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Vimalraj Vemala
Project Manager
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
PMI-certified Program Manager with over 16 years of comprehensive experience, including more than a decade leading large-scale technology, transformation, and strategic delivery programs across software, cybersecurity, and enterprise operations. Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives, establish robust governance frameworks, and spearhead PMO and Agile transformations that yield business-aligned outcomes in dynamic environments. Expertise in managing AI-enabled programs and utilizing AI-driven solutions to enhance operational efficiency, decision-making, and delivery effectiveness while facilitating organizational transformation. Demonstrated leadership in stakeholder management, enterprise risk governance, and process optimization, consistently fostering high-performing global teams to achieve strategic objectives.
Overview
8
8
Certificates
5
5
years of post-secondary education
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Biglittle.ai
Bengaluru
11.2019 - Current
- Set up framework and workflow for more than 4 product development project and successfully closed them within target timelines.
- Part of enterprise level product evolution from scratch to MVP, MMP and sales
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives
- Managed projects from procurement to commission
- Led agile teams to deliver products quickly and to respond to user requirements
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance
- Run project in accordance with agile methodologies
- Initiate and execute service management projects to manage customer deployments
- Monitor and support project in accordance with ITSM framework principles
- Participate in end-to-end customer deployments and ensure process runs without obstacles
- Work closely with product team to create product roadmap
- Align product roadmap with sprint planning
- Monitor software development lifecycle and align SDLC with release management plan
- Responsible for release management process and meeting SLAs of service management projects
- Create and maintain project repositories to store organizational process assets
- Regularly review Product Backlogs to ensure product pipeline is aligned with company vision
- Build product development team through recruiting, cross-training, and outsourcing resources
- Initiate and complete performance cycles for team and provide key input into performance reviews
- Access and monitor project to minimize risks associated with SLA, uncertain events, and resource shortages
- Ensure agile development flow and attend to team and process challenges as active Scrum Master
- Get team to align individual goals with project goals
- Continually lead team to become agile workforce
- Be responsible for quality assurance of product
- Implement testing framework and direct team to follow it
- Participate in feature implementation discussions and ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are established
- Write user stories and add wireframes, requirements documents, and UX to Jira ticket
- Perform automation in Jira to efficiently manage project delivery
- Supervised multi-functional teams of technology professionals, coders and support experts
- Created long-range IT plan to support projected growth and requirements for added capacity
- Worked closely with vendors and technology partners on integrations, infrastructure and enterprise solutions
- Guided testing process and validation for major software releases
- Designed internal dashboard for at-a-glance system and project status reporting
- Achieved Soc type1 within 15 days and type2 compliance within 10 days
- Planned and executed follow-up audits at appropriate intervals
Assistant Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 11.2019
- Enable change and align project with organizational change
- Evaluate legacy systems and conduct feasibility study for implementation Implement RPA solutions for specific sub-processes and also for end-to-end processes
- Implement RPA solution for 3 sub-processes within 6 months
- Developed and implemented workflow management tool for key processes across all verticals that was used by more than 600 people in organization across multiple locations and was also awarded best internal tool of year
- Developed more than 7 tactical automation solutions for customer within 4 months. This saved 4 FTE
- Optimization of existing processes by analyzing value stream maps and performing time & motion studies
- Developed error prediction model to predict errors and alert employees before error is committed
- Improve process KPIs by tracking and monitoring root causes that impact KPIs
- Project governance - work to centralize reporting and establish active monitoring system for accessing project status
- Manage ad hoc projects at customer sites
- Manage software development projects Initiate process transformations and implement tactical automation solutions for identified processes
- Groomed team talents through robust professional development program and training opportunities
- Aligned IT solutions and deliverables with company strategic vision
- Tracked departmental expenditures, project schedules and team performance and progress
- Created long-range IT plan to support projected growth and requirements for added capacity
Business Analyst
ANZ
Bengaluru
08.2013 - 06.2015
- Analyze superannuation protocols and report to Australian Taxation Office
- Project Governance - Review processes and report to stakeholders of various departments within asset management vertical
- Worked as project coordinator for large business transformation projects such as delivery center expansion/closure
- Key role in automation to obtain information and understand business case of various departments in all regions of company
- Preparation of requirements documents and implementation approach Actively contribute to idea repository
- Identify scope of automation and implement tactical automation
- Developed and created VBA- based tool to conduct feasibility studies for delivery centers around world
- Based on results of tool, decisions were made to close 2 delivery centers, migrate 1 delivery center, and create 2 new delivery centers Automated process of cleansing, converting and analyzing superannuation logs. As result, 2 FTEs were saved
Senior MIS Executive
TeamLease Services Limited
Bengaluru
07.2011 - 08.2013
- Prepare and report profit and loss statements Forecast expenses for each delivery center and provide a provision in P&L for those expense items that are not reported
- Communicate with P&L owners and convince them of the expenses and accruals of their cost centers across the country Work with the acquisition team to create long-term plan for company's new ventures
- Create and maintain workflows for administrative department support function to ensure that accounting inputs are timely and reliable
- Outlined MIS upgrade roadmap and ordered corrective actions to elevate performance
- Planned and led administration of management information system for achieving threshold-level performance
- Determined data retention parameters based on organizational requirements
- Supervised audit processes to address non-compliance
- Led system training to meet information retention policy and government regulatory guidelines
- Resolved workflow issues to optimize team productivity and improve delivery times
- Manage ERP implementation project. Take ownership of all activities from creating backup for existing legacy system to migrating all operations to new ERP system. Successfully migrated financial data to new ERP system in span of 6 months.
- Create and monitor cost centers Create cost center codes for each delivery center, department, support function and virtual plant to capture all transactions and events in new ERP system
- Prepare presentations for quarterly board reviews, business transformation meetings and board meetings.
Senior Financial Analyst
Accenture
Bengaluru
04.2010 - 06.2011
- Analyze transactions and categorize them into capital expenditures and operating expenditures
- Create macro to automatically distinguish and categorize expenses based on predefined thresholds
- FPA (Financial Planning and Analysis) - Created and submitted analysis reports month by month, quarter by quarter, and year by year Closed financial ledgers in Oracle for 12 consecutive months
- Tracked team productivity and suggested plans for optimal utilization of FTEs
- Created tactical automation solutions for manual processes using Excel spreadsheets
- Gathered data and developed detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast revenue, profitability, and expenses
- Produce quality reports in accordance with data quality standards
- Translate complex technical information into intuitive, clear format Strengthened system efficiency by identifying lagging operational processes and implementing optimal solutions
- Created documents for projects in accordance with project manager, team, or client specifications
Commercial Assistant
Arvind Brands
Bengaluru
09.2010 - 04.2011
- Prepare and forward daily sales report
- Reconcile vendor invoices
- Maintain term sheets for partner brands
- Issue invoices for vendor billing
- Digitized 1200 term sheets and built excel database. Developed tool to visualize commissions and other SLA details of each vendor based on user inputs
- Designed optimized filing system for office to maximize efficiency
- Filed paperwork and organized computer-based information
- Handled incoming and outgoing mail, email and faxes
- Organized logistics and materials for each meeting and took detailed notes for later dissemination to key stakeholders
- Wrote reports, executive summaries and newsletters
- Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity
Audit Assistant
Ramesh & Ramachandran Charted Accountans
Bengaluru
02.2006 - 08.2009
- Draw scope of audit
- Review of bank reconciliation statements, purchase and sales invoices Physical inventory and verification
- Review transactions in various ERP systems such as SAP, ACCPAC and Tally Consolidate and report audit results
- Performed internal auditing for 14 clients
Senior Project Manager
Greenway Health LLC
Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.2024 - Current
- Led the initiation and execution of enterprise-wide cybersecurity programs, securing ELT approvals, driving HITRUST certification initiatives, and strengthening incident response governance to ensure compliance and operational resilience.
- Managed Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) activities by identifying, assessing, and mitigating strategic, operational, and technology risks, while aligning risk controls with organizational objectives and compliance standards.
- Spearheaded Agile transformation initiatives through the implementation of Agile tools, frameworks, and governance models, while establishing best practices to improve delivery efficiency, collaboration, and program visibility across teams.
- Directed large-scale business applications and IT infrastructure programs, including strategic modernization initiatives such as Single Factor Authentication sunset for three customer-facing and eleven core products, ensuring secure transition, stakeholder alignment, and minimal business disruption.
- Govern AI-driven programs and projects by establishing oversight mechanisms, delivery governance, risk controls, and cross-functional coordination to ensure responsible, scalable, and business-aligned AI adoption.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Information System, IS
Sikkim Manipal University, .T.M First Grade College
Bangalore 01.2011 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Finance
Bangalore University
Bangalore 04.2006 - 04.2009
Skills
Agile Methodologies
Project planning and development
Business process re-engineering
Performance Evaluations
Startups and turnarounds background
Functional & Business Requirements
Project Management
Software Development Lifecycle
Certification
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of free lancers, in-house developers and market consultants in the development of MVP project.
- Created a robust software testing platform which advanced R&D efforts.
- Successfully completed development of MMP project within budget and ahead of schedule.
- Achieved SLA by introducing workflow management tool for tracking and monitoring KPIs.
- Designed a new workflow to improve overall settlement process performance.
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
Work Availability
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Software
VBA
MS Access
SQL
Python
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Greenway Health LLC
11.2024 - Current
ITIL® 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan, and Improve
02-2022
Process Mining: Data Science in Action
07-2021
ITIL 4 Foundation CPD
12-2020
IIBA logo Certification of Competency in Business AnalysisTM(CCBA®) Certification
12-2020
Project Manager
Biglittle.ai
11.2019 - Current
Project Management Professional (PMP)
05-2018
Assistant Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2015 - 11.2019
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
01-2015
Business Analyst
ANZ
08.2013 - 06.2015
Senior MIS Executive
TeamLease Services Limited
07.2011 - 08.2013
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Information System, IS
Sikkim Manipal University, .T.M First Grade College
01.2011 - 01.2013
Commercial Assistant
Arvind Brands
09.2010 - 04.2011
Senior Financial Analyst
Accenture
04.2010 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Finance
Bangalore University
04.2006 - 04.2009
Audit Assistant
Ramesh & Ramachandran Charted Accountans
02.2006 - 08.2009