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Hemanth Kumar

Dublin,CA

Summary

Expert in successfully managing complex portfolios and initiatives. Leader of a global team of Technical Program Managers and Agile Coaches, playing a key role in rolling out a PLM framework that promotes end-to-end agility. Established an outcome-driven Agile Center of Excellence to drive continuous improvement and innovation. Streamlined processes and improved decision-making through automation of dashboards for execution, risk assessment, and scorecarding across portfolios and programs. Proven track record in portfolio management and agile methodologies, well-equipped to drive success in any organization.

Overview

18
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

ICE Mortgage Technology

Staff Technical Program Manager
10.2016 - Current

Job overview

  • Delivering against critical customer commitments, with a strong emphasis on keeping up with milestones.
  • Heading a team of Technical Program Managers and Scrum Masters distributed across Unites States, Poland, Belarus, Argentina and India.
  • Implementing a hybrid Feature-focused planning and execution strategy to deliver measurable and sustainable outcome.
  • Responsible for mentoring multi-discipline functional groups with an emphasis on Customer value and Business agility by way of Lean and Agile practices/principles.
  • Lead effort to Identify and eliminate process redundancies by applying value stream mapping for teams that serviced critical Product roadmaps.

Accenture - Apple

Sr. Technical Program Manager/Transformation Lead
02.2014 - 09.2016

Job overview

  • Increased Agile adoption from 10% to 80%
  • Increased ROI on Social collaboration projects by 16% with Agile transformations
  • Delivered Developer Forums platform in record time
  • A WWDC '15 Apple 'State of the Union' headliner
  • Introduced Apple IT programs to Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and Jira
  • Delivered Framework for scaling Agile to reduce resource and process wastage by 40% and 30% respectively.

Accenture - Cisco

Sr. Technical Program Manager
07.2012 - 02.2014

Job overview

  • Contributed to SFDC-based Partner adoption of Cisco's P360 module
  • Delivered Cloud to Mobile Partner (SFDC) module in a fast-changing, security-intensive segment for Cisco
  • Optimized distributed Agile delivery model for teams involving offsite and offshore resources
  • Delivered Country localization for BRICM countries.

Kaiser Permanente

Management Consultant
01.2007 - 07.2012

Job overview

  • Delivered PCI-confirming electronic Payment switch for Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy
  • Stood-in as Scrum Master for distributed teams to manage a fast-paced delivery schedule
  • Reduced ETL implementation redundancy to save 30% on maintenance budget
  • Introduced ETL automation to streamline multiple compliance applications
  • Optimized Federal/State mandated Compliance reporting mechanism.

Education

University of Madras

Bachelor of Science from Engineering
01.1993

Skills

  • Cross-functional leadership with Portfolio/Initiative Execution
  • Technical Roadmap Design
  • Risk and Dependencies Management
  • Lean and Agility Best Practices
  • Facilitation and Communication
  • Compliance and Regulations

Certification

  • ICP-ACC Agile Coaching Certificate
  • Certified Agile Practitioner (Accenture)

Timeline

Staff Technical Program Manager

ICE Mortgage Technology
10.2016 - Current

Sr. Technical Program Manager/Transformation Lead

Accenture - Apple
02.2014 - 09.2016

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Accenture - Cisco
07.2012 - 02.2014

Management Consultant

Kaiser Permanente
01.2007 - 07.2012

University of Madras

Bachelor of Science from Engineering

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