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Kiran Kumar Sankara

Redmond

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About

Title: Ideation Strategist

Mr.Kiran Sankara, is a senior IT management executive with pleasing demeanor and demonstrated ability of steady performance. In his 20+ years of IT Industry experience he worked with various technologies, environments, domains and Frameworks. He has a Bachelor of Technology and Engineering from JNTU, India and Masters in Business Management from University of Maryland, USA. His credentials include Enterprise Agile SAFe 3.0 and 4.0 / PMI ACP/ CSP / CSM/ PMP/ ITIL.

He retains special interests in advance project management initiatives for large corporate and houses entrepreneual ambitions these days. Mr. Sankara worked in India until 2000 before moving to the US. He has exposure to working cultures of American companies for 10+ years, before relocating to India in 2010.  He played roles of Director, Head of PMO, Senior Manager Delivery, Senior Program Manager, Program Manager, Project Manager and Architect over these last few years.  Some of the clients he has  been associated are US  Federal and US State  Governments (CSOSA,  Public  defender Agency, USDA,  State of Connecticut), Telecommunication (Cable & Wireless, AT&T, Verizon Communications), (Manufacturing)  General Motors, Supply Chain  Management (Global eProcure), Reality and Product (RealPage, Lee Technologies), and Service Industry (Virtusa Inc, Visualsoft Inc) that provides him a rich cross  domain industry exposure. 

His last assignment at Virtusa was a large MM$ Oracle eBS  Implementation and maintenance engagement across multiple geographies with Big 5 vendors like PwC, KPMG, E&Y, while heading the project as Program Manager/Director. His expertise includes strategy, leadership, branding, portfolio, delivery, account P&L, program management, people and vendor management, SLAs and helpdesk. 

Mr. Sankara is seeking positions that will pitch him with the best of the management minds in IT industry as a Senior Manager/ Head of consulting organizations in IT service and management areas.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2015-11-01 - present - CrossWinds Technologies
    • 2009-05-14 - 2011-06-24 - Real Page (Director PMO)
    • 2011-07-25 - 2013-12-31 - Virtusa Inc (Scrum Master / Head of PMO)
    • 2014-03-31 - 2015-10-31 - Wipro