VENKAT BOKKA

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PROJECT MANAGER

IT Professional with 15+ years of experience leading the design, development, and im- plementation of cost effective, high-performance software solutions in Agile Environ- ments. Widely recognized for delivering marketing attribution project within budget and a full 30 days ahead of schedule, equipping Hotwire’s marketing team to invest in the most profitable channels. Best known as go to guy for all things Payment related within the company.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hotwire, San Francisco, CA

March 2014 – Current

Project Manager

Delivered highly visible marketing attribution project involving various cross functional teams equipping Hotwire’s marketing team to invest in the most profitable channels.

• Led project involving 6 cross functional teams across 3 locations involving 32 team members and a full 30 days ahead of schedule.

• Directed end to testing efforts and production launch with zero P1 and P2 bugs.

• Devised processes and tools best suited for each project

• Facilitated and delivered migration of 40 million active payment methods from Hotwire’s database to PCI complaint Payment Vault on time. Hotwire, San Francisco, CA Jan 2011 – Feb

2014

Agile Project Manager

Managed several software development projects including complex projects like bot mitigation, improving customer search response times, Coherence upgrade, Stateless Search etc.

• Worked with 2 different multifunctional teams, over 25 developers and QAs, in or- der to deliver Platform related solutions to our webstore.

• Supervised recruiting efforts for additional resources with the outsourcing vendor in Kiev.

• C u s t o m S o f t w a r e

Development

•Requirement Analysis • C r o s s f u n c t i o n a l programs

•Systems Engineering •Project Scheduling • Te a m B u i l d i n g & Mentoring

• •Systems Migration/

integration

•Tes t i ng/QA/Ro l l out/

Support

•Agile Environment

• Built an offshore team in Mexico with the outsourcing vendor for a side project.

• Coached new team members on best practices and processes. Hotwire, San Francisco, CA April 2009 – Dec

2010

Agile Project Manager

Led development, execution and delivery of innovative software solutions for 2 different teams overseeing both technical and administrative aspects of key projects.

• Led 30+ member cross-functional teams on $2M+ enterprise-wise initiatives, steer- ing work from requirements analysis to completion.

• Led successful delivery of new micro service to replace the existing inefficient car supply inventory channel resulting in increase of inventory by 30%.

• Facilitated delivery of migrating search data from Oracle DB to Mongo DB and ex- tended to Kafka distributed streaming platform to create a faster and scalable cloud solution.

Hotwire, San Francisco, CA Nov 2006 – March

2009

Lead QA Engineer

Worked as a hands on QA lead on multiple projects. Hired and mentored new team members.

• Led QA efforts for launching first Android native app with zero P1 defects.

• Led automated Silk scripts migration effort to Selenium with Offshore team in Kiev.

• Subject matter expert in testing payment related applications.

• Led multi-currency project as part of Hotwire’s international launch supporting 5 sites.

• Led Payment processor upgrade project. Worked with cross functional teams like Finance, Corporate systems, IT and third party vendors to get certification of pay- ment processor code.

Google, Mountain View, CA Oct 2005 – Nov

2006

Sr. QA Engineer

Worked on web-based Open source SugarCRM project used by Sales team that is the source of Google’s Ad revenue

• Worked in Agile environment interacting with Sales Engineers gathering require- ments and customized the application.

• Gathered feedback from users and incorporated changes

• Launched the application on time with zero P1 & P2 defects. Amdocs, San Jose, CA Nov 2000 – Oct

2005

Sr. QA Engineer/Project Lead

Credited for handling multiple projects with a clear ability to translate complexity, con- flicting/undefined priorities and the ability to work extremely well under high-pressure circumstances into well-defined approaches with achievable milestones and dates.

• Managed remote teams in India, Cyprus and Israel consisting on 5 QA engineers.

• Planned all resources for functional QA work for new and ongoing enterprise inter- net-based CRM software applications

• Worked as hands-on lead on projects for applications written in C++, Java, J2EE, Visual

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications

PMP certification from Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified Scrum Master certification(CSM) – Scrum Alliance

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