Megha Patel

About Megha Patel

Megha Patel, a dynamic Technical Program Manager with 13 years of experience managing system development, project risk identification and process resolutions for end-to-end delivery. Leverages a unique mix of visionary, strategic, technical, operations and analytical expertise, consistently exceeding performance goals by aligning talents, efforts with organizational objectives. A transformational leader with the ability to interface with applications and development communities to analyze and resolve escalations and deliver planned outcomes. Recipient of Verizon’s 2019 Recognition and Spotlight Award.Recent notable qualifications include:• ERP Program Manager: Creating, scheduling, executing, product roadmap with Deloitte & SAP third-party vendors.• Resource Allocation: Milestones created, garnered with success criteria a $25M agent Program with 6,500 hrs LOE and allocated resources on WBS for a successful on-time delivery.• Cost Analysis: Estimated, Evaluated funding to a $20M budgeted proposal on the Application Management Service project for cross-enterprise architecture functional end-to-end product delivery.• Savings: Provided $10M+ and hours annually savings heading all RPA BOTs projects and Exhibited operational excellence showing technical acumen by resolving 300K requests.• SOW: On-boarded resources on a $3M complex infrastructure project for Verizon Key stakeholders with Prodapt, Infosys, and OpenText external vendors.• Program Engagements: Responsible for product development and functions across Global and domain resources from Product Managers & Engineering, Product Marketers, UI/UX, Product Analysts, Leads, and Legal• Process Improvement: Inspire confidence in the executive team, influence peers, directors while dealing with ambiguity, strong appetite for problem-solving in the fast-paced environment lead to 3 months earlier delivery of RPA• Catalyst: Strong technical judgment to create knowledge sharing among resources for 0 post-production defects• Advanced Knowledge: AWS Cloud, RPA, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.Expertise: Technical Program Management, Agile, Analytical, Budgeting, Software development, System testing, Business Alignment, Business Process Improvement, Capacity Planning, Change management, Conflict Resolution, Change Impact Assessment, and Current vs future State Gap Analysis.

Experience

1. Smts Technical Project Management Expert

   Verizon

   May 2019 — Present · Basking Ridge, NJ, US

   Equipped Verizon with ERP systems that accelerated the bidding process on architectural projects by 55%, shortened the sales cycle by 35%, increased cash collections by 21% and saved $2.2M annually.• Led the organization\'s RPA program, driving widespread adoption and deployment of RPA across the enterprise.• Supervise $10-15M in RPA budgets while effectively communicating with key stakeholders on milestones. • Program Manager on multiple key strategic initiatives for Reverse Valuation, Single SKU, 1ERP, AMS on planning, scheduling and executing for all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations.• Created 3-year roadmap for Modernization, System Rationalization, Digital Transformation initiatives working with domain resources from Program Marketing, Project stakeholders, External vendors and User Researchers.• Product knowledge to engage, collaborate cross functional architecture teams for 99.99% operational stability.• Negotiate multiple projects with varied priorities from inception to launch spanning different business pillars.• Collaborate core business objectives in order to implement, migrate large projects like IITS, Order Tracker to AWS Cloud-Native with best and most efficient use of company resources.

Education

• Rutgers Business School

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Organizational Leadership

  2017 — 2021

• Villanova University

  Project Management for IS/IT professionals, Project Management

  2016 — 2016

• Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Sql Server Reporting Services (Ssrs)
• Wireless
• Hp Application Lifecycle Management
• .net Framework
• Fortify
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Customer Service
• Reporting & Analysis
• Management
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack
• Jira
• Devops
• Microsoft Visio
• Telecommunications
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Microsoft Project
• Asp.net
• Html