Project Manager Management

Sridar Pootheri, P.M.P.

**** ******** ******, *** ***, Berkeley, CA 94709

Phone: 510-***-**** (Mobile); 510-***-**** (Home)

Email: ********@*****.***

Profile

Emotionally intelligent, Principle-centered, PMP-credentialed, passionate

professional who constantly improves and increases knowledge in business,

technology, and human relations. Positive, Proactive, self-motivated, goal-

oriented, creative problem solver focused on customer service, and

implementing solutions that provide clients and customers with increased

productivity, effectiveness and efficiency. Pragmatic risk manager with a

positive outlook and persistent drive towards problem solving. Creative,

innovative, solutions-orientated technology manager. Provide value-based

business alignment and transformation through project management processes

and change management. Extensive technical knowledge derived from work

experiences, broad academic background and rapid learning. Demonstrated

excellence in team building, leadership, communication, organizational,

research, analysis, issues management and problem solving skills. Enjoys

driving operational success of projects through teamwork and collaboration.

. Proven ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or

goal.

. Adept at building effective relationships across disciplines and at all

levels in an organization.

. Demonstrated effective influence management, strong Problem Solving,

Decision-Making, Leadership, Organizational, Diplomatic, Conflict-

Resolution, Negotiation, Goal-setting and Prioritization skills.

. Effective Forecasting, Resource Planning and Resource Management.

. Proficient in Needs/Requirement Analysis, Change Management and Event

Planning /Execution.

. Software Life Cycle Management with Web Design & Development. Ability to

define, design, develop, deploy, document and manage highly complex,

abstract and large software systems.

. Good balance between Traditional (PMI) and Adaptive (Scrum) Project

Management Methodologies.

. Excellent oral and written communication, Reporting, Documentation, SOW /

Proposal Writing.

Skill Set

. Project Management: PM Methodologies, Pro-active

Management, excellent Inter-Personal Communication

and reporting, Team-Building, Detail Oriented and

Multi-tasking skills.

. Analysis/PM Tools: Agile/Scrum, eXtreme, RUP,

UML, OOA/D methods, Niku RPM, Niku Workbench, MS

Project, MS Visio, MS Office.

. Development: C/C++, Java/J2EE, Python/Jython,

Perl, PHP

. OS: Unix (Solaris, Linux), Windows NT/9x/200x/XP.

. Symbolic Computing: Matlab, Maple, Mathematica.

. Grid Middleware Tech: PBS, Globus, Condor, CORBA.

. Relational Databases: ORACLE, MySQL.

Education

. Certified ScrumMaster from Scrum Alliance (April 2008). To verify, visit

this page or my profile page.

. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management

Institute. (Passed on Sept 9th 2004 scoring 82% - Expires Dec 31, 2010)

To verify, visit this page and type my last name.

. Project Management Certification, University of California Berkeley

Extension (June 2004). Earned a Distinction.

. Software Project Management Certification, Univ of Cal Berkeley Extension

(May 2004).

. Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Georgia (May 2000). [Dissertation

contains results of massive computations produced with High Performance

C++ programs.]

. M.S. in Computer Science, University of Georgia (May 2000).[Thesis

contains results of massive computations produced with High Performance

C++ programs.]

. M.Phil. in Math, Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics,

University of Madras (1990).

. M.Sc. in Mathematics, Ramanujan Inst for Adv Study in Math, University of

Madras (1989).

. B.Sc. in Mathematics, Vivekananda College, University of Madras (1986).

Work Experiences

Aug 2008 - Dec 2009.

Lead Project Manager, National Agreement Implementation, Execution &

Strategy, Business Infrastructure BIO, Kaiser Permanente,

2101 Webster Street, Oakland, CA 94612

. Contributed to the tighter tracking of status of all project in the

program by developing weekly project status reports from Niku RPM and

played a central role in running Program Alignment Meetings every week.

. Lead the Program Quality Management - Reviewed and coached on clarity

improvements for critical documents such as Concept Document, Business

Requirements Document, Logical Solution Design Document

. Lead the departmental end-to-end adoption of Quality tools - HP Quality

Center, Borland CaliberRM, Borland StarTeam and Borland StarShare. Set

up projects and user accounts for everyone in the department per

individual/project needs. Provisioned and managed user access for

everyone in the department and partners. Liaisoned with maintenance staff

and trouble-shooted issues raised by all users. Developed training

materials and trained all users for effective use of the softwares.

. Lead the department on the compliance of Kaiser Business Records

Retention policy.

. Developed and implemented departmental document archival strategy.

. Project Key Learning Review - Championed the need of it, developed a

process, conducted pilot reviews adopting the process, worked with

executives on fine tuning and rolled out the process for adoption.

. Managed three IT projects and delivered them on-time and within budget to

the satisfaction of business partners.

May 2007 - Sept 2007.

Project Manager (Consultant), Open Systems Project Management Office,

Inovant, VISA,

801 Metro Center Blvd, Building M4, San Mateo, CA 94404

. Managed a full life-cycle of Secured Data Warehousing Project for 2007,

in compliance with Visa's Project Management Methodology (PMM). This is a

multi-year Information Security, Research & Development Project (Budget -

$3.5M) Governed by Visa's Technology Oversight Committee. Project

involved development of 5 short-term solutions including a Proof-of-

Concept introducing new Software for Visa, to remediate few Security

deficiencies of Visa's Critical Data Processing Production Environment;

and development of Threat Modeling and Conceptual Architecture for two

Data Processing Production Environments. Developed Requirements & RFPs,

put for competitive bidding, reviewed and selected SOWs, brought in

consultants from Price Waterhouse Coopers and Ab Initio Services, and

managed their work to completion to meet the Project objectives.

Propagated the results and findings of consultants and facilitated key

Stakeholder buy-ins for the introduction of the new software to Visa.

Drove the project to meet its objectives by building relationships across

disciplines and by Cross Functional Team Facilitation. Developed a SOW

for $2,231K and received approval for FY 2008 funding for the Project,

following through Visa's entire Project funding approval processes.

. Managed Visainfo Canada Portal Project, in compliance with Visa's PMM

Methodology and delivered to Customer Satisfaction. This is a high

visibility Software Development Project, with tight resource and budget

constraints. Prepared and delivered presentations on scope, function,

issues, progress and results of projects to division and senior

management to facilitate project planning, requirements and customer

negotiation. The solution involved IBM's Web Content Management API and

Web Sphere.

. Completed a full life-cycle of a GMBS Billing Project which involved

development of 2 Standard Interface Files.

Dec 2006 - April 2007.

Technical Project Manager (Consultant), Wholesale Credit Workflow Systems,

Wells Fargo, 201 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA

. Full Project Life-Cycle Management of a portfolio of Credit Risk Rating

web-based Software Development Projects in compliance with Enterprise

Project Management Methodology of Wells Fargo. Produced multiple software

releases and facilitated customer acceptance of solutions.

. Adapted Agile/Scrum methodologies for driving Projects to success.

. Fully responsible for Project Accounting, Budgeting and Forecasting.

. Primarily responsible for delivering the projects on time, within budget

and meeting the strategic business and technical requirements. Identified

and schedules project deliverables, milestones and tasks.

May 2006 - Dec 2006.

Project / Program Manager (Consultant), Light Speed Project, Middleware

Integration Services, AT & T Services, 2600 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA

. Release Management for a Portfolio of IT Projects. Owned and drove a

complex release process in support of multiple software releases.

Activities include weekly build/sync scheduling and coordination; commit

review responsibility, test initiation and result tracking, etc., Was

driving the planning and management of day-to-day Release activity,

including risk identification and mitigation. Hosted periodic Release

Operations meetings, publish minutes, and managed action items. Directed

release ops staff in lower level release activities. Drove and owned the

successful completion of commits and milestone reviews.

. Component Management for a Portfolio of related Java middleware

components. Supported and owned multiple Middleware Components - each of

which is involved in multiple Projects enabling the core billing

operations of the company. Coordinated cross-functional component

technical teams driving through the estimations, development, testing,

deployment to various environments and release processes, by keeping

track of Project status and issues.

. Created structured processes and facilitated the interoperability of

middleware components belonging to two companies AT&T and Cingular in

their efforts to close their company merger process.

January 2006 - April 2006.

Project Manager (Consultant), Corporate IT Systems Project Management

Office

NBC-Universal, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA.

. Assisted in creating Processes and Procedures and Templates in setting up

a Project Mgmt Office for Corporate IT Systems Dept in compliance with

the process guidelines set by General Electric., their parent company.

. Researched the Enterprise Project Management software market for a

solution that would appropriately fit for the company culture and needs

of the organization.

. Developed a manual process for Project Issues Reporting/Management and

implemented it in MS Excel for a sizable ($40M), high-visibility Project.

Diligently followed the process and updated it for weekly Status

reporting to the Governance Committee.

. Developed multi-media Training material for Microsoft Project and

delivered it.

. Collected Resource Requirements for a Portfolio of 80 off-shore Projects

for the year 2006, performed Resource Leveling, Project Prioritization

and developed a Resource Plan Roadmap for Executive decisions.

May 2005 - October 2005.

Sr. Technical Project Manager (Consultant) Greater Bay Bancorp,

2860 West Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA.

. Managed 2005 year's Enterprise wide Disaster Recovery Exercise (IT

Infrastructure) Project.

. Effected communication to foster a cooperative, team atmosphere;

facilitated meetings and decision making process in a large cross

functional team.

. Updated and maintained the Project Scope, Plan, Schedule and other

Project Documents and critical technical artifacts.

Nov 2001 - March 2005.

Project Manager

Active Tools Inc., 2200 Powell Street, Emeryville, CA,

. Helped to find the balance between iterative (Agile / Scrum) development

and formal software project management processes that was appropriate to

the company's culture and to the types of projects being executed.

. Although started as technical lead, in just two months earned the trust

of the Team (20 members) and became the single point of contact for a

major project of the company - development of iBasel Financial Risk

Management Software.

. Proved his ability to effectively foster a strong team environment,

ability to multi-task and his ability to communicate with various levels

of management and worked effectively with diverse technical and

scientific teams.

. Managed 5 projects end to end. For one multi-year project, lead the

delivery of customer requirements/needs, on time and within budget, in

six releases.

. Created and tracked Software Requirements in Traceability Matrix for each

release.

. Provided full life cycle project documentation and management. Reduced

costs, identified risks, resolved conflicts and issues.

July 2000 - July 2001.

Sr. Analyst/Computer Systems Engineer III,

Distributed Systems Department, NERSC,

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at

Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

. Performed Project Estimation and Planning and developed grant proposals

to US Dept of Energy and US Dept of Defense for Grid Infrastructure.

. Was responsible for collecting and analyzing requirements, writing

technical specifications

. DOE Science Grid: In-charge of a computational environment supporting the

SuperNova search Cosmology project.

o Overviewed Installation/configuration debugged and consulted on inter-

organizational Grid enabling softwares such as - Globus, Condor, and

Portable Batch Systems (PBS) on a collection of Sun SMP servers.

o Played as a Sys-Admin and was Troubleshooting, scripting, OS upgrading

and performance tuning departmental enterprise servers with excellent

understanding and application of volume management tools (Veritas) and

disk array layouts, and strong understanding of backup and recovery

strategies.

o Installed, Configured and Managed the X.509 PKI Certificate Authority.

Issued and provisioned PKI Certificates, consistent to the

Organizational Security Policy.

. IEEE HPDC International Conference - 10.

o Analyzed and Managed web front-end and back-end for collecting and

organizing all of the research paper submissions. Coordinated paper

review as the single point of contact. See http://www-itg.lbl.gov/edas

Other Experiences

. Instructor at Computer Science Dept., University of Georgia, Athens, GA,

USA.

o Spring 2000. Instructor for graduate level Java Course.

o Fall 1999. Instructor for C++ course.

o Winter 1999 - Spring 1999. Various undergraduate level

Computer Science courses;

. Research Assistant at University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

o Winter 1998 - Spring 1998. Plant Sage Project, Artificial Intelligence

Dept., UGA;

o Fall 1997. Coweeta Research Project, Institute of Ecology, UGA;

o Winter 1997 - Spring 1997. Learning and Performance Support Lab,

College of Education, UGA; (Design and Development of Web-based

educational systems.)

o Summer 1995 - Spring 1996. Dean's office, College of Business, UGA;

(Design and Development of Web-based meeting support software named

TCBWorks (Commercial name: Consensus @nyware).) This is a system of

CGI programs using mSQL relational database at the backend adding up

to 25,000 lines of C code. MIS Professors used it to show their

classes about how to use the web to conduct formal Business meetings

with globally distributed Teams. People in the industry used it to

know the technology and be reassured of WWW's potential as a

successful information medium. The second version of the research

prototype was licensed to a commercial software development company

named "Soft Bicycle" that later renamed as "GDSS".

. Winter 1992 - Spring 1995.

Instructor at Dept. of Math, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

o Teaching Assistant for various undergraduate level Math courses at

University of Georgia.

. December 1990 - September 1991.

Branch Manager, Info-Drive Computers Inc., Madras, India;

o Managed the instructional branch of the company, designed and

developed the curriculum and taught programming languages like COBOL,

C, FORTRAN, dBASE and BASIC.

. August 1989 - October 1990.

Part-time Instructor

Info-Drive Computers Inc., Madras, India;

o Taught programming languages like COBOL, C, FORTRAN, dBASE and BASIC.

. August 1988 - December 1989.

Part-time Instructor,

Datamation Computer Consultants, Madras, India;

Taught programming languages like COBOL, C, FORTRAN, dBASE and BASIC.

. July 1985 - June 1986.

Student Press-Correspondent,

Ananda Vikatan & Junior Vikatan, Madras, India;

o Contributed articles and photographs to both the weekly magazines.

Other Experiences (Honorary / Pro Bono)

. Feb 2008 - Present.

Member of Board of Directors (Honorary / Pro Bono),

Hindu Community and Cultural Center, Livermore, CA

o Was democratically elected to serve in the Board of this 30 years old

non-profit organization serving over 40,000 Hindus in BayArea,

California.

o Was unanimously elected in the Board to serve as Corporate Secretary

of the organization. The responsibilities of this position includes -

conducting formal meetings of Board of Directors and meetings of a

450+ Steering Committee, in compliance with Profound Parliamentary

Practices Robert's Rules of Order; Facilitating decision making

process and e-Resolutions; Record Keeping; Enforcing Bylaws for better

organizational administration and accountability.

o Board of Director responsibilities include - developing and making

Policy decisions, Directing the operational committees, reviewing and

approving budgets for day-to-day operations, Capital Projects,

Strategic Projects, Long range planning Projects, Multiple phases of

Master Plan facilities construction Projects, Coordinating various

parties such as Architects, SMEs, Livermore City officials and

Vendors.

. March 2005 - March 2007.

Honorary Secretary of Executive Committee and

Executive Chairman of Publicity Committee,

Hindu Community and Cultural Center, Livermore, CA.

o Was fully responsible for conducting formal meetings in compliance

with Profound Parliamentary Practices Robert's Rules of Order;

Facilitated decision making processes and e-Resolutions; Enforced

Bylaws for better organizational administration and accountability.

o Authored News Letters; Developed yearly calendars for 2006 and 2007,

sent weekly mass emails to 22,000+ subscribers; periodically

disseminated events information through website, newspapers/magazines

and also inside the premises of the organization.

. October 2004 - February 2005.

o Actively served in a 7 member honorary Committee to review and change

Constitution and Bylaws of Hindu Cultural and Community Center; to

save this $2M turnover religious organization from frivolous Law

suits.

o Affected organizational Change Management for better Self Government.

Communicated, collected, categorized, analyzed, influenced, negotiated

and gained the support of diverse members of the community. Finalized

the documents, and presented to Steering Committee of 450+ members in

two phases and effected the change to Constitutional By-laws for

better clarity in a peaceful and democratic way, drawing from more

than 4 years of my associations with the organization and members of

the community.

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