Neha Lakhani, Project Manager

Neha Lakhani

Project Manager

Gap Inc.

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Higher diploma, PMP- Project Management Professional
Experience
16 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months

Project Manager at Gap Inc.
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since December 2014

- Initiated and incepted Project Management Team for Gap Mumbai Analytics
- Manage Analytics projects via Agile- Scrum-Lean Project management framework- Big data Projects. Includes Hadoop, R, Hive and Pig technologies
- Train, educate and transform the Mumbai Analytics Team on Agile framework and processes
- Propose and implement new processes for tracking and transparency for stakeholders
- Estimate Project completion and track progress via Burn-ups and Velocity charts
- Facilitate meetings, JIRA Story boarding and various other Scrum ceremonies
- Proactively identify, follow up and remove blockers/ issues
- Facilitate retrospectives to identify and implement improvements
- Maintain project documentation and facilitate communication among internal team and stakeholders via weekly/ daily Status reports, Video calls and Dashboards
- Developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
- Organise and facilitate Mumbai Learning Academy Technical and Domain trainings

Project Manager at J.P. Morgan
  • India - Mumbai
  • December 2007 to December 2014

 Planning and deployment of Trade Finance software development and project management processes based on the prescribed Project Life Cycle for TPS- Trade Processing System (Greenfield Development Project).
 Utilize Lean/ Agile scrum framework to schedule and lead Sprint Planning/Reviews, Daily Standups and various other team meetings.
 Analyzing and forecasting resource requirements.
 Participation in project estimating activities. Facilitate post implementation reviews, Lessons Learned and Retrospectives.
 Work closely with the development team and cross functional teams with members from Product Management, Business Analyst, Production Support and Technology
 Risk Identification; track and report KPIs on project/sprint progress and drive
resolution of issues. Measure, track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to stakeholders and management in order to provide visibility into overall project progress and status.
Co-ordinate with other workstreams to manage Integration functional gaps, Performance and interdependencies. Defect management via HP ALM

Education

Higher diploma, PMP- Project Management Professional
  • at PMI- Project Management Institute
  • August 2014
Master's degree, Finance
  • at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Mangement Studies
  • June 2014

Specialties & Skills

Innovation
Tech Savvy
Banking
Agile Project Management
Stakeholder engagement
Communication
Agile Project management
Leadership
Communication (Content writing)
Project Planning

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMI- Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Certified Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Reading