Sivaram Athmakuri

 Sivaram Athmakuri Expert Consultant, believe that spending more time in listening to Customer and understanding unique strengths of their existing environment helps to generate meaningful, measurable & long lasting results with less friction.

Coach

Worked extensively with multiple clients (C-Suite, Business Owners, Startups, SMEs, Middle Management, etc.) across the Globe and helped to overcome their Business/Delivery/Technical Problems at Strategic, Planning and Execution level. He focuses on providing solutions to customers utilizing their existing investments and resources.

Consultant

Provided Consultation in the areas of Strategy, Product Development, Successful Planning and Execution of Complex Projects, Managing Risks, Optimize Operations, Build Center of Excellence, Agile transformations and Dashboards that drive results in dynamic and volatile environments to Enterprises, Business Owners and Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

Trainer

Conducted 400+ sessions on Project Management and 200+ sessions on Agile frameworks (Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, DSDM Atern). Trained over 5000 professionals and enabled them to achieve Certification in Project Management, Risk Management, MS Project Planning, Primavera & Agile. Initiated / conducted “Train the Trainers”.

Professional Certifications

Consulting Experience

Business/ CEO/ Entrepreneurs

o Evaluate Business Opportunities
o Prepare Business Case
o Preparing Strategic Plans
o Conduct SWOT on Consumer Product Launch
o Design Dashboards to track Business Health
(ROI/Profitability etc.)
o Design Dashboard to track Investments on Innovation or R&D
o Third party Evaluation for Innovation and R&D


Traditional

o Helped Enterprise to Setup PMO & Handover to PMO Office
o Mentor Project Leads in Preparing Project Plans (Traditional)
o Help Business Unit Head to Prepare Project Plan (for Expansion)
o Help Business Unit Head to Prepare Project Plan (for Production)
o Coach Subject Matter Experts in Preparing WBS
o Coach Subject Matter Experts on Estimation (Time/Cost)


Agile

o Help Business Unit Head to Monitor Production using Kanban Methods
o Agile Coaching for Implementing Scrum to Product Development Company
o Help teams to implement Agile processes
o Educate their Customer on benefits of Agile Delivery model
o Help for Agile Transformation across organisation (teams/delivery , business etc)
o Help in applying Agile concepts to Complex Legacy Applications
o Help in applying Building pool of Agile Evangelists for Scaling Agile

Speaker
Presentations

Sivaram Athmakuri

o Designing Business Dashboards
o Enterprise Planning (Strategic and Delivery)
o Business Analysis (Road Maps, ROI Dashboards etc)|
o Product Management (Agile/Scrum/Lean Practices)
o PMO Setup & Operation (Project Management and Risk Management)
o Optimize Innovation/ R&D Investments (reduce Time to Market)

 

Served customers across the continents and cultures 

o USA
o Singapore
o UK
o Japan
o Asia Pacific 
o Middle East

 

Provided services in different verticals / Industries 
o Education
o Government
o Healthcare
o Consumer Business
o Electronics
o Logistics
o Information Technology
o Oil and gas
o Energy & Chemicals
o Construction
o Pharma & Bio Tech
o Professional Services

 

 

o 200 plus Training sessions (Class room & online) on Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)
o 200 plus Workshops on Project Management to Non-IT Companies
o 100 plus Training sessions (class room & online) on Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
o 100 plus Agile Sessions (class room & online) – Non certified Training sessions
o 10 plus Training sessions on Risk Management
o 15 plus Training on sessions on Microsoft Project Plan (2010/2013/2016)
o Co-Trained 5 plus Certified Scrum Master Training (CST)
o Technical Trainings for more than 100 fresher Graduates
o 5 plus training sessions on Primavera (Enterprise project portfolio management software)
o 5 plus sessions on Atlassian JIRA

o 25+ academic sessions to colleges and Universities

Trainings & Workshops Conducted

Books review & contributions

  • o Provided IT Solutions to Clients such as World Bank, IFC, Reuters, BPL Mobile, Qatar Fertilizers, Roca, SingPoly, DBS Bank, HP, etc
  • o Has extensive Technical and Managerial experience
  • o Played multiple roles such as Delivery Manager, Practice Manager, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Project Lead, Onsite/Offshore model
  • o Played vital role in Presales, Service Offerings & Centre of Excellence in presenting/submitting innovative technical proposals/solutions and participated in Technical Defence programs with various Customers
  • o Acted as Single Point of Contact with various technical sales teams, relationship teams, business development teams and customer representatives
  • o Managed large-sized teams in collaborative environment with multiple Business Units
  • o Handled / Managed a range of Fixed Bid, Maintenance, Production support and T&M projects