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Manjunatha Prabhu

Bangalore
Manjunatha Prabhu

Summary

High-performing Program Management Office Lead with 20 years of delivering high-quality healthcare products from idea to market, with in-depth technical knowledge and experience in software product design and development.

Overview

20
years of professional experience
2
Certification

Work History

PHILIPS INDIA LTD.
BANGALORE

R&D Program Manager – SW PMO Lead
09.2010 - Current

Job overview

  • As the Global Software Program Management Office (PMO) Lead for Philips Computed Tomography (CT), I lead a global team of SW PMO with 8 team members in India and China, which includes a Release Train Engineer (RTE) and SW Program Managers managing all NPI and IB programs across the entire CT product portfolio.
  • Mentored and coached the project and program managers, and set the framework and governance structure for KPI and metrics-based reporting, managing, and executing different NPI and field upgrade programs.
  • Owned and drove the implementation of the SW Program Roadmap for CT Products across the portfolio.
  • Drove Agile Transformation in the organization with SAFe Agile deployment and alignment between the different software teams across India, Israel, the USA, and China.
  • Successfully led the PMO team to deliver multiple Field Change Order (FCO) releases and New Product Introductions (NPI) to Premium, and Performance CT products.
  • Owned Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for the Resource Allocation (200+ engineers) and Budget Management (~€15 million) for CT Bangalore, Shenyang, and Suzhou.
  • Delivered the following Philips CT products as a Software R&D Program Manager, working closely with stakeholders from across the globe (USA, Israel, Netherlands, and China):
  • World’s first spectral detector, Angio CT solution, with which Philips ventures into a new market segment with a potential market size of 70 systems per year (~€2M per system) – 2020 to 2022.
  • Refresh program, with Windows 10 OS and major cybersecurity solutions, as well as interventional controls targeting 3,000+ units of lower premium and upper performance segment products from 2018 to 2019.
  • Big Bore on Rails, first of its kind (FOK) product for Mayo Clinic, as a precursor for the new Angio CT development - 2018.
  • Big Bore Radiation Oncology CT Product Release for Volume Delivery with 500+ units in the mid-performance segment from 2017 to 2018.
  • Field Change Order (FCO) releases for iCT and Ingenuity products – 2017.
  • Participated in multiple Philips internal and external regulatory audits, as well as FDA audits, and ensured there were no NCs for the CT Software team each time.
  • As Sr. Technical Specialist designed and developed features for the different software programs using C# .NET, WCF and WPF technologies and played the role of technical/ project lead and software integrator for successful releases between the years 2010 to 2015.

SIEMENS HEALTHCARE
BANGALORE

Associate Consultant
07.2005 - 08.2010

Job overview

  • Worked as Software developer in Agile teams and designed and developed using C++, VB, C# .NET and MS SQL technologies for different Siemens Healthcare products.
  • Supported critical customer issues for the products (Both Onsite - USA and Offshore).

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka
SURATHKAL, INDIA

BE from Electrical & Electronics
06-2005

Skills

  • Primary Skillset: Project/ Program Management, Scrum, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Lean Scheduling & Daily Management, Technical Program Management, Strategic Technology Planning & Road mapping, Healthcare Product Development – NPI and Install Base Management, FDA regulations – Design Control, Stakeholder/ Change Management, Vendor Management, KPI/Metrics Dashboards,Budget management
  • Technical Skills/ Tools: C, C#, WCF, WPF, MS SQL, NET Framework, Azure Dev Ops, Clear case, Microsoft Project

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Project Management Institute (PMI) September 2018
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agilist Scaled Agile, Inc April 2021

Timeline

R&D Program Manager – SW PMO Lead

PHILIPS INDIA LTD.
09.2010 - Current

Associate Consultant

SIEMENS HEALTHCARE
07.2005 - 08.2010

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

BE from Electrical & Electronics
Manjunatha Prabhu