About

Pooja Punja is a highly experienced Senior Portfolio and Program Manager at EY with almost a decade of relevant experience. She has a strong background in managing complex IT projects and has worked with some of the leading organizations in the industry. Pooja's expertise lies in AWS migration projects, where she has led teams to successful project completion. She is also skilled in coaching leaders, teams, and scrum masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets. Her stakeholder management skills are exemplary, and she has successfully managed conflicts, driven effective teamwork, communication, and collaboration partnering across multiple business units with competing priorities. Pooja's program management skills are also noteworthy, as she identifies opportunities, defines and institutionalizes processes for accurately capturing scope, dependencies, schedule, metrics, risks for program success, and effectively communicates the program status and updates/reports to all stakeholders on a regular cadence. Pooja has worked with multiple vendors and has managed both new and existing vendor relationships. She identifies suitable vendors, negotiates with vendors to secure the best prices for products and services, and ensures that vendors fulfill their contractual obligations. She also coordinates with vendors in the delivery of IT services to the company. Prior to her current role, Pooja worked as a Development Project Manager at Cerner, where she planned and drove Agile ceremonies as prescribed in the SAFe model. She initiated, planned, and conducted product increment planning (Quarterly planning) and built credibility, established rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels. She was also responsible for risk management and maintaining the risk register after the risk analysis. Pooja holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from Sai Vidya Institute of Technology, and she has completed her PUC from KLE and SSLC from Sri Vani High School. She is skilled in AWS and has relevant experience of 9.86 years.