Kidambi Seshadri

Experience

1. Manager - Consulting, Deputy General Manager L2 Senior Manager - Projects

   Cognizant

   Jun 2009 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Moved into Cognizant rolls, post ISC takeover.Significant Accomplishments:Platform and Product ManagementOCM Leadership and Individual Contributor Owning an enterprise initiative of modernizing the Product Engineering Life cycle leading to a u-PELC (Product Engineering Life Cycle), reporting to the Executive Committee consisting of CTO and 3 SBU heads, with accomplishments:• Defining the business case, scoping and waves and scheduling of the initiative• Owning MoC (Management of Change) plans definition and CAP (Change Acceleration Process) execution• Creating working groups consisting of 30+ SMEs (Senior Manager to Senior Directors) from 6 SBU’s and bottom up collaboration modelDigital Engineering Framework Development based on lean startup principles, Hyper Agile Pods and DevOps as key themes for cloud, non cloud, CX transformation etc themesRun Different - Best In Class framework development, Design Thinking Evangelize and pre-sales supportRun Better - AD Platform Reference Architecture development, Cognizant Career Architecture definition, Reusable Assets championing and evangelizing, Develops Evangelize, Enterprise Risk Management remodelingRobotic Process Automation Process Framework (Process, Tools mentors layer and use case and contextualization layers) Development and DeploymentImprovising Product QualityIndustrializing Software DevelopmentEnabling Best In Class Delivery via structured frameworksEnterprise Risk ManagementDriving design Thinking enablement across organizationDefined Assessment questionnaire and transformation handbooks end to end for Requirements Management and Definition and People practices themes Part of CMMi 2013 journey as FAR/ATMDeveloped AD Factory tool as a co product owner (won runner up award in Innovation 2013 ASG)Defined integrated Risk Management Process to be adopted by 3 SBUs of 3 Billion USD revenueWorked/Reviewed CATP 4.0 Curriculum for academy and PM Competency development assessments

Skills

• Ibm Certified Solutions Developer - Rup 7.x
• Certified Scrum Master
• Incident Management
• Software Project Management
• Scrum
• Eai
• Visio
• Service Management
• Pre-Sales
• Sdlc
• Architecture
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Rup
• Testing
• Pmp
• Vendor Management
• Software Quality Assurance
• IT Management
• Quality Assurance
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Requirements Analysis
• Program Management
• Software Development
• Service Delivery
• IT Service Management
• Project Management
• Resource Management
• Six Sigma
• Management
• Enterprise Software
• Pmo
• Consulting
• IT Strategy
• Requirements Gathering
• Itil
• Business Process
• Cmmi
• Project Portfolio Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)