Sriramasundararajan Rajagopalan

Profile

• Expertise in PMO setup, Project & Program Management, Agile processes with strong IT background
• Experience in assessing organizational project processes, providing recommendation, and creating  process roadmaps
• Sales support to assess, provide solution approach to clients to enable contract closure
• Product Management experience in delivering new and differentiated products to address industry needs
• Exposure in financial, banking, healthcare, airline, and professional services industries
• Process transformation, enhancement and rollout for projects and programs
• Corporate training and mentoring from Sales teams to Executives since 1999
• Teaching experience in University and Community colleges in the USA since 2000 besides experience in India

Career Highlights

• Founder & Trainer for Agile Training Champions developing and delivering content on agile and project management concepts
• Played an advisory role to Senior Vice President & Presidents on strategic initiatives, such as bringing internal projects into PMO control, evaluation of Collaboration software to integrate geographically distributed organizations, promoting security policies, and training initiatives.
• Initiated tactical alignment of best practices beyond lessons-learned sessions through Knowledge Mining Series for harvesting internal knowledge from subject matter experts and external industry representations
• Unleashed process enhancements to many functional units through digitizing workflows increasing the visibility, centralizing document access for ease of access, earned value management enforcing project time entry, standardizing test cases through cross-functional project reviews, and notification alerts for failing projects. This resulted in faster revenue recognition, client satisfaction, and increased sales.
• Conducted process audits enhancing best practices for internal process efficiency, external audit compliance and promoting consistent PMO metrics.
• Modified Agile framework “Hybrid Scrum” to suit unique multi-program initiatives for enhanced project efficiency which enables management of multiple projects by a project manager 
• Facilitated numerous corporate training programs, besides initiating trainings on my own using my unique TONE leadership framework leveraging more than 10 years of teaching experience at various universities
• Authored and delivered corporate diversity training document on doing offshore business in India saving the organization on huge training dollars.

Industry Recognition

• Invited speaker as par t of an Expert Panel on Agility in Marketing - http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=u945ffcab&oeidk=a07eaiy0x9f45e63484
• Nominated for the PMI Distinguished Contributor Award for excellence in project management
• Became one of the five finalists for the Kerzner Award for global recognition of significant contributions to the field of project management http://www.pmitoday-digital.com/pmitodayopen/201210#pg12
• Selected as Pinnacle member in Continental Who’s Who at http://continentalwhoswho.net/sriramasundararajan-rajagopalan-phd-pmp-csm-cspo.htm
• Selected as an executive member of the Biltmore Who’s Who at http://www.1888pressrelease.com/biltmore-who-s-who-selects-dr-sriramasundararajan-rajagopal-pr-235981.html
• Published doctoral thesis on leadership through project management available at http://books.google.com/books/about/Relationship_Between_Emotional_Intellige.html?id=AvET89dQzvkC
• Published and presented papers on practical project leadership to Global Mindset Development in Leadership and Management in University of Riverside – Sep 25, 2009 & Mar 26, 2010
• Adjunct Faculty in the School of Business & College of Information Technology for University of Phoenix since Oct 2001
• Served as Faculty in Cardinal Stritch University, International Academy of Design & Technology, Strayer University, University of Riverside, and Joliet Junior College

International Publications

• Rajagopalan, S. (2015, March). Product personification: PARAG model to successful software product development. Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains, 6(1), 1-12. Retrieved March 31, 2015 from http://airccse.org/journal/mvsc/papers/6115ijmvsc01.pdf
• Rajagopalan, S. (2014, November). Review of the myths on original software development model. International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications, 5(16), 103-111. Retrieved December 14, 2014, from http://airccse.org/journal/ijsea/papers/5614ijsea07.pdf

Certification/Certificates

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• PMI-Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)
• PMI Scheduling Professioal (PMI-SP)
• PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
• Agile Certified Coach (ICC-ACC)
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Cerified Scrum Developer (CSD)
• Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
• IT Project+
• Sarbanes-Oxley-Act (CSOX)
• Program Management Certificate
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate