Srinivas Gudimella, Project Manager in Saratoga, CA, United States
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Srinivas Gudimella

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Project Manager

Location
Saratoga, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
May 20, 2019

Srinivas, an agile program manager, has led end-to-end program management responsibilities for digital transformation and custom application development projects across the globe. He's delivered programs and projects ($15+ million )in financial services, audits and assessment, sales compensation, and healthcare. He was accountable for planning, budgeting, project kick-off, communications, quality, and delivery of the projects across the SDLC.

Project Highlights

Audit Process Platform
Led the development of business enterprise platform for large audit and assessment services organization with 12 scrum teams.
Facility Management Platform - Project Tracking
Led the development of project tracking capability for the facility management platform.
Sales Compensation Incentive Engine
Led team through multiple releases of new, high visible sales incentive compensation engine (ICE).

Expertise

Work Experience

Senior Technical Program Manager

2019 - PRESENT
ServiceChannel Inc
  • Planned go-to-market plans for quarterly releases.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and delivered the quarterly releases.
  • Planned and delivered multiple projects managing through software development.
  • Created development schedules and managed the engineering, UI/UX, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver the same.
  • Managed risks proactively and ensured there was no impact on the delivery schedules.

Delivery Manager

2007 - 2018
Microsoft Corporation
  • Delivered programs and projects (over $15 million USD) across SDLC using agile, iterative, and waterfall methodologies.
  • Led cross-functional teams spread across engineering, quality assurance, security and privacy, and infrastructure to ensure alignment towards project goals and successful delivery.
  • Led programs in financial services, audits and assessment, sales compensation, and healthcare.
  • Managed programs involving 300 consultants, multiple locations, and PM/dev/test disciplines.
  • Improved SLAs by 30% through sustenance engineering; implemented operational improvements like left shift quality, leaner test processes, RCAs, and more.

Project Manager

2005 - 2006
LGS Ltd
  • Created development schedules and supervised the development teams.
  • Managed communication with customer and business stakeholders.
  • Managed a team of 25 engineers across development, QA, and UX disciplines.
  • Contributed to process improvement initiatives and improved delivery quality.
  • Contributed to design review sessions.

Project Manager

2004 - 2005
NCR Corporation
  • Created development schedules and supervised the development teams.
  • Managed communication with customer and business stakeholders.
  • Managed a team of 25 engineers across development, QA, and UX disciplines.
  • Contributed to process improvement initiatives and improved delivery quality.
  • Contributed to design review sessions.

Project Leader

1998 - 2004
Intergraph Corporation
  • Managed a team of 10 developers by executing the project plans and delivering as per plan.
  • Designed key modules of the products like image training and placing of taps.
  • Participated in the review of designs and code of peer developers.
  • Developed the key modules of the products using C and C++.
  • Created unit tests, integrated tests, and ensured the applications are developed with the highest quality.

Audit Process Platform

Led the development of business enterprise platform for large audit and assessment services organization with 12 scrum teams.

After completion of a successful discovery phase working with the customer product owners, the high-level product backlog was built and estimated. Post that the platform was architected, moving to design and development and delivered against the planned milestones.

The application was built with a brand new look and feel, and smart navigation around the workspace making it ready for future use on any device. Developed custom built questionnaire tool flexible to accommodate the industry being audited and directly linking to the workspace. To accommodate the traveling auditors, effective conflict resolution system has been built that enables the auditors to choose the method of connection and synchronization like “always online," “Sync Periodically,” or “Work Offline."

The platform is launched and all the auditors across the 160 countries are performing the audits in a standardized and efficient way and thereby improving the customer service.

Facility Management Platform - Project Tracking

Led the development of project tracking capability for the facility management platform.

1. Planned and executed the project tracking capability from concept to general availability.
2. Collaborated with the product manager to define the concept, requirements and getting approval from the executive sponsor.
3. Contributed to the estimations, planning, and scheduling of the project
4. Led the development team to deliver the project as per the timeline with the highest quality. No defects have been identified after the launch.
5. Worked with the account and customer success teams to identify the customers for limited availability, planned for execution, and implemented the same.
6. Conducted training sessions to the learning and development and support teams to support the platform after general availability.
7. Owned the communications throughout the life cycle from concept to general availability for both internal and external customers.

Sales Compensation Incentive Engine

Led team through multiple releases of new, high visible sales incentive compensation engine (ICE).

As principal PM/scrum master, coached the teams to move to agile methodology from traditional waterfall.

Introduced agile release planning with periodic releases and sprints aligned to the product roadmaps.

Facilitated the product discovery workshops to get the requirements finalized for a cloud-based rewrite of the legacy system.

Coached the customer team on agile methodology and enabled them to adapt the same across all their projects.

Drove the team to migrate to VSTS to support the agile delivery.

Unified Communications Platform

Led the porting of Noble Resources Lotus Notes to Microsoft Unified Communications platform for their supply chain group.

1. Led the business stakeholders of the Noble Services group to drive the vision and strategy for the project.
2. Published the overall plan for moving all their employees spread across the world along with the headquarters team to move to Microsoft platform without any impact to their existing business.
3. Drove the execution of the plan working with all the stakeholders and managing teams across time zones parallel.
4. Conducted the project kick-off meeting, weekly status meetings, monthly executive steering committee meetings, and ensured everyone had the latest update of the project.
5. All employees have been moved to Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange platform with no impact or downtime for the business.
6. Project was delivered on schedule and within budget with a savings of 5%.

Chatbot Offerings

Led the business offering team as Microsoft for building the Chatbot offering for Utility Services.

1. Conducted the discussions with the sales team across Microsoft Services to understand the needs of the bot for utility services.
2. Led the architects, business analysts, and UX design teams to define the business and technical requirements for building a bot that can initiate the conversation and conduct transactions in utility space.
3. Led the technical team to estimate and define the program management details like the number of resources, schedule, and cost for the offering.
4. Collaborated with marketing and account management teams to land the offerings for the pilot customers.
5. Collected the feedback and input from pilot customers to refine the offering.
6. The offering has been launched in GITEX and Europe Consumer Show and got additional customers and more business.
2000 - 2003

Post Graduate Diploma in Finance

Indira Gandhi National Open University - New Delhi, India

1996 - 1998

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru University - New Delhi, India

1992 - 1996

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Andhra University - Visakhapatnam, India

JUNE 2015 - PRESENT

Change Management Professional

Prosci

MARCH 2013 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

JUNE 2012 - PRESENT

ITIL

APMG

OCTOBER 2006 - OCTOBER 2019

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

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