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Praveen Prakash

Technical Program Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in Agile adoption and process transformation.
  • Led successful programs improving transaction success rates.
  • Expert in managing complex technical projects across teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Program Manager with strong Agile and project management expertise.

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Core Skills

Agile Project ManagementProgram ManagementTechnical Project DeliverySoftware Development

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ASP.NETAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Artificial Intelligence for BusinessBusiness AnalysisC#ConfluenceCross-functional InitiativesDigital MarketingInformation TechnologyJiraKanbanKey MetricsLearning Management Systems

About

An Agile enthusiast and process champion, working as Group Technical Program Manager. Proven track record of setting up the program management function, leading Agile adoption, delivering complex programs and setting up the frameworks for the ways of working.

Experience

Cashfree payments

2 roles

Associate Director - Technical Program Management

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • ▪ Leading a team of Program Managers to ensure successful completion of programs in the Payment Gateway’ cluster.
  • ▪ Launched new integrations in Cards domain, working closely with external parties like card networks
  • and banks resulting in a 2% improvement in Rupay card transaction success rate.
  • ▪ Reduced merchant issue resolution time by more than 20% by coordinating efforts across the
  • engineering, customer care, and operations.
  • Program-managed AWS BCP readiness: multi-region DR drills with less than 15 min RTO.
  • ▪ Leading process transformation in the company by setting up the tools, dashboards and frameworks, mainly towards the Agile adoption in the teams. Came up with the innovative idea of setting up an Agile scorecard to incentivise teams and speed up adoption in a healthy competitive
  • environment. Blog link. This led to 22% increase in the average score of the teams in just one quarter
  • and improved further over the quarters.
  • ▪ Heve set up consolidated Grafana dashboards containing DORA, Bitbucket, SonarQube and Jira
  • metrics that can be used by the teams to review their performance and identify action items for
  • improvement. This is further supported by having regular review meetings with POD leadership.
  • ▪ Responsible for running a program to manage inter-team dependencies and improve the say/do ratio for the teams across the company. Increased it from 45% to 80% over a period of two quarters
  • by setting up an efficient planning and dependency management process.
  • ▪ Scheduling and executing the quarterly planning for all teams and creating OKRs for the teams
  • for regular followup and tracking
  • ▪ Led the ISO 9001 certification for the company right from the gap analysis to the external audit
  • completion.
  • ▪ Advanced knowledge of Jira. Have set up multiple automations to improve productivity of self and
  • others.
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Group Technical Program Manager

Feb 2022Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

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Mobile premier league (mpl)

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Apr 2021Feb 2022 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ▪ Responsible for managing key programs in the ‘Platform Experience’ cluster, mainly related to Payments and compliance
  • ▪ Identified key focus areas to reduce the customer service tickets per active user. Created and managed programs around the same.
  • ▪ Improve customer experience for the ‘Payments’ module. Implement payment and KYC solutions with the right set of partners
  • ▪ Manage product priorities and deliver them using the Agile methodologies.
  • ▪ Mentored and coached the fellow program managers
Team DevelopmentJiraStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementScrumKey Metrics+19

Clustr

Technical Program Manager

Mar 2018Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  •  As the first member in the program management team, my role is to streamlines various processes and bring in the Agile way of software development.
  •  Facilitate the engineering collaboration with the PM and Architecture team.
  •  Created regular reports and dashboards to highlight the risks and dependencies among the cross-function teams to the leadership team.
  •  Conducted daily stand-ups in two-week iterations, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning
  •  Continuous process improvement through retrospective of the programs
  •  Developed and delivered training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile adoption
  •  Created deployment checklists, deployment guide template for manual deployment activities and later worked with the team to create the Jenkins pipeline for deployment.
  •  Identify the cost savings opportunities in the AWS infrastructure
  •  Work with the DevOps team to set up the Jenkins pipeline for continuous integration and deployment (CICD) of the code.
  •  Work with the QA team to increase the level of automated test suites for the web-based tools.
Team DevelopmentJiraStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementScrumKey Metrics+18

Symantec

Senior Program Manager

Jan 2017Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  •  Sr. Program Manager -- Website Security Group
  •  Responsible for handling two enterprise products for Symantec – Certificate Intelligence Centre (Website Security) and Code Signing (Application Security)
  •  Manage schedules working closely with the Dev and QA counterparts, manage and track program risks, dependencies and coordinate with various teams for the release activities
  •  Participated in Enterprise Agile transformation and coordinated Agile adoption for my two product teams
  •  Developed and delivered training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation
  •  Maintain Audit and compliance requirements as per the company requirements
JiraStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementScrumKey MetricsProject Portfolio Management+17

Microsoft india

Program Manager 2

Nov 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Currently working as a Program Manager with MSIT India. Part of the team PM implementing the new Learning and Management System in the HR domain.
  • Responsible for capacity and scope planning
  • Collaborate with different stakeholders including internal business teams, PMO and vendor teams
  • Ensuring integration with upstream and downstream system
  • Supervise the retirement of legacy applications
  • Managing the project using Agile methodologies
  • Certified Scrum master and Certified Product Owner certifications from Scrum Alliance
Stakeholder ManagementProject ManagementScrumKey MetricsProject Portfolio ManagementConfluence+16

Icici bank

Project Manager, Digital Channels

Aug 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked as a Product manager with ICICI Bank, handling product management and business analytics for www.icicibank.com
  • Was a key member of the team responsible for the revamp of the website. Managed the product through concept, screen designs, development, test and product launch phases.
  • Key responsibilities include
  • 1. Drive overall product vision, strategy and requirements for ICICIBank.com. Achieving targets in terms of customer acquisition, channel usage and funnel optimization for key products
  • 2. Engage with the marketing teams for the promotional activities regarding the launch of the website
  • 3. Engage in research and other market intelligence related parameters like competition analysis, market potential
  • 4. Improve the product proposition by analysing, conceptualizing and taking initiatives to improve customer experience using online metrics and competitive landscape
  • 5. Develop digital marketing strategy and drive key programs like SEO, SEM, targeted campaigns and social media marketing.
  • 6. Implemented new products and features for this purpose such as Google Analytics Premium with FedID integration to track end to end user behaviour and provide personalization on the basis.
  • 7. Analyze web metrics from Google Analytics, Google Analytics Premium, Google Adwords and remodel digital marketing strategies
  • 8. Use SEO to maintain top ranking of the bank’s assets and liabilities products on the Google SERPs and increase organic traffic to the website
Stakeholder ManagementProject ManagementScrumProject Portfolio ManagementProgram ManagementAgile Methodologies+11

Iim indore

Student: One Year Full Time MBA (EPGP)

Sep 2012Jun 2013 · 9 mos · Indore

Infosys

3 roles

Technology Lead

Promoted

Oct 2011Aug 2012 · 10 mos

  •  Responsible for project management, onsite –offshore coordination, client engagement, requirement gathering and development of new business.
  •  Suggested and implemented many service improvement plans based on the thorough analysis of the applications supported. This led to a reduction of up to 70% in number of incidents in certain applications and also resulted in additional revenue for Infosys by implementing these solutions.
  •  Led and managed a project in U.K. pharmacy domain which helped customer post information more frequently to its 2000+ stores and increase revenue by a significant amount per year.
  •  Managed a team of 10 software engineers present at offshore and onsite, ensured timely resolution of the incidents in more than 20 applications under support.
  •  Performed RCA of the major issues and impact analysis of new requirements. Suggested improvement plans based on the analysis.
  •  Liaised with clients and other third party vendor teams to pro actively discuss and resolve potential issues identified in the applications.
  •  SPOC for customer queries and requirement identifications.
  •  Well versed with Excel and Excel based modelling apart from IT Technologies such as .Net , SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP) and CRM.
C#Stakeholder ManagementProject ManagementSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Software DevelopmentAgile & Waterfall Methodologies+1

Technology Analyst

Sep 2009Sep 2011 · 2 yrs

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Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2007Sep 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

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Wipro technologies

Project Engineer

Oct 2005Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2012Jan 2013

University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business

Executive Leadership Program

Jan 2013Jan 2013

Institute Of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow

B.Tech. — Electronics and Instrumentation

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Udacity

Product Manager Nanodegree Program — Product

Sep 2020Jan 2021

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