Technical Program Manager, DevOps Transformation

Top Management

• Master of Science (M.S) with 19+ years of demonstrable experience in Development, Test, Deployment, Team leadership, Project and Program management
• Driven complex programs globally involving American, European and Asian regions using DevOps, Agile Scrum, Test driven development (TDD), Cloud Technologies (IBM POWER and Microsoft Azure) and Open source technologies
• Built organizations from scratch, including hiring skilled people, building teams, managing facilities, collaborating with global teams to setup a complementing R&D team
• Strong collaboration, mentorship, verbal and written communication skills for interfacing with marketing/sales, customers, applications engineers, OEM partners, project managers and Onsite-Offshore teams

• Driving the "DevOps Transformation" program across "BIOS" Organization with different project stake holders, ODM partners
• Defined and Implemented the DevOps Objectives, Scope, Goals, "Transformation Roadmap", Strategies, program documentation, including all plans, timelines and briefs
• Developed "Development cost driver" and "Cycletime driver" improvements for the business to define the Return of Investment (ROI) on DevOps Transformation Program
• Planned the program, monitored, owned and drove the issues to resolution across different teams with strong follow-up skills, with risk management and mitigation plans
• Managed cross team collaboration and communication with project leaders, program stakeholders & sponsors on daily basis and experienced in developing and delivering weekly status reports
• Experienced in monthly rhythm of the business presentations that provide project status, issues, and timelines to senior management
• Mentor to the individual projects that are undertaken to benefit the "DevOps Transformation" program
• Managing the program's budget, monitoring expenditure and ensuring that the program realizes its financial & business benefits.

• Owned and delivered the IoT, web application solutions across different business units using Microsoft Azure Cloud, Open source technologies, Agile, Devops process and tools
• Worked with cross functional teams on architecture related meetings, solutions development meetings and ensured architectural design issues are understood, resolved and successfully implemented the solutions
• Collaborated across multiple organizations (marketing, core engineering, UX) to translate functional and non-functional requirements into product backlog requirements using Agile development methodology, tools and process
• Worked with all key stake holders on daily basis in addressing delivery impediments, product quality issues and adhere to the program timelines
• Enabled business groups (Eng, IT) on ongoing application capabilities/services by authoring application features/capabilities, wiki/knowledge, recorded tutorials/webinars, recorded demos, technology stack presentations
• Created executive dashboard and status report that show project timelines, milestones, deliverables, Quality metrics, risk and mitigation plans across Development, Test teams and shared with leadership team on a weekly basis.
• Managed multiple projects from inception to launch in offshore-onshore model ranged from $500k to $10 million and point of contact for all the activities between customer and other teams

Technical Program Manager, Devops, Cloud, IoT

• Successfully delivered large and complex projects related to the deployment of web application to the cloud service (AWS) for Neuromodulation products using Continuous integration and Delivery approach (Agile and Devops) using standards 13485, 14971,62304, 62366 and 60601-1
• Collaborated with System architects, QA, cross functional, product, UX teams to resolve the technical issues and delivered the project on time with quality
• Provided technical leadership and guidance to team members and project peers; Handled/Lead multiple teams of engineers across different geographies in India and USA engaged in development of multiple products consisting of contract employees and onsite-offshore employees
• Responsible for results, including costs, methods and staffing, reviewing team's deliverables, project planning, scheduling, risk and mitigation plans (technical, product, personnel), Onsite-Offsite coordination and liaison between the customer and teams

Project  Manager

Bangalore, India

• Created and drove technical roadmap and provided direction to Test organization for web applications (HMC, FSM) and FSP across enterprise servers by successfully implementing Agile, Devops process and open source tools
• Responsible for system architecture verification across different components of FSP, HMC and FSM in enterprise servers and worked with cross functional teams to ensure that the functional and non-functional requirements are identified and validated using blackbox and whitebox test methodologies
• Managed IBM's Power Series servers, which entails collaborating with marketing for conceptualization, identify requirements, architecture & system design, release content management, Planning, execution and releasing it to brand (product program)
• Lead multiple releases, with different challenges, concurrently leading releases in different development stages, Concept phase, requirement phase, implementation phase, and final testing phase
• Collaborated with cross functional teams to implement the TDD, Devops, Agile practices and coached Agile teams to adopt and practice core principles of Agile-Scrum as a scrum master
• Provided technical leadership and guidance to the team members and project peers and led weekly governance calls with different stakeholders that included program directors, architects, marketing/sales and project managers
• Created dashboards that show quality metrics, deliverables, schedules, risk and mitigation plans
• Adept in recruitment, training, career planning, mentoring and evaluating the performance of team members

Senior Test Manager

Bangalore, India
• Envisioned, planned and delivered on setting up of automation and manual test lab with new team of engineers from scratch which enabled testing to be fully carried out of HP and resulted in significant cost savings
• Led and managed the automation and manual teams across different Multi-function printers(MFP), Single Function Printers(SFP) ,Digital send(DS) products for NPI (New Product Initiatives) and CPE (Current Product Engineering) teams
• Implemented DevOps processes using Agile Environment (Scrum),Test driven development(TDD), continuous integration(CI) and continuous delivery(CD) and Common Test Framework (CTF) across test teams
• Prepared test estimations,process, procedures, test strategy, test plan, test reports and reviewed test cases, test data primarily focused on risk management
• Delivered concerning automated, manual tests using whitebox, blackbox involved in functional, regression, integration, duration/stress, System, regulatory, performance, memory tuning
• Point of contact for all the testing activities across different products and Interface for platform manufacturing engineers, architects, marketing/sales, product applications engineers, project managers and externally with End-users, ISV/IHV partners and OEM customers

Test Manager

India
• Developed firmware device drivers such as McBSP, MCSI, DMA, SPI on DSP and ARM for TI OMAP1510 Handheld Terminal is a dual-mode user terminal ("satellite phone")
• Tested embedded device drivers such as UART, Ethernet, USB Host/Device, SPI and boot loader for WINCE4.2 BSP

SW Development & Test engineer

India
• Developed Device drivers HPI,McBSP,GPIO,DMA,I2C,SPI CAN controller on C64xx DSP for Intelligent Head Lamp Control Firmware, used to switch beam based on oncoming traffic being sensed through a live video camera, placed behind rear view mirror of a vehicle

SW Development Engineer

India
• Developed XDIAS BSP libraries using C, assembly and functional, integration and system testing using test vectors provided by ITU in TMS320C548 and C5510 DSP Processor for voice codecs ITU G.726 ADPCM, G.723.1 ACELP/MP-MLQ, G.729E CS-ACELP, G.728 LD-CELP, EVRC.
• Performed functional testing of bitmaps for simple and partitioned types software according to Avionics DO-178B standards

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Srinivasa Peddakotla: Technical Program Manager, DevOps Transformation in Houston, TX

Srinivasa Peddakotla

Vellore Institute of Technology