Shachi Rekha

About Shachi Rekha

Passionate and customer-focused engineering leader. I have overall 16 years of experience in People and Program Management, Design, development of on premise and cloud-based Engineering Products.• Experience as Engineering Manager with the responsibility of migrating legacy on premise product to embark the next generation RCM product journey. Hired, mentored, inspired and focused world class talent to realize this mission of reducing \"cost of ownership\", better user experience and improved care. • Close to 8 years of program management experience in managed over 150 releases. Managed up to 6 releases in parallel across 2 healthcare business and 4 product lines. • Proven track record of leading large, global, matrix multi-cultural software projects span across multiple geographies such as Singapore, USA-Plano, USA-Portland, USA-Burlington, Brazil and India.• Deep experience in managing complete life cycle ownership (Conception to General Availability) of the global product development program(NPI), Service Packs (SP) and Patches for Medical Device and Non-Medical Device products under regulated environment.• Proficiency in Waterfall, Iterative & Agile Project Management methodologies all through program kickoff till closure.• Extensive experience in planning the release trains (RT), conducting release planning based on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) guidelines.• Experience in vendor management all through issuing SOW, staffing plan, hiring, ramp up, tracking till closing the contract with fixed price as well as T&M model.• Proficiency in driving engineering best practices such as establishing CI/CD, Auto unit test, Auto regression test, Auto performance test and Auto static code analysis mechanism from scratch.• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP ®) and Professional Scrum Master (PSM I).

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   GE医疗

   Jun 2018 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   As engineering manager, provides direct and ongoing leadership for a team of individual contributors designing and developing new products, enhancements and updates. • Managing headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs for multiple ongoing projects, ensuring that resources are appropriately allocated and that goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met in accordance with program and organizational road maps.• Working as Program Manager in additional responsibility and managing the releases.• Managing relationships with outsourced partners and suppliers, including setting expectations regarding deliverables, product quality, schedules, and costs; ensures that team members are effectively communicating and collaborating with outsourced resources.• Managing the talents, including hiring, setting and monitoring of annual performance plans, coaching, and career development; Ensuring that proper knowledge and career development tools are in place to support ongoing team member and process development.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Technology - MTech, Data Science and Engineering

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Science

  2004 — 2009