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VINUTHA BHAT RAMACHANDRA

San Jose,California

Summary

Senior Program/Project Manager with 14+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs across technology, communications, and consumer goods industries. Proven track record of managing project portfolios , driving operational efficiency, and delivering strategic initiatives in fast-paced global environments. Skilled in stakeholder management, program execution, risk mitigation, and leading distributed teams to achieve business goals.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Customer Project Manager

Cisco Systems
San Jose, California, USA
07.2023 - Current
  • Manage a portfolio of strategic programs with revenue responsibility across multiple business initiatives.
  • Lead end-to-end program execution including planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk management, and delivery.
  • Drive collaboration across engineering, operations, product, marketing, and leadership teams to ensure alignment and execution.
  • Partner with executive stakeholders to provide program updates, business insights, and delivery forecasts.
  • Improved operational efficiency through process enhancements, streamlined workflows, and governance improvements.
  • Successfully manage multiple concurrent projects while balancing scope, timelines, resources, and business priorities.

Project Manager

Collaberra @ Epson Americas Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
05.2023 - 07.2023
  • Lead and Drive objectives & goals established by Epson leadership on their IT Programs and Projects.
  • Responsible for planning and managing infrastructure projects to meet product delivery, quality, customer service, cost and revenue goals.
  • Interact with all levels of site and departments involved in project requirements, including but not limited to procurement, engineering, quality, safety and technical services.
  • Demonstrated leadership, team-skills and effective decision making throughout project life cycle and across multi discipline infrastructure teams.

Customer Project Manager

Cisco Systems
, Projects in USA, Australia, Middle-East, India
07.2020 - 11.2022
  • Led and managed global delivery of Cisco Solution Centric projects, overseeing communication and stakeholder management with Cisco, Customer, and Partner technical teams.
  • Served as Scrum Master for Agile projects, responsible for iterative product deployment and revenue forecasting, including variance analysis and project performance alignment.

Manager - Projects

Diageo
, Projects in USA,UK
05.2019 - 07.2020
  • Directed the IT Project and Programme Portfolio for Diageo India, overseeing 10+ Project Managers, creating portfolio dashboards to align project priorities with business objectives, and tracking project metrics.
  • Led strategic negotiations and managed mutually beneficial contracts, ensuring updated project documentation, and continuous improvement in project management processes.

Project Implementation Manager

AT&T Communications Services Pvt.Ltd
, Projects in USA, India, Europe
12.2017 - 05.2019
  • Delivered Implementation projects on AT&T Integrated Cloud platform that leverages Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies
  • Accountable for implementation of Flexware solutions for managed client which includes implementing and billing per contract specifications globally.

ITO Service Delivery Consultant II

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology
, Projects in USA
03.2016 - 12.2017
  • Lead projects as part of Americas ITO Delivery team for one of the leading petroleum company in the US as Dedicated DXC Lead Project Manager , handled a maximum team size of 15 members.
  • Successful implementation/execution of Server Builds and deployment and server decommission and Hardware Upgrade/refresh , Managed Security and Network projects for the client.

Associate Project Manager II

EMC Corporation
, Projects in USA
06.2012 - 03.2016
  • Managed and successfully delivered pre-defined and customised Storage, IT Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, and Data Migration projects for customers in America's Central and Mid-West region.
  • SOW creation process, cost budgeting, planned vs actual analysis,Project Planning using MS Projects, maintaining project log and risk registers and handling effective communication on project status to project stakeholders.

Skills

  • Program and Project Management
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Cross functional collaboration
  • Strategic Planning
  • Scrum Master
  • Customer Delivery and Success
  • Project Lifecycle Management
  • Agile & Waterfall Delivery
  • Resource Management
  • Contract Management

Certification

  • PMP®Project Management Professional - PMI
  • Cisco Gen AI Green and Blue Belt 2025
  • Certified Scrum Master® - Scrum Alliance
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner® - Scrum Alliance
  • Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist

TOOLS EXPERTISE

  • MS Project, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Rally, Service Manager, Remedy, Clarity, Power BI, Service Now, Jira

Education

2008 - 2012

Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science  

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinutha-bhat-7b7a8754/

Timeline

Customer Project Manager

Cisco Systems
07.2023 - Current

Project Manager

Collaberra @ Epson Americas Inc.
05.2023 - 07.2023

Customer Project Manager

Cisco Systems
07.2020 - 11.2022

Manager - Projects

Diageo
05.2019 - 07.2020

Project Implementation Manager

AT&T Communications Services Pvt.Ltd
12.2017 - 05.2019

ITO Service Delivery Consultant II

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology
03.2016 - 12.2017

Associate Project Manager II

EMC Corporation
06.2012 - 03.2016
VINUTHA BHAT RAMACHANDRA