Manager Project

MANASA PRASANNA

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Skills: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFeAgilist, certified in Excel and Tableau Desktop

Proficient in JIRA, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Project, Azure, Visio, Confluence and SQL

Education: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY

Rutgers Business School, May 2018 Newark, NJ

Master of Business Administration, First Place, Business Plan Competition, 2016

VISVESVARAYATECHNOLOGICALUNIVERSITY Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, First Class with Distinction, June 2010

•Completed Lean Manufacturing project using Value Stream Mapping

Sep 2018: BLACKROCK – World’s Largest Asset Management Company Wilmington, DE

Project Manager

•Product Enhancement: Successfully led Mega Model project by collaborating with global teams and conducting scrum ceremonies to enhance user experience by working on JIRA and sprint dashboard

•Process Improvement: Reduced QC research time by leading continuous improvement in our process using logic-based decision tree and data analysis of high-frequency and high-volume QCs

•Project Management: Led book value reconciliation process to check for risk management compliance, by creating tracker, adjusting BV and troubled-shooted issues faced by the team

•Created and consolidated Daily NAV statistics to top management using accurate KRIs and graphs

July 2018: ACCENTURE–Client: AON–Management Consulting Services Chicago IL

Scrum Master/ IT Project Manager

•Facilitated Sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations by maintaining focus on product backlog and timeline

•Spear-headed 7 infrastructure projects by collaborating with key stakeholders and drove Rack space data-center migration, single sign on application, automation using Autosys and Mule soft

•Mentorship: Used agile methodologies such as implementation of burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown charts to coach teams, driving timely deliverables and educating the team

•Led projects on a single- sign-on application and CAMP - a user provisioning software by working on key milestones, timing, budget and providing status to top management

•Collaborated with global team, by interfacing with multiple developers, quality assurance and quality engineering to automate applications using Autosys and MuleSoft

Internship: ABM – Fortune 500 Facility Management Company New York, NY

Summer 2017 MBA Associate, Indirect Procurement

Project One: Contract Management and Vendor Evaluation

•Reduced inactive supplier base by 30% and discovered profitable suppliers by initiating supplier rationalization post $1B acquisition involving identification, evaluation and re-negotiating contracts

•Reduced project cost by 7% by creating RFP blueprint and taking part in supplier proposal, evaluation and selection for Oracle’s Human Capital Management software implementation

•Mitigated risk and improved business cycle by enabling automation of contract management after reviewing and analyzing 2000+ software license agreements and supplier contracts

Project Two: Integration, Spend Analysis and Benchmarking Post M&A

•Lowered category costs by 13% by devising sourcing strategies and performing supply chain analytics using SMART to help build category visibility by collaborating with top management

•Reduced proposed spend by 18% by comparing price proposals of car rentals and analyzing “maverick spend” in Travel and Expense categories through data mining

Experience:

2010-2016

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGICAL LIMITED – IT Consulting Company Bangalore, India

Scrum Lead/Project Manager (Client: Apple, Inc.)

•Leadership: Led a 40-member team across six locations in USA, UK, and India to manage client’s-commerce platform (Apple online store) - project valued over $2M

•Delivered defect free projects on time, within budget by collaborating with cross-functional teams to evaluate project scope, plan, schedule, and resources and streamlined reporting and on-boarding

•Led QA teams driving - functional, regression, acceptance, system integration, and performance testing and performed user acceptance stories, TDD, continuous integration, estimating and pairing

•Collaboration: Interacted with DevOps, product owners, Quality assurance, business analysts and resolved conflicts in the team

Scrum Master–Cloud Technology (Big Data)

•Innovation: Built a Big data product for Fidelity using agile methodologies - performed scrum and sprint calls for requirement gathering, project planning, and deployment using SDLC

•Efficiency: Reduced product’s time to market by discussing viable items with product owner and SME’s by ensuring acceptance criteria is agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing

•Process Improvement: Built a dashboard and conducted analysis on operational metrics relating to revenue, productivity, customer retention, SRM and CRM for our clients using Tableau

•Mentorship: Conducted sessions on big data concepts by interfacing with subject matter experts

Business Analyst (Clients: Boeing and Airbus)

•Reduced suppliers spend by $70K by recommending new components, reduced outsourcing cost by recommending in-house production for a $10M project

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