Praveena Pentakota
PMP® Certified Professional
Calgary,India
Summary
Goal-oriented PMP certified professional with 9 years of experience in project management, pharmaceutical sector and client engagement.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Assistant Manager
Enzene Biosciences Ltd.
Pune, India
11.2022 - 02.2023
- Managed and delivered licensing and supply projects, CDMO and Teriparatide's internal (development to launch) projects.
- Prepared quarterly and monthly project revenue and project invoice reports.
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
- Developed and maintained Project charter, Requirement traceability matrix, risk register, status reports.
- Devised project timelines and milestones in Smartsheet and collaborated with Zoho team to implement Zoho projects.
- Led team meetings to assess project progress and plan appropriately to meet delivery targets.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to clients.
Associate Scientist
Syngene International Ltd
Bangalore, India
10.2021 - 08.2022
- Successfully delivered 63 Biosimilar client projects of 0.5 to 3 years duration within the budget of 800K to 1.1M USD.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams for project risk assessment on regular basis.
- Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and project impediments.
- Maintained project logs, Monitored shipment requests including samples, critical reagents and consumables required for analysis and study completion, prepared sample trackers.
- Was responsible for prioritizing and managing resources to meet needs of multiple projects.
Senior Research Associate - Biologics
Syngene International Ltd
Bangalore, India
10.2017 - 10.2021
- Designed analytical workflow for mRNA/pDNA therapeutics project, provided cost estimates and timelines for the same.
- Collaborated with project team and management to establish turn-around-time for analytical techniques.
- Developed methods and SOPs on impurity analysis by ELISA, Capillary electrophoresis, Bioassay lab standard operating procedures.
- Achieved project objectives by troubleshooting experiments and mentored team members to achieve project goals within the timeline.
- Managed installation of Capillary electrophoresis, nanoDSF and Maurice instruments and trainings for the same in coordination with vendors.
- Reviewed experimental data, reports and submitted for client approval in sharepoint.
Marie Curie Fellow
INsecTIME ITN, Jagiellonian University
Krakow, Poland
04.2015 - 03.2017
- Worked on a research project to understand circadian plasticity of synapses in the Drosophila visual system in collaboration with 9 research labs across Europe with an overall budget of 3999988€ (Grant ID 316790).
- Organized Marie Curie network meeting in Krakow,Poland.
- Coordinated an international open day at University of Wurzburg (Germany), partnered with labs working on similar research lines.
Project Fellow
Hyderabad
03.2013 - 03.2015
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Worked on a Molecular Biology project - cloning and expression of HspB5 gene in the
- Bacterial host system.
Education
Master of Science - Animal Biotechnology
University of Hyderabad
India 06.2010 - 10.2012
Skills
Project management and strategic planning
Stakeholder management
Client engagementCommunication and presentation skills
SAP MM module
Smartsheet
TrelloPower BIMS Project, MS ExcelMS Power PointAnalytical method development and validation - ICH guidelines
Molecular Biology and Cell cultureBiosimilar drug developmentProcess workflow and Batch releaseAccomplishments
- Marie Sklodowska Curie Initial Training Network INsecTIME Fellowship - FP7-PEOPLE- 2012-ITN, Grant no. 316790 (2015 - 2017), Jagiellonian University, Poland.
- Awarded for Agile implementation, project deliverables and team effort (2019), Syngene International Ltd.
- Awarded for delivering project under stringent timelines and for business continuity with client (2020), Syngene International Ltd.
- Bagged point of contact badge for RNA therapeutics project due to resource planning and technical workflow design (2021), Syngene International Ltd.
Certification
PPMI-PMP® Project Management (3189301)
Timeline
Assistant Manager
Enzene Biosciences Ltd.
11.2022 - 02.2023
PPMI-PMP® Project Management (3189301)
12-2021
Associate Scientist
Syngene International Ltd
10.2021 - 08.2022
PRINCE2® Project Management (AXELOS - PRINCE2® Foundation/PeopleCert)
08-2019
Senior Research Associate - Biologics
Syngene International Ltd
10.2017 - 10.2021
Marie Curie Fellow
INsecTIME ITN, Jagiellonian University
04.2015 - 03.2017
Project Fellow
03.2013 - 03.2015
Master of Science - Animal Biotechnology
University of Hyderabad
06.2010 - 10.2012