Scrum Master Project Manager

Vinuta Chennareddy, PMP, MBA

*****************@*****.*** 571-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/vinuta-chennareddy

High energy, organized, and informative leader who brings years of experience in project management, financial management, and business operations. Leads multi-million-dollar programs with efficient and effective decision-making across business functions and areas. Provides continuous quality assurance (QA)/quality control (QC) of project work inputs and outputs. Provides timely and proven financial and business solutions that increase productivity and reduce project risks and costs. Provides sought-after data analytics and process implementation support that results in high-quality, innovative, and effective project and program management and meets technical and functional requirements.

Areas of Expertise:

Strategic Planning

Data Management

Operations Management

Performance Improvement

Client and Partner Relations

Financial Planning & Analysis

Revenue Growth

KPI Development

Agile methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, PMO – MOBILE DIVISION Amdocs (100% remote position) Feb. 2022 – Feb 2023

Provided leadership and key stakeholders with actionable business intelligence for effective and efficient management decision-making. Supplied business and operational support following the use of industry best practices and tools such as PMBOK-guided principles across functional teams that achieved defined project goals and objectives. Led project life cycle activities, including managing and tracking project costs, budgets, and schedules to ensure project milestones were delivered on time and/or ahead of schedule. Collaborated daily with cross-functional teams to align business processes with ever-changing technical and functional requirements. Led and coordinated virtual and in-person status and ad-hoc meetings across multiple time zones.

Cultivated, streamlined, and implemented 50 internal processes (i.e., PMO, resource planning, and lifecycle planning), promoting transparency and communications for a global division accomplishing the division’s vision, strategy, critical initiatives, and annual operating plan goals.

Created 110 resource planning KPIs that resulted in project efficiency enabling improved variance analyses.

Implemented an automated standard operating procedure (SOP) and process of capturing project resources usage, that led to a cost saving of $110K in resource planning work.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER – BUSINESS OPERATIONS SAIC, Inc. May 2019 - Feb. 2022

Generated a collaborative approach with stakeholders to resolve challenges with technical architecture, minimizing the need for costly rework. Handled customer engagement management responsibilities consisting of performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality reviews, and client management. Directed the formation of a federal agency enterprise-wide Data Maturity Model report as well as led software development teams to produce solution options to upgrade legacy systems.

Effectively oversaw a team of Tableau developers who devised 15 dashboards within the Agile development framework and methodology for various USDA mission areas that aided leadership in making timely, high-level decisions.

Partnered with IT to develop a customized monthly report that comprised all data points needed to make sound decisions on projects, resulting in a $15K monthly cost savings.

Sought out alternative workarounds and spearheaded initiatives to rent equipment and hired vendor to teach engineers how to operate equipment to survey FAA sites for Wi-Fi installation and met the delivery deadline and within budget.

Devised new and innovative internal products and templates used across functional areas.

SENIOR FINANCIAL DATA PROGRAM MANAGER IntelliWare Systems Jan. 2018 - May 2019

Executed financial and procurement data analysis that revealed data trends, patterns, and forecasts. Provided recommended actions and accurate and reliable responses to program and executive-level inquiries. Ascertained, examined, queried, and comprised data metrics, inter-agency benchmarks, dashboards, and program and financial reports used effectively for smart executive decision-making.

Consistently delivered timely, relevant, and accurate reporting and analysis of the results of the Division’s performance against historical, budgeted, forecasted, and strategic planning that resulted in better decision-making.

Presented a proposal and budget for developers and established a secure website for each of the 97 U.S Marshal Offices’ financial and management data, which allowed access to real-time information and generated a cost savings of approximately $250K.

DEPUTY PROGRAM MANAGER Tetra Tech AMT Aug. 2008 - Jan. 2018

Managed multiple $100M - $200M program support activities for the FAA Program Office incorporating the use of outreach, software implementation best practices, audit support, risk management, earned value management, change management, and process efficiency. Decisively managed and directed resources, staff work assignments, and quality control delivery of 24+ active projects and 200+ prime and subcontractor employees. Controlled entire project financials and billings and developed and administered budgets, analyses, financial reports, cash flows, revenue, and expense statements along with prime and subcontractor voucher compliance.

Completed financial planning, analysis, and strategy to support senior management which increased cash flow and use of more efficient modeling, lowered overhead expenses, and increased customer satisfaction.

Assisted with the assessment of business processes to uncover efficiencies, bottlenecks, and gap analysis and recommended corrective actions to client and internal company stakeholders.

Created an executive dashboard on the SharePoint site for clients to acquire financial data at any given time with the most updated information, which resulted in the organization adopting use of this dashboards as a best practice.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

FINANCIAL ANALYST CCSI, Inc.

PLANNING, BUDGET, & CONTROL ANALYST Freddie Mac

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance, Marymount University Arlington, VA

Bachelor of Science in Accounting, George Mason University Fairfax, VA

CERTIFICATIONS

PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Organizational Change Management (CMP)

Certified Shipley Business Development Training

IT SKILLS

Microsoft 365

Oracle Federal Financials

Confluence

Workday

Delphi/PRISM

Smartsheet Hyperion Salesforce

Salesforce Trello

Slack

Visio

JIRA

Rally

Tableau

Power BI

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