Krishna Sripad
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Krishna is an organizational change manager and enterprise transformation specialist with 25+ years of experience in various industry sectors. He is passionate about crafting creative and customized solutions to clients' implicit and explicit needs. Krishna motivates people to deliver their best, always striving to harmonize business objectives and value delivery.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Change Management Consultant
LeadIQ
- Established and optimized consistent and predictable Agile processes in a complex, dynamic, and fast-paced startup environment.
- Crafted and implemented a two-track development process to provide quick and iterative elaboration of the customer feedback-driven features, including regular and high-quality release cycles.
- Defined the release management process, working closely with product management and engineering.
- Coached leadership, management, and engineers in the change adoption process.
Transformation Consultant
Trelleborg AB
- Conducted, consulted, and coached the Agile transformation process within the organization.
- Crafted and implemented an intensive organizational transformation into a digital-friendly structure to define roles and responsibilities, performance standards, and growth paths.
- Coached and advised top management, technical and people management, and engineers.
- Organized a fully remote four-day global meet during the pandemic to integrate product management, engineering, and customer teams in a themed event based on customer centricity, people, process excellence, and delivery delight.
Enterprise Transformation Consultant
Sony Group Corporation
- Served as a global enterprise agility transformation consultant across India, Singapore, China, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Turkey, the UK, and the US.
- Conducted leadership workshops in Japan, China, and the US to generate buy-in for the transformation process.
- Engaged leadership, teams, and individuals while coaching, mentoring, training, and consulting the organization.
- Built communities focused on Agile methodology while defining an agility organizational maturity model and playbook.
- Defined a transformation roadmap while pitching to global leadership to produce buy-in for the transformation process.
- Developed and executed a short, mid, and long-term strategy while specifying key roles, growth paths, and reward and recognition models.
Senior Program Manager
Intuit
- Managed end-to-end global program for Intuit's leading market: a QuickBooks product distributed across the US, the UK, and Canada, with an install base of 4.5+ million retail and enterprise customers and $400+ million in revenue.
- Led the enterprise-wide engineering tools team to serve 3,000+ users and span all software lifecycle phases and flagship products, including TurboTax, Quicken, and QuickBooks, with 5+ million customers.
- Engaged significantly with non-engineering functions, including marketing, launch, product management, and revenue recognition.
Project Manager
General Electric
- Managed the complete shared services team, including release management, QA, performance engineering, platform architecture, IT governance, and production support.
- Delivered SLA-driven support for mission-critical healthcare applications serving 30,000+ global users.
- Transitioned the production support function to a 20+ members local engagement team, including a platinum grade mission-critical application related to patient safety.
- Delivered an FDA (21 CFR Part 11) regulatory compliance release in the diagnostic imaging division while leading a 25-member team in three locations to validate 2000+ test cases and deploy 50+ fixes and enhancements.
Project Leader, Release Engineering
Selectica
- Led the engineering function for all configuration and release activities, including successful product delivery.
- Contributed to the release system conversion from Make to Ant.
- Automated the release cycle critical parts to be repeatable and predictable.
Technical Leader, Change Management
iNautix (now BNY Mellon)
- Automated configuration and release management flow.
- Held the configuration and change management function for several essential products.
- Automated reporting and dashboards using Excel VBA.
Project History
Organizational Change Management and Process Optimization
Modernized the Digital Services Group organizational structure, practices, design, and delivery processes in a global environment to enable closer customer integration with business goals.
Major components of the engagement:
• Leadership advisory
• Organizational change management
• Agile transformation
• Organizational design and structural optimization
• Leadership, management, team, and individual coaching
• Knowledge of collateral development and delivery.
High Revenue Product Program Management
Delivered three major and 30+ slipstream and enhancement releases for a product with $400+ million revenues, covering the US, the UK, and Canada.
I also led the enterprise-wide engineering tools team to serve 3,000+ users and span all software lifecycle phases and flagship products, including TurboTax, Quicken, and QuickBooks, with 5+ million customers.
Enterprise Agile Transformation
Introduced Agile, Scrum, and Kanban practices in the delivery process across multiple geographies, covering 2000+ people in a complex, dynamic and business-critical environment.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Instrumentation & Electronics
R.V. College of Engineering - Bangalore
Certifications
Change Management Specialist
Management and Strategy Institute
ICAgile-Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC)
ICAgile
Certified ScrumMaster
Scrum Alliance
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
General Electric
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Shell
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Technology
Paradigms
Change Management, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Project Management, Agile Leadership, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Lean, Testing, DevOps, Azure DevOps, Agile Product Management
Other
Process Transformation, Scrumban, Coaching, Consulting, Training, Program Management, Project Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, People Management, Project Delivery, Scrum Coaching, Agile Coaching, Agile Transformation, Team Mentoring, Process Improvement Project Management, Project Management Operations, Sprint Planning, Scrum Master, Agile Practices, Operational Streamlining, Planning, Technical Project Management, Dashboards, Reporting, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Operational Efficiency Improvement, Project Timelines, Scope Management, Communication, Risk Analysis, Project Rescue, Communication Management, Complex Program Management, PMI, Project Coordination, Notion, Enterprise Transformation, Release Management, Engineering Management, IT Service Delivery, Shared Services, Configuration Management, Production Support, Governance, Quality Management, Regulatory Compliance, Management Consulting, IT Consulting, Advisory, Project Planning, Risk Management, Project Management Professional (PMP), Startups, Operations, Startup Consulting, Business Delivery Management, Communication Strategy, QA Testing, Project Budget Management, Workflow, Cost Analysis, Budget Controls, Data Analysis, Integration, Digital Transformation, Microsoft Teams, Organizational Development, Organizational Design, IT Governance, Scripting, Perl, VBScript, Agile Program Management, Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
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