Kiranmai Vinnakota

Professional Summary

Senior Project Manager with 17+ years of IT experience, delivered top- notch implementation and project management abilities. Expertise in driving outcomes through collaboration, building high performance teams, design, and development of innovative requirements /features, building the infrastructure, implementing transformation initiatives, improve engineering productivity, tracking metrics and governing transparent communication. Proven experience of achieving high customer satisfaction, delivering outcomes within budget with high quality, driving change through customized Agile/Scrum processes. Implementing required project management processes, assessing risks, and creating practical mitigation plans. Self-motivated, positive-spirited, problem solver, innovative, quick learner, detail oriented and critical thinker. Possessing the capacity to exert influence, take the lead, and minimize risks. Accomplished highly motivated, hands-on, success-driven management skills. Highly organized, methodical, and skilled at managing delivery milestones across high-performance teams. Outstanding leadership, organizational, presentation, and communication skills.

Work History

Infosys Technologies - Senior Project Manager

Sunnyvale, CA

10/2016 - Current

• Manage multiple projects from concept to delivery, collaborate with Apple teams, driving initiation, schedule, execution, and communication of new features.

• Activities inclusive project scoping, planning and estimation, management of risks, finalization of technical and functional specifications, resource planning and quality management for product and solutions.

• Facilitate Scrum processes and conducted ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective) in Agile Scrum methodology.

• Mentor and coaching scrum teams on story size estimation techniques, training product owners in creation, maintenance, and prioritization of Product Backlog.

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Profile

• http://linkedin.com/in/kiranmai-

vinnakota

Skills

• Project Management Body of

Knowledge (PMBOK) - PMP trained

• Project/Program management

• Agile Coach

• Requirements Gathering

• Developing Project Strategy

• Change Management Process

• Cost / Quality Control

• Risk management

• SWOT Analysis

• Project Goals and Milestones

• Project Proposals

• Client Relations

• Contract Preparation

• Vendor management

Tools

• Confluence

• Wrike

• Radar and knowledge in CICD tools:

GitHub, XCode, RIO, Ansible, Stash,

etc.

• Jira

• Services now (For tickets)

• Collaborate with business team, business users, technical teams (Dev, QA, Ops, Networking), Cross Functional teams, External teams during and external kickoff meetings, joint application designing and planning sessions to validate requirements.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to address delivery dependencies, work on API contracts and design changes with team, remove roadblocks and ensure delivery on time.

• Implement appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.

• Work with QA from test planning stage to sign off and business hand over.

• Work with Analytics, Accessibility, Localization and Infosec teams on relevant testing activities and signoffs

• Track and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and key stakeholders.

• Maintain schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.

• Work with Ops/Networking teams for infrastructures changes required for the project. Created the plan, work with tech team on implementation, track the work and monitoring activities.

• Kept project on schedule and within budget while serving as project leader.

• Work with engineering leads on PROD Cutover, release artifacts and App release

• Analyzed the production feedback, issues with the team/business and prioritize for hotfixes/future releases.

• Tracking engineering metrics and improve productivity /effectiveness.

• Monitor contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.

• Anchor for $3M portfolio, create strategize for growth and 10-15% QoQ

(Quarter on Quarter) growth in revenue.

Infosys Technologies - Project Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

01/2013 - 08/2016

• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.

• Managed projects from procurement to commission.

• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.

• Requirement analysis and project planning.

• Planned and managed daily activities.

• Stakeholders (Dev/client/external vendors) management.

• Knowledge management and risk management.

• Drive project to ensure timely delivery of releases.

• Prepared / updated delivery quality metrics dashboard.

• Doubled team size in 1 year.

Infosys Technologies - Technical Test Lead

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Splunk (Reports)

• MS Office

Education

05/2004

Ramappa Engineering College, JNTU

University

Hanamkonda, Warangal, India

Bachelor of Technology: Computer

Science

Visa Status

Green card holder

12/2010 - 01/2013

• Accountable for assigned module deliverables with high quality and efficiency.

• Worked alongside management to develop testing and improvement plans.

• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.

• Assigned tasks to team and track activities.

• Reviewed test cases and test scripts of team members.

• Defect prevention and root cause analysis of defects.

• Organized status meetings and send Weekly status report to stake holders.

HCL Technologies - Member Technical Staff/Lead Engineer Hyderabad, Telangana, India

08/2006 - 11/2010

• Implemented APIs, class files in ASP. Net with C#.

• Developed Stored Procedures and SQL queries for interacting with database using ADO.Net.

• Unit testing, peer review and fixing bugs.

• Worked with lead on high quality deliverables.

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