Valli Naga Sarada Ramachandrula
Delivery Lead
Summary
Experienced IT leader with 18+ years in application development across Financial Services, Banking, and Telecom sectors. Skilled in Agile methodologies, governance, stakeholder engagement, risk and compliance, design thinking, program and project management. Strong in cross-skilled and distributed team leadership. Proven track record of delivering large-scale programs and advancing agile maturity in organizations.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Agile Delivery Lead
Accenture
01.2019 - Current
- Company Overview: Client : Bank of Ireland client | Delivery Lead | Data Solutions team
- Delivery Domain: As part of Chief Customer Office (CCO) within data solutions team in the bank, worked with various programs – Privacy Consents, Customer Analytics Record, Consumer Protection Code, Customer Engagement Engine
- Programme Coordination: Coordinate delivery activities across multiple agile teams to ensure alignment with programme goals and objectives.
- Delivery Management: Act as key interface between EDW/EDL and Programs initiative and collaborate with respective scrum Masters, Solution Architects, Design leads and Engineering team
- Reporting and Communication: Produce and present regular delivery updates to senior stakeholders, Project Steer co, Delivery Governance
- Stakeholder Management: Act as a bridge between multiple teams -Design , engineering, Architects, Business, programme, test, environment and release
- Continuous Delivery: PI planning on quarterly basis, Drive Product backlog . Flag any technical, delivery or program level blockers. Promote agile best practices and continuous improvement across delivery teams
Agile Project Manager
Virtusa
04.2016 - 09.2019
- Company Overview: Client: NatWest | Agile Project Manager | Data Sourcing team
- About Programmes : Worked with various Programs within the Bank – Commercial Banking , Performance and Business Management, Wholesale MI Transformation, Athena Re platforming and IRB Retail Mortgages
- Continuous improvement and Process: Helped the bank in streamlining delivery process through Agile transformation for multiple scrum teams. Mentored teams to adapt right tools , processes , Governance and defined metrics for agile development.
- Project Communication : Established Program level Communication, RACI and Managed with all key business and technology stakeholders.
- Program Management: Lead Agile P3M (Portfolio, Program, Project management) governance for complex programs within the bank. Mentored feature teams to set the Process, tools, guidelines and checklists for each project Agile stage gates -Agile Plan, Agile Release, Agile Deliver and Agile Complete.
- Agile Release and Governance : Worked closely with various stakeholders and Managing Leankit for all the Business and technology requirements. Facilitates PI planning , contributes to the weekly Scrum of Scrum calls, Discussions with Business and technology for the Product Backlog
Agile Scrum Master
Wipro Technologies
07.2011 - 03.2016
- Company Overview: Client: Ericsson| Agile Scrum Master | 2G and 3G networks
- About Project : EVO-ET is a Programme to design the application software for the common board which supports both Base Station Controller and Radio Network controller in the GSM network for 2G and 3G networks
- Distributed Agile teams : As a Scrum master was successful in building cross functional teams and executed agile project successfully for 4 releases over 5 years for the distributed teams spread across 5 countries-India, Sweden, Italy, China and Australia
- Process and Tools : Fostered innovations, developed processes and tools which helped our customers to get on board to agile methodology with high focus on continuous integration and building automation frameworks
Senior Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra Ltd
10.2008 - 10.2010
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
09.2004 - 06.2007
Education
PGPM executives - Product Management
Great Lakes/ Stuart School of Business
04.2001 - 01.2018
Master of Science - Electronics
Andhra University
04.2001 - 01.2000
Bachelor of Science - Electronics
Nagaranjuna University
04.2001 - 01.1998
Skills
- Agile Delivery
- Release and Governance
- Product Management
- Design Thinking
- Program/Project Management
- Risk & Compliance
- Business Storytelling
- Problem solving
- Account Management
Certification
Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
Industry
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Telecom
Timeline
Agile Delivery Lead
Accenture
01.2019 - Current
Agile Project Manager
Virtusa
04.2016 - 09.2019
Agile Scrum Master
Wipro Technologies
07.2011 - 03.2016
Senior Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra Ltd
10.2008 - 10.2010
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
09.2004 - 06.2007
PGPM executives - Product Management
Great Lakes/ Stuart School of Business
04.2001 - 01.2018
Master of Science - Electronics
Andhra University
04.2001 - 01.2000
Bachelor of Science - Electronics
Nagaranjuna University
04.2001 - 01.1998
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