PROFILE

Mr. Ravula is an experienced Program Manager with over 15 years of technical project management experience with financial services, manufacturing, and aerospace sectors in Federal, State, Domestic & International organizations. He comes with a demonstrated proficiency in project management fundamentals, including schedule and milestone monitoring, risk management, and budget management. Mr. Ravula has a strong technical background, and proven experience leveraging enterprise-standard project management tools to communicate project status with excellent follow-ups. Mr. Ravula has excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and technical skills.

EDUCATION

●Master of Business Administration in Finance, Duke University

●Master of Science in Economics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science

CERTIFICATIONS

●PMP® (Project Management Professional)

●Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

●Certified MS SharePoint Administrator

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

●Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

●Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

●SAFe Agile Certified

SKILLS

Agile, CFA, Scrum, Cloud Deployment & Migration, Ansible, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Splunk, MS Project Server, MS Azure Dev Ops, Jira, JIRA, Clarity, Enterprise Modernization, Data Warehousing, OpenStack (Private Cloud), MS Azure, MS SharePoint, MS Visual Studio, MS Visio

EXPERIENCE

Senior Technical Program Manager

Mastercard

10/2022-04/2023

●Delivered business mandate of integrating a large European Payment Services (MPS) company which powers digital real-time payment infrastructure, bill payment, e-invoicing applications and open banking ecosystems in the Nordics and Nordics.

●Managed the customer services phase of the program, integrating Mastercard’s enterprise applications that intake customer inquiries.

●Managed the B2B segment of the Arcus Pay Network, which allows clients to access a wide network of POS where their users can withdraw cash through a smartphone, safely and instantly.

●Responsible for providing technical leadership, working with engineering teams to define technical requirements, identifying technical risks and issues, and helping teams to develop technical solutions, which consisted of 14 staff, including SME’s, developers & QA resources, and communicating with stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Program Lead

The Boeing Company

02/2020-08/2022

●Onboarded as program manager to perform an assessment of Boeing’s worldwide single instance Personnel Record Storage (PRS) platform and implement remediations to stabilize and secure HSPII (Highly sensitive Personally Identifiable Information) data hosted on its private cloud environment.

●Served as PM for Client Access Management (CAM) a very large project stream within Boeing’s multi-million dollar Identity Access Management (IAM) Transformation initiative under Boeing’s Aviation Defense group with a 3 year end-goal of implementing PingOne as an identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) single sign-on (SSO) offering that enables Boeing Fleet Users federated access to Boeing Enterprise Network (BEN) with a single click from a secure, cloud-based dock, accessible from any browser or mobile device.

●As a PM conducted RAD workshops capture B2B and B2C use cases. Conducted PI Planning sessions within the Agile Release Train (ART), captured user stories for Federation Broker, Data Migration, Delegated Administration, Device AuthZ, IDP support and integration with external API services.

●Implemented Trust elevation which sends users to a trust elevation service when their transaction risk score is too high in the context of the resource that they are trying to access.

●Served as Project Lead for deploying a world-wide single instance cloud-based transportation management solution (TMS) with integration capability between multiple supply chain systems within Boeing, delivery tracking and status communications, thereby mitigating impact to overall release trains.

●Provided dual support for assigned projects valued upwards of $25 MM as an IT Project manager and Scrum Master for five geographically distributed teams, managing dependencies, backlog grooming, and TDD (Test-Driven Development) implementation.

●Conducted daily stand-ups for projects that require technical knowledge, such as WSSO Dual SignOn, integrations with data warehouses to ingest HSPII records, and infrastructure platform upgrades to manage tech debt.

●Conducted 30 + Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, story refinement and Release planning, and implemented improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

●Retired nineteen legacy applications while maintaining audit mandated compliance and records information policies.

Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager

Ampcus In – Contractor

03/2018-09/2019

●Project lead at Freddie Mac to implement Jenkins pipelines to orchestrate server builds using Ansible. The pipeline builds and maintains robust testing platform within their Azure platform

●Project Manager for Ampcus Inc. to build GitLab CI/CD pipelines by enabling CI/CD of chef cookbooks to Chef Servers promoting incident free code commits to production systems for their innovation labs to introduce new test ETF’s.

●Program Lead For Ongweoweh.com - Presented cloud and data science roadmaps to group CDOs based on IT landscape evaluation and delivered future state of IT infrastructure modernization roadmaps.

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Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager

T. Rowe Price – Contractor

06/2015-03/2018

●Project lead for modernizing T. Rowe Price’s Institutional Investment (II) Applications Portfolio. Program to migrate underlying client investment data from legacy Hadoop to on-prem modern cloud data lake leveraging flexible object storage services of Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) for near-infinite scalability and utilizing Dromio’s query engine to allow batch jobs during business hours shortening runtime from 2.5 hours to less than 10 minutes with no service degradation.

●Compliance Project lead at T. Rowe Price responsible for business systems compliance within the program tasked with implementing processes to generate governance reports using emerging methodologies such as business value sequence by value streams and implemented common set of assessment procedures used by internal and external assurance teams to review GRC capabilities.

Project Lead, Sr. Manager

Actualize Consulting Federal Agriculture Mortgage

03/2014-05/2015

●Project lead at Freddie Mac to implement Jenkins pipelines to orchestrate server builds using Ansible. The pipeline builds and maintains robust testing platform within their Azure platform

●Project Manager for Ampcus Inc. to build GitLab CI/CD pipelines by enabling CI/CD of chef cookbooks to Chef Servers promoting incident free code commits to production systems for their innovation labs to introduce new test ETF’s.

●Program Lead For Ongweoweh.com - Presented cloud and data science roadmaps to group CDOs based on IT landscape evaluation and delivered future state of IT infrastructure modernization roadmaps.

●Served as project lead for implementing a cloud-based self-service portal to support United States cooperative banks to transact with Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (FarmerMac) loan products.

●Migrated FarmerMac’ s entire data center with redundancy to managed services on Rackspace platforms powered by Microsoft Azure Public/Private Cloud

●Infrastructure Project Lead for Data Center Consolidation Initiative (DCCI). Delivered fleet of 140 Chef managed VMs including upgrade through 1000 + automated builds per year across Linux and Windows platforms which reduced end-to-end VM delivery SLA from 5 days to hour. Played a key role in management of Service Catalog within first three months of team formation to standardize offerings, then matured major trending platforms across enterprise to increase consistency and reduce cost.

●Ensured compliance and reports in accordance with Farmer Mac policies and industry regulations and managed Farmer Mac's information systems policies and controls to ensure data accuracy, security, legal and regulatory compliance.

●Integrated IMS trade platform into downstream loan, funding, and accounting systems with comprehensive reconciliation of pre-trade and post trade data and delivered auditable framework to compute analytics to validate calculations from Bloomberg or compute custom analytics through MATLAB.

●Managed federal engagements to collect, intake, map HFT (High Frequency Trading) four types of short-term trading strategies: passive market making, arbitrage, structural, and directional.

●Designed innovative templates for information gathering, made presentations on move strategy to wide range of stakeholders, compiled data and prepared documentation that included application architecture, data flow diagrams, device and component interdependencies, business impact, application performance baselines, and support information domains in all major NA data centers.

Senior Project/Program Manager

International Finance Corporation, The World Bank

08/2009-02/2014

●Developed strategic Treasury Enterprise project charters, concept, investment review documentation, project planning, executing, monitoring & controlling, and reporting on global business systems delivery, services management, operations of client services, release management, and product support (Treasury Applications).

●Supervised a sizable number of cross-functional and cross- regional project teams, with complete integration into underlying financial systems such as Loans systems, Cash Transaction systems, SAP applications and pure-bred financial applications.

●Collected and reported project work performance information, creating repeatable project methodology maps, and calculating variances leading to Earned Value management throughout the life cycle of projects/programs.

●Identified areas of operational improvement and applied program/project management methodologies to partner with internal customer’s world-wide and external Big 4 organizations teams to effect change.

●Managed IFC's Financial Closing Improvement Program (FCIP) aimed at mitigation of potential risks and improved business systems and processes to streamline IFC's financial close cycle, with the project goal of shrinking quarterly financial close cycle from 42 days to 8 days.

●Managed and successfully implemented Treasury Discount Notes Program with a budget of USD $3.6 and overall team size of 19 CORE and 90 + shared services team members using Waterfall methodology.

IT Manager

Goodrich Corporation

06/2000-01/2009

●Managed staffing, budgeting, development, design, and integration of world-wide Single- instance SAP Rollout (Including SAP CRM, MRO & FO) for 14 multi-site operations and aircraft repair centers for 20,000+ users’ world-wide.

●Implemented a fully Risk-compliant global secure business data exchange relationship with civil and defense customers such as Airbus, Boeing, via an Enterprise Customer Portal which allows aircraft manufacturers and airlines world-wide to search for millions of parts across the entire Enterprise, inquire about status of aircraft part orders and navigate to Business Unit e-commerce sites.

●Managed large scale Global Datacenter Move (GDCP) initiatives, which included architecture reviews, capacity planning, migration, and virtualization of multiple enterprise applications.

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