Manager Program

Vishnu Devarashetty, PMP Leads teams and delivers stellar results sustainably

Herndon, VA 571-***-**** ************@*******.*** US Citizen, public trust clearance (High Level) Driven, result-oriented executive with 20+ years of proven excellence in leadership, client engagement, team building, project management, and business development. Combines fact-based decision making with a can do attitude to solve problems creatively and effectively, and leverages interpersonal skills to engage teams, win commitment and delivers stellar team-performance sustainably. Seeks a challenging project management role in information technology that requires a well-seasoned manager who has deep experience in developing innovative solutions, who is adept at engaging clients and senior leadership, and who delivers outstanding results.

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

Build & Lead Cross-Functional

Teams

Waterfall & Agile Development Vendor Management / Sub contractor management

Strategic Planning & Execution Conceptualize & Define System Requirements

International teams

management/coordination

Engage Clients & Business

Leaders

Working knowledge of MySQL

Microsoft office and Project

PMP/CSM certified

Vizio, Jira, Contour,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Blue Print Consulting Services Group (BCSG) – 6/4/2018 – till date BCSG is a small business company, rapidly growing in Federal projects arena, growing from 20 employees in January to 80+ employees in October of 2018. Responsibilities and achievements:

Manage development of 11 legacy applications rewrite with a team of 14 BCSG employees, 3 FEMA project managers and 12 FEMA employees.

Agile coach FEMA development team to move from waterfall methodology to Agile Support to FEMA COR on applications development roadmap, technology adoption Provide support FEMA supervisors and FEMA project managers on project and program management. Moving towards managing all the 34 BCSG employees at FEMA and additional contracts as acquired.

Built four well balanced teams consisting of BCSG and FEMA employees, FEMA supervisors and FEMA project managers for application development and infrastructure management/ongoing production support.

Managing relationships under strict intra and inter FEMA department communication protocols and 3 days a week federal work from home policy employees. Communicated with the integrated teams, clearly and regularly to ensure alignment of expectations, goals and objectives.

Transitioned FEMA team from iterative waterfall to Agile

Provided road map for current and future application development and decommissioning of applications, with mid implementation course corrections

Managing a budget of $3M and moving towards $7M with addition of rest of the team and new contracts

Review contract performance, client satisfaction provided feedback on FEMA employees feedback

As resource manager of BCSG employees, set employee performance goals, review employee performance monthly in an informal environment and formally twice a year, mentor employees on their career paths.

Defined UI/UX requirements for the apps and web pages, in addition to behavior of screen elements and behavior logic; worked with the design team to develop screen layout and design, screen elements; reviewed wireframe, analyzed user feedback and updated design requirements, reviewed database tables and structure; and studied clients’ business workflow to ensure rules defined match user requirements.

Used agile tools ( Started with excel workbooks and moved onto Jira) to breakdown effort, schedule sprints, and manage changes

Monitored implementation of test protocols; analyzed results to identify bugs and unanticipated user behavior; entered details into JIRA; wrote new user stories and updated sprints

Identified risks and planned and prepared for them; monitored progress and mitigated unforeseen risks by seeking advice from stakeholders and deploying innovative solutions Portfolio Manager - Stealth Solutions 9/1/2016 – May 2018 Stealth solutions, stealth-us.com, is a small business, supporting development of salesforce based grants management solutions for cities and states. Stealth supports REI systems in their grants management solutions.

Managed grants management portfolio and was responsible for successfully deploying 3 states grants management systems;

Developed a roadmap to ensure planned future development of the state grants management after transitioning of the project.

Selected offshore development team; negotiated terms and conditions; nurtured relationship and built them into a virtual in-house team; evaluated their performance regularly and provided their leadership with constructive feedback; reviewed partners estimates and challenged time and effort estimates with fairness

Defined UI/UX requirements for the apps and web pages, in addition to behavior of screen elements and behavior logic; worked with the design team to develop screen layout and design, screen elements; developed wireframe and prototypes for review; analyzed user feedback and updated design requirements

Studied clients manual processes and manual business workflows and brought in organization change to adapt to the new system

Managed the successful delivery of applications, meeting quality, budget and timeline goals within acceptable deviation; communicated clearly with off-shore developers functions, features, and performance criteria; used agile tools to breakdown effort, schedule sprints, and manage changes

Recruited and managed testers; monitored implementation of test protocols; analyzed results to identify bugs and unanticipated user behavior; entered details into JIRA; wrote new user stories and updated sprints

Identified risks and planned and prepared for them; monitored progress and documented possible unmitigated risks by seeking advice from stakeholders and deploying innovative solutions Program Manager, Business development, REI Systems 3/16/2015 – 8/31/2016 Worked as lead and key member of the business development team in an agile environment. Managed several business initiatives ranging from $1.5M to $75M, from capture to award. Responsibilities include, potential client understanding the need, presenting enterprise solutions, budgeting and negotiation including scope, time and cost.

Managed several application prototypes to support business development, with an emphasis on application deployments to cloud infrastructure.

Program Manager, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – MassGrants REI Systems, 3/14/2013 – 3/15/2016

Agencies of Commonwealth of Massachusetts receive several billion dollars in federal grants every year. These grants are managed using homegrown systems or through office tools. Implemented a complex but versatile system to meet 31 agencies unique requirements. In addition to managing a complex contract, managed teams in 3 different geographic locations: Agencies and client facing team at Boston, Development and QA team at REI in Virginia and additional development and QA team in India. There are a few firsts in this project:

Using Salesforce platform native capabilities for a sophisticated grants management system thus reducing the future maintenance

Developing a centralized grants management system to cater to 31 individual agencies, and the Administration & Finance processes and needs

Completing data migration with the first release of the system to production

Rewrote and helped rewrite standard operating procedures adopting the new grants management system

Program Manager, Open Government, IT Dashboard/Gov Dashboard REI Systems, 3/3/2012 – 3/12/2013

Managed various projects under Open Government Practice at REI, including ITDashboard.gov, GovDashboard.gov, Data.gov, and Performance.gov. Responsibilities include exploring new opportunities to improve government IT Management and reporting. Current effort includes enhancements to IT Dashboard and GovDashboard to include IT portfolio and performance management improvements. IST Lead/WO Manager, DHS/FEMA, NDGrants

REI Systems, 3/1/2011 - 3/2/2012

For the FEMA EADIS Program, was a Work Order (WO) Manager, responsible for overall delivery, quality assurance, customer interface and satisfaction, supported a variety of FEMA program areas. Provided WO life cycle support including – WO proposal development, initiation, transition, execution, and close- out conforming to the Task Order(TO) requirements, generated Program Change Requests (PCRs) to adjust contractual scope, budget, and schedule for the WO. Developed WO life cycle governance documents and executed projects in accordance with CMMI Level 3 requirements; including collection of performance metrics.

Program Manager, Office of the Comptroller and Currency (OCC), Department of Treasury - CATS REI Systems, 6/1/2010 - 2/1/2012

OCC is has very stringent project and contract management requirements. A typical document undergoes four review cycles reviewed by four different groups within OCC. Led one of the OCC's largest IT project, with subcontractors and technology partners, with a budget of $10M per annum and a team of over 45 FTEs. Received accolades for establishing PMO, recruiting almost entire team with specialized BPMS experience and meeting the contract and customer expectations under rigorous monitoring of the OCC contract and program management and delivering the a complex requirements first phase within 3 months.

Project Manager, Web ADD and NDGrants - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), REI Systems, 3/1/2008 - 5/29/2010 Manage multiple projects on grants management, resource deployment to disaster areas. The resources were over 30 FTEs, with a budget of over $5M to $15M per annum, with responsibility of overall delivery, quality assurance, technical roadmap, customer interface and satisfaction of the system owner and CIO. Project Manager, Fannie Mae, Restatement - Impairments, July 2005 - December 2007 Perform a variety of business, technical and system analysis functions leading to project management role on Fannie Mae’s finance and accounting system development team. Systems Analyst, Project Enterprise, FreddieMac, January 2004-June 2005 Senior Business and Systems Analyst for Re-Statement & Close the Books (CTB)-related pricing app development and projects (Amortization, Commitments, Other Basis Adjustments & Purchases). Project Manager / Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer, Various Projects, Schlumberger August 1997 - December 2003.

Managed 4 teams in France, India, Canada, and USA with different time zones. Clients were financial services providers, including Desjardins, First USA, Moneris, First Data, Paymentech, Visa, MasterCard EFS, and NOVA.

Developer / senior developer in various projects in India - August 1990 – July 1997

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