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Rajeev S Nimmagadda ad3yvl@r.postjobfree.com • 737-***-****

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Summary

Senior IT Project manager with 20 years of experience in strong Project/Program management, and driving significant improvements in team collaboration, project delivery time and program alignment. Expertise in scaling Agile practices, facilitating program-level planning, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Expert at utilizing programming knowledge with well-honed problem-solving strengths to meet the challenges of business, client needs, and technical innovation. Adept in all phases of project management and customer relationship building. Excel at leading and developing multiple global/offshore delivery teams. Technical Proficiencies

Project lifecycle management

Strategic Analysis & Planning

Budgeting and Forecasting

Infrastructure Management

Continuous Integration &

deployment

Agile Methodologies

Agile Estimation & Planning

Agile Metrics & Reporting

Agile Coaching & Facilitation

Release Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Technical Program Management

System Engineering

Lean Principles

Team Building & Leadership

Skills:

Project Management, MS Project, Git, Jira, Confluence AIX, Linux, Windows, AWS, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, C, C++, Python, GO, Java, Shells, Dockers, Kubernetes, SAP, SAP HANA, Oracle Career Experience

Tecspirit (ASML & Verizon ) ( 2022 – Now )

Project Manager / Product Owner

Implementation of strategic roadmap in collaboration with business stakeholders with focus on feature development and migration of environment to AWS and Google cloud.

• Interfacing with cross functional teams to ensure scope, schedule and resources are aligned across teams. Creation of project plan, deliverables, and coordinate with business team on a continuous basis.

• Facilitated successful planning sessions resulting in improved alignment and reduction in defects.

• Attended PI planning workshops and facilitating demos and release management meetings.

• Led the migration of source code repository to git creating a new process reducing costs and improving efficiency.

• Attending scrum of scrums to coordinate dependencies across other scrum teams.

• Managed the migration of test environments to AWS reducing costs and increased availability and creation of an easy to use internal tool to create the default configuration and set up with chosen release and set up network and security.

• Identified areas of continued improvements in the areas of technical operations and infrastructure, quality, security, backup and other IT policies.

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Capgemini

Agile Project Manager / Program Manager (2012-2021) Devise and deploy strategic roadmap to manage budgets, schedules, as well as resource planning and management in collaboration with business stakeholders. Identify and mitigate underlying risks. Devise and implement cloud migration, performance, and security improvement strategies in coordination with clients.

• Managed development and delivery of a program for high availability and disaster recovery products, including PowerHA, TSAMP, TSAAM, VMRMHA and VMRMDR).

• Manage product backlogs and priorities for multiple releases of each product. Leading scrum of scrums for each product and coordinating the quality release every time.

• Create and negotiate feature roadmaps with global sales and marketing teams in the form of Epics, Features and Stories.

• Developed a cloud migration policy for multiple products and various features to support products on AWS, Azure and IBM cloud.

• Leading and coaching the organization in its SAFE Agile adoption, planned and certified Business processes, concepts and methodologies within the organization.

• Worked on SAFE framework with other scrum teams.

• Continuous infrastructure management including budgeting, planning, maintenance, and access.

• Lead the migration of source code to Git and set up of project management using Jira and confluence.

• Created WOW for development and infrastructure teams to improve efficiency and reduce downtime.

• Spearheaded improvements using Agile methodologies for infrastructure teams.

• Built strong teams through training, mentoring and other team development activities increasing productivity.

• Provided leadership for delivery of multiple products for IBM storage Spectrum family (Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Control, Protocol teams NFS, SMB, Object and Authentication for Spectrum Scale, and Cinder driver) consistently with quality and on time.

• Build and plan monetization for derivative solutions and GTM strategies. IBM, Austin

Project Manager / Scrum Master, PowerHA Development (2008-2012) Steered team planning, design, coding, building and testing of PowerHA 7.1.0, 7.1.2. Oversaw planning, implementation, testing, and delivery of the release. Served as a scrum master for the year steering overall development and test activities. Led implementation of PowerHA 71 at several customer sites. Acted as PowerHA/PowerVM expert for multiple integration teams, including Oracle, SAP/live cache. Worked on enabling features like DLPAR, COD, LPM for PowerHA.

• Led the delivery of a product release, in close collaboration with presales and sales leaders.

• Enhanced software reliability by utilizing agile methodologies.

• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings, daily scrum, status reports, burn down charts and sprint review meetings.

• Spearheaded PowerHA team planning, backlog refinement, development and testing of multiple releases of PowerHA. Maintenance of sprint backlog, tracking of user stories, status reports and burn down charts.

• Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress for all the scrum teams.

• Devised and executed strategic plan to integrate seamlessly with SAP, SAP HANA.

• Designed improvements to make the product work on AWS and Google Cloud.

• Managed development of new features including Cluster Communication daemon which is crucial for Cluster Aware AIX, SSP, RSCT and PowerHA.

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IBM, Austin

Software Engineer, AIX, PowerHA Development Support (1997-2008) Excellent AIX/PowerHA debugging and programming skills; Extensive customer interaction on critical situations.

• Providing Customer service and defect support for HACMP, PowerVM and AIX.

• Diagnose HACMP and PowerVM installation, bringup/boot issues and provide debugging and tracing tools. Handle disaster recovery situations, remote diagnosis, performance tuning and system administration tasks.

• Design and development of several new features into AIX kernel, error logging, dbx, trace, kdb, low level debugger and dump utilities.

Additional Experience

Software Engineer, AIX Kernel Support & Development, IBM, Austin TX Programmer/Analyst, Job Corps Data Center, Department of Labor, San Marcos TX. Certifications

• Certified PMP

• SAFe POPM

• AWS Cloud Practioner

• Certified PgMP

Education

Masters in Computer science (I)

Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering

Andhra University, India

Other :

• Conducted multiple hackathon events and helped teams bring ideas to life.

• As part of Redbook team worked on multiple books on PowerHA and VMRM.

• Whitepapers on SAP Live cache, Cloud backup management, Cloud Tiebreaker.

• Regular presenter at IBM TechU events for PowerHA and VMRM.

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