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SOUNDARYA POTNURU
Princeton Junction,USA
Summary
Dynamic Cloud Migration Manager at Accenture with 18+ years of experience in executing complex migrations and leading cross-functional teams. Expert in project planning and risk management, adept at delivering modernization strategies aligned with business objectives. Proven leadership in driving successful transformations while fostering collaboration and enhancing team performance.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Migration & Modernization Manager
Accenture
02.2022 - Current
- Experienced Mainframe to Cloud Migration Manager with over 18 years of expertise in leading assessments and executing complex migrations from legacy mainframe systems to modern cloud platforms.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, define modernization roadmaps, and drive delivery across all phases of transformation.
- Skilled in orchestrating end-to-end migration strategies, managing risk, and aligning technical execution with business goals.
- Adept at decoding complex mainframe dependencies using both traditional methods and Gen AI.
- Directed cross-functional teams in coordinating Gen AI-driven analysis for mainframe applications, guiding discovery workflows, validating outputs, and translating insights into actionable modernization strategies.
- Demonstrated effective leadership, collaboration and interpersonal skills to drive teams to successful project completion.
Technical Project Manager
Infosys
02.2011 - 02.2022
- Experience in building processes, project management, and planning project release schedules.
- Lead a 20-member onsite offshore team, handling ~15 small to mid-sized projects on a weekly schedule.
- Involved in daily project tracking, on-site/offshore coordination, leading scrum calls, providing technical guidance, documenting, and reporting status.
- Coordinate with product owners, groom and build the pipeline for project deliverables.
- Create/review the project deliverables via JIRA creation along with effort estimation.
- Maintain project dashboard pipeline and keep track of effort overrun.
- Provide weekly status report to senior management.
- Responsible for providing Quality Assurance testing of Middleware components in non-Production environments. Work with various application team members and developers to assist in QA testing of new and existing processes.
- Support development teams from an interface perspective.
- Contribute to the larger QA team e.g., investigate and report on new technologies.
- Provide support for application/business owners in dealing with Middleware related requests.
- Identify and suggest process improvements.
- Offered leadership, coaching and guidance as head of project lifecycle, operating procedures, processes and practices.
- Used knowledge and analytical problem-solving abilities to consistently take on and resolve technical challenges.
- Coordinated teams, resources and schedules to handle simultaneous projects.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
12.2009 - 12.2010
- Responsibilities include system's analysis, development and testing as per SDLC life cycle.
- Develop systems testing strategies, plan cases/conditions.
- Support the implementation of the application changes into production for a new Line of Business.
- Support testing and production mainframe environment by job monitoring and fixing the abends.
Software Engineer
Satyam
06.2007 - 11.2009
- Analyze the structure of existing applications and collect the inventory to validate using SEEC tool.
- Modify/create new code modules to remove JLR feeds in FORD environment.
- CA7 scheduler analysis and unit testing of modified components.
- Provide production support and minor enhancement for the application.
- Analyze daily reports created within the application for any errors and notify the SME.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University
Tirupati, India06.2007
Skills
- Technical proficiency
- Project planning
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Collaborate cross-functionally
- Team development & leadership
- Analytical skills
- Data analysis
- Communication skills
- Risk management
- Positive attitude
- Strategic planning
- Time management abilities
- Scheduling and coordinating
- Project management
Certification
AWS certified Cloud Solutions Architect
Personal Information
Visa Status: Green Card
Software
JCL
VSAM
DB2
AWS Services - AWS transfrom(Code Migration)
Timeline
Cloud Migration & Modernization Manager
Accenture
02.2022 - Current
Technical Project Manager
Infosys
02.2011 - 02.2022
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
12.2009 - 12.2010
Software Engineer
Satyam
06.2007 - 11.2009
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University