Srinivasa Rao Bodugu
Torrance,CA
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven IT Business Partner with a proven track record of aligning technology strategies with business goals to deliver transformative solutions. Skilled in building strong relationships with stakeholders, bridging the gap between IT and business units, and driving innovation through collaboration. Expertise in analyzing business needs, translating them into technical requirements, and ensuring successful implementation of IT projects to enhance operational efficiency and support organizational growth. Adept at change management, strategic planning, and fostering cross-functional partnerships to achieve measurable outcomes. Committed to staying ahead of industry trends and leveraging emerging technologies to create value and sustain competitive advantage.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT BUSINESS PARTNER - ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES
Garrett Advancing Motion
Torrance, California
09.2023 - Current
- Collaborates with business leaders and stakeholders to deliver cost-effective and efficient systems solutions to uphold IT strategy
- Developed a Generative AI application using Amazon SageMaker, AWS Bedrock, Llama, Python and Angular for system engineering to analyze the Statement of Requirements faster by reducing 60% of cycle time
- Defined SW part management process, HW part management process and integrated with mechanical part management process in PLM; Mechatronic BOM management and HW/SW compatibility matrix
- Identified digitization opportunities, gaps in the process and data flow and digitized the process and data by bringing the right tools to be consumed by downstream users and systems
- Onboarded SiliconExpert, Altium BOM Portal tools for HW design, commodity buyer, and quality teams to work collaboratively without exchanging emails and excel sheets
- Developed IT landscape in collaboration with Enterprise Architect team to make sure the tools are scalable, upgradable, supports integrations, cybersecurity cleared
- Eliminated duplicate tools
- Worked collaboratively with business and extended IT teams (infrastructure, dev ops, security, network, development, etc.,) for smooth implementation of the tools/applications
- As a Torrance site leader, been the voice of IT for the site and helped to coordinate efforts with the IT Infrastructure leader for effective IT operations and sustainability, ensuring high availability of applications
SR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Garrett Advancing Motion
04.2018 - 08.2023
- Evaluated best-in-class PLM tools in the industry and finalized a next generation PLM tool for Garrett
- Admin for Windchill PLM, Aras PLM and Propel PLM for POC systems during evaluation phase
- Installed and configured Aras PLM and built prototypes for PLM core functions during evaluation phase
- Configured Propel PLM, designed and built prototypes for PLM core functions during evaluation phase
- Solutions designed and prototyped all critical core functions by working with the PROPEL PLM team
- Working on opportunities to digitize the engineering processes in Salesforce/Propel PLM
- Solutions designed and developed APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) process in Salesforce/Propel PLM
- Solutions designed and developed PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) process in Salesforce/Propel PLM
- Solutions designed and developed the First Part Inspection process in Salesforce/Propel PLM
- Solutions designed for Onshape Integration with Propel PLM and development is in progress
- Admin for Jama cloud requirement management tool
- Solutions designed for integration between Jama and Jira
- Development is in progress with the MuleSoft team
PROJECT MANAGER, SCRUM MASTER
Chevron
San Ramon, California
07.2016 - 04.2018
- Company Overview: Contract from TECH MAHINDRA AMERICAS INC
- Project is to define a system for Chevron Oronite Additives (Product and component), formulation, customer needs, raw materials, base oils, suppliers, test, document, and project management process areas
- Enovia version V6R2015x, V6R2017x
- Collaborating closely with customer managers and sponsors to help in the roadmap
- Prepared project plan based on scope, resource, and budget
- Build a team to execute the project
- Divided the team into multiple scrum teams (1 BA team, 3 implementation teams and 1 data migration team) to execute the project
- Budget and financial planning
- Project health and sprint health management
- Resource movement between scrum teams based on sprint health
- Executed project in Agile Scrum of Scrums; Jira tool to manage sprints, bugs, and change requests
- Identification of critical path tasks and taking care of them
- Identification of project risks and mitigation plan to prevent the risk
- Defined process to manage Business Requirements, Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Test Plans, bugs tracking, improvements, and change requests
- Cutover planning and execution; Data Migration planning and execution
- Productivity improvement of the team by organizing training where they are lacking
- SOW preparation
- Contract from TECH MAHINDRA AMERICAS INC
PROJECT MANAGER, MIGRATION & TESTING AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
Valeo
Bengaluru, India
06.2013 - 10.2015
- Company Overview: Contract from TECH MAHINDRA
- Project is to define the VALEO Automotive supplier engineering and manufacturing process which includes Parts, mechatronic BOM, CAD BOM, change management, impact analysis, standards, and document management
- End to END PLM implementation on Enovia version V6R2013x
- SOW preparation; Team finalization
- Defined End to End processes (Implementation Plan, Templates for design, test cases, reports, etc.)
- Managing and communicating with all stakeholders involved in the project
- Planning and execution by managing module leads, understanding risks, supporting to mitigate risks
- Understanding critical path tasks of project and plan accordingly
- RCA (Root Cause Analysis), DP (Defect Prevention) to improve productivity
- Conducting knowledge sessions on business processes and technical knowledge to improve productivity of the team
- Go-Live planning and execution
- Contract from TECH MAHINDRA
SR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, BUSINESS ANALYST, MIGRATION ARCHITECT
Valeo
Paris, France
10.2010 - 05.2013
- Company Overview: Contract from TECH MAHINDRA
- Project is to define the VALEO Automotive supplier engineering and manufacturing process which includes Parts, mechatronic BOM, CAD BOM, change management, impact analysis, standards, and document management
- As a Senior Solutions Architect/Migration Architect for Enovia version 10.6 and Legacy systems migration to Enovia
- Designed and Developed a ETL tool that migrates data from Legacy systems to Enovia
- Managed multiple stakeholders to execute the plan on time
- Gap analysis of multiple legacy systems to converge functionally and technically
- Writing TCL, PL/SQL scripts to migrate to Enovia MX and LX tables directly
- Finding missing and dead files in stores and locations of Enovia; improved the timing to 7 hours from 24 hours
- Defining and implementation of file collaboration (EFCS) approach
- Performance improvement of application
- Go-Live planning and execution
- Contract from TECH MAHINDRA
PROJECT LEAD
Cummins
Chennai, India
12.2009 - 10.2010
- Company Overview: Contract from TATA CONSULTING SERVICES
- Supporting 3 Enovia instances of 3 Business Groups, which manages CUMMINS engineering and manufacturing process which includes Parts, EBOM, MBOM, change, document, and project management
- Assigning tickets to the team and supporting the team to complete the tickets on time to meet SLA
- Work allocation, Code reviews and technical support to the team
- Reporting ticket distribution across functions and business, CSAT% (Customer Satisfaction), SLA%, ticket trends
- Building new resources in Enovia and related technologies
- Contract from TATA CONSULTING SERVICES
PROJECT LEAD
Cummins
Pune, India
12.2006 - 09.2009
- Company Overview: Contract from KPIT CUMMINS
- Project is to define CUMMINS Filtration business unit's and CUMMINS turbo generators engineering and manufacturing process which includes Parts, EBOM, MBOM, change, document, and project management
- Defined End to End processes; Resource building for projects
- Project planning and Execution
- Integrating Enovia with Oracle Apps (ERP)
- Writing Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Coding (Development)Test Case writing, Testing
- Design and code Reviews; Technical and functional support to team members
- CTT business unit MBOM development using EJR and ER
- Infra support for Engine, PGBU, CTT, FBU groups
- Contract from KPIT CUMMINS
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, TECHNICAL LEAD
L&T Infotech
Pune, India
12.2004 - 12.2006
- Solution design and development for Cost Analytics Module for former MatrixOne
- Solution design and development for EATON Corporation to manage projects, programs, and suppliers
- Writing Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Test Case writing, Testing
- Worked in integrating crystal reports with Enovia
- Technical help to team members and capability building
Education
B.S. - Computer Science
VITAM College of Engineering, JNTU University
Vishakhapatnam, India01.2004
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
- Strategic planning
- Negotiation
- Vendor management
- Budget management
- Risk assessment
- Business process digitization
- PLM (3D Experience, Propel PLM, Windchill PLM)
- Design tools (CATIA V5, Onshape, Altium)
- Agile project management
- Java/J2EE
- Cloud computing
- Generative AI
- Python
- Integrations
- Data migration
- ALM
- DevOps
- Jama connect
- Enterprise architect
- Salesforce
- Silicon Expert
- Change management
- Program/Project management
- BOM (EBOM, MBOM, SBOM, PBOM)
- Variant management
- Sourcing and supplier management
- Document management
- Requirements management
- Engineering tools
Awards
- BRAVO award for digitizing the First Part Inspection process for Shop Floor., 04/01/18, Garrett Advancing Motion
- BRAVO award for Excellence on delivering the APQP pre-production prototype on a new PLM platform., 04/01/18, Garrett Advancing Motion
- BRAVO award for successfully delivering Enovia PLM to Onshape CAD Integration (MVP)., 04/01/18, Garrett Advancing Motion
- BRAVO award for removing old Firefox browser dependency., 04/01/18, Garrett Advancing Motion
- BRAVO award for supporting network and VPN team during COVID-19 pandemic., 04/01/18, Garrett Advancing Motion
- Awards for delivering End to End PLM projects with less experienced teams with quality and on time., 04/01/18, Tech Mahindra
- Accolade from Chevron for delivering high quality Process Maps functional specifications., 04/01/18, Tech Mahindra
- Accolade from Vale for improving performance of PLM application., 04/01/18, Tech Mahindra
- An accolade from Valeo customer for reducing 90% of migration time and 35% of project completion time., 04/01/18, Tech Mahindra
- Associate of the quarter award for voluntary help to reduce ticket count to zero for another project team., 07/01/09, Tata Consulting Services Limited
Certification
- Generative AI with Large Language Models, 01/01/25, Coursera
- Generative AI for Everyone, 01/01/24, Coursera
- Six Sigma - Green Belt, 01/01/20, Garrett Motion
- Certified Predix Developer, 01/01/17, GE
- Trained Agile Scrum Master, 01/01/15, Tech Mahindra
- Certified Oracle Java programmer, 01/01/08, Oracle
Languages
English
Full Professional
Telugu
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Professional
Timeline
IT BUSINESS PARTNER - ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES
Garrett Advancing Motion
09.2023 - Current
SR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Garrett Advancing Motion
04.2018 - 08.2023
PROJECT MANAGER, SCRUM MASTER
Chevron
07.2016 - 04.2018
PROJECT MANAGER, MIGRATION & TESTING AUTOMATION ARCHITECT
Valeo
06.2013 - 10.2015
SR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, BUSINESS ANALYST, MIGRATION ARCHITECT
Valeo
10.2010 - 05.2013
PROJECT LEAD
Cummins
12.2009 - 10.2010
PROJECT LEAD
Cummins
12.2006 - 09.2009
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, TECHNICAL LEAD
L&T Infotech
12.2004 - 12.2006
B.S. - Computer Science
VITAM College of Engineering, JNTU University
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