Dushyanth Nippani Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Consult & advise on business solutions, especially from a technology perspective.• Manage delivery from (25 strong) application development teams enabling business growth.• Track & manage annual budgets.• Agile coach.• Guide & assist product management group.

Chicago

• Lead the successful delivery of a major eCommerce website transformation.• Owned & managed product roadmap laying the foundation for business stability and growth.• Created and maintained project plans. Automated status reports to improve reporting to management.• Managed project risks and worked with leadership to mitigate these.• Worked with software development, & infrastructure teams ensuring successful delivery.• Documented business requirement, process flows, and effort estimations.• Instituted on-boarding and off-boarding processes while keeping in mind application team, and organizational security standards.

Greater Chicago Area

• Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)• Guided a 30 member distributed team through Waterfall-Agile conversion. Set up all processes, standards, and performance metrics for the teams.• Set up Kanban process for a production support team with focus on turnaround time.• Experience with basic level of agile product management and backlog prioritization.

Chicago

• Requirements gathering, documenting, testing, and release management.• Worked with cross functional teams to guide project through various phases of SDLC.• Instituted process & documentation standards for continued use.• Redesigned templates for client business communications.• Created functional training material catering to internal and external application users.

• Designed, and developed systems conversion from Mainframe to open source systems.• Documenting system flows, and technical designs for software applications. • Developed business communication templates using document composition software HP Exstream.• Provided technical and business support for over 8 mission critical business applications.

Assisted top management prioritize IT expensesProposed cost reduction initiatives (in-house and outsourced)Devised a vendor evaluation metrics systems to assess the outsourcing partnersSWOT analysis encompassing all aspects of the IT infrastructure

Delivering the coding standards document to be adopted for future development projectsDatabase development on SQL Server 2008 and Oracle 9i databasesIdentifying processor bottle-necks in the application and improved database performanceSuccessful designing oracle based automated jobs using Oracle Scheduler 11g

Business contact for the application supporting a team of 20 business users at the client locationPart of all phases in the development of a new module for a mission critical application reporting to the practice head at 'The Hartford Financial Services'Excellent requirements gathering and documentation skills whilst dealing with application usersTesting scheduling and test documentation experienceMaintained the UNIX based extensive reporting module handling planned and ad-hoc requestsPrepared & presented monthly metrics report containing numerical and graphical representation of various project parametersSign-off authority for the change management system viewable to the client managersTrainer at Cognizant Academy specializing in Insurance domain practices and Oracle PL/SQLCertifications in Oracle PL/SQL and Life Insurance Application development with ASP.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, PERL on windows and UNIX platforms

Master Of Science, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Higher Secondary School, Hsc