Madhavi PavanRaj
Lakeville,MN
Summary
Results-driven Senior Technical Program Manager with over 16+ Years of IT industry experience with 10+Year as Technical Agile Program, Scrum Master, Product Owner. Delivered multiple programs with competing priorities.
Known for strengths and proven history in driving:
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Program Manager
HPE
Minnesota City, MN
11.2022 - Current
- Delivered 4 large NPI AI/ML machine-learning solutions right from concept to launch.
- Delivered solutions that can be shipped with factory installation, validation, integration, and onsite assembly.
- Delivered 20+ features in 3 quarters, provided benchmarks, and ran a pilot with the factory team.
- Procure & build HW and SW stack in labs by working with HPC~compute and storage demand and supply teams.
- Coordinate with data center SMEs to rack stack, establish network connectivity, and validate the E2E solution(required for training and inference solution in a multi-node environment with multi-GPUs -NVIDIA, AMD, Intel.
- Spearheaded cross-functional integration discussions across multiple product teams, Machine learning Application Engineering, infrastructure teams, pricing, and customer engineers.
- Address security compliance gaps, privacy and legal, and global trade requirements for launch.
- Acted as a strong program manager between NPI and application teams by developing detailed program plan tracking interdependencies between HW/SW stack launch readiness milestones (Alpha, Beta, Factory Pilot, General Availability).
- Defined clear project objective (as per PRD, POR), scope alignment, approved scope creep, critical path, and release timelines.
- Proactively mitigated potential delays or setbacks, pinpointing challenges, and communicating progress to stakeholders, and executive leadership via Smartsheet dashboards, and status reports as needed.
- Process efficiency: Identified multiple opportunities in the PLM Project Life cycle and executed solutions that increased efficiency and productivity by 25%.
- Responsible for accelerating go-to-market and preparing the final product demos for AI summits HPE Discover, NVIDIA GTC AI conference.
Agile Technical Project Manager
Genisys Tech Client: Abbott
Minnesota City, MN
09.2020 - 10.2021
- Migrated Abbottlink enterprise from on-prem to Azure cloud ThingWorx platform in 3 quarters.
- Drive execution of strategic initiatives of connecting IoT laboratory devices to AZURE (Hybrid Cloud) instead of on-premises Datacenter Lake Count.
- Accelerated deployment by ~ 2 months and delivered an additional ~$1 Million in benefits by identifying early risks and preventing schedule delays or cost overruns.
- Connect remotely to Abbott instruments (on the field) and provide a secure means to transfer customer-oriented data.
- Built Azure cloud migration factory, with subject matter expert resources, and migrated ~25 applications from on-prem to cloud (Azure Public/Private/Hybrid over 3 quarters using Lift & Shift, Cloning, and re-hosting migration method.
- Implemented best practices in DevOps teams: Managed and mentored a team of product managers, Scrum masters, and application engineers leading to a 10% improvement in team productivity and efficiency.
Lead Agile Project Manager, Product Owner
CenturyLink
Minnesota City, MN
07.2018 - 07.2020
- Successfully delivered four cross-application programs- Build new Enterprise Portal, Enhance billing for Cloud Computing products (Compute, Storage, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS billing), with an average project budget of 1M total benefits.
- Drive forward the product strategy by working collaboratively work with Product Portfolio & Engineering teams to build strategic roadmaps
- Provide high-performing Compute, Storage, Secured network with low Latency services.
- Instrumental in monitoring product development, go-to-market, sales communication commercialization activities to ensure compliance requirements while delivering product release on time.
Lead Scrum Master (Contractor)
Genisys Tech, Client: CenturyLink
Minnesota City, MN
06.2017 - 06.2018
- Responsible for leading 3 Application teams. Craft detailed project plan, and critical path right from project initiation/concept, align to scope, develop project planning, budget, resources management, risk & issue communications, and training plans are comprehensively documented.
- Drive daily scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily huddles, demos, retrospectives, and safe PI planning quarterly roadmap.
Technical Agile Scrum Manager
Genisys Tech Client: Walmart
Minnesota City, MN
10.2015 - 06.2017
- Successfully managed data science projects to achieve Walmart's core initiatives providing predictable PRICING data for business teams (using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)) models to deliver the best price.
- Established continuous deployment of ML models as real-time inference web service, feature enhancement, Predictive performance, and iteratively improving the ML models.
- Delivery completed on time at just 90% of the approved budget by identifying 10+ opportunities by accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
Project Manager
IBM
Bangalore, India
09.2009 - 07.2014
- Implement a centralized backup & recovery solution by building backup infrastructure at 2 major data centers in less than planned schedule. Saved 10% of the budget by early implementation.
- Planning, Designing, Implementing, and deployment of IBM-TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) Enterprise data backup solutions across multiple platforms.
Sr. Technical Eng. (Transition Lead)
CGI
Bangalore, India
06.2008 - 09.2009
- Define requirements and act as the voice of the customer for the software development team
- Responsible for integration of knowledge management by coordinating with onsite and offshore teams -Application and DB team and Midrange platforms (UNIX, Wintel).
Sr. Associate
UBS
India
09.2007 - 06.2008
- Responsible for Change/Release Management/ Business Analyst for UBS Wealth Management critical applications (ISAAC) for cash processing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Osmania University
India04.2002
Skills
- Enterprise storage
- High-performance compute
- Storage systems
- Product Management
- Agile project management
- Hardware and software installation
- Decision-Making
- Interpersonal Skills
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Risk Management
Certification
- PMP - Certified Project Management Professional
- CSM - Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) - Scrum Alliance
- CSPO- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- ITIL V3 - Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- MCP Microsoft Certified Professional
- Advance Diploma in Software Technology
- IBM Tivoli Management Frameworks
Timeline
Senior Technical Program Manager
HPE
11.2022 - Current
Agile Technical Project Manager
Genisys Tech Client: Abbott
09.2020 - 10.2021
Lead Agile Project Manager, Product Owner
CenturyLink
07.2018 - 07.2020
Lead Scrum Master (Contractor)
Genisys Tech, Client: CenturyLink
06.2017 - 06.2018
Technical Agile Scrum Manager
Genisys Tech Client: Walmart
10.2015 - 06.2017
Project Manager
IBM
09.2009 - 07.2014
Sr. Technical Eng. (Transition Lead)
CGI
06.2008 - 09.2009
Sr. Associate
UBS
09.2007 - 06.2008
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Osmania University