Murali Kumar Vootada
A versatile and accomplished professional with over 25+ years of leadership experience in R&D Project Delivery Management, defining strategy, project management, and Talent development and competency building and strong influential skills to drive org initiatives . Proven expertise in seeding new topics, Setting up of Offshore Development Centers, Brining End to End responsibilities to INDIA and transforming to CoCs/CoEs, offshoring the customer support responsibilities, and building high-performing teams. Extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration and leading successfully globally distributed diverse teams across locations. Demonstrated strong leadership, work ethics, and rich experience in project/program management delivery as well as driving Organizational and Employee Engagement Initiatives. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, team building, communication, and customer-focused solutions, with a proven ability to resolve challenging situations and achieve quick wins.
Professional program management professional with proven track record in leading complex projects and driving impactful results. Strong focus on team collaboration, ensuring dependable performance, and adaptability to evolving needs. Expertise in strategic planning, resource allocation, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, coupled with exceptional problem-solving and leadership abilities.
Experienced with managing large-scale programs and leading cross-functional teams. Utilizes strategic planning to streamline processes and achieve objectives. Track record of effective stakeholder communication and problem-solving. Results-driven professional specializing in program management, known for delivering successful outcomes and fostering collaborative environments. Recognized for strategic planning and problem-solving abilities, consistently meeting and exceeding goals. Relied upon to adapt to changing needs and ensure team alignment.
Work History
Sr Program Manager - Automation & Industry4.0
4 Years 4 Months- Responsible to connect with end customer to understand pain areas and Provide Digitalization solutions to address their pain areas and also adding value by optimize efficiency
- Successful in bagging Tata Electronics account , the first Opcentre Electronics and semiconductors topic worth 2 Million INR Phase 1 and for Phase 2 it will be 10 Million INR worth and engaging the team for 2 years
- Pre Sales in Tyre Vertical, F&B, Ports, Warehouse management, Water Treatment, SMART Cities
Program Manager - Client Consulting and Support Team
3 Years 1 Month- Managed Diversified Partners, Technologies and Diversified Scope of work (Development, Testing, Consulting, Tools, Setup Management & Configuration Management) under this program
- Managed to get End to End ownership of Client consulting topic to Bangalore
- Increased Setup topic FTE by 3 members
- Successfully Transformed teams from Traditional Development model to Agile and Kanban
- Took Initiative and Proposed the Working Model for Globally distributed setup teams working model and successfully convinced GER partners to accept proposal and seed 2 Global Roles ( Product Owner and Scrum Master) in BLR
- Played critical role to get Global Scrum Master role and PO to BLR team members
- Extensive engagement with all the stakeholders from leadership till the account level project manager’s to understand the pain areas and bring in improvements into the accounts/ projects with the road map as per best practice frameworks
Team Manager - System Test House
2 Years 4 Months- Manage and control budgets for 250+people including 3 Module Managers and infrastructure
- Performance management e.g
- Target setting, evaluation and development
- Competence management- Enable the workforce to emerge as learning champions development, rollout and usage of competence frameworks to assess and develop the technical, product, process and interpersonal skills of staff
- Knowledge management encourage collaboration within own team and between teams, seek sources of information & initiate lesson learned workshops
- Institute, maintain, optimize and automate internal processes
- Mentoring individual contributors and people managers
Module Manager - Development
2 Years 11 Months- Manage and control budgets for 120+ people and infrastructure
- Performance Appraisals | Knowledge Management | Competence Management
- Talent management- Hiring, Job Rotation
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency with lower costs while reducing nonconformance costs
- Performance management e.g
- Target setting, evaluation and development
- Competence management development, rollout and usage of competence frameworks to assess and develop the technical, product, process and interpersonal skills of staff
- Institute, maintain, optimize and automate internal processes
Project Manager Dev & Testing
9 Years 5 Months- Mainly Responsible for Seeding SCIT Topic in Bangalore with 5 FTE and Increased FTE to 30+ in Just 4 Years
- Lead the planning and deployment of a project engagement for a major industrial automation Products
- Manage multiple teams of software engineers (Architects, Developers, Testers)
- Manage all aspects of peer verification and quality assurance testing before execution
- Track project milestones
- Conduct weekly and monthly project status meetings
- Provide Windows Installer Domain Support
- Support the development of technical presentations and project estimates
- Achievements: Successfully delivered ~10 projects in the role of Project Manager
Sr Software Engineer
1 Year- Responsible for GALWAY UL global application packaging delivery(wise package studio/InstallShield/VBScript) and providing the deployment solutions for active directory/ Microsoft system management server
Project Lead Wireless Application
1 Year 9 Months- Responsible for setting up new Wireless Division and deliver two Projects
- Design and Develop WAP Application to Enelpower Italy, GREECE Stock Exchange Athens
Education
Master of Business Administration - Marketing
Bachelor of Engineering - ECE
- Class Representative -1990 to 1994
- Represented and Participated In inter college cultural competitions , youth festivals and University Fest
Skills
Accomplishments
- Invited by NASSCOM to be a speaker @UDYAM4.0 held at Ahmedabad on 06/11/24.
- Invited by NSRIT, Visakhapatnam management as Guest of Honor for their first graduation day ceremony on 08/31/24.
- Speaker @ QAI 11th International Testing Conference 2009 & 2010 organized by QAI.
- Coordinated with leaders across various sub segments & global leaders to drive organizational initiatives including AI ML Expo-2019, Manthan, AIDT Expo2020, SEED, SAFE Hackathon 2022.
- Instant Award winner for contributions towards AIDT Expo2020.
- Won Best Practice sharing sessions in 2007 – Siemens Automation Agent.
- Responsible for rolling out R&R Programs @ DASS for 15 years.
- Reviewer of the Nominations for Annual Excellence Awards.
- Focused and managed to have a diversified team since taking up PM role in 2005.
- Zero Attrition in my Team.
- 15 Years Responsible for all Employee engagement Initiative @ DASS.
- DASS leadership Team appreciated for successfully organizing Industry Awards event in 2018 for around 1500+ employees.
- DASS Leadership Team has appreciated for Negotiating Skills (saving 5.3 Million Rupees).
- Responsible for HIRING Manager for DASS and recruited around 470+ in a single year.
- Part of change management team while rolling out GRIP 1.0.
- Played Project Manager Role in driving SGES 2021 actions at DASS BU level.
Engagementsummary
- STSPL, Sr Program Manager-Automation and Industry4.0, 05/2022 - Present
- STSPL, Program Manager -PLT, 03/2019 - 04/2022
- STSPL, Team Manager -System Test House, 10/2016 - 02/2019
- STSPL, Module Manager – Development, 10/2013 - 09/2016
- STSPL, Project Manager Dev & Testing, 05/2004 - 10/2013
- HP, Sr Software Engineer, 04/2003 - 04/2004
- Global Software Initiatives, Project Lead Wireless Application, 05/2001 - 03/2003
Competenciesandcertifications
- Program for Business Manager from IIM Bangalore
- Kanban Certified Professional
- MCSD and MCAD Certified Professional
- ISTQB Foundation Certified Professional
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Hobbies and Interests
- Employee Engagement Initiatives
- Playing Basketball
- Mentoring
- Team Building
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Paying Basket Ball , Organizing Events
Represented Sainik School Korukonda in south zone basketball tournament from 1987 to 1989
Organised Technical Events , Sports events , Family Days , Award nights for 15 years in SIEMENS