Candidates About

 

Raja sekhar, CSM, PMP

Senior Agile Project Manager | Program Manager | Delivery Manager | Scrum Master

 

Summary:

§  Senior Agile Project Program Manager and Delivery Manager with extensive experience in executing and directing very large to medium size IT Projects and Programs

§  Delivered projects in Industry verticals: IT Software, Transportation, Health Care, e-Commerce, Manufacturing [After Market Sales], Apparels, Telecommunications and Background Verifications

§  Delivered projects pertaining to:  IT Compliance and Governance, Process automation, e-Commerce, Data Analytics, Mobile iOS and Android, Real time applications, Enterprise Integrations, Data Analysis & Visualization, ERP Customizations, ERP Migration

§  Managed projects using Technologies: Cloud technology (AWS, S3, Azure, Google), ERP (SAP, Baan), Salesforce, CRM systems, open source, Oracle, Microsoft technologies, Visualization Tools – Tableau, Power BI, Mobile Hybrid platforms

§  Provided project management leadership to globally distributed nearshore-offshore and local team

§  Held senior level accountability of owning project, portfolio and customer success at account level, reported directly to CXOs

§  Undivided customer focus with ability to manage expectations, issues and escalations by forging collaborative relationship with Clients, Partners, Vendors, Key Stakeholders and CXO executives. Ability to influencing decisions with facts and data

§  Instituted and Executed using Agile, SDLC, PMO process framework in multiple vertical industry groups. Strong business analysis and technical skills

§  Certified Scrum Master, PMP, ITIL

§  Accountable, trustworthy, result oriented, self-driven and responsible; Ability to maintain calm at chaotic situations

 

 

Skill Overview:

§  General Management Skills: Business and Technical Leadership, IT Governance, Cross Functional team leadership, Team transformation, Account Management, Stakeholder management, Client Relationship management, Senior executive consultation & collaboration, great presentation and interpersonal skill, ability to negotiate and influencing decisions with facts and data

§  Project Management and Process Skills:

o    Project and Program Lifecycle Management, Agile, Scaled Agile, Scrum, SDLC, PMO, PMBOK, Waterfall, Iterative and hybrid models.

o    Quality management, Risk management, Scope management, Vendor management, Operational processes, Release Management, Resource planning

o    ITIL, CMMI, Lean management, and SOX compliance

o    Revenue and Program management, Contract Negotiation, Proposal building

o    Globally spread onshore-offshore international team set up and management

o    Establishing synergy between multiple program and project tracks, orchestrating processes improvement and alignment with various verticals and functional areas

o    Managing critical meetings and presentation with executives

o    Management and tracking of budget and P&L account

§  Tools: Proficient with Project and content management tools, Jira, and Microsoft Office

 

 

Professional Experience:

Department of Citywide Administrative Services  NYC, NY                                                                                 01/2018 – 05/2018

Account/Project Manager

§  Accountable for the overall quality and on time delivery of the Emissions Reporting Systems Project

§  Work with DCAS Executive leadership and Energy Management Business team to

§  Understand and document ‘As Is’ and ‘To be’ business processes

§  Elicit business requirements on the initiative

§  Define business requirements and project success criteria

§  Define success criteria for each of business requirement

§  Develop project management plan that is in line with initiative time line

§  Develop Risk Management Plan, communications plan and change management plan

§  Work with DoITT to finalize ERS Security requirements, Infrastructure requirements and Roll out strategy to various Citywide Agencies

§  Interface with NYC Agency Heating Oil Vendors to validate the business requirements

§  Reported status to PMO and functional executives

 

Calpion – Enterprise and Payment Platforms                                                                                                                    09/2016 – 07/2017

Delivery Manager

§  Actively engage and lead pre-sales contribution from Delivery function

§  Directed and Project Managed three concurrent programs by strategically optimizing process and risk management resulted into 90% on time project delivery and increased stakeholder confidence

§  Transformed Agile process and team’s behavior resulting into significant high consistent productivity. Led large team of Engineers, managers and vendor across multiple geographies

§  Directed and Project Managed all phases of program and project from inception through completion, instituted Agile process and provided coaching to onshore and offshore team

§  Orchestrated Key program initiatives pertaining to Health Care, Transportation and SAP Test Automation Frameworks

§  Established trust relationship with various stakeholder while keeping team’s motivation high, consistently received positive feedback from Business Stakeholders and technology team

§  Reported status to CXO Executives, Management and key Stakeholders

 

Major Projects Handled

§  Enterprise portal development and customizations – Truckstop, Chicago

§  Enterprise Data warehousing portal for Health Care Services – Integrative Emergency Services, Dallas

§  SAP Testing Services for Major US Customers – Bungee, Kohler and LittelFuse

§  Anodyne Product – Facilitating patient payments over web and mobile platforms – Calpion, Dallas

 

 

ThoughtFocus                                                                                                                                                    06/2005 – 07/2016

Program Manager

 

Major Projects Handled

§  Delivery Assurance Program – ThoughtFocus, Milwaukee                     Jan 2015 to July 2016

§  Gensuite for Enterprise E-Commerce – Genalpha, Milwaukee             Aug 2013 thru Dec 2014

§  Screening Edition – Sterling Info Systems, New York                                Aug 2011 thru July 2012

§  SAP & Baan ERP Customizations – Bucyrus, Milwaukee                         June 2005 thru July 2011

 

Responsibilities:

 

§  Work with Executive Leadership on various Organization wide transformational growth initiatives viz., build frameworks, methodologies, templates, KITS and training programs

o    Product development methodology

o    Delivery Assurance and Risk Management Framework

o    Enhance ASM – proprietary methodology for ASM

o    RAPID - proprietary methodology for Knowledge Transition of Application/Product Portfolio

o    Training and certification programs for Product engineering and Application Support and Maintenance verticals

§  Accountable for ISO sustenance and certification program which includes ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 20000:2011

§  Evaluate projects to go after within Sales pipe line

§  Review proposals with an emphasis on the business solution proposed, ROI, project estimates and Costs

§  Member of Annual Performance Review board and interview panel which would evaluate and recruit lateral hires

§  People management - Set objectives, Annual Performance Reviews, Coach and Mentor the Project Managers

§  Manage Product Engineering Services

§  Manage SAP and Java Application development and Customizations for premium Customers of the company

§  Manage product roadmap with Genalpha business team and act as a co-owner

§  Planning of product deliverables along with major rollouts to Genalpha customers

§  Own Product support team which is responsible for product implementations and post implementation support /customizations

§  Part of customer’s pre-sales team to demonstrate product features along with writing proposals for new customer roll outs

§  Ramp up and ramp down product development and support teams

§  Work closely with customers team to understand domain and existing architecture

§  Prepare business requirements and Functional Requirements document

§  Propose alternative solutions for the given product enhancement along with the business justification

§  Get buy in from Business and IT for the functional requirements

§  Build team for working on Enhancement and support to the existing applications in the enterprise

§  Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for IT and QA Teams on the requirements to be developed

§  Assist IT and QA teams in analyzing the requirements

§  Understand the existing product functionality and the numerous Customer Specific customizations done on top of standard product

§  Propose a generic enterprise product, suitable for existing and future customer base, which should be able to accommodate future modules as plugins

§  Manage product road map in line with the Customer expectations and beyond

§  Participate in architecture, design and code reviews

§  Provide technical guidance and mentor the development

§  Estimation of the effort required to deliver the product within the window of Business opportunity

§  Prepare project plan with Milestones

§  Track project schedule

§  Mitigate project risks and monitor project costs

§  Submit project progress reports to Management as well as to customer

 

Cordys -                                                                                                                                                                                08/1999 – 05/2005

Senior Software Engineer

 

§  Develop Baan Wrappers using Baan Application Function Server for Web Based solutions like Customer Cockpit, Sales Cockpit, Purchase cockpits that uses Cordys Business collaborative platform

§  Part of multi-site Baan Product development team for Baan Equipment 2 and Baan Equipment 4

§  Performance tuning of Baan Sessions

§  Develop functional technical/functional specifications for Baan Equipment 4.0 sessions

 

Major Projects Handled

§  Baan Web Based Solutions built on top of Cordys Platform viz., Customer Cockpit, Sales Cockpit, Purchase cockpits

§  Baan Equipment 2.0 and Baan Equipment 4.0 product development [built on top of Baan IV C4]

§  Baan IV C4 Customizations for Baan Europe Customer base

 

Qualifications:

§  PMP – Project Management Professional [In good standing till June 2021]

§  Certified Scrum Master, ITIL

§  Bachelor of Engineering