Srinivasa Lakkimsetty Email & Phone Number

United States

Managed Global Teams: Directed global cross-functional teams in delivering value streams across four Agile Release Trains (ARTs), achieving a 58% increase in productivity while ensuring alignment with business vision and objectives.Lean Agile Excellency and Agile Coach: Promoted a deep understanding of SAFe values, fostering greater alignment, transparency, quality, and a culture of continuous improvement, resulting in a 62% reduction in flow challenges. Championed Lean Agile Center of Excellence initiatives and SAFe Agile values, coaching workgroups to accelerate value delivery by 12%.Leadership in Software Development: Led a team of 21 software engineers in developing features for an advanced analytics-driven contract assessment system, enhancing rebating decisions across 8 brands with Pharmacy and Medical benefits. Facilitated SAFe Agile ceremonies and innovation sessions, leading to a 30% improvement in velocity. Project Planning and Execution: Developed comprehensive project and release plans, schedules, dependencies, and PI Objectives. Implemented flow accelerators, leading to a 56% reduction in lead time, while supporting business vision, budgets, and risk management.Client Engagement and Proposal Management: Identified client needs, formulated competitive proposals, prioritized tasks, and managed Statements of Work (SOWs) and budgets. Successfully managed contracts valued at $3.44 million per year.Risk Management and Team Coordination: Administered risks, dependencies, and impediments while mentoring four Agile teams (onsite and onshore). Collaborated with managers to resolve bottlenecks and ensure smooth project handovers.

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Led End-to-End Project and Program Management: Served as a Servant Leader for 18 large enterprise projects and Agile Release Trains, managing PI Planning, execution, scope, budget, risk, dependencies, impediment control and optimized business value delivery.Adopted Shift-Left Strategies: Coordinated comprehensive testing events (Unit, Integration, System, UAT, Regression, Performance, Pre-Production) with strict gates and acceptance criteria, reducing defects and improving product quality. Decreased testing time by 11 hours, boosting overall project efficiency.Implemented Agile Tools and Methodologies: Introduced ePMO and Agile tools across work streams, coaching both traditional and Agile teams through planning, execution, and control phases, resulting in an 18% increase in value delivery over 16 months.Aligned Release and Change Management: Partnered with Change Management leads to synchronize release strategy, policies, and processes, ensuring a smooth transition to production for over 32,000 work items per year.Enhanced Production Readiness: Developed and enforced service acceptance criteria processes, reducing Severity 1 tickets from 1/month to 1 every 16 months, significantly enhancing service reliability.Expanded Client Engagements: Drove growth by introducing new offerings and services in web and mobile applications, resulting in expanded 2 additional business opportunities/engagements.Managed Risks and Dependencies: Mitigated risks and addressed dependencies by guiding teams to overcome bottlenecks. Collaborated with stakeholders to align strategy and execution with lean principles, leading to improved project outcomes.

Los Angeles

Managed Large-Scale Projects: Directed 70 FTEs in planning, resource allocation, development, testing, change control, and risk management for multiple projects. Ensured timely delivery through effective governance, process improvements, optimization, and comprehensive reporting.Defined and Executed Project Plans: Developed detailed project scopes, objectives, and work plans, including schedules, risk analyses, mitigation strategies, status reports, and resource allocation, driving project efficiency and quality.Led Agile Implementation: Managed and implemented 44 Agile Release Trains (ARTs) across cross-functional teams for complex projects, enhancing team collaboration and delivery speed.Increased Operational Efficiency: Implemented self-service BI strategies, improving processing efficiency by 30% across business functions. Automated production support activities, reducing manual errors and increasing agent satisfaction by 16%.Enhanced Sales and Client Engagement: Prepared and responded to RFPs, contributing to $1.35 million in annual sales. Expanded client engagement from initial single-digit team sizes to 120 team members over four years.Transformed Legacy Systems: Modernized insurance legacy systems to web-based UIs and faster rating engines, resulting in a 23% increase in agency experience ratings within 12 months.Managed Portfolios and Performance: Directed portfolio management and tactical planning, monitored progress using metrics, and adjusted strategies to ensure timely delivery of business needs with high quality

Greater Los Angeles Area

Designed and developed Web and backend applications, test plans, test cases, test scripts and performed code reviews.Expanded engagements into new areas of the client’s business through new offerings and services.Established and maintained healthy relationships with the client’s IT, business teams.Facilitated workflow sessions and review of work plan deliverables & tasks, with department subject matter experts & work groups across different lines of business with results in the review, validation, & documentation of process & workflow (current, changes, future) sessions in preparation for the subsequent project phases.Automated production support activities and reduced manual errors and increased agent satisfaction by 23%.Automated 674 time-consuming daily tasks with Java, VB, and REXX tools.

Pune Area, India

Conducted in-depth analysis, coding, and rigorous unit testing of assigned work requests, providing crucial support to teams and achieved 16% increase the quality of delivery solutions.Provided valuable application development support for 27 system enhancements in diverse aspects of credit line underwriting and credit management systems, with a specific emphasis on Master and Visa revolving credit lines. Developed projects on the VisionPLUS credit card transaction processing system by Fiserv. This involved working on Bank and Retail credit cards and leveraging the capabilities of the system's 134 modules. These modules seamlessly collaborated to manage the complete lifecycle of accounts, ensuring efficient and accurate processing of credit card transactions.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Global Management

Activities and Societies: Case study on companies on their management processes and suggested improvments

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Technical Paper submission, Presentation, Electronic Gadgets Designing and Implementation, Multi University.