Rajashekaran Shanmugham, Pmp, Safe Sa, Csm Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Strategic Planning of Digital initiatives in collaboration with senior leadership and business stakeholders.
• Identify synergies among various BU initiatives and technology streams thereby delivering on a unified OneHonda view for the organizational products road-map.
• Program Management and Governance of project deliverables across the organizational road-map.
• Mange competing priorities in consultation with senior leadership team to ensure they align with organizational goals and timelines.
• Agile Delivery Leadership ensuring adoption and execution of Agile methodologies to enhance project efficiency across business.
• Vendor Management ensuring all ICT vendors adhere to Honda Ways of Working and ensuring vendor accountability to agreed KPIs for cost, scope, quality, and timelines.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Delivery and Engagement manager for HCL’s Digital and Analytics engagement at Telstra Corporation.Responsibilities:
• Standing up and mentoring Agile delivery teams to meet Telstra's New Ways of Working (NWOW) thereby ensuring delivery on agreed KPI's.
• Driving Agile delivery by having agile best practices implemented across teams with focus on delivering towards the business value.
• Ensuring Technical Delivery excellence through formation of technical chapter model thereby having key resources anchor the strategic value streams.
• Uplifting Technical excellence within the team by establishing an Academy framework for continuous improvement via trainings and certification programs.
• Facilitating planning meetings, PI planning, PI Iteration, Sprint review meetings and retrospectives and capturing results and outcomes via the various enabler tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Bangalore

• Role: Senior Delivery manager, involved in the Agile delivery of applications across Design, Frontend, Backend and Mobility.Responsibilities:
• End to End management of projects from Discovery Phase (Sprint0) to Go live including Managing Product Backlog and Release.
• Anchored Sprint 0 discussions with customer and internal stakeholders’ outcome of which were high level architecture, functionality maps, DoD, Acceptance criteria, coding standards and branching strategy, CI/CD.
• Responsible for Backlog grooming sessions with customer PO sprint on spring and ensuring prioritized backlog is available on JIRA.
• Ensured BA's have the DoD in place and teams have done the Sprint Planning and reflected the same on JIRA and Retrospectives in Confluence for Lessons Learnt.
• Handled customer expectations through weekly status calls, sprint review sessions as well as retrospectives.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Lead Producer - HD games | Hyderabad (Nov’09 to Nov’10)
• Worked with creation teams at Gameloft HQ for next iteration of existing titles through storyboarding workshops and Game design documentation activities.
• Managed a team of 4 producers and 20+developers, tester and designers for the successfully delivery of Native HD Games on the Palm Pre and Samsung Bada platforms with development teams across Hyderabad and Saigon.
• Final authority for approving any modification to game levels and/or gameplay changes due to hardware limitations around rendering/in-game details/sound quality etc.
• Ensured the games met the OEM requirements checklist in terms of handling other device functions during gameplay.Lead Producer - Rich-Porting games (Sep’08 – Nov’09)
• Accountable for the development teams in Hyderabad, Saigon & Buenos Aires and ensured the successful delivery of touch adaptation from non-touch games.

London, United Kingdom

• Role: Managing the control desk during ASDA (Wal*Mart) financial and stock audits. Responsibilities
• Engaged with the store management in having the store prepped for audit prior to audit day.
• Managed data download from the Wal*Mart HQ servers for baselining the financial and stock data prior to audit.
• Responsible for analyzing the financial and stock inventory data during audit for its consistency and accuracy by verification of the same through various reports.
• Worked with store management and ASDA internal auditors on identified discrepancies and ensuring the correction done / audit report filed for discrepancies.
• Accountable for the timely closeout on audit date with data uploaded to Wal*Mart HQ servers and signoff from Store managers thereby ensuring no delays which would have led to financial penalties.

M.Sc, Computer Games Graphics

M.C.A (Masters Computer Applications)

B.Sc, Computer Science