Geeta Menon

***- *** - **** ad2lhh@r.postjobfree.com Austin, Texas

Senior Program Manager, PMP, PMI-ACP

Summary

Multifaceted, PMP-certified IT project leader, devoted, adaptable Technical Program Manager with 18+ years' experience driving planning, cross-functional strategy, and execution of large-scale technical programs in pace with company goals and priorities. A collaborative and Agile leader, guides and mentors project and program teams by setting clear goals aligned with organizational objectives. Knowledge of Cyber Security domains, CIA Triad, NIST-Security framework, Network Security, Security Framework, SIEM tool, Design Principles, Threat, Risks and Vulnerabilities, Incident response, Security Hardening, AWS Cloud native application.

Professional Experience

NextGen HealthCare Remote

Senior Program Manager July 2019 - Oct 2023

•Delivered scalable technologies, systems, and processes to expand growth strategy by interviewing key internal stakeholders, resulting in 12-month project plan with budget of $1.3M

•Developed overall program plans, definitions, and agreements on scope, success criteria, key milestones, and deliverables.

•Driven end-to-end execution of program plans across the entire Business Unit.

•Determine critical program dependencies; technical, process, and people.

•Anticipated, identified, and mitigated risks throughout the program lifecycle.

•Coordinated the day-to-day activities required to deliver a great solution on time.

•Facilitated meetings and engaged and communicated effectively with senior leadership.

•Ensured operational readiness for the programs.

•Provided leadership by example. Developed and shared best practices across the team

•Produced 50% cost savings by consolidating and stabilizing costs and transitioning large percentage of currently delegated tasks to top-performing team members to drive alignment and goal clarity.

•Propelled development and execution of high-priority initiatives critical to business success by creating and implementing cross-functional strategy to exceed targets by 20%

•Evaluated historical program data to proactively identify risks and dependencies and to gain insight into end-user habits and behaviors.

•Generated 15% Return-on-Investment (ROI) by collaborating with Product Management, Technical Architect, and Engineering teams to design and develop 6+ high-quality products for market delivery.

NextGen HealthCare Remote

Senior Project Manager October 2014 - June 2019

•Yielded rationalization strategy for $2M+ budget, ensuring financial sustainability with use of effective budget planning, monitoring, reporting, scheduling, analysis, and preparation methods

•Established project planning and management framework to prioritize work and detail dependencies for execution of 02+ programs and projects within 12 months.

•Assessed program status to convey relevant progress and performance data to Executive Leadership Team and internal and external stakeholders, resulting in 02+ commendations for drive and initiative.

•Lead and managed Agile project team 25 + for Behavioral Health Program and NGE Interoperability.

•Working closely with product management and development team and coming up with the well-defined success criteria for the project.

•Working closely with the Product management, technical architect, and Engineering teams to design and develop a high-quality product to deliver to the market.

•Involving all the stakeholders in coming up with the high-level milestones, developing project schedule and release plan for the project and meeting milestones with the baselined scope, schedule and budget constraints.

•Identifying and managing risks - transparently making them known to the various stakeholders.

•Working on continuous improvement on processes for the project/program and rolling out as needed.

•Managing, coordinating, negotiating with vendor partners as per the business needs and delivering high quality deliverables.

•Managing and tracking the project schedule using the advanced JIRA road map- Federated plans.

•Managing the project metrics regularly for burndown and burnup in project dashboard.

•Working with technical architect towards the improvement of reliability and functionality of the software and addressing several key non-functional requirements that will have impact to our maintainability.

NRG NE Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager (Contract) May 2014 - October 2014

•Oversaw project completion with aggressive timelines of 24 weeks through Agile methods of project management to drive alignment, goal clarity, and role understanding for team of 16+

•Successfully reduced defects by 99% by establishing regression testing standards in collaboration with Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) teams

•Delivered consolidation and upgrade within 05+ months by replacing unreliable existing system and migrating core business functions to new platform, balancing business needs and technical constraints.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cherry Hill, NJ]

Customer Project & Program Manager III October 2009 - April 2014

•Spearheaded execution across highly ambiguous infrastructure by assuring development and planning for $90M program with 4M+ clients

•Maintained detailed project artifacts for record-keeping purposes, such as meeting minutes, project status, configuration changes, process design documentation, and functional requirements.

•Proactively identified risks and potential issues to reduce business impact on deliverables when interventions were required, leading to 10% ROI

Additional Experience

EDS Senior Project Manager, SunGard Availability IT Project Manager, BearingPoint, Inc. Project Manager, Oracle Corporation Principal Consultant, ConAgra Foods Application Consultant

Core Competencies

Agile Leadership, Program Management, Strategic Planning, Conflict Resolution, Prioritization, Organization skills, data driven execution, Gap Analysis, Budget Management, Problem Solving, Scrum, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Service Level Agreements (SLA), Collaboration, Stakeholder Management, Knowledge of Cyber Security domains, CIA Triad, NIST-Security framework, Network Security, Security Framework, SIEM tool, Design Principles, Threat, Risks and Vulnerabilities, Incident response, Security Hardening, AWS Cloud native application.

Methodologies

AGILE Methodologies, Predictive Methodology, IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Joint Application Development (JAD), Business Process Modeling (BPM), Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Earned Value Management (EVM), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Systems Engineering / Software Engineering (CMMI-SE/SW), Agile Methodology, Borland Star Team Repository, CalibreRM, MS SharePoint, Multi-Tier Client Server Web Applications Development, HPPM, HP EDGE Process and Procedures and ALM -HPQC.

Technical Skills

•Project management tools: MS Project, Microsoft Project Server, JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence, PPM. .

•Languages: SQL, XML and JQL, Python, Linux line-command

•Cloud platform: AWS, Google cloud platforms.

•Database/Data Analytics: RDBMS, DynamoDB, Salesforce, Smartsheet

•Open-Source automation: Gitlab and GitHub

Education/Certifications

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Pune University

Project Management Master Certificate, Villanova University,

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification,

Agile Certified Professional (ACP) Certification,

AWS Cloud Computing Practitioner Certification (CLS),

Google Cybersecurity Certificate, 2023

Relevant Organizations

Project Management Institute Member

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