Venkat Gadwala, Pmp,Csm,Itil Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Account lead delivering on the Performance Work Statement to setup Technical PMO office, provide Program Management services for all major initiatives including Oracle EBS upgrade for Financial Management System, CACI Comprizon suite upgrade for Contracts and Purchasing Support System and Data Center migration projects. Provide program oversight, Capital.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

SEC (Securities and Exchanges Commission) serves the function of regulating for-profit companies. EDGAR system and SEC.gov are critical SEC systems to accomplish that missions.Key Accomplishments: Manage multiple projects including new application transitions and ongoing application management and support operations for 80 COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf).

• Key Accomplishments:
• Smooth operation of multiple Production applications to help the Department of Education originate and disburse 170 billion dollars of loans a year to the eligible students.
• Built the current team of 16 people starting with a 4 people team by expanding the scope to cover Web, Java Batch, Cognos Reporting and Legacy Applications.
• 100% delivery of the SLAs year over year. Flawless delivery of the services to the Client and their end users
• Managed the resolution of all the Production issues, with a total of ~1900 in 2014 alone
• Managed a yearly budget of 3M exceeding the preset margin target

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Client: Capitol One, Richmond, VA June 2003 - Oct 2004 To provide support and maintenance for the Account Strategies and Card Constellation applications at Capital One. Account Strategies and Card Constellation areas.
• Participate in Business requirements gatherings, convert business requirements into system requirements.
• Develop End-to-End Systems flow diagrams to understand the dependencies between different applications to help analyze the impact of changes to one system on others.
• Perform production validation testing.
• Review the JCL, scheduling of jobs before implementation.
• Support the application rollouts by participating in the walk thru meetings and recommending necessary changes.

Greater Detroit Area

• Client: Chrysler Financial March 2001 – June 2003MIARS system was used to track Consumer and Commercial Retail / Wholesale MB business. This application supported the entire activity of contracts. It included.
• Gathered business requirements from the business customers and designed technical specifications for other programmers.
• Created new code, developed the test cases, test data and test procedures for unit and system testing. Coordinated the user acceptance testing with the end users.
• Analyzed the MIARS system to understand the five day processing existing in the current application. This was an initiative from Corporate Accounting to avoid the delays in book closing.
• Designed the technical specifications needed to change the five day processing to daily processing.
• Created the Test environment to run a full blown system test, as this was a major change to the application.

Greater Detroit Area

• Client: Ford Credit March 1999 – March 2001The European Company Vehicle Management System involved the analysis of requirements from Ford of Britain to develop an automated Company Vehicle Management System and.
• Obtained, modified the business requirements by working with the client.
• Developed technical specifications.
• Coded batch and online programs using COBOL II, DB2 and IMS DB/DC.
• Developed test cases and test scripts.
• Tested programs using Xpediter and Intertest.