Srinivasa E: Project Manager with 14.75 years of Experience

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

§         14.75 Years of Experience managing teams in the Information Technology Area

§         4.25 years in Nokia Siemens Networks and worked on multiple client engagements across geographies (Telecom Projects in Kuwait, Spain, USA, Philippines, Hungary, India), mostly in Customer Experience Management and Device Management areas.

§         Experience in People Management, Pre-Sales Support, Project Management, Software Development and Implementation for diverse industry areas including Telecom, Banking and Finance, Retirement and Health-Care, Strategy Consulting and Industrial Chemicals

§         Good Client Interfacing skills, team motivating skills and communication skills

§         Exposure to both Traditional and Agile Development Methodologies

§         Trainer for Project Management and Technical Trainings

§         Worked on projects covering all the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Phases (Proposal Preparation, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance and Production Support)

§         Been an SQA for designated projects ensuring Quality Process Compliance. 

Organizations worked for:

·         Technical Project Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks, Bangalore

(4.25 Years – Feb 2009 to May 2013)

·         Associate Manager at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

(1.9 Years – Jan 2007–Dec 2008)

·         Programmer Analyst at Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore

(6 Years – Jan 2001–Jan 2007)

·         Senior Systems Analyst at Sonata Software Limited, Bangalore

(2.6 Years – Jun 1998–Jan 2001)

 

Education

§         Post Graduate Diploma in Management (equivalent to MBA) in Systems and Finance, Xavier Institute Management, Bhubaneswar, India (1996 – 1998)

§         Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering), Sir C.R.Reddy College of Engineering, Eluru (Affiliated to Andhra University), India (1992 – 1996)

§         Other Certifications: PMI – PMP (ex), CSQA (Certified Software Quality Analyst), JAIIB Certification and Certificate in Banking for Software Professionals, NSE’s Certification in Financial Markets– Securities Market (Basics) Module, Lotus Notes R5 certified.

 

ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

Activities handled at Nokia Siemens Networks

Technical Project Manager for various Customer Accounts with focus on

·         Managing internal teams and external collaborators and vendors to deliver customized solutions based on NSN and third-party software to committed cost and delivery timelines

·         Managing the Development and Delivery of Solutions to Client Accounts

·         Managing project teams in the areas of Data Ware housing, Customer Experience Management and Device Management for Telecom Service Providers.

·         Estimating and Pricing for Projects and Responses to RFI/RFQs with focus on Margins and Profitability to NSN

·         Providing Customer Feedback to the Product Teams for feature additions.

·         Key Customer Accounts Handled:

o        Operator in Kuwait: As the main Systems Integration (SI) contact for all customizations in Kuwait for Data warehousing projects, handled a Portfolio of projects for Data warehousing and Device Management Customization Projects extending over 2 Years, 15 people and ~2 M Euro in Customization Budget. The projects scope involved upgrading existing NSN Data Warehousing Solution to latest versions and integrating with their internal (custom) data warehousing application. Development teams were from Budapest, India and Kuwait.

o        Operator in Spain: Handled multiple projects involving customization and installation of NSN’s Data Warehousing solution. Worked with the Customer Teams to ensure they had deliverables from development teams on time and within cost and stated quality parameters. The projects involved upgrading and extending Product features as additional adapters (for Thresholding and Profiling) and Probe integrations to enable additional KPIs to be calculated in the product. The projects spanned about 1.5 years, 12 People, ~1.200 M Euro and involved teams from Budapest, India and Portugal.

o        Operator in the USA: The operator had their own version of S6b interface for interfacing its MPN subscribers information to the enterprise AAA system.  This interface was implemented as an addition to the IMS v 7.1 SP1.  This project was implemented for their Premium Corporate customers. The project ran for 4 months with 6 people. The budgeted cost was 150 K Euro (including Change Requests). 

o        Leading Operator in India: The project involved Customization for PCS customizations to swap a competitor’s PCRF solution and migrating the customer data to NSN solution.  The development lasted 3 months with 8 people. The customization budget was ~20 K Euro. The development team was from India.

Activities handled at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

Service Introduction Manager for a leading Banking firm in the UK.  Set up and stabilized the Service Introduction team consisting of 5 SI Leads in Bangalore, India. The Service Introduction team ensures that all relevant information is available to support teams when a Project moves to Production (becomes as Service).  We evaluate every project for production readiness on the following parameters:

·  Feature List completion

·  Testing Phase success

·  Documentation Completion / In-built Help modules

·  Availability / Completion of Training

·  Security considerations

Release Manager for a leading Telecom player in the US: work included managing of team of 20 people on project evaluation, representing development teams on Change Control Board meetings, requirements and risk managements, Estimation and Schedule development and managing projects to approved budget and Schedule

 

Activities handled at Infosys Technologies Limited.

Project Management for multiple Customer Accounts in the Banking, Finance and Insurance and Health Care Domains in both onsite and offshore roles.  Worked on Banking and Healthcare Projects for leading US Banks with team sizes between 15 and 25 people.

Project SQA for related projects in the portfolio

Trainer for Lotus Notes and Managerial trainings.

Activities handled at Sonata Software Limited.

Quality Consultant, System Analyst, Designer and Developer – worked on multiple projects covering all areas of the Software Development Life Cycle.  Projects were mostly on the Domino Lotus Notes platform (Lotus Notes Client and web-based development and web-enablement of Client Application), Microsoft Exchange Server and integration with Oracle and Third-party ERP systems.

ACHIEVEMENTS

§         Infosys Technologies Limited: MVP (Most Valuable Player) for Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter of 2005 from the EMEA Division

§         Sonata Software Limited: Best Consultant in the Consulting Group for year 1998-99

Software Exposure

Operating Systems	Windows, Unix (12 months), Mainframes (3 Months)
Packages / Tools	Domino Lotus Notes (Rel 4.5 to 7), Oracle (7.3 to 10i), Sybase, Microsoft Excel, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), Seagate Analysis
Programming Languages	Visual Basic for Applications, C/C++, HTML, JavaScript and Java basics

Trainings Handled

Accenture	·         Project Management Trainings related to PMP
Infosys	·         Lotus Notes R5, R6 for batches totaling over 60 participants ·         Process Knowledge related Trainings like Requirements Management, Onsite-Offshore Coordination ·         Induction Training for new recruits into the organization
Sonata Software	·         RBI, Chennai and REC, Trichy - Lotus Notes User and System Administration and Application Development

Representation in Trade-shows

CSI Exhibition, Mumbai, January, 1999:  Showcasing Sonata's Products and Services in Lotus Notes and related groupware technologies.

Personal Information:

Age: 39 Years

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Mobile No: +91 98860 98816