Anu Kanade

About Anu Kanade

Management Consultant | Program management | M&A Post Merger Integration planning & execution | Technical Project Management | Roadmap planning | Business Transformation

Experience

1. Azure Hdinsight - Principal Engineering Release Manager

   Microsoft

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Azure HDInsight Release PM responsible for planning and delivering components / code into multiple release pipelines for ALL regions (Public and National/Sovereign Clouds). • Drive shiproom, monthly sprint planning, identify/mitigate risks and communicate to leadership on features delivered• Drive the new region rollout (Public and Sovereign Clouds) in collaboration with the Engineering/ PM teams, ensure configurations, pipeline changes and deployment are completed for declaring region GA• Lead the remediation of Azure Data Fundamentals Service Health KPIs • Define requirements, test plan and validate new pipelines as we migrated to Ubuntu 18.04, Azure Image Builder -based image creation.• Define, measure and report on KPIs to indicate progress with project goals. Improved Time To Mitigate (TTM) for Customer Incidents by 29% in 6 months partnering with CSS Escal Eng, PMs and engineers• semester roadmap planning with engineering and PM teams across geographies (US, China, India) using ADO. Ensure customer commitments and dependency tracker are prioritized

Education

• The University of Dallas

  MBA, MIS

  1994

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BS, Computer Science

  1988 — 1991

Skills

• Saas
• Sql
• Visio
• Business Process
• IT Management
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Pre-Sales
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Vendor Management
• Resource Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Program Management
• Business Analysis
• Testing
• Sharepoint
• Software Project Management
• Soa
• Crm
• Itil
• Erp
• Analytics
• IT Strategy
• Quality Assurance
• Databases
• User Acceptance Testing
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Business Intelligence
• Ms Project
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Data Warehousing
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture