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Srinivas Project Manager| PMP, | SAFe Advanced Scrum Master E-mail: [email protected] |+1 (717) 441-5444 SENIOR PROGRAM & DELIVERY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Business Process, Program Management, Software &Product Development Big Data & Data Science Award-winning success in programs in directing end to end delivery of business needs, business process, software development, enterprise integration, mentoring, in hospitality, travel industry, payments, healthcare and telecom industries over eighteen years. Excel at facilitating end to end business requirements, business process automation, data center level migrations, application cloud migrations, mergers and acquisitions, Integration and Program Management with multi-vendor teams, corporations including regulatory compliance through strategic planning, business design, coaching and infrastructure support. Professional strengths include: Program Management Business Process Management SDLC Management Agile Methodologies Business Requirements and SaaS Implementation EPMO Portfolio Management ITIL Big Data Management Merger & Acquisitions Infrastructure Project Management Vendor Management Point of Sales Hospitality & Travel PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AT&T Sep 2018 Current Largest telecommunications and media company SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER Back to AT&T team, contributed as a Senior Program Manager role in Chief Data Office (CDO) Data Science and other enterprise level (EPMO) iQi teams managing multiple end-to-end projects including the data management, data intelligence, operations network and cloud infrastructure-based programs working closely with business sponsors, product owners, agile teams, portfolio level planning and coordination with DevOps and platform SaaS cloud solution teams. Core member of the business team, focused on business product owners in capturing the business requirements, processes, translating them to EPICs, Capabilities and user stories for the development team to deliver in the SAFe Agile methodology. Few projects include the decommissioning of the existing applications in the current data centers and deploy the new solution in the cloud. Also develop the overall portfolio plans, release train plans, govern and manage the Project Increment deliverables, risk management, support financial governance process, maintenance, reporting of data to the stakeholders, train the internal teams to adopt agile methodologies and give the day-to-day guidance to the teams. Work with a team of SMEs, coordinators from cross-functional teams of Business, Technology, Infrastructure teams across AT&T and infrastructure and application vendors managing the cross functional dependencies, acceptance criteria and deployment of deliverables, facilitation of the documenting, review and baselining the architecture and business rules, business processes while maintaining the ownership of overall program level delivery scope, delivery, mentor the teams and change management initiatives. Facilitated business and technical demos related to the Business to Data Science modelling, data engineering structures, critical failover, disaster recovery processes and tests in relation to the overall program plan. REPUBLIC NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (RNDC) Feb 2018 Aug 2018 $6.0B second largest beverage alcohol distributor of premium wine and spirits SENIOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT & MIGRATION CONSULTANT Merger & Acquisitions taskforce team Worked on a merger assignment to lead business process integration, consolidation of data management, technology services migration into SaaS environments and program management activities related to the merger. Delivered the business process roadmap planning, process improvements, services consolidation for the application services consolidation in the SaaS datacenters for the RNDC company ($6B revenue) who were in the process of acquiring a similar size company, Breakthru Beverage Group ($6B revenue) to form a New Company ($12B revenue - The name for the company confidential and to be shared after merger approval from Federal Trade Commission). Developed the high-level business process, domain-based data entity roadmaps and detailed requirements to consolidate the business services (from two companies for the post-merger company) in working with infrastructure, development, DevOps and integration teams as part of Business Process improvements, Data Center consolidation with decommissioning of the specific location data centers and Network consolidation initiatives. Designed, implemented, and customized CPQ solutions to optimize product configuration, pricing strategies, and quotation processes, also managed and maintained product catalogs, pricing structures, and discount tiers within the CPQ system and also analyzed CPQ system data to identify trends, optimize pricing strategies, and support decision-making. Perform the independent assessment of the PMO with industry standards and produce a roadmap to establish Enterprise PMO for the New Company to provide the project oversight, management and metrics, KPIs for the successful large complex programs execution at the data centers. Develop the detailed program management improvement guidelines, templates, PI planning inputs, report structures, support and operating processes for the post-merger implementation activities with impact assessment, prioritization to the project executions. Executed the initial train-the-trainer programs, services and data migration between the B2B customers, supply and distribution channels and point of sales. As a trusted technical advisor, was successful in end-to-end process prototyping, validating the architectural aspects with the vendor(s) and technical stakeholders while cultivating a relationship to tackle program issues and risks across two organizations. INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (IHG), Atlanta, GA Sep 2012 Dec 2017 $1.9B international hotel conglomerate. BUSINESS PROGRAM MANAGER Global Revenue and Property Based Systems (GRPBS) - Program Management Office Managed the full end-to-end delivery of the portfolio, whose mandate was to replace the current legacy reservation system to attribute-based reservation solutions based in Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) models. This was a multi data center migration, drive innovation in the industry and delivered a next generation solutions replacing the current legacy reservation system. Developed and managed the strategic revenue management programs using both Agile Kanban and Waterfall in Revenue Management, Loyalty, Global Reservation Systems, distribution partners, online travel agency integrations, Property Management Solutions (PMS) and point of sale systems including manage the installation, upgrades, maintenance releases. Facilitated the business sessions related to the Business requirements, Process mapping to Technical mappings, prototypes, reports, progress updates in relation to the overall program plan, Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions (RAID), synchronization of programs at the business & marketing portfolio level on a weekly and monthly cadence. Instituted best practices for continuous improvement, conducted trainings with all stakeholders, marketing teams and diligently worked to build solid relationship with all customers via distribution, hotel management partners and other travel integration agencies. Work with a team of SMEs, coordinators from cross-functional teams of Business, Technology, Dataware house, PMS vendor teams, Infrastructure cloud vendor VMWare teams across multi-vendors while maintaining the ownership of overall program level delivery scope, cost management and change management initiatives. Keep stakeholders informed of the project's progress, risks, issues, and changes on a regular cadence with a goal to share the metrics, KPIs, progress as well as engage the stakeholders in the necessary decision-making process, address any change management, issue & risk management aspects in order to achieve the program goals and timelines. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (IBM), Atlanta, GA Apr 2005 Aug 2012 Multibillion-dollar Global Technology products and Services Company. IT ARCHITECT & DELIVERY LEAD Global Business Services (Telecom, Utility & Energy Sectors) Part of Comminutions, Telecom and Energy Utility sector teams in planning and managing complex initiatives ranging above $5M to $300M. Served in multiple roles from Project Manager, and Senior Engagement Architect. Focus areas include client selection, pilot engagements, program management, end-to-end delivery and offshore team trainings in the end-to-end project life cycle. Spearheaded the development of PG&E's Smart Meter product and associated AT&T Mesh Network, 3G Mobile Broadband Payment processing integration. Oversaw architecture design, software development, 3rd party financial vendor product integration and lift & shift to IBM cloud platform and decommission of the existing client datacenters. Worked as a Program Manager and Lead in other Smart Meter, Smart Grid, Outage & Distribution Management (OMS & ADMS), CC&B, SCADA integration, workflow projects with other utility companies like San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E, Sempra, Oncor Texas, CenterPoint, First Energy & AEP) Earned multiple top performance awards (2006-2011) for consistently delivering complex programs on-time, on-budget, contribution to the growth across the region and building intellectual capital in the telecom communications practice while managing the multiple projects across the North American region. Program Lead for an integration development program that included onshore (USA) and offshore (India multiple locations) middleware integration services for Verizon and AOL Time Warner projects. BELLSOUTH (AT&T), Atlanta, GA and Birmingham, AL Jun 2000 Mar 2005 Large telecommunications holding company. IT Infrastructure Admin and Lead Managed and performed the design and implementation of infrastructure, middleware (Weblogic administration), and software solutions. Created infrastructure (primary and secondary datacenters with active/active DR) architectural plans and strategic roadmaps. Supported three data centers in the south east region. Supervised up to five persons per project and coordinated vendor personnel. Played a key role in optimizing business and infrastructure migration and deployment processes by designing the SOA architecture required to migrate legacy mainframe applications to a J2EE-based three-tier architecture. Directed and active administrative role player in the infrastructure team to deploy and support applications, data communications, and networks in a distributed (South Eastern states) multi-datacenter infrastructure upgrade, consolidation and decommissioning. Core team member in maintaining 99.9X% services uptime four consecutive years in 24x7 remote support service model. Carried out long-term planning for upgrades, application design and implementation, bug fixes, service pack deployment, performance tuning, and scheduled maintenance with on-call (pager) support. EDUCATION Executive MBA with Concentration in Management of Technology College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Bachelor of Engineering with Major in Mechanical Engineering Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, India CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (Training completed and actively working on the certification Dec 2024) Sun (Oracle) Certified Java Developer BEA (Oracle) Certified WebLogic Administrator ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Technical Skills: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Multiple Agile Program Tools, MS Teams (Smartsheet, AtTask, Rally, CA Project Portfolio Management, Jira Align - AgileCraft, Jira, PlanView, Leankit, Primavera, Service Now) Google G Suite, Risk Management Methods, Blueprint, iMeet Central Microsoft Visio, Google APIs, Cloud Services, Information Security, ITIL, NIST, PCI DSS Standards, Migrations in Software-as-a-Service, PaaS, IaaS, Keywords: information technology microsoft Alabama California Georgia