Venkata Nageswara Rao Kolla
Director, Engineering Program Management
Bengaluru
Summary
PMO Leader/ Program Manager/Agile Coach/ML Expert
Seeking a Senior Managerial assignment with an innovative organization
- Business Strategy - Working with PMs and stakeholders to formulate the product Roadmap, Engineering and Security roadmap and convert into program deliverables.
- PMP, and SPC5 (SAFe Program Consultant) certified with versatile experience in PMO management, Program Management, Project Management, Agile coach, Risk Management, Quality Assurance, system Analysis and leading development efforts for business-critical IT applications.
- Proficient in defining, leading and driving project operations effectively, through the implementation of several management dynamics including Strategic Execution Plans, Task & Resource Allocation, Team Management, Performance Monitoring/Supervision, Progress Reviews, Training & Development.
- Has solid experience of the building PMO to align organization strategy and business needs.
- Skilled in executing Project Management initiatives through several PM methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
- Proven experience to show the business growth and apt at interacting and maintaining relationships with customers & stakeholders while translating business requirements.
- Well versed in end-to-end project ownership and execution right from inception to implementation and production support. Always ensuring deliverables are within assigned time, quality & cost parameters.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Director, Engineering Program Management
Ivanti Software India PVT LTD
10.2021 - Current
- PMO director for the NSG (Network Security Group) BU which has $ 140+ million revenue per annum with the engineering team size of 200+ resources, including vendor teams. I take care of Release Management, Capacity planning and budget, cross team collaboration, Product operations and Risk Management.
• Working with the Product Management team and building the product roadmaps and making sure the customer needs, competitor features, innovation ideas and tech debts are being addressed. Strategise the release cadence working with engineering leaders. Also work towards the implementation of diverse range of multiple Programs and projects.
• Have solid experience of building the strategic and data driven PMO team from scratch setting the PMO charter, PMO framework and Governance. I coach teams in the agile processes and when need arises recruit and mentor Program Managers.
• Set up the highly Data driven PMO by automating the metrics and getting analytics on defects – Internal, Customer and Security defects by setting up the SLAs. Testing automation metrics, teams Velocity, heat maps, Burndown charts and Dora metrics. Providing the clear insights and guiding the scrum teams towards continuous improvements, enhancing the productivity and quality of the product.
• Coordinates across the cross functional teams like Customer Support, Sales, Marketing and professional services teams.
R&D Program Manager, PMO
BMC Software
10.2016 - Current
- As the PMO leader - PMO set up - PMO charter, Governance structure, Agile CoE, Agile coaching
- SAFe for teams, SMs and POs - Inducing world class proven methodologies to control and govern the releases with high quality keeping customer centricity as core
- End to end Program Management on complex releases which involves multiple products like Helix Monitor, Capacity Optimization, AiOps, Cloud Cost, Cloud Security, Remediate- Release planning, stakeholder management, release tracking/monitoring, schedule management, Finance management, Risk Management and Reporting, Product Development Life Cycle
- Bringing multiple teams together for quality and on time releases across R&D, Product Management, Architects, Support Teams, Security and Quality assessment teams, DevOps and Product Operations teams
- Communication Management - Global teams spanning across USA, Israel, Italy and India
- Ensuring the successful product release quarter to quarter
- Introduces true agile methodology to release the updates SaaS container - sprint on sprint releases
- Excellent in reporting - to surface out the risks in the releases, budget reporting, quality metrics report
- Team Management - People Management, Coaching and mentoring on Agile practices, performance evaluation.
Manager, PMO
ADOBE SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD
01.2014 - 09.2016
- Successfully build the PMO team and implemented the PMO Charter, PMO Framework, PMO Governance Model for Adobe India, GDC as a PMO Leader in the Digital Marketing professional services
- Responsible for the Adobe GDC Project deliverables for - Analytics, Social, Target, Campaign and AEM
- Managing multiple projects, End-to-End, both in Agile and Waterfall methodologies like Scrum, Kanban and Pair Programming
- Expertise on relationship building with Clients, Sr Executive leadership, Cross functional teams, various geolocations leadership teams
- Team Management: Coaching, mentorship and direction to the team on managing projects, project management methodologies and various scenarios of risk management.
Program Manager/Project Manager
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
01.2008 - 12.2013
- Responsible for the deliverable of the offshore Pension and Annuity applications like Unisure, Annuity and quotes
- Also responsible for the budget, quality and risk management
- Provide leadership to assigned teams in rendering qualitative project deliverables in compliance to delivery schedules and other SLA parameters
- Coordinate with the Business & Development teams for collation of requirements
- Prepare schedules/ costs and optimizing resource utilization aimed at maintenance of project bottom lines
- Update status to stake holders, assess risks and participate in triage meetings.
AST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
06.2001 - 12.2007
- Focused on collation/ analysis of requirements; identification & mitigation of risks
- Designed & developed various applications; prepared test plans & coding changes to solve discrepancies
- Involved in coding, debugging & testing, project estimation, GAI related project deliverables, project reviews to ensure compliance to BOA Standards & TCS Standards and production support for all conversion events.
Application Programmer
MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA
02.2000 - 06.2001
- Analyzed steering wheel profile; optimized instrument panel design and conducted design changes of transmission of tractors of various models, Tested fender using the noise measurement instruments.
Education
PGP - AIML -
Great Lakes Institute and Illinois Institute of Technology
M Tech - undefined
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
B Tech - undefined
Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India
Skills
Project / Program Management
Agile Coach
PMO building from scratch
Leadership Skills
Strategic Planning
Product Security
Machine Learning/ Deep Learning
Process Excellence/Optimization/Lean
Quality Assurance
People Management
Customer Relationship Management
PM tools: JIRA, Trello, Microsoft ADO, MS Project
Jupyter, Git
C
C
Java
Python
Certification
Scaled Agile Framework - Program Consultant certified (SAFe - SPC5)
Timeline
Director, Engineering Program Management
Ivanti Software India PVT LTD
10.2021 - Current
R&D Program Manager, PMO
BMC Software
10.2016 - Current
Manager, PMO
ADOBE SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD
01.2014 - 09.2016
Program Manager/Project Manager
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
01.2008 - 12.2013
AST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
06.2001 - 12.2007
Application Programmer
MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA
02.2000 - 06.2001
PGP - AIML -
Great Lakes Institute and Illinois Institute of Technology
M Tech - undefined
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
B Tech - undefined
Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India