IT Program Manager

Shashikala P Rao; PMP

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• Eleven years as Information Technology Program Manager and Solutions Architect

driving large scale, Enterprise Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain IT strategic

program deliveries in the Oil and Gas and Automotive industries.

• Very strong record of successfully delivering critical projects with high technical complexity,

global stakeholders, multiple vendors and geographically diverse teams .

• Excellent Project Leadership skills, with demonstrated ability in efficient management of Scope,

Quality, Schedule, Risk, Budget, Resources and Communications.

• Proven ability to take strategic concepts and carry them through to successful enterprise wide

implementations.

Skills Summary

IT Project Life Cycle: Project management, ROI analysis, business requirements analysis, project

planning, budgeting and scheduling, vendor management, cross functional collaboration, onshore and

offshore resource management, software development lifecycle and methodologies (Waterfall, Agile),

quality assurance with unit, integration and user acceptance testing, performance and scalability testing,

production rollout and support.

Areas of Expertise: Large scale enterprise software implementations, Product Life Cycle Management,

Shop Floor Execution systems, enterprise CAD/CAM/CAE data management and global data sharing,

configuration management, bill of materials management, manufacturing process planning, outsourced

engineering and manufacturing, IT delivery for divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, IT infrastructure

delivery, systems integrations with multiple vendor products, large scale data migrations, web based

OLTP systems, data modeling, client/server multitier architectures, object oriented design and

development, information security.

PLM/ERP/MES: Teamcenter Unified, Teamcenter/SAP Integration, SAP PP, Apriso Flexnet,

Distributed Numerical Control systems, SCADA Controls, NX/NXCAM, Metaphase, TDM,

Enovia/VPM, Ideas, Catia V5, ETS (Engineering Translation Services), VisMockUp

Program Management tools: Clarity, Microsoft Project

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Access.

Programming: Teamcenter ITK, C/C++, Java, Perl, CGI, Servlets, JSP, EJB, PL/SQL,PHP, ETL, Shell

Programming, UML, XHTML,XML, HTML,CSS,JavaScript,Orbix, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, Parallel

Virtual Machine APIs, Message Passing interface APIs (MPI).

Web Platforms: IIS, Websphere, Web 2.0, Apache, iPlanet

Professional Experience

Baker Hughes, Houston, TX Aug 2011- Sept 2012

Program Manager, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain IT

IT strategy development, Enterprise level IT Program Delivery and Management

• Enabled the “manufacture closer to the point of consumption” business strategy by the delivery of

standardized, best in class manufacturing infrastructure and application suite (SAP, NX/NXCAM,

distributed numerical control systems) to start and sustain production in new manufacturing plants at

Baker Hughes. Duration : 8 months, Budget : $800K

• Enabled the “design anywhere, build anywhere” business strategy by improving the procurement

process with the delivery of a collaboration toolkit based on SharePoint technologies for secure

exchange of intellectual property information with outsourced engineering and manufacturing

suppliers. Duration : 3 months, Budget : $150K

• Developed strategic roadmap for the manufacturing IT portfolio. Detailed a global strategy and

program proposal for Manufacturing Process Planning, enablement of Digital Manufacturing toolset

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and Numerical Control related process standardization across Baker Hughes discrete manufacturing

plants.

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI July 2000 –Dec 2010

Program Manager and Solutions Architect, Application Delivery Services

IT enablement of Divestitures (Jaguar and Land Rover, Volvo Car Corporation, Mazda):

• Managed the Delivery of IT infrastructure and applications systems to the divestiture as part of

multimillion dollar enterprise level IT Programs. Delivered specialized tools for protection of

Intellectual Property of shared data between Ford and the divestitures and ongoing bidirectional,

secure sharing of data post separation.

• Managed the timing, quality and budget constraints by judicious use of in-house and vendor resources

and closely monitoring cross work stream dependencies (Enterprise Security Systems, HR Systems

and Infrastructure streams)

• Implemented of a standalone Enterprise Data Management system along with clone of several

ancillary applications (Password Management through Central Directory services, User Registration

and Auditing, Digital File Based Buck) at the divestiture along with transition plans with knowledge

transfer to maintain and enhance the system in the future.

Jaguar and Land Rover: Duration: 15 months, Budget: $3.2 M

Volvo Car Corporation: Duration: 12 months, Budget: $2.7M

Mazda: Duration: 5 months, Budget: $400K

Enterprise level Project Delivery and Management:

Enabled an enterprise wide rollout of the “Global Product Life Cycle Management Platform” for

Ford Product Engineers, Manufacturing Process Planners and extensive Supplier Community.

Delivered the foundation for the Global PLM Platform by implementing standard business processes and

tools for enterprise CAD/CAM/CAE data management, data model, security model and workflow

processes, bill of materials management, configuration management, digital prototyping and build of

vehicles to support milestone reviews, manufacturing process planning and process simulation.

• Systems Interoperability Solutions: Delivered a bidirectional systems data interoperability solution,

which enabled phased migration of data and users from legacy toolset (Metaphase) to the Next

Generation PLM solution (Teamcenter) at Ford Motor Company. Developed innovative batch

solutions for data migration and transfer of location of control. This solution supported the needs of

over 50 vehicle programs, over a period of 5 years, migrating around 2 million Items.

Phase 1: Duration: 9 months, Budget: $1 M

Phase 2: Duration: 12 months, Budget: $1.3 M

• Global Data Sharing: Delivered Global Data sharing solution for Product Design, CAE and

Manufacturing data (over 6 million Items) to meet the needs of a large Enterprise with a federation of

11 Data Management sites communicating via multisite. Developed configurations and tools for

faster transfer of data, parallelization of data transfers and resolution of data integrity and run time

errors. Duration: 8 months, Budget : $750K

• Supplier Integration: Achieved Supplier Integration (around 800 companies) by delivering offsite

and onsite Ideas and Catia Connectivity Solutions to Ford’s Global Data Management Systems.

Duration: 12 months, Budget: $1.3M

• Systems Integration Solutions: Delivered several CAD to PLM integration solutions including Ideas

to Metaphase Integration, Ideas Integration into Teamcenter, Catia V5/V4 Integration into

Teamcenter, and AutoCAD Integration into Teamcenter. These have been widely used by the user

community of Ford internal and Supplier users. (over 16000 users)

Phase 1: Duration: 12 months, Budget: $1.4 M

Phase 2: Duration: 8 months, Budget $750K

Phase 3: Duration: 18 months, Budget: $2M

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Phase 4: Duration: 4 months, Budget: $300K

• User Access Management: Delivered OLTP Web based system for User Access Management

interacting with multiple systems in the backend (Teamcenter and Digital Buck) with rollout

supporting more than 16000 users.

Phase 1: Duration: 12 months, Budget: $1.2 M

Phase 2: Duration 8 months, Budget: $800K

• Change Control and Management: Delivered Electronic Release and Change Control Portal for

Change Management interacting with multiple backend systems (WERS, Teamcenter and PPM Audit

systems). Team achievement with very high visibility, high technical complexity and constantly

changing Business Requirements.

Duration: 7 months, Budget: $750K

• Legacy Systems Data Archival: Developed a Data Archival and Retrieval solution definition for

multiple legacy data management systems (Metaphase, PDGS/Data Collector) containing more than

12 million data items. Led data mining activities, vendor proposal evaluation (Siemens, Dassault,

Secure24, CSC, Right Hemisphere/Documentum) and the vendor selection process. This project is a

major enabler for consolidation of IT systems while maintaining access to data for over 30 years for

Service and Legal Departments.

Duration: 8 months, Budget: $700K

• Major System Upgrade Projects: Successfully managed the launch of a major

Teamcenter Engineering Upgrade Project. This project was a major part of a $11 Million

dollar program. Delivered on target, with quality, managed a large cross functional team of

highly skilled subject matter experts. Successfully managed several Data Model Upgrades,

Security Model Upgrades and Work Flow updates to Teamcenter.

Duration: 15 months, Budget: $3 M

Ajilon Consulting, Dearborn, MI Nov 1996- July 2000

Project Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Led onsite and offsite software development teams in the design, development, quality assurance

and production release of several software tools in support of global engineering and

manufacturing users and suppliers.

CDAC Ltd; Bangalore, India June 1993 – Feb 1996

Senior Software Engineer/ Parallel Solvers Group Lead

Led a team of 7 developers to deliver efficient, scalable, parallel algorithms for several Linear

Algebra problems on several architectures. (Cluster of Sun-Sparc Workstations running PVM,

CDAC’s PARAM series Super Computers, IBM-SP2).

Education

Ph.D.: Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

M.E.: Systems Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

B.E.: Electronics and Communications, K.R.E.C, Suratkal, India.

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