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.• Measuring KPI’s related to deliverables and initiate corrective actions wherever required including risk mitigation activities.• Reporting KPI's against baseline to Executive Leadership at HCL as well as at Telstra.• Responsible for embedding the team with “One Team – Team Telstra” in a multivendor environment. • Engaging Telstra Chapter Type Leads and Principles to identify value streams and initiatives both for immediate as well as upcoming program of work.• Maximizing operational excellence including bottom line optimization to meet the operational guardrails.• Managing 70+ resources including setting up a goals framework for measuring the productivity of resources on a quarterly basis and providing feedback on the same.• Accountable for the AU$10 Million portfolio including P&L with KPI's on maximising revenue growth along with internal margin improvement strategies.Achievements:• Part of the HCL leadership team which successfully enabled HCL as Tier1 vendor to Telstra as part of Telstra's Tranche 2 IT Partner Optimization RFP.

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 Pipeline definition, tools and environment setup etc. • 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.• Managed a team of 40+ resources (junior managers, developers, testers, designers) spread across multiple time zones.• Set-up quarterly goals for the project teams and evaluating their performance against the same as well as providing performance feedback.• Engaged with Pre-Sales teams for creation of proposals by working alongside technical teams on solutions architecture, estimations and reviewing the same against requirements.• Worked with the Legal teams in preparing the project SOW’s.Achievements• Delivered key business critical apps within timelines which were showcased at prestigious events like CES (Consumer Electronics Show), Adobe MAX and the London Olympics 2012.• As business development goal successfully enabled Sourcebits Technologies as one of McKinsey Digital Lab’s preferred vendor list.

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.• Responsible for ensuring the user experience is not compromised by the new touch implementations.• Had final authority to ensure the gameplay control changes done as part of the adaptation were in line with the user experience required for the game.• Successfully delivered multiple titles to OEMs including Samsung on the Bada platform, Blackberry and HTC on the windows platform.Lead Producer - HRP ((Feb’08 to Aug’08)• Accountable for the Handset Release Program delivering java based mobile games for Vodafone - UK, SFR France, Telefonica and DE-T-Mobile.• Managed a team of 20+ developers, designers and testers working on various mobile titles.• Identified risks involved including non-release issues of the games and worked with Gameloft HQ for resolution in effectively calling out and mitigating the same with carriers.• Responsible for continuous review and updation of quality checklist followed by all Global studios of Gameloft based on changing OEM and Telstra requirements.

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.• Assigning roles among the team to improve the team performance during stock audit and overall productivity.

M.Sc, Computer Games Graphics

M.C.A (Masters Computer Applications)

B.Sc, Computer Science