Vimitha Priyadharsini
Bloomington,IL
Summary
Experienced project manager proficient with 15+ years of IT experience in overseeing project management, leading project teams, executing build and release management with DevOps technology, and performing Scrum Master activities. Proven track record in driving technology initiatives, ensuring timely delivery, and aligning with business goals. Strong focus on team collaboration and delivering impactful results. Adept at navigating dynamic environments, leveraging expertise in project planning and risk management. Known for adaptability and reliability in achieving project success.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Cognizant
02.2021 - 04.2023
- Successfully delivered multiple high-profile projects on time, ensuring client satisfaction and fostering long-term relationships.
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills by effectively managing diverse teams and maintaining high levels of motivation, even during challenging periods of significant change or tight deadlines.
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
- Accomplished client goals by providing quality technical projects.
- Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
- Managed project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless communication and information sharing throughout project lifecycles.
- Achieved recognition for excellence in project management through successful completion of high-profile projects..
- Facilitated strong team collaboration through effective meeting management, open communication channels, and timely resolution of conflicts or issues.
- Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, procurement, sales, and marketing, quality assurance and supply base.
- Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
- User administration (Jira, GitHub and Jenkins) and provide technical support
- Coordinated development and deployment of major software release, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals.
- Implemented risk management strategies that significantly mitigated potential project delays and cost overruns.
- Enhanced team productivity with implementation of agile project management methodologies.
- Improved project visibility and stakeholder satisfaction with regular, detailed progress reports and presentations.
- Negotiated and managed project budgets to meet goals.
- Identified and implemented cost-saving measures in IT projects.
- Streamlined project processes by implementing agile methodologies, resulting in increased efficiency and faster completion times.
Senior Specialist - Project Coordinator
Temenos
11.2018 - 02.2021
- Gather requirement details from stakeholder, create project plan activities, prepare test plan document, Lead team to execute the project, Perform scrum activities.
- Prepare reports on project activity and status and update stakeholders and higher management
- Facilitated project status meeting and scrum meetings.
- Create tasks in Jira, assign to respective team and track the status.
- Prepare design, test plan and release documents.
- Understand, Implement and maintain DevOps system according to customer plan, Installing and configuring DevOps tools, along with atlassian tools – JIRA, confluence and Bitbucket, designing and implementing projects in atlassian tools, customizing workflow, fields, permissions, screens as per the project requirement
- Migrations of source codes from CVS, SVN or RTC to Bitbucket, providing trainings and user support
Team Lead – Specialization
MphasiS
08.2011 - 10.2018
- As a Lead infra Engineer, Managed different client environment, worked on environment upgrades, app installation, configuration and upgrades
- Fixed application issues and done migrations.
- Migrated applications to AWS environment and configured DevOps setup.
- Created AWS components like EC2, S3, VPC
- Implemented CD/CI using Jenkins, Automating manual process
- As a Scrum master, Scheduled scrum meeting, gathered requirements from product owners, ensured developers follows scrum rules
- Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Updated agile tracker
- Removed impediments by providing appropriate solution and all scrum activities.
SCM Analyst
COMPUTER SCIENCE CORPORATION
10.2010 - 08.2011
- Understand, Implement and Maintain the Configuration Management system according to the Chrysler Plan
- Task involves User id creation in Dimensions and EBRM enrollment, resolving user issues, new project creation, mover administration, EBRM enrollment, Subtask Creation, deployment of source code to different environment, troubleshooting user problems regarding deployment, baseline creation, release, and other user tasks
- Automating manual process
- Build and Release management
- Application upgrade and migrations.
- Users license management.
Release Coordinator
TEMENOS
06.2008 - 10.2010
- Work with the Product Management team to develop release plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed and prioritized.
- Managing multi-system projects and cross-functional teams
- Motivate teams to perform and ensure teams members are collectively responsible for all aspects of the committed work (analysis, development, testing, documentation, etc.)
- Shield the teams from external interferences
- Identify, address, and communicate project risks, dependencies, and teams impediments
- Facilitate productivity through discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assist with internal and external communication, and improving transparency
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving
- Lead and participate in meetings to ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans and integration of testing activities
- Negotiated dependencies among multiple projects to ensure smooth integration during concurrent releases.
Education
Bachelor of Science - B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Magna College of Engineering, Anna University
India05-2008
Skills
- Tools - RTC, PVCS, GIT, Bitbucket, Ansible, Jenkins
- Tracker Tools - Jira, Service now, TableU
- Project management
- Relationship building
- Work flow planning
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Risk management
- Document management
- Scope management
- Budget control
- Team bonding
- Project closure
- Agile methodology
- Presentations
- Technical support
- Team collaboration
- Project tracking
Certification
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect
Duties involved
- Project Management and Leadership : Lead cross-functional teams and work closely with multiple stakeholders to oversee the planning, execution and delivery of projects. Maintain project timelines, resource allocation and mitigate risks.
- Stakeholder Management : Act as a primary point of contact between business leaders, engineering teams and external vendors, ensuring clear communication and alignment of project goals.
- Collaboration with Tech Teams: Work closely with engineering, development and QA teams to define project milestones, review progress and resolve any technical issues that arise.
- Process Optimization: Continuously improve CI/CD process, identifying areas for automation, efficiency gains and best practices to improve workflow and deployment times.
- Risk and Issue Management: Proactively identify potential risks and resolve any issues that may impact project timelines or quality, ensuring timely and within budget delivery.
- Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation of project SLAs, project milestones, risks, changes and other project related information. Provide regular updates to senior leadership regarding the project status.
- Scrum Master: Act as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
- Assist team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes
- Assist with prioritization and resolution of software defects
- Built relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team's interaction with them
- Coach team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
- Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
- Engage with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
- Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
- Help team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible
- Remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
- Take responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks
- Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
- Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
- Work with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
- Experienced in build and Release Process using DevOps methodology
- Implemented Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins, Ansible
- Projects enrollment experience in DevOps tools – JIRA, Bitbucket and Jenkins
- Good experience in troubleshooting various user issues in Atlassian tools (JIRA, bitbucket and Confluence), source control and build tools.
- Strong use of Agile tools and help integrate with different tools.
- Good knowledge in Cloud Technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) VPC, EC2
- Worked with optimization of AWS Auto scaling
- Have good hands-on experience in CI using GIT
- Experience in administration of source control tool – PVCS, Clear case, serena dimensions, RTC
- Proficient in shell scripting to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
- Experience in configuring Puppet Master and Puppet agents.
- Setting up and maintaining automated build scripts in Jenkins.
- Debugging build failures, coordinating with developers and testers to resolve related issues.
- Good Knowledge of using different protocols like FTP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS
- Have good exposure on Linux
- Managed environments DEV, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases
- Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and technologies.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 11/25/86
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all information stated above is true as per my knowledge.
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Cognizant
02.2021 - 04.2023
Senior Specialist - Project Coordinator
Temenos
11.2018 - 02.2021
Team Lead – Specialization
MphasiS
08.2011 - 10.2018
SCM Analyst
COMPUTER SCIENCE CORPORATION
10.2010 - 08.2011
Release Coordinator
TEMENOS
06.2008 - 10.2010
Bachelor of Science - B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Magna College of Engineering, Anna University
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