Mary Chandrakala

Overall 17+ years of Professional IT Experience and hands on experience into Project Management for 8+years for various application development, Maintenance & support projects.

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Technical PM with skills and experience in production releases, managing Core Windows/SQL/DR upgradation. Hands-on experience in ServiceNow change and incident management, Jira Agile delivery, and Confluence documentation. Very good experience in Plan, coordinate, and execute end-to-end release lifecycle including release readiness, go-live coordination, Go/No-Go forums management, risk management and stakeholder engagement.

Having good experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Strong planning and coordination skills across multiple teams and delivery streams. Good experience in oracle E-Business suite Roll out / Implementation projects in P2P, O2C, HCM, Finance, Payroll and iReceivables.

Project Manager - Release Manager at Wipro Ltd (2022-05 – Present)

Client: ANZ Bank. Expertized in Release Management that involves the stages - scheduling the release, coordinating between different teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule and within scope.

• Led end-to-end release management for Windows Server infrastructure upgrades.
• Prepare and review project reports, progress updates, and documentation.
• Synchronize project delivery, testing phases, change activities, and production deployment timing.
• Validate all release deliverables are complete, current, and have stakeholder sign-off before deployment.
• Identify and actively manage release-level risks, issues and cross-team dependencies.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, and senior management for smooth communication and execution.
• Orchestrated enterprise releases by negotiating scope, planning timelines, and coordinating cross-team effort to align with company roadmaps, delivering 100% of planned releases.
• Provides day-to-day guidance and oversight of team activities; actively work to meet the deadlines.
• Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management.
• Participated and lead CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
• Conducted release readiness review meetings with TVT,BVT teams resulting in Go/No-Go decisions.
• Very good in Creating plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
• Coordinated teams across global time zones to make sure deployments go smooth.
• Managing different meetings like daily huddle calls, BRB meetings, weekly, monthly and quarterly status meetings, project review meetings, escalation meeting, Go live runsheet/change review meetings, Go/No go decisions calls, etc

Project Manager at APPSTEC (2021-03 – 2022-04)

Clients: Mashreq Bank (UAE), Al Rajhi Takaful, Beamtrial. Environment: Oracle Applications 11i, R12 and Cloud (iReceivables, Finance & HCM, Payroll).

• Create project plans, scope documents, schedules and forecasts. Provide timely communication on the impact of changes and decisions.
• Manage project plans and implement projects. Help project team with the design and development tasks
• Planning/scheduling/tracking/monitoring, resource allocation, issue/risk management.
• Participated in Sprint review, UAT migration and Production deployment. Prepared and actively participated in cutover activity.
• Resolves project issues, mitigates risks, and manages scope change requests for all development sprints.
• Managing different meetings like daily scrum calls, weekly status calls, project review meetings, steering committee meeting, escalation meeting, etc.
• Responsible in handling and maintaining different reports – Design documents, Defect log, UAT issue log, production rollout documents (Functional, Technical and Integration documents)
• Driving development teams and engineering teams and executing program of projects against the committed milestone.
• High level of focus on delivery, benefits, identifying opportunities and making a real difference through leadership of change.
• Provide project progress reports to project team, stakeholders, management, and executives
• Apply critical thinking to select the best way forward and building strong and lasting relationships based on mutual trust.
• Explores alternative perspectives before shaping work that will deliver impactful results
• Manage all project resources, including subcontractors and onshore team.
• Good track record as project Manager for Oracle projects
• Manage complex business.
• Tracking and delivering projects on time (evaluate time, cost and quality)
• Hiring, training, employee & client satisfaction, performance appraisals, conducting annual appraisals.
• Resolve any issues throughout project life cycle
• Tracking the progress of the project and mitigate the risk if any.
• Sending reports such as Monthly Deck, performance report, quarterly feedback report, Weekly and monthly attendance sheet, efforts sheet, billing for invoice
• Excellent problem-solving skills, escalation handling, critical incident management.

Project Manager (Module Lead) at Tech Mahindra Ltd (2017-03 – 2020-03)

Clients: Lam Research and Applied Materials. Team size: 27

• Providing day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer
• Planning/scheduling/tracking/monitoring, resource allocation, issue/risk management and budget management
• Driving development teams and engineering teams and executing program of projects against the committed milestone
• High level of focus on delivery, benefits, identifying opportunities and making a real difference through leadership of change
• Applies critical thinking to select the best way forward
• Builds strong and lasting relationships based on mutual trust
• Explores alternative perspectives before shaping work that will deliver impactful results
• Manage all project resources, including subcontractors and onshore team in US.
• Good track record as project Manager for Oracle and Python Projects
• Manage complex business and logistical challenges
• Tracking and delivering projects on time (evaluate time, cost and quality)
• Hiring, training, employee & client satisfaction, performance appraisals, etc
• Conducting annual appraisals
• Resolve any issues throughout project life cycle
• Tracking the progress of the project and mitigate the risk if any.
• Sending reports such as Monthly Deck, performance report, quarterly feedback report, Weekly and monthly attendance sheet, efforts sheet, billing for invoice
• Excellent problem-solving skills, escalation handling, critical incident management.

Team Lead at Fidelity National Financials (2015-09 – 2016-10)

Lead delivery for cost estimation for fixed price, and T&M projects with Function Point sizing methodology, for leading financial services and banks across APAC

Sr. Analyst at ISGN (2009-11 – 2014-08)

Played a lead role in handling customers in US region, providing status updates on Production support Incidents, Functional issues for Oracle Purchasing & Order Management.

Senior Associate at iGATE Global Solutions (p) Ltd. (2008-04 – 2009-11)

Bachelor of Commerce – Gulbarga University