Prasad C, MBA,CSM,A-CSM,CSA,CSSA,PCDC
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Project Manager
APPLICATIONS / ARCHITECTURE / BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE / DATA WAREHOUSE /
INFRASTRUCTURE / OPERATIONS
IT Professional with 15+ years of experience spanning across IT Ops, Service Delivery on-time, on-budget involving Complex, Large-Scale & Global Projects. Led onshore/offshore teams of 150+ and Project Budgets in excess of $5 Million
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Project Management:
IT Project Lifecycle:
Value-added Leadership:
Software Development
Change Management
Release Management
Risk Management
Data Warehouse
Infrastructure Management
Business Analysis
Cost & Budget Estimation
Planning & Scheduling
Testing and Quality Assurance
Deployment & Support
Migrations & Optimization
Business / IT Planning
Cross-Functional, Cross country supervision
Stakeholder Management
Meetings &Negotiations
Vendor Management
Team Building & Mentoring
Professional Summary:
Successfully led and delivered all phases of diverse technology projects in parallel.
A certified Scrum Master (CSM, A-CSM) with business and technical background.
Worked with large Enterprise organizations with multiple project team sizes of more than 150 spread across various geographic (onshore/offshore) locations
Versatile in implementing Agile/Scrum and Waterfall SDLC methodologies on projects
Planned and Managed MultiMillion-dollar Business Systems on Client/Server, Web Portals, ERP(SAP), Business Intelligence(BO, Tableau), ETL, Integration, Client/Server and Cloud Computing technologies
Hands-on ability to Direct, Mentor and Assist cross-functional teams in Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Technical Reviews, QA, Testing, Support, Documentation and other SDLC processes.
Expertise in Risks, Issues identification and escalation; implementing corrective/ preventive actions.
Establish clear Communication channels for resolving conflicts in Projects/Teams.
Entrepreneurial stint at building a Consumer Electronics Organization from scratch to 2.5 Million sales per year.
Led OnSite / OffShore teams of 150+ and Project Budgets in excess of 5 Million.
EDUCATION
CERTIFICATIONS
TRAINING
MBA (CIS) University of Central Oklahoma, OK,USA : 1992-1995
MBA(Marketing) - Nagarjuna University, AP India - 1989-1991
BSc(Physics) - Andhra University, AP India - 1985-1988
Agile -SCRUM Master Certification (Certified Scrum Master) -2018
(Advanced - Certified Scrum Master) -2018
Pega - CSA, CSSA, PCDC Certifications
Six Sigma Green Belt Trained
SAP-BI, FI-CO, CRM - 2005
Several Management(Band-BI) Trainings attended at Mahindra Satyam
STATUS: US CITIZEN
DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE
LEASING: Designed and developed the whole life cycle of the Leasing system that includes Originations system (Put -On) and maintaining the leased equipments (Put-thru) and the taking back the equipment at the end of the lease or restart the lease with new or used equipment(Put-off).
HEALTHCARE : Delivered Mobile based Cloud computing solutions for Medical Marketing division on health related Products, Procedures and Specialties. Content Management for Clinical and non-Clinical stakeholders providing Business analytics, insights, reports for making key business decisions.
BEVERAGE: Developed the fleet tracking systems to track the fleet on the road for Coke/Pepsi product deliveries. Also involved in getting the reports/dashboards for the top management on daily basis from the data feed off the business.
SKILLS SUMMARY
Project Management Agile/Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies
Hardware Internet/Web, Client/Server, Apple, IBM Mainframe, AS/400, UNIX based
Operating Systems Windows, UNIX, iOS, Cloud
Languages Powerbuilder, Microsoft .NET, C#, JAVA, HTML, SQL, CICS, JCL
Databases SQL Server, Sybase, ORACLE, DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM, MS-Access
Data Warehousing BizTalk, IBM COGNOS, Informatica, Business Objects, SSIS
ERP SAP-BI/BW,HANA, SAP-MDM, SAP-SRM, Verticent ERP
Reporting IBM COGNOS, Crystal Reports, Oracle, SSAS, SSRS, Tableau
Architecture Systems Analysis & Design, Database Modeling, Performance Improvement
Cloud Computing AWS, Big Data, Hadoop, Cloudera, Hive, Jasper, Redshift
Management Tools Microsoft Project, PPM, Clarity, Lotus Notes, MS-Office, SharePoint, Clear Quest, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, JIRA, Git, NetSuite, LANDesk
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ValuEdge Solutions, Hyderabad (2015-2019)
SCRUM MASTER
Implement Agile methodologies across multiple teams including developers, program leadership, and business stakeholders.
Conduct Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Stand Up, Scrum of Scrums, Demo, Retro, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
Responsible for facilitating the agile framework and methodology for the team.
Effectively communicate and appropriately escalate status, risks / impediments, progress, project objectives through audience-centric methods both upstream and downstream to ensure transparency with project team and business stakeholders.
Guide the team and organization on how to adhere to the Agile/Scrum practices to deliver value.
Guide the team on how to get the most out of self-organization.
Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable.
Remove impediments or guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
Facilitate getting the work done without coercion, assigning or dictating the work.
Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information.
Support and educate the Product Owners, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style and lead by example.
Educate business stakeholders on their role in Scrum and work with them to implement agile principles in their processes.
Perform other duties as assigned..
Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams in order to deliver the intended project solution.
Removed impediments to the ability of the team to deliver and is keenly focused on the activities and progress of the Agile project team Timeline and Budget/Expenses.
Obtain and align resources to key project roles; establish clearly defined responsibilities and accountabilities Oversight/Manage/Lead project execution.
Extensively used JIRA for Project Issue management tickets and Release planning and sprints.
Environment: Pega PRPC v6.1 Sp2, 7.2,HTML, SOAP, XML, Oracle, JIRA, Git
Breeze N Freeze Engg, India Jul 2011 – July 2015
PROJECT DELIVERY MANAGER
As a Project Delivery manager used to manage the teams to Implement waterfall/ Agile methodologies across multiple teams including developers, program leadership, and business stakeholders.
Verticent, Inc, Tampa,FL Aug 2011 – Oct 2012
LEAD CONSULTANT
• Verticent is a leading provider of software for metal service centers and the metals industry in general.
• Verticent ERP application addresses the special requirements unique to the metals industry that “generic” systems simply cannot provide without costly modifications.
• The Verticent software provides the broadest range of functionality available for different kinds of metal companies, such as metal service centers, coil processors, metal fabricators and tube mills.
• Responsible for New Project development for Verticent ERP applications including requirements gathering. Technical support for ERP solutions (Distribution, Manufacturing, Sales force automation, finance, BI).
Saudi Electricity Company, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Feb 2010 – May 2011
SENIOR SAP BI CONSULTANT
• Designed the star schema on the BW side and identified the KPIs that formed the fact table and dimension data elements.
• Developed custom BW ODS objects, Info cubes and developed BEx queries on top of the same to support reporting requirements.
• Developed Custom Processes within BI to model the complex reporting needs.
• Created Process Chains to automate the data load and data target administration and monitored the processes.
• Coordinated with multiple technical teams (Basis, Database, and BW) in implementing BO BI Solution.• Designed the star schema on the BW side and identified the KPIs that formed the fact table and dimension data elements.
• Developed custom BW ODS objects, Info cubes and developed BEx queries on top of the same to support reporting requirements.
• Developed Custom Processes within BI to model the complex reporting needs.
• Created Process Chains to automate the data load and data target administration and monitored the processes.
• Coordinated with multiple technical teams (Basis, FI/CO, SD,MM)
Environment: SAP Business Objects 4.0 (CMC, Information Design Tool, WEBI), SAP BW 7.0, Web Intelligence, BO Dashboards 4.0, Analysis for MS Office, OLAP Analysis, SQL Server 2008, BO Data Services, SAP Business Process and Consolidation (BPC), BEx Query Designer.
SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES(Mahindra Satyam) Apr 2006 – Dec 2009
SAP BI Project Manager
Client: Coca-Cola, Atlanta
• I have kick started the account for Satyam in the BI arena. Built the SAP BI teams of Onsite and Offshore at Hyderabad.
• Involved in Day to Day operations of BI teams comprised of Development, Support and Data Load teams (24/7).
• Manage project scope and budget and increased the revenue over the time to $5 million/yr.
• Involved in planning sessions with VP and Managers to analyze requirements and outline the functional reporting solution.
• Coordinated with multiple technical teams (Basis, Database, and BW) in implementing BI Solution.
• Educated executive and senior management on BW by developing and presenting high level BW strategies and solutions.
• Developed Complex Reports using WEBI for both SAP BW and non-SAP
Environment: SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1/R2 (Designer, WEBI, DESKI, Info view), Crystal Reports, SAP BW 3.x/7.0, ECC 5.0/6.0, SQL Server 2005/2008, Rational Clear Quest.
Client: Genentech, SanFrancisco Apr 2006 - Dec 2006
Role: Senior BI Developer
• Part of the data load team to ensure loads happen between onsite team and offshore teams. Involved in the Support team and maintenance.
• Developed the design specification for the query views to extract both master and transactional data based on DB schema.
• Designed the star schema on the BW side and identified the KPIs that formed the fact table and dimension data elements.
• Developed custom BW ODS objects, Info cubes and developed BEx queries on top of the same to support reporting requirements.
• Developed Custom web templates were used to roll-out the web reports to the users.
Prior Experience
Advent Inc, New Providence, NJ Jun 2005 – Mar 2006
Project Lead Developer
PepsiCo, Purchase, NY April 2004 - May 2005
Consultant
CIT/TYCO/NewCourt/AT&T Capital Livingston, NJ Sept 1996 – Mar 2004
PowerCerv Birmingham,AL Dec 1995 – Aug 1996
Powerbuilder Developer
Clients: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bluecross BlueShield, Protective Life Insurance
General Services Administration, WashingtonD.C Sept 1995 - Dec 1995 Powerbuilder Developer