Veneta Kanelakos
Manager, Application Manager - Office of the CIO @IBM
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WORK HISTORY
Manager, Application Manager - Office of the CIO @IBM
Foster City, CA, US
Advancing CIO\'s adoption of Agile principles - responsible for Agile squads located across Americas, Europe, and Asia. Resources span 5 core competencies for CIO application delivery and SAP Central functions – application development, system administration, audit compliance, project management, and business analysis • Ownership of application infrastructure for Order to Cash applications with annual billings of $14B• Engages with global business and technical teams to deliver steady state and continuous Agile initiatives • Cultivated long-term relationships across IBM service providers and system partners, essential for life-cycle management of the DSW application suite
EDUCATION
Clark University
BA, Computer Science
Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business
MBA, Computer Information Systems
SKILLS
ABOUT VENETA KANELAKOS
Foster team climate of empowerment, innovation, quality to deliver software application solutions from conception thru post production support. Proven success with application release planning, scheduling, solution design, application development, project management, deployment and operations support of mission critical information systems for global companiesKEY ACHIEVEMENTS: LEADERSHIP: Hired, nurtured, and mentored top talent – team roles and responsibilities span SAP ERP, WorkSoft, IBM DB2, PeopleSoft, Security, SAP Convergence Charging, and SAP Solution Manager. AGILE SOFTWARE DELIVERY: Drove adoption of Agile principles to advance our journey for continuous delivery, resource empowerment, self directed squads with a sustainable velocity - achieving success with stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint iteration planning and retrospectives. ACQUISITION INTEGRATION: Integration of enterprise software products and custom applications, data cleansing, master data migrations, and business process changes. Corporate acquisitions span Informix Software, Ascential Software, and IBM. OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE: Led pro-active system management & capacity planning to reduce Sev-1 incidents and service interruptions. Environmental stability has been sustained YoY.
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