Sarath Chandran Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Continuing Engineering Program Management for Envestnet Connectivity Initiatives.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Partnering with Product Management function to align on Product Roadmap Align on Initiatives prioritization based on business driver and established OKR’s / business metrics• Partnering with Product Management and Engineering stakeholders to freeze on Program Roadmap quarterly release plans• Ironing out release rollout schedule plans from feature development to stage / beta deployments to product deployments in alignment with Product Owners, Engineering stakeholders with effective dependency management towards System Increments. Identifying and Managing risks with responses and alternate plans • Develop Program Reports capturing the Key Metrics to depict program progress, Forward plans and identified risks. Also apprise stakeholders on materialized risks as and when it surfaces with the action items time to time during program execution• Mentoring team on implementing Agile. Setting up operating framework - Aspects includes Release Planning, Feature Elaboration guidelines, Capacity Management, Delivering Methodologies catering to business needs, Implement Scrum Ceremonies, Identify process improvements through Retrospection and RCA• Established Self-Serviced view on Portfolio plan - Reflect the roadmap delivery plan in JIRA against various initiatives within the portfolio with dependencies mapped, traceability on the scrum teams delivering the program roadmap with capacity information updated

Bengaluru Area, India

I was responsible to define release management process, plan and deliver product releases for TallyPrime (Next Generation Tally Product).Program managed new product development.

Key Result Areas• Program managed & released GST Ready Tally.ERP9 6.0 version On Time that enabled 1.5 Million SME Businesses in India to be GST compliant in the year 2017.• Program managed & released GCC-VAT Ready Tally.ERP9 6.3 version On Time that enabled UAE, KSA Businesses to be GCC-VAT compliant in the year 2017.• Moderating Change Control meetings to discuss release scope and roadblocks.Essayed key role in• Preparing forward plan of release cadence across portfolio.• Measuring and monitoring progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time.• Preparing plan for Information Design & Development of Content for product releases • Preparing Go-To-Market plan which includes Internal (TallyCare, Sales) & External (Partners, Customers) Eco-System enablement of latest product before its launched in the market, Enterprise Backend Readiness, Website Readiness.• Managing risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.• Handling communication of key project plans, commitments, and changes including Scope and Schedule.• Weekly reporting of 6.x Release Management to executive group in product portfolio governance meeting.• Managing relationships and bring in synergy between different teams.• Conduct General Availability Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.• Create & Disseminate Deployment and Implementation Plans.• Closely work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.• Lead and co-ordinate the General Availability activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.• Moderating Change Control meetings to discuss release scope and roadblocks.

Bangalore,India

Key Result Areas:-• Efficiently delivered BSS (Online Charging System / IP Contact Center) software projects onsite• Managed up to $7M contract delivery• Delivered charge customization deliverables for organization’s E2E strategic projects• Effectively achieved Business Line KPIs’ (business contribution, knowledge management, resource utilization) defined at delivery centre level Essayed a key role in:o Planning & leading to roll out the initiatives for quality service delivery o Driving delivery centre level training program ensuring quality in all respectso Defining standard operating procedures & process handbook for common operations across functional teams• Methodological approach in resources competency improvement & development plan execution

Delivered:o Parallel customization projects with the team size of 40 memberso Projects with customized project life cycle with Agile concepts adoptedo Value to Business Line in delivering feature rich tools by demonstrating creative leadership to conceptualize till realization of tools• Ensured quality delivery implementing traceability matrix and verification at each stage, automation initiatives to achieve zero defects • Achieved >90% resource utilization by taking up more projects apart from core service by demonstration of leadership skills such competency road maps for resources, implementation of competency development platform

Active contributor of research & development team to ensure quality call platforms releases

Active contributor of research & development team to ensure quality call platforms releases

Protocol Test Designer – Conformance Testing (2005 –2007) accountable to understand SS7 MTP Level 2 & 3 Protocol Specifications and develop conformance test framework

Executive Post Graduate Programme In Data Science, Business Analytics

Bachelors, Electronics & Communication Engineering