Mrs Pallavi K Ram Prasad
Contact Details - •-LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/pallavi-k-ram-prasad/
Location: Slough
Roles I seek: Senior Project Manager.
Career Summary
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Worked as a Project Manager at Appen UK Ltd until May 2025.
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Experienced working in Agile environment. PRINCE2 Foundation certification holder.
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I have over 12 years of total experience in a broad spectrum of domains.
AI Data collection (Digital / Technology), Semiconductors, ML model development, Pharmaceutical Industry, Retail
industry, Company Secretary and Health & Wellness platforms.
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4+ years of hands-on experience in end-to-end Project Management, along with 2 years and 3 months in Senior
Project Management, Program Management, and Solutions Architecture.
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Key skills: Project Management, Project planning leadership, Solutions Architecture, Quality Management,
Leadership and development, Strategic planning, Project team management, Stakeholder management, Client
Engagement and collaboration, Cross-functional and cross-location collaboration, Customer-facing project
management, Risk Analysis and Issue Resolution.
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Open for travelling.
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I hold British Citizenship enabling me to take up job in the UK.
Certifications
Prince2 Foundation - January 2025
(PSM1) Scrum certification - November 2022
ISTQB Certified Tester Fundation Level - BCS Chartered Institute for IT – Passed
Work History
Appen UK Limited
Remote
From February 2023 to May 2025
Position: Project Manager
Client base includes Fortune 100 Best companies.
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Passionate about deeply understanding client requirements and delivering results with the highest level of precision.
My core strengths lie in risk analysis and efficient issue resolution.
I have a proven record of improving efficiency of people and operations.
Successfully led multiple projects concurrently to positively deliver scope based on KPIs with strict tolerances with
very minimal deviations, contributing to strong gross margin profitability (Program Management)
Been a central point of coordination for IT, Operations, Sales, and Marketing to ensure seamless collaboration and
delivery.
Worked closely with senior stakeholders, including executives, department heads, and external partners, to ensure
clear communication and expectations.
Overseen project timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies to ensure successful execution.
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Identified opportunities for operational efficiency and continuous improvement in project delivery.
Proactively identified and mitigated risks, resolving issues to keep projects on track.
Passionate about problem solving and making a difference.
Preparing and maintaining project documents.
Data type: In-cabin DMS and OMS data collection. Static and Drive collections.
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Integrated variety of sensors with hardware and software.
Minors and biometric / Vitals included in Data collection.
Comprehensive demographics, varied environmental attributes, diverse variety of cars and sensors.
Partnering up with client-engineering teams to help plan and develop collection protocols to maximise the outcome
from the data.
Scoping, solutions architecture and budget tracking.
4-6 locations and multiple team management.
Data type: Image collection
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Variety of images to train the client’s models.
Sourcing required objects.
Using Appen Data Annotation platform and Crowd Management platforms to hire contributors and make projects
available for them to work on.
Data type: Speech data and transcription
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Multi-language audio data collection.
Recruiting contributors and setting up the studio.
Collection based on client requirements and transcription.
Data type: Web scraping audio data and annotation
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Multi-language conversational speech data through web scraping.
Annotation using Appen in-bulit annotation platform.
LID (Language Identification), SAD (Speech Detection) and TRS(Transcription)
Tools
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JIRA, ASANA, LOOP, Trello, Confluence, Gantt, MS Excel, MS Project
Chiplogic Technologies Limited, Maidenhead
From July 2021 to Feb 2023
Project Management for the AI/ML division
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End-to-end Project Management for ML Development projects.
Conducting daily stand-up meetings and Scrum calls
Reporting and recording the daily progress in the SmartSheet.
Working alongside the Line Manager from End-to-end in the product development life cycle.
Liaising with the Digital Marketing dept to maximize the product saleability
Risk Analysis for the shorter timeline projects
Entry and Exit criteria discussions
Preparing Project Charter
Team building. Helping the team with discussions and suggestions on stress-busting techniques and increasing
positive energy.
Conflict Resolution
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Challenges dealt due to – Miscommunications, Incomplete project specifications available for the team to work
with, Unrealistic project deadlines, Scope creep, Research-based algorithm findings.
Able to notice the strengths and weaknesses of team members, appreciating them and allocating the work
accordingly. Also helping them to develop new strengths.
AWS and E2E account management and liaising for better packages.
Project Management for the Semiconductor Division
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Proactively build and sustain relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Developed solutions to make sure the issues don’t escalate into failures.
Able to manage up to 2 projects at a time
Managed a team up to 9 Engineers and guided them towards a successful Tape-out.
Sending monthly invoices, sending weekly Timesheets and bi-weekly updates
QA Engineer for the AI/ML division
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Python programming – experience in coding
Requirement gathering with Business clients
Selecting Test cases, plans, preparation, review and test execution for all the features and projects involved.
Test case coverage analysis
Facial Recognition software - Feature testing, Functional testing, API testing, Regression Testing, End-to-End
testing, User Acceptance Testing, UI Testing, Performance/ Pre-release Testing. Verification at different intervals
during a sprint. Validating whether the derived output is what was expected by the client and other stake holders.
Integration Testing.
Testing across all sprints and deliverables
Thoroughly documented testing to maximize return on investment (ROI) for the initiatives.
Driver-assist software (ADAP) (DMS) - Feature testing, Functional testing, API testing, Regression Testing,
End-to-End testing, User Acceptance Testing, UI Testing, Performance/ Pre-release Testing. Verification at
different intervals during a sprint. Validating whether the derived output is what was expected by the client and
other stake holders. Integration Testing.
Adhered to the timelines and completed the testing activities as per schedule.
Tracking, logging and reporting bug discoveries.
Issue identification – From the Dataset collection and pre-processing until the product release.
Worked collaboratively with QA, Development and Marketing and Sales groups to establish end-to-end
comprehensive testing and quality assurance for 2 new initiatives.
Tools:
Microsoft Excel, Smart Sheet (Gantt charts), JIRA, Trello, Asana, Canva, Adobe, Powerpoint
Anaconda Navigator (Spyder, Jupyter notebook), Github, AWS
Arkham Global Ltd, Langley
From Sep 2016 – Present
Company Secretary
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Handling Payroll, Dividends, Tax and VAT
Maintaining financial reports, record keeping
Co-ordinating with different stake-holders, organizing meetings with clients
Discussing contracts and renewals and suggesting changes.
Maintaining the accounts for audits.
Southern Co-Operative retail store, High street Southampton
Team Leader and Customer Service Assistant
From Jan 2012 - Mar 2014
The Art of Living Foundation (Not-for-profit) and International Volunteering from May 2000
Association for Human Values IAHV
– present
Teacher and Fund-raiser
Bangalore Pharmaceuticals and Research Laboratories (BPRL)
From Jan 2004 – Jul 2004
Bangalore
Laboratory Technician
Sri Sri Ayurveda, Bangalore, India
Laboratory Technician
Education
Master of Science in Bio-technology
Bachelor of Science in Bio-technology
Post grad Diploma in Hospital and Health care Management
From July 2003 – Dec 2003
