Veenadhari Peravali

Email ad3yvr@r.postjobfree.com Contact +61-479****** Sydney, NSW

www.linkedin.com/in/veenadhari-peravali

Permanent Resident - Subclass 189

Summary

Technocrat with extensive experience in Embedded Systems, Banking, Retail, Telecom, Insurance & Automobile domains. Successfully led large programs (range of upto 20M budget in Banking Sector) involving Program Management, SaaS products, Cloud Migration, DevOps Framework, Web Development & Security. Delivered and managed multiple complex programs within clearly defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints and provided expert advice to facilitate the delivery of strategic priorities, drive efficiency and improve business and customer outcomes.

Career Highlights

Program & Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Cloud Computing - AWS & Azure, DevOps Framework, Continous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CICD), Agile & Scaled Agile, Design Thinking, Software & Product Development, Application Support, Service Delivery, Client Partnership & Negotiation, Cross Functional & Geo-Located Teams.

Technology

Python, PERL, DB2, C, C++, Mainframe - COBOL. JCL, Syncsort, MSOffice, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Java, Node JS, React, SAP – Finance platform, Kondor Platform, Control – M, Javascript, SQL, SAP Inventory Suite, IMS – DB/DC, HTML Cloud Computing – Azure, Assember Language, VHDL, Embedded Systems.

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Tech Project Manager, Infosys Australia, Ltd, Sydney, Australia Oct 2021 – Sep 2023

Responsibilities

Owning and leading the Product release pipeline for the program for Digital Mortgages applications with an yearly roadmap, empowering tribes or squads to track progress towards goals, incorporating new features and manage dependencies tightly, liaising with C level stakeholders, championing agile cadences

Influencing a broad group of stake holders across wider business relationships ensuring strategic objectives are met

Making value impact on the Program Road map with improvements and efficient decision making

Managing the operating cadence of the Program and optimal usage of the resources and budget and effective execution of Business Review Processes.

Partnering with the Business in defining, maintaining and tracking finance metrics to track the progress of Strategic business transformations and well within budget and realizing ROI ensuring Customer centric processes in place

Contributing and leading the process improvements in the delivery to ensure efficient and high-quality outcomes from the programs

Managing and collaborating with Global and Virtual Cross Functional Teams for capital expenditure budgeting, proper communication and squad’s control

Effectively managing risks and establishing agile governance forums to effectively discuss and resolve issues

Partnering with Business and Practice teams to accomplish high quality and efficient outcomes for the tribes that drive strategic and commercial value

Identifying and providing resolutions to the problems if they arise in the programs

Projects/ Achievements

Successfully led S20M program in Banking Domain with squads of Delivery leads, Technical leads, Developers, QA leads, Testers, Scrum masters and BAs and cross functional teams for Top-ups products as well as Customer experience improvements on Digital Apps and Cloud computing.

Strategically led the squads’ leveraging data, practices and technologies to help in decision making, best practices and create value to the Programs.

Proven leadership skills in implementing efficient processes and measures to deliver high quality products and commercial results wit optimal team performance.

Recipient of Best Debutante Award for CSH Digital - Year 2022 and also top accolades and top appreciations for my caliber from the client Westpac.

Sr Delivery Manager, Sowra Info Solutions, Hyderabad, India Apr 2014 – June 2021 Responsibilities

Program planning and delivery execution for all business activities across the project lifecycle. This entails managing a change management schedule of activities, securing resources to perform these activities, reporting on progress, and managing any issues and risks to key local and regional stakeholders.

Mentored, hired, and managed project managers, associate project managers, operations managers and reviewed their deliverables on regular basis for adherence towards time, cost, quality, revenue forecasting, SLA’s etc.

Manage all activities across all phases to the agreed scope, time, budget, and quality from initiation through to closure (post live support).

Built business vision, implementation strategy and execution roadmaps addressing business process & technology architecture changes after conducting sessions with senior executives to understand current state gap analysis.

Projects/ Achievements

For a large US Banking giant, led successfully the program of on-premises application systems migration to Cloud and instrumental in implementing the Agile Release Train Model (ART) in the program.

Led successfully customized Kondor platform implementation for Risk and portfolio management for a Canada based bank.

Inculcated strong agile culture within client environments & internal delivery teams to meet the agreed outcomes along with encouraging executive support and governance for agile projects.

2 SAP projects which were highly appreciated for on time delivery and high-quality deliverables and reports.

Implemented Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CICD) automation in the application through DevOps tools to deliver the products faster to the market. This DevOps delivery cycle fastened the release implementation by 40%.

Recipient of Best Customer Centricity Award (Jan 2021), Growth Driver Award (Jun 2019), Engagement Champion (Aug 2016, Dec 2017)

Program Lead, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India Feb 2008 – Dec 2011

Responsibilities

Interact with external Vendors and involved in pair and end-to-end testing with external applications and vendors.

Responsible for Component delivery, Implementation, and post-production validation activities.

Communicate and consult with operational and technical areas of the business.

Responsible for prioritization, allocation, monitoring of tasks and reporting status and metrics to the clients.

Responsible for Component delivery, Implementation, and post-production validation activities.

Serve as the escalation point of contact and lead the team out of crisis situations.

Communicate and consult with operational and technical areas of the business.

Effectively managed the technical debt of the application and reduced it by 30% and savings of 2500 man hours annually.

Instrumental in improving the team delivery velocity by 20% and able to deliver on its estimates on all the projects handled.

Projects/ Achievements

Recipient of Best Excellency in Delivery Award – FDSI (Ford - Jan 2019), Growth

Technology Lead, Verizon Data Services, Hyderabad, India June 2007 – Dec 2007

Responsibilities

Involved in Coding, testing, reviews and implementation of programs and procs/ execs.

Also responsible for expressing new reports, scheduling of procs in production.

Acted as go-to resource for development team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.

Owned rectifying any schedule variances, re-estimating efforts.

Groomed and mentored the developers on the team, providing feedback on their work regularly.

Projects/ Achievements

Played a pivotal role in setting up offshore project team transition of the eMedia application from an incumbent vendor to Verizon.

Successfully took over the FiOS Phase of the Consolidation Program and Implemented on time which has yielded an annual savings of $2M

Key liaison to other business functions and make critical technical decisions that were helpful in the success of the project.

Recipient of On-the-Spot Award (Nov 2007)

Project Lead, Computer Sciences Corporation Ltd, Hyderabad, India Nov 2004 – May 2007

Responsibilities

Responsible for Analysis of requirements, checking for completeness and clarity of Specs.

Responsible for client communications and Coordination

Allocated tasks, assessed progress, and removed roadblocks. Ensured that objectives would be achieved in a manner consistent with established best practices.

Responsible for analysis and development of new critical path flow to process old guard data and abend solving during integration phase. Supported release activities including release package verification before and after the release installation.

Projects/ Achievements

Received the Project of the year Runner-up Award (2005).

Module Lead, Satyam Computer Services, Hyderabad, India Ltd Apr 2001 – Nov 2004

Responsibilities

Shouldered overall responsibilities to understand client process and worked efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with company quality control standards and business practices and procedures.

Responsible for converting all online transactions to MFS and PL1 using DB2 and IMS DB/DC.

Projects/ Achievements

Efficiently managed the Testing Program of DOS based Commercial Insurance Policy System to WEB Based Generator.

Received best college recruit award.

Academic Qualifications

Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering with Distinction.

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering with Distinction.

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