Mani Kumar Somisetty
Pd Program Management Director @Blue Yonder
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WORK HISTORY
Pd Program Management Director @Blue Yonder
Dallas, TX, US
Manage and own accountability of product management initiatives, programs, and/or campaigns as identified.2. Developing and maintaining governance control procedures, for managing portfolio-wide initiatives such as resource utilization, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), financials, and portfolio development and maintenance 3. Led and drove Initiative delivery process improvements within the portfolio. Provide portfolio review of program Identification of parallel work-streams and cross-departmental dependencies and assess the cross-project impact of delays of initiatives.4. Supporting and maintaining methodologies, to ensure a consistent approach to delivery is taken across the portfolio through the use of common tools, processes, and practices.5. Identifying/developing Portfolio/Program level reporting, to ensure projects can be tracked against key criteria such as cost, schedule, priority, issues, and benefits.
EDUCATION
Periyar University
M Sc, Computer Science
Sri Venkateswara University
Bachelor of Science, Compute Science
ABOUT MANI KUMAR SOMISETTY
A seasoned Technically Savvy, Strategy-conscious, and Customer-focused Senior IT Professional with 19+ years of exceptional Account Management, Program/Project Management, and Service Management in Information Technology. Presently associated with Blue Yonder US, playing the role of Sr Technical Account Manager of the customer success team. As part of this team, I am responsible to Own a portfolio of enterprise customers. In my role, I am responsible for delivering value for customers by solving business problems using Blue Yonder products. Presently handling Strategic North America customers like Readerlink, Meritor Inc, Celanese International Corporation, Bayer Crop Science, Leggett & Platt, Inc, and Hyster-Yale Group, Inc. who are using the BY supply chain planning and execution tools. I am responsible for leading and directing the delivery team.The value of the contracts that I am handling is around $8 Million SaaS ARR. 9+ years of experience in delivering programs/projects working across organizations. Experience in delivering on time and budget large enterprise applications/products including proposals, SOWs, initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure of a project within operational best practices. Acted as a point of contact for the customers from customer success providing the project status, and handling risks and escalations. I am strategically driven, and I always focus on how I can add considerable value to my role. I am also strong at planning, and creating smart goals, a strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and I can be relied upon to manage a portfolio of projects, and allocate resources effectively. Managed Sprint planning, backlog grooming, Program backlog pipeline management, ran scrum of scrums and worked with the product management to come up with the MVP. Stakeholder presentations on the project status. Implement the best estimation technics for agile projects (T-shirts etc,). Agile Coach – Coach the team benefits of agile and the principles of agile. With extensive experience in Java & J2EE technical implementation, technical communication, and team leadership skill, involved in customer interaction to contribute by design/development and leading a technical team. Extensive working experience of 8 years in Supply planning solutions, Retail Planning, and Logistics solutions in the retail and manufacturing domain by working with Blue Yonder. 6 years of Order Management, Cisco service contract management and Cisco common workspace.
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