Giridhar Kotagiri
Alpharetta,GA
Summary
Resourceful Project Manager with 16 years of expertise in organizing business operations, financial oversight and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Leads procurement of resources including equipment and supplies. Monitors projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions. Knowledgeable in accounting principles, bookkeeping, budget and financial management.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager - Cloud Migration
Accenture LLC
Remote
06.2022 - Current
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance
- Responsible for CAB meetings, Change management process.
- Responsible for submission of Accenture tools with project data.
- Managing 4 on shore and 6 offshore members including DBA and Infrastructure team.
- Managing migration server inventory and working closely with client team on Wave planning for migration plan.
- Own project plan updates / follow ups and ensure to meet timelines of migration.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance
- Modified and directed project plans to meet organizational needs
- Facilitated communication between internal personnel, contractors and vendors for project cohesion
Project Manager
Accenture LLC
Alpharetta, GA
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Responsible for CMDB source to target mappings, working with AT&T delivery manager to finalize the PI planning.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Responsible for scrum team to ensure to meet deliverables.
- Plans, manages and ensures delivery of POD iterations.
- Manage all resources that are part of POD, directing their work
- Manage any risks or issues impacting development POD progress.
- Responsible for successful delivery of CMDB data elements associated to assigned Tenant programs
- Work with Supplier and AT&T will collectively determine ownership of the actions identified in the data remediation plan. Ownership of data remediation actions shall be discussed and determined between AT&T project lead, AT&T data source owners and CMDB development POD for foundational data. Some actions may require corrections in source system and others will be transformational data actions that shall be added to the CMDB Development POD backlog.
Application Delivery Manager
Accenture LLC
Cricket Wireless, Atlanta
12.2020 - 12.2021
- Working closely with Client Manager on Reporting Environmental Issue and successfully expectations on resolving delivery environmental issues.
- Managing team of 16 resources in onshore, and offshore.
- Create and execute end-to-end project plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Creation of standard features to set foundation for standard product to support.
- As project manager, define project scope, goals and deliverables with all stakeholders, including senior executives, sponsors, business owners and field operations.
- Performed project management tasks for all project deck preparations, Governance meetings, WSR, MBR and QBR reports along with KPI’s.
- Resolve and/or escalate issues in timely fashion and identify, assess and minimize risks throughout project life cycle
- Worked with Team member to make Lower environments stable and consistent with production environment
- Maintained good relationship with client resources and worked closely with them to achieve execute task successfully up to delivery
- As Technical and Functional onsite Project Manager. Working with team on sprint planning, resource allocation and project delivery item.
- As Project Manager, able to resolve / escalate issues in timely manner to client and raise flag to minimize risks throughout project life cycle.
- Experience running Scrum and Sprint Teams using Agile Methodologies.
- Identifying continuous improvements to improve overall BAU process to meet project timelines and daily loads SLA.
- As Product Owner Formulate and present Quarterly Business Reviews to key executive stakeholders outlining performance, opportunities for growth and improvement, and blockers.
- Create and execute end-to-end project plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Proactively communicate project details across all levels of organization and across multiple departments, coordinate project activities between team members
- Build internal and external business relationships vital to success of project
- Resolve and/or escalate issues in timely fashion and Identify, assess, and minimize risks throughout project life cycle.
Application Development Manager
Accenture LLC
Axis Capital, Alpharetta, GA
03.2014 - 12.2020
- AXIS is a global insurer and reinsurer, providing clients and distribution partners with a broad range of specialized risk transfer products and services. As a Program / Project manager, managed a team of 4 onshore and 24 offshore resources.
- As a project manager, define project scope, goals and deliverables with all stakeholders, including senior executives, sponsors, business owners and field operations.
- Responsible for all the project deck preparations, Governance meetings, WSR, MBR and QBR reports along with KPI’s.
- Architected, Designed, Build and Deployed IDP framework and advanced implementations using SSIS / SQL. Working with offshore team in reviewing the code, testing results and co-ordination with the client.
- Establishing the infrastructure for the IDP platform like, QA, UAT and Production boxes with all accounts and access setup. Responsible for deployments, with all the cycles in deployments, like preparing the deployment checklist, identifying the DBA resource etc.,
- Responsible for deployments, going with all the cycles in deployments, like preparing the deployment checklist, identifying the DBA resource, CCB approval, deployment, and confirmation.
- Project Migration from legacy to Duck creek for all the policy and claims in Axis Insurance systems.
- Responsible as a project manager to work with client on requirement, project planning, estimates, development, end to end testing and release and deployment. I manage the project budget and forecasting along with infrastructure under BI portfolio
- Responsible for the complete BI portfolio environment maintenance and deployments.
- Completed the database migration and internal application migration to Azure and SaaS and able to achieve significant improvement on users request submission process.
- Ensure the transition / handshake between the teams is smooth by conducting recurring meetings with the ADM team and followed the same process with the client teams.
- Being a bridge between AD & AM teams for any transition / any enhancements work directly working with both client teams resolved many discussions and saved lot of time.
- Expert level skill in Microsoft Project, Agile Craft
- Monitored and managed each project throughout the SD life cycle
- Provided technical support to Developers and End Users in executing and managing test processes
- Conducted the risk analysis and proposed appropriate actions to mitigate risks when needed
Project Manager
Accenture LLC
Microsoft, Hyderabad
03.2010 - 03.2014
- CDP is a common data platform enabling BI, analytics, reporting, campaigns, and execution thus enhancing marketing capabilities across customers, partners and cloud data sets.
- Participated in business requirement analysis, designing & modeling, and development of technical specifications
- Managing the project planning, estimates and budgeting for the project.
- Managing delivery across application support and Infra support projects across SMIT portfolio.
- Regular contacts with stakeholders, client on ongoing issues, improvement plans. Managing end to end project management like staffing and onboarding the new applications.
- Responsible to meet the client expectations and meeting all the critical SLA with no delay.
- Responsible for preparing the weekly status reports, client reports and attending regular calls with different stakeholders.
- Responsible for day-to-day operations, continuous improvement targets providing tangible benefits to client, key client relationships, generate and support new growth opportunities.
- Provides single point of contact for all Common Support Services-related issues
Technical Lead / Incident Manager
Accenture LLC
Microsoft, Hyderabad
08.2006 - 03.2010
- Managing delivery across application support and Infra support projects across SMIT portfolio.
- Regular contacts with stakeholders, client on ongoing issues, improvement plans. Managing end to end project management like staffing and onboarding new applications.
- Responsible to meet client expectations and meeting all critical SLA with no delay.
- Responsible for preparing weekly status reports, client reports and attending regular calls with different stakeholders.
- Responsible for day-to-day operations, overall delivery.
- Provides single point of contact for all Common Support Services-related issues.
- Responsible for working on ITIL Standards for 24x7 production support project.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science And Programming
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India04.2001
Skills
- Multi-Unit Operations Management
- VMware vCenter Servers
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Project Estimation and Bidding
- Agile Methodology
- Performance Improvement
- Forecasting
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Change Control Processes
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional
- ITIL - V3 and V4 Foundation
- ITIL - Expert Certified
- CSM - Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Project Manager - Cloud Migration
Accenture LLC
06.2022 - Current
Project Manager
Accenture LLC
01.2022 - 06.2022
Application Delivery Manager
Accenture LLC
12.2020 - 12.2021
Application Development Manager
Accenture LLC
03.2014 - 12.2020
Project Manager
Accenture LLC
03.2010 - 03.2014
Technical Lead / Incident Manager
Accenture LLC
08.2006 - 03.2010
Master of Science - Computer Science And Programming
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University