Sathish Kumar Udayagiri
Bentonville
Summary
With nearly 18 years of experience in the IT industry, I have worked as a Senior Technical Program Manager, Application Lead, and Legacy to Cloud Migration Expert.Experienced Technical Product Manager with a passion for helping clients achieve their digital goals. Skilled in agile development methodologies, and communication with non-technical stakeholders. Committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.Analyzing the program objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing Program strategies, plans, and practices.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Sr.Technical Program Manager
Walmart
01.2021 - Current
- Developing comprehensive project plans for programs in Alignment with program deliverables
- Responsible for quarterly planning, dependency mapping, and collaboration with external partners
- Managed high-impact, cross-functional programs involving multiple teams, often with global scope and significant technical complexity
- Collaborating closely with engineering leaders and development teams to ensure timely delivery of project objectives
- Collaborated closely with engineering teams to understand and translate technical requirements into actionable project plans
- Collaborating with multiple stakeholder teams to achieve project milestone deliverables
- Developed clear and concise program reports for senior leadership and stakeholders, ensuring timely communication of risks, dependencies, and key milestones
- Identified and mitigated key risks across concurrent projects, reducing project delays and ensuring smooth, on-time delivery
- Developed clear and concise program reports for senior leadership and stakeholders, ensuring timely communication of risks, dependencies, and key milestones
- Led troubleshooting sessions to resolve technical issues, worked directly with engineering partners to find solutions
- Implemented proactive risk management strategies, reduced critical program blockers and improved overall project success rate
- Coordinated technical solutions for complex, multi-system integrations, ensuring successful delivery and reducing integration issues
- Managed stakeholder expectations by identifying risks early and proposing mitigation strategies, reducing project delays
- Regularly tracked the project progress, ensuring tasks are completed on time and within scope
- Continuously assessed the current processes and suggested improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity
- Lead stakeholder meetings at the group directors level, ensuring alignment across business units and resolving conflicts when priorities differ
- Walmart Cloud Native Platform – WCNP initiatives
Technical Program Manager
Cognizant / Walmart
01.2017 - 01.2021
- Managed Legacy to Cloud migration initiatives
- Developed a comprehensive cloud migration roadmap, defining key objectives, timelines, and deliverables for transitioning legacy systems to the cloud
- Collaborated with technical teams to assess and select appropriate cloud service providers – Azure, GCP based on project needs, cost, and scalability
- Defined the Migration approach (rearchitect, rebuild, or replace) for migrating legacy applications to the cloud to meet business and technical requirements
- Led and collaborated with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams, ensuring seamless integration of systems and alignment of goals
- Worked closely with business leaders and technical teams to ensure the migration objectives aligned with broader business strategies
- Identified the potential risks associated with migrating legacy systems (downtime, data loss, security issues) and implemented mitigation strategies
- Developed the disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud operations to safeguard against system failures or migration errors
- I led quarterly planning and dependency mapping for each quarter, ensuring alignment across teams and successful execution of project goals
Sr.Application SME / Cloud DB Architect
Cognizant
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Developed web applications for e-commerce clients
- Perform as a technical architect for the project and as the lead for requirements gathering, interpretation and Solution Derivation of the project
- Assists the team by designing and formulating standards on the JSON / REST CICS web services which were newly written for the entire Global Shared services
- Skilled at identification of the areas of Mainframes storage and CPU utilization on the resident CICS regions / Application LPARs, EDSA, EUDSA and UDSA and application resource utilization
- As an onsite project lead for the mainframes team, I helped identify areas that needed improvement in the Application and involved all the Requirement and Analysis discussions with the Client
- Involved in stabilization activities and query optimization (for ex: STROBE of the application
- Designed 25 Databases in DB in Azure Cloud
Education
Masters - Computer Applications
JNTU
01.2006
Degree - Computer Science
SVU
01.2003
Skills
- Program Management
- Strategic Program Planning
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Agile Development Methodologies
- Strategic Program Leadership
- Risk Analysis Expertise
- Cross-Functional Team Management
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Cloud Migrations
Certification
- PMC Project Manager Certification from International Scrum Institute.
- Agile Scrum certification from International Scrum Institute.
Accomplishments
- Developed and executed multi-year roadmaps for technical initiatives.
- Successful Implementation of Legacy to cloud migration of 50+ complex databases.
- Successfully migrated Legacy applications to Cloud systems.
Program Management Tools
- JIRA Service Management
- Confluence
- SharePoint
- Reporting: Power BI, Excel Charts
- Wrike Tool
- Collaboration & Communication Tools - Zoom, Slack, MS Teams
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Sr.Technical Program Manager
Walmart
01.2021 - Current
Technical Program Manager
Cognizant / Walmart
01.2017 - 01.2021
Sr.Application SME / Cloud DB Architect
Cognizant
01.2014 - 01.2018
Degree - Computer Science
SVU
Masters - Computer Applications
JNTU
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