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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
India
04.2002

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
Madhavi PavanRaj