Sreekanth Payyavula

Phone: (314) 261 6728

Email: [email protected]
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreekanthconnect

SUMMARY

Sreekanth is a self-driven, ambitious, certified Senior Project Manager with 20+ years of Global IT
experience and 10+ years in Project Management of end-to-end solutions. He started his career as a
developer so he is far more technical than your average PM. Sreekanth is a people person and enjoys
building relationships. He has implemented numerous large-scale enterprise ERP, and cloud
implementations.

Sreekanth is a leader and team player with impeccable communication and interpersonal skills. He
has a likable, friendly personality and is adept at managing project budgets, timelines, scope,
resource allocation, etc. At Infosys, Sreekanth was a Tower Lead and Project Manager for a multi-
million-dollar project in which he was responsible for two Sub-clusters (Supply Chain and ERP). He
also managed a cloud Migration of 7 Supply Chain Applications to AWS Cloud.

I’m adept at managing global agile teams, particularly in fast-paced SAFe Agile environments. I excel
in fostering cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, effective communication,
innovation, operational optimization, and high-quality product delivery, while adeptly leading, and
building high-performing teams.

My career highlights include being nominated for the 'Leading a Connected World' program, where I
was selected as one of only 25 leading managers from Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East to
receive leadership training for leading in the new connected world. In recognition of my process
improvement initiatives, I was awarded the Key Contributor Award for CMMi 5 Certification at
Verizon India. In addition to my experience in the corporate world, I received a Certification of
Achievement for Logistics Application at McDonnell Douglass Aerospace, which highlights my ability
to excel in different industries.

 Demonstrated experience building platform roadmaps and effectively interpreting platform

objectives and outcomes; as well as challenges and supporting the team in delivering innovative
solutions.
 Deep understanding of all aspects of platform capabilities, with a demonstrated consistent record
of growing responsibility.
 Ability to learn new technologies and exploit them to their highest potential.
 Experience facilitating Waterfall, Agile, Scaled Agile and Scrum.
 Provide visibility into gaps, issues, risks and opportunities across scrum teams, solving and where
needed, raising expectations.
 Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for
simplification, and influencing teams.
 Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to effectively communicate across third
parties, colleagues, and Business Product Managers.
 Ability to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively with a consistent track
record of working independently and making key decisions on projects.
  Confirmed ability to balance change in dynamic, ambiguous environment and ability to influence
without direct authority among peers and with leaders

Technologies
J2EE (SpringBoot, SpringMVC, JPA, Hibernate, Struts), Java Spring, SAP ( SD, MM, IDOCs, ALE, FSCM, ABAP),
Salesforce CRM, PEGA, MEAN, MERN, AWS Cloud, Microservices, REST and GraphQL based System
Architectures, AI, ML and Deep Learning using Python, DevOps(Jenkins, Terraform & Ansible) with Container
backed deployments (Docker & Kubernetes), Messaging(Kafka, IBM MQ, JMS), Databases(Oracle, MySQL,
PostGreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), Azure and AWS. Jira and Azure DevOps.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

NurturEnergy, St. Louis, MO Jan 23 till March 24

Role: Technical Program Manager/Product Manager

Role:

1. Develop the core positioning and messaging for the product

2. Defines the Product Roadmap
3. Enables research and plans the product-line strategy
4. Sets and tracks clear Product Success goals

Responsibilities
 Working on Features on the Dyocense IIOT Platform. Did the solutioning for Integrating Dyocense
with SAP S4 HANA and Salesforce CRM.
 Managed the development of the Refrigeration and HVAC modules of the Platform. We have been
using Microsoft Data Factory for Telemetry for the HVAC, Fleet and other IIOT based applications
which is quite performant. We also use MongoDB and regular RDBMS databased based on client
requirements. We addressed the supermarket refrigeration problems Realtime and out of hour
monitoring, predictive maintenance with analytics. The module addresses food safety and energy
efficiency. Managed the team working on the Fleet Module which deals with Fleet Preventive
Maintenance and Fuel Management.
 Did a POC for an Options Trading Platform which uses LLAMA3 for Sentimental Analysis along with
strategies using TA, OI and Candlestick patterns.
 Setup the Master Data for Warehouse with $80 M Stock for Smart Doors and refrigeration related
stock where Husmann is our main customer. We have used ERP Next which an open source SAAS
based ERP. Covers the item master, customer master, vendor master and invoicing modules.

AT&T Communications Pvt. Lt Jan 2022 – Dec2022

Role: Assoc. Director
Role
 Product growth
Adherence to project schedule and timelines
Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR, Assignments, HIG, Stretch goals)

 Design to deliver great customer experience:

Design customer-centric experiences throughout the customer decision journey
 Write great user stories by capturing and translating customer stories into product features that deliver
value and delights users

Responsibilities:

As a seasoned Release Train Engineer/Assoc. Director for Salesforce CRM, I bring a wealth of experience in
managing complex projects and leading high-performing teams. I work closely with Scrum Masters in the
Scrum of Scrum Role in Scaled Agile - SAFe at AT&T, ensuring that all projects are delivered on time, within
budget, and to the highest quality standards.

One of my recent accomplishments was negotiating the vendor contract for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud
implementation and rollout with Bounteous. In addition, I played a critical role in multiple epics
decommissioning email templating engines at AT&T as part of the Digital Transformation journey. This
involved working closely with Mulesoft Services to work with Upstream Kafka based Systems and pass the
data to Analytical Systems/Data Lake in Snowflake and Database Services in Cassandra. We have done A/B
Testing for different Email Templates based on different creative designs. The Mulesoft services use
GraphQL based API with both the upstream and downstream systems.

As part of my responsibilities, I also worked with a Scrum Team in Salesforce Service Cloud for post-sales
customer support enablement. I was involved in the hiring process for building the Service Cloud Team and
the initial setup and initiating exceptions for Tools required for development and access to AT&T Systems.
Furthermore, I managed the Tech Mahindra Team for Supporting Sales and Service Cloud. I successfully
completed manual synching of Production Code with all the lower environments for multiple releases.

One of my key contributions was building the Platform Support Team for Salesforce, wherein we built a 12-
member team for Salesforce Governance and a horizontal for architecting solutions across Salesforce Sales,
Service, and Marketing Clouds. This team was responsible for managing and maintaining the Salesforce
platform, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and driving continuous improvement
initiatives.

INFOSYS LTD JAN 2019 Till Dec

2021
Role: Principal Consultant/Sr. Project
Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Role

• Deep understanding of all aspects of platform capabilities, with a demonstrated consistent record of
growing responsibility.
• Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined problems, advocating for
simplification, and influencing teams.
• Ability to get industry leading solutions to market efficiently and effectively with a consistent track record
of working independently and making key decisions on projects.
• Confirmed ability to balance change in dynamic, ambiguous environment and ability to influence without
direct authority among peers and with leaders
• Influence team members with innovative changes and platform/process improvements by challenging
status quo and demonstrating risk taking; while mentoring/guiding team members to success.
Responsibilities

 Was a Tower Lead for Supply Chain , PLM & ERP (SAP, Peoplesoft and JDA) and Analytics (Oracle OBIEE
and SAP Analytics Cloud) Sub-clusters with a team size of 145 resources. Worked on a Large Scaled
Implementation of One Network in the Scaled Agile Project Management framework as a Program
Management area primary focusing on intelligent Edge Networks for 5G for Verizon. It is part of
Grooms ART which deals with Network optimization. Worked on Telecom disputes application for
Verizon called Verify and iVerify as Scrum Master/ Manager working closely with development/design
teams from Verizon and Infosys.
 Cloud Migration of 7 Supply Chain Applications to Azure which included DevOps Automations (CICD
Pipelines) and Test Automation Scripts (~ 1500 Test Cases automated).
 We enhanced and managed Verizon wireless Inventory applications which included interfacing with
UPS for shipping notifications. We managed the inventory related to Verizon wireless products.
 Prepared the Architectural & Solution documents for 22 Supply Chain Applications that were
transitioned to Infosys ADM. Prepared the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for 18 Supply Chain
Applications

MezzLabs Pvt. Limited, Hyderabad, India Nov ’14 – Dec’ 18

Managing Director/Founder

 Developed a Development as a Service (DAAS) Cloud based product. The intention of product was to
develop a cloud based IDE with ALM features and collaboration features. The intent was developing
an IDE for embedded programming to debug PCBs remotely. Prototyping was done using raspberry pi
and Arduino. The product was developed using Node.js and Angular.
 Led the development of Proximity Marketing Solution using beacon technology. The development of
the Full Stack Application was done using Angular 4, Node.js and MongoDB. The Rest API’s were
developed using Node.js. We also developer a POC using GraphQL.
 Designing and developing a multi-player real-time quizzing game in the educational field. The
application used Angular and .NET backend. The Application extensively used websockets for real-
time interactions. The application was deployed on Azure and develop to scale for 1000s of users.
Worked closely with UX engineer for excellent usability.
 Created a blueprint document for APSFL ( AP Fiber) as a consultant Project Manager which included
the modules like Billing, Inventory/Logsitics Management, Channel Registration & PORT request, CRM,
Customer Acquisition. Work with architects and propose high performance solutions for call centers
using the enterprise architectural stack using Kubernetes in AWS Cloud. The solution was built using
PEGA Application. We incorporated the PEGA based Virtual Assistant across the CRM requirements.

Verizon Data Services India Pvt. Ltd. (VDSI), Hyderabad, India Jan ’04 – Sept
’13 Senior Project Manager / Senior Manager / Technical Manager / Technical Lead/Systems Engineer
Responsibilities
Adept at

 Managing requirement gathering, system analysis and finalization of technical / functional

specifications
 Interfacing with clients for business requirement gathering, conducting system analysis and
finalizing technical / functional specifications
 Defining best practices for development, release planning, project support and documentation
 Submitting executive presentations to CIO and senior leadership on multiple occasions
Notable Accomplishments
 Was involved in multiple projects related to warehouse consolidation where Verizon rationalized their
Warehouses from 6 to 1 central warehouse.
 Involved in two releases of ERP (SAP) convergence, which will bring in the Supply Chain, Finance and
Real Estate functions in one SAP (vSAP). The Net Present Value of the project (NPV) was
$174.4 M as of 2013.
 Worked for the Sourcing team at Verizon in multiple projects for indirect spend using ARIBA and Contract
compliance using SAP CLM (vSource), SAP SCM and SAP ECC 6.0. The Sourcing team was integral part of the
Supply Chain IT team for over 6 years reporting to me.
 Was part of the team which created the entire IT, footprint of Verizon Wireline IT and gave it to
Frontier Communications for the spun-off landlines and FIOS (Optical Fiber to the premise) lines in 16
states. This project has IT benefits of $500 M to Support Frontier post spinoff.
 Worked with Clean and Screen for FIOS (Fiber) in the Reverse Logistics at Verizon where CPE Manager
and SAP ECC 6.0 were interfacing with CTDI applications to track the returned material
 Implemented split valuation for SetTopBoxes(STB) and ONT Material in SAP across Tax Jurisdictions.
 Integrated SAP with Vertex which provides SAP customers with integrated technology and services to
seamlessly manage global indirect tax across the SAP ecosystem and Taxes and Treasury related
functions.
 Material Movement and payments across Jurisdictions both within US and across the Globe and the
impact on Treasury functions was determined and calculated in SAP for Verizon wireline and enterprise
business entities.
 We also developed RNSC (Reverse Network Supply Chain) Application to manage Reverse Logistics for
Verizon Wireline and Verizon Business units.
 Verizon Fleet functions were transitioned into SAP and subsequently into Enrich which have
benefits of close to $15 M
 Took care of the team for Web Logic Integration (WLI), CPEM (Customer Premise Equipment
Manager), and 18 Legacy Applications resulting in eliminating 3 SOWS from Satyam and Infosys
thereby grossing a net savings of $500 K for Verizon in 2006.
 Managed multiple projects in Development, Application and Production Support in multiple
technologies like SAP, SAP-BW, SAP-BASIS, SAP-SRM, ARIBA, and host of OS (AIX, HP etc) and
database (Oracle, Informix) for Production Support. The Team aligned well with the organizations
objectives of bringing down the BAU Support costs from 11 to 9% overall.
 Was involved in all Supply Chain Systems undergoing a Transformation to SAP by interfacing the
engineering, invoicing and Logistic Applications with SAP resulting with estimated business benefits
of $30M. This Transformation enabled users in Verizon Telecom to have visibility to materials across
US Nation-Wide Coast-to-Coast and also helped in Sourcing Savings by synergies enabled via price
compliance.
 Supported Pegas, which was one of the largest implementations of Ariba and later moved the
implementation over to SAP. Eliminated Ariba based Procurement Application (Pegas) for indirect
procurement and moved in the functions over to SAP.
 Enrichment of Verizon spend (over $80 B) of historical data which was completed in 2007 using the
Ariba spend.
 Built SSO Self Integration Tool for Applications in Verizon both wireless and wireline to enable SSO
using Siteminder. The Tool was built using J2EE and Siteminder API’s using the LDAP Store.

Mezztech Systems Inc, Santa Clara Aug’ 99 – Nov’03

Consultant/Developer

Worked as a Consultant for J2EE Development at Multiple Clients in the USA. Clients below:
Bearing Point - Developed Ad Portal Application for New York Times Digital using Java technologies.
Developed screens for submitting logos. Use Cases for upload and Download Logos, icons and manage
them. Used Struts 1.1 for development.
Standard & Poors - Developed the Portfolio Manager module that was part of the Fund Insight
Application. The Portfolio Manager consisted of Screens to Add, Remove, Re-balance (both periods and
allocation) funds with front-end and backend systems including custom loads/fees.
Excel Corp - Developed Value Based Procurement Application for Excel (A subsidiary of Cargill Foods).
The Application was developed using JSP (Struts Framework) and Swing / AWT (updatable Jtables, split
panes, menus and toolbars) with EJB (Session beans bean managed persistence.
BMW Manufacturing Corp - RCMS is the Running Change Management System for new Releases of
BMW Cars at the plant. Application used MVC Type II Architecture with command pattern. The
Framework used was Jakarta struts and Jakarta tiles. The persistence layer was implemented using java
beans and EJB Session beans. Deployment Server was AIX (UNIX) and the database was Oracle.
Quinstreet - Involved in the Member Services team that included Enrollment, Links Management, Lead
Generation and Affiliate commissions. The System included Administration Screens of the Affiliate
Management System. The Admin Screens were used to add, search, update and soft delete records in
the affiliate database. The work was done using servlets, JSPs and JDBC.

Mezztech Systems Limited, Hyderabad, India Jan ’98 – Aug ’99

Tech Lead
Programmed and documented Urethral Pressure Monitoring System(UPMS). The project involved designing
the User Interface for the System using Jbuilder 3.0 and C Programming. The System consists of Screens for
displaying Real time Variation of Urethral Pressure versus different parameters like Time, Vesticular
Pressure etc., on the Screen.

InTeCon, St. Louis, MO Jun ’96 – Sept’ 97

Programmer / Analyst

Anheuser - Busch Inc.,

• Conducted performance analysis using Empirical Relations by a weighted average system to determine
the top 20% of PowerBuilder Screens, which were most critical and used most often.
• Performed Cost/Benefit/Risk Analysis of workflow, FAX and Reporting Packages. The System was a three-
tier application with front-end screens developed using PowerBuilder 5.0.

McDonnell Douglass Aerospace

Involved in the development and maintenance of Logistics Requirement Change Request, Supportability
Accessibility, and Integrated Support Engineering Technology development, Provisioning Applications to the
F /A 18 Aircraft, T 45, and Tomahawk missiles. Worked on Sherpa PDM (Product Data Management) for the
F/A 18 Aircraft.

Certifications:
Scaled Agile Scrum Master (SSM) – Nov 2022.
CSPO – Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner – Dec 2022.
Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) – Dec 2001

Education:
Executive Management (Senior Management Program – IIM Calcutta – 2009 to 2010)
MS in Mechanical Engineering, SIUC Carbondale. GPA 3.8/4.0
B. Tech, IIT(BHU), Varanasi, First Class