Venkata N. Chirakala
San Ramon,USA
Summary
Seasoned Technical Program Manager with a proven track record at Meta Platforms Inc, adept in leveraging Cloud Technologies and Big Data to drive digital transformation and significant cost savings. Excelled in orchestrating cross-functional teams, demonstrating exceptional collaboration skills and a strategic mindset to achieve over 20% efficiency improvements in project delivery.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager V
Meta Platforms Inc
San Francisco, CA
03.2023 - 12.2024
- Led end-to-end launch readiness for the Ads billing and payments platform by providing product and program management of a $60B payments portfolio that has generated the company $20M in savings.
- Drove workshop sessions for system design and architecture, requirements, execution, testing, and integration, and alignment with Legal, Privacy, and Compliance.
- Ensured the translation of the strategy and platform/product functional requirements into technical requirements and solutions, in collaboration with Product teams and Data Engineering counterparts.
- Analyzed the state of payment platforms, understood the business objectives, customer needs, product adoption inhibitors, collaborated with stakeholders, and defined a long-term strategy and roadmap for new product launches.
- Drove teams to develop the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with OKRs and KPIs for product features across multiple channels and geographies.
- Ensured and collaborated with stakeholders (product, engineering, finance, and leadership) to monitor progress and adjust as needed.
- Provided expertise in partnering with product and engineering teams to collect performance metrics, monitor and report on progress, and derive insights to improve the development, iteration, and implementation of features.
- Proactively identified potential roadblocks across 32+ use cases and multiple product groups, and communicated them to senior leadership, enabling visibility on the issues and proactive mitigation strategies.
- Drove alignment with executive leadership on multiple product launches, and led strategy development and roadmaps across multiple products/projects for optimization, efficiency, and scalability.
- Led the development of a comprehensive performance dashboard, providing regular status and release updates to the executive team, resulting in improved decision-making and strategic alignment.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Brillio Technologies
San Francisco, CA
11.2021 - 01.2023
- Spearheaded a company-wide finance digital transformation initiative, leveraging Oracle Cloud Fusion technologies to optimize revenue and accounting processes, resulting in a 35% reduction in time-to-market and $24 million in cost savings.
- Orchestrated the successful integration of cloud capabilities into existing on-premises server infrastructure, in platforming Silicon Valley Bank’s financial footprint to enable greater efficiency, control, and scale on its path to $250B revenues
- Participated in the Technology Blueprint in defining and solutioning the definition and model framework, requirements and environment analysis, current and future state architecture models, roadmap, and recommendations.
- Led a team of 10+ professionals in developing and implementing a proprietary project management platform, increasing the overall success rate from 62% to 83%, and improving resource utilization by 28%.
- Collaborated with the Finance divisional CIO on setting up the technology governance forum, which handled decision-making on architecture, design, solution, end-to-end QA, code review, disaster recovery, operational readiness, and change management.
- Streamlined delivery policies and procedures, stakeholder engagement, execution, and best practices, with effective utilization of software tools like JIRA, SharePoint, Confluence, Smartsheet, and Clarity.
Senior Technical Program Manager
Wells Fargo
09.2019 - 10.2021
- Enabled program delivery for CEE – Customer Engagement Engine, an AI-powered, cloud-based application connected to all authenticated Wells Fargo channels that decides the next best conversation to have with a customer at any given time.
- Managed a portfolio of 8 concurrent technical projects with a combined budget of $32M, delivering 68% of projects on time and within 80% of the allocated budget.
- Orchestrated the successful development of the Customer Engagement Engine analytics platform that boosted Wells Fargo's retail banking revenue by 10% and slashed $40 million in year-over-year costs by automating all manual systems.
- Oversaw all aspects of programs, including defining and prioritization, mobilizing cross-functional teams, tracking project execution milestones and schedules, resource planning and management, risks/issues remediation, and providing program management expertise to deliver impactful business and customer outcomes.
- Collaborated with the product, engineering, and enterprise data management teams to maximize project delivery quality, timeliness, and efficiencies in order to deliver high-value and relevant insights to the business partners as quickly and effectively as possible.
- Hired, inspired, and coached a team of 8+ program managers, led the team to build trusted partnerships across product and platform teams, and grow domain expertise.
Senior Group Manager- IT Corporate Functions & Solutions Delivery
Bank of the West/BNP Paribas
San Francisco, CA
07.2016 - 08.2019
- Held bottom-line accountability for corporate functions solutions group and provided strategic solutions for Private Banking & Wealth, Finance, Risk, Treasury, Regulatory framework, Compliance and Customer 360
- Oversaw $ 16 M budget (Finance Transformation/Risk/Treasury) with key focus on aligning deliverables with overarching strategy, managing budgets, ensuring deliverables are met, and coordinating the activities of multiple teams
- Directed full project lifecycle phases (procurements, initiation, planning, execution, closure, monitoring, benefits traceability)
- Established program baselines and strategic multi-year roadmaps for implementations; Served as program manager to drive transformation and strategic goals
- Took on accountability to collaborate and educate key stakeholders on the program objectives, provided help in resource capacity and demand planning, created dashboards for OKRs, KPIs and KRIs and defined key success indicators in collaboration with Product, Analytical teams, Business Value Streams, Engineering groups
- Led and managed a team of TPMs, inspiring challenges for high performers and guiding high potential growth team members who need more support - advocate for and nurture their career growth
- Communicated with CIO, CFO, CDO and IT Executive Leadership on program strategy, direction and change management by hosting SteerCO and OpCo
- Tribe leader of US Target Operating Model, focused on revamping & implementing policies, standards, controls & solutions across IT, finance, risk enhancing readiness and risk response posture with the goal of 50% reduction in manual operations
Senior Program Manager
Bank of America
New York, NY
09.2014 - 06.2016
- Helmed four enterprise projects and guided eight projects through SDLC’s by coordinating with senior leaders to align vision, IT strategy and roadmap
- Coached and led 30-person, cross functional, and multiple disparate teams across diverse range of geographical locations while managing $8M budget
- Drove multiple process improvements by rationalizing IT operating model; resulted in 20% improvement in business performance, 40% improvement in business satisfaction, and 30% improvement in IT delivery cycle time
- Saved $4M by effectively identifying, managing, and avoiding risk
- Worked closely with the product and engineering teams to drive projects across SDLC, identifying and structuring the problem, analyzing the root causes, developing solutions, communicating project results, and obtaining buy-in for the change
- Partnered in business transformation events to drive outcomes towards value analysis, develop future state visions, develop and merge of roadmaps, establish metrics and completion plans
- Leveraged Lean Six Sigma best practices
- Successfully conducted end-to-end program coordination of Consumer Banking and Enterprise risk product releases: drove the execution from requirements to launch and managed internal and marketing communications for product releases
- Proactively provided key information to stakeholders to drive actions of project team meetings, project plans, resource allocations, budgets, issues, and risk-monitoring controls
Technical Program Manager
Barclays Capital
New York, NY
07.2012 - 08.2014
- Championed global business functions across eight locations and significantly improved IT services and enhanced data analytics
- Adeptly served as strategic partner and trusted advisor to C-level leaders, as well as operations, sales and marketing teams
- Designed and implemented IT strategy centered around transitioning market risk platform to IT shared services, re-invested savings in data management and analytics
- Assisted senior executives with the of data insights and driving the adoption of core data services (ETL, Real time integration, Big data services) into the business process and technologies
- Oversaw and managed a cross-functional team in supporting the optimal performance of various Consumer Experience programs for Risk LOB spanning business & technology
- Tracked and maintained issues/RAID log for all the issues and risks related to different portfolios, programs as per the guidelines of project management
- Built enterprise data strategy (Data HUB) and roadmap in partnership with CDO and CFO leveraging BIG Data technologies replacing legacy systems in support of Digital innovation and transformation
Senior Manager, IT
BGC Partners, Inc.
New York, NY
05.2007 - 06.2012
- Hand-selected to direct and revamp global IT services for electronic trade processing unit
- Supervised 20 direct and indirect reports worldwide and managed $10 M budget
- Sought out and implemented cutting-edge improvements to enhance overall operations
Senior Software Engineer, IT
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp
New Jersey, NJ
01.2000 - 04.2007
- Client: JP Morgan Chase, NYC - Managed and delivered Collateral Monitoring System for Chase Private Banking – Asset & Wealth Management
Senior Systems Engineer, IT
Polaris Software Lab Ltd
Chennai, India
08.1998 - 12.1999
- Client: Citibank - Managed and delivered Citi cards Merchandising and Franchising operations
Education
B.Eng. - Computer Science Engineering (Hons)
B.I.T.S (Birla Institute of Technology and Science)
PilaniPost Graduate Program - AI & Machine Learning
CalTech
Skills
- Product Management
- Program Management
- Portfolio Management
- Big Data
- Cloud Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Analytics
- Business Analytics
- New Product Strategies
- Digital transformation
- Collaboration
- MS SharePoint
- Confluence
- JIRA
- Business Process Management
- Pega Customer Decision HUB
- Pega HealthCare
- Analytics
- Reporting
- Tableau
- Salesforce
- Business Objects
- MS SQL Server
- Programming
- C
- C
- HTML
- JSP
- Python
- Architecture
- Data Warehouse
- Service Oriented Architecture
- SOA
- Distributed
- Client/Server
- Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
- CRM
- Oracle CRM
- ERP
- Oracle Cloud
- Fusion
- Oracle EPM
- Agile
- Certified Scrum Master
- CSM
- Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise
- SAFe
- Enterprise Business Agile Strategy
- EBAS
- Process
- Lean Six Sigma
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Healthcare
- Waterfall
- Iterative
- Rational Unified Process
- Object-Oriented
Toolstechnologiesmethodologies
MS SharePoint, Confluence, JIRA, Pega Customer Decision HUB, Pega HealthCare, Tableau, Salesforce, Business Objects, MS SQL Server, C++, C, HTML, JSP, Python, Data Warehouse, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Distributed, Client/Server, Cloud – AWS, Salesforce, Azure, Salesforce, Oracle CRM, Oracle Cloud (Fusion), Oracle EPM, JIRA, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe), Enterprise Business Agile Strategy (EBAS), Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma Green Belt (Healthcare), Waterfall, Iterative, Rational Unified Process, Object-Oriented
Careerachievements
- Led end-to-end Platformization for Meta Ads Omni Payment Engine by providing product and program management of a $60B payments portfolio that has generated the company $20M in savings.
- Built AI & ML based Customer Engagement Engine - analytics platform that boosted Wells Fargo retail banking revenue by 10% and slashed $40M in YoY costs by automating all manual systems.
- Built Enterprise Risk Platform that saved Barclays approximately $8M; also produced 3% revenue increase by championing business intelligence and analytics project focused on predictive analytics.
- Hand selected by C-suite leaders at Bank of America, Silicon Valley Bank, Bank Of The West to lead the implementation of Oracle Cloud ERP – Financial Management (Financials, AP, AR, GL, BS), Procurement, SCM, EPM, HCM, EPM Analytics & Reporting.
Professional Development
Project Management Professional (PMP), Stanford Certified Project Management (SCPM), Industry Certified Professional-Business Agility Foundation (ICP-BAF), Enterprise Business Agile Strategist (EBAS), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean Six Sigma, Senior Leadership Development, Leadership Communications, Requirements Gathering & Analysis
Timeline
Technical Program Manager V
Meta Platforms Inc
03.2023 - 12.2024
Senior Technical Program Manager
Brillio Technologies
11.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Technical Program Manager
Wells Fargo
09.2019 - 10.2021
Senior Group Manager- IT Corporate Functions & Solutions Delivery
Bank of the West/BNP Paribas
07.2016 - 08.2019
Senior Program Manager
Bank of America
09.2014 - 06.2016
Technical Program Manager
Barclays Capital
07.2012 - 08.2014
Senior Manager, IT
BGC Partners, Inc.
05.2007 - 06.2012
Senior Software Engineer, IT
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp
01.2000 - 04.2007
Senior Systems Engineer, IT
Polaris Software Lab Ltd
08.1998 - 12.1999
B.Eng. - Computer Science Engineering (Hons)
B.I.T.S (Birla Institute of Technology and Science)
Post Graduate Program - AI & Machine Learning
CalTech
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