Praveen Kumar Kotapuri

• Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent solutions for their business problems.
• Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to scope and schedule.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
• Adapted Agile process and showed improvement in delivery timelines ,quality of the deliverables,Client Satisfaction.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decision.
• Manged team of project managers and technical architects and provided them guidance to execute their job successfully.

Duties include Delivery Management, Program management,change management.

• Checking projects status on regular intervals ,assist the team to resolve delivery related issues.monitoring RED/Amber projects and helping manages to close the issues related to delivery ,resources and client.
• Monitoring overall projects status ,checking metrics and participating in escalation calls with the client and provided solutions for issues raised after go-live.
• Defined Quality Objectives and goal for the organization and helped the tem to implement .
• Reporting status to leadership and implementing inputs from leadership team.
• Improving client satisfaction ,participating in client satisfaction surveys.

• Duties include formulating strategy, improving performance, procuring material, resources and securing compliance. Mentor team members, propose ways to increase quality of customer service and implement best practices across all levels.
• Oversaw hiring, adding valuable, talented professionals to strengthen team.
• Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives across departments to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
• Developed measurement tools, dashboards and reports to track metrics on adoption and effectiveness of initiatives.
• Drove team engagement to achieve aggressive client targets.
• Improved employee satisfaction rating by realigning and enforcing policies.
• Applied excellent problem-solving, process development and strategic implementation skills to lead and support all areas of operations.
• Developed systems to track and log work issues.
• Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe or ineffective practices.
• Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.
• Established positive and effective communication among employees and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications and missed deadlines.
• Supported project management team for optimal performance.
• Praveen has successfully implemented ISMS(Information security management system) for the organization and helped organization to get ISO 27001:2013 ISMS certification. has Successfully implemented ISO 9001:2015 QMS process and helped organization to get certified .

• Managed large and complex delivery projects and programs with revenue responsibilities of over $25 million per year.
• Defined IT strategy for the clients and implemented road map to realize the business goals.
• Defined new technology migration path like cloud Migration/enabling and moving the products to digital platforms.
• Led change management initiatives for the clients and managed post-merger & integration consolidation of business & applications.
• Successful managed operations team and provided infrastructure and resources support on time to delivery team to execute their duties .
• Successfully converted client business needs into opportunities and helped organization to retain major clients.
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
• Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
• Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
• Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
• Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion.
• Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
• On-Shore Exposure
• Worked as program manager and technical architect at client location Helsinki (Finland) for European banking and financial client for about 2years.
• Developed products for their banking and financial system.
• Scrum Master
• Worked as Scrum Master/Agile and waterfall project management methodologies
• Contributions – 3 SDLC projects converted from waterfall to Agile as a Coach.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-up's, etc.) Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality, Facilitate daily Stand-ups with teams and stakeholders.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
  Solution and Technical Architect
  ⦁ Worked as Technical Architect for financial and automobile clients for around 2yrs. Exposure in deal shaping, resources planning, pricing, have provided solution for larger, multi technology deals sizing up to $15mn.
  ⦁ Provided solution for Journey to cloud and New IT transformation deals.
  ⦁ Provided solution and technical architecture for several NEW IT implementation and journey to cloud deals.

• Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
• Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
• Managed risk, investigated solutions and established project recovery plans.
• Led team of engineers in providing design and engineering solutions to various clients and market sectors.
• Planned, executed and controlled assigned projects, ensuring work performed complied with contractual requirements.

• Reported on updates to project specifications and progress.
• Reviewed project specifications and drawings prior to assembling complex components to better understand assignments and expected deadlines.
• Communicated directly with project stakeholders, providing timely updates on project advancement.

• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers,and working to improve overall team performance.
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.

• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.