Srinivas Potlacheruvu
Raleigh,USA
Summary
Global leader with 20+ years of Product Management & IT Delivery experience in clinical research/pharma domain. A change agent skilled in grasping the big picture, implementing solutions with teams in multi-facility environment, partnering with business leaders & senior level executives. Actively looking to get back to full-time work.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Management Consulting
Freelance Consultant
Hyderabad, India
05.2022 - 04.2024
- Develop/review product ideas/strategy/product roadmaps/vision for small startups and individual entrepreneurs.
- Primary focus is on products with features that improve productivity and efficiency of clinical research/Healthcare/pharma processes.
Sr. Vice President, Innovation and commercial solutions
CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION SERVICES (CTIS Inc.)
USA
02.2020 - 07.2020
- Business development and strategic partnerships.
- Responded to several RFPs and RFIs from Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health (HHS)/NIH, Pharmaceutical and Academic institutions towards bringing in additional revenue to the company.
- Negotiated partnerships with partner companies to leverage synergies and strengthen areas of weakness.
- Utilized CRM platforms to track opportunities in Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.
- Provided product strategy, roadmap, vision and UX design for a Covid mobile app (Node JS/MySQL using Apache Cordova framework) following Agile methodology.
- The mobile app provides covid awareness for general public, training for healthcare staff, Covid symptoms self-assessment(eCRFs) and contact tracing of Covid patients.
Director, Software Engineering
PAREXEL
India
06.2014 - 06.2019
- Proven clinical research domain knowledge and strategic vision in building software products to support Clinical trials across Phase I to Phase IV for Federal agencies, Pharmaceutical and research organizations.
- Successfully built software engineering scrum teams with 30+ resources and Business Analysts COE with 20+ Business Analysts/Product Managers to deliver innovative solutions that delight the customer.
- Analyzed several business cases and proposed options for global initiatives.
- Successfully transitioned a major product - Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) from UK to India resulting in reduced operational costs by 40%.
- Operationalized scrum teams within 6 months of recruitment to deliver successful major, minor and patch releases.
- Developed product roadmaps with Product Managers, analyzed and provided estimates for new features/user stories.
- Responsible for overall delivery and escalations of all product releases developed in VS2015/.Net framework4.6/SQL server 2008/2015.
- Features & User stories were developed through Program Increments using Scrum framework to realize the product vision.
- Presented product status updates to senior management in Quarterly Business Review (QBR) meetings.
- Conducted department quarterly townhall meetings with 250+ employees.
- Provided leadership support to individuals/Managers through coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback for career development plans.
- Expanded team by attracting, developing and retaining high performance product leaders that excel in a diverse and inclusive environment.
Associate Director, Operations - Electronic Data Capture (EDC)
PAREXEL
India
10.2012 - 05.2014
- Operations management of Study builds by study teams spread across India, US and Germany for Electronic Data Capture (EDC) of eCRFs.
- Work with global counter parts to negotiate resources for study builds.
- Oversight of 20+ staff of Study Design Consultants, Programmers, and Validation staff on study build activities.
- Overall accountability of Study builds, delivery escalations, quality and productivity of staff.
- Measured and tracked Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the team on Projects.
Application Development BU Head
CELGENE Pharma/ValueLabs
India
04.2010 - 04.2011
- Built off-shore product teams across various technologies (Business Objects XI R2, SharePoint (MOSS 2007), Pega SmartBPM, J2EE5.0, Livelink 9.2, etc.) for Celgene’s India Center of Excellence (ICE) with global counter parts to support, manage and deliver IT projects.
Principal Consultant
LATITUDE INFORMATICS, LLC
USA
01.2008 - 03.2010
- Provided IT Consulting Services in Product Management, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Strategy Development, and Solutions Design in Clinical research/Pharma/Healthcare domain for Federal, State, Commercial and Academic institutions.
Director, Product Management/Software Engineering
CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION SERVICES (CTIS Inc.)
USA
03.1997 - 11.2007
- Primary Interface as Product Management leader to engage customers, partners and Product Managers to determine product strategy, product roadmap and product vision.
- Played a key role in business development through writing proposals in response to Request for Proposals (RFPs) worth $2.5 M to $100 M from Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health (HHS)/NIH, Pharmaceutical and Academic institutions.
- Built Enterprise Systems comprising of multiple products to support end-to-end clinical research for National Institutes of Health (NIH) that resulted in improved productivity, ability to process more clinical trials and better access to information by 30%.
- Primary interface with the client for all Project related communication.
- Led Product Managers to develop vision documents/road maps for their respective products.
- Reengineered several business processes through Knowledge Acquisition (KA) sessions with key stakeholders to identify/analyze gaps in 'as is' business processes to model 'to be' business processes and corresponding data models following RUP approach.
- Led a joint-venture team of 50+ project resources across two companies (Prime and Sub-contractor) spanning cross-functional groups for all products.
Education
MBA -
Indiana University
Bloomington, USA08.2012
M.S. - Computer Systems Management
University of Maryland Global Campus
MD, USA08.2001
Skills
- Product Management
- Global IT Delivery Mgmt
- Software Engineering
- Program/Ops Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Development
Certification
- Executive Certificate for Sr. Managers in Data Analytics, XLRI, India, 11/01/19, 08/31/20
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, PA, USA, 01/01/05, Active
- Great Learning certifications in: Cloud Computing architecture, Generative AI for beginners, 08/01/24
Awards
Employee of the year and several CEO awards @CTIS Inc.
Work Authorization
U.S. Citizen
Timeline
Product Management Consulting
Freelance Consultant
05.2022 - 04.2024
Sr. Vice President, Innovation and commercial solutions
CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION SERVICES (CTIS Inc.)
02.2020 - 07.2020
Director, Software Engineering
PAREXEL
06.2014 - 06.2019
Associate Director, Operations - Electronic Data Capture (EDC)
PAREXEL
10.2012 - 05.2014
Application Development BU Head
CELGENE Pharma/ValueLabs
04.2010 - 04.2011
Principal Consultant
LATITUDE INFORMATICS, LLC
01.2008 - 03.2010
Director, Product Management/Software Engineering
CAPITAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION SERVICES (CTIS Inc.)
03.1997 - 11.2007
MBA -
Indiana University
M.S. - Computer Systems Management
University of Maryland Global Campus