Nandini Ravi

About Nandini Ravi

Technical Program Management specialist with 17 years of experience in leading people, programs and products.• Launched global scale E-commerce products & impactful Digital Transformation programs• Customer focused Agile leader delivering value with sustainable processes and continuous improvement. • Managed $20M program portfolios & global cross-functional teams with a proven track-record of delivering results.• Diverse experiences spanning Start Ups, Big Tech and Management Consulting• Certifications: PMI-PMP, ACP, SAFe, AWS Cloud Practitioner

Experience

1. Engineering Program Manager - Apple Ads Engineering

   Apple

   Jun 2018 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Engineering Program Manager, Apple Ads • Single point of contact with end-to-end ownership of planning and delivery of new ad experiences for Apple News worldwide.• Partnered with Engineering & Business teams to define prioritised product and tech road-map on a quarterly and annual basis. • Led global, cross-functional engineering teams to achieve work-stream alignment, resolve dependencies, drive process improvements & track actionable metrics for data-driven decision making.Engineering Program Manager, Retail Engineering• Led the delivery of technology programs that helped achieve strategic business initiatives in Apple\'s E-commerce operations worldwide. • Coordinated diverse, global teams across Engineering, Product Management & Operations in defining program objectives & driving end-to-end project management activities in solution delivery.• Managed all project stakeholder communication including status reporting to senior leadership across business & engineering, actively tracked risks & applied mitigation strategies to eliminate issues & escalations.Key Projects (Retail Engineering)• Led a 2-yr program, inception to launch, to deliver a new product data publishing tool to manage and operationalise the Apple online store globally. Coordinated 120+ apps/services, 3 major releases & a 100-member cross-functional team across 3 time-zones.• Launched re-designed AOS checkout flows for 16 EU countries with geo-specific customisations in Shipping and Payment flows. Coordinated a 60 member global program team in the design, development & testing efforts including UAT, Accessibility, Security, Integration & E2E Testing.• Expanded Apple’s pick-up point (PUP) offering in DE and JP - Increased PUP footprint by 125% in DE by extending delivery to DHL locker-box. Expanded Japan’s PUP footprint by 18K through simplified EAI flows. • Led the AWS migration & re-architecture efforts for retail store-front & product catalogue applications in a phased manner.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Master of Science, Computer Science

Skills

• Non-Profits Organizations
• Consensus Building
• Management Consulting
• Proposal Preparation
• Business Development
• Business Strategy
• Open Source Software
• Integration
• Oracle 9i/10g
• Java
• Android Applications
• Sow
• Pre-Sales Consulting
• Pmp
• Mvc Architecture
• Hp Quality Center
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Mingle
• Release Planning
• Scrum Master
• Eai
• Scope Management
• Global E-Commerce
• Jira
• Client Service Oriented
• Software Project Management
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Retail Banking
• Pnl Management
• Business Analysis
• Crm Integration
• Onsite-Offshore Delivery Model
• Rest
• Confluence
• Customer Experience Management
• Ms Project
• T&M
• Agile Project Management