Smaran Mudbidri
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Program Manager with over 25 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions across Telecom, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Logistics, Healthcare, and Banking industries. Expertise includes 15 years in various roles at Oracle, specializing in Product and Cloud SaaS Solutions, Strategic Consulting, Engineering Operations, and Contract Risk Exposure Mitigation. Proven track record in managing multi-pillar projects and ensuring successful delivery of Oracle Engineering. Strong technical acumen facilitates effective collaboration with product teams, infrastructure (both distributed and server), and clients to drive project success.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
11
11
Certification
Work History
Technical Director (Communications GBU)
Oracle India Development Center
01.2023 - Current
- Leadership team member of multi-country implementations, including on-prem and IaaS delivering target margins, overseeing risk strategy, architecture, product alignment, resourcing, governance - executive reporting within & to customers.
- Assess ~60Mn$ worth deals across Communications & Life Sciences Industries, per year, fostering policy compliances (Dev, Ops, Security). Exposure to 7 Industry units.
- Oversee OCA report development. Global Cloud Contract Management Trainer
- Championed organizational improvements through budget oversight, Ops & go-to-market strategy, standardized estimation processes & program reviews.
- Senior Engineering Manager
- SBC-UX: Managed end-to-end releases, dev-ops, people, datacenter & real estate
- Cross-functional collab on user experience on UX, Security Service (BI), Data Flow, Sources & Evaluation Models & Test Automation. Compliance to industry standards
- Achieved Star Team Award for On-time delivery excellence.
- Practice Manager Strategic Solution Group (CGIU)
- Led Telecom DX4C SaaS consulting ideation practice to create enterprise solution blueprint & solution sets. Included operational aspects, driving review cadence.
- Managed architect team of 25 (On prem, Cloud & Infra Architects). Enabled license sales with Standard Solution-SaaS & Infra (BCP & DR), business catalog & data flow. Collab – Automation assets with product & Ops/consulting teams to lower costs.
- Developed cloud pricing model for consulting assets and standardized estimators.
- Product Implementation Project Manager
- Led strategic digital transformation projects for Oracle Telecom customer projects.
- Member of delivery leadership for $20+Mn USD RODOD solution encompassing 12 enterprise products including Siebel, eBusiness Suite, IAM, OBIEE, CPQ, Sales Cloud, CGIU products, achieving profit margins. Focus: Architecture domain –Ops, BCP-DR
- Project basis for GSC CMM L3 certification & CGIU project managers gold reference
- Aligned product capabilities with across Product divisions. Oversee reusable assets consolidation-including team components, legal & Industry standard compliances.
Strategic Consulting Project Manager
Patni Telecom UK
11.2006 - 10.2010
- Led the M&A of Logan Orviss International Strategic Consulting. Account management and ensuring engagement & motivation of 27 CxO-level consultants on strategic consulting projects throughout the M&A
- Collaborated with Marketing & regional VPs on Go-to-Market strategies, developed and rallied use of reusable assets framework to drive efficiency & value. HCM project oversight for Vodafone UK, Account Management for VF Ireland
- Global Delivery Manager - integrated solution implementations: Carphone Warehouse, Tiscali, Colt UK, Cable& Wireless
- Product Delivery Ownership of Zogix, an innovative sustainability SaaS that won Oracle innovation award in 2008.
Development Program Manager For AT&T (Offshore Development Center)
Patni Computer Systems Pvt Ltd
05.2006 - 11.2006
- Managed a project portfolio 85+ developers, architects, leads across Middleware, Mainframe & Java applications, overseeing resource management, feature definition, planning, technical reviews, BCP and fault coordination.
- Implemented Agile, Six Sigma practices, automated monitoring tools to enhance operational efficiency.
Associate Technical Manager
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd
08.2005 - 04.2006
- Product Development Manager–Shinsei Bank (Japan), driving Agile practices to enhance customer engagement.
- Demonstrated excellence in mentoring, delivery leadership, product manager, sales support & sustenance activities.
Project Manager eCommerce & EDI (Offshore Capability Center)
P&O Nedlloyd
09.2002 - 07.2005
- Ideated & implemented ITIL based telemetry to detect transaction turnaround time across IT & business ops, RCAs & proactive issue resolution strategies, strengthen BCP, Ops & service quality reviews across regions. Drive ITIL adoption
- Contributed to product requirements representing the offshore team and oversaw multi-vendor development.
Head Projects, Office Automation (SaaS)
Davlin Software Pvt. Ltd
08.1999 - 09.2002
- Led product development for ERP SaaS solutions targeting SMEs, partnering with pilot customers, and benchmarking features against competitors to shape the product roadmap, including Business Continuity measures & Operations.
- Oversaw SaaS modules including collaboration suite, HR management, payroll, recruitment, accounts and financial management, inventory management, point of sale, helpdesk, sales force automation, and productivity analysis tools, with a specialized version developed for Care Home information systems, NHS, UK. Investor & Government liason
- As a senior engineer at Vasnet, contributed to building Mangalore’s first ISP, ideated Davlin Software as a SaaS entity.
Education
Executive MBA -
IIM-B
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Physics & Math
Mangalore University
Post Graduate Diploma - Software Technology
CDAC
Skills
- Strategic Thinker, Trusted Advisor
- People leader-driving performance
- Senior stakeholder management
- Large scale program management
- Information security & Gen AI
- Real Estate Facility Management
- Client relationship management
- Risk assessments
- Digital transformation
- Talent recruitment
- DevOps Practices & Disaster recovery
- Client relationship building
Certification
- Oracle Certified OCI Generative AI Professional
- Certified Scrum Master
- Global Security White Belt
- Oracle True Cloud Method
- Oracle Certified Bid Developer
- Level 4 Project Management Accreditation by Oracle GPMO
- Certified Consulting Security Specialist
- Certified Prince 2 Practitioner
- GSDC Blockchain Certification
- Fast Track Management Program at P&O Nedlloyd
- G-Level Certified – National Centre for Software Technology (NCST merged with CDAC)
Timeline
Technical Director (Communications GBU)
Oracle India Development Center
01.2023 - Current
Strategic Consulting Project Manager
Patni Telecom UK
11.2006 - 10.2010
Development Program Manager For AT&T (Offshore Development Center)
Patni Computer Systems Pvt Ltd
05.2006 - 11.2006
Associate Technical Manager
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd
08.2005 - 04.2006
Project Manager eCommerce & EDI (Offshore Capability Center)
P&O Nedlloyd
09.2002 - 07.2005
Head Projects, Office Automation (SaaS)
Davlin Software Pvt. Ltd
08.1999 - 09.2002
Executive MBA -
IIM-B
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Physics & Math
Mangalore University
Post Graduate Diploma - Software Technology
CDAC
TRAINING & ARCHITECTURAL EXPOSURE
- Trained on data visualization with OCI Analytics Cloud/ Data Science, basic knowledge of R Programming. Hands-on experience in AI analysis of business artifacts
- Led projects leveraging emerging technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, CPQ, Siebel, PaaS/DB environments, 5G, scalable APIs, and cloud-native deployments across multi-vendor cloud services, including Oracle Identity Cloud Service CPQ, Eloqua, Commerce Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud.
- Led distributed hybrid systems solution development, enterprise sizing, AIA, OBIEE, SI DV, OCI, PaaS, API scaling, DBaaS, multi-cloud integration. Projects required a significant involvement in engaging and coordinating technical aspects alongside strategy and project management.