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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

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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

Project/Program/Product Management

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

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