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Pranati Kumari Sahoo

Johns Creek

Summary

A versatile and self-directed professional specializing in application support, maintenance, DevOps, cloud, and certified SAFe Agile Practitioner having 15+ years of IT experience and a proven track record of successfully developing, managing and delivering end to end enterprise-level for Verizon customers.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Spec-Prog & Proj Mgmt

Verizon
01.2017 - 01.2022

Project Description:Verizon's Intelligent Edge Network program is a transformative initiative aimed at simplifying, enhancing reliability, and increasing efficiency within the network infrastructure. By leveraging the latest technologies and modern network architecture, this program aims to achieve multi-billion dollar savings while supporting network transformation through IT development using state-of-the-art technology stacks.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Develop detailed project plans, including scope, timelines, and resource allocation.
  • Managed AWS migration & CI/CD implementation in this project.
  • Weekly basis share the matrix to higher management.
  • Access management: Responsible for data access management for business users/customers
  • Compliance: co-ordinate with compliance team for application/access security reviews.
  • Coordinated communication across various teams and stakeholders, providing regular status updates and ensuring alignment with project objectives
  • Lead cross-functional testing and defect management, resolving issues swiftly to maintain project timelines and quality.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure project milestones are met.
  • Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure their needs are met.
  • Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders regularly.
  • Facilitate meetings and ensure effective communication among project teams.
  • Address any issues or roadblocks that arise during the project lifecycle.
  • Ensure that deliverables meet quality standards and adhere to Verizon’s guideline
  • Implement and support Agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, within the project.


Senior Specialist

Verizon
01.2010 - 12.2016

Description: Spirit is a reporting tool, it develops various reports which shows comparison between billing, ordering and network elements configuration. Data provided by reports are used to fix the discrepancies. In dynamic mode it also fixes discrepancies. Reports generated by SPIRIT played a vital role In Copper Elimination process


Roles and Responsibilities.

  • Data provided by reports are used to fix the discrepancies
  • Troubleshooting application errors, performance issues, and bugs.
  • Collaborating with developers and other IT teams to resolve problems.
  • Logging and tracking issues until resolution.
  • Scheduled various regular and periodic tasks by using crontab
  • Experience with building and supporting API services
  • Updating the config file.

Software Engineer

Verizon
06.2006 - 12.2009

Project Description: ESAP, part of the RIV initiative, is an Enterprise Service Activation Platform developed by Verizon Communications. It introduces a new VoIP product for Verizon's Business customers, enabling state-of-the-art Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for their communication needs. The Retail VoIP solution was rolled out across regions including the US, EMEA, and APAC, enhancing communication capabilities for businesses globally.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • IVAPP: Integrated Verizon Advanced Provisioning Platform is an FTTP provisioning platform for Voice, data and video
  • Ivapp interface with pre-existing provisioning systems for Voice (AAIS- CORE/NTAS) and data/videos (BAAIS)
  • Ivapp performs following functions in support of the FTTP network
  • Managed assignable Fiber network inventory
  • Activates FTTP network elements
  • Control service order flow across systems
  • Interaction with client for requirement gathering
  • Analysis and design of the module
  • Coding of Sub Feature Generic Content Designer according to Coding Standards
  • Providing the DIT (Development Integration Testing) Support
  • Worked on the External Server which acts as a local Server in place of External Systems
  • Designed and worked on the Polling Server
  • Assigning the Project DIT Issues list to the concerned persons

Education

MCA (Master of Computer Application).

Skills

  • Scrum,Agile
  • Stakeholder Communication,Conflict Resolution
  • Release planning,Team Meeting
  • Application Support & Maintenance
  • Access Management,Compliance and permission
  • Performance monitoring,Infrastructure Management
  • Jira,Confluence,Service now,Rally,
  • C,Unix,SQL,Oracle,Java,scripting,IIS ,Shibboleth ConfigPython
  • Project Management (E2E)

Timeline

Spec-Prog & Proj Mgmt

Verizon
01.2017 - 01.2022

Senior Specialist

Verizon
01.2010 - 12.2016

Software Engineer

Verizon
06.2006 - 12.2009

MCA (Master of Computer Application).
Pranati Kumari Sahoo