Okta

Leading the Developer Velocity project (#1 engineering initiative) to break down our monolith to improve speed for all developers. I also formed and now lead an architecture committee comprised of chief and principal architects, allowing us to promote long term technical excellence and decision making for the organization.

Engineering Principal Technical Program Manager

Edgio

Completed the merger of Yahoo + Limelight to form Edgio which now serves nearly 20% of the world's internet traffic.

Manager, Technical Program Management, CTO Org

Yahoo

Managed, mentored, and led a team of 10 Technical Project Managers. Orchestrated company wide planning events for 22 teams and 142+ engineering/product people across multiple locations and time zones.

Manager, Strategic Programs, Technical Program Management

Built out the global platform at scale and reduced business exposure to disaster scenarios within Yahoo Edgecast. I additionally built and led the innovation labs arm within the company from the ground up, producing unique forward looking projects that have earned patents.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Strategic Programs

Verizon Media

TechOps agile focused role where I led a team of 4 Technical Project Managers within the PMO. My team and I successfully completed agile transformations in operations.

Manager, Technical Project Management Office

Managed the strategic partner and infrastructure program around the world, building infrastructure at the edge of the internet in new and emerging markets.

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Planed and built datacenter infrastructure at the edge of the internet in major cities and markets across the globe to increase performance for end users “eyeballs” of the internet—from streaming video, images, applications, credit card transactions, and more.

Technical Project Manager

Southern California Edison (SCE)

A mix of engineering and project management: I was responsible for executing high voltage multi-million dollar substation projects that provide power for northern LA, eastern LA, and southern Orange counties. Worked with teams of 15-50 stakeholders regularly to complete engineering on 90+ substation projects to date. Work impacted millions of customers within the region. Fun fact: I had a big part in the effort to restore nationwide grid stability after San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was shut down.

Project Engineer

I write about program management in an effort to challenge what we know about it. My goal is for you to make a bigger impact as a program and project leader. I write a newsletter that breaks down program tactics that you can use (link in bio).

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My work experience (the regular LinkedIn stuff):
12 years of leading infrastructure and software projects at scale. 3 years leading direct reports with the last team being 10 people. I lead organizational process creation, strategic programs, and implementation of right-sized agile frameworks appropriate for the organization's use case (agile as a tool, not a dogma).

Matt McDannel

Allianca Group Inc

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Shoonya.company

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Exponent

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Exto

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Google

Program Manager, Google Corp Finance (Gaea vendor)

Part of Google Fiber Project Controls team and responsible for -

▪ Interact with business stakeholders to gather business requirements and transform into functional and technical specifications
▪ Led scrum meetings across business verticals to coordinate the work and meet schedule timelines
▪ Provide hands on program management with deep understanding of the need to deliver scalable production systems
▪ Gain partnership with teams during analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases
▪ Drive internal process improvements, remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions and insure teams are working on programs moving toward higher level company mission and goals

Project Manager, Google Fiber (Gaea vendor)

Gracenote

Gracenote aims to deliver personalized digital entertainment experiences based on analytics and metadata

▪ Accomplished effective strategy to monetize products and services through advertisement by targeting right audience 
▪ Analyzed market trends/opportunities for Entourage, Automatic Content Recognition technology
▪ Strategized new use cases to capture wide market segment
▪ Defined a roadmap, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive offerings
▪ Architected Ad network integration to serve ads on mobile, tablets corresponding with TV commercials and user profiling

Product Management Intern

Tata Consultancy Services

Assigned on General Electric (GE) assignment, which aims at standardizing Project Management, Resource Vouchering and Project Portfolio Management. Managed and delivered integrated planning solution to effectively manage huge manufacturing projects.

▪ Partnered with IT leadership and cross functional team to develop and maintain integrated project plan
▪ Owned and managed complete SDLC. Managing offshore team of 15 people
▪ Analyzed and evaluated organization’s operations/procedures to offer recommendations; assisted management in identifying issues
▪ Analyzed work performance by calculating CPI and SPI applying earned value tools to manage project baselines

Project Manager

Assigned on General Electric (GE) assignment

▪ Defined project scope, deliverable that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders 
▪ Organized weekly brainstorm sessions for effective requirement gathering and understand business challenges
▪ Managed cross functional, geographical dispersed team of engineers, QA and UI designers
▪ Effectively handled change control board calls for smooth production deployment

Primavera consultant for General Electric - Turbo Machinery business, responsible to manage and design Primavera Integrations for Europe division

▪ Designed scalable Primavera integrations with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Life Management (PLM) system
▪ Developed and managed Project Management training material and trained 50+ candidates
▪ Implemented Lean techniques, reduced average number of recurring IT incidents and business interruptions from 400 to 150 over 8 months

Primavera Consultant

General Electric - Power business, aims to implement effective resource management process for smooth payroll generation and analyze resource overhead 

▪ Developed a report to effectively manage hours vouchered by resources. This implementation reduced manual work by 80% 
▪ Efficiently measure KPI’s and recommend process improvements by following Lean methodologies
▪ Owned and managed complete development and testing cycle
▪ Streamlined the delivery of reports by scheduling the jobs on SQL server, reducing response time from 4hrs to 15mins

Project Lead

Assigned on General Electric, Oil & Gas project, performed root cause analysis and implemented robust planning processes

▪ Automated project creation process in Artemis, which reduced manual effort by 4hrs & benefits the business by $120k/year
▪ Worked in SLA driven environment and met performance metrics of 96%

Software Developer

Vedisoft

Worked on multiple web development project as a lead developer

▪ Designed & developed an online training, game, merchandise portal. Application is based out on ASP.Net using C#
▪ Developed training material for ASP.Net & C#. Trained 20+ candidates

“There is a way to do it better. Find it.” — Thomas A. Edison 

Mr. Edison is right. 

Do you know that businesses achieve only 29% of set goals on time and within budget? 

This means that 71% businesses could have higher productivity, increased revenue and faster scale — but they don’t. 

This is where I come in. 

A little about me: 

After a 15 year stint in corporate — the entrepreneurship bug caught me. 

I helped solve ambiguous problems, lead teams across 3 continents, scaled projects to multi-billion dollars at tech frontrunners like TCS, Meta and Google — and then I asked myself: 

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Struggling with strategic growth? Reach out here: sonali@shoonya.company 

Always up for a brainstorming sessions. 

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