Mohana Krishna Dokku - Program Manager
Mohana Krishna Dokku - Program Manager
Mohana Krishna Dokku - Program Manager
Professional Summary
16+ years of experience as an insight-driven, multi-faceted, goal-oriented IT leader successfully delivering projects
and expert level to experience in the various project lifecycle and management techniques, including Scaled Agile
5.0, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Iterative, and Lean; Proven track record of successfully integrating a holistic Delivery
Excellence framework in Program management and organizational leadership; Strengths in building scrum teams
from inception and leading through Agile Transformation and Scrum Management, Agile Release Train Management,
Product Management, Business Analysis, Project Management, PMO set up, Relationship Management, Budgeting &
Forecasting, Risk Management, Change & Release Management, Pre-Sales activities like Bid Proposal, Demand
Management, Resource Management, Value Management, Contract Management, Vendor Management, RFP and
SOW, PO, COTS, CI/CD, DevOps, SLA Management, Onshore/Offshore/near shore, and worked in Insurance, Retail,
CPG and Logistics, Supply Chain Management (Order Management/Order to Cash), and Healthcare industries.
11 years of experience in project management and implementation.
Leading Agile/Scrum Projects and Teams from client location and worked in Offshore/Onshore model
PMI-PMP Project Management methodologies (PMBOK Guidelines)
Scrum Framework: Daily Scrum/stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective, Sprint
Backlog, Scrum artifacts including backlog grooming and removing Impediments to achieve Sprint goals, user stories,
backlog items, Tasks, Burndown graphs, velocity and increment delivery concepts
Agile methodologies – Scrum, Kanban, SCRUMBAN
Proficient in JIRA, Smartsheet – Agile Scrum Workflow
Strong Power BI development skills
SDLC Waterfall & Agile Process Implementation
Experience working in Agile development process and deep understanding of all the phases of Software
development life cycle (SDLC)
Project estimation, Planning and Tracking
Knowledge of business operations, systems requirements, and IT processes
Management experience and hands-on technical expertise in leading large-scale Agile projects
Proficient in UML, BPMN, MS Office tools, including Word, advanced Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Visio and
Quality Center.
Ability to lead, influence and drive team efforts and results
Building and managing project teams
Experience in Leading and Coordinating Development and Implementation and Production Support projects
Performance improvement and process improvement
Incident Management and Change Management
Working on new proposals and projects
Client relation management
Strong leadership and team building skills; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; Strong written, oral and
presentation skills
Ability to quickly adapt to changing work environment
Strong organizational and facilitation skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines, Attention to
detail and quality
Experience in leading the projects/teams both from offshore and onshore
Excellent Client relationship and collaboration skills
Experience of working in Data Governance programs including data quality issue analysis, validation of process
adherence
Experience of working on SAP, JD Edwards, Mainframes, B2B/EDI, UNIX, and Windows Jobs setup in Control-M
Scheduler, Control-M 7.0, V8 and V9 - Administration, Scheduling & Monitoring
Trained in PMP and SAFe principles, PSM certified Project Manager / Agile Delivery Leader
Hands-on expertise in Power BI and Microsoft Power platform
Expertise in delivering multiple global implementations and multi-regional system rollouts while operating in a
Global Delivery Model
Expertise in ERP systems like SAP, BMC Workload Automation, and JD Edwards, Microsoft Services including Azure
Cloud Services and Power Platform. Working knowledge of Hybrid Cloud Management
Technical Skills
Project Management
Program/Portfolio Management/PMO Setup
Agile Delivery
Stakeholder Management including gathering and documenting stakeholder needs
Subject matter Expert (SME) in Data Governance, Digital Transformation, SOW based Program Management, Order
Management, Process Automation, Data Visualization, Cloud Migration
Smartsheet, Informatica, Java, Springboot, SQL, Microsoft Power BI, Power Platform, Excel, JIRA, Figma, Cloud
Platforms: Azure and AWS, ERP Platforms: SAP, JD Edwards, ERP – BMC Control-M Workload Automation
Data governance using Informatica, Qlik, Kibana, Microsoft Power BI
Retail Domain
Healthcare Domain
Azure Cloud Platform and Microsoft Services
Vision/Roadmap/Product Backlog Management using Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, RTC, Rally
Vendor Management/Program/Project Governance
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Advanced Excel Skills
Key Roles Performed
Stakeholder Management - 11 years
Programmer Analyst/Application Architect – 3+ years
Retail / CPG / Supply Chain - 7 years
Healthcare - 4 years
Insurance - 2 years
Technology Analyst / Systems Engineer – 5 years
Education
MBA-Master of Business Administration March 2020 University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago IL
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering June 2007 National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal,
India
Professional Experience
Chubb Corp, Chicago, IL August 2022–Present
Senior Program Manager
Managed delivery of a $6.5M project portfolio including projects of various sizes, managing global teams and global
business solutions
Led the implementation of Azure based transformative ML solution to classify and index the entire document inflow
for the company’s $1.1B 3rd-party administration subsidiary resulting in a 50% reduction in average handling time,
98% automation rate, and 18 month benefits realization period
Delivered API and cloud based cross-platform integration automation solution utilizing modern production
deployment processes including Azure cloud infrastructure, DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for the Recreational Marine
business line to aggregate and publish research information for underwriters to access potential risk resulting in
$1.2M benefits over a period of three years
Optimized the status reporting and effort tracking for 12 automation projects involving 50+ team members, resulting
in enhanced performance visibility, 100% resource utilization, and a 20% boost in Sprint velocity
Accelerated pre-execution processes for a diverse automation projects such as policy cancellation, risk data
aggregation, and EMEA operations intake resulting in improvement of 63% to the Discovery to Kick-off time
Streamlined the operations for BOT solutions, creating a culture of continuous improvement within the Agile teams
that support the North America Claims and Personal Risk Services business lines