Surenda Babu Varigonda

Senior Information Technology Manager
(STRATEGIC BUSINESS, IT MANAGEMENT, PROGRAMME / PROJECT MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS / SYSTEM ANALYSIS & DESIGN)
(Surenda will head the Dialogue Technology Initiative for the Centre with a group of young team members from around the world. The team is being constituted.)
Abridgement
Career Contour
Work Experience Focus
Project Management:
Notable Highlights
Education
IT Forte
(STRATEGIC BUSINESS, IT MANAGEMENT, PROGRAMME / PROJECT MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS / SYSTEM ANALYSIS & DESIGN)
(Surenda will head the Dialogue Technology Initiative for the Centre with a group of young team members from around the world. The team is being constituted.)
Abridgement
- A dynamic professional with an experience of over 17 years in complex IT Solutions Development, including over 10 years in Strategic Business Analyses, Project Management, Software Architecture, System Analysis and 2 years in Systems and Network Security in various IT organizations which including MNC’s in Asia and Middle East.
- Last associated with SMR Group, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia as Senior Technical Consultant / Project Manager
- Insightful professional with notable success in directing a broad range of corporate IT initiatives, while participating in yearly planning, analysis & implementation of solutions in support of business objectives; holds full accountability for business transformation and projects.
- Forward-focused Project Manager with expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning and implementation from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with international guidelines and norms.
- Problem solver with a passion for technology; skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing, developing, implementing solutions & partnering closely with business leaders & stakeholders.
- IT support management professional - envisioning usage of new technology and tailoring its usage for achieving desired results.
- Solid management skills, capable of leading & motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity; a customer-centric professional and knack for motivating large workforces for exceeding customer expectations in delivery of committed services.
Career Contour
- Feb’08-Jan’12: SMR Group, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Senior Technical Consultant / Project Manager
- Feb’04–Mar’07: VirtualLink Solutions SDN. BHD., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Chief Software Engineer
- Jan’01–Mar’03: Globalknowledge Network, Singapore, as Systems Engineer - Asia Pacific
- Jan’00–Jan’01: Foxtech2000 Pte Ltd., Singapore, as Web application Consultant
- Aug 98–Jan’00: Realm Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India as Project Manager
- Jan’94–Jul’98: CDS Technologies Pvt Ltd., Hyderabad, India as Programmer/Team Leader
Work Experience Focus
Project Management:
- Planning project activities viz. scoping, estimation, tracking, change management, delivery management & post implementation support.
- Monitoring onshore & offshore delivery management for technical deliverables of concurrent projects.
- Understanding client needs, requirements, and expectations and devising solutions accordingly.
- Architecting & developing designing solutions for the product & managing process setup & development.
- Mapping clients’ requirements and providing them best solutions within the scope of project requirements.
- Framing architectural decisions, providing leadership & direction in the areas of technology and product development to facilitate and enable growth and business agility.
- Heading service delivery functions, to ensure end-to-end ownership of incidents and service requests.
- Meeting deadlines and Turn-Around-Time without compromising quality norms and adhering to SLA.
- Implementing short/long-term plans for achievement of process objectives.
- Overseeing the entire product lifecycle: feasibility through scoping, requirements definition through specification, design, development, quality assurance, integration and implementation.
- Responsible for client/user interaction for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of technical architecture and discussions for effort/cost/time estimation and client co-ordination and reporting.
- Managing recruitment, training and selection of technical personnel as well as organizing, planning, and staffing operations.
- Identifying the team’s training & development needs, designing and developing the appropriate training program and afterwards coordinating appropriate internal training programs.
Notable Highlights
- An efficient SOA Practitioner with passion for business and IT integration.
- Managed large scale projects with budgets exceeding $1 million.
- Project management skills include PRINCE II, AGILE Methods, DSDM & Glacial Methodology, UML Model, Prototyping and SSADM.
- Proficient with IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Standards for Helpdesk/Support, PMBOK, CMMI and ISO 9001-2008 standards.
- Experience in Mobile Device Applications development including SMS, RFID & GPS technologies.
- Efficiently handled major project including Development & Implementation of Integrated System for Succession Planning and L&D in Ministry of Works, Manama, Bahrain.
- Successful management of end-to-end development, integration and implementation of enterprise processes which includes Payroll, Recruitment, Time Management, Competency Management, Performance Management, Succession Planning, Learning & Development, Procurement, etc.
Education
- M.Sc. (Strategic Business IT) from Portsmouth University, UK.
- PG Diploma (IT) from - NCC, UK.
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI.
- International Certificate in Training Practice from Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development U.K. (CIPD) in 2010.
- Certified Diploma Course in Oracle 7.x, Dev 2k. Forms 4.5. from Genesis Computers in 1995.
- Diploma in Oracle 8.0, with Sql, PL/Sql and Forms5. from SSI Pvt. Ltd. in 1999.
- Diploma in Java 1.1 Swings, Servlets, RMI, CORBA from SSI Pvt. Ltd. in 1997.
- Diploma in Coldfusion 4.0.1 from SSI Pvt Ltd in 1999.
IT Forte
- Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008, Linux (Red hat, Ubuntu 6.0)
- Programming Languages: PL/SQL, Java, CFML, PHP 5
- RDBMS: Oracle 7.x, Oracle 8.0/9, Sql Server2K, MySql 5.0
- Case Tools: JAVA, J2EE, APPLETS, Java Script, VB script, Servlets, Swings, Java Beans,
- HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP.Net & ColdFusion MX
- Communication Servers: Microsoft Exchange 4.5/2K/2003, Lotus Notes
- Project Management Skills: UML Model, AGILE Methods, DSDM Methodology, Glacial Methodology, PRINCE II,
- Prototyping, SSADM, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- International Standards: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), UK., PMI