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SUNIL ANAND PALLAPATI

Bengaluru

Summary

Seasoned Lead Program Manager with a solid history (17+ years experience) in managing complex projects from concept to completion. Strengths include strategic Planning, Risk Management, Collaboration, Innovation, Results-Driven, Communication and Dashboarding. Turned teams to high performing teams. Impacted previous roles by problem-solving swiftly under pressure while maintaining high standards of professionalism and integrity.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Program Manager

Cloud Software Group (Formerly Citrix Systems.)
Bengaluru
09.2020 - Current
  • RISK Management: Identified potential risks associated with projects, developed mitigation strategies and monitored their implementation.
  • Mentor Program Managers: Provided guidance and support to Project/Program Managers as needed for successful completion of tasks.
  • Strategic Initiatives: Lead and delivered various strategic initiatives of org like Cloud Cost reduction, Business Value/ROI Metrics, Telemetry-Business Opportunities.
  • Reporting: Created Team level, Management level, Leadership level dashboards for better view of projects progress. Expertise in creating Program Health dashboard and Performance metrics dashboards.
  • High Performing Teams: Turned many teams to high performing teams by coaching them and leading them in AGILE.
  • Stakeholder Management: Influenced leadership and management with the thoughts in setting up the process for successful deliverables.
  • Collaboration: Very energetic to lead multiple teams in multiple Geo locations and collaborate with everyone to bring alignment to achieve the common goal. Collaborated with all Development, QA, G10N, Support, IX, UX, Product Design, Product, Sales, TAMs, Management & Leadership teams.
  • Communication Templates: Created multiple templates at all levels which helps all stakeholders to understand the progress of the deliverables/projects. Weekly, Monthly, Release, OneStop templates.
  • PI Planning/Review: Very much expertise to drive BIG room planning with all the required teams. Good at driving Business context, Roadmaps, Engg. Planning, Dependency tracking, Milestones & RISKs and mitigiation during planning time.
  • Projects: Handled Citrix Enterprise Browser (14 teams, 125 team members), Citrix Gateway Service (10 teams, 105 team members).

Engineering Program Manager

Broadcom
Bengaluru
03.2017 - 07.2020
  • DevOps Drive: Streamlined and automated internal processes to improve overall workflows and reduced the delivery cycle from 6 months to 1 month.
  • Cloud Migration: Created End2End delivery plan for Cloud Migration from Azure to Google.
  • Mission Automation: Worked with vendor and contractors directly to get the 100% automation done and ease the release process and reduce the delivery cycle.
  • Customer Communication: Maintained all the communication between customer and organization for various deliveries and promised features.
  • Process gaps: Good at identifying the process gaps in the system and propose the solutions for the same. Influence the leaders about the outcomes.
  • Meetings: BIG room planning, Scrum of Scrums (SMs), Scrum of Scrums (PMs), Leadership, PI reviews/demos, Release Go/No-Go, Weekly Status, Monthly Status.
  • OKRs: Came up with OKRs for PMO office and buy-in agreement with leadership.

Program Manager

Envestnet Yodlee
Bengaluru
06.2014 - 02.2017
  • Release Cadence: Able to set release cadence for AI project (Data Aggregation Platform) and brought lot of clarity on the release milestones.
  • Engineering Advisor Able to handle the complexity involved in the Engineering structure and became an advisor to Engineering team to streamline the teams for better ownership and accountability.
  • Company wide Events: Very much expertise to run the Hackathon, Game of Debts (clearing Tech Debts at org wide), Bug Bash, Fix Fest. Creatively came up with new thoughts and brought gamification concept in running all the company wide events to generate interest.
  • Project Management Trainings: Able coach the scrum masters and project leads. Came up with customized curriculum to enable project/program managers to be a successful scrum masters/project managers.
  • Checklist: Good at creating the DoD checklist for Engg., Release Checklist,

Project Manager

McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
07.2012 - 05.2014
  • Drafted reports summarizing progress made on projects for review by executive leadership team.
  • Monitored progress of each project to ensure timely delivery of deliverables in accordance with established quality standards.
  • Implemented effective communication protocols between internal teams working on different aspects of a given project.
  • Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
  • Determined project staffing needs and led resource management.
  • Project: McAfee Endpoint Protection (Anti-Virus, Firewall, Site Advisor)

Project Lead

McAfee Sotware India Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
07.2010 - 06.2012
  • Managed multiple concurrent projects from initiation through closure phases.
  • Communicated with stakeholders throughout the life cycle of projects.
  • Established project objectives, success criteria, and performance benchmarks.
  • Developed comprehensive project plans outlining scope, schedule, and resource allocation.
  • Provided mentorship and guidance to junior project team members.
  • Project: McAfee Security Suite for SMB segments.

Senior Software Engineer

McAfee Software Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
07.2009 - 06.2010
  • Integrated third-party APIs into existing systems.
  • Optimized databases to improve query performance.
  • Performed unit testing on application components prior to release.
  • Mentored junior staff members in coding best practices and problem solving techniques.
  • Helped junior developers with debugging code and technical support.
  • Came up with business framework for the product.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather and define requirements for new software features.
  • Project: Developed Security protocol for IBM Lotus Email Server.

Software Developer

McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
07.2007 - 06.2009
  • Developed native services in C++ to provide security for Email Server (MS Exchange Server - Outlook)
  • Able to implement L10N and G11N requirements.
  • Maintained source control repositories such as Git, SVN, TFS for versioning purposes.
  • Contributed to product design and frameworks.
  • Well versed with complete development cycle.
  • Analyzed code and corrected errors to optimize output.
  • Integrated object-oriented design and development techniques into projects to support usability goals.

Associate Software Developer

McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru
07.2006 - 06.2007
  • Developed software applications using C++, Java, HTML and CSS.
  • Investigated new technologies and tools to improve development processes.
  • Analyzed and resolved technical issues related to software development.
  • Conducted unit tests on developed code to ensure quality assurance standards are met.
  • Assisted in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of software applications.
  • Participated in design, brainstorming and code review sessions.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Application

National Institute of Technology, Trichy
Tiruchi, TN
06-2006

Skills

  • Risk Management
  • BIG ROOM (PI) Planning
  • Setting up OKRs
  • Collaboration (Multiple Teams, Multiple Geos)
  • Reporting (Dashboards)
  • Communication (Templates)
  • Performance Metrics
  • Release Guidelines
  • Strategic Initiatives
  • Mentor/Coach TPMs
  • Cloud (Azure, AWS, GPS)
  • Influencer
  • Development
  • Tooling

Accomplishments

  • Team Award
  • Most popular idea Award
  • Best employee
  • Prathibha Puraskar ( in Academics, state level)

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Agile Practitioner
  • SAFe Practitioner Consultant (SPC)

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1
Tamil
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Lead Program Manager

Cloud Software Group (Formerly Citrix Systems.)
09.2020 - Current

Engineering Program Manager

Broadcom
03.2017 - 07.2020

Program Manager

Envestnet Yodlee
06.2014 - 02.2017

Project Manager

McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2012 - 05.2014

Project Lead

McAfee Sotware India Pvt. Ltd
07.2010 - 06.2012

Senior Software Engineer

McAfee Software Pvt. Ltd.
07.2009 - 06.2010

Software Developer

McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd
07.2007 - 06.2009

Associate Software Developer

McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2006 - 06.2007

Master of Science - Computer Application

National Institute of Technology, Trichy
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Agile Practitioner
  • SAFe Practitioner Consultant (SPC)

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