Manager Project

SEELAM P REDDY (SEA)

*** ******** ******, **** ****, Ca 94306

*********@*****.*** 650-***-**** cell

Objective: Seeking a senior project or program manager/coordinator role with a reputed organization. Experienced in IT Infrastructure, data center upgrades, relocations, consolidations, audits, Applications implementation and support, Mergers & Acquisitions Integration and divestitures. IT service delivery management and ITIL trained. Helpdesk and incident manager at Boeing for the southwest region.

Project Manager at VMware for two years as a contract consultant supporting R&D and Engineering on ten mergers and acquisitions IT integration and five divestiture/joint venture activities. Major tasks included due diligence, budgets, day 1 planning and execution, near-term and long-term integration. Also, worked on data center consolidation, upgrades to network and decommissioning of servers. I worked at Boeing, Hughes and small start-ups in IT organization in both Infrastructure and Applications.

Professional Experience

Founder, Palo Alto Innovations, Palo Alto, CA January 2014 – now

Plan Infrastructure upgrades, international data center relocations

Data centers consolidation

Data centers decommissioning

Risk planning and mitigation

Projects recovery planning

Incident management

Service Delivery Management

ITIL implementation for Service Delivery

Help desk and incident management

VMware Contractor through PCS Inc: Mergers and Acquisitions IT Infrastructure project manager - support to R&D and Engineering Palo Alto, California

Project Manager, Tech Ops, Corporate IT, Palo Alto location January 2012 – November 2013

Supported 9 M&A integrations pertaining to Infrastructure between Jan 2012 and 2013.

Wanova, Virsto integration achieved with teams in multiple countries; Israel, Bulgaria, India and Australia

Forecasted M&A capital needs for each M&A and obtained approvals from IMO business office

Supported 5 divestitures in 2013 and completed three on schedule\

Planned for capital; expended capital for new M&As

Prepared TSA and executed 2 to completion in 2013

Improved play book for M&As and helped consolidate between corporate and engineering

Extensive knowledge in Product life cycle tasks for M&As

Frequently interfaced with program managers to understand and support IT related activities;

Easy to get along and establish personal rapport with senior business leaders

Good understanding of Engineering tasks that require IT and infrastructure support

Supported as a project manager to relocate 200 R&D servers from Hill View to VMware campuses

Supported product release cycles for new release before the VM world announcements

Boeing Company, Customer Engagement/Service Delivery Management Huntington Beach, California

Operations, Engineering and Technology, IT Infrastructure; N&SS; C3Networks December 2001 – May 2010

Experienced customer engagement/service delivery manager with IT Applications and Infrastructure service delivery, coordination and management experience. Frequently engaged internal core service provides; Network and Server Management teams and DELL & CSC service providers to get complex problems resolved.

My accomplishments and experience include

Managed complex project United Launch Alliance divestiture on IT Infrastructure separation completion by September 2009; Several service termination items; network, desktop, server room separation and interface with Aerospace corporation representatives requiring interfacing with customers and Aerospace representatives.

Service Delivery Manager/customer engagement for C3 Networks organization in Huntington Beach and some support for S&IS Seal Beach facility.

Service Delivery Manager for S&IS El Segundo Satellite Ops from 2001 to 2005 supporting 6500 people site

Managed improvement of CSC service delivery management during 2006 on service delivery issues in the southwest region

Skilled at engaging Enterprise Incident Management for service restoration and manage incidents for satisfactory restoration of services. Managed ten southwest sites for Boeing, a 24x7 responsibility, prepared a booklet for the southwest region. Received awards at Boeing for this role supporting infrastructure management with senior level executives and service partners DELL, CSC, HP and internal Help Desk.

Experienced in Service Level Agreements preparation, Product Catalog Review and service Volumes analysis

Extensive knowledge in Product life cycle tasks. Frequently interfaced with program managers to understand and support IT related activities; easy to get along and establish personal rapport with senior business leaders

Good understanding of Engineering tasks that require IT and infrastructure support

Returned to Satellite Development Center in mid 2006 to support recovery of six projects identified by the SDC IT business partner. Coordinated recovery plan to complete XP deployment starting in mid 2006; Held meetings with the site and CNO to recover storage projects

Supported recovery of Sarbanes-Oxley tasks that fell behind in mid -2006 at SDC

Interfaced with Enterprise Help Desk and improved the first call resolution for Desktop issues in 2005 for SDC

Facilitated integration of S&IS and SDC CNO costs planning and monitoring during 2005 consolidation

Achieved near perfect expenditure planning and execution for 2005 CNO costs within 5% of the plan

Frequently interfaced with the Business Partner; senior site IT and CNO management team on projects

Successfully transitioned many site IT Infrastructure services to Boeing IT, Computing and Network Operations services in 2003; Supported transition of support to CNO from $4.5M in 2001 to $67M in 2005

Transitioned SDC Infrastructure employees ( Network and Infrastructure employees and services) to SSG CNO employees in 2003

Transitioned SDC Email users to Boeing Email in 2002 with 7000 users

Supported Hughes – Boeing acquisition tasks from the beginning engaging with Boeing teams 2000

Hughes Electronics – Hughes Space and Communications El Segundo, California

Y2K Program manager (mid 1999-Jan 2000); June 1998 - November 2001

Assistant Y2K Program Manager June 1998-July 1999

Reported to Hughes CIO, Division VP on Y2K Program Management. Tasks included complex Ground Systems Remediation interfacing with Raytheon, Business Units and Satellite factory. The Y2K project was completed with no issues of significance.

Managed Y2K program as the program manager after having worked as the assistant program manager with a staff of seven people, Deloitt consultants and over 30 business unit leads assigned to this project

Held weekly and monthly reviews with business unit leaders on program status and remediation tasks

Managed CSC tasks remediation progress; Ground Systems remediation progress with Raytheon

Managed a budget and resources of $11.0M including $6M for ground systems remediation by Raytheon

Hughes Electronics - Hughes Communications Inc. HCI El Segundo, California

Manager of Applications Support (1994-97), Section Head (1989-1994) Jan 1988 - June 1997

Managed HCI company applications development and support team; during explosive business expansion of HCI satellite fleet from five to 15 satellites and expansion of DIRECTV and International business. Focal to customer executives on IT systems expansion plans; replacement of systems; day-to-day operations support. Accomplishments included below

Managed HCI and DIRECTV implementation of a new Finance system (CODA) in a record fourteen months. Hired resources from Arthur Anderson and managed internal and consulting resources to implement various modules of the financial system successfully in 1995.

Managed HCI HR system replacement; package selection; data conversion, implementation of PDS 1995

Managed the Reservations system (VTSRS) development, implementation and support for time-sharing business; business expanded services after the replacement systems were successfully implemented in 1990

Transitioned from legacy HP 3000 systems to Digital Alpha systems requiring many months of critical systems planning and migration without impacting the users 1991 - 1993

Education

Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering December 1974

Osmania University Hyderabad, India

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering May 1973

Other

Naturalized US citizen.

Trained at Boeing learning center and VMware on agile development

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