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