Global HR Business Partner
Resume:
MADHAVI TELLAKULA (MADHU)
Santa Clara, CA
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www.linkedin.com/in/madhavitellakula/
GLOBAL HR EXECUTIVE
Global HR Business Partner l Talent Management & Development l Organizational Effectiveness
Global, strategic and innovative Human Resources Business Partner with extensive experience in aligning business and people
strategies by developing innovative HR programs and practices and delivering optimal business results. Excels in an
environment of change, balancing multiple demands, and positively influencing senior management in making key decisions.
Proven international experience in working with Centers of Excellence, setting strategy, identifying, and maximizing resources
within tight budgetary constraints. Drives relationships with internal and external partners through trust and integrity,
resolving problems creatively and focusing on effective and realistic implementation.
Key Areas of Expertise
- Change Management - Metrics & Analytics - Organizational Effectiveness
- Compensation / Benefits / HRIS - Leadership Development - Talent Acquisition / Retention
- Compliance / Legal - Mergers & Acquisitions - Performance Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EMC CORPORATION 2007 – May 2014
DATA PROTECTION & AVAILABILITY DIVISION OF EMC, Santa Clara, CA, US 2012 – 2014
Human Resources Director
- Drove unified business goals by providing strategic HR leadership to globally distributed engineering teams, including
China and India (COE’s) during high growth phase. Seasoned and experienced HRBP who provided critical partnership to
various product engineering teams during hyper growth, coached and influenced major stakeholders and line leadership
in creative problem solving and out of the box thinking.
- Met human capital requirements for change initiatives and long-term growth for business success by collaborating with
line leadership, developing optimal talent strategy, including identification of high potentials, and skills assessment / gap
analysis, driving recruiting and career development strategy.
- Retained top talent and responded quickly to turnover by managing succession planning, leading annual talent review
process for leadership positions, formulating succession plans with key leaders throughout organization based on
immediate and evolving competencies, risk / impact of loss and organizational need for key positions, customizing
individual and group development strategies.
- Enhanced all HR programs and initiatives by leading and executing, maintaining timelines effectively, including annual
compensation reviews, performance reviews, equity programs, organization talent reviews and key talent retention
programs.
- Improved staff quality by working extensively with managers on performance management and employee relations
issues.
- Recognized and given opportunity for leading HR analytics function by building innovative metrics and reporting, earning
appreciation from President and HR leadership team.
EMC, Bangalore, India 2009 – 2012
Senior Manager, Human Resources
- Led and drove HR Programs for 4 K employees in the region seamlessly and with flawless execution, designed all programs
to be competitive to local market and engage key talent.
- Was HR lead for engineering, coached and mentored HRBP’s through all HR programs, worked in close collaboration with
line leaders and staffing to meet hiring goals, considered a trusted advisor for US HR leadership on critical decisions.
- Aggressively scaled HR Operations through rapid growth phase from 700 to over 4K employees by building best in class
processes, optimal & effective partnership with Shared Services organization, leading HR transformation initiative in the
region & earning award for groundbreaking and pioneering contribution towards key HR goals.
- Launched Diversity initiatives in India with Women Leadership Forum by working extensively with EMC’s Diversity Office,
rolling out programs in region, setting up Disability Resource Group, Advisory Board for Working Mother’s Conference and
leading the effort for EMC, India to be in the list of Great Places to Work.
- Earned identification as highly credible and only approving authority in team along with HR Leader by maintaining
budgeting and financial planning for HR team independently and consecutively for 3 years in EMC, India.
- Achieved over 98% employee voluntarily participation by designing and developing India communication and
implementation of corporate pay reduction program in region.
RSA DATA SECURITY DIVISION OF EMC, Bangalore, India 2007 – 2008
Head, Human Resources
- Grew engineering team aggressively by leading staffing function with focus on cost effective recruitment strategies,
leveraging marketing function, building strong brand in local tier 1 in universities, hiring best in class new college
graduates and interns.
- Aligned local HR programs to EMC’s policies and practices in span of 1 year by influencing stakeholders and coaching
managers through change management initiatives.
- Enhanced transition processes by collaborating with leadership on transitioning engineering from Australia into offshore
development model with HCL India.
- Improved staffing by collaborating with other COE leaders, building fast track career progression program for high
potential engineering talent.
- Developed business book with standard operating procedures on ‘How to Set up Successful Teams in India’, ensuring
release to CEO’s staff as part of India Strategy for the corporation.
- Designed innovative ways of actioning engagement surveys, helped create local brand and great place to work for local
talent.
- Built visibility for HR in local high tech forums and associations, this provided a platform to share best practices and
leverage market intelligence.
ADAPTEC, Bangalore, India 2002 – 2007
Head, Human Resources
- Set up entire HR function for Adaptec, India, built strong people practices and programs in line with corporate philosophy
within highly dynamic market, aligning recruitment strategies, recruiting aggressively on campus from tier 1 schools,
lateral recruits from competition and US returnees through mentor leadership program.
- Trusted advisor and consultant to business on key growth decisions in the region, provided key metrics and trends that
influenced critical business decisions.
- Built cost effective HR Service Delivery model with Hewitt and Ernst & Young by leveraging outsourced models.
- Reduced non-tenured / infantile attrition in volatile market by developing effective orientation program by working with
line, building 90 days success program for new engineers.
- Improved manager quality by coaching senior management through employee related issues and managing staff within
law and government regulations.
- Created highly scalable recruiting model and hired senior leadership and management bench by collaborating with VPs in
US, building and growing teams in India. - Achieved over 80% of programs aligned to market by playing important role in company strategic decisions and
divestitures, ensuring both divested companies adopting Adaptec’s programs.
- Recipient of 3 CEO awards in Adaptec values category of ‘We make things happen’ for contributions.
TRANSYS TECHNOLOGIES, Chennai, India 2001 – 2002
Human Resources Manager
- Led and executed the HR function pro-actively to aggressive business needs, reported to CEO and led staff of 4. Revamped
all HR policies and programs, reviewed internal systems progressive to market practices.
- Established improved processes, incorporated new methodology into recruiting, performance management, and staff
development programs and led HR function through 3 successful quality (i.e.) ISO and CMM audits.
- Initiated MBO concept into performance management much before local industry wide adoption. Designed and
implemented behavioral-based performance evaluation and documentation program, driving culture away from
entitlement mindset.
- Received accolades from management in retraining more than 80% of engineers from legacy technologies to industry
current application technologies based on client requirements over span of 9 months rather than downsizing.
ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
RADIANT SOFTWARE, Chennai, India
Placements in-charge, Recruitment & HR
SATURN INFORMATION, Chennai, India
Site Manager
Managed India operations with direction from the US office, led HR, Finance and projects teams, worked extensively with
US clients, and identified candidates for project requirements. Executed client site placements with significant cost
savings and revenue increase through effective negotiation and contracts.
ETHIRAJ COLLEGE, Chennai, India
Faculty Member and Placements Representative
AIR INDIA, Corporate Office, Chennai, India
HR Generalist
EDUCATION
Master’s Degree, Human Resource Management (HRM), Pondicherry University, India
Master’s Degree, Business Economics, (MBE) Madras University, India (College topper)
TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Market Pricing 2013
Total Rewards Management, Job Analysis, 2013
Certified 360 Degree Feedback Coach 2010
EMC’s Director Development Program, 2009
Compensation Management in Corporate Philosophy, Sirish Joshi, 1999
Effective Work Force Planning, Adaptec, US, 2005
Lateral Thinking Techniques and Six Thinking Hats, Edward De Bono, 2005
Senior Leadership and Global Working, Adaptec, US, 2001
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