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Sirisha Devi Vajrapu

Project Manager
Leander,TX

Summary

  • Delivery focused Program manager with extensive experience in delivering business process changes while leading multiple cross functional teams.
  • Proven leader in handling Enterprise solutions delivery across various sectors including Government, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare, Banking & Finance.
  • Innovative & Solution - oriented Project Manager with over 15+ years of rich experience possessing a unique combination of skills including Project Management, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Applications Development experience in Top-tier Fortune 500 Organizations.
  • Highly Business-savvy Individual at cultivating, managing and leveraging business relationships.
  • Committed in delivering cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions to meet shifting Organizational demands.
  • Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational efficiencies.
  • Business Strategy & Road mapping Client relationship manager Program Management Stakeholder Management Vendor Management Enterprise solution delivery Project estimations & budgeting.
  • Design Thinking & Digital Transformation Evangelist
  • Product Owner/ Scrum Master

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Manager - Delivery

Evonsys
Remote
03.2020 - 06.2022
  • EvonSys is a PEGA Gold Partner services organization, It provides IT services to numerous clients across the globe in the banking and financial Industry.
  • Responsible for end to end delivery of the projects for various banking and financial clients like Citi Bank, Citizens Bank,Brown Advisory etc
  • Manage multiple project teams (~100 members) across various clients.
  • Act as a bridge between clients and the development teams from project initiation till final project delivery.
  • Create business strategy roadmaps and proposals for new clients/projects.
  • Participate in Architecture and Design & DCO sessions along with the teams to ensure we deliver a smooth customer experience
  • Create project plans using MS project to communicate and set the expectations across the teams.
  • Elicit, analyze, specify and verify business requirements
  • Work with cross functional teams to clear the project impediments
  • Participate in Beta testing along with the team and ensure all requirements are met
  • Lead and organize PEGA upgrades for various clients
  • Trained new staff on job duties, company policies and safety procedures for rapid onboarding.
  • Performance monitoring and appraisals.

Project Manager

Lakshya IT Consulting
India
09.2018 - 02.2020
  • E-Pragati is a State Enterprise Architecture based solution built on PEGA to deliver 700+ services from 36 cabinet departments, 86 HOD's and 559 Autonomous Organizations in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
  • One of the 4 CEO Task force team responsible for overall platform delivery
  • Design Thinking lead and Digital transformation expert.
  • Worked with various digital transformation experts (IAS/IPS Officers) in the government for formulating the Design Thinking guidelines and Digital Transformation checklist for e-pragati
  • Coach department stakeholders on the benefits of the Digital Transformation Journeys
  • Responsible for understanding the business needs, of multiple stakeholders in the government services and validating the pros and cons of technical solution
  • Managing multiple vendors for e-Pragati platform
  • Work with Procurement team in building RFP's and sourcing vendors that provides the best resources
  • Creating SOW's and onboarding the vendor teams
  • Participate and lead requirement gathering workshops with a large number of business SMEs who are geographically distributed
  • Running PEGA workshops and demos with all impacted systems and users and driving them to one final delivery
  • Create project plans for the various modules of the e-pragati core platform which are being implemented parallelly and also ensure there is cohesion across all these implementations
  • Reviewing and providing feedback for all the project documentation including BRD's, Technical Design documents, Test plans etc
  • Give product demos to bureaucrats and other stakeholders and third party organizations
  • Coach and mentor the BA/QA team.

Sr. Business Analyst

CSX Technology
Jacksonville, FL
02.2012 - 08.2018
  • CSX, a Fortune 500 company is one of the USA's leading railroad, The company's rail and intermodal businesses provide rail-based transportation services across North America.Positive Train Control (PTC) has brought in major technical developments in CSX railroad.
  • Work with diverse stakeholder groups for gathering business requirements to build the onboard systems for PTC
  • Lead JAR/JAD Sessions and develop functional specifications and system design specifications for enterprise applications
  • Worked as a product owner for the enterprise Incident Management, System and Change & Configuration Management Systems (ITIL tools).
  • Closely work with Operations teams and develop Proof of Concept designs, Wireframes & Mock ups
  • Review functional requirements and designs with stakeholders at various levels (Including VP's and CXO level) of the organization and attain sign off
  • Produce highly detail-oriented documentation including business cases, use cases, process flows to help the cross functional teams understand the requirements, business process design, and overall systems integration
  • Create test strategies, test cases, defect reports and user testing scenarios by effectively using JIRA
  • Validate the application meets the business requirements
  • Coordinate UAT sessions with business partners and assist them with demos, user guides etc during end user validation phase.

Sr. Systems Analyst

Florida Blue
Jacksonville, FL
07.2010 - 09.2011
  • Florida Blue is a leading health care provider in USA.Florida Blue offers plans for both Individual, Group as well as Medicare beneficiaries.
  • Provide enterprise level business solutions for major Health Care Reform (HCR) initiatives
  • Worked with Solution Architects in designing complex Rules
  • Conducted system analysis and implementation to maintain and improve computer systems.
  • Create Business requirements and functional architecture documents for multiple enterprise applications in the claims and rating areas.
  • Worked with Senior leadership in project planning and budgeting
  • Worked with Development teams on solutioning many JAVA based solutions for Rating applications.

Project Manager

Universal Health Care
St. Petersburg, FL
09.2008 - 07.2010
  • Universal Health Care, a well known health care provider that offers both Medicare and Medicaid plans for the 65+ community in the Tampa Bay area of Florida
  • Responsible for implementation of Web Portals for Members & Providers for UHC
  • Played a vital role in establishing Project Management Office for the
  • Worked with different third party vendors to ensure the smooth integration of various third party tools
  • Coordinated between the Offshore Development team and the onsite Business teams in resolving the Issues during the Project Life Cycle
  • Prepare project plans using MS Project and work with Senior management in Budgeting and creating future roadmaps.

Business Analyst

Hugh Solutions
India
04.2007 - 01.2008
  • P&H, Financial solution provider for many banks and credit unions in various areas ranging from wealth management, retirement, credit management etc
  • Actively interacted with different levels of Business users in gathering the Business Requirements
  • Produce detailed use cases and functional requirements for various modules
  • Created test plans and test cases for both functional and non- functional testing
  • Responsible for creating test reports for all the regression testing builds.

QA Engineer

Virtusa
India
09.2005 - 03.2007
  • OpenPages now acquired by IBM is the leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions that optimize business performance,OpenPages enables the companies to be SOX compliant.
  • Created Test Plans from Business Requirements and Design
  • Documents and maintained test plans in Quality Center
  • Extensively used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting
  • Used Manual, Automated Testing techniques for Regression testing on each new build of application under test
  • Conducted Database testing by writing SQL queries, generating
  • Data Reports and also by debugging the queries.

Developer

Hugh Solutions
India
01.2004 - 08.2005
  • Finx, a leading global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services.It offers retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries
  • Responsible for developing front end pages for claims applications
  • Used JAVA, HTML/XML for developing web pages
  • Created backend tables, Joins in Oracle DB using SQL queries
  • Created reports using Crystal reports.

Education

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -

Scrum Alliance
03.2020 - 03.2020

Project Management Professional Training -

Simpli Learn
06.2021 - 06.2021

Master of Computer Applications -

Osmania University
06.2001 - 04.2004

Skills

Critical ThinkingDecision Making

Communication & Negotiation Skills

Business process Re engineering

Requirements Elicitation, JAR/JAD

Project Planning, Estimations & Budgeting

PEGA, IBM Maximo, Mendix, Service Now

AWS, Azure DevOps

Java, Net, Mulesoft

MS Office, Visio, MS Project

Product Roadmapping

Timeline

Project Management Professional Training -

Simpli Learn
06.2021 - 06.2021

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -

Scrum Alliance
03.2020 - 03.2020

Senior Manager - Delivery

Evonsys
03.2020 - 06.2022

Project Manager

Lakshya IT Consulting
09.2018 - 02.2020

Sr. Business Analyst

CSX Technology
02.2012 - 08.2018

Sr. Systems Analyst

Florida Blue
07.2010 - 09.2011

Project Manager

Universal Health Care
09.2008 - 07.2010

Business Analyst

Hugh Solutions
04.2007 - 01.2008

QA Engineer

Virtusa
09.2005 - 03.2007

Developer

Hugh Solutions
01.2004 - 08.2005

Master of Computer Applications -

Osmania University
06.2001 - 04.2004
Sirisha Devi VajrapuProject Manager