Venkata Siva Teja Vemuri (MBA,PgMP,PMP,SAFe,PSM)

Venkata.sivateja@iiml.org(Ph:9989867770) https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivateja-vemuri/
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
 An accomplished Program Management Leader for a multi-million-dollar platform with a global clientele of over 100,
managing 10+ cross cultural engineering teams across USA, Europe and India including virtual teams.
 A Techno Functional Leader with 14 years of experience in Program/Project Management, Consulting, Business
Development and delivery
 A Certified Program Management (PgMP) and Project management professional (PMP), agile practitioner (SAFe, PSM-I) and
OCI Cloud Architect Associate
 Outstanding people management skills, directly managed over 50 people including mentoring, appraisal and career
development responsibility
 Release planner, including the creation of program roadmap, Project charter, , capacity and schedule planning. Improved
the Release schedule certainty by 50% by improved scheduling, capacity and estimation practices.
 An organizer by mind set, facilitating the key stakeholder meetings including Product Management, Engineering and
support functions steering them to deliver actionable agenda on a daily, weekly and monthly basis as per the visibility and
need.
 Executed Fixed Price, Time and Material, Cost Reimbursable as well as Hybrid contract projects, while making reliable
forecasts, estimation models and providing insights to the customer with near perfect CSAT ratings
 Defined the metrics to assess and analyse the success of products, release, team productivity and manage communication
to all stake holders.
 Steered Organization initiatives successfully including Career Acceleration for aspiring leaders, Autothon (Automation
enablement) and organization culture at account level.
 Action driven problem solver, anticipating bottlenecks and risks, providing escalation management, trade-offs and
balancing the business needs versus technical constraints to achieve the strategic goals
 Strategic engagement with clients, internal customers and partners to integrate feedback and enhance customer benefit
for improved product plans and establish strong client relationship
 Delivering product releases on time, with the promised scope and quality by making optimized trade-off decisions
 Constantly improving agile/Project Management practices, through coaching, monitoring and guiding by setting up
appropriate dashboards and encouraging better practices.
 Release Management strategist, including Patches, Minor and Major releases. Improved customer satisfaction by 20
points by delivering early patches through patch prioritization, automation and cumulative patch strategy
 Release Train engineer, running SOS (Scrum of Scrum) and orchestrating the PI planning for each Release in Iterative
Development Process (Custom Scum Practised by Organisation)
 Proficient with agile tools such as Jira, Confluence as well as the project management tools as well as the Microsoft tools
including Excel, word and Power point
 3 years of onsite experience in USA managing a large automation Program across vendors and geographies
 Versatile experience across Product and Service based companies in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid models in a global paradigm
 Overseeing the CI/CD journey of the team for a legacy product moving from a 6-month release to a quarterly release
 Continuously streamlining processes and practice with innovation and backed by insights provided by data
 Well versed in Strategy Alignment, Stakeholder Management/Engagement, Governance, Program Benefits and Life Cycle
Management ensuring to continuously build and nurture client relationship
 Responsible for Executive reporting, Program/Project roadmap and Direction, Innovation/Initiatives, Governance and
success of the portfolio
 Rich experience in Automation, a cloud enthusiast and acumen for Digital Transformation with AI/ML, RPA, Industry 4.0 and
Business Analytics
 Excellent presentation and communication skills discerning to the stakeholders, complete with negotiation and efficient
problem solving skills involving multiple stakeholders
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY (Opentext Technologies – 2019 to Current, Infosys – 2006 to 2018)
Program/Project Management ( 10 + Engineering Teams/ 100 + Members)
 Managing the AppWorks Platform, a Forrester Wave Leader in digital process automation for deep deployments, a single
platform for process automation, case management and low-code application development
 Plan, schedule, monitor and deliver the product release including program roadmap and project charter creation,
monitoring the release health, resolving bottlenecks and owning the release delivery
 Head of the Change Control Board, a governance structure in place to ensure best practices are in place and are followed to
ensure a successful release
 Responsible for relentless collaboration with Leaders, Support, Engineering, Documentation, Product Managers and
Release Management to ensure smooth functioning of the projects/program and the interdependencies are managed
 Conducting Scum of scrum meetings as a guardian of agile processes across teams
 Release and Change management, end to end ownership to deliver on time and quality releases of the product/Projects
 Risk, resource and opportunity management through governance, process ownership and quality standards (KPIs, Metrics)
 Venkata Siva Teja Vemuri (MBA,PgMP,PMP,SAFe,PSM)
Venkata.sivateja@iiml.org(Ph:9989867770) https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivateja-vemuri/
 Built teams from scratch, mentored, trained, hired and collaborated with teams to create synergy and delivered programs
 Open Source/ Advocate for the team championing the use of open source products
Delivery (10+ Projects, 50+ Members)
 Delivered multiple projects worth $6 Million with 100% SLA and adherence to high Quality standards
 Defined and lead the Automation Program to achieve 90% Automation coverage for end to end Mortgage loan creation till
disbursement
 Resource and Budget management across Time & material, Fixed Bid, Hybrid and Units delivered models
 Spearheaded a Service Oriented Architecture program (100+ Services deployed) leading cross-functional teams through
Test Driven Development
 Managed large cross functional teams as an offshore as well as Onsite SPOC across vendors and geographies
 End to end program and project management including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure
 Galvanized project execution across verticals by collaborating with the BAs, PMs, QA and all other stakeholders
 Took charge of team in a reorg situation to scale and delivered 10+ projects across LOBs in an Agile environment
 Responsible for best practices, quality metrics, configuration and knowledge management standards across projects
 Well versed in Onshore-offshore global delivery model - initiation, planning, Execution, Monitoring & Control and Delivery
Consulting/Business Development (10+ Projects)
 As an Automation consultant and manager of the centralized automation teams, lead consulting assignments across LOBs
including feasibility analysis, ROI analysis, optimization and Proof of Concept
 Slashed the Cost of automated execution by $100k per year through an initiative and implementation of parallel execution
and script optimization for UFT based Automation scripts validating the end to end flow of loan processing
 Applied Design/System thinking to optimize SFDC and SOA projects through innovative shift left delivery strategy
 Implemented efficient on demand Business Process Management reducing the regression testing from 6 days to 3 days
 Won projects/clients by working with project managers across organization and identifying opportunities resulting in
substantial revenue
Achievements
 Lead the agile transformation of a geographical teams (3 Continents) into feature teams and delivered a successful release
 Successfully delivered a Cloud Edition of a large platform product across 2 releases overcoming diverse challenges
 Organized “Autothon” to achieve 100% Automation enabled account creating sustainable competitive advantage
 Created efficient processes and improved the methodology across program for a more efficient and transparent monitoring
and control clearly delineating the owners and issues
EDUCATION
 IPMX (1-Year full time MBA), IIM L with Finance, Strategy and Analytics (Top 5 in Class), including an international
immersion in ESCP Europe, 2018-19
 B. Tech (1st class-Distinction, Top 3 in Class), Electronics and Communications, JPNCE (JNTU, Hyderabad) , 2002-06
 First in school in CBSE Board (10th) and awarded with “Merit Certificate” from “National Scholarship Scheme”
Certifications
 Program Management Professional (PgMP) by PMI
 Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI
 SAFe Agilist by Scaled Agile;
 PSM-I by Scrum.org
 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Associate
 Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2019 Certified Specialist
 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure foundations 2020 Certified Associate
 Lean 6 Sigma (Green Belt) by KPMG;
 ISTQB Foundation in Testing by ISTQB
 ITIL 4 Foundation by Axelos
Awards
 Tech Domain Champ Q3’2016 by Infosys for superior performance and Org. impact among 150+ entries
 “ART Manager” Award by Client partner for best Team Management and Delivery among all vendor partners
❖ Multiple “Star”, “Insta” and ‘Shared Success’ awards for excellence in delivery, teamwork and innovation
Extra-Curricular
 Won the Finance competition at “Aarohan 2018”, IIM L from 251 teams across 19 colleges including IIMs and IITs
 Member of Entrepreneurship Cell, IPMX (IIML) collaborating with start-ups and organizing relevant events
 Published several BOK’s and a paper, “Next Generation Automation – Test Automation Thought Process” in Infosys
 Strategic ‘Live’ consulting projects with BHEL and Big Basket as part of Industry connect projects in IPMX