Revathy Sukumaran

Experience

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  HCL America, Inc.

  Jul 2006 - Oct 2012

  Engineering Project Lead

  -Worked on Agile PLM integration with inventory and MES for SCM process. -Identified gaps and introduced new processes to integrate various team with in SCM.-Speak with customers to identify product feature gaps and requirements and incorporate Oracle Agile software process flows.-Gather information into a functional document of user stories to share with developers.-Trained 10+ distributed resources and invented an in-house Agile PLM knowledge base team to handle all PLM projects across organizations. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Jul 2022 - now

  Engineering Program Manager

  -Leading a highly visible/critical program: Detach users from HaloC(AT&T) and migrate customers to Forgerock(DIRECTV). Customer Identity Access Management Projects for Directv.com. -Take Ownership to achieve the product community's vision by delivering features. Making sure the development team understands the clients needs, goals and how our deliverables improves customer experience. -Motivate the team by creating a roadmap for deliverables. Host brainstorming sessions to draft detailed requirements and deliver plans with the limited information we have from the Solutions Intent and Product Vision.-Responsible for sharing the project status to senior executives, VPs on Cognizant and Directv side. Effectively communicate the blockers and get the needed resources for successful project delivery.-Maintaining project budgets, taking care of $300K per month by maintaining records for available resources, deliverables per sources and features released and making sure we deliver the project within the budget. -Tracked complete execution in JIRA/JIRA ALIGN- Actively engage the teams in pre-PI planning activity, have the plan and roadmap ready during the PI planning activity, maintain a capacity based metric tracker for newly ramped up teams to deliver a 130 SP worth of stories per 2 week sprint.-Expertise in the SAFe scrum methodology, create team cadence for sprint planning, grooming, retrospections to improve team productivity and call out for improvements in the area of process, cross functional dependency-Support Product Owner to build a healthy backlog and always have groomed stories ready for the next 2 sprints which are aligned with the program deliverables. -Lead the team in the change management process to release the sprint increments to production and -conduct post deployment launch meetings to discuss the user engagement metrics. Show less