Vidhya Dharmaraj

Vidhya Dharmaraj

Vidhya Dharmaraj is currently managing a development team (ReactJS/NodeJS/AWS) at Accenture, APP CAS Product Engineering. She has been working in the software industry for 15+ years and has been part of companies such as Verisign, IBM (India Software Labs), TCS and Computer Associates. Vidhya is a high impact contributor with wide and successful experience in leading complex IT programs. Her areas of strength are managing development projects / products directing frequent changes, ensuring engineering practices are followed resulting in good code quality, assessing risks upfront and identifying appropriate solutions to mitigate the risks by performing thorough analysis and delivering the committed releases on-time with great quality. Proven track record of turning things around for the troubled development projects. Ability to be pro-active and act with a sense of urgency. She has end to end SDLC hands-on (development, testing, automation) experience leading projects successfully within domains like retail, semiconductors, telecommunications and electronics. Mentor and evangelist of Agile, XP and Continuous Delivery Project Management best practices. She is a Project Management Professional, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional, Safe Agilist and has been a technical, agile and career mentor for different teams and individuals with-in and outside her departments at IBM. She has performed the roles of Developer, Business Analyst, System Analyst, Scrum Master and Consultant in the last several years. She is a focused result oriented individual, a self-starter and a highly motivated employee who creates a very healthy, competitive and a positive environment at work.

Professional Activities / Conferences / Certifications

• APP Hackathon – Won Honorary Award (Augmented Reality Implementation) – Jul 2019
• APP DAY 2019 – ADVentures Award for Hackathon (Environment Theme: Carbon Debt) – First prize – May 2019
• Certified SAFe 4 Agilist – Jan 2019
• Best Software Product Team award for the team I am managing – Aug 2018
• RPA (Robotic Process Automation) use cases for DU (APP DAY 2018) – May 2018
• Organized and participated in APP DAY technical showcase – DU won 3^rd Prize – Apr 2018
• Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI – Jan 2018
• Coach and guidance for the winning hackathon team (Serverless Architecture) – Nov 2017
• “Tech Star Recognition” – Feb 2017
• “Accenture Celebrates Excellence” – ACE Award– Dec 2016
• APP Business Award – Best Software Product Team – Sep 2015
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) from IIBA – Dec 2013
• Presented (regional round) at International Software Testing Conference ‘STC 2012’
• Finalist in Computer Society of India conference on “Processes & Frameworks” – Sep 2012
• Secured 1st Prize for CSI Best Practices sharing conference 2011
• Member of Scrum Alliance (practicing member)
• Member of CSI - Computer Society of India
• Member of IIBA – International Institute of Business Analysis
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
• IBM Certified Solution Designer (OOAD & UML)
• IBM Certified IT Specialist