Prathibha Kamtam has over 13 years of experience in IT project management, leading teams and projects across multiple industries. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and holds a Stanford University Project Management certification. At her current role at Nationwide Insurance, she has successfully delivered several large, complex projects involving cybersecurity, data warehousing, and agency solutions. She is skilled at planning, communication, and adapting to utilize both agile and waterfall methodologies. Previously she held roles in testing, development, and web development.

1. Prathibha Kamtam, PMP, CSM, SCPM Phone: 740-972-4819
Email: kamtamp@nationwide.com
Professional Summary
• Results oriented individual with 13 years of experience in IT industry, leading teams and
projects of significant size, complexity and duration, utilizing agile and waterfall
methodologies.
• Expert in project management methodologies and accomplished in planning,
organization, dealing with pressure, negotiation, communication and relationship
management.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams spanning across multiple
geographic locations in both onshore and off-shore model.
• Ability to support and sustain a positive work environment that fosters team performance
and proven capability to deliver on schedule by overcoming critical issues.
• Proficient in interacting and providing executive status to various Business Solution Area
Associate Vice President (AVP) Leaders and Chief Information Officer (CIO) level.
Certifications/ Education
BS in Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Stanford University Project Management Certification (SCPM)
Project’s Profile
Nationwide Insurance- Role: Project Manager- July 2012 to present
Information Risk Management-Cyber Security Program:
• Delivered a major, complex initiative, IRM Cyber Security-Multi-Factor Authentication
project. Managed 9 Agile Lines, 20 impacted applications with over 150 resources, with a
budget of about $ 4 M. MFA project provided great value to NW by reducing the
company’s vulnerability to web attacks by providing extra level of security to 3.5 M
customers.
• Managed the complexity of blending an Infrastructure project, a Cyber Security project
and an Application Development project with strong communication and relationship
management skills.
• Extensively involved in leading enterprise level initiative for adoption of MFA for 36
Nationwide web applications across multiple BSA’s. Managed to drive the delivery of 10
major applications for MFA adoption and providing leadership to drive the remaining
adoptions with a roadmap until 2017.
• Successfully led and ready to deliver in August Release another, major complex release
for Multi-Factor Authentication project, with $1.5 M budget. This project will enable
MFA for B2B/B2E users. Accelerated the effort by 3 months, driving huge efficiency in
cost and schedule.
Data Warehouse and Underwriting – Underwriting Excellence Program:
• Led and successfully delivered GSUW Prior Approval project, ranked at #4 priority in NI
IT projects Business priority for 2014, leading a team of over 90 geographically dispersed
resources with 16 impacted applications and $2 M budget, which involved a pilot release
and full state roll out release. This project improved both agency and customer

2. experience at NW by enabling real-time communication for Agents and Underwriters to
prevent risks from being bound on Auto and Home Insurance that are not aligned with
the company guidelines.
• Managed GSUW WV Auto Project from develop phase to Implement. Improved the
project status from red status to green by mitigating the issues and
escalating/communicating with leadership.
Agency Solutions – Multiple Projects:
• Implemented EC Property Credit State Check project and VT Consumer Consent Credit
project in Agency Solutions BSA.
• Managed Marketing Storefront project through Solution Scoping Phase and drive the
discussions with project troika for vendor selection process.
Thought Leadership:
• Involved in Delivery Services On boarding initiative and received IT star Award.
• Volunteered for NW PM Professions day and lead the Appreciation booth.
• Key member of BO status report improvements initiative
Nationwide Insurance- Role: Test Lead- Aug 2005 to June 2012
• Provided Test Leadership by working on numerous ECIF releases in a span of 3 yrs with
high to medium complexity by being involved in full life cycle of the CIM projects,
coordinating about 6 to 10 partner areas testing.
• Managed ECIF testing team on CIM Program, a multi million and multi year initiative as
a test lead and delivered multiple releases with quality and on schedule.
• Lead a team of 9 testers with a multi-million Address Cleansing project which was the
largest release in ECIF history where major CIM functionality was implemented.
• Set my presence in the ECIF team with my first ECIF project and received appreciation
from the leadership team for leading to a successful implementation of a complex project.
• Involved in the implementation and maintenance of auto solutions new rating tool, Class
Plan M.
• Provided thought leadership as a test lead by documenting the conversion process and
reduced the test bed by combining the scripts without compromising quality which led to
decreased conversion testing time and cost.
• Worked independently on the pilot phase of Insurance Upgrades starting from test
designing to implementation.
Nationwide Financial Systems- Role: Developer – Oct 2004 to Aug 2005
• Enhanced screens to incorporate new functionality.
• Involved in coding, unit testing and debugging.
Nationwide Services Company- Role: Developer - Aug’ 2004 to Oct’ 2004
• Developed standard software installations, to provide the greatest flexibility and speed to
the end user and managed software usage, distribution and upgrade.
• Documented the discovery, development, script and validation process for each
installation. Tested the new developed installation on various desktop and laptop loads.
Victoria’s Secret -Role: Web Developer - Dec’ 2003 to March 2004
• Enhanced the website by incorporating new security measures to make it safer and secure
for online transactions and prevented the site from cross site scripting.

3. • Involved in implementing proper filtering techniques on any user supplied data.