Project Management

GAYATHRI ARIKATLA

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. A PMP Certified PMO/ Project Manager with MBA Degree with more than 8

years of success with high-profile companies like Metlife, Infosys,

Yahoo! and Johnson Controls in Business Analysis, Project Portfolio

Management.

. IT leader accomplished at strategic and business planning, Project

Portfolio management in support of business processes

. Extensive background in Clarity - developing IT Strategy, Project

Management, Lifecycle Methodologies and budget planning/ management

. Experienced professional with a proven track record of exceptional

accomplishments providing administrative, financial and analytical

support for the IT Program Management Office (PMO)

. Full-time MBA (Major in Marketing, Strategy and Organizational Behavior)

degree from Carnegie Mellon University

Career Objective: Obtain a position as a Project Manager in a challenging

environment where my organizational skills and experience help achieve the

corporate goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Metlife, Somerset, New Jersey Jun 2012 - Present

PMO Consultant

. Successfully built a global PMO with Project, Program and Portfolio

management practices, Demand Governance frameworks with metrics, KPIs,

standards, business case templates, methodologies and structure

. Evolved program and project management capabilities, improved delivery of

solutions of clients and customers, leveraged project management

knowledge across the organization

. Established and integrated PMO measures, metrics, thresholds and targets

to drive performance in alignment with business strategies

. Assisted in project management process definition, including refining

SDLC processes and documentation; provide support in creating training

materials

. Developed and implemented enhanced Clarity PPM functionality, program/

project management guidelines, standards, procedures, samples, templates,

best practices and frameworks

. Established and implemented processes and methodologies for the IT

community to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere

to high quality standards and meet customer expectations

. Maintained an overall governance and understanding of dependencies

associated with resources and projects across the project portfolio

. Supported, interpreted and analyzed portfolio investment and governance

decisions including budgets, forecasts and other related financial

information and associated risks or impacts

. Adept at performing financial analysis and modeling, and developing and

implementing strategies and solutions that achieve consensus among key

stakeholders across organization

. Developed project plans and ensured milestones were met according to

schedule. Tracked issues, facilitated resolution and provided weekly

status reports to senior management

. Worked with global IT PMO, project managers and other resources to ensure

effective maintenance and tracking of project plans, milestones and

slippages/overruns

. Responsible for overall coordination, reporting and analysis of

enterprise and/ or LOB portfolio and projects in Clarity

. Assessed, monitored and reviewed the identified risks/ issues in a

systematic and timely manner and ensure appropriate records of assessed

risks/ issues are maintained

. Defined continuous improvements to project management processes and

tools, and assist in rolling out these standards across the organization

. Facilitated sharing of best practices and tool enhancements to user

community of Clarity through informal communication channels and/ or

formal training sessions

. Designed and implemented various SharePoint web parts, web part pages,

content types and various custom document libraries and lists

. Responsible for management of a portfolio that include multiple projects

of varying complexity

. Coordinated portfolio prioritization, demand management, resource

management, resource forecasting activities and metrics reporting

Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mar 2010 - Jun 2012

IT Portfolio Analyst

. Collaborated with Global Project Management Offices (PMO), Global

Infrastructure and BU IT teams to administer Governance and Project

Portfolio Management processes.

. Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple

related projects directed towards strategic business and other

organizational objectives.

. Created and implemented change management plans that maximize employee

engagement and increase proficiency across the organization to achieve

outstanding business results.

. Developed a set of actionable and targeted change management plans

including communication plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching and resistance

management plans.

. Possess a sound understanding of Gap Analysis using Swim lane diagrams,

requirement management, risk analysis and project plans

. Developed business cases by translating end-user requests into Business

Requirement Documents

. Identified opportunities to implement process and governance improvements

within IT.

. Anticipated and drove changes to management systems and tools in response

to process and procedure changes.

. Designed the functional requirements of the Clarity Project and Portfolio

Management tool while acting as a primary liaison between business users

and Clarity Application Development team.

. Worked collaboratively with end-users, business, vendors, project

managers in the design of processes like Demand Management, Project

Management and Portfolio Management etc.

. Managed technical and functional development support for CA Clarity

application for the Program Management Office (PMO); monitor and ensure

PMO standards are followed.

. Supported system implementation, configuration, administration and end-

users of the integrated Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Project

Portfolio Management (PPM) applications during and after implementation.

. Facilitated and coordinated all activities pertaining to future

integration of the integrated EA and PPM applications with other business

and IT applications.

. System implementation, configuration, administration and end-users and

working business process definition for the CA Clarity PPM tool.

. Orchestrated and built solution to migrate CA Clarity application from

hosting provider to in-house solution; devised new functionality using

stored procedures, triggers and functions.

Sachmanya LLC Sep 2009 - Mar 2010

Product Analyst

. Responsible for product planning and execution throughout the product

life cycle, including gathering product and customer requirements,

defining product vision and working closely with engineering and sales

teams.

. Played a crucial role in the positioning and launch of the product by

participating in trade shows, press releases, social media marketing,

working with third parties to assess partnerships and contract

opportunities.

. Created a prototype and designed the feature requirements for an online

software service called YAPPER which helps create own native apps for

Smartphones like iPhone, Android etc.

Yahoo! May 2008 - Dec 2008

Product Strategist

. Developed Global Strategy Roadmaps for 14 countries to link business

strategy / market data, facilitate product evolution, integrate customer

/ market needs and introduce new technologies.

. Prepared product-line financial statements of existing clients for

Yahoo!'s business and identified new processes to improve quality, reduce

costs and increase profitability.

. Created a Quarterly State of Network for Production Operations team to

track the status of Yahoo!'s overall traffic and monitor network

performance - saved Yahoo! $200K annually.

. Prepared templates to track the status of each service identifying

increased revenue of $0.5MM.

. Collaborated with members across multiple disciplines to monitor the

technology infrastructure for Yahoo! Edge Services.

Infosys India, Australia Jul 2004 - Jul 2007

Programmer Analyst/Team Lead

. Worked for Enterprise Project Management group on out of the box CA

Clarity PPM tool in order to effectively manage corporate projects and to

make sure that strategic investments are in alignment with corporate

priorities. It includes Portfolio Management, Project Management,

Resource Management, Financial planning, Business planning and reporting.

Played different roles as a Consultant, Deployment manager, Design Lead,

Onsite coordinator in this project

. Redesigned the client system by making it compatible with the existing

technologies improving system efficiency by 1.1% and resulting in a cost

reduction of $1MM.

. Acted as a test lead by creating test/ use cases for different scenarios

in the project and successfully performed the integration testing phase.

. Performed software analysis, design, development, requirements gathering,

analytical decision-making, and leading small teams.

. Worked extensively on XOG, Clarity Processes, Business Objects Reports &

Jobs, Portlets, and Microsoft Project.

. As a Clarity SME/Business Analyst, prepared Gap Analysis between As-is

and To-be Business models in an organization for Clarity Implementation

and worked with business to set up the business process flows for

Project/Portfolio management and implemented the same using Clarity

Processes.

. Provided first level support to business users & executives.

. Facilitated and managed business and functional documentation

requirements and

validated test cases and managed issues/defects raised by QA and UAT

teams and

managed requests and issues for Knowledge Exchange/Provision.

. Worked end to end in a software engineering lifecycle as part of Global

Delivery Model. Involved in Analysis and Design, Development, Coding,

testing and played the roles of Team Lead, Quality anchor and led the

Defect Prevention activities.

. Worked as Webmaster for the project site and as the knowledge Management

Prime, Defect Prevention lead for the project, taken the responsibility

to ensure free flow of knowledge among the team and preparing status

reports every month. Also played a role of Quality anchor in the team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Clarity: CA Clarity 13x, 12x, 8.1x, 8.0x, 7.5x Installation and

Configuration, Business Objects Reporting, XOG, Clarity PPM, Custom Object

Design and Implementation, SharePoint, Applying Fix packs and all Clarity

Functional Areas like Project Management, Resource Management, Capacity

Planning and Resource Allocation, Application and Administrations, Clarity

Studio, Financial Management, Process Management, Security, MSP Clarity

integration, Integration

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP, Mainframes

Programming Languages: COBOL, PL/SQL, JAVA, HTML

Domains worked with: Insurance (Metlife), Automotive (Johnson Controls,

USA), Marketing (Sachmanya, USA), Internet (Yahoo!, USA), Insurance (AMP,

Australia) and Express and Freight Industry (DHL, US)

Other Tools & Utilities: MS Office Suite, MS Project Server, Visio,

SharePoint, HP QC, Business Objects Reporting, CAPA, Textpad

PMP Certified - December 2012

EDUCATION:

MBA, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

Aug 2007 - May 2009

Concentration: Marketing, Strategy and Organizational Behavior

Achievements:

Merit Scholarship Recipient

GPA: 3.6/4.0

Case Competitions:

. Finalist, McKinsey Operations Case Competition

. Finalist, Deloitte Case Competition

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Sep 2000 - May 2004

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Information Technology)

Top 5% of Graduating Class

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