Padmagandhini Shridhar

About Padmagandhini Shridhar

Program & Quality Management Skills in driving programs, process, metrics and tools initiatives across the organizationKey Skills : Setting up and Managing Goals, Budgets, Operations, Risk Strategies, Stakeholders at VP and higher levels, Efficiency Strategies, Process/Policies/Data/Metrics, PLC from Concept to Completion, Tool Deployments, Compliance that aligns and aids Operational, Service, Customer and Business Excellence at org levelAn Effective Communicator with excellent team spirit and organizational abilities communicating openly and effectively to influence others in working with engineers to CXO levelsA fast learner, Data Oriented decision maker, Avid team player, Excellent Communicator with extensive experience in leading cross functional / virtual teamsA great influencer and collaborator, ensures driving and responding to change, Reuse and Leverage focused, Driving competitiveness and innovation, Inspiring and Lead others through example, Making timely business decisions with sound judgmentProven track record of transforming problem programs into mature programs striving to achieve 100% delivery predictability and exceptional qualityWorked extensively with Executive Management level for planning, tracking and reporting of programs, initiatives and solutionsPlanning, Execution and Delivery of critical and strategically aligned NPI programs working across geographies with an ability to deep dive / abstract information as relevantEfficient in developing relationships; Understand and bridge cultural limitations while working with cross-geographical partners and teams (including direct and matrixed) aka functional leaders, peers and vendors to seamlessly support overall strategic objectives and activities of the organizationProven ability to create Data Baseline, derive trends and use the data for complex decision makingBeen a high performer, self motivator and initiated and driven various initiatives independentlyWell experienced in making timely critical decisions aiding to problem resolutionsFormulate and conduct process related trainings for various roles across the organizationMentored individuals for career choice decisions, esp program managersOwn and Execute Program Governance Checkpoints ensuring alignment with various dependent programs to the finish line involving development managers, test managers, product managers, other program managers and the entire value chain of TCE & Q(customer facing teams), Service and Support teams, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain and Documentation

Experience

1. Sr Principal Program Manager

   Oracle

   Oct 2020 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Sr. Principal Program Manager - FAW A team that was unknown, Process unknown, Product unknown and Context unknown to getting to a point where there is contribution, collaboration is a demonstrated leadership behavior Overall eliminated surprises, improved accountability, ensured collaboration, brought in transparency, reduced Context switching and consolidated work planning by bringing in several processes and improvements in a structured manner Overhaul of release cadence, planning and tracking to eliminate chaos and reduce release churns Improvements resulted in - Zero schedule variation- Ability to deliver quarterly releases in 13 week duration from chaotic 19+ weeks variance- Reduced Scope Flux Variance from 14% to 2% making scope predictable for all teams Templatized structure, dependency management framework for ensuring single source of planning and improved accountability Instantiated patching planning, coordination and execution Data baseline established in preparation for data driven management Consolidates engineering work across FAW into 1 JIRA project Data cleanup in tools, issue resolution, documentation and communication is now standard Instantiated Release Criteria, Simplified versioning and Scope flux < by 15% Implemented process automation, housekeeping automation “Say what you Do” “Do what you say”– We have documented everything that needs to be done / has changed and has helped adoption and common understanding Ensured Security, Compliance needs for releases

Education

• Vasavi Educational Trust

  10th Standard, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

  1985 — 1992

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  General management for IT, Information Technology

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Science, Computers

  1992 — 1995

• IIMB - Advanced Management Programme (AMP)

  General Management for IT, Management

• National College

  BSc, Science

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• Software Project Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Process Engineering
• Global Delivery
• Sdlc
• Project Management
• Cmmi
• Integration
• Workshop Facilitation
• Knowledge Management
• Quality Assurance
• Agile Methodologies
• Training
• Testing
• Management
• Cmm
• Quality Control
• Program Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Process Management