Program Manager Data Platform

Sabbitha Manu

Cupertino, CA P: 650-***-**** *****.****@*****.***

Program Management leader with 15+ years experience in driving high-impact initiatives across Cloud, SaaS, and enterprise ecosystems. Drives cloud migrations, transforms Agile delivery models, and leads secure data platform implementations. Builds high-performance teams and unites matrixed, cross-functional stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes at scale. WORK EXPERIENCE

Visa Foster City, CA

Director / Lead Technical Program Manager Dec 2020 - Jan 2025

! Led a large-scale migration of Visa Analytics Platform from on-premise to cloud resulting in annual license cost savings of

$2M as well as on-premise (250 servers) infrastructure cost elimination

! Delivered multi-quarter programs enhancing Visa’s data platform (DaaS) features. Streamlined development processes resulting in faster time to market (15 -> 20 releases a quarter) and efficiency improvements (additional 30% scope delivery)

! Championed and established lean agile processes increasing customer satisfaction scores for Visa’s consent management platform by 20%

! Curated status updates across 40 global technology teams for execs and corporate risk committee. Optimized workflow and reduced report compilation time by 50%

Tibco Software Palo Alto, CA

Senior Program Manager 2008 - 2020

! Led the delivery of TIBCO Cloud Integration (TCI), the company’s flagship suite of products driving 40+ successful releases across global teams and unlocking an additional annual revenue stream of $5M

! Delivered Tibco’s first API management platform for cloud. Spearheaded a hackathon winning a customer contract of $3M

! Championed Agile transformation, shifting from Waterfall to Scaled Agile, improving delivery speed, predictability, and customer satisfaction. Standardized change management and CI/CD processes

! Led security and compliance initiatives, achieving ISO 27001, PCI, and SOC2 certification for TCI and implementing an enterprise-wide Information Security Management System (ISMS) National Australia Bank Melbourne, Australia

Senior QA Analyst 2006 - 2007

! Led the testing team to validate functionality of an in-house platform for interest rate sourcing interfacing with senior technical and business stakeholders

! Designed test strategies for core components, authored technical documentation and aligned with senior engineering and business stakeholders

Tibco Software Palo Alto, CA

Senior QA Analyst 1998 - 2003

! Quality Assurance Lead for Tibco’s integration solution with Ariba’s supply chain management platform. Led the e2e testing strategy, ran automation workshops for qf-test framework and devised approaches to optimize test execution time and effort. EDUCATION

University of Madras Chennai, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Technical: Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, G-Suite, MS Office, SQL, Trello, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office Suite, Slack, Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean), Risk Management Certifications:

• Cognitive Program Management for AI (CPMAI) - PMI (Cognilytica)

• PMI - ACP Agile Certified Practitioner - PMI

• Data Science Essentials - Cornell

• Leadership Principles - Harvard Business Online

• Management Essentials - Harvard Business Online

• Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance

• RABQSA Certified ISO 9001 Internal Auditor

Residency: US Citizen

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