Srinivas Dasari

IT professional with 25+ years of experience managing and handling sophisticated needs of high-net-worth
clients with proven success in Agile Practices, Program Management, Business Analysis, Data Center
Operations, Design and Architecture. Strong ability to lead teams that meet and exceed designated goals
and expectations. Demonstrated skills in developing and executing programs and initiatives that enhance
business efficiencies. Extensive background in overseeing projects from concept to completion ensuring on
budget and on-target delivery.

Highlights of Expertise & Contribution

 Project Planning & Direction and Business Analysis
 Effective Communication skills with the ability to communicate Complex Ideas
 Mission Critical Data Center & Cloud Operations
 Application/Database Administration for High Available Systems
 Team Player and Technology Leadership
 Staff Mentoring and Development
Education
 Master of Science in Computer Applications
 Training on PMP using PMBOK 6
 Pursuing Professional Scrum Master Certification
 Training on ITIL v4

Technical skills
 Project Management Methodologies: Scrum, Waterfall, ITIL v4
 Domains: Finance, Data Center, Telecom, Manufacturing
 ERP: SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite
 Application Servers: WebLogic, JBoss EAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Tomcat
 Web Servers: Apache, Nginx, IIS, iPlanet
 Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL
 Languages: Java, Python, SQL, PL/SQL
 SSO Tools: Oracle Access Manager, CA Siteminder
 Cloud Tools: JIRA, ServiceNow, WorkDay, Splunk
 Tools: SiteScope, Confluence, Microsoft Office
 Operating Systems: RHEL, Solaris, Windows Server

Professional Experience

Scrum Master / Sr. Program Manager (Jan 2023 – Present) – Schwab, Remote
Key Contributions:
 Steered projects to enhance data analytics solutions at the bank for various Trading applications to
comply with the OFAC other global sanctioning bodies’ regulations for static data filtering.
 Created initiatives with a lean yearly operating budget of $3.5M, using innovative methodologies to
optimize expenditures.
 Mentored a cross-functional team of 9 resources to deliver quality products which led to over $2 M
in savings.
 Actively involved in the budgetary planning (Capital & Operational expenditure) with business
owners, engineering managers and finance team.
 Spearheaded Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story
Refinement, and Release Planning
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  Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across multiple cross-functional
teams.
 Coordinated with business stakeholders, product managers, and development and testing lead to
prioritize deliverables.
 Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be worked on by the team.
 Assisted teams in identifying a path to address complex impediments.
 Tracked and communicated projects' progress to business stakeholders and management staff.
 Interfaced with 3 product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities.
 Ensured 100% of Scrum activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported.
 Demonstrated leadership in the implementation of complex Programs and Projects, the ability to
make or recommend complex strategic decisions and prioritize competing initiatives.
 Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall
approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps,
plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
 Engage with development teams not currently under Release Management to establish release
management processes.
 Create key metrics and identify opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release
management process.
 Assisted Compliance in defining risk-monitoring parameters for AML, Enhanced Due Diligence and KYC
On-boarding.
 Led projects and successfully completed within timelines and budgets.
 Demonstrated ability to handle Risk issues with help of Risk Management techniques including Risk
Mitigation Plan
 Provided support to Compliance team for facilitating regulatory examinations and internal audits.

Scrum Master / Sr. Program Manager (Aug 2021 – Dec 2022) – Credit Suisse, Remote
Key Contributions:
 Steered projects to enhance Client data experience at the bank using various internal tools.
 Directed projects to implement AML business rules to monitor the client activity to comply with BSA
regulations.
 Designed and implemented the KYC solutions that was used during onboarding and re-certification
processes.
 Spearheaded Agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story
Refinement, and Release Planning
 Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across multiple cross-functional
teams.
 Coordinated with business stakeholders, product managers, and development and testing lead to
prioritize deliverables.
 Demonstrated leadership in the implementation of complex Programs and Projects, the ability to
make or recommend complex strategic decisions and prioritize competing initiatives.
 Worked closely with Compliance and Business users in gathering Business Requirements and
creating Functional & Technical Specifications for various filtering projects.
 Facilitate weekly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.
 Facilitate daily scrum meetings to ensure on time delivery.

Sr. Business Analyst / Sr. Program Manager (June 2018 – July 2021) – BNP Paribas, Jersey City, NJ
Key Contributions:

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  Led projects to enhance sanction data filtering solutions at the bank using FIS Prime OFAC Reporter to
comply with the OFAC other global sanctioning bodies’ regulations for transactional and static data
filtering.
 Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across multiple cross-functional
teams.
 Coordinated with business stakeholders, product managers, and development and testing lead to
prioritize deliverables.
 Facilitate weekly meetings with clients to document requirements and explore potential solutions.
 Facilitate daily scrum meetings to ensure on time delivery.
 Work with developers, product managers and operations engineers to define, manage and execute
milestones for each release.
 Evaluate all requests proposing change to established and supported platforms, identifying,
analyzing and documenting potential risks or issues. Liaise with business and 3rd party vendors to
capture, analyze and document requested changes against these platforms including the actions that
will be taken to mitigate the risks identified.
 Work with Customer to plan and schedule tactical business and technology events, such as software
patching, maintenance, or Minor Releases that impact the Managed Cloud Services, in a manner
calculated to minimize disruption to Customer's business.
 Monitor compliance to existing change management process; ensure correct approval process is
followed for both regular and emergency changes, follow up non-compliant changes made outside
the change management process.
 Assisted Compliance in defining risk-monitoring parameters for AML, Enhanced Due Diligence and KYC
On-boarding.
 Mentored operations team in India to handle Level 1 and 2 tasks for all the critical applications.
 Helped teams in reducing problem and triage resolution time from ~45minutes to <16 minutes for
key applications. Resulted in reduced escalation calls by orchestrating automated incident
management integration with Service Now.
 Provided support to Compliance team for regulatory examinations and internal audits.
 Implemented change controls for various Compliance IT processes to meet audit requirements.
 Involved in data analysis, solution integration, validation, and process improvements for
implementation of new Compliance systems.

Sr. Program Manager (Jan 2013 – June 2018) - Seagate Technology, Fremont, CA
Key Contributions:
 Steered a project to migrate 280+ applications from End-of-Life Solaris platform to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux platform, resulting in significant savings of License cost.
 Led 7 members of global application delivery teams in U.S., Malaysia, India and Singapore to support
300+ applications and 140+ databases including SOX based financial, supply chain and analytics
applications running on various technologies and platforms.
 Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project planning and
schedule and adhering to software and governance compliances.
 Engage Clients to gather software requirements and ensure alignment with development teams and
infrastructure teams.
 Translate stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables such as functional
specifications, user cases, process flow diagrams and data model diagrams.
 Helped develop strategy to merge and host applications in public and private cloud, including
evaluations of cloud service providers.
 Designed disaster recovery solutions for key applications to provide high availability and automated
failover for applications and databases for US and Asia Data centers.

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  Designed, implemented and maintained Application servers (JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat)
and web servers (Apache, iPlanet) including overall monitoring of applications.
 Interfaced with System Administrators and Developers to resolve real time problems with
applications in production utilizing knowledge of WebLogic/JBoss/Tomcat, Web Servers
(Apache/iPlanet).
 Involved in product upgrades and new product implementations including Oracle WebLogic
Enterprise 12c/11g, JBoss EAP 7.x/6.x, Tomcat 8.x, WebSphere 7.x. This includes installation,
configuration, setup, designing standards, developing templates, test plans, designing and
implementing security architecture, planning migrations, and providing end user training.
 Coached and mentored second level support team in Penang, Malaysia to provide continuous
delivery of programs, and follow the sun (24/7) support for US and Asia data centers.
 Received Award of Excellence from a Business team in 2015 for helping their team to fix critical
performance related issues in their applications.
 Received Special Appreciation from Senior Management in 2017 for successful completion of two
projects ahead of time that are time-sensitive for license renewal.

Sr. Web DBA (Aug 2008 – Dec 2012) – Seagate Technology, Oklahoma City, OK
Key Contributions:
 Steered a project to upgrade WebLogic application servers hosting 320+ applications from WebLogic
versions 6.x/8.x/9.x to 10g/11g.
 Involved in product upgrades for iPlanet 4.0/4.1/6.0 to iPlanet 6.1 for 340+ web server instances.
 Assisted SSO team during their efforts to upgrade Siteminder to 12.x, by making necessary changes to
the proxies in the web servers.
 Designed, implemented and maintained Application servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat) and web
servers (Apache, iPlanet) including overall monitoring of applications.
 Involved in product upgrades for Oracle database for 280+ databases in Development / Staging /
Production from 8i/9i to 10g.
 Worked closely with compliance team to setup SOX standards for all finance applications / databases.
 Collaborated with monitoring team to setup 680+ monitoring alerts in Sitescope for 340+ applications.
 Presented with Data Center Award of Excellence in 2009 for recovery of mission critical applications &
in 2012 for identifying and fixing leakage of confidential information in security applications.

Web Admin (2002 - 2007) - Reliance Communications Ltd, Mumbai, India.

Service Delivery Platform: The project involved the design, delivery and operations support of the wireless
data services and solutions infrastructure named Reliance Application Platform (RAP). The system scope
comprised of Data Services Charging, Mediation and Billing, Real Time Charging Interface (RTCI), Service Rating
Engine (SRE), Measurement Aggregator (MA), RAP Service Manager, OSS / Call Center Interfaces and
Integration of RAP billing components.

Key Contributions:
 Responsible for the Process Definition, Product Conceptualization and Configuration Management to
deliver the differential best-in-class solution integral to the creation of Reliance Value Proposition in
the marketplace.
 Functional Resource for 2 ERP modules (Materials Management and HR-Employee Self Service (ESS) &
HR-Management Self Service (MSS)).
 Actively involved with Vendor Management and Contract Management including renewal of AMCs.
 Actively participated in System Analysis, Design, Development and Integration.

Prior Professional Experience

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 Programmer / J2EE Programmer / Sr. J2EE Programmer (1997 - 2002) - India