RAJA VADDEPALLI (RV)

IT Director – Technology Leader for Application Development & Delivery Management 20872 Goose Preserve Dr, Ashburn, VA, 20148 (Washington D.C. Metro Area) Contact: 732-***-**** adli96@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvaddepalli Nationality: US Citizen

Highly accomplished senior technology leader with over 21 years of experience in creating innovative solutions, passionate about leading transformations in technology, product development, and application development at large scale. Ability to lead global engineering, design, architecture, and development teams with strategic, technical leadership expertise, influence the adoption of new technologies and align the technology to business needs. Proven record in delivering projects on time and on budget, while maintaining high quality deliverables. Industries include Banking, Financial Services, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Organizations. EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Extensive experience in leading large cross-functional global teams, planning, designing, and delivering large scale enterprise level initiatives across several business domains – Banking Digital Transformation & Modernization, Mergers Conversion, Big Data Implementations, Intelligent Automation, and COTS implementations

• Thought leader in setting up state-of-the-art merger conversion models, RPA COE, and software factory models.

• Highly obsessed to achieve greater customer satisfaction, trust, and high user experience levels in every initiative

• Strong project and program management experience in delivering end-to-end solutions in Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Iterative, and D3/D4 models – Active PMP, CSM and CSPO Certifications.

• Proven of record of delivering high quality solutions on time and on budget, resulting in a lower maintenance and total cost of ownership along with achieving operational stability and excellence (OpEx reduction).

• Strong believer in teamwork and workplace collaboration to achieve greater results. Adept in building “A” performing teams with a proven ability to assemble, lead decentralized, geographically dispersed global teams.

• Strong people management skills to recognize strengths of different team members, delegate tasks accordingly, offer clear expectations to understand their roles and responsibilities, conduct weekly 1-on-1 performance reviews, assign performance goals, monitor, provide guidance, constructive feedback and mentorship.

• Experienced in hiring new talent, performance measurement of the team, conduct crucial conversations, and follow disciplinary actions as required (verbal/written writeups)

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, design/architecture and technologies to business leaders, and business concepts to IT workforce. TECHNOLOGY PORTFFOLIO & SKILLSET

Digital Transformation & Modernization: Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, SFDC, Apex Classes, Lightning Components, Controllers, Micro Services, MuleSoft/ESB, Apigee Gateway, FICO decisioning platform, .Net, Java, JavaScript, JSON, XML, Hogan Mainframes, LQ and Adobe Analytics Intelligent Automation: UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Tableau, OCR and Image redaction tools like ABBYY, Microsoft OCR, Google OCR etc. Agile Transformation: Build agile culture, innovation, relevant execution models (Scrum, D3 and D4), roadmap, organizational adaptability, value stream alignment, MVP/Incremental Release planning, and metrics. Development & Product Implementation: Data Migration, Data Dictionary tools, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Checking Product Development using state Java, JavaScript, JSON, XML, Mainframes, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Mulesoft ESB, Adobe Analytics, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, SFDC, Apex Classes, Lightning Components, Controllers, Micro Services, MuleSoft, Apigee Gateway etc. Data & Process Engineering: Cloudera, SQL Server 2016, Tableau, Denodo, Business Objects, Theory of Constraints, Shift-Left Design Thinking etc.

Team Leadership: Global Teams, Strengths Finder, IKIGAI model, Performance Management, Build ‘A’ Teams etc. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Director

Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed)

DEC-2015 – Current

McLean, VA

Currently leading a strategic digital transformation program to deliver a series of new checking, credit cards, personal loan products, and offer/campaign management services by implementing device agnostic responsive design strategies to develop industry leading Omnichannel CX experience (responsive UI design), reusable components framework, lead capture, opportunity tracking, and offer competitive products and rates to customers using Salesforce financial services cloud, Micro Services, Apigee Gateway, MuleSoft ESB, and FICO decision management platform – Credit Cards and Personal Loans revenues over $300M per month. Managing a large team of 40 comprising of IT Managers, Platform Architects, Lead BAs, and Tech Leads. Responsible to assign, allocate resources across multiple projects, set project expectations and deliverables, monitor project progress, conduct weekly 1-on-1 review sessions, provide constructive feedback, and mentorship.

M&A: Instrumental for establishing a state-of-the-art CU Merger conversion process (patent filing in progress) – created high-performing teams, established development factory model and conversion methodology for rapid execution of mergers – 19 merger conversions to date, cycle time reduction from 120 to 45 days, brought over 400K new customers and $2B in total assets to the top line. RPA: Established Robotic Process Automation Practice and COE on AWS Cloud using UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, ELK Stack, Tableau, OCR and Image redaction tools like ABBYY, Microsoft OCR, Google OCR etc. – Implemented 65 bots (bot-as-a-service) to date with an ROI over $4M per year. Data: Instrumental for establishing Enterprise Data Lake (Cloudera) and SVOT (SQL Server 2016) data assets as an enterprise solution to consolidate data-silos and provide a single source of reference for all data needs across the organization. Key contributor for setting up Denodo data virtualization platform and deliver key data projects to Mortgage Business and Analytics, Consumer Lending, Cards & Payments, Deposits Business Units. COTS: Led and managed cross-functional team of 60, to deliver the most complex COTS integration implementation to date for Mortgages division, by replacing Fiserv/Sagent’s LoanServ system with the state-of- the-art industry leading Black Knight platform. More than 160 interface integrations delivered seamlessly. Operations Support: Led a small team of 6 technicians to provide production support for Enterprise Data Warehouse, Cards/Payments Production Support, Sev-1/Sev-2 issue resolution, Small Mods development, OpEx reduction etc. – $2.3M Savings per year.

Portfolio Development Manager

Express Scripts (Now Cigna)

OCT 2010 – DEC 2015

Franklin Lakes, NJ

Managed and collaborated with a large multi-vendor teams of 200+ consultants, and employees located in various parts of the globe to deliver application and system integration projects for the merger between Express Scripts and Medco Inc (largest healthcare/pharmacy merge to date valued at $29.1B) Managed project budgets over $15M per annum.

Responsible for resource management, resource planning, project allocations, budget planning, executive presentation to the IT/Business leadership teams.

Executed majority of the projects using Agile/Scrum methodology Lead Project Manager

Capital One & Fannie Mae

OCT 2008 – SEP 2010

Richmond/Washington DC

Instrumental for designing and delivering enterprise operational data store on DB2 UDB Led and managed several data management related projects to load and populate ODS Key member of the PMO Group for defining SDLC/Agile framework, standards & guidelines Led several application development and integration projects in capital markets department Program Engagement Manager

USAA (thru TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.)

MAR 2002 – SEP 2008

San Antonio TX

Key responsibilities include Customer Relationship Management, Program Management, Proposal Writing

(Responses to RFI and RFQ), Fixed Price Project Planning, Process Re-engineering, and Technical Project Delivery etc.

Progressively elevated from Tech Lead to Program Engagement Manager Led multiple cross-functional global teams of 100+ engineers – Onshore and Offshore IT Developer & Team Lead

TATA Consultancy Services Ltd.

AUG 1999 – MAR 2002

Chennai, India

Developed data migration, data dictionary, and language process (LaP) tools for US/UK based Y2K, application, and data conversion projects

Led several data and application conversion projects @ Onshore as well as Offshore EDUCATION

M.S. – Water Resources Engineering

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

JUL 1997 – JUL 1999

Bangalore, India

B.E. – Civil Engineering

MVSR Engineering College (Osmania University)

JUN 1993 – JUN1997

Hyderabad, India

AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS

Force Multiplier TEAM Award – Digital Transformation Program Force Multiplier IMPACT Award – RPA COE

NSL (No Speed Limit) Prestigious PIN from PenFed CEO & Board Members Board level recognition and Star of the Year Award for Mergers Redesign and Flawless Execution Recognized for RPA success @ UiPath Forward Event at Miami FL Poster Child Award for the Mortgage Back-Office Process Reengineering Success CERTIFICATIONS / TRAININGS

PMP – Project Management Professional (2010) Coaching to Win 2.0 (2021) CSM – Certified Scrum Master (2015) Thayer Leadership Program (2020) CSPO – Certified Scrum Product Owner (2018) TribusAllen Leadership Training (2018)

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