Meenu Datta Email & Phone Number

Cary, North Carolina, Us

I help senior executives to leverage their inner strengths and wisdom to navigate complex global challenges with clarity, resilience, and bold decision making.I do this by offering personalized coaching sessions focusing on personal growth, help align their personal values with their leadership practices, cultivating mindfulness and presence, enhancing their ability to lead with focus and intention, cultivate a visionary mindset, and inspiring organizational transformation from within during times of industry disruption.

Cary, North Carolina, Us

I partner with tech leaders to accelerate organizational transformation by aligning human potential with strategic innovation driving sustainable growth.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Lexington, Ky, Us

Build and maintain relationships with outside organizations, business leaders, and associations. Promote pro bono and low-cost coaching that benefits organizations and the community. Liaise with organizations and leaders on the nature and benefits of coaching through speaking engagements, webinars, and presentations.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Manage the publications, marketing, public relations, community outreach, and advocacy efforts of the chapter. Liaise with Directors to ensure promotion of chapter activities. Leverage data to customize marketing and communications and provide engagement data.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

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San Francisco, California, Us

Los Altos, Us

San Jose, California, Us

As a change leader, I led a team of 25+ talented professionals working on various programs related to analytics, support, and digital transformation. I strategically planned and executed a multi-year process engineering and technology modernization program for legacy applications with a total cost exceeding $10M, empowering our people with cutting-edge technology. Collaborating with vendors, I developed digital product recommendations, providing our customers with value-driven solutions. I led multiple cloud migrations for Professional Services, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations. I fostered a continuous improvement culture, enabling our people to grow and adapt to new technologies and processes. I facilitated cross-functional communication, promoting transparency and collaboration among Services Development, Sales, and Finance. I identified and hired talent to fill key project roles, ensuring successful project execution. Together, we achieved significant strides in digital transformation, process improvement, and change capability, providing our customers with superior customer service and innovation.

San Jose, California, Us

A committee to create leadership and professional development opportunities for women at NetApp.- Leading a global team responsible for introducing and running programs for personal and professional development of women at NetApp.- Getting custom professional learning programs designed for specific needs of women in tech at various career levels- Executive leadership coaching- Allyship programs- Creating learning opportunities for volunteers - Succession Planning- Neuroscience program for leadership and unconscious bias- Coaching for mid-senior executive women- Event Planning- Moderating/Facilitating leadership programs and panels

San Jose, California, Us

I spearheaded multiple transformation initiatives aimed at shifting our operations from a project-centric model to a product-centric one.Collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering and product managers, IT teams, and senior leadership, I've driven the transition to an outcome-based delivery focus.For over two years, I served as the Engineering Manager of a data tools team, leading decision-making checkpoints, conducting product team reviews, and delivering effective status reports to the steering committee. I successfully resolved program issues surrounding product launches, resulting in a 50% decrease in post-launch defectsIn addition to my engineering responsibilities, I also took on the role of Product Manager for a year, establishing a robust SME management process resulting in a 30% decrease in customer support requests. By leading focus groups, extending core team meetings to field and sales engineers, conducting user interviews and demos, and launching customer experience surveys, I was able to gather valuable insights that helped drive product innovation and success resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction scores.Throughout my tenure, I have remained committed to delivering innovative solutions and driving transformational change within the organization, while always keeping the needs and expectations of our customers at the forefront of my mind.

Oakland, California, Us

As an Agile coach, I set up scrum teams and coached them to have an agile mindset. I also coached product owners in writing meaningful stories and keeping the backlog groomed. I helped the team understand the estimation process in sprints, acted as a scrum master while coaching the next scrum master for the project. Additionally, I coached management on the agile mindset and helped them set the right expectations from agile teams.One of my key achievements at the company was establishing and leading an all-green team for a web-based healthcare app. I led the team through the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, using Agile principles and practices.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- As a Testing Center of Excellence lead, my team's focus on building a culture of quality and continuous improvement brought significant value to the organization. By establishing best practices and standardizing testing procedures, we were able to reduce defects, improve product quality, and ultimately, increase customer satisfaction. Our ability to manage multiple test teams and projects, while monitoring progress and keeping delivery within budget and timeline, demonstrated our strong project management skills. By leading teams to deliver quick incremental features, facilitating product demos to customers, collecting feedback via interviews and surveys, and coaching teams on agile practices and mindset, we were able to empower testers in the team to take ownership of quality and drive continuous improvement. These efforts not only improved the overall quality of the products but also saved the company significant amounts of money by reducing rework and avoiding defects found in the later stages of development.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

I established and streamlined processes for program/project needs, trained 25+ test leads and testers, and managed multiple programs/projects (each $1+M, total portfolio: $10M+) under Merchandising and Pharmacy domains in Testing CoE. I defined a test strategy and approach for the Pharmacy program, resulting in high quality of >=98% in functional testing and some projects with zero defects in UAT. As a Test Manager for Merchandising portfolio, I successfully monitored and tracked the progress of multiple programs/projects, ensuring successful adoption of Testing CoE principles. This led to a significant increase in test efficiency, reducing defects by 25%, and increasing productivity by 20%.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- End to end business project and test management from project planning, requirements analysis, gap analysis, planning, testing, defect management, risk analysis and reporting.- Specialized in coordinating various teams in an onsite/offshore model with focus on Customer engagement and communication.- Planned, estimated effort for resource utilization and task assignment, coached client teams on agile process and moving waterfall projects to agile.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Built a test team in India (Royal Bank of Scotland) and Netherlands (ABN AMRO Bank), went to Netherlands to transition the business from ABN to RBS. Gained knowledge for all applications and business and transitioned to the RBS team back in India. - Served as the clients’ trusted advisor, assisted the Product Owner in defining the requirements, backlog grooming, product demo and retrospective meetings.

London, Gb

• Requirement analysis, Test strategy, Test planning & execution• Participated in Sprint planning, Analysis, Daily Stand ups, Sprint backlog review, • Assisted Product owner in backlog grooming, product demo and retrospective meetings.

London, Gb

• Led multiple teams of system analysts and testing teams• Daily/Weekly Status check• Iteration Planning, Effort Estimation, Task Allocation, Resource Allocation• Business Analysis, System Analysis, Requirement gathering, creating BRDs, Functional Specs• Test Analysis, Test Planning, Manual/Automated testing • Coordination with cross functional teams from different geographies• Deployment Lead, Release review, lessons learned etc.• Training new employees on Defined Benefits domain • Subject Matter Expert for Retirement Benefits • Mentor to new system configuration analysts

C#, ASP.NET, Unit Testing, Functional Testing

Certified Professional Coach, Coaching

Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy

Inner Mba, Mindful Leadership, Building Exceptional Teams, Building Authentic Community

Master Of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management

Bachelor Of Computer Applications (Bca), Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting And Computer Science