Anita Virjala Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Pleasanton, Us

Ellie Mae was acquired by New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) owner, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), and is now ICE Mortgage Technology. As a Head of Office of the CIO, I• Managed the organization’s annual budget.• Built the PMO organization that was responsible for delivering about 50 strategic projects that are cross functional.• Engaged multiple resellers & vendors for competitive pricing that resulted in 15% cost savings.• Led multiple acquisition integrations that impacted about 3500 employees’ tools, apps, and processes in 4 different countries.Key responsibilities include: Running the Office of the CIOo Budget management & approvals for the organization budget of ~ $75MM, own the P&L, vendor managemento IT roadmap & strategy, IT Communications, Business operations, metrics, operational reviewso Staff Operations, hiring, retaining, location strategy, performance ratingso Annual and quarterly planning, IT Annual Reports, C-level presentationso Trusted advisor for CIO & leadership team Leading PMO organizationo Program and project management of IT Infra & Ops, InfoSec, back office, and front office applications projects with the project success rate of 100%o Portfolio management, governance & prioritization, capacity planningo Develop strategy to remove org inefficiencieso Change management, risk mgmt., BCP, DR planso Partnerships with cross functional leadership teams such as Finance, HR, Security, Engineering, Cloud Operations, Legal Leading Acquisition Integrationso Due Diligence, 30-60-90-day plans, playbook, integration roadmapo Gap analysis, documenting requirements & solutions, vendor evaluation, project execution, integration Special Projects o Examples: Return to office readiness, security & compliance, Soc audits

Us

Application Development(AppDev) org has 500+ resources responsible for delivering technology solutions for Etrade. My responsibilities as a Director, Biz Ops & Chief of Staff reporting to SVP of AppDev are:o Manage budget of $75MM/yr and staff operations of 500+ resources org o Own the business operations and P&L of AppDev org, be the trusted advisor for SVP of AppDev and leadership team, provide insights, recommendations, vision & mission o Program management, drive operational excellence, agile adoptiono Maintain confidentiality in handling sensitive informationo Keep all orgs in AppDev aligned to key strategic priorities, define & measure KPIs o Manage contract negotiations, purchase orders, invoices, payments, vendor relationshipso Define & drive strategic technical initiatives as Developer Productivity & special projectso Prepare presentations for board meetings, exec communications, o Drive growth, diversity hiring, interns & college hire, compensation discussions, performance rating calibration, and location strategy for the orgo Lead talent mgmt, training, career development, coordinating with Head of Talent mgmto Manage strategic off-sites, quarterly operations reviews, quarterly & yearly planning

San Ramon, California, Us

Sr. Business Operations Leader – Data & Analytics PlatformResponsible for • Being advisor for SVP on organizational strategy, special projects, process improvements• Managing $54M+ Budget, yearly planning, cost optimizations, metrics & reporting• Pricing strategy and Liquidation of Data Lake platform services such as Greenplum, Pivotal and Hortonwoks Hadoop, Talend licenses, Tableau licenses. • Client engagement with all GE business teams such as Power, Aviation, Finance, CoreTech etc,. regarding liquidation of Data Lake platform• Program management, cost reductions, process optimizations, strategy, resource planning, program planning, client engagement, metrics, KPIs and executive presentations• Contract negotiations, purchase orders creation and invoices mgmt• Staff operations, hiring, coaching and mentoring team members

San Jose, Ca, Us

Sr. IT Program Manager - Cisco Entitlements in Cloud• Managed transformational program, Entitlement Base Foundation, an enterprise-wide solution for Cisco Entitlements in cloud using Smart Account. Leveraging SAFe agile framework to build cloud-based solution for customers using OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kafka, Mulesoft, MongoDB, NodeJS, AngularJS, Redis Labs• Responsible for hiring (& retaining) 30 top talent developers, QA teams and analysts into 9 scrum teams• Managed project budget of $15M per year• Collaborated with product managers, engineers, scrum masters, business & IT architects • Provided estimates, project schedule, communication plans • Delivered projects with high quality set by business teamBusiness Relationship Manager• Responsible for quarterly CIO reviews, Ops reviews, performance metrics, roadmaps, client engagement, converting Biz roadmap to IT roadmap, budget management• Led quarterly & yearly investment planning($50M), year over year optimizations, prediction of portfolio growth based on client feedback• Led client interlocks, Survey (CSAT), analyze the feedback & find corrective steps• Measured KPIs, metrics reporting such as availability, scalability, business impact

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Established Integration Management Office (IMO) as a governing team managing different integration activities related to Cisco Services IT - Managed annual budget of $20M - Managed post-merger Cisco Services integrations of acquisitions Scientific Atlanta, Tandberg, Tidal, Starent, Webex, ExtendMedia - Responsible for developing integration plans, governance processes, prioritization, roadmap, stakeholder management, budget, communication, executive updates, brown bags- Worked with VPs, Directors to get the integration direction and converting their direction into executable actions- Collaborated with 10+ leads of different workstreams, Change Management lead, Communications lead, Financial lead, HR lead, IT lead and many other cross functional teams- Responsible for quarterly reviews, blueprints, obtaining funding, applying the lessons learned - Prioritized integration activities, coordinated and facilitated meetings, reviewed and appraised project progress, tracked and resolved open issues, managed risks, escalated where necessary to resolve conflicts

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Managed team of 20+ developers, architects, QA & support teams both onsite & offshore• Managed the ERP implementation of Oracle Projects for Project Accounting (Revenue Recognition, Time Tracking, Forecasting, Budgeting) from Commit to Deployment• Provided regular updates to executives, managed go-to-market programs, deals desk operations, web development, infrastructure projects, implementation of content management using Oracle iFS(CMS) & content migration from legacy to new systems• Evaluated multiple content management solutions, provided recommendation to executives, provided post production search engine optimization methods, metrics

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led the technical team in implementing Cisco intranet applications such as Cisco Stock Admin, iExpense, Travel & Events, Access Visa using HTML, CSS, Java & Perl technology with Oracle DB

Stanford Certified Project Management(Scpm)

Certification, Pmi

M.S, Computer Science

Master'S Certificate, Project Management