Project/Program/Product Management
Shikha Virdi
Project/Program Management
New Delhi,Delhi
Summary
Instrumental Technical Project Manager bringing 11 years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT/Telecom environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Walmart
Gurugram/Bangalore, Haryana/Karnataka
03.2017 - Current
- Worked in collaboration with the senior technical project manager's to define project goals and establish a timeline and plan to achieve them.
- Provided optimal assistance to the stakeholders and handled a variety of tasks.
- Worked to ensure successful project execution according to established objectives, timelines, and costs.
- End to End Program managed the implementation of River mine Tool for Walmart Canada users for Telecom Expense Management
- Working on high priority Programs related to Global Data to Cloud Migration and Data Center Space Optimization for Walmart owned data centers
- Working on decommissioning End of life equipment from Walmart Owned Data center's to support Tech modernization and collaborating with multiple teams to remove the legacy equipment's
- Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
- Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors
- Save approx. $4 million during my tenure in the organization through different areas
Project Co-ordinator
British Telecom
Gurugram, Haryana
01.2012 - 02.2017
- Worked closely with project managers and engineers to ensure project needs were fulfilled and budgets were honored.
- Worked in collaboration with the senior project manager to define project goals and establish a timeline and plan to achieve them.
- Planning, Coordinating, Monitoring & Controlling the projects during its life cycle
- Identify and manage risks associated with the project and prepare risk mitigation plan
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Worked on different projects like Branch cease, Power down projects, deploy SOC VLAN on bulk sites and removal of port security
- Understands contribution to success of overall project in terms of Time, Cost and Scope
- Interaction with stakeholder on daily basis
- Ensuring on-time delivery of projects within budget and quality and simultaneously managing issues, risks and dependencies
- Driven user acceptance testing and handover to operations
- Organize and chair Project Team meetings, distribution of minutes/action items, and ensuring action items are carried out
- Bring together a Project Team with the appropriate range of skills and experience and making sure that all members perform their tasks satisfactorily
- Capture lessons learnt and design issues that can be helpful in future projects
- Driven ITEC Remediation Project for ASA Tier 1 sites as per SSC (Solstice Security Compliance)
- Managed substantial project to deploy SOC VLAN Configuration on approx. 1400 Tier 4 sites
- Supervision on Certificate Renewal Project and managing communications and documentations to successfully implement the project
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications - Information Technology
Jamia Hamdard University
Delhi 07.2006 - 07.2009
CBSE -
Higher Secondary
Delhi 03.2005 - 03.2006
CBSE -
Secondary
Delhi 03.2003 - 04.2004
Skills
Agile project management
Strategic planning
Risk mitigation planning
Waterfall methodology
Planning and Coordination
Decision-Making
Critical Thinking
Active Listening
Reporting template development
Vendor relationship management
Risk mitigation
Documentation Management
Quality assurance
Accomplishments
- Won Team Award for outstanding performing team across pillar for achieving the quarterly target of decommissioning server/network devices in data center for multi-cloud expansion in May'22
- Collaborated with team of 5 staff in the development of Executive Dashboard
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
- Created Dashboards for leadership that will reflect the decommission devices status across multiple DC's
- Supervised team of more than 10 staff members.
- Won HYPO award for excellent performance for Revenue Assurance & Cost Validation in BT
- Nominated for Go Getter Award for ensuring maximum possible effort in assigned contract in BT
Certification
SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Interests
Additional Information
Married : Yes
Location : New Delhi - 10078
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Walmart
03.2017 - Current
Project Co-ordinator
British Telecom
01.2012 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Computer Applications - Information Technology
Jamia Hamdard University
07.2006 - 07.2009
CBSE -
Higher Secondary
03.2005 - 03.2006
CBSE -
Secondary
03.2003 - 04.2004