Deepika Sripalle

Certified SAFe® Agile Practitioner with 13+ years of cross-sector experience (public/private) delivering complex projects in banking, automotive, supply chain, and state government. Brings 5+ years of deep global purchasing/supply chain expertise, leading cross-functional teams through full lifecycles from planning and requirements to UAT and implementation using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies to consistently hit timelines and budgets. Expertise delivering high-impact solutions including mobile banking apps (native/hybrid iOS/Android with Zelle/Plaid integration), grant program applications, boat titling/licensing systems, and water loss compliance initiatives.

Notably coordinated UAT for state benefits modernization, logging/triaging 450+ defects and slashing post-go-live issues by 25%.

Project Manager - Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Austin, TX

(2024-08)

Led the end-to-end boat titling and licensing project, prepared comprehensive project plans and coordinated cross-functional delivery from planning through implementation, ensuring all milestones were met on schedule. Optimized the boat registration process by mapping key workflows, identifying improvements, and ensuring regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and a seamless user experience across all stages.

• Maintained process improvement matrices and drove deliverables using reports, tracking charts, and checklists to maintain transparency and accountability.
• Aligned internal business unit resources to deliver projects on time and within budget, while monitoring and reporting cost performance to leadership.
• Implemented reporting dashboards and tracking frameworks, increasing project visibility and reducing status reporting time by 30%.
• Aligned cross-functional teams and stakeholders, ensuring 100% milestone adherence and zero critical delays during implementation.
• Identified and resolved technical blockers, reducing issue backlog by 25% and improving system readiness for deployment.
• Led end-to-end boat titling and licensing project, delivering all milestones on schedule and within budget, improving processing efficiency by 20% and reducing manual intervention.

Project Manager - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - Austin, TX

(2023-06 - 2024-08)

Managed end-to-end grant program application projects by leading requirements gathering sessions with program areas and aligning cross-functional teams on application workflows and deliverables. Oversaw complete software transition from inception through delivery, including regular sponsor status meetings, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communications to ensure timely rollout and achievement of program goals. Working with different vendors where involved in scanning of the documents and adding into different systems and tracking the status from different vendors like hyland, FileNet to add the documentation.

Managing project on Texas Emission Reduction Program.

• Tracking project timelines, updating the stakeholders, resource managing.
• Providing status updates to the leadership and program area.
• Led cross-functional and vendor teams (Hyland, FileNet), streamlining document intake and processing workflows, increasing processing efficiency by 35%.
• Established proactive risk tracking and stakeholder updates, reducing project delays by 20% and improving executive decision-making timelines.
• Oversaw Texas Emission Reduction Program deliverables, ensuring 100%.

Project Manager - Texas Water Development Board - Austin, TX

(2023-01 - 2023-06)

Led a water loss compliance project by defining report obligations for retail public water suppliers above defined size with TWDB financial commitments. Coordinated the design of processes and schedules for submitting regular water loss audits (annual or five‑year cycles), ensuring clarity of roles, timelines, and regulatory alignment. Conducted operational analysis to identify process and organizational risks, proposed mitigation strategies, and monitored implementation progress.

• Led water loss compliance initiative, ensuring regulatory adherence for large water utilities and reducing audit discrepancies by 30%.
• Designed reporting schedules and workflows, improving submission accuracy and timeliness by 25% for annual and 5-year audit cycles.
• Identified operational risks and implemented mitigation strategies, reducing compliance-related risks by 20%.
• Prepared concise leadership‑ready reports and briefings summarizing status, risks, and recommendations for the Texas Water Development and irrigation facilities.

Project Manager - General Motors - Austin, TX

(2018-01 - 2022-06)

Directed global purchasing and supply chain projects by analyzing end‑to‑end business processes, prioritizing and implementing required system and process changes, and coordinating user training for successful adoption. Oversaw and manage UAT, ensuring test coverage, tracking and resolving defects, and validating that the final solution met business objectives and was ready for deployment.

• Led PI Planning for three cross-functional teams, facilitating alignment on scope, objectives, features, resource allocation, budgets, and deployment timelines across three sprints.
• Directed global purchasing and supply chain transformation initiatives, improving process efficiency by 25% and reducing operational bottlenecks.
• Led UAT strategy and execution, resolving defects and improving production readiness, resulting in 25% reduction in post-go-live issues.
• Facilitated PI Planning across 3 Agile teams, achieving 100% PI objective completion and improved cross-team alignment.
• Delivered executive dashboards, enabling real-time visibility into risks and performance and reducing reporting gaps by 40%.
• Created and delivered executive dashboards tracking PI progress, risks, and deliverables for stakeholders and technical leads, ensuring full visibility and on-track execution.
• Achieved 100% PI objective commitment through structured ceremonies, dependency mapping, and risk mitigation planning.

Project Manager - Q2 Banking - Austin, TX

(2016-06 - 2018-01)

Directed collaboration with third‑party vendors (including Zelle and Plaid) to plan and deliver new mobile banking capabilities, ensuring compatibility from iOS 13–16 and Android 9–13 and alignment with bank security, compliance, and customer experience standards.

• Led cross‑functional team of 12 (dev, QA, UX) to deliver online banking feature set 3 weeks early, increasing digital adoption by 18%.
• Owned deployment readiness for the STAR platform, managing annual technical debt reduction by ensuring all required upgrades, password rotations, and checklist items were completed, and validating release quality through Sonar static code scans.
• Responsible for technical issues related to reports and dashboards, such as issues related to performance of the reports, failure to render, and other technical causes of failure.

Drug Safety Specialist - Pharmaceutical Product Development - Cary, NC

(2015-01 - 2016-05)

Led PPD drug safety compliance project to meet FDI regulatory deadlines, overseeing end-to-end execution of safety protocols using the Angus tool by safety specialists and triagers. Created comprehensive project plan including resource allocation, daily task tracking, cost management, and milestone reporting to ensure on-time submission of required regulatory reports.

• Responsible for interacting with the business users, and enabling their reports on the Power coordinating with the technical teams, and interacting with vendor specialists for product related issues.

Masters - Computer Science - BioInformatics - Southern New Hampshire University