Radha Vinod
Tustin, CA *****
https://www.linkedin.com/in/radhavinod
949-***-**** acvxdb@r.postjobfree.com
TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY PROFESSIONAL
16+ years’ experience of Technical Hands-on contribution, Delivery, Global management, Business Development and Operations
Expertise in the banking and finance domain
Results driven, motivational team leader, trusted advisor and proven change agent with acclaimed experience in achieving high customer satisfaction.
Streamlined processes to significantly reduce cost, and delivered critical projects within budget and under time constraints.
Certified Scrum Master with experience in running projects in agile
Recognized for winning critical projects and directing large cross-functional teams in delivering technology enablement and performance improvement projects
Proven expertise to create, build, mentor and manage high performance software engineering teams in fast-paced environments
Provide vision, oversight, governance, and continuous improvement over the engineering teams
RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Sr. Project Manager, Irvine, CA
SpringboardAuto.com April 2015 – Present
Key member in ideating and delivering solution to build the product
Managed timelines and product management of the web customer interface
Devised MPP based Project Schedule, tracked progress of tasks
Worked on QA strategy and test Planning
Maintained Risk register and published weekly reports to the executive team
Coordinated Infrastructure set up, Design and Build activities
Responsible for end to end delivery of all components and leading cross functional teams
Managed the vendor relationships required for the delivery of the platform
Actively involved in hiring and building the team
Managed Production Support
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Project Management Consultant, Irvine, CA
Alliance Healthcare August 2014 – April 2015
Implemented RFP process for deploying build & test services
Managed ETL project team to build out the reporting platform
Identified the risks including financial, operational, people and managed these through a clear risk mitigation plan.
Key member in formulating and implementing strategies to build a data warehousing environment
Responsible for building templates for the project
Program Manager, Bangalore, India
Wipro Technologies January 2011 – March 2014
Provided leadership to the ETL & Mobility project teams for Banking domain. Managed business targets
Implemented projects on time and under budget
Handled multiple teams constituting over 150+ members
Created action plans to displace competition by collaborating with cross functional teams, developing critical relationships with customers, tracking key issues and driving weekly technical update meetings
Identified the risks affecting achievement of targets, including financial, operational, people and managed these through a clear risk mitigation plan
Focused on building a strong team through emphasis on establishing systems and processes. Instrumental in formulating and implementing strategies to drive revenue, improve productivity and optimization of resource utilization
Led innovations and maintained statement of work with customer
Improved Operating Margin of the projects by nearly 10%
Project Manager Bangalore, India
Wipro Technologies June 2008– December 2010
Drove technical account management / project management activities for a financial customer
Worked closely with area sales management, account team and customers to understand business opportunities, managing resource levels effectively within the department and aligning the right technical resources to support customer engagements.
Developed and managed ongoing strategic customer relationships, partner alliances and created sales strategies to drive business opportunities.
Managed Onsite Offshore coordination of work
Mentored and provided guidance to junior Engineers
Project Manager Plano, TX Capital One Financial January 2007 – March 2008
Implemented large, complex technology projects supporting customer servicing and data warehousing finance needs
Managed external Vendors to ensure timely project implementation
Implemented Distributed Agile methodology to offshore resources .
Served as the focal point for all technical issues
Technical Lead Plano, TX Capital One Financial December 1999 – January 2007
Designed reusable process for data migration
Led successful integration of acquired portfolios of Onyx, Hibernia & Peoplefirst
Designed the Customer servicing platform for Capital One Auto finance
Enforced standards and best practices
SKILLS
MS SQL Server, Erwin Tool, SQL, DTS, Ab intio, SSIS, Oracle, MS Project, JIRA, Clarity, Project Management, Product Management, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Operations Support, Data modeling, Web design, Outsourcing
AWARDS
Best Project Manager 2010
Circle of Excellence 2004 (Systems Integration), 2007 (Financial Reporting)
Employee of the month 2000, 2002
EDUCATION
MS in Management Information Systems, University of Texas at Dallas, Graduate School of Management, Dallas, Texas, USA
M Phil in Molecular Biology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
MS in Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
RECENT TRAINING
Currently working on PMP certification
Wipro PM Elite certified
Risk Management
Big Data/ Hadoop
Project estimation
Agile methodologies
STATUS
US Citizen