Uma Sundaram
Chicago,IL
Summary
Talented Project Manager driving revenue growth by successfully leading new product launches and market research initiatives. Accomplished at handling changing company, customer, and project demands. Practiced at keeping team morale high while meeting aggressive deadlines and completing complex project requirements.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Medline Industries, Inc
Libertyville, IL
01.2022 - Current
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
- Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.
- Organized meetings between stakeholders from different departments to discuss potential solutions or strategies.
- Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
- Conducted application review meetings with end-users to document and gather business needs and translate into functional requirement documents.
- Assisted with release planning and coordinated efforts between multiple teams working on related projects.
- Defined scopes, managed resources, and oversaw schedules in line with stakeholder and project owner specifications.
- Delivered results using strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards.
Project Manager
Capgemini
Rosemont, IL
04.2019 - 01.2022
- Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
- Led meetings with internal team members, consultants and contractors.
- Created project plans with established timelines, assigned to appropriate teams and managed workflow throughout construction.
- Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
- Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams as needed for successful completion of projects.
- Created and implemented processes to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Collaborated closely with senior management on long-term strategic planning initiatives related to projects in development or execution stages.
- Modified project plans when needed to better align with organizational objectives.
- Created team objectives and roles with specific goals outlined for each individual.
- Drafted reports summarizing progress made on projects for review by executive leadership team.
- Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.
Project Manager
Sears Holdings Company
Hoffman Estates, IL
11.2011 - 02.2019
- Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors and contractors.
- Managed contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables.
- Made changes to project scope and cost and implemented most effective change management processes to keep project up-to-date.
- Developed solutions to project risks and issues, meeting quality and timeline goals and objectives.
- Ensured compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures throughout the life cycle of each project.
- Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
- Developed user stories, acceptance criteria, and mockups for new features.
- Coordinated release planning activities including feature sets, launch dates, marketing campaigns.
- Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to review progress towards sprint goals.
- Gathered and prioritized product requirements from stakeholders.
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
- Gathered detailed use cases and requirements through regular on-site visits, virtual meetings and customer advisory board sessions.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Bharathidasan University
India08-1996
Skills
- Resource Allocation
- Software Process Management
- Risk Identification
- Project Management
- Backlog Management
- Release Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Project Development
- Microsoft Office Suite Expert
- Programming Languages
- Processes and Procedures
- Agile Methodologies
- Requirements Gathering
- PI/Sprint Planning
Accomplishments
- Departmental recognitions and PI planning support recognitions
- Five-year completion pin
- Worked in 100+ projects and releases
- BU town hall recognition, Corporate Townhall recognition
- Flying pig awards, focused recognitions
- Employee of the year first runner up award.
Certification
- PMI-ACP, PMP
- SAFe RTE, SAFe POPM, SAFe Agilist, SAFe DEVOPs Practitioner
- Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
- Agile Scrum Basics Bronze badge
- AEM Business Practitioner
Affiliations
Organized Team Building activities and outings
Promoting Diversity & Inclusion
WIT (Women in Tech) Member advocated for multicultural organizing educational forums
Vice President for toast masters encouraged panel discussions to forming networking groups for equittable workspace
Training
Business Analysis, Leadership Conferences, VP of Public Relations in Toastmasters, Project Management, SAP Security admin
Additional relevant experience
2004-2014 will be supplied upon request.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Scrum Master
Medline Industries, Inc
01.2022 - Current
Project Manager
Capgemini
04.2019 - 01.2022
Project Manager
Sears Holdings Company
11.2011 - 02.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Bharathidasan University
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