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Srinath Rao Valipe
PMP | CSM | SAFe5 | CPBA | Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt
Hyderabad
Summary
Organized and dependable Program Manager/Project Manager/Scrum Master/RTE with extensive experience. Professional with 18+ years of IT and 10 years of PM experience. Expert in communicating with C-suite executives & top management. Good at stakeholder management and driving teams to achieve project goals. Top-notch abilities in organizing workflows, solving complex problems and making accurate decisions based on sound judgment and analytical strengths. Experienced with leading teams driving digital transformation projects.
Extensive experience in PEGA implementations, Manufacturing, Banking, Retail and Healthcare. Worked with retail clients 3M and Kohl's; Healthcare clients CVS, Anthem; Banking clients HSBC & CITI; and UK Govt projects.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Program Manager
Aaseya IT Services
2 2023 - Current
- As Program Manager, currently handling 3 Project teams for Pega Implementations for KSA Govt Projects.
- As Program Manager, handled 3 Project teams for clients of Aaseya(UK Govt sector).
- Involved in RFPs, creating detailed project plans including budget, timelines and effort estimations.
- Managed project executions with T&M, Fixed bid and Shared resources.
- Involved right from requirement collection, detailing requirements, managing development team, coordinating with clients continuously, till solution delivery and application handover to support teams.
- Managed change requests, requirement impact assessment on effort and schedule. Helped in aligning change requests to the backlog pipeline.
- Worked with project stakeholders on regular basis to assess progress and make adjustments.
- Coached team members on productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals.
- Addressed and resolved technical, financial(Budget), and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
Project Manager / Scrum Master
Legato Health Technologies
02.2021 - 02.2023
- Handled complex customer issues and escalations.
- Tracking project status and aligning Program increments to Enterprise releases.
- Managed upto 2 teams - Handled team performance reviews, executing HR processes and making team to comply with policies.
- Aligning EPIC loads v/s Team capacities. Keeping stakeholders updated on project status and risks. Supported monthly releases
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies and PMP best practices.
- Updating issues of team dependency on SOS(Scrum of Scrum) calls and helping RTE to update feature and epic progress for upcoming releases.
Project Manager
Capgemini
11.2018 - 02.2021
- Acted as Project Manager for 3 project teams – CMB & RBWM KYC IT Automation Projects. Our teams worked on creating RPA solutions using Blue Prism for KYC process.
- Planned, designed and scheduled phases for large projects. TEAM SIZE 50+
- Maintained clear communication with precise technical writing to document and inform critical processes.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
- Completely automated KYC process. Implemented the same product with variations in 5+ countries. Excelled at achieving business outcomes.
- Coordinating with multiple teams to identify re-usable components and reducing workload of teams
- Facilitating Tollgate review meetings with COE & Compliance teams
Project Manager & Scrum Master
WIPRO Technologies
01.2018 - 11.2018
- PM for CITI Bank account client. Handling USRT Application Delivery Team, which is responsible for application delivery across North America.
- Coordinating with multiple DEV teams and Prod support teams for CRs and INCs creation/progress/closures/approvals
- Collecting release artifacts, helping out in laying deployment plans, preparing task-wise deployment chart, tracking release from start to end. Supported Release Management.
- Monitoring release meetings with over 150+ participants for release script walk-thru/deployment tracking and engaging needed people to unblock issues
Project Lead / Scrum Master
Menomonee falls, WIPRO Technologies
05.2015 - 12.2017
- Worked as project lead for Kohl’s(well-known retailers in USA)
- Coordinating with over 15 teams across geographies to deliver quality deliverables & meet project deadlines
- Focused on ways to reduce cycle times of QA teams, streamlined process and achieved cost effective solutions
- Conduct review meetings with all business teams to explain and rollout changes to Production
- Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development
- Maintained task board and produced daily burn down charts
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity
- Worked with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
Test Lead
WIPRO Technologies
04.2012 - 04.2015
- Worked as Test lead for certification of systems migration (over 150 clients) at CVS Caremark, from older systems to new Rx claim processing systems.
- Over the period of 2 years lead team of size 11, Implemented multiple automation tools for claim processing.
- Used ETL tools to migrate client data to Oracle DB, from IBM DB2.
- Used multiple home grown automation tools to process claims on Recap and Rxclaim systems.
- Bring out comparison of results and implement necessary changes to claim processing rules of new Rxclaim system.
Test Engineer L3
WIPRO Technologies
04.2011 - 03.2012
- Worked as senior test engineer for QL Claim processing applications at CVS Caremark
- Successfully testing multiple releases for mainframe based QL applications(13 applications in QL module) & web interfaces.
- Performed end-to-end testing for claim processing and helped in delivering error-free code to production systems.
Developer L2
WIPRO Technologies
04.2009 - 02.2011
- Worked as L2 Developer for CAT-T Transportation applications for 3M, USA
- Worked on application maintenance using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL
- Achieved zero defects production target.
Developer L1
WIPRO Technologies
03.2007 - 04.2009
- Worked as L1 Developer for HP-3000 applications for 3M, USA
- Worked on warehousing applications that are built on AS400
- This had multiple environments and technologies including UNIX, MQ-Series and HP3K
- Worked on multiple warehousing applications of WMS and MWMS
- Learnt end-to-end flow of retail warehouse working mechanism.
Education
EPGM - Business Administration And Management
IIM(Indian Institute of Management)
Kashipur 05.2021 - 05.2022
MS - Software Engineering
BITS Pilani
Rajasthan 01.2007 - 12.2010
B.Sc - Electronics, Computer Science
Osmania University
Hyderabad 04.2003 - 04.2006
Skills
Program & Project Management
Scrum, SAFe & Agile Release Train Execution
Communication & Stakeholder management
Leadership, People Management, Coaching
Risk Identification & Mitigation planning
Collaboration & Multitasking Abilities
Accomplishments
- Go above - IMPACT Award - Issued by legato Health Technologies Jul 2022. Recognition for implementing best practices of SAFe for 2 Scrum teams.
- Go above - IMPACT Award -Issued by Legato Health Technologies · Dec 2021. Recognition for successfully demonstrating scrum practices and agile principles.
- Team Recognition for 2020 - Q2 KYC Ops IT - Issued by HSBC Software Development IND · Jun 2020. RPA team has successfully rolled-out multiple RPA solutions across UK, HK & MENAT for RBWM and CMB.
- Account level recognition Issued by Wipro Technologies · Aug 2017 Onsite STAR - Kohls Hall of Fame - For outstanding work at KOHLS Account onsite Team.
- Eleos Award - Location Level Award HDC WIPRO Technologies · Dec 2009 for Community Service.
Certification
CPBA - Certified Pega Business Architect
Software
Technologies
Pega, Blueprism, Google Cloud migrations, Devops, Windows Server, Mainframs, AS400, HP3000
Frameworks
PMI-PMP Based Program & Project management, Scaled Agile(SAFe) Framework & Handling Agile Release Trains(ART), Scrum, Kanban, Stakeholder Management Framework, Lean, Six-Sigma
Timeline
CPBA - Certified Pega Business Architect
06-2024
PMP®
11-2023
EPGM - Business Administration And Management
IIM(Indian Institute of Management)
05.2021 - 05.2022
Project Manager / Scrum Master
Legato Health Technologies
02.2021 - 02.2023
SAFe® 5 Agilist
01-2021
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
11-2020
Project Manager
Capgemini
11.2018 - 02.2021
CSM - Certified Scrum Master
06-2018
Project Manager & Scrum Master
WIPRO Technologies
01.2018 - 11.2018
Project Lead / Scrum Master
Menomonee falls, WIPRO Technologies
05.2015 - 12.2017
Test Lead
WIPRO Technologies
04.2012 - 04.2015
Test Engineer L3
WIPRO Technologies
04.2011 - 03.2012
Developer L2
WIPRO Technologies
04.2009 - 02.2011
Developer L1
WIPRO Technologies
03.2007 - 04.2009
MS - Software Engineering
BITS Pilani
01.2007 - 12.2010
B.Sc - Electronics, Computer Science
Osmania University
04.2003 - 04.2006
Program Manager
Aaseya IT Services
2 2023 - Current
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