Raghu Tammina
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Hyderabad, India
Toptal member since August 22, 2022
Raghu is passionate about exploring new avenues and technologies and designing flexible processes. He has a unique balance of business acumen and technical savviness. Raghu is keen to drive change transformation to increase business value and is an Agile transformation leader who follows, coaches, and lives with agile principles. An advocator of the doing the right thing for the customer approach.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Delivery
- Asana
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub
- Jira
- Portfolio Management
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Trello
Work Experience
Advisor, Agile COE, and Solution Delivery
Motivity Labs
- Established Agile COE with a group of 7-8 scrum masters to lead the agile transformation across the organization.
- Created and Agile PMO office to drive all the PMO, quality, and compliance initiatives for the organization. This included achievements like CMMi- Level 3, SOC 2 - type II, and HIPAA compliances.
- Handled more than 11 projects through a hybrid project management methodology and drove the ROI management for the whole portfolio.
SAFe Release Train Engineer
Cotiviti
- Led the SAFe Agile transformation across India and Nepal.
- Established an agile and cultural mindset for the business and IT teams.
- Drove two agile release trains and contributed to the solution train goals.
Principal IT Project Manager
CA Technologies
- Maintained IT infrastructure and development tools. The portfolio consists of a $20 million budget.
- Managed consolidation, integration of development tools, and business applications that helped in $7.5 million savings for the organization over five years.
- Created and maintained program dashboards, status reports, project leadership group (PLG) meetings, steering committee artifacts, and all program-level communications.
DevTools Engineer
Polaris Software Lab Limited (Freelance)
- Migrated test director instance to HP QC across GE business to GE corporate.
- Streamlined the SDLC tooling from over 72 tools 21 across GE.
- Integrated and configured all the SDLC tooling and centralized business application management.
Project History
DevOps as A Service (DaaS)
Consolidation, integration of development tools, and business application, which helped in $7.5 million in savings for the organization over five years. Managed a $20 million budget for on-premise infrastructure and tools licensing.
The goal is to ensure that every action carried out in the delivery of software can be tracked with the DaaS system helping to ensure that the organization achieves desired outcomes and successfully follows strategies like continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI) to deliver business value.
DevOps Tools Operations and Enablement
Delivered metrics from tools to allow the teams to make informed and data-driven decisions. Drove cost savings by using shared infrastructure and pushing more capabilities to the cloud.
Improved maturity of development teams through adopting approved tool usage methods.
Cloud Zero
Gap analysis for the private and public cloud environments. Identified 1400 VMs and migrated them to the cloud.
Created and communicated the quarterly and annual calendars for iterations and program increments (PIs).
Ensured agile teams delivered on cadence and synchronization to avoid code and test dependencies, which in turn helps release on demand.
Aligned the Agile Release Train (ART) towards the common goal of driving the train to meet the business objectives through Release and ART sync meetings on a weekly basis.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Andhra University - Andhra Pradesh, India
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
Scaled Agile
PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner Certification
AXELOS
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
ITIL Foundation Certification
EXIN
Skills
Tools
Jira, GitHub, Trello, Asana, VersionOne, Rally, Artifactory, HP Quality Center (QC), HP QuickTest Professional (QTP), TeamCity, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Paradigms
Agile Delivery, Requirements Analysis, Azure DevOps, Scrum, DevOps, Agile Software Development, Agile Project Management, ITIL Continual Service Improvement (CSI), XP, Kanban
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure
Other
Project Management & Delivery, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Project Planning, Backlog Management, Software Development, User Stories, Sprint Planning, Portfolio Management, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Discovery Workshops, Project Timelines, Technical Project Management, Technical Leadership, Computer Science, Jira Align, Aha!, ServiceDesk, Project Management, IT Service Management (ITSM), Agile Program Management, Profit & Loss (P&L), ROI, Product Management, Business Strategy, IT Infrastructure, Development, Tools, Coding
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