Rajesh Bhave

About Rajesh Bhave

Program Manager and Practice Manager • Program management for client projects by self and multiple project managers • Practice management to support various client programs • Business development at existing and new accounts • Manage the workforce at client location • Re-deploying the workforce to various programs and accounts • Recruitment by qualifying & closing the positions with structured process. • Customer and business partner interaction to meet business goals. • Certified on IBM Test Automation and ALM products, as part of DevOps solution.

Experience

1. Program Manager, Practice Manager

   TEKsystems

   Oct 2016 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Client: Hewlett-Packard India Software Operations Responsibilities and Key Achievements: • Consistent delivery of cross functional multi-disciplinary client programs as per the roadmap. Includes projects on Machine Learning, Microservices, Robotics, Firmware development, AWS deployment, security testing, QA and automation. • Collaborated with directors, other TPMs and departments like services, support, IT, to determine and implement ideas for efficient program results. • Plan and monitor project progress in collaboration with multiple PMs • Identify and manage the program dependencies and risks, to ensure projects milestones are delivered with expected quality and within budget. • Governance meetings with stakeholders to review progress and risks status. • Business development related to technology penetration and headcount growth. Grew the account to $6M revenue per year. • Designed the processes and ensured the initiatives are delivered efficiently • Up-skill and provide opportunities to engineers based on career development and client priorities. • Performance management and attrition management. • Support recruitment by qualifying/ closing the positions with structured process Few of the programs delivered: • Security Vulnerability of Web application & Network vulnerabilities. • Qualify, API validation & test automation of network connectivity features. • Printer firmware development and deployment. • Machine learning - Predict peripheral probability, predict part quality issues, Predict test cases, Image processing • Microservices – Managed print services • Robotics – control the devices and ports, collect power usage statistics

Education

• Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat

  MCA, Computer Applications

  1991 — 1993

• Gujarat Refinery English Medium School, Baroda

  HSC

  1986 — 1986

• Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat

  BSC, Statistics

  1987 — 1989

• Gujarat Refinery English Medium School, Baroda

  SSC

  1984 — 1984