CHENNA YENUGU
San Ramon,CA
Summary
Accomplished Technical Program Manager with a proven track record at Dropbox, demonstrating expertise in cross-functional collaboration and the execution of strategic initiatives. Renowned for program design and planning skills, with a focus on optimizing PMO processes. Proficient in agile methodologies and stakeholder management, resulting in significant enhancements to business platform engineering capacity. Committed to driving operational excellence and delivering high-impact solutions.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager, ITS PMO
Dropbox
San Francisco, CA
01.2020 - Current
- Company Overview: Dropbox is in Internet 'File Sync and Share' business with the mission of 'Designing a more enlightened way of working'
- Developed and streamlined the intake and prioritization process for projects requests from all sub-teams of CFO Org i.e Tax, Revenue Accounting, Procurement, FP&A, Payroll
- Established ROI based Quarterly and Annual Planning/Prioritization process
- Established partnerships with x-functional teams (Rev-plat, Growth, Store, Data-plat, ITS teams) to drive alignment and execution on x-functional programs/company priorities
- Led re-architecture effort of D3 (Downstream Data Dependencies) to decouple point to point integration optimizing the usage of business platform engineering capacity
- Dropbox is in Internet 'File Sync and Share' business with the mission of 'Designing a more enlightened way of working'
IT Portfolio Manager
Fremont Bank
Livermore, CA
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Company Overview: Fremont Bank is a full service bank for businesses with focus on mortgage loans
- Portfolio Management for Residential Lending Systems, Digital Channels, Digital Payment Systems
- Prioritization and Trade off discussions between business and technology teams
- Technology Vendor(s) Management
- Fremont Bank is a full service bank for businesses with focus on mortgage loans
IT Manager, Marketing & Sales Operations
Cisco
San Jose, CA
08.2000 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Cisco is a networking hardware and software solutions provider
- Strategy and Execution of Digital Marketing Automation for Cisco.com
- Developed Predictive Scoring model to gain insights into customer propensity to buy Cisco products/services
- Built Data Lake with user behavior data (online), offline (cisco events) data, third party data (accounts, reverse ip lookup) to enrich the customer data profile and thus customer segmentation and personalization
- Cisco is a networking hardware and software solutions provider
Java/Oracle Developer Lead & Release Manager
Oracle
Los Angeles, CA
08.2003 - 04.2016
- Company Overview: Oracle is a Database and Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions provider
- Release Planning and Management for Quarterly releases
- IT Analysis, Data Modeling and Development for Demand Planner & Forecasting Systems
- Infrastructure Planning and Operations Support for Business Critical Applications
- Oracle is a Database and Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions provider
Education
Executive MBA -
Indian School of Business
Hyderabad, IndiaImplications of AI for Business Strategy -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford Certified Program Manager -
Stanford University
Bachelors in Technology -
Sri Venkateswara University
Skills
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Execution
- Program Design and Planning
- Objectives, Key Results articulation
- Business and execution strategy integration and alignment
- Stakeholder management
- Initiatives for PMO Process Enhancement
- Conceptual thinking and requirements analysis
- Expertise in agile project management methodologies
- Jira, Confluence, Asana, Smartsheet, and Microsoft PM tools
- Presentation and facilitation expertise
- Vendor contracts and relationships
Accomplishments
- Improved CFO and his teams confidence on Revenue Recognition and 'ARR' Reporting. Engaged with and aligned 11 teams across DBX to address the data, system administration, business process, and system integration issues across the financial platforms used for billing and reporting revenue.
- Visibility for all employees into Company's Strategy/Priorities by implementing a SaaS Tool and process integrating Business Strategy and Execution Strategy to track progress on SMTs (Strategy, Metric, Tactic)
- Quarterly and Annual Planning/Prioritization Process for all project requests of CFO Org
- Built Marketing Automation Platform serving the business needs of multiple functions across Cisco. 30% improvement in accuracy of 'Sales Qualified Leads' impacting the Sales Revenue by 6% over 2 yrs of time
Timeline
Technical Program Manager, ITS PMO
Dropbox
01.2020 - Current
IT Portfolio Manager
Fremont Bank
01.2017 - 01.2020
Java/Oracle Developer Lead & Release Manager
Oracle
08.2003 - 04.2016
IT Manager, Marketing & Sales Operations
Cisco
08.2000 - 01.2017
Executive MBA -
Indian School of Business
Implications of AI for Business Strategy -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford Certified Program Manager -
Stanford University
Bachelors in Technology -
Sri Venkateswara University