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Lawrence Prakash

Senior Program Manager
Bengaluru
Lawrence Prakash

Summary

IT Professional with over 20 Years of Diverse experience, mostly in the area of Program Management using SAFe®, SCRUM, Kanban across various line of Business (Artificial Intelligence platform for Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Digital Pathology, Pharmacy, Healthcare Imaging, Investment Banking, Retail Banking & Credit Card Manufacturing), Data Visualization using Tableau.

Have worked based out of Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, United States & India

Core Experience Areas: Program Management, Delivery Management, Customer Success & Vendor Management.

Overview

20
years of professional experience
4
Certifications

Work History

GE Healthcare
Bengaluru

Sr Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
04.2019 - Current

Job overview

  • Managing the Edison AI Services portfolio NPI (New Product Introduction) programs with resources & teams spread globally to deliver a platform and a horizontal enabler for GE Healthcare’s 20B business. Defined and established SAFe across 11 Edison AI Scrum teams globally. Efficiently managed Release plans, Milestones, Monthly & Weekly releases to our customers.
  • Successfully partnered with Lean Leaders to improve Net Promoter Score (NPS)

GE Healthcare
Bengaluru

Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
03.2019 - 04.2021

Job overview

I am part of a team that builds a platform that enables end-to-end data science at enterprise scales and caters to all personas of the Data Science Process.

Edison AI Workbench
• An experience centered around the creation, management, and testing of data and data science assets
• Clinical and domain experts refine data and annotations
• Data scientists can build and test AI models
• Product managers can review results, legal usage details, and monitor progress

Edison AI Inferencing Services
• AI Models can be published for consumption. This wraps models in interface that allows for easy integration in Intelligent device or intelligent workflow.
• Analytics as a Service (AaaS) allows for pre/post processing which streamlines integration.

Hospital Research Engagements | Data Extraction Services


• Connect with Hospitals on an ongoing Research Partnership and facilitate data plumbing to Healthcare DataLake
• Ensure De-identified, high fidelity, quality data from Hospitals gets aggregated to Data Lake that in turn helps Data Scientists with various AI Use Cases

GE Oil & Gas
Bengaluru

Staff Technical Project Manager, AI
04.2018 - 04.2019

Job overview

At Oil & Gas Digital, we are creating technology and solutions to enable social, mobile, analytical and cloud capabilities for the Industrial Internet.


- Manage the definition to the project scope and project deliverable and ensure they are aligned with the program plan.
- Collaborate with business and functional partners and technology leadership in defining features backlog and specifying requirements

- Define execution plan and approach based on scope, timeline and available budget/resources

- Collaborated with global cross functional teams of Product Managers, Engineering, Security, Finance, Legal, Regulatory and marketing to ensure product success and meet customer expectations.
- Manage external vendors as required. Manage procurement and on-boarding process

- Manage project risks, scope changes and other non-standard events throughout the life of the project (Smartsheets)
- Managing the communication to CTO, Platform Leaders and product release management to ensure that product deliverables are met and stake holders are managed
- Ensure quality of deliverables is verified and matching stakeholder expectations
- Track project outcomes realisation and customer satisfaction levels through established metrics against service level

GE Healthcare
Bengaluru

Staff Technical Project Manager - Imaging
06.2016 - 03.2018

Job overview

CentricityTM Universal Viewer intuitively brings tools needed by radiologists, cardiologists and other clinicians to provide enterprise access on a desktop. The current Verification & Validation cycle takes 8 weeks, i was part of a team that built an Automation Framework using White & Applitool to automate the 5000+ manual test cases that are currently available in the system today so that the cycle time & Manual effort is reduced.

GE Healthcare
Bengaluru

Software Program Manager - Digital Pathology
12.2014 - 06.2016

Job overview

Cancer is a worldwide challenge, it effects millions of people and costs a lot to treat and manage. Every case a pathologist touches impacts the life of an individual in a profound way. The rate at which cancer is growing is far exceeding pathologist supply. Meeting this demand will require new tools, which have been lacking in pathology. Digital tools can elevate Pathologists by helping them make more informed diagnosis in the treatment of cancer.


I was part of this team that built the future of pathology which is a complete digital pathology platform that has smart scanners that replicate the microscope viewing experience, a brilliant software that helps in the diagnostic process by giving advanced viewing tools, algorithms, connecting to are teams for collaboration and great transformative consulting team that helps in training and support to setup the service and workflows. these are the tools that pathologist would need to focus on what they do best: impact patient outcomes through expert diagnoses.

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Bengaluru

Senior Professional: Application Delivery
11.2011 - 11.2014

Job overview

Played the roles of Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Agile Consultant and Project Manager for various Project Teams

Key Responsibilities -

- Manage the definition to the project scope and project deliverable and ensure they are aligned with the program plan.
- Manage any changes to project scope, and schedule to ensure that the plan and schedule remain accurate and that the changes approved by the authorized personnel. Communicate changes to stakeholders.

- Obtain the appropriate levels of Stakeholder buy-in and approvals.
- Track and measure project performance using appropriate tools.
- Monitor project progress and identify and quantify any schedule variances, taking appropriate corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
- Any plan revisions reflected in appropriate tools.
- Communicate Plan changes to stakeholders and team members
- Maintain administrative actions such as date entry updates, document control, status reporting in accordance with established tool usage and practice.
- Ensure that the project meets the project scope, on time at acceptable quality levels.
- Facilitate team meetings effectively.
- Manage interlocks with other teams
- Identify opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change.
- Exhibit sound and accurate decision making; serve as resource for problem solving.
- Mentor and provide guidance to team members.

- Act as a subject matter expert and an advocate in adopting new best practices and processes.
- Created Project management plan for Project team and co-ordinated for Quarterly Quality Audits & Infosec Audits.

Capgemini
Bengaluru

Senior Consultant - Dell & Gemalto
11.2008 - 11.2011

Job overview

Agile Coach and Team Lead for blended teams of consultants and client employees. Was instrumental in transitioning the projects' software development practices into a very effective distributed multi-team Scrum software development organization.

Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai

Business Analyst
04.2007 - 10.2008

Job overview

Functional Domain consultant, Back-up for Project Lead, Client interaction, Requirement Gathering, Use Cases, Test Cases, Knowledge Transfer Sessions. Having a diverse set of experience in Consumer / Investment Banking Practise, dealing with Requirement gathering, Use case writing, Client interactions, analysis & design of requirements, RFP / RFI's, BRD, Project management / Operations management, Implementing Scrum Methodology in project.

Citigroup Global Services
Chennai

Process Executive
05.2004 - 04.2007

Job overview

Team Management, Ensure team's adherence to SLA's as per SOW, Review / Prepare monthly RCSA’s (Risk Control Self Assessments), Creating & implementing workflows to facilitate improvements by identifying service delivery gaps, offer solutions and successfully implement ideas to enhance to products and services.

CADD Centre
Cochin

Cadd Engineer
07.2003 - 04.2004

Job overview

Product Presentation based on client requirements, Team Lead, Design of Mechanical components in Pro/E, AutoCAD as project requirements, Training

KULATHUNKAL MOTORS PRIVATE LIMITED
Trivandrum

Service Engineer
06.2002 - 07.2003

Job overview

Provide Service advice to customers, Work supervision, Customer service, On Time delivery

Education

The University of Texas At Austin
Texas

Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Intelligence For Leaders
09.2021 - 02.2022

University Overview

Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering
Trivandrum, Kerala

Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering
08.1998 - 04.2002

University Overview

Skills

    Program Management

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Certification

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

Timeline

The University of Texas At Austin
Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Intelligence For Leaders
09.2021 - 02.2022

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

01-2021
Sr Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
GE Healthcare
04.2019 - Current
Staff Technical Program Manager, AI
GE Healthcare
03.2019 - 04.2021
Staff Technical Project Manager, AI
GE Oil & Gas
04.2018 - 04.2019
Staff Technical Project Manager - Imaging
GE Healthcare
06.2016 - 03.2018

Building Essential Leadership Skills (BELS)

04-2016
Software Program Manager - Digital Pathology
GE Healthcare
12.2014 - 06.2016
Senior Professional: Application Delivery
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
11.2011 - 11.2014

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)

04-2011
Senior Consultant - Dell & Gemalto
Capgemini
11.2008 - 11.2011
Business Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2007 - 10.2008
Process Executive
Citigroup Global Services
05.2004 - 04.2007
Cadd Engineer
CADD Centre
07.2003 - 04.2004
Service Engineer
KULATHUNKAL MOTORS PRIVATE LIMITED
06.2002 - 07.2003
Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering
08.1998 - 04.2002
Lawrence PrakashSenior Program Manager