Srinivas Baditha Phone No: 900*******
srbaditha@gmail
.com
Career Objective
Seeking a Sr. Program / Project /Delivery/Release Management/Lead position
with a growth oriented organization, but open to other industry, challenge
and opportunities.
Career Summary
> Over 15 years of experience in IT industry, program management, project
management, delivery management, release management, team management and
complex systems integration using various technologies across US, Europe
and Asia.
> Implementation experience to meet client's goals and requirements and
ensure that business requirements are satisfied with appropriate
functionality, highest quality, on time and within budget.
> A diverse background in technical and managerial areas with experience in
creating vision, strategies, portals, business management, software
development, web strategies and for delivering business critical
information system projects to internal and external clients.
> Expert in agile software development, proven track record of leading
large scale program management initiatives in financial services,
excellent communications abilities, both written and verbal with people
at all levels.
> Distinction of being a Subject Matter Expert / Architect in Build &
Deployment Automation, trouble shooting, problem-solving, presentations,
seamless end-to-end delivery of service for clients, project management,
risk management, release management support in Windows/Unix/Linux
environment
> Onshore and offshore resource management, team leadership, mentoring and
process improvement Critical, innovative and strategic thinking.
> Have done Project Management Professional (PMP) training.
> Generate weekly project scorecard and metrics, status summary reports and
risk analysis.
Technical Skills
Operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server
2000/2003, UNIX, Linux.
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10g, Toad for Oracle.
Tools: ANTHILL-PRO, Hudson, Open Make, Quick build, Cruise Control, Mercury
QC, Rational Test Manager suite, Maven, ANT, Tomcat 5, IBM WebSphere,
Weblogic, IIS, WSAD, ECLIPSE, Rally, RT, Service Centre and Remedy, Build
automation, testing automation and Load Testing tools. IBM Rational
ClearCase, ClearQuest, Multisite, Rational Tool Suite, Rally, JIRA,
Bugzilla, Perforce and Subversion.
Languages & Scripts: C, C++, Java, J2EE, C, C++, JAVA, .NET, XML, VB
Script, ANT, VB, PERL, Shell,
Other Software / Skills: Microsoft Project, Visio, Office, SharePoint 2007,
Project Management, ITIL, SOX,SDLC, RUP, Agile Development, CMM,
understanding/experience, PEGA, knowledge of Microsoft technology like
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
and System Center Operations Manager,
Scholastic Credentials
> Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application.
> Bachelors in Engineering
> ITIL V3 Foundation Certified
> PMP Certification - Completed training.
Personal Information
Date of Birth : February 1965
US Status : US Citizen
Address : Hyderabad, India
Career Highlights
XOOM Corporation - San Francisco, CA August
'11 to Present
Delivery /Release Manager (Employee)
Notable Accomplishments;
V My core responsibilities comprise end-to-end responsibility of
requirements definition, overall design, integration of third party
product, business partners' systems, interfaces development and
integration of work utilizing teams including supplier teams located
in multiple countries, and accountability for quality delivery &
Customer Satisfaction.
V Overseeing project & resource planning and release process in support
of business strategy and objectives in Agile SCRUM development
environment.
V Prepare release schedule, co-ordinate with Product, Engineering, QA
and IT teams, and execute the releases end to end for XOOM Global
applications.
V Managing multiple development teams simultaneously and responsible for
chairing release review, release planning, daily SCRUM, Go/ No-Go,
retrospective and release Scorecard meetings.
V Implementing infrastructure, tools, process and release automation
projects.
V Principal point of contact for product teams, project managers / team
leads & Infrastructure team
V Performed interviews to recruit new team members and managed the
People.
V Managing a team of 50+ consisting of Project Managers, business
analysts, QA testers, DBAs, architects, release engineers and
developers
V Responsible for Integration of all participating projects in a complex
change and release to ensure seamless execution, risk management, on-
time delivery of high quality releases, and provide visibility
throughout the process.
V Responsible to provide management reporting on all activities
including change management, release management, and problem
management, and any other reporting requirements as required.
V Provide technical guidelines and support Software Builds and
deployments, trouble shooting in Pre-prod environment.
V Developing and deploying of key execution strategies for Configuration
Management (CM) & Release Management.
V Supporting the configuration audits to verify that requirements of all
baselines have been met by the as-built software.
Wells Fargo - San Francisco, CA Apr'11
to August '11
Tech Lead - Build & Release Management (Consultant)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Coordinating with development, release management, and quality
assurance on schedules and handovers for builds and deployments
V Consulting with platform Development leads to help define build and
deployment procedures, write Install Manifests, and resolve
configuration management issues.
V Participate release planning meetings, co-ordinate with Dev, QA, DBA,
Infra teams, and supports the release process throughout the release
cycle.
V Supporting an aggressive release cycle with multiple parallel
development efforts and a demanding build and deployment schedule
V Publish documentation, status reports, release schedules, build status
and configuration details for assigned platforms.
V Supporting End-to-End Release Management process.
V Manage and control pre-production environment configurations.
V Perform software builds and deployments for assigned platforms and
releases;
V Ownership of incident management activities for unplanned outages in
pre-production environments.
Fannie Mae - Herndon, VA Apr'09 to
March'11
Lead /Project Manager (Consultant/Employee)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Supporting strategic planning, including opportunity identification,
and effort assessment and scoping.
V Developed project plans including scope, cost, schedule, quality,
resourcing, risk identification & mitigation, training/communication
and the implementation of Agile based execution.
V Facilitated and participated in reviews, planning, configuration
planning, meetings, Daily, weekly meeting, performed presentations,
Mentor team members, Performed interviews to recruit new team members
and Managed the People.
V Managed Technical projects, tools upgrade, Migrations, SQL upgrade,
windows & UNIX server hardware upgrades.
V Provided technical direction to all team members, and ensuring on-time
delivery of all projects.
V Generated and provided senior management weekly status reports
V Managing a team of 30+ developers, architects, and release engineers
V Provided guidance for ETL, Weblogic integrated with in-house build,
Deployment and Release Management Automated Tool.
GEICO - Washington, DC Aug'08 to Apr'09
Configuration & Release Management Lead (Consultant)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Functioned as a Team Lead designed, implemented CM process for all IBU
Claims applications in Perforce, defined and implemented build and
deployment process, developed CM plans facilitated Configuration CCB
meetings, Configuration planning meeting, weekly team meetings and
participating Release review, Deployment Planning Meetings.
V Handled J2EE conversion Project - To Convert C, C++ legacy system to
J2ee framework.
V Provided support to the - Rational ClearCase, Perforce and Subversions
Version Control Systems, implemented Release Branching Strategy for
parallel development
V Supported End-to-End Release process for a multiple releases,
Performed Software builds in C, C++, VB, Java, SQL packages, and
deployments in development. System testing, UAT, Performance
environments and Production staging.
V Managed Team of 6 -9 Build & Release Engineers.
V Implemented Quick build a build Management tool, developed Perl and
shell scripts and streamlined the build and deployment process.
EDS @ Kraft Foods - Chicago, IL Feb'06 to
Jul'08
Delivery Manager (Consultant/Employee)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Functioned as a Delivery Manager, managed service delivery management
and accountable for overall customer satisfaction, outsourced contract
engagements in deployment and maintenance of high availability
computing applications for Kraft Global enterprise environment
V Managed multiple development teams and coordinating Off Shore
Development Environment, EDS Onsite Support Teams and Kraft
Management.
V Performed interviews to recruit new team members and Managed the
People.
V Developed project plans including scope, cost, schedule, quality,
resourcing, risk identification & mitigation, training/communication
V Responsible for chairing planning and release review meetings and
regular status reports.
V Managed infrastructure projects to implement Domain Migrations, CM
Hard Ware Environment Migration, SQL servers, Rational tools upgrades,
Anthill build automation tool implantations
V Successfully implemented ITIL process in Kraft Change Management Audit
Compliance in Configuration Management Environment.
V Managed Team of 40+ Project Manager, developers, Analysts on site and
offshore.
Discover Financial Services - Chicago, IL May'05
to Feb'06
Project Manager (Consultant)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Managed migration project to migrate applications from Harvest Version
Control to ClearCaseUCM Environment and Build automation tools.
V Developed Project plans, Release implementation plans, risk plan,
worked with development team, Infrastructure, WASSUP teams on Software
Release and production Install activities
V Implemented ClearCase UCM Multisite Version Control Environment in
UNIX & Windows mixed environment for DFS CM environment.
V Implemented OpenMake Build Tool and configured Build and Assembly
Process and supported build and deployments.
V Provided regular status reports to the client management and IBM.
IBM @ BellSouth - Atlanta, GA Feb'05 to
Apr'05
Release Manager (Consultant)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Liaised with Engineering & supporting teams and successfully migrated
BLS VoN project into Production environment.
V Implemented processes to achieve repetition of solution implementation
to assist in cost control improve margins and optimize operational
efficiency.
V Refined existing automated build processes and regularly identify
build errors and streamlined handover process and documentation
according to BellSouth standards.
V Developed project plans including scope, cost, schedule, quality,
resourcing, risk identification & mitigation, training/communication
V Guided in designing ClearQuest Schema, Records, Hooks and implemented
Change Management Process in IBM -BS CM Environment.
V Identified new tools, technologies, and processes to improve the
reliability, repeatability, and efficiency of builds and releases.
V Integrated build system with baseline server configuration before
service is released into production.
V Successfully implemented SoDA reports to extract data from ClearQuest
and Rational Test Manger tools to support daily IBM - BellSouth status
meetings.
Eli Lilly - Indianapolis, IN Jun'02
to Jan'05
Environment /Program Manager (Consultant)
Notable Accomplishments;
V Project Discover IT Global Environment Optimization - Worked as
Program Manager to optimize Discover IT Development, Release and IT
environments across Global project and managed the delivery of multi-
million dollar programs and services for internal clients across USA
and UK.
V Efficiently addressed the production issue on client's critical
application and demonstrated the incompatible issues with J2EE and
load balancing environment, Lead the team and implemented the fixes.
V Provided operational management overview and driving productivity
improvement initiatives.
V Developed project plans including scope, cost, schedule, quality,
resourcing, risk identification & mitigation.
V Drive the usage of SDLC, RUP, and other key measures to significantly
improve project delivery.
V Ensuring the appropriate metrics, status reports, resource planning
and program management methodologies are applied to drive success.
V Pivotal in liaising to development teams to coordinate with
Infrastructure, DBA, WAS supporting teams on infrastructure
implementations and Project Release activities.
V Some key projects handled by the team include Global Samples
Management, Samples search engine, Reference Database, Global order
automation, Customer online inventory and support, credit card
platforms, J2ee implementation, WebSphere Upgrade, Solaris upgrade,
Global Integration, Build and Deployment automations and Windows XP
upgrade
V Accountability for resources with a team size of 100 + Developers,
leads, Managers and Analysts in USA and UK, 10+ direct managerial
responsibilities for 10 engineers and architects.
Previous Experience
May' 01 to Jun'02 Eli Lilly - Indianapolis, IN (Consultant): Development
Lead / Application Architect - successfully re-designed and implemented
customized Frame Work.
Nov'00 to May'01 Convergys Cincinnati, Ohio (Consultant): Development
Lead / Build & Deployment Engineer - successfully developed and reseller
project for version and supported the build and deployment environment.
Aug'00 to Oct'00 BANKONE, Columbus, Ohio (Consultant): Development Lead
- successfully developed & supported Bank One's web based application using
Java1.2, JSP, EJBs, Oracle and Unit testing.
Mar'00 to Jul'00 Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio (Consultant):
XML Development Lead - successfully implemented Parser Interface using IBM
XML Parser, Java, CORBA Client and Server Architecture.
Jul'99 to Feb'00 GLOBESET, INC. Austin, TX (Consultant): Java Developer
and Lead - provided support to Web Based application development and
application build/packaging and deployments
May'97 to Jun'99 Focus InfoTech / Zeeplus Systems (India)
Sr. Developers - successfully designed & implemented client applications
using Java middleware interface with JSP front End, Oracle backend and
Applications with C, C+ Code Base.
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