Project Manager Scrum Master

Angela Kothapalli

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WORK EXPERIENCE

EVEREST RE 01/2023 - Present

PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER

• Led 3 Reinsurance Data Agile Release Train teams in multiple projects directly providing value to Actuarial, Claims & Financial teams. Facilitated migration to data lake working with business partners, solution architects, and engineers to create value for reporting and data science needs. Transformation of legacy reports automating data flows and improving reporting efficiency in yearly, quarterly & monthly reports & data extracts.

• Led an enterprise data migration from 8 legacy applications to a cloud platform, overseeing data mapping, cleansing, deduplication, and validation processes. Establish data definitions and governance rules to ensure consistency across reporting platforms.

• Servant leader who puts team first advocating & coaching the team on agile principles & mitigating risks & issues by engaging peers & senior management.

• Specialist in establishing processes and workflows for optimization

• Proven expertise in PI planning, agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, prioritization of user stories using JIRA & Confluence pages.

• Managed and optimized budgets, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation while maintaining operational efficiency.

• Active partnership with Stakeholders & senior management to focus on business value, adoption of technology and tracking key milestones.

• Analysis of project performance data to identify areas of improvement. Facilitated cross-functional collaboration among underwriting, claims, and finance teams, enhancing transparency and strategic alignment

BED BATH & BEYOND 01/2015 - 01/2023

PROJECT MANAGER

• Leading cross functional team transformational project migrating over 200+ data processes to Google Cloud Platform with 40% improved processing time and faster performance.

• Rolled out Store reporting to 3000+ stores with intuitive dashboards enabling Store Managers a real time view of store targets and performance.

• Specialist in mitigating risks & issues through engagement with peers, stakeholders & leadership to deliver project on time.

• Planned, developed, executed projects from project planning, ROI, Financial management to implementation.

• Proven expertise in driving technology adoption through strong partnerships & stakeholder buy-in.

• Worked with 5 cross functional teams to adopt and continue on Google Cloud Platform.

• Data interpretation, analysis & insights using SQL.

• Created training program and led 4 teams into adopting Thoughtspot- a data visualization tool.

• Automation of 25 Product Information Management manual excel reports into scheduled reports on Microstrategy.

• Proficient in all aspects of project management- planning, resourcing, allocation and senior management reporting.

• Documented, analyzed & interpreting requirements into technical specifications for IT team to develop. SCADEA SOLUTIONS INC- Client: JC Penney, SEPHORA 01/2014 - 01/2015 BUSINESS ANALYST

• Evaluate & breakdown 1700 business processes to simpler reports using Tableau. Analyzed additional integrations in Oracle OBIEE platform

• Data validation and dataset analysis using SQL.

• Documented detailed requirements checklist for reports, report mockups, gap analysis, master system list & data dictionaries.

GREAT FOREST INC 01/2013 - 01/2013

ANALYST

• Design, develop energy tracking tool to report on Energy metrics and track usage data for several retail clients for New York Mayor Carbon Challenge program.

• Prototyping UX mockups with uniform user experience & dashboard building for energy metrics. EDUCATION

Master of Public Affairs

Columbia University New York, NY

Columbia Fellowship Awardee, 2012-2013;

Master of Science

Pondicherry University Pondicherry, India • 01/2009 Statistics Intern for Annamalai Tiger Reserve in partnership with Rainforest Alliance, New York Bachelors in Science

Bangalore University Bangalore, India • 01/2007

Biostatistics Intern for Lake development Authority, Bangalore CERTIFICATIONS

CSM

Scrum Alliance

SKILLS

Expert in Scrum ceremonies, Kanban methods, PI Planning, Stakeholder Engagement Product Strategy & Roadmap: Backlog Management &Delivery, Prioritization, Product Vision Technologies: Cloud Platforms, Confluence, JIRA, Microstrategy, Power BI, PPM Pro, SQL, Tableau

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