Lakshmi S.L. Gurazada
Sunnyvale, CA 408-***-**** ****************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/lalithagurazada WORK EXPERIENCE
SUREIFY LABS San Jose, California
Technical Project Manager Current
Resourceful technical project manager skilled in ideating a product and streamlining operations and maintaining schedules ensuring maximum customer satisfaction and business revenue in a SAAS based company.
• Proposed and ideated a 1000 use cases for customer interaction module which is selling point for the product creating a 100% impact for the users.
SOLIVAR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Hyderabad, India
Associate Project Manager June 2015 - May 2017
Served as Project manager in a fast pacing tech start-up and delivered multiple impactful projects. Managed over 20 on- shore team members and assisted 6 offshore clients in my role. Expert in agile development methodologies and stakeholder management. Sureify Lifetime
Sureify lifetime is a product built from scratch to match health/life insurance companies with their customers. I led the end- to-end design, and project management of the iOS and Android mobile apps, and the desktop app.
● Worked on client presentations, understood and accommodate their needs and suggestions. As a result, we got 3 major health/life companies to use and invest in the product.
● Identified the need for internal bug tracking system to reach the goals faster. Proposed and designed a system that reduced >80% manual effort involved in the process California Common Sense (CACS)
Collaborated with Stanford University team to build a new technology to reveal fragmented government data. Led the client management as well as technical management aspects to deliver the product.
● Proposed a method to handle client requirement changes that reduced cost by 40% and project development time in half.
Stanford Vegethon & PRM
Delivered multiple projects for Stanford diet study programs on time
● Proposed and shipped multiple features such as push notifications that increased user activity by 70%. Solivar Software Development Jan 2015 - May 2015
Project Manager Intern
• Started as a software engineering intern and took up the challenge of solving the client facing role gap as a project manager.
• Led the client management as well as technical management aspects to deliver mobile apps for ABODE. missionR&D IIT Hyderabad, India
Software Engineering Intern Summer 2014
• Created a chat application called “Face Chat” using Graph API Facebook simulation. Built web-based application which can post and retrieve newsfeed from Facebook. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology, Information technology 2011 - 2015 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Kakinada, India
• Honors: Distinction
• Online Certifications: Six Sigma Champion, Scrum Master, Accredited Software Tester, IBM DB2 and RAD.
• Courses in Progress: Project Management
SKILLS & TOOLS
• Software & Languages: C, C++, Python, JIRA, Asana, Slack, Microsoft Office, Node JS, Ajax, SQL.
• Interests: Painting and reading books.