M.V.S. Madhava Rao, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, SSM, SDP, SA

Mobile: 91-917*******/974-***-****

E-mail: ad23i3@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Seeking leadership roles with a reputed organization in IT Delivery that will afford me the opportunity to enhance my skills thereby achieve a balance between personal fulfilment and corporate profitability.

Professional Synopsis

●28 years of experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets and roles.

●Executed projects in waterfall and agile methodologies, certified Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Agilist (SA) and SAFe DevOps Practitioner (SDP).

●Executed multiple roles during the tenure – Project Manager, environment/release management, onsite coordinator and project lead.

●Proficient in System Study, Software Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, implementation, maintenance and Support of Mainframe applications.

●Involved in application development, enhancement, maintenance and production support.

●Involved in project management, customer interaction, effort estimation, scheduling, on-site offshore model project execution, Risk Analysis & Mitigation, Issue Tracking, team management, problem management, participation in PMR audits and process reviews, preparation of quality deliverables and involved in staffing process.

●Strong Management and leadership skills to maintain projects.

●Experience in leading and managing teams, both at onsite & offshore.

●Extensive experience in the Banking, Telecom, Energy & Utilities, Automotive and Insurance industries.

●On-site experience with customers like General Motors - US, CLS Bank – UK.

●Effective Planning for project and work with Tools and Stakeholders.

●Excellent communication skills, methodically organized, successful track record, demonstrating self-motivation, innovative and initiative to achieve goals and objectives of engagement.

●In depth visibility on Project Financials that include Regular follow up of budget, approvals and tracking of all phases till project closure.

Skill Set:

Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, MQ, VB, C++, JAVA, ASP, PL/I

Databases : DB2, IMS, ORACLE, MS SQL Server

Platform : OS/390, MVS/ESA, UNIX, Windows

Packages : Remedy, File-Aid, Xpeditor, Changeman, Endevor

PM Tools : Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM), MS Project

Methodologies : Look Ahead Meeting, Root Cause Analysis, Configuration Management and Change Management.

Educational Qualification:

●Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) from Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India - 1993

●Senior Management Program (SMP) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India

Certifications:

●Microsoft certified AI Fundamentals

●Microsoft certified Azure Developer Associate

●SAFe 5.0 certified DevOps Practitioner (SDP)

●SAFe 5.0 certified Agilist (SA)

●SAFe 5.0 certified Scrum Master (SSM)

●Watson Cloud Foundations

●Artificial Intelligence Concepts

●PMI Certified Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)

●PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

●Salesforce Platform Developer1 (PD1)

●IBM Certified DB2 UDB v8.1 Family Fundamentals

●Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD with VB and SQL server)

Achievements and Recognition

●Bravo Award - 2013

●Best of IBM award –2014

●IBM India Excellence Award -2014

●Manager’s Choice Award – 2015

Professional Experience

Nov 22 – Oct 23 Quess Corp Limited Bengaluru, India

Project Name : IoT implementation for Shell

Role : IT Project Manager

Environment : Java API and Oracle

Duration : Nov 22 to Oct 23

Description: The IoT project implementation is authenticate IoT devices to cloud services, restrict the allowable operations of each API, encrypt all TCP-based communications, configure certificate-based authentication on IoT devices, gateways and services

Responsibilities:

To get the project plan updated for the project.

Track schedule, budget, risks and bring them to track if there are any deviations.

Interact with technical architect and business analyst to co-ordinate the requirements and solution.

Provide the weekly report to Senior management and facilitate business working group meetings

Aug 22 – Oct 22 KBC Technologies Limited Doha, Qatar

Project Name : Transfer and Upgrade for Qatar Airlines

Role : IT Project Manager

Environment : Java API, AG Grid and Oracle

Duration : Aug 2022 to Oct 2022

Description: The Transfer and Upgrade project of Qatar Airways have four modules for Flight Deck – Seniority List, Selection Run, Workflow and Approved Pool. The Seniority List module is updating the seniority list of the pilots based on the flying hours. Selection Run module is based on the tests they have passed and seniority, the eligible pilots are selected. Workflow module is the approval process for the pilots based on the tests they have passed, flying hours and attitude. Run module is to get the selected pilots to get promoted.

Responsibilities:

To get the project plan updated for the project.

Track schedule, budget, risks and bring them to track if there are any deviations.

Facilitate for Sprint planning, Retro, Sprint Review, Grooming and other ceremonies.

Interact with technical architect and business analyst to co-ordinate the requirements and solution.

Provide the weekly report to Senior management and facilitate business working group meetings

9 Dec 19 – 05-Jul-22 Hexaware Technologies Limited Chennai, India

Project Name

: Health Electronic Travel Authorization (HETA)

Role

: Scrum Master/Project Manager

Environment

: Full stack development, Drupal, Azure DevOps boards

Duration

: DEC 2020 to Jul 2022

Description: To help the travelers raise the health declaration 72 hours before their travel and get the clearance to travel. We are adding the design, making the traveler to view and edit the declarations before approval. I have protected the teams from adding additional stories during the sprints and negotiated to move to further sprints successfully. Completed the CI/CD pipeline set up and moved to production. Extended the Australia declarations to Jamaica also.

Responsibilities:

Track the schedule, budget and risks. If any deviations, bring them back to track.

Facilitate for Sprint planning, Retro, Sprint Review, Grooming and other ceremonies.

Interact with PO and Feature Owner along with team to ensure smooth delivery.

Update Azure DevOps board while moving the user stories to done.

Project Name

: Dx Beneficiary

Role

: Scrum Master/Project Manager

Environment

: Full stack development, DB2, SQL server, Azure DevOps boards

Duration

: JUL 2020 to DEC 2020.

Description: To add the beneficiary and secondary addressee for all the policies in the portal. We are adding the design, making the beneficiary to view and secondary addressee to view and edit. I have protected the teams from adding additional stories during the sprints and negotiated to move to further sprints successfully. Completed the CI/CD pipeline set up and planning to move to production in the next sprint.

Responsibilities:

Manage the schedule, budget and risks to avoid any deviations

Facilitate for Sprint planning, Retro and other ceremonies.

Interact with PO and Feature Owner along with team to ensure smooth delivery.

Update Azure DevOps board while moving the user stories to done.

Update Confluence page with metrics and other required information.

Project Name: Champ Support

Role: Scrum Master/Project Manager

Work Location: Chennai, India

Environment: Oracle, JIRA, Confluence, JAVA

The project is to maintain the Cargo business of Cathay Pacific. We have developed for booking, pricing and support the incidents and defects.

Responsibilities:

●The role is to conduct Iteration Stand up meetings daily

●Resolve the impediments for the team in daily delivery and during Iteration

●Preparation of metrics like capacity variance, target velocity achievement, estimation accuracy and capacity utilization

●Facilitate for Iteration planning, Retro during each Iteration and Iteration Review

●Updating the user stories in JIRA

●Update JIRA during moving the user stories from ‘To Do’ till ‘Done’

●Interact with PO and Feature Owner along with team to ensure smooth delivery and help the team in removing impediments

25 Feb 19– 6 Dec 19 FIS Global India Private Limited Chennai, India

Project Name: IBS Customer Management

Team Size/Role: 8/Scrum Master

Work Location: Chennai, India

Environment: IMS, COBOL, DB2, JIRA, Confluence, JAVA

The project is to maintain entry for 2 different banks so that the transactions happen smoothly when the customer of one bank initiates the transaction for the other bank

Responsibilities:

●The role is to conduct Iteration Stand up meetings daily, attend Scrum of Scrum call for Agile Release Train

●Resolve the impediments for the team in daily delivery and during Iteration

●Facilitate the team in calculating the velocity and load for each Iteration

●Facilitate for Iteration planning, Inspect and Adapt, Program Increment Planning, Retro during each Iteration, Iteration Review

●Facilitate the team in updating the user stories in JIRA

●Update JIRA during moving the user stories from ‘To Do’ till ‘Done’

●Update Confluence page for each Iteration Demo with ‘Burn Down’ chart

●Present the PI objective and Iteration objectives to the Agile Release Train during the demo

●Interact with PO and Feature Owner along with team to ensure smooth delivery and help the team in removing impediments

●Facilitate the team for discovery session and playback

●Participate in Bubble up meetings for improving the process bringing ideas to leadership team

25 April 05– 22 Feb 19 IBM India Private Limited Hyderabad, India

Project Name: Westpac, Australia – BEAR Onboarding, WIB Fund My Business, Document Management API

Team Size/Role: 15/Scrum Master/Project Manager

Work Location: Hyderabad, India

Environment: FileNet, Case Manager, ICN, DB2, JIRA, Confluence, JAVA

The project is to create a FileNet repository and provide access to Executive, Auditor access to upload sensitive and non-sensitive documents to the repository where they can search, update, delete based on their access. The document management API is to manage documents through API and Filenet.

Responsibilities:

●The role is to conduct Iteration Stand up meetings daily, attend Scrum of Scrum call for Agile Release Train

●Resolve the impediments for the team in daily delivery and during Iteration

●Facilitate the team in calculating the velocity and load for each Iteration

●Facilitate for Iteration planning, Inspect and Adapt, Program Increment Planning, Retro during each Iteration, Iteration Review

●Facilitate the team in updating the user stories in JIRA

●Update JIRA during moving the user stories from ‘To Do’ till ‘Done’

●Update Confluence page for each Iteration Demo with ‘Burn Down’ chart

●Present the PI objective and Iteration objectives to the Agile Release Train during the demo

●Interact with PO and Feature Owner along with team to ensure smooth delivery and help the team in removing impediments

●Facilitate the team for discovery session and playback

●Participate in Bubble up meetings for improving the process bringing ideas to leadership team

Project Name: CLS Bank, UK – Settlement of Foreign exchange requests between different countries

Team Size/Role: Individual/Environment Manager

Work Location: Chennai, India

Environment: Unix, C++, DB2, Java, MQ, CMVC, Tivoli Mgt Framework, Tivoli Agent, Crystal Reports, Install Shield, Hot Scan, Swift Net, Rational Appscan, GIT, Cygwin.

The project is to settle the foreign exchange requests by different countries in different batches to cater the needs of different continents. The batch which is received before the cut-off time only will be processed for that particular batch. The rate differs for the batches according to the time

Responsibilities:

●The project involves multiple business units like GBS, GTS and multiple locations like UK, US and India GD locations.

●Interlock with all the project managers for the environment requirements of their projects throughout the year and update the dashboard weekly

●Drive the requirement for individual testing environments for different projects and ensure they are using the same allocated environments by publishing daily dashboard

●Drive the requirement of system integration testing environments for different projects by interlocking with project managers and ensure they are using the same allocated environments

●Drive the changes for any of the application projects that are going into production environment and approve the changes from environment perspective

●Drive the changes for any of the infrastructure projects and approve them from environment perspective

●Raise the changes for any of environment changes and follow up until closure

●Ensure all the software is up to date with all the required patches to be installed

●Ensure all the hardware is up to date with latest hardware and OS wherever required

Project Name: AT&T, USA – Revenue generation and billing

Team Size/Role: 100/Program Manager

Work Location: Chennai, India

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Java, Oracle and Crystal Reports, MS Project, Rational Portfolio Manager

The project is to support the revenue generation and billing from the customers and install the hardware for disaster recovery at another location to continue the business in the event of any major disaster.

Responsibilities:

●End to End Management of each project in AT&T by coordinating with the project team and the onsite team.

●Responsible to engage Business Analysts, Technical Leads, DBA and SMEs from different vendors.

●Regular follow up of budget, approvals and tracking of all phases and project closure.

●Root cause analysis.

●Interacting with clients, improving the customer service experience.

●Responsible for maintaining the quality documents and keep ready for audit.

●Risk log management for the project

●Maintain the project health review

●Used cloud for storage of status reports which can be shared to clients

●SLA metric reports maintenance

Project Name: IBM, UK – Project pipeline and demand forecasting

Team Size/Role: 6/Demand Manager

Work Location: Chennai, India

Environment: Business Analytics HUB, Professional Market Place, MS Power Point, MS Excel and Demand Management tool

The project is to identify the projects which are more than 10 million and look at the demand requirements much ahead of the requirement and suggest to hire if no forecasting of the required skills available in IBM.

Responsibilities:

●Understand and predict the overall demand picture for geography; giving early visibility of "warning signs" as indicated by the demand picture. e.g., via participation in fortnightly NE IOT Demand Reviews

●Support the demand forecasting process across UKI to ensure as accurate as possible a view of demand for all types of resources.

●Produce various reports (regular and adhoc), including the Demand Review Statement of current key deals in IMT for fortnightly IOT demand review, Dashboard etc.

●Proactively support Demand RMs to ensure the best possible data quality and demand coverage, enabling a snapshot of GBS to be taken on weekly basis or ad-hoc as required. Priority role is to produce and distribute weekly reports to assist Demand RMs in achievement of various measured goals.

●Build effective relationships with key stakeholders (inside and outside B&EP) to drive business results. Including Sector RMs and Lead Sector & Demand RM.

●Proposing ideas as appropriate which offer improvements to the R&CM and B&EP community or service.

Project Name: General Motors, US – GMNA – Finance Supply Chain

Team Size/Role: 3/Project Lead

Work Location: Southfield, US, Chennai, India

Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, IMS, DB2, Endevor and Remedy, MQ

GMNA Finance-Supply Chain - GM Service Parts Organization (SPO) was the project to support the service parts which are required for all the General Motors vehicles. Finance, Supply Chain, Service Engineering, Canada applications are supported and out of which I was supporting few Finance applications. Went to US for taking the knowledge transfer, coordinating the offshore resource from onshore during transition, worked with Sees, Operation Managers, Bums and after coming back to India supported the team to gain the knowledge, tips, tricks which I gained during onsite and quality coordinator.

Responsibilities:

●Quality Coordinator in the project, helping in PQP

●Updating PMSS,

●attending PHR,

●updating CMP,

●attending RTR meetings,

●back up of Manager for meetings, during absence,

●helping in preparing SLA metrics reports,

●helping in Program Model Plan, PTD, RPM, PMR process flow,

●helping ME process flow,

●updating ME log,

●maintaining SR log in RPM,

●running pivot report in RPM,

●following up with team on daily remedy tickets and ME for status,

●sharing the status to onshore Manager at end of day,

●Participate in reviews of estimations, requirements, and design and project documents.

Highlights/Achievements:

●Onsite coordinator from US for India resources

●Lead at offshore for Disaster Recovery Drill

●Analysed the on-demand tickets and prepared document to reduce the number of incidents

●Received appreciation from Business Area Manager for efficient handling of Knowledge transfer from onsite.

Project Name: Cinergy (Duke Energy), US – CMS – Orders, Billing, Finance and other CMS

Team Size/Role: 3/Project Lead

Work Location: Gurgaon, India

Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Xpeditor, Remedy and Roscoe

The Project is CMS for Duke Energy Clients in US where Duke Energy generates or distributes electric and gas. CMS has four modules namely Orders, Billing, Finance and other CMS.

Responsibilities:

●Leading the Billing Module

●The production support and enhancements are handled by us.

●Processing of meter reads, prepare bills and sending to customers or for viewing online through the website.

●Involved in coding, team handling, estimation, monthly utilization and remedy tickets report.

●Code Review

●Preparation of Job flow & JCLs for the implementations

●Unit Testing

●Preparing & Updating Documents.

●Requirement analysis

Highlights/Achievements:

●Lead the daily call from offshore for all the towers.

Project Name: DBS Bank, Singapore – Online betting pool transactions

Team Size/Role: 4/Project Lead

Work Location: Gurgaon, India

Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2 and Change Man

This Project was done for Development Bank of Singapore. The FT and Online Giro modules are to handle the transactions of the entire bank relating to Funds. The major enhancement handled is for online betting for Singapore pools transactions. Processing of standing instructions, sending report and return files after processing for all successful creations and terminations, transactional amounts.

Responsibilities:

●Involved in Coding

●Code Review

●Preparation of Job flow and JCL for the implementations

●Unit Testing

●Preparing and updating documents

June 03 – April 05 NIIT Technologies New Delhi, India

Project Name: KBC Bank, Belgium – SACO project

Team Size/Role: 3/Module Leader

Work Location: Gurgaon, India

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Change Man, Peregrine, Mega and MetaSuite

SACO Project was developed by NIIT Technologies for processing of data received from source systems and delivered to target system. The project contains five modules i.e., Credits, Savings, Markets, Risk and TDS. Credits and Savings are on Mainframe. Markets and Risk are on UNIX and Oracle. The data received from Source Systems are processed and delivered to Risk and Markets.

Responsibilities:

●Preparation of Daily Status Report

●Monitoring

●Fortnightly report of file arrival to SACO system

●Analysis of JCL’s, performance tuning, enhancements estimation and review of code

●Preparation of document listing the required changes to improve performance

Project Name: Guardian Life Insurance of America – Conversion of Mark IV to COBOL

Team Size/Role: 3/Application Developer

Work Location: New Delhi, India

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Mark IV, IMS and Change Man

The project is to convert the programs, which were in MarkIV with IMS as database to COBOL with IMS. The project deals with all health care insurance programs. After conversion we used to do the regression testing i.e., by comparing the report/output of MarkIV with that of our COBOL generated Code. Only few programs needed unit testing and integration testing.

Responsibilities:

●Design and Coding of programs

●Preparation of Job flow & JCLs for the implementations

●Preparation of System Test plan & Test cases and documentation

●Co-ordination and support of User Acceptance test

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