Rahul Tulsyan

About Rahul Tulsyan

I am deeply passionate about driving innovation and excellence in Quality Management and…

Experience

1. Senior Program Officer

   Gates Foundation

   Jan 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Strategic Leadership: Developed vision, strategy and execution framework for the Quality Management Program, Investment Management, Azure Cloud Migration and CRM Applications.Vendor Management: Managed relationships with key product technology and professional services vendors, ensuring adherence to standards and quality work product delivery. Coordinated with external partners to ensure right-sized, cost-efficient, and measured quality management service delivery.Financial & Resource Management: Co-developed and maintained financial forecasts, resource, and engagement plans in alignment with IT’s Contract and Financial Management processes. Managed budgets and ensured efficient allocation of resources for optimal service delivery, resulting in cost savings of more than 50%.Agile & SDLC: Introduced new testing methodologies and tools to support agile and cross-platform application development lifecycles. Ensure alignment with the foundation\'s SDLC processes and standards.Collaboration & Communication: o Provided weekly program status to CIO, IT Directors and Engineering Leadership along with cross-functional team leads by organizing and driving critical program review and risk mitigation meetingso Collaborated with stakeholder cross-functional teams, including Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, and Product managers, to define program requirements, scope, deliverables and remove blockerso Worked with Product Managers to influence product roadmap priorities, participated in product feature decisions and defined engineering deliverablesCRM Expertise: Leveraged expertise in CRM platforms, particularly Salesforce, to guide quality assurance processes and ensure alignment with business needs.

Education

• University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

  B.S.B.A

Skills

• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Sql
• Visio
• Team Leadership
• Vendor Management
• Software Project Management
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Business Intelligence
• Sdlc
• Microsoft Office
• Test Management
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Test Planning
• Change Management
• Testing
• Agile Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Telecommunications
• Analysis
• Requirements Analysis
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Consulting
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Saas
• Program Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Software Development
• Business Analysis
• Scrum
• Hp Quality Center