SAI KOUSHIK YENUGULA
Summary
Senior Technical Program Manager with 10+ years of experience leading enterprise content platforms and large-scale technical programs. Proven ability to own platform architecture, cross-functional delivery, and operational excellence across engineering, QA, business stakeholders, and external vendors. Deep expertise in content lifecycle systems supporting authoring, review, approval, publishing, and governance in regulated and global environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Technical Program Manager – CMS Platforms
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
06.2021 - Current
- Served as technical program lead for global content platforms supporting R&D, Regulatory, and Quality organizations across multiple geographies.
- Provided architectural governance for enterprise content platforms, reviewing designs and approving changes to ensure scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Owned end-to-end program execution, including planning, scope alignment, release coordination, and post-release stabilization.
- Defined platform standards for content models, metadata, workflows, lifecycle policies, and access controls.
- Partnered with business, engineering, QA, and vendor teams to ensure content readiness for critical releases, maintaining Apple-level standards for quality, accuracy, and operational stability.
- Led risk, dependency, and escalation management for complex workflows, integrations, and global deployments.
- Drove platform modernization and automation initiatives to improve content throughput, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Led production readiness and release governance, including validation, rollback planning, and operational handoff.
- Conducted root-cause analysis for high-impact incidents and implemented long-term corrective actions.
- Enabled global adoption through training, documentation, and operational best practices.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Miami Dade County
02.2016 - 06.2021
- Led a multi-year enterprise content platform modernization program, replacing a legacy EDMS with a centralized solution.
- Owned solution and platform architecture, including workflow design, integration patterns, and environment strategy.
- Designed workflow-driven document pipelines supporting high-volume capture, review, approval, and records retention.
- Planned and executed large-scale content migrations, ensuring data integrity, auditability, and minimal business disruption.
- Served as technical program manager, owning delivery planning, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
- Coordinated work across application, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure end-to-end platform readiness.
- Planned and governed platform releases, upgrades, and environment synchronization across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD.
- Acted as escalation point for complex production issues, driving root-cause analysis and permanent remediation.
- Defined governance standards for content types, metadata, lifecycle policies, and retention schedules.
- Authored technical design documents, runbooks, SOPs, and training materials to support long-term operations.
Technical Program Manager
Biogen Idec
06.2015 - 12.2015
- Supported global R&D Regulatory platforms (BEAMS, RADAR, BRIM) across Documentum, CARA, D2, and publishing technologies.
- Delivered installations, upgrades, environment configuration, and performance tuning across WebLogic, UNIX, Oracle, and virtualized infrastructure.
- Executed changes through formal Change Control, validation, and risk management processes to maintain GxP compliance.
- Diagnosed complex issues using DQL, IAPI, WDK, server logs, workflow and indexing diagnostics.
- Coordinated with vendors (EMC, Generis, PleaseTech) to resolve incidents and evaluate platform enhancements.
- Authored SOPs, validation documentation, and operational runbooks supporting inspection readiness.
- Embedded GxP, CSV, Part 11, and ALCOA+ controls into regulatory publishing and submission processes, ensuring continuous audit readiness.
Education
Master of Science -
University of New Haven
Connecticut12-2014
Bachelor of Science -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad05-2013
Skills
Category Technologies
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Content Platforms Enterprise Content Management (Documentum), Regulated Content Publishing
Content Workflows Authoring, Review, Approval, Publishing, Archival Workflows
Program & Release Release Readiness, Production Governance, Rollback Planning
Integrations Java/J2EE, REST, SOAP, DFC, DFS, HPI
Metadata & Governance Metadata Modeling, Versioning, Lifecycle Policies, Access Control
Platform Migration Large-Scale Content Migration, Legacy System Decommissioning
Infrastructure WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss
Databases & Search Oracle, SQL Server, xPlore, Index Server
Operations Monitoring, Log Analysis, Root Cause Analysis
Compliance GxP, CSV, 21 CFR Part 11, ALCOA, IQ/OQ/PQ
Architecture And Platform Highlights
- Owned architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale content platforms supporting global users and mission-critical business workflows.
- Defined platform standards for content models, metadata, workflows, lifecycle policies, access control, and governance.
- Ensured platforms consistently met launch readiness, quality benchmarks, and operational reliability for high-visibility, business-critical content programs.
- Led platform lifecycle activities include design, upgrades, migrations, modernization, and decommissioning of legacy systems.
- Balanced architectural decisions across scalability, reliability, security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Architected workflow-driven content pipelines enabling high-volume ingestion, review, approval, publishing, and archival.
- Designed service-based integrations between content platforms and external business systems using APIs and web services.
- Implemented event-driven automation for alerts, monitoring, exception handling, and operational visibility.
- Defined multi-environment deployment strategies (DEV / QA / UAT / PROD) with controlled promotion and rollback mechanisms.
- Led deployments across distributed application servers and databases, ensuring high availability and failover readiness.
- Partnered with infrastructure teams on capacity planning, performance tuning, and monitoring.
- Led multiple large-scale content and platform migrations from legacy systems with zero data loss.
- Owned technical risk assessment and mitigation for upgrades, releases, and migration programs.
- Ensured all platform changes met audit, validation, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Timeline
Senior Technical Program Manager – CMS Platforms
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
06.2021 - Current
Senior Technical Program Manager
Miami Dade County
02.2016 - 06.2021
Technical Program Manager
Biogen Idec
06.2015 - 12.2015
Master of Science -
University of New Haven
Bachelor of Science -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University