About

Sushma Hegde is a highly skilled Senior Technical Program Manager with over 19 years of experience in delivering large and complex enterprise solutions in a global IT organization. She is a PMP certified professional with a complete understanding of the SDLC and extensive experience in various roles like Software Developer, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, and Project/Program Manager. Sushma has a deep understanding of both waterfall and agile methodologies and has experience in handling IT transformation from waterfall to agile. She has the ability to build partnerships, collaborate, influence, and deliver results in a global matrix organization. Sushma has extensive experience working with very senior management and has proven experience in building and coaching high performing engineering teams. Currently, Sushma works as an IT Product Owner at Intel, where she is responsible for managing the delivery of multiple IT transformation programs. These programs are aimed at co-developing lean business processes, developing tools to support the process, and reducing technical debts from the enterprise IT landscape. Sushma has worked with multiple vendors and has experience in vendor management. She has also managed teams from multiple vendors. In her past roles at Intel, she worked as a Business System Analyst/Project Manager and Application Developer/Technical Lead. In her role as a Business System Analyst/Project Manager, she was responsible for delineating requirements to solve complex business problems using differing technologies and systems views across multiple functional domains. As an Application Developer/Technical Lead, she developed a lot of EAI and B2B solutions using BizTalk server 2006, connecting to the backend using various WCF LOB adapters. Sushma has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. She has a tech stack that includes Software Engineering, QA, Testing, UI, Senior Software Engineering, Integration, Mobile, and Backend.