue margin by leveraging agile principles to promote cross-functional services. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Release Train Engineer

Verizon Wireless
01.2020 - Current
  • Intelligent Edge Network – JAVA, Apache Camel, AWS ECS/Kubernetes, Tableau & UI/UX
  • Planned / defined business strategy functions to drive the efficiency of this business solution
  • IEN aims to drive a lower-cost infrastructure through Next Generation technologies, network topology simplification, as well as creating service differentiation, through fast delivery of usage-based services
  • ART2 is building support for the service fulfilment process for customer service provisioning in OSS system stack
  • Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules
  • Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues
  • Monitoring project progress and creating project status reports for project managers and stakeholders.

PM (Lead SCRUM Master)

Scottline Healthcare Solutions
11.2018 - 12.2019
  • PCMS (Performance Claim Management System) – JAVA .Net MVC, SQL Server, Tableau, UI
  • Performance Claim Management System is a powerful and flexible reporting tool
  • Design to streamline, automate workflows for the claims
  • This tool addresses RCA, maximizes accurate claims assessment for cost-effective & time-efficient solutions, helps hold information of Patients, Health Insurance respective to claims
  • Assisting with resource scheduling so that team members have the resources they need to complete tasks
  • Schedule stakeholder meetings, facilitating communication between the project manager and stakeholders
  • Managing project management documents such as the project plan, budget, schedule, as directed by manager.

PM (Lead SCRUM Master)

Sprint Corporation
05.2012 - 11.2018
  • PRTS - Samsung LTE POC - Hadoop, JAVA, HDFS, HIVE, Sqoop, SSIS, Netezza, PDOA, Control-M
  • Managed PRTS (Performance Reporting Tools Suite) project as an Onsite / Offshore model with 25 resources
  • PRTS has a 30-node cluster with a daily average of 50 TB of data subjected to ETL processing
  • Imported data from the legacy MS SSIS into the Hadoop ecosystem under HDFS using Scoop for doing computations and aggregations
  • After ETL processing, Hive exported data from HDFS into various downstream reporting systems
  • Develop program plans in alignment with organization's strategic direction
  • Conduct regular program reviews, and reporting to stakeholders
  • Ensure communication and collaboration among project teams
  • Manage budget effectively to achieve program objectives
  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior management, project sponsors, and external partners.

Project Manager

Sprint Corporation
05.2012 - 11.2018
  • ALU LTE (Alcatel – Lucent), Samsung OMS Flux – JAVA, SSIS, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSAS
  • Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wired and wireless communication services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and governments
  • Finally, created Data-marts and Cubes using Data warehouse architecture design and tools
  • Works with Agile / Scrum Masters to grow within the role
  • Works with Scrum Team, as well as external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support the organizational project or product teams
  • Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events
  • Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally / externally working within the Scrum team
  • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization
  • Work effectively with internal/external stakeholders.

Project Manager

Sprint Corporation
12.2011 - 11.2018
  • Vendor BTE (Better Than Ever) – JAVA, SSIS, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSAS
  • Network Monitoring & Assessment Management applications on switches supplied by 4 vendors namely Lucent, Motorola, Nortel & Samsung (with limited reach on Push-to-Talk & 4G)
  • The EVDO FLUX Platform, in its 3rd generation, is a critical component to maintain uptime service levels across National cell sites
  • Monitor regular assessments, tracking, surveys, and evaluations to measure the impact and effectiveness of project interventions
  • Provide guidance to the impending team on data collection methodologies, and techniques to ensure the accuracy and reliability of monitoring and evaluation data with Industry Team.

Project Manager

Sprint Corporation
12.2011 - 11.2018
  • Production Support - SSIS, JAVA, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSAS
  • Monitoring of live feeds for all vendors (Samsung LTE, Samsung EVDO & Ericsson EVDO)
  • Raising tickets and Issues allocation based on criticality like (T1, T2 & T3) by coordinating with development teams
  • Handling production deployments, MOP reviews, and monitoring the data every 15 min, 30 min, Hourly & Daily basis
  • Troubleshoot production issues and find root cause through analysis
  • Candidate needs to provide resolution or escalate the incident to appropriate support team within defined SLA
  • If escalated, then drive the resolution by following-up with appropriate support teams until the resolution or recovery is provided to business.

Program Manager

Insurance Administration Services & Solutions
09.2016 - 03.2018
  • Automated Work Distribution System
  • Defined business objectives, vision and plan for IAS tool
  • Insurance Administration Services and Solutions (IAS) is a TPA that administers blocks of insurance carriers
  • In particular, they have several of their clients sell Medicare Supplement policies
  • Some applications are completed online, but the majority are still on paper and are either faxed or mailed to IAS
  • In either case, they end up in the Automated Work Distributor (AWD) and the first step is to enter the various pieces of the information on the app manually into IAS administrative system
  • Acting as a team facilitator and constantly focusing on leveraging the team on agile values and principles, while keeping them focused on project goals
  • Collaborate with the team to succeed in areas such as quality, cost and time
  • Identifying opportunities to reduce waste in the way of work within the team.

Education

Master’s in Business Administration -

Osmania University
05.2011

Bachelors -

Loyola Academy Degree and PG College
05.2009

Skills

  • JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Agile Central, Tableau, SharePoint, ITSM, Clarizen PPM MS Office, MS-Visio, MS Project, Microsoft SQL Server(RDBMS) Core Member - SEPG (Software Engineering Process Group), Software Quality Analyst Executed CMMI v 12 Process Definition, Agile Scrum & Kanban Definition and implementation Rolled out Org-wide metrics definition and reporting
  • Project Management
  • Process Management
  • Product Development
  • Project management proficiency
  • Client Relations
  • Production Support
  • Problem Resolution
  • Project Planning
  • Team building
  • Flexible and Adaptable
  • Remote Office Availability
  • Quality Assurance
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Work Planning and Prioritization

Certification

  • Certified Release Train Engineer (RTE)
  • SAFe Agilist (SA)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner and PRINCE2 Foundation
  • Internal Auditor - ISO 9001, ISO 27001
  • Certified Appraisal Team Member (ATM)
  • Certified Software Quality Analyst

Linkedin Profile

https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-g-197802a2/

Timeline

Release Train Engineer

Verizon Wireless
01.2020 - Current

PM (Lead SCRUM Master)

Scottline Healthcare Solutions
11.2018 - 12.2019

Program Manager

Insurance Administration Services & Solutions
09.2016 - 03.2018

PM (Lead SCRUM Master)

Sprint Corporation
05.2012 - 11.2018

Project Manager

Sprint Corporation
05.2012 - 11.2018

Project Manager

Sprint Corporation
12.2011 - 11.2018

Project Manager

Sprint Corporation
12.2011 - 11.2018

Master’s in Business Administration -

Osmania University

Bachelors -

Loyola Academy Degree and PG College
Shanthi Priya