Bhaskara Rampalli Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

As Head of R&D, I was responsible for all the development activities that take place in all of our centers (Australia, Bulgaria, India and Iran). Some of my key responsibilities are:Create & Manage 90-Day plan for all the centers of the organisation and monitor their progress.Create & Manage 2-year Roadmap for the organisation, prioritise, Develop & Deliver them.Chair the Designer-council, which decides on technologies & tools to be used with the inputs from all stakeholders.Conduct performance reviews.Create a growth plan for the team members.Assign work to teams and monitored them from time to time.Weekly and monthly reporting on team's progress and their timesheet approvals.Ensure overall delivery and quality of organization offerings to customers with special attention on Usability and Performance.Engage in key customer activities such as Requirements, Commitments, Releases and Communication.Implement agile methodologies and align sprints to the customer's needs.As General Manager of Australian Development Center, I was responsible for smooth operations both within and between inter-centers. Some of my key responsibilities are:Regular meetings with the overseas team members making sure that there were no blockers.Oversee daily operations of the organization and build an environment in which employees produce maximum work.Recruitment, Training, Counseling, and Disciplining teams.Communicate strategy and results to organization employees.Evaluate and decide upon key investments in equipment and infrastructure.Develop annual operating budget.Produce marketing content.Participate in upselling to the existing customers.Pre-sales activities including technical proposals & Demos for potential new customers.Formulate processes and policy recommendations and monitor while implementing them.Worked on receiving government R&D grants for the incurred costs.

Sydney, Australia

• As a prime system integrator, responsible for managing 25 vendors for a transformational program of replacing Vodafone's existing billing system with Matrixx system.• Vendor engagement, onboarding and delivery management• Responsible for closing scope, commercials and payment milestones of all the vendors• Responsible for governance and cash flow of vendor’s deliverables• Manage securing access to the customer’s servers and environments for all vendors• Work with internal stakeholders such as Architect, Environment & PMO as well as external stakeholders such as vendors and customer.

Sydney, Australia

Attend requirement gathering sessions with the business owners to gather requirements. Perform initial impact assessment, document the requirements along with possible solutions, interact with different teams to finalise the best possible solution, delegate work to different teams/vendors and regularly monitor the progress. Liaise regularly with all the stake holders with progress, changes and blockers. Work with the Project Managers and Program Managers to finalise time, team and budget requirements. Attend core team meetings to understand the program strategy and how it impacts my projects. Plan the projects to go from Development to Delivery.

Sydney, Australia

Manage a team of BAs, Developers and TestersManage Product RoadmapHandle dynamic nature of the project, especially in the initial phases of the projects.Liaise with multiple Customer teams in different regions responsible for different products to achieve a common project goal. Also interact with different Vendors and Systems and agree upon the Integration mechanisms.Perform Yearly Performance review of the team.Have monthly one on one meeting with the team to discuss the progress and project priorities as well as to understand any other issues.Weekly Progress meetings with the team to make sure that all the tasks are on track and that there are no blockers.Daily standups to quickly understand and make sure that the team is progressing well and that there is no scope creeps.When the work involves multiple teams, then communicate between all these Product Teams, Negotiate and agree on the deliverables and Time frames and track the progress with the team leads.Train the team on various aspects of the project life cycle and motivating them when needed.Motivate the team to think outside the box and come up with innovative ideas and solutions to meet customer requirements and solve issues that may come up.Encourage the team to come out of their comfort zone and take up new challenges thereby enhancing their skillsets and have team backups.Talk to the users of various Domains and Regions regarding the requirements and Business processes.Understand the current processes and map them to the Product functionalities.Create Business Processes and work instructions for effective business outcome utilizing the Product to the maximum.

Sydney, Australia

Requirements gathering from the customer.Requirements analysis, preparing High Level Solution document, taking User acceptance.Assessing and assigning tasks to the team members.Interviewing candidates for new openings.Educate Documentation and Sales teams about the product and its functionalities.Checking user manuals for the accuracy and completeness of functionalities of the product.Giving product demonstrations and presentations to the customers and potential customers.Manage Product Roadmap. I was responsible in delivering many Products from Inception to Completion.Making sure that Usability, Performance and Quality are acceptable.

Sydney, Australia

Requirements gathering from the customer. Requirements analysis, Designing, Development, Unit TestingData Migration from other Systems. Use of SQL LoaderDebugging and Identifying defects raised by customers

Sydney, Australia

Analysis, Designing, Development, Unit Testing Conversion of applications from Forms 4.5 to Forms 5.0 Conversion of applications from Forms 4.5 to Forms 6i Testing the applications for Y2K compliance Taking backups of applications & databaseInstalling OS on computersInstallation Oracle Database & Development tools and and setting up the environment for development of applications.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics And Communications Engineering

College, Pre-Engineering