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Bhavana Sodagudi

Hyderabad

Summary

Technical Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master | Statistical Data Analyst

Currently associated with TCS since December 17th 2012.

Focused on maintaining team effectiveness and meeting challenging performance targets.

Delivering Complex Projects - On Time & Within Budget

Proven record of increasing customer satisfaction Index by 25% and reducing operational costs of $270K till date and counting.

Work History

Cluster Lead and Data Analyst

TCS
01.2022 - Current
  • Led 3 scrum teams with 15 team members, 5 Trainee associates and handling 19 applications
  • Gained expertise in Decision Making, Problem Solving, Reports & Dashboards for KPI, presentations, Leadership, cross functional Teams Management, Performance Tracking, Creative Thinking, Jira.
  • Identified areas of improvement within the cluster, presenting them to clients with data analysis, implementation approach and benefits upon implementation. Then, implementing with targeted action plans.
  • Analyzed large volumes of data as part of Ticket trend analysis and identified manual tasks and converted them into SOP – Standard Operating Procedure, help documents where the new team members or L1 team can follow the document to resolve the issue without development/Production support team’s involvement.
  • Reduced operational costs of around 90000$ per annum through comprehensive process improvement initiatives such as, identifying manual work from all perspectives such as client/developer/support team and making them available to stakeholders by automating them.
  • Introduced concept of How-to-do help documents on every application so that users can perform their work inside applications independently without submitting tasks to get the things done with production support team.
  • Developed a new application where access management of new and existing employees is completely taken care along with approval workflow
  • Initiated and developed few scheduled jobs in Unix to reduce manual and repetitive work.
  • To avoid manual monitoring done by production support team, Initiated Batch job success/Failure notifications method. All errors and logs are captured, analyzed to send out the appropriate notification mail to production support team.
  • Based on Business Needs, Suggested & designed POC – Proof of Concept to ease daily activities of Field Managers with thorough research and with multiple discussions with stakeholders and product owner to know the pain points, leading to increased revenue growth
  • Coordinated with other cluster leads to streamline agile processes and ensure consistency across teams
  • Built high-performing teams through effective recruitment, onboarding, and talent development initiatives
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance and involved in performance evaluation.
  • Facilitated successful cross-functional collaborations for the completion of key projects such as CICD & WAS migration, fostering strong working relationships among team members.

Technical Project Manager & Scrum Master

TCS
01.2021 - 12.2021
  • Led team of 8 associates
  • Gained expertise on Critical Thinking, Time Management, Risk Assessment, Negotiation, Project Management, Acceptance Testing, SLA, Performance Tracking, Google Sheets, status reports on progress.
  • Trained the resources on CICD, Selenium automation test scripts and integration with GIT, App Scan and Sonar Qube code quality checks etc… and set these checklists as Definition of Done to deliver the work in right way.
  • Worked with outside vendors and regularly had meetings with stakeholders to manage their expectations, keep them updated and make sure the project aligns with their goals and objectives.
    Involved in creation of Project plan that organizes tasks, schedules work, resource allocation.
  • Involved in meetings with Product Owner for creation of product backlog and release planning.
  • Managed teams consisting of onsite and offshore blended resources in the development of multiple business driven solutions
  • Led teams across multiple technologies within the UI and API development areas.
  • Brainstorming with Teams throughout the project and also made sure that workload is balanced.
  • Being able to solve problems and manage interdependencies between agile teams.

Team Lead & Scrum Master

TCS
01.2018 - 12.2020
  • Directed and guided scrum team of 8 engaged in Application maintenance/production support and enhancements.
  • Gained expertise on Agile principles and values, Sprint ceremonies, Estimation techniques, Agile Methodology, Backlog refinement, Daily Stand-ups, Knowledge Check, Product Backlog, Scrum Events, Scrum Process, Scrum Roles, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, Sprints, Story Points, Trello, User Stories, conflict resolution and extensive use of ServiceNow
  • For Tracking the progress of Incidents, tasks, Change requests, effort in time cards, SLA etc...
  • For generating Data analysis reports based on categories of tickets received. Which eventually helped in providing process Improvements to reduce operational costs and reduce manual efforts.
  • In Scrum Management, such as Sprints, EPIC, User stories creation, Sprint & Product Backlogs management, task boards, Burn-up and Down charts.
  • Enhanced overall team performance by providing regular coaching, feedback, and skill development opportunities. Also conducted Brainstorming Sessions to generate new ideas.
  • Maximized performance by resolving impediments, conflicts and by mentoring team members
  • Developed a comprehensive training program for new team members, resulting in improved productivity and reduced onboarding time
  • Increased customer satisfaction by ensuring timely completion of projects and adherence to high-quality standards.
  • Led Sprint ceremonies such as daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint planning, sprint retrospective
  • Worked with Product Owner for creation of product backlog and release planning.
  • Generating data reports using complex SQL queries on multiple db tables spread across multiple schemas in order to resolve user issues/to solve client data report requirements which are given on Incidents/tasks - tickets

Developer & Senior Developer

TCS
01.2015 - 12.2017
  • Gained expertise in interpersonal Skills, Accountability, Critical Thinking, Team interactions, Brain storming, Emotional intelligence
  • Worked in Scrum Team of 5 associates and able to work on estimating the work and communicating the same.
  • Improved software performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the code.
  • Developed scalable applications for efficient data processing and management.
  • Implemented robust security measures such as OTP verification to access the application in order to protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access.
  • Streamlined development processes by incorporating agile methodologies and continuous integration practices.

Production Support Lead

TCS
01.2014 - 12.2014
  • Gained expertise in Communication, Collaboration, performance Tracking, MS Office, Time Management, Adaptability, ability to teach & mentor
  • Managed a team of 2 support professionals, fostering teamwork and setting performance goals.
  • Suggested and implemented Autosys job configuration to reduce job monitoring costs
  • Improved customer satisfaction by addressing and resolving support issues in a timely manner with strong written and verbal communications.
  • Incidents, Tasks and Tickets management adhering to critical SLAs based on priority
  • Generating data reports using SQL queries as per client’s requirements on tickets
  • Streamlined support processes for increased efficiency and better response times.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with key clients, ensuring long-term customer loyalty.

Production Support Executive

TCS
01.2013 - 12.2013
  • Gained expertise in Problem Solving, Analytical thinking, communication, collaboration
  • Incidents, Tasks and Tickets management adhering to critical SLAs based on priority
  • Maintained excellent customer satisfaction and review support tickets for appropriate resolution.
  • Provide customer support through phone and chat. Worked with other departments to resolve customer issues in a timely manner.
  • Served as a point of contact for customer support and complaints.
  • Handled about 20 to 35 tickets per day
  • Achieved "0" tickets in application ticketing bucket by the end of the day often by providing proper responses and prompt resolutions to customers

Education

B.Tech: ECE -

Bapatla Engineering College, Acharya Nagarjuna University
Guntur
04.2012

Class XII -

Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Machilipatnam, India
2008

Class X -

Kommareddy Public School
Machilipatnam, India
2006

Skills

  • Project Management, Strategic Planning, Decision Making
  • Project Planning, Scheduling, Delivery & Release Planning
  • Project Life Cycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Scrum Framework Expertise
  • Technical Expertise, Task Prioritization, Conflict Resolution, Performance Monitoring
  • Critical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Process Improvement, Innovation Management
  • Team Leadership, Requirements Gathering, User Stories
  • Resource Management, Time Management, Continuous Improvement
  • Data Analysis, Business Analysis
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration, Change Management
  • Scope Management, Risk Assessment
  • Analytical Skills, Problem Solving
  • Independent contributer of small projects
  • Agile Methodologies, Sprint Ceremonies, Meeting Facilitation, Agile Best Practices, Scrum Framework Expertise
  • Team Motivation, Training and Coaching
  • Stakeholder Management, Active Listening, Presentation Skills
  • Java, UNIX Shell Scripting, Spring MVC, Html5, CSS3, JQuery, JavaScript, JQuery mobile, bootstrap
  • SQL, IBM-DB2, Maria DB
  • Apache Tomcat, web sphere, MobileFirst, XAMPP
  • Eclipse, Filezilla, WinMerge, HP ALM, HP LoadRunner, Splunk, Storm Runner
  • Serena dimensions, Jira, GITHUB, Autosys

Timeline

Cluster Lead and Data Analyst

TCS
01.2022 - Current

Technical Project Manager & Scrum Master

TCS
01.2021 - 12.2021

Team Lead & Scrum Master

TCS
01.2018 - 12.2020

Developer & Senior Developer

TCS
01.2015 - 12.2017

Production Support Lead

TCS
01.2014 - 12.2014

Production Support Executive

TCS
01.2013 - 12.2013

B.Tech: ECE -

Bapatla Engineering College, Acharya Nagarjuna University

Class XII -

Sri Chaitanya Junior College

Class X -

Kommareddy Public School

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master | Scrum Alliance – January 2024 (Valid upto January 2026)
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. Agile Job Simulation on Forage


Personal Information

  • Location Preference: Hyderabad
  • Date of Birth: 05/19/91

Roles And Responsibilities

  • Tower Lead, 2022, Present, 3 clusters
  • Cluster Lead, 2020, 2022, 4 teams
  • Team Lead, 2018, 2020, 11 members and 30 applications
  • Senior Developer and Team lead, 2017, 2018, 5 members with 11 applications
  • Developer, 2015, 2017
  • Support Lead, 2014, 2015
  • Support Executive, 2013, 2014

Projects

MyPersonnel, Java, JSP, servlets, These projects maintain and manage information about dealerships, employees in dealerships, and corporate users within the organization and provide access to the users. Users are created and access provided by using web services for other application users. It is developed using servlets and SOAP web services. My Operations, Java, spring MVC, This application is a repository for dealership information. Dealers use this application to update their operational information, like addresses, hours of operation, phone, fax and email. MyPBatch, Core Java, UNIX, This application has different batch jobs that run daily/weekly/yearly and provide data to third party applications via feeds and also we have some back end jobs which work exactly like web application transactions. .Link, Spring 4 MVC REST services, This application provides REST services to partner company to enable Single Sign-On by allowing user creation and synchronizing user data from both the portals. TID Access Tool – Automation Project, Drupal CMS Form API, REST API, Twig templates, PHP, This application is an Automation project to reduce manual effort spent by team to provide user access. Once user submits the access request form, we have enabled multiple workflows for obtaining approvals with single click via mails and Batch jobs which can fetch request data using REST services to provide access after all approvals.

Disclaimer

I certify that the above mentioned information is correct and true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Profile Summary

  • A highly-skilled IT Project Manager who has the added advantage of technology as leverage to achieve timely results and with expertise in :

              Project planning, execution, and risk management

              Agile Methodology & Scrum framework

              Client Relationship Management

              Data Analysis & Reports, Dashboards

              Process Improvements & Innovative Solutions

              Analytical thinking, Strategic Planning & Decision-Making

              User Identity & Access Management

              Resource Management & Project Planning

  • Having 11.2 years of overall experience and with over 6 years of experience in project management, leadership roles.
  • Expertise in leveraging agile and traditional methods to deliver projects on time and on budget, resulting in overall cost savings
  • Comprehensive process improvements, analytical & innovative solutions with thorough research and data analysis.
  • Facilitated and led Sprint ceremonies, daily standup with project teams and attended meetings with senior leadership and client stakeholders to review project status updates and milestones
  • Golden Guru 2021 awardee at Golden Guru Gala 2021 which is a TCS Global level recognition.

Projects

My Personnel

This project mainly deals with Dealership User Identity & Access Management that is to maintain and manage information about dealerships, employees in dealerships, and corporate users within the organization and manage access levels to the users. Users are created and access managed by using web application based on Java. 

  • I have involved in Leadership, Production support, user authorization, enhancements, implementation of Security measures such as OTP, CSRF prevention, API development for access management of users other than Dealership level. Access Modifications and User creations were also made available on other portals/systems by creating SOAP & REST web services.

My Operations 

This application is a repository for dealership information. Dealers use this application to update their operational information, like addresses, hours of operation, phone, fax and email. 

  • I have involved in rewriting the application from struts to spring framework and acted as scrum master.

MyPBatch 

This application has different batch jobs that run daily/weekly/yearly and provide data to third party applications via feeds and also we have some back end jobs which work exactly like web application transactions. 

I have involved in, 

  • monitoring existing jobs
  • developing new batch jobs to perform bulk transactions in application's new features
  • developing data feeds to send out specific information to downstream applications
  • suggested and implemented Autosys job configuration to reduce job monitoring costs

eLink

This application provides REST services to partner company to enable Single Sign-On by allowing user creation and synchronizing user data from both the portals. 

  • I have acted as scrum master and involved in Project Management, planning, Design and Design documentation, API development, Existing system analysis and partner system research to enable effective design, partner system's API integration with existing system.

TID Access Tool - Automation Project

This application is an Automation project to reduce manual effort spent on providing user access, mail notifications of access request justifications and approvals. 

I have involved in, 

  • Data Analysis along with Reports, Dashboards using Power BI to showcase manual effort being spent on Access Management.
  • Developing a POC with , Research and UI design with all forms, reports and functionalities that will be made available as part of the application along with operational cost reduction per annum.
  • Stakeholder discussions, SOW, kickoff meetings, Project planning, estimations, time lines.
  • Acted as Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master.
  • Delivering the functionalities in phases - Once user submits the access request form, enabled multiple workflows for obtaining approvals with single click via mails. And, Batch jobs which can fetch data using REST services to provide access after all approvals in the non-business hours.

FieldAssist - Mobile App - POC

This is a Mobile application POC to demonstrate features that will be developed which will be useful for a Field User's Day to Day activities. Field User is a person who visits dealerships and offices for checks and audits. 

As a Field User, 

  • He/she will be assigned a dealership to be audited by their supervisor as worklist.
  • Provision of acknowledging the work and Dealership address will be shown on Maps (API Integration) and making calls to dealership about the visit via phone call from App.
  • Record everything on available forms and draft the information/submit
  • Record pictures of damages/requests of dealership employees with ability to upload

As a Supervisor, 

  • He/She assigns audit to field user.
  • Can check on number of dealerships/ Business Centers available as per heirarchy via high charts.
  • Review submitted audit reports. View/download required audit reports.

I have involved in Business analysis, stakeholder discussions and POC Design, features, development and presentations.

Awards Received

  • ·Golden Guru awardee at TCS Global Celebration – Golden Guru Gala 2021
  • Contextual Master awardee for creating huge value to customer’s business using good technology landscape
  • Innovation Pride for securing 3rd position towards contribution of most No of Ideas and innovative solutions at domain level
  • On The Spot awards for the team and myself for the tremendous efforts and skill in resolving production issues
  • Certificates Of Appreciation from client
  • Star of the Month
  • Star of the Quarter
  • Best Team
  • (S)miles for Continuous Learning
  • Service & Commitment

Personal Information

  • Location Preference: Hyderabad
  • Date of Birth: 05/19/91

Disclaimer

I certify that the abovementioned information is correct and true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Overview

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Bhavana Sodagudi