Manager Project

Raghunath Abburi, MBA, MSCS, PMP, ITIL

Cumming, GA *******@*****.*** 248-***-**** linkedin.com/in/raghuabburi Architecture and Security IT Program / Project Management Applications Delivery INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR

Global Leader in Information Technology with years of varied project management, implementation of complex business strategies, and long term strategic technology planning. Consistent track record of on-time, on budget, program and project deliverables mapping business value chain and formulating productized solutions, objective analyses and recommendations to solve business problems while ensuring delivery excellence. Adept at effectively leading projects/teams, communications with senior level/C-Suite executives, vendor relationships to ensure seamless execution/support. Continuously identifying alternatives and solutions to reduce costs and meet changing business demands. Specific areas of accomplishments include: IT Transformation/Modernization Strategic Leadership/Team Building Organizational Development Program/Project Mgmt./SDLC Enterprise/Architecture Management Software Development/Maintenance P&L Management/Budget Controls Strategic Partnerships Supply Chain/Logistics/Purchasing SAFe/Agile/Iterative/Waterfall Big 5 Consulting ERP/MRP/Work Force Mgmt. IT Security/Data Privacy Cloud Computing - IIAS/PAAS/SAAS Master Data Management/BI/DW PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Technology Program Leader General Motors - Georgia Innovation Center Roswell, GA 02/2014 to 02/2019

● Oversaw portfolio of supply chain applications to develop architecture and technology management roadmap of Business & IT transformation goals with annual budget of $50M+ using agile development and delivery framework.

● Actively partnered and collaborated with various stakeholders/cross functional teams to drive portfolio/release planning, prioritization of product features/user stories, tech debt, production issue management, problem resolution.

● Led design/architecture sessions to ensure alignment of strategy, process, tools/methods working with cross functional teams to plan and execute projects and product roadmaps to support business continuity, disaster recovery.

● Led 12 factor analysis of GPSC App landscape to deploy to cloud. Drove adoption of Dev Ops Tools/Practices including Continuous Integration/Testing/Deployment/Delivery, automation of workflow processes.

● Led App rationalization analysis of GPSC Applications based on Gartner's Tolerate Invest Migrate Eliminate (TIME) Methodology - resulted in retirement of 2 Main Frame applications.

● Evaluated simple and cost effective approaches to transform GPSC Oracle Forms & Reports based applications to Java for deployment to GM internal Cloud to enable compliance with GM IT technology and security standards.

● Evaluated simple and cost effective strategies to transform GPSC Main Frame app landscape to improve end user experience/productivity, improve developer productivity, reduce main frame costs.

● Piloted and recommended innovative and emerging technologies - IOT gateways, cloud computing, and machine learning, AI based natural language Reporting Tools to enable productivity and cost savings. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

● Realized cost savings of $40M+ in annual spend through in sourcing of logistics functions and replacing multiple systems and logistics planning providers across multiple regions with a single system of record.

● Recommended cost effective solution to migrate Oracle Forms app stack in 3-6 months for a 300K line app to reduce total cost of ownership while staying compliant with GM IT technology and security standards.

● Improved user experience through simplified process of creating and exposing main frame functionality through use of third party API creator and web framework toolkits. Sr. Systems / PMO Manager FIS Global - Business eBanking Ann Arbor, MI 09/2013 to 01/2014

● Managed a team of 10+ Business Analysts and 5 Project Managers including resource capacity planning, workload delegation in support of application systems development, and high-profile project management.

● Ensured proper planning, tracking, and management of high-profile project scope, estimation, and resource allocation including total accountability to review and sign off on project artifacts per SDLC.

● Oversaw all project portfolio activities, reviews, and approvals on PMO artifacts per SDLC process.

● Drove consistency of standardized PMO processes and tools across team and Project Management organization.

● Trained, mentored, and oversaw talent management, recruitment, and staff activities. Raghunath Abburi, MBA, MSCS, PMP, ITIL

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IT Technical Manager / Enterprise Architect RGIS, Global Business Applications Auburn Hills, MI 03/2009 - 07/2013

● Drove global strategic multi-year, multi-language, multi-currency application development, delivery, maintenance and sustain operations of Work Force Management implementation based on J2EE SOA and multi-tenant architectures for deployment on virtualized VMware servers working with teams of internal, vendor, staff augmentation resources.

● Oversaw a team of 100+ in-house, offshore, vendor and business team members to develop global time and attendance solutions to be compliant with labor and wage regulation in 28 countries to include integrations with existing Oracle eBusiness Suite (Human Resources, Payroll), Inventory Operations and other custom Mobile Field Applications.

● Effectively streamlined business processes, training, and support networks to implement cost-effective solutions to enhance operational efficiency and productivity including resource capacity planning, workload delegation etc.

● Developed Project and architecture management governance processes, templates, checklists to include RFI/RFQ, SOWs, Vendor Selection Criteria/Rating process for use and adoption by projects/vendors as part of SDLC.

● Ensured proper Gartner/Forester analysis, vendor engagement, and comparison of product form, fit and functionality to align with RGIS requirements and operational needs across the globe.

● Championed creation of systems to store commonly used transactional data in Global Data Hub to eliminate point to point integrations creation of Master/Meta Data Management(MDM) to eliminate data redundancy/errors.

● Authored and edited long/short term technology system plans in support of CIO's IT technology blueprint. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

● Realized cost savings in excess of $5M+ in annual spend through replacement of multiple systems of time and attendance systems across multiple regions with a single system of record/enable ease of report aggregation, provide SOX and Safe Harbor compliance in various regions in addition to ongoing compliance of wage and labor rules.

● 2010 CIO Select SDLC Process Achievement Award, and 2011 CIO Select Technology Innovation Award. Program Manager - Architecture General Motors - Global Purchasing & Supply Chain Pontiac, MI 2006 - 2008

● Drove IT Technology roadmaps for implementation of enterprise, and mission-critical global business applications/ projects in support of GM's Supply Chain business models (Make To Stock, Order to Delivery) and strategies.

● Provided comprehensive thought leadership on common architecture principles, patterns, guidelines and standards for implementation and use by custom home grown, COTS and out-sourced applications/solutions.

● Developed Project and architecture management governance processes, templates and artifacts based on CMMI Level 4 to include data management life cycle governance policies and procedures for use by application/project SDLC.

● Oversaw all project portfolio activities, reviews, and approvals on PMO/architecture artifacts per SDLC of application projects executed by Systems Integrators (EDS, Wipro, HP, IBM etc), hardware sizing of application infrastructures.

● Collaborated with third-party vendors, clients across regions to evaluate proof of concepts, technology and architecture alternatives to provide summary analysis and recommendations. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

● Initiated and developed tool & process for creation of Master/Meta Data Management(MDM), Operational Data Stores

(ODS) in conjunction with Business Intelligence, analytics data warehousing, and data mining solutions. IT Program / Project Management Professional / Solution Consultant Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI Solutions Leader / Architect i2 Technologies Southfield, MI PIM Systems Analyst Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI Senior Programmer / Analyst Revlon Oxford, NC

Programmer / Analyst Champion Products - Division of Sara Lee Winston-Salem, NC EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Executive MBA Michigan State University

Master's Degree Computer Science University of Mississippi Bachelor's Degree Math, Physics, Chemistry Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Certifications Project Management Professional - Project Management Institute / ITIL V3 Foundation Certification.

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