Sreeram Kolisetty MBA, PMP®, ITIL Certified, CSM®

Senior Project Manager, sreeram.kolisetty@gmail.com

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced and accomplished result-oriented Project Manager, with prime focus on delivery and process for the project development.  Demonstrate competency as well as in-depth understanding and big-picture vision of programs and projects. 16+ years of expertise in leading complex project teams comprise of business, functional, technical and user groups.  Worked on Waterfall, Agile models of Project Development in both Matrix and Functional Organizations.  Has tremendous knowledge on the technology and architecture of solution with prime focus on ecommerce and insurance industries.  Worked with cross functional teams spanning across globe.  Managed 3^rd Party Vendors in onsite, and offsite model projects.

KEY STRENGTHS

Technical Project Management	IT Strategy Consulting
SDLC (Waterfall, Agile, V-Model)	Application Design & Development
Business Solutions & Architecture	Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Ecommerce Portal & POS	ITIL Implementation Knowledge
Content Management	Insurance Domain Knowledge (P&C, Life)
Resource Management	Earned Value Management (EVM)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Retail DomainPOS (Point of Sale), Mobile and .Com Front End development, Enabling mobile for in store scanning and shopping, PCI compliance, Security and firewall.             

Finance DomainBasel II, Insurance Agency Administration, Annuities, GL Consolidation, Admitted, Non-Admitted Business, Risk Management.

ToolsMicrosoft Project, MS Visio, CA Clarity, Workbench, SharePoint, Documentum, HP QC, Rational Composer, TFS, JIRA, Waterfall model, Scrum, Agile project management, ETL tools.

ProcessesIncident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management, Governance – KPIs, SLA & MMF Configuration, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Technologies Java, SOA, XML, Webservices, Oracle DB, TOAD, SQL, eCommerce Platform – ATG and Endeca, ESBs, Services Workflow.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

CIG, Monterey, CA              Feb 14 – Till Date                            Sr. Project Manager

Technologies: .NET, TFS, WebServices, Oracle, Agile

Projects: AQS, eCIG, Policy Inquiry – Agency & Administrative Portals

 

Responsibilities:

 

•                                                                       Working as Project Manager/Scrum Master for AQS & eCIG Maintenance Releases.
•                                                                       Work with Product Owners, Stakeholders, Vendors on Prioritizing the backlog items.
•                                                                       Ensure that AQS and eCIG releases are scheduled as per the business priorities.
•                                                                       Conduct Product Grooming Sessions, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
•                                                                       Work with vendors on compliance to SLAs and ensure the delivery to CIG as per the business requirements.
•                                                                       Work with internal business team and CIG Agents on obtaining the Product Backlog Items; work with BA’s to turn the PBIs into Stories.
•                                                                       Communicate with business and external stakeholders for the major releases, and ensuring that system downtimes or communicated.
•                                                                       Prepare release notes on new features and communicate with all the stakeholders.

 

Wal-Mart, Bentonville AR              Jun 13 – Jan 14                            Sr. Project Manager

Technologies: Java, SaaS, Web Services, Mobile Technologies, Agile, ATG

Projects: eCoupons, eGiftCards, for iPhone and Android enabled mobile devices

 

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Worked as a Sr. PM for eCoupons Project for Wal-Mart’s mobile application.
•                                                                       Coordinate the efforts from teams in a highly matrix organization.
•                                                                       Conduct status meeting with customer and innovation team at Wal-Mart.
•                                                                       Manage Scope/Cost/Schedule changes through Clarity and Open Workbench.
•                                                                       Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
•                                                                       Worked on Agile model, participated in Product Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings.
•                                                                       Implemented SaaS Services with Coupon vendors.
•                                                                       Manage third party vendor teams from IBM, Cognizant, Coupons.com teams.

 

WMATA, Washington DC              Nov 12 – May 2013                            Sr. Project Manager

Technologies: .NET, Documentum, SharePoint, Captiva, Agile

Projects: Pick Automation, MTPD Photographs Archiving, AP Scanning, CENI Scanning

 

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Worked as a Sr. PM for Pick Automation, MTPD Photographs Archiving, and Scanning Projects.  These projects are strategic initiatives of WMATA.
•                                                                       Responsible for Delivery of Projects from end to end.
•                                                                       Creating Staffing Plan, WBS, and Manage budget for the project.
•                                                                       Follow agile model for the build.
•                                                                       Manage project teams, Development Team, Testing & Business Analyst’s for the project.
•                                                                       Provide status reports to the management on a weekly basis.
•                                                                       Manage Scope, Cost, and Schedule changes through Change Management System.
•                                                                       Work as BA as needed for the Documentum, SharePoint & Captiva developers.
•                                                                       Document “As-Is” processes and define “To-be” process for various business units of WMATA

 

DirecTV, El Segundo, CA              Sep 11 – Oct 12                            Sr. Project Manager

Technologies: ASP.NET, QTP, IIS, Java Script, Web Agile

 

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Worked as a Sr. Project Manager for Offers Project.
•                                                                       Responsible E2E implementation of Offers Project.
•                                                                       Creating Staffing Plan, WBS, and Manage budget for the project.
•                                                                       Manage project teams, Development Team, Testing & Business Analyst’s for the project.
•                                                                       Provide status reporting to the management using seven keys to success.

 

MetLife, Greenville, SC                            Jun 10 – Aug 11                            Program Manager 

Technologies: Mainframe, Java Technologies, Testing, SharePoint

 

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Worked as a Program Manager for 3 different groups in offshore and onsite model. (Disability, Life, and Dental)
•                                                                       Responsible for managing 15 onsite and 45 offshore team members spread in 4 locations of MetLife.
•                                                                       Managed on-going releases and projects of MetLife by working with Development teams and business.
•                                                                       Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
•                                                                       Create Implementation Plan, and execute the same across the board.
•                                                                       Responsible for 40 Metrics for the testing services.  Reported on a periodic basis.
•                                                                       Metrics based transition is applied for the knowledge transition
•                                                                       Management reporting is done twice a week.  Report is purely objective with a lot of metrics.
•                                                                       Managing the project milestones with MF, Java and SharePoint technologies.
•                                                                       Quality is ensured by using metrics framework throughout all the project life cycle.
•                                                                       All projects are delivered on time and under budget.

 

GSK, London UK              Oct 09 – May 10                                          IT Strategy Consultant

 

•                                                                       ITIL Based solution provided for better performance of IT Systms.
•                                                                       Roadmap created for current and future state of the system with a transition plan and cost breakdown by year.
•                                                                       Optimized the performance of support and development system by providing the process improvement in IT Systems.
•                                                                       Developed and Implemented Service Plans, SLAs and MMFs for GSK IT Support.

 

Lincoln Financial Group, Fort Wayne, IN, Jul 06 – Sep -09, Sr. Project Manager

Technologies: Mainframe, Java, Lotus Notes, Web, ETL, Informatica.

 

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Worked as a Delivery Manager for the AMS Services in the Lincoln Financial Groups Annuity business.
•                                                                       Responsible for Projects and Releases of the Lincolns Annuity Business
•                                                                       SDLC Water Fall Model is used for the Projects & Releases
•                                                                       Earned Value Management (EVM) is extensively used for managing the projects.
•                                                                       Manage Risks & Issues effectively through life cycle of the project.
•                                                                       Create Implementation Plan, and execute the same across the board.
•                                                                       Metrics based reporting is done on the projects.
•                                                                       CCB is implemented as a part of the project.
•                                                                       PCBs are used as per the Industry Standard for the Lincoln.

 

VMWare, Bangalore, India Mar 05 – Jun 06                            Program Manager

Technologies: Java, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, WebLogic, SQL Server, Apache WebServer

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Worked as End to End Project Manager involving, interaction with technical, people and business.
•                                                                       Built the Project Charter, Project Plan, Quality Plan and Communication Plan with client.
•                                                                       Used Hibernate & Spring for the project development.  Custom built the JLog for the client.
•                                                                       Managing the client relationship above project level and responsible for ensuring a long-term recurring business from the customer.
•                                                                       Planning the tasks assigning to the team members, monitoring, mentoring, and motivating the team to meet the organizational and their personal objectives.

 

Siemens VDO, Regensburg, Germany                            Jun 01 – Feb 05              Project Manager

Technologies: UNIX, Perl, Java, Shell Programming

Projects: TD2, TD3

 

Responsibilities:

•                                                                       Responsible for collecting the requirements from the EC software development team and distribute the work accordingly to the team.
•                                                                       Architect the solution and provide the guidance to the team
•                                                                       Update the training material and train the development team on the new features.
•                                                                       Provide support to global teams and clients on the platforms.
•                                                                       Used V model for SW development.

QUALIFICATIONS

 

·   Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Systems

·   Bachelor of Computer Science (B.Sc) in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science