Dinesh Veluru
Senior Program Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
Creative Senior Program Manager with exceptional background in Banking, Insurance and Healthcare industries. Proven success building and motivating program teams to meet project goals. Demonstrated leadership in systems implementation, program execution and process improvement engagements.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Program Manager
JP Morgan Chase
11.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with development teams, internal customers, and product line management to verify delivery of desired quality requirements to distributors.
- Tracked and reported program results to customers and stakeholders to facilitate change management activities.
- Devised tools and benchmarks to improve team performance and monitor production.
- Engaged with partners and constituent groups to create positive, trusting and professional relationships.
- Conducted audit inspections and independent checks to verify parts and materials.
- Mentored and supported 10 Cloud Adoption and Data Center Migration Program team employees to create strong workplace culture.
- Networked in local community to identify business opportunities.
- Mentored and led new employees to enhance the larger program productivity.
Team Lead/ScrumMaster
Legato Health Technologies
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Managing a team of 20+ members; monitoring resource allocation as well as project delivery while also performing the role of Scrum Master
- Managing the scrum process with the coordination of Scrum Team in Agile methodology; arranging daily stand-up meetings; Scheduling & facilitating Scrum events including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming, Scrum of Scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives Identifying & communicating potential risks to the completion of the Sprints, including resources, costs, and external dependencies; presenting Sprint & Release progress to Management and Product Owners and ensuring adherence to the process of Agile & Scrum Providing continuous feedback to the team mates on their performance and give annual appraisal feedback.
Developer/Tech Lead/Portfolio Manager/Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2007 - 10.2021
- Managing a team of 120+ members; monitoring resource allocation as well as project delivery while providing post- implementation & maintenance support to client and Technical Support Team Analyzing risk & quality of the project deliverables; monitoring the existing processes by creating lessons learnt documents for future projects Leading review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule / budgets, and ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client; extending production support of multiple applications Supervising resource allocations and setting up channels across the various horizons of the organization structure Understanding and coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, customization of product accordingly and consulting with technical team to provide solutions as per the delivery schedules Facilitating change/ release management and production incident triage while ensuring smooth business operations and minimizing business impact caused due to outages Analyzing emergency changes impacting production incidents; coordinating with various teams to resolve issues through root cause analysis and implement customized solutions Preparing strategic, progress and status reports for Senior Leadership Team while managing the business cases.
- Managing the scrum process with the coordination of Scrum Team in Agile methodology; arranging daily stand-up meetings; Scheduling & facilitating Scrum events including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives Getting team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques Identifying & communicating potential risks to the completion of the Sprints, including resources, costs, and external dependencies; presenting Sprint & Release progress to Management and Product Owners and ensuring adherence to the process of Agile & Scrum Working with the Product Owner to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution Working with the Executive Director and the Senior Management of the Program to come up with the Program Road Map, Execution plan
Education
B.E. - Computer Science And Engineering
Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Anna University
Chennai 04.2001 -
Skills
Change Management
Project Leadership
Implementation Planning
Relationship Management
Progress Monitoring
Personnel Management
AWS and DevOps Essentials
Core Java, J2EE, SQL,DB2
Jira, Confluence
Program Implementation
Core Competencies
- Application/ Delivery Management
- Scrum/ Agile
- Process Management & Improvement
- Project Management
- Change/ Release Management
- Delivery Management
- Risk Management
- Client Relationship Management Team Building & Management
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 03/16/85
Accomplishments
- Successfully lead initiative called Agile 360 which has introduced the Agile world to the teams; the idea was to cater to fullfill the client requirements as well as individual requirements which would help not only meet customer goals, but also fulfill individual goals
- Assisted in test-driven development on all projects increasing quality by 17% (benchmarked against historical data)
- Led & supervised all IT projects, executed by a team of 30, including application development and maintenance, product customization and technology migration
- Delivered training to the Mexico Teams on Home Equity and Real Estate Domains; provided training to the Nearshore Team on the tools such as Adobe Output Designer, client specific technologies such as PS, BS, BOM and so on
- Successfully set-up a nearshore team of 40+ associates for Mortgage and Home Equity and other Banking Compliance projects
- Successfully lead the data analytics teams in the health care domain with in short span of time at Legato health technologies
- Appreciated by the Senior Management for successfully leading the Public CLoud Adoption and Data center MIgration Program in short span of time.
Certification
AWS Solution Architect Associate
Timeline
AWS Solution Architect Associate
12-2023
Senior Program Manager
JP Morgan Chase
11.2022 - Current
Team Lead/ScrumMaster
Legato Health Technologies
11.2021 - 11.2022
Certified Scum Master
05-2021
AWS Cloud Practioner
12-2019
Oracle Certified Web Component Developer
04-2009
Developer/Tech Lead/Portfolio Manager/Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2007 - 10.2021
B.E. - Computer Science And Engineering
Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Anna University
04.2001 -