S Venkat Rawana
Hyderabad,Telangana
Summary
SAFe 5.1 POPM & PMP Certified professional with over 12 years of global, multicultural experience in Program/Project Management (ServiceNow Tool) for digital transformation & process improvement. Currently associated with Wipro, Hyderabad as Project Manager - Inward Remittance Platform. Domain Expertise: Please Mention. Expertise in managing project lifecycle: Scope, plans, schedule, efforts, capacity, risk, quality, and contingency planning. Impeccable record of nurturing & strengthening business partnerships with various stakeholders (Internal & External) for streamlined process flow. Technocrat, leveraging techno-functional vision for strategic roadmap development to create a value proposition to deliver solutions that remedy core business issues. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to business success through right set of techno-functional skills. Catering to the previous touchpoints across the customer journey through requirement gathering, analysis, and technology translation. Leveraging market & data insights to amplify project progress. Establishing engineering processes; hiring, training, and setting high-performing teams for continuous business process enhancement. Key people leader, resolving operational issues and maintaining deliverables as per the defined guidelines along with elevating service standards.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Project Manager / Team Lead
Vara United
Location
08.2016
- Created project plans to fit stakeholder and customer needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes; took ownership of the project results
- Defined project roles and responsibilities in close collaboration with the Customer, including project scope and objectives to ensure a cross-functional understanding amongst project members
- Performed project tracking through clear and concise status reports and time management reports; identified potential issues and tracked project member progress against commitments
- Identified & recommended improvement areas, cost saving initiatives, & substitutions to positively impact current & future project budget/schedule
- Conducted SCRUM activities for planning, scheduling, tracking/monitoring, resource allocation, issue/risk management
- Planned resources and assisted in training staff and consistently developing the talent pipeline
- Achieved high levels of satisfaction by skillfully coordinating competing priorities; devised and executed strategies to meet schedules, budgets, and on-site logistics requirements.
Project Manager - Inward Remittance Platform
Wipro
Hyderabad
10.2019 - Current
- Collaborating as part of a team of Project Managers to determine process improvements, focusing on the Project Management Tool-Service Now
- Liaising with project sponsors, stakeholders, developers, and analysts; established strong professional relations with external IT vendors via internally integrated applications
- Steering project budget, cost estimation, planning, reporting, progress measurement, schedule development/control & change management
- Working closely with Operations, Business and Compliance Teams for requirement and approach finalization
- Identifying & managing program risk, developing program options and driving risk decision making throughout the project
- Developing and implementing project roadmaps and milestones, leading key stakeholder engagement and accountability, and communicating project status with relevant stakeholders.
Sr. Business Analyst-SWIFT API for JPMC and Wells Fargo
3i Infotech
Hyderabad
04.2015 - 07.2016
- Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement
- Prepared graphical depictions of Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Component Based Diagrams, and Collateral Diagrams and creation of technical design (UI screen) using Microsoft Visio and draw.io
- Served as the tactical point of contact for clients regarding project planning, timeline forecasting, organizing deliverables, relaying meeting minutes, and driving client projects forward
- Negotiated with clients to ensure the satisfaction of both their needs as well as the goals of the company
- Communicated primary business concerns to developers; requested feedback on technical priorities
- Assisted project manager with scheduling & management of 10+ developers
- Mediated conflicts between development team and upper management thereby maintaining a productive and happy work environment.
Business Analyst-Host-Host Integrations with Exchange Houses
GreenApps IT Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
04.2011 - 04.2015
- Liaised between Line of Businesses (LOBs), Technology Partners (Source Applications) and implementation team
- Conducted meetings with business to gather the business requirements; reviewed the requirements, understood the system and workflow and converted those requirements into functional requirements
- Participated in defect-review meetings with developers, QAs, managers and suggested enhancements to existed application from business perspectives
- Conducted JAD sessions with management, SMEs, stakeholders and developing team for critical issues
- Managed Business Continuity Process (BCP) and Change Management; hired to develop more structure and ensured compliance with all policies.
Education
PGDM (Finance and Control) - undefined
Institute of Management and Information Science
Bhubaneswar 01.2008 - 12 2010
Skills
Program/Project Lifecycle Management
Certification
2023, SAFe 5.1 POPM
Accomplishments
- Conferred with ICICI Bank Excellence Award: Remittance Award for LMD Integration with AIRTEL PAYMENT BANKS 2019
- Received Award for the fiscal year 2016-2017 in recognition of the philosophy, dedication, and excellence displayed in the Remittances projects completed in the social media, automation, and security domains
- Recognition for philosophy, dedication, & excellence demonstrated in relation to the Remittances projects completed in the GCC, FY 15-16
Notableaccomplishments
- Successfully spearheaded project worth $XY Mn, annually
- Layed down concrete project strategies & governance; attained XY% cost optimization
- Hand-picked by executive team to turn around underperforming programs; reengineered troubled projects; prescribed solutions that provided quick ROI for maximum revenue productivity, service optimization
Technicalpurvey
- ServiceNow
- Microsoft Visio and draw.io
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 09/26/1982
Timeline
Project Manager - Inward Remittance Platform
Wipro
10.2019 - Current
Project Manager / Team Lead
Vara United
08.2016
Sr. Business Analyst-SWIFT API for JPMC and Wells Fargo
3i Infotech
04.2015 - 07.2016
Business Analyst-Host-Host Integrations with Exchange Houses
GreenApps IT Pvt. Ltd.
04.2011 - 04.2015
PGDM (Finance and Control) - undefined
Institute of Management and Information Science
01.2008 - 12 2010
2023, SAFe 5.1 POPM
2022, Project Management Professional (PMP)
2014, FCBA Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
2013, NCFM : Capital Market and AMFI Module
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