Venus Patel Mba, Pmp, Pmi-Pba Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Greater St. Louis Area

Bayer (Apr-2021 to Current)Program Manager, Data IntegrationDiversity & Inclusion Committee member (Jun-2020 - Current)Chair of Daugherty PRIDE ERG (Jun-2020 - Current)Reinsurance Group of America (Sept-2020 to Mar-2021)Program Manager, IFRS Compliance program- Led several IT workstreams for IFRS compliance program ($7M)- Supported Cloud transformation to AWS platform- Supported Data Lake ecosystems to integrate sources of projections to targets supporting forecasts. Express Scripts/Cigna (Jun-2016 to Sept-2020)Program Management, Senior Scrum Master, Team Manager- Executed multiple programs ($500K-$1M each) in ESI Pharmacy Technology space with cross team involvement from IT, Operations, Business, Compliance to facilities and service.- Helped manage an engagement with $4M annual turnover and 40 consultants.- Performed Cost-Benefit analysis for multi-year programs and Business value process mapping, executed value realization focused program execution plans. - Managed teams in Scaled Agile organization with multiple product teams, Product Increment planning processes, senior leadership readouts, risk management. Charter - Project/Scrum Master (May-2015 to May-2016)Charter Gateway Program - Customer Management- Managed Planned Release trains for the busiest product for Charter. - Executed Sprints with scrum teams, daily stand-ups, Sprint planning, review, retrospective- Managed budgets, prioritization of backlog, backlog grooming- Used JIRA and Clarity to manage resources and tasks.

Greater St. Louis Area

Played the role of senior board member, leading a 10 person board with 15 additional directors- Local chapter is a 2000+ strong professional non-profit association.- Hosted Regional Leadership Event in 2019 hosting 25 other chapters from United States with 200 attendees and 50 volunteers.

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for all Outreach initiatives for Corporate, Academic and Non-Profit Community Outreach. Lead 5 committees to reach out to Project Management Professionals and wannabe PMs in the area. - Render strategic vision into programs and projects- Provide leadership to chapter volunteers- Create value rich programs to accomplish chapter's mission - Groom highly motivated teams

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for all Outreach and Marketing efforts for the chapter. This includes Corporate and University relationships, sponsorships and Media. Manage 15-20 volunteers to lead and direct them achieve program objectives and strategic goals.

Volunteering for the Metro STL PMI Chapter. Running newsletter every two months, coordinating material and editing articles and content for newsletter, helping Marketing committee with marketing plans, maintaining Leads contact list and strategizing Leads conversion to sponsorship.

Volunteering for Programs Committee for Metro STL PMI Chapter. Assisting Programs committee run different events every month. Coordinating event logistics like speaker and topic selection, marketing event, background paper work, event agenda preparation, presentation, post-event activities.Currently co-hosting event for Nov 2010, and leading to host a joint session between PMI and IIBA for March 2011.

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for Analyzing the business requirements into systems and functional requirements, in addition to manage the complete project life cycle from initiation to implementation and closure. Had executed multiple medium complexity projects related to Finance, Legal and regulatory, Credit Policy changes, Process Improvement and Marketing Initiatives. Have worked with cross-functional teams coordinating requirements analysis, task delegation, issues management and change management.Selected Accomplishments:Branch Divestiture: Complex project to divest branches/financial service centers to another financial institution. Led team of more than 30 technology teams (around 100 team members). Helped in developing the business case for sale population and working out high-level strategy on conversion weekend process. Worked with buying institute to coordinate data mapping sessions, data integrity exercises, file transfers, conversion process and post-implementation issues. Online System Enhancements: Helped business build high level solution strategy for using rewards points towards bill payment thus unleashing market differentiating product feature. Identified key business requirements, led teams of business analysts to document functional requirements, used business process diagrams, use cases and sequence diagrams to help define the new online website experience.Credit Decision Engine: Helped credit and risk business with building high level solution meant to make automated credit decisions. Elicited business requirements and functional requirements. Guided design teams to complete project requirements. Guided quality teams to validate correct business scenarios.

As Blaze Architect was responsible for upgrading Blaze Systems. Have been a driving force behind changing a single rules service into a multi rules service system. Helped the team understand each rules service from business point of view. Was also responsible for executing projects for implementing new rules as well as modifying existing rules to accomodate newer credit policies.

Executive Masters Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General

Leadership Master Class, Leadership

PMI Leadership Class 2016 - Group of 32 Leaders from around the world.

Bachelors In Engineering, Information Technology, First Class With Distinction

Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Graphical User Interface, Artificial Intelligence, Structured Systems Analysis.

Diploma, Computer Technology