Seshu Kumar Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

• Work closely with product engineers, product managers, and designers, play a critical role in the planning of programs to ensure the timely delivery of quality products and features• Create technical documentation as needed and communicate project goals, monitor project progress, and adjust resources as necessary to keep the project on track• Actively help cross functional teams estimate and decompose complex projects into manageable parts with delivery plans• Leverage technical & program management skills to build comprehensive plans, identify risks, and ensure smooth releases• Pro-actively manage project issues, risks, and change, keeping team on-task • Communicate clearly and effectively on complex topics to diverse audiences across the Business Units• Track progress of projects and facilitate trade-off discussions on scope, schedule or resources• Leverage servant leadership techniques to influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a grid environment• Plan and coordinate project schedules, goals and milestones and make project assignments

New York, United States

Project was to upgrade 11i E-Biz instance to R12 platform. Since the platform was moving from 11i to12, all the Oracle application were also moved. As a middleware integration team, we moved from Talend to Tibco migration with SFDC as the upstream, oracle apps as frontend and oracle databases backend.• Plan and coordinate project schedules, goals and milestones through process of defining and documenting project scope and objectives and make project assignments • Assists in development and implementation of web content standards and processes. - Assists in tracking content/assets where necessary.• Actively help cross functional teams estimate and decompose complex projects into manageable parts with delivery plans• Leverage technical & program management skills to build comprehensive plans, identify risks, and ensure smooth releases• Evaluate project lifecycle, including the results achieved versus expected• Facilitate and lead project-related meetings, providing leadership and ground rules for the project teams• Report project status to the stack holder and higher management • Ensure projects are completed on time and within budget and scope• Develop project schedules. Negotiate with project team members to identify key milestones, project activities, dependencies and risks, and develop associated timelines to create a project plan. Report status of project on a routine basis, as established by the department manager• Identify Test Scenarios and prepare test cases and facilitate UAT.• Manage and Lead both Onshore and Offshore resources.• Monitor and manage the project schedule and ensure that project is under budget.

India

Project was to upgrade 11i E-Biz instance to R12 platform. Since the platform was moving from 11i to12, all the Oracle application were also moved. As a middleware integration team, we moved from Talend to Tibco migration with SFDC as the upstream, oracle apps as frontend and oracle databases backend.• Work on the migration plan from Talend to Tibco migration• Integration with SFDC front for creating Quote, PO and integration with CRM Other modules.• Follow Agile SCRUM, Waterfall and Incremental methodologies throughout the SDLC and worked as a SCRUM master.• Create and maintain web content workflows and processes in Jira confluence.• Plan, organize, and facilitate IT related meetings as needed to ensure a successful outcome of the Project.• Manage and Lead both Onshore and Offshore resources in a Matrix Delivery Team Structure environment• Monitor and manage the project schedule with MS Project and ensure that project was under budget. • Manage multi projects concurrently including those crossing organizational boundaries with multiple stakeholders • Create Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure that project deliverables are being met throughout the Software Life Cycle from Design, Development and Testing phases. • Drive the resolution and follow-up of issues, CR creation and Approvals through Services Now platform.• Create the project risk log, and identify and escalate risks / issues. • Create the roadmap and milestones for various deliverables. • Define requirements and coordinate setup of the technical test environment, test data management, Review of project deliverables test concept, test cases, scripts, test documentation, test reporting, error handling Guide Perform Design, Code and Test review to ensure that all Business requirements are met. • Conduct presentations for committee meetings, including raising strategic issues, lead status calls to ensure thorough communication and hand off between teams.

India

Technical Project Manager responsible for planning and execution of complex, strategic, cross-functional operational initiatives across the Enterprise in Cisco IT. In addition, responsible for enabling Continuous Delivery within and across Cisco IT including redefining release processes to align with different project methodologies like Agile. Define, Generate & Maintain data to enable business leaders to effectively analyze trends, as part of Metrics Reporting.• Manage multiple competing stakeholders in a fast-paced environment, translating their needs to realistic goals/deliverable• Work closely with product engineers, product managers, and designers, play a critical role in the planning of programs to ensure the timely delivery of quality products and features• Create technical documentation as needed and communicate project goals, monitor project progress, and adjust resources as necessary to keep the project on track• Pro-actively manage project issues, risks, and change, keeping team on-task • Communicate clearly and effectively on complex topics to diverse audiences across the Business Units• Track progress of projects and facilitate trade-off discussions on scope, schedule or resources• Leverage servant leadership techniques to influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a grid environment• Plan and coordinate project schedules, goals and milestones and make project assignments• Assemble the project team, identify competencies, and assign resources to development tasks appropriate to each individual’s knowledge, skill, and abilities• Create technical documentation as needed and communicate project goals, monitor project progress, and adjust resources as necessary to keep the project on track• Adhere to budgets and keep projects on track for successful completion within specification