Lydia Gupta Email & Phone Number

Scarsdale, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

- Multifaceted Project Management: Lead eight international technology teams across backend, media, app development, front end, portal (admin tools), QA, and automation.- Agile Scrum Leadership: Guide teams through Agile development stages, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and dependency planning.- Release Management: Oversee production releases, collaborating with development teams and SRE to manage around 50 releases annually, including patches.- Jira Management: Configure workflows, implement automation, and create dashboards to streamline project workflows and enhance productivity.- Project Redesign and Launch: Led the redesign and launch of the v3 Cloud9 trading application.- Stakeholder Relationship Management: Manage relationships with international teams, external partners, and software vendors.

- Managed the successful redesign and launch of 10+ SourceMedia Brand Sites, including flagship Brand- Drove adoption of Jira Service Desk for our Digital Ops Team to keep track of customer requests and issues- Trained internal staff on new CMS systems and provided detailed documentation- Manage relationships between our external vendors, QA teams- Scrum Master; managed all Scrum team meetings including daily standups, backlog grooming, planning, dev tasking, retros, hosting demo days, etc.Responsible for tracking team velocity, mitigating scope creep, managing the QA team and running weekly releases with Dev Ops.

Greater New York City Area

- Responsible for site-wide Video Redesign and Roadmap - Managed and created business rules, user stories, wireframes, etc. for wholesale redesign of the About.com site - Oversaw the development and launch of the About.com homepage redesign- Managed the launch of a new internal Content Management System from scratch, in less than six months

- Lead cross functional teams translating business needs into functional and technical specificationsResponsible for the Web Tools Roadmap- Working with the technology team to help manage the transition from designs into functioning products from development, testing, and launch within defined time frame and budget- Oversee Agile Software Development with Scrum. Responsible for writing user stories and project prioritization- Define development requirements and provide direction and management to a team of 8-10 developers- Create business requirements, wire frames and use cases for new product schemes. Also define requirements for creating new and modifying existing applications for end users; including sales, finance and editorial - Implemented a digital contract management system to give senior management visibility into financial and other performance metrics- Managed the development and launch of Netplaces.com and grew the site from zero to over 3.5MM monthly pageviews

- Managed third party partnerships including implementing co-brand site builds and revenue optimization widgets - Managed the design and launch of online tools for the sales and ad ops teams- Wrote Product Requirements Documents, use cases, and work flow diagrams for proprietary online tools- Administered end-to-end usability testing for online in-house products

- Provided technical support for online database tools, email support, html troubleshooting, ftp software, html clients, etc- Directed the Technical Support and Customer Care teams to improve customer service based on client feedback through the development of new policies and procedures- Responsible for technical and administrative support of over 800 end users worldwide- Built an intranet site for About.com contractors