Manager Project

Yatheesh Ejjalaghatta, PMP

Cell: 650-***-****, Email: ***********@*****.*** Skype: ***********@****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

** ***** ** ** ********** with 10 years working as Project manager at VISA and 17 months as Engineering Project Manager at Apple

Experience in managing the projects with Iterative and incremental deliveries using Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Scrum of Scrum, SAFe and Kanban) methodologies.

Successfully handled 14 months project involving full Infrastructure upgrades at Apple for both UAT and Prod environments involving eight different teams spread across different geo locations

Part of Enterprise Release Management team supporting 16 Business releases with Budgeting, Activity/Task planning, Scheduling, Tracking, Checklists, Co-ordination, Migration Requirements, and Go-Live support

Increased Web platform availability to near 24x7 through Implementation of Data replication and Data warehouse migration projects ( > 20,000 man-hours)

30% reduction in Data and Reporting incidents through performance tuning and improving database design

Successful integration of 4 major US banks to the Enterprise platform supporting merger and Acquisitions.

Validate each business releases to meet Security compliance validation as per Federal requirements

Subject Matter expertise on Requirements, Enhancements, Design and Testing of ETL, Reports and Data analysis for Enterprise Dispute Management platform.

Decision making Role for Evaluation and implementing/upgrading System architectural changes through new Software enhancements, for increased performance and reduced cost of ownership

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Waterfall, Scrum, Scrum of Scrum, SAFe and Kanban methodologies

Release Management and Support

Infrastructure Planning and Maintenance

Quality Management and Control

Resources and Vendors Management

Risk management and Security compliance

TRAINING

PMP Certification from PMI

COGNOS Designer Training from IBM

ORACLE 8i, 10g Training from Oracle University

SUN Certified Programmer Java

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, AIX, Windows, Mac

Programming Languages: Java, AEM 6.2, JSP, Python

Database/ Datawarehouse:DB2, Teradata, Hadoop, Hive, Oracle, MS SQL, Sybase

Planning/ Collaboration Tools:J IRA, AGM, Confluence, Clarity, MS Project, WIKI, SharePoint, Office 365

ETL/ BI Tools/ Reporting: Tableau, Actuate, Cognos, Ab Initio, Erwin, Visio, Toad

Industry/ Market Segment: Payment industry, Project Management, Infrastructure Upgrade, BI, Data Analytics

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering – Mysore University

Pursuing MBA at Saint Mary’s College, Moraga CA (finish by Sep’ 2021)

PROJECT DETAILS

Apple (Sunnyvale, CA) Oct 2018 – May 2020

Responsibilities: Engineering Project Manager

Lead multiple teams through Scrum ceremonies to accomplish Project deliveries.

Successfully Delivered six business releases each with three sprints cycles.

Handled new initiatives and POC for Handheld devices and Web implementations (Java, Python, Scala, Cassandra, Oracle, Cloudera, Hadoop).

Managed Gift Card applications (Electronic and Retail) as SaaS to support subscriptions for iTunes and Apple Stores with Apple Cloud.

Managed 8 CR releases to UAT and Prod environment each with a week cycle

Handled major Infrastructure initiative (16 months) for UAT and Prod environments (Racks, App Servers, DB Servers, Firewalls, Cables, SNIPs etc) involving in Planning, Buying, Installation, Launching, Retiring, and Decommissioning

Communicate and Collaborate with management for Resource requirements as per Business and Client needs (Recruitment, Reviews)

Drive Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Epics, User Stories, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Impediment review, CR Planning, and Review and Retro (Root cause Analysis and action) with Team collaboration

Manage Infosec reported Security and compliance issues with support from development team.

Support Operations team for escalation with deep dives on Alerts which impacts application, DB storage and services.

Work with improving DevOps tasks for continuous process (CB, CI, CD, CM) with Git, Maven, Ansible, Jenkins, and Splunk.

FedEx (Collierville, TN) Feb 2018 – Apr 2018

Responsibilities Sr. Project Manager

Daily Stand-up calls with development team, Product Owner and Stakeholders

Update list of Impediments from daily scrum, emails and meeting on daily basis

Prepare, publish and maintain burndown charts and Task board on daily basis

Engage with Project Managers to ensure the Project is meeting the objectives of Enterprise Program.

Ensure the deliveries are Mobile and digital compliant along with Online implementation using AEM.

Ensure all the end user UI screens (AEM) are ADA compliant with validation results

Onboard new team members with SAFe process and procedures

Review User guides and business Author guides as part of delivery to Stakeholders.

VISA Inc (Foster City, CA) Feb 2016 – Jun 2017

Responsibilities: Program/ Project Manager

Review and follow the Projects progress and deliverables are meeting the expectation of ALM (Account Level Management) Program

As Scrum Master, facilitate Product Backlog, Backlog grooming, Planning and commit, Epics, User Stories, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Demo, Review and Retrospectives (Root cause Analysis and action),.

Sprint Release planning for Java applications with User Stories, Story Points, team velocity and finalize target release dates with inputs from Team.

On-boarding of major Issuing banks to VISA INFINITE brand with SSO (Single Sign-on) + SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentication for cardholders.

Managed Web applications as SaaS to the Issuing banks on Card holder Transactions to handle perks and benefits.

Co-ordinate, Communicate and Collaborate with Legal teams, Security compliance, Banks and Vendor to ensure all the UI content are within VISA guidelines.

As Release Manager, Plan, Initiate, Collaborate and execute Phase I release to US market.

Prepare and maintain Kanban board (Whiteboard and JIRA) with tasks, bugs, Incidents, Features and Enhancements.

Responsible for reviewing and analyzing BI dashboards (Tableau, Hadoop) to provide weekly and monthly History, current usage and future.

Drive Semi-Annual Spend Assessment of about 130 Issuers to provide Interchange benefits to Banks.

Halliburton (Houston, TX) Jul 2015 – Feb 2016

Responsibilities: Migration Co-Ordinator

Planning the road map for migration of 110 applications in consultation with SMEs

Maintain Kanban board (whiteboard and JIRA) to plan backlogs, In-process and validation activities.

Maintenance of Pre and Post migration of code base, domain data and User set-up requirements.

Daily stand-up meetings with off-shore development and QA teams for status review and prioritization.

Prepare and upload operational data to the new environment by adhering to Intellectual rights.

RS Software (Milpitas, CA) Jul 2014 – Jun 2015

Responsibilities: Director

Support Dispute Management Knowledge Framework by preparing and reviewing artifacts, templates Reports, Dashboards and checklists.

Drive RFP responses, proposal preparations and bid management for Product sales

Build Cloud service platform for delivering Dispute Correspondence Letters and reports to Product users

Assisting Sales team in achieving revenue target by developing and executing an effective “Go to market” strategy

Ensure the product/ program is in compliance with Security requirements

Participated in new lead identification from market scanning and intelligence

VISA Inc (Foster City, CA) May 2004 – Jun 2014

Responsibilities: Sr. Project Manager

Release Manger for planning, Co-ordinate, Collaborate, execute and support Iterative enterprise release management of 16 Semi-Annual Business Releases (> 25,000 hours each)

As Scrum Master, Plan, Conduct and Facilitate Backlog grooming and Planning, Epics, User Stories, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Demo, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Review and Retro (Root cause Analysis and action)..

Manage Infrastructure requirements (Planning, Budgeting, Proposal writeup, Execution, Validation, Retire and Decommission) to support the Scalability, Availability and Stability of the global web application to meet the SLA and security compliance requirements as per VISA standards.

Initiate and manage single point communication and Collaboration with Stakeholders, Product Management and Development team for Release management.

Prepare Project charter, Budget, tasks, Project Plan, Change Requests, deliverables and Lessons Learned.

Develop and distribute project performance reports (Tableau) bi-monthly to review project status and, evaluate performance criteria (for scope, cost, schedule & quality)

Subject Matter Expertise for BI Reporting (Tableau), Batch, Database and Data Warehouse (Hadoop) activities.

Plan, Co-ordinate and Support automation of Enterprise web platform testing for Intrusion, Penetration and Security for more than 10 releases.

Review, Update and Maintain Logical design (E-R diagram) of the database using Erwin data modeler.

Create Physical design scripts for release cycle automation according to standards and naming conventions

Responsible for developing ETL process to extract and transfer data across databases (Oracle, Hadoop).

Design and Develop Actuate BIRT Templates, .rod, .bas and .rox files for generating off-line (Hadoop) and online static BI reports (Tableau).

Support maintenance team for analyzing and fixing the data performance and latency issues reported by end Users

Ateb Inc (Raleigh, NC) Jul 2003 – Apr 2004

Responsibilities: Programmer Analyst

Responsible for creation and maintenance of UI screen design for Retail Pricing, Rx Filling, Billing, DUR (Drug Utilization Review), TPA, Location and Data Maintenance modules.

Review of UI design with Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts and Testing team.

Preparation and maintenance of heuristic and usability documentation.

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