S. SHANKAR
BENGALURU
Summary
27+ years of diverse experience in Operations Management, Software Quality Engineering, Technical Program Mgmt., Release Mgmt, Cyber Security, SAFe, etc.
Strategic leader with exquisite proven record on budgeting/costing including forming big teams from scratch, CapEx/OpEx management, etc. Driven roadshows for senior/executive management both in-house & offsite corporate events.
Always looking forward to drive/lead the center bringing in best talent & delivering world class products/services.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Leadership Consulting, PMO
Crezentia Wellness Pvt Ltd
BENGALURU
01.2023 - Current
- Define SaaS/Agile Program Mgmt process for Delivery Management(B2C)
- Reviewed performance metrics regularly to measure success and identify areas for improvement.
- Drafted reports outlining key findings from various projects which were presented at senior management meetings.
Director, PMO
ACCION Labs Pvt Ltd
BENGALURU
11.2021 - 09.2022
- Head PMO across Projects
- Define Business Units Governance
- Define Common Template to Capture Best Practices Across Functions
- Define QA Automation Plan.
Site Leader(Sr Mgmt), Central Engineering
VMware (Now Broadcom)
BENGALURU
03.2010 - 12.2020
- Head of Department: Leading Program Management, Certification Management, Partner Management, etc
- Release caption for many major releases as part of Release Management, Defining Solution Strategy, Design & Proposals for COE
- Delivering test strategy & planning, representing QA on the scrum calls, and release sign-offs
- Delivered 100+ releases including vSphere, Update/Patch Release, EPs, Guidance Service & GA Bits Publishing, VPATs
- Successfully automated & rolled out Self Service for Guidance Service
- Key Advisor on compliance of products for open source, security, legal, copyrights, across different functions & business units
- Automated one-touch service requests for guidance & publishing via Jira Service Desk
- Worked with teams across to formulate the SaaS policy for company (SI, SU, SP)
- Led 35+ projects delivered for 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 major releases of ESXi
- Attained 50% cost effective partial cert storage HW cert implementation
- Integral Part for developing the certification suites for partner/VMW Day0 Release
- Set up fully functional team size of 20+ in 3 months' time; owned and formed a new cross-functional team from ground zero.
Senior Manager, R & D
Ariba (SAP) Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
BENGALURU
10.2007 - 05.2009
- Pivotal part of presenting Selenium Automation solution plan & successful buy-in at upper management
- Proposed the change to have COE presence at IDC and move completed by Apr '08
- Part of IDC's Steering Committee for leading few initiatives like Go Green initiative, Masterminds', Spend Managers, etc
- Delivered on time with exceptional quality with high water mark metrics; reduced S1/S2 customer impacting defects and led 30 SP releases, with parallel HFs (Hot Fix) & PFs(Patch Fix)
- Maintained Zero Attrition and ensured 100% retention of employees by keeping the team highly motivated and encouraged, despite the market conditions.
Quality Engineering Manager
EMC Data Storage Systems Pvt. Ltd
BENGALURU
07.2006 - 09.2007
- Received appreciation award from Documentum HQ for quickly ramping up the new joinees plus the entire team for its high level of productivity, which includes maturity on bug filing, test case handling & review, communication
- Took over and established a cohesive working team across India & Pleasanton
- Managed the team across different product & release needs with Zero Attrition
Engineering Manager
Oracle Software Ltd.
Redwood City
11.1998 - 03.2006
- Managed to attain 75% automation (code coverage) within a month
- Worked on Oracle DB releases from 8i to 10g EM(Enterprise Manager) & on HA, RAC; successfully created & implemented an entirely new automation framework for configuration tools products
- Single-handedly tested and certified 2 major products for the Dec 2003 Oracle 10g release [Backup & Recovery and RAC]
- Received the Best SQA Award (from a group of above 500)
- Recognized with the 'Excellency' Award for forming a team of 14 within 4 weeks.
QA/QE Engineer
Talisma Technologies Pvt. Ltd
BENGALURU
10.1997 - 10.1998
Software Developer
Axon Computers Pvt. Ltd
BENGALURU
08.1996 - 09.1997
Education
MBA - Information Technology
Amity University
Noida01.2022
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirapalli01.1995
Skills
- Operations Management
- Cost Control / Budgeting
- Cyber Security
- PMO
- Talent Building
- Project/program management
- Release management
- Solution strategy and design
- SaaS - Agile/Scrum
- Test automation framework design and implementation
Certification
- SAFe 5.1 Certified
- Cyber Security Program Certified
- Major Soft Skills Trained & Certified
Timeline
Leadership Consulting, PMO
Crezentia Wellness Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - Current
Director, PMO
ACCION Labs Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - 09.2022
Site Leader(Sr Mgmt), Central Engineering
VMware (Now Broadcom)
03.2010 - 12.2020
Senior Manager, R & D
Ariba (SAP) Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
10.2007 - 05.2009
Quality Engineering Manager
EMC Data Storage Systems Pvt. Ltd
07.2006 - 09.2007
Engineering Manager
Oracle Software Ltd.
11.1998 - 03.2006
QA/QE Engineer
Talisma Technologies Pvt. Ltd
10.1997 - 10.1998
Software Developer
Axon Computers Pvt. Ltd
08.1996 - 09.1997
MBA - Information Technology
Amity University
Bachelor of Science - Statistics
Bharathidasan University
- SAFe 5.1 Certified
- Cyber Security Program Certified
- Major Soft Skills Trained & Certified
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