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Rama Punna Rao Kollipara

Program Manager/Sr.Project Manager
The Hague

Summary

Enthusiastic and 18 years experienced in Program/Project Delivery and consulting roles for migration, Infrastructure, simplification initiatives, Digital Transformation tracks in Telco, Media & Entertainment, Enterprise domain.

Proficient in decision making, problem solving and interpersonal skills in multi vendor/culture environments.

Proven ability to lead and mentor high performance, result oriented teams, planning and risk assessments.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Program Manager/Sr.Project Manager

Liberty Global
12.2024 - Current
  • Managing strategic program, responsibility of LiftOff/Separation program. Interaction with key stakeholders from customer and partners on regular basis to assess the progress and SteerCo’s.
    Leveraged processes and tooling estate to have accountability/responsibility separation between partners.


Program Manager

LibertyGlobal
10.2022 - 02.2024
  • Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
  • Overarching Program responsibility of factory and Infrastructure deliveries. Interaction with key stakeholders from customer and teams on regular basis to assess the progress and SteerCo
  • Worked with subject matter experts to develop and implement productivity strategies to accomplish challenging goals. Resolving technical and operational concerns by working with teams and directors.
  • Leveraged project management processes and tools to define and execute projects.
  • Established milestones and objectives based on input from functional areas and stakeholders.

Delivery/Senior Project Manager

Virgin Media O2, Telefonica-Germany
04.2020 - 03.2022
  • Delivery of digital transformation for large IT enterprise landscape, OSS, BSS transformations, Omni channel and Enterprise domain integrations. Delivered key strategic projects on Salesforce, Hansen, Service Now, PAM- CyberArk, Security and Performance monitoring, Cloud migrations, 5G standalone tools, SDN, Data Access architecture initiatives.
  • Part of Business development initiatives. Building right skills in to team. Delivered MVPs, Prove of Values during RFPs
  • Experienced in Demand management and process improvements


Delivery/Project Manager

KPN, Vodafone Ziggo
01.2015 - 09.2021
  • Responsible for proposal, Transition, roll out migration, Infrastructure delivery, Transformation of Innovation Tools, omnichannel implementation. Vendor relationship/ engagement.
  • Owning the Delivery of Migration strategies of tools and platform to cloud in Kanban and Devops.
  • Built team with niche skills and technical expertise, Center of Excellence delivery model.

Manager/Consultant

KPN, Vodafone
01.2017 - 08.2020
  • Responsible for delivery, process simplification and amalgamated task force for largest simplification program.
  • Delivered OSS, BSS transformation initiatives
  • Accomplished Performance Engineering solutions for Non-Functional requirements
  • Accomplished Transformation from iterative model to Agile way of working. Streamline scrum way of working in large IT landscape.

Consultant

KPN, Orange
01.2010 - 12.2016
  • Accomplished delivery for Rationalization architecture for 25+ applications bench marking, process improvements.
  • Contribution on process refinement and strategy for Data migration.
  • Bringing Monitoring tools, service virtualization, automation into process and showing benefits, savings.
  • Consulting for various customers in Europe.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Chirala
05.2003 - 2007.05

Skills

    Leadership, Planning, Conflict Resolution, Problem solving, Easy and Effective strategy, Grooming teams

    Omni channels, Sales force, Oracle E-business suite,Transformation, Cloud migration, EXA-DATA,Performance Engineering, Service Virtualization, DevOps Tools, Service Now Integrations, PAM Solutions

    Work Force Management tools, Disaster Recovery Planning, Failover Mechanism

    Configuration management, Costing, Analysis & Evaluation

Accomplishments

  • People Champion, Grand Salute-Live Wire
  • ACE Award consecutive years from 2018
  • Best Team Award 2016,2018,2020

Certification

Prince 2 Practitioner and MSP Foundation

Timeline

Program Manager/Sr.Project Manager

Liberty Global
12.2024 - Current

Program Manager

LibertyGlobal
10.2022 - 02.2024

Delivery/Senior Project Manager

Virgin Media O2, Telefonica-Germany
04.2020 - 03.2022

Manager/Consultant

KPN, Vodafone
01.2017 - 08.2020

Delivery/Project Manager

KPN, Vodafone Ziggo
01.2015 - 09.2021

Consultant

KPN, Orange
01.2010 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
05.2003 - 2007.05
Rama Punna Rao KolliparaProgram Manager/Sr.Project Manager