Reddy DG

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Senior Product Manager

Direct and lead a team of Software Application engineers, UX, Solution, Infrastructure Architects, Design, implement and test a complete Project based solutions, maintenance, training, coordinating Runbooks and Transition Teams, involve in Stage gates in waterfall SDLC, participate in Agile SCRUM Iterations.

Solving Business Critical requirement challenges and working with Cross teams providing solutions to project success and closure.

Participate as Virtual Advisor in research different technical capabilities comparing Saleforce, Zendesk, Freshdesk for a South American company to incorporate several bot features in CRM Technology.

Finding opportunities with clients, prospects, identify business requirements to facilitate in products

Closely work with business and clients before launch of product to make sure all the value of product features are met to requirements.

Managed cross-functional teams working with Product owners, business analysts, QA, Infosec for Product readiness and launch.

Bring innovation and cutting edge features by mentoring Teams meeting Road Map of Product Innovations.

Work on short and long term goals and vision of product roadmap.

Work closely with development team using Agile Scrum, helping team to improve velocity and creating exciting working environment.

Team-player and work in collaborative environment bringing subject matter expertise at high performing teams.

Worked with top executives giving transparent details regarding every stage of the product life Cycle and maintaining revenue growth Profit and Loss to achieve product financial success.

Drive critical requirements analyze and solve problems to closure. Expert in Product Development Life Cycle, release Planning, Change Management, Backlog Management, Product Strategy, Analyzing and mitigating risk and finding cost-effective solutions, establish realistic goals and enforcing milestone deadlines.

Authored detailed system requirement and system design documentation.

Maintained the project path keeping track of budget, resources and scope timeline within program/project lifecycle.

Provide leadership and direction to team members around compliance with InfoSec processes for application development and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Highlights

. Application Director

. Enterprise Architect/ Application Architect

. Strategy/Solution Road Maps

. Artificial Intelligence, IoT’s, BlockChain, Digital

. Application Development

. Cloud First Design Methodologies

. Agile Methodology

. Team Building/Mentor High performance Teams

. Process Implementation/ Performance Management

. Technology Excellence Innovation Strategy

Skill Strengths

Excellent communication and managerial abilities in dealing with upper management, users, staff, peers and vendors. Ability to relate technical matters to non-technical users and business matters to technical staff.

Strong customer/client focus with ability to manage expectations appropriately and provide superior customer/client experience.

Excellent problem solving skills and troubleshooting skills with a strong attention to detail.

Proficient use of Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint and MS Project, Project Server.

Ability to communicate with employees and customers of all levels.

Experience developing and managing complex project budgets.

Ability to communicate and interface with senior management (business, IT and functions).

Excellent communications skills (verbal and written).

Experienced facilitating meetings with high performing cross functional teams.

Experience managing multiple projects with complex inter-dependencies.

Expertise on Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions, Digital Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Block Chain, Data Analytics, Data Science, Big Data Hadoop, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dot Net

Experience

Ernst & Young, Alpharetta, GA

Senior Product Manager (Assistant Director) - October 2014 – Till Date

This position manages both Directors, Managers, Team Leads, and Individual contributors in the Application Development teams and Project Management Teams.

Works closely with Cloud Strategy Teams, Digital Strategy for Innovative AI, RPA, Blockchain Teams, Data Analytics Strategy Teams.

Develop in agile development methodology including user stories, continuous integration and test driven development.

Collaborate with architecture and leadership on design of a supporting technology strategy (including a multi-year road map) that aligns with architectural design, plan and standards, Works closely with business partners on scope definitions, MVP, and justify initiatives and project milestones.

Leads the development and application teams that support our systems and business

BetterworldBooks, Alpharetta, GA

Senior Product Manager - Feb 2012 – Aug 2014

This Position consists of Managing Team of Application Developers, Support, Vendor SLA and 24/7 e-Commerce site availability.

Be a leader to the team consistently applying appropriate development principles and standards during all phases of the development lifecycle while ensuring the solution design and delivery meet business requirements and expectations

Provide technology vision and leadership for the development and implementation of technology applications.

Develops an IT annual budget based on short term and long term strategic goals. Reviews and compares actual results to planned budgetary performance.

Insightful Make timely well-considered decisions, create innovative solutions and continuously learn on e-commerce innovative technology components

Emory School of Medicine (Vendor: Agile), Atlanta, GA

Senior Product Manager July 2011 – February 2012

Develop and maintain an organization using high performing people through effective hiring, coaching and rigorous performance/talent management processes.

Manage Technical Team to build robust systems for SOM.

Understand Existing applications and Mentoring Team to new methodologies. Working with School DEAN’s, participating in Design Sessions creating use case, Physical and logical flow diagrams, creating proof of concepts

Macy’s MST (Vendor Pyramid Ci), Johns Creek, GA

Product Manager - Mobile Solutions September 2010 – July 2011

This Position involved in Research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts. Involved in vendor negotiation of Hardware Motorola MC3190 handheld devices, acquire Microsoft licenses for Windows Mobile Technologies.

Re-engineering efforts to improve business processes and drive efficiencies

Work with onshore/offshore development model in US/India/Sri Lanka

Provide technology vision and leadership for the development and implementation of technology applications.

Boeing Company (Vendor: HCL), Bellevue, WA

Product Manager February 2010–August 2010

This Position consists establish Application Management strategy, technology solutions roadmap, projects and resources plans to align with business strategy, local and regional IT direction.

Articulate a strategy for continuous growth and extension of the above services across

Provide technology vision and leadership for the development and implementation of technology applications.

Develops an IT annual budget based on short term and long term strategic goals. Reviews and compares actual results to planned budgetary performance.

Insightful Make timely well-considered decisions, create innovative solutions and continuously learn on e-commerce innovative technology components.

Southern Company (Vendor: B2B Workforce), Atlanta, GA

Product Manager October 2009 – January 2010

This Position consists of Evaluate and recommend new technologies and cost-effective solutions to enhance Oracle CRM Application.

Steer application Teams and strategy to meet the needs and expectations of key stakeholders, and lead to IT and user teams.

Build an Application Development Team with the right people and the right number of people under a high performance organization for Software development.

Philips HealthCare (Vendor: Adecco), Andover, MA/Atlanta, GA

Application Director Consultant May 2008 – October 2009

The director will work on project engagements, provide technical mentoring to team members, and actively participate in architecture reviews and strategic development activities.

Support Atlassian JIRA as well as other elements of Agile SDLC.

Collaborates with enterprise and IT senior management to assure alignment to milestone goals.

Verizon Business (Vendor: Sai People), Alpharetta

Product Manager May 2007 – March 2008

Adhere to develop a solutions in Microsoft best practice of determined, approved and preferred technologies.

Strong knowledge of BizTalk 2006, Visual Studio.NET, C#, HTML/HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript and development.

Responsible for life-cycle plans and standard development workflows

Kimberly-Clark, Roswell

Lead Dot Net Developer May 2006 – May 2007

Ensure quality is enforced in the implementation of all development projects. Utilizing Agile methodology, focus on scaling success and consistency.

Demonstrable experience in defining development process improvements and test coverage

Bellsouth (Vendor: Avanade), Atlanta

Lead Dot Net Developer Feb 2006 – May 2006

Strong experience in developing web applications using Microsoft Dot Net technologies.

Experience building complex Multi-tier applications, incorporating rich interactives SOA principles.

American Cancer Society (Vendor: Ettain Group), Atlanta

Lead NET Developer June 2005 – Jan 31 2006

Guides the organization to standard Microsoft technologies or create new standards as development needs arise adhere to Best coding practices.

Adopts and implements IT best practices for the organization

Home Banc(Vendor: RSG), Atlanta

Sr. Application Developer Aug 2002 – June 2005

Develop and communicate to senior management and other internal partners on the team’s vision, strategy, metrics, annual goals, and success factors.

Demonstrate a willingness to be fully accountable for the team as a Senior application developer

BellSouth: Client (Vendor: Accenture), Atlanta

Application Developer /Application Architect - Jan 2002 – Aug 2002

Application Design, development and Integration for DPRO which consists of several Applications Integration to Servers and Datacenters of Charlotte, Birmingham and Jackson.

Hewlett Packard: Client (Vendor: Volt Services), Atlanta

Senior Software Consultant - November 2000 to January 2002

Involved in the Application Architecture, Analysis, Design, Coding of VTOC2ARS (Virtual Time Online Calendar), TFX (Time Driven Function Extension)

Verizon: Client (Vendor: CDI), Dallas

Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead June 2000 to Nov 2000

Involved in the design, development, and testing of Billing and Tax Component Applications for Verizon. This System is built to calculations and Adjustments for the customers who are using Verizon Telephone Services.

SRGroup, New Jersey Jul 1999 to June 2000

Medical Billing Resources: Client (Vendor: DataJump), NY

Involved in the design, development, and testing of Insurance based Application for MBR.

Application Partners Inc, CA Oct 2000 to Jan 2000

Involved in the enhancement, development, testing, and implementation of Insurance based Application for Freedom Group, IL. Greenway Medical Technologies: Clinet (Vendor: Datajump) Carrolton

Involved in the design, development, testing, and implementation of Web based Medical Application for Greenway using DNA (Distributed interNet Architecture).

SDS InfoTech, Trivandrum Apr 1996 to Apr Jul 1999

Century Communication

Role: Software Engineer Apr 1996 to Jul 1999

Involved in the design, development, and testing of an overnight report generation application using customized Active X Controls, Active X Controls were written in Visual Basic 5.0 and reports were designed in crystal reports 5.0 and by using cross tab. This application extensively uses stored procedures. Migrating the data from MS Access 2.0 to Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 for running other applications on production. Responsibilities include developing security system at front-end using Visual Basic and Re-Engineering the application to improve the performance of the system. Also interacted heavily with users.

In Touch Communication: Client (SDS Infotech India), VA

Role: Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer Jun 1997 to Feb 1998

Involved in the design, development, and implementation of Prepaid Call Phone System using Visual Basic 5.0 and SQL Server 6.5 running under Windows NT Server.

Software Engineer Apr 1996 to Apr 1997

Involved in the development of Intranet application for Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation. Numbers of ActiveX controls were developed using Visual Basic 5.0.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering)

SVH College of Engineering - India

CERTIFICATIONS:

Agile SCRUM Certified

Microsoft Certified Professional in Windows Architecture

Accomplishments:

Implemented Managed Services Hybrid model using Private Cloud (RackSpace), Public Cloud (Microsoft Azure) which profited $2M Revenue to Company in first year implementation also win on Infrastructure cost.

Catalyst Supply Chain application Digitized to work with IoT’s gave on field EY consultant’s increased productivity and gained $400,000 revenue over 6 months.

Utilizing Public Cloud Microsoft Azure and Share point solutions reduced 35% of customization cost and better manage P&G Supply chain system.

Implemented Fast Tag Application using handheld Motorola MC 3190 that cut cost 40% on print and manual process. Rolled out Nationwide for Macy’s/Blooming Dale.

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