Program Management Manager

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Srujana Meda

Sr. IT Program Management & Financial Planning and Analysis

NYU Stern MBA (Finance & Technology management including AI/ML) Phone: +1-908-***-****

E-mail: ********@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srujana-stern-mba/ Summary

Over 15 years’ experience in PMO that included Agile/Waterfall implementations, PMO Governance, Finances Management, Vendor Management, Release Management, Change Management and Quality Management of large initiatives. Engaged in successful release of complex programs of budgets over $30M that included data analytics, data migration and data optimization activities. Successful program manager with specialty in governance, digital transformation with up-to-date knowledge of emerging technology trends and products. Highly organized, methodical, and skilled at developing high-performance teams. Diligent, forward-thinking, and adaptable to any dynamic company, customer, and project needs. Certified SAFe implementation Consultant. Developed business benefits tracking process. Experienced in building and presenting crucial PMO OKRs, KPIs and metrics to CFO and CIO. Expertise in tools - Slack, Jira, Google Stack, Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Project, Visio), SAP, Service Now, PPM – SAP & Clarity, Sales Force, UX/UI, Enterprise Identity Management, Power BI & Tableau for data visualization. Programming skills – Java, C/C++, SQL, Python & R for data modelling. Work History

2013-08 –

2024-01

Sr. IT Program Manager/ Sr. Finance Manager

Avaya Inc., Morristown, NJ

• In IT Finance Sr. Mgr. role worked on IT Portfolio optimization, App rationalization in finding an overall benefit of over $30M in operational spend. Prepared financial Outlooks monthly, quarterly, and yearly views cost and Revenue views. Submitted MJE’s for book close.

• Developed and presented key metrics, KPIs & OKRs for executive summary – CFO, CIO, and other VPs. Expert at PMO data analytics, governance, and reporting.

• Led implementation of Cloud-based digital and voice solutions on AWS and Azure programs

• Instrumental in developing strategic program roadmaps for planning, development, quality management, risk management, release Management, change management resource plans and schedules ensuring milestone-based quality deployments as planned.

• Experienced in managing large ERP programs that included data analytics, data migrations, hundreds of integrations, and complex solution deliveries. Orchestrated strategically planned deployments for SAP, Salesforce, Web Methods, ServiceNow and Cloud-based solutions to support business needs.

• Worked on digital transformation initiatives through effective communication and engagement of stakeholders across organization for smoother technology adoption and change management aspects that impacted over 10000 employees like SuccessFactors, SAP business E2E business process consolidations.

• Led finance programs like SAP revenue accounting and Blackline that helped to streamline and automate Finance book-close activities collectively helping with millions of dollars savings.

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2011-04 -

2013-08

IT QA Manager

Ipsos Loyalty, Parsippany, NJ

• Led quality assurance team in delivery of multiple projects in developing E2E quality function for portfolio projects with budgets of over $10million.

• Worked with Microsoft, Google, Target, etc., customers to understand needs and provide top-notch and efficient service through quick defect resolutions for their global surveys.

• Managed quality assurance program through on-site evaluations, internal audits and customer surveys.

• Reduced costs through cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems by developing automated controls with high performing technical teams. 2006-10 -

2011-03

IT QA Management

Amano USA Holdings Inc., Roseland, NJ

• Managed high performing team through multiple deliveries.

• Developed procedures for standard QA testing and QA-Lite procedures for handling customized projects that generated revenue over $5M.

• Involved in product strategy decision making along with senior management.

• Played an important role in process improvement methodologies like PDT, TQM and office Lean implementations

• Managed defect reporting tool, Process control systems (CAI - Corrective Action Index) and based on field issue/feedbacks present request for change to development team 2002-09 -

2006-09

IT Consultant

Self-Employed, Budd Lake, NJ

Clients – Red-Cats USA, MYOB, KPMG, Merrill Lynch, Intersoft Technologies

• During initial consulting phase, worked with various clients in quality management departments reviewing and auditing the quality of various products. Education

2019 – 2021

1995 –1999

1999 - 2020

MBA: Finance and Information Technology (Including Fintech) New York University - Stern - New York, NY

Finance, Managing Change, M&A, Data Analytics & AI, Fintech, Sustainability, Fintech Risk, Management and Leadership in Technology

Bachelor of Science

ANGRAU - Hyderabad, Telangana India

Technical Certificate programs in Java, Oracle, C/C++, Unix, SQL, Information Systems Management, Tableau, Hootsuite

Project Management Professional (PMP) & SAFe 5.0 certifications

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