Venky Panganamamula, PMP, CSM

Mississauga, ON 647-***-****

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Software Development Manager QA Scrum Master

Successful Software Development Manager with an entrepreneurial drive. Extensive experience in software development and testing leadership for DevOps. Proven track record of leading QA and development projects and providing exemplary customer support. Worked in Kubernetes environments for cloud and on-premises deployments. Conversant in quality procedures for executing projects and exposed to internal quality audits. Contributed to organizational initiatives such as CMMi assessments and MDSAP audits.

Project Management Professional (PMP #271877) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM #1156800). Served broad clientele, including Enbridge, National Bank of Canada, Citibank, Cisco, General Electric (GE Money Bank, GE Appliances, GE Transportation, and GE Power), Nielsen Media Research, and Duskin.

Areas of Expertise:

Traceability to Requirements Risk Management DevOps CI/CD Pipelines Agile Development

Onsite & Offshore Team Management Six Sigma Methodology - Black Belt Trained

Technical Skills:

Java Python Go Selenium, TestNG API Testing ETL Testing QTP, TestComplete

Professional Experience

IBM CANADA

Software Development Manager, IBM Watson Health, Canada 2014 - 2021

Successfully led Development and QA teams and delivered major and minor releases:

oDelivered various products: Merge PACS and Ortho PACS (6.6.1, 6.6.3.2, 7.0 to 8.2), eFilm (3.4.2 to 4.4), Ortho Templates (36.0 to 40.2.2), CADStream (6.2 and 7.0), and DASH (5.2).

oLearned valid clinical workflows from Implementation team and client visits.

oProduced development plans, code review reports, unresolved anomalies reports, test plans, test results, test reports, traceability matrix, compatibility matrix, and JIRA.

oEstimated the effort for each release, designed an estimation approach, and standardized calculations.

oModelled various scenarios based on resources and schedule to facilitate decision-making process for release development and testing roadmap.

oCoordinated revisions of Architecture document with Senior Developers on the team.

oImplemented REST API testing for various web services developed as Workflow APIs – fetching studies, patient details, worklists, study status, and other categories.

oConducted daily scrum meetings and participated in sprint review meetings and sprint retrospections.

oEarned IBM badges: Cognitive Practitioner, Agile Explorer, Design Thinking Practitioner, IBM Consulting Profession Certification, and Certified First Line Manager.

Contributed to DevOps, CI/CD pipeline development:

oWorked on deployments for Asgard project: whi-wcc-workflow, workflow-ui, and ea-simulator – dockerized and ingress object in Kubernetes environment.

oWorked on Ansible Playbook to copy deployment yaml and ingress secrets; ran pods in Kubernetes environment for whi-wcc-workflow deployment.

oAcquired IBM badges in Docker Essentials and Containers and Kubernetes Essentials.

Contributed to Pre-market Notification (510(k)) submission for FDA’s review and Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP) audits for Merge PACS.

Recognized and thanked team members regularly. Utilized manager empowerment funds to celebrate project successes.

Received Q3 Recognition Award from Vice President, Quality Division for demonstrating excellent leadership in delivering Merge PACS releases, covering PACS load tests, and successful offshore and onsite management.

Received 3 years of Service Recognition Awards from IBM Watson Health.

Recognized by Carol Nakagawa for collecting relevant test documents for Merge PACS in support of FDA 510 (k) submission. Earned IBM Manager’s Choice Award for pulling the team together and delivering CADStream certificate release. Received Solutions Excellence Award for outstanding work as an SME for PACS product - MDSAP audit.

Additional Experience

IBM CANADA

Managing Consultant 2012 - 2014

WIPRO CANADA

Senior Project Manager 2011 - 2012

TECH MAHINDRA

Senior Project Manager 2006 - 2011

TECH MAHINDRA

Delivery Manager 2005 - 2006

TECH MAHINDRA

Project Manager 2002 - 2005

Held technical positions of Project Leader, Lead Developer, and Developer in the areas of Java, JSP, Pro* C, Oracle 8i, .NET, SQL Server 7.0, and MFC 4.0 with Tech Mahindra for various clients; USA: GE Power Systems, GE Appliances, GE Transportation Systems, and Nielsen Media Research; Japan: Duskin, Sumisho, and OKI Electric Industry.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India

Post-Graduate Diploma, Computer Applications, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management Institute, USA

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance

Certificate in Global Business Leadership (CGBL), Universitas 21 (U21) Global, Harvard Publishing School and Satyam School of Leadership (SSL)

Workplace Mental Health Leadership Certificate, Queen’s University, Morneau Shepell

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