Ravishekar Kalepu, Early Stage Investor and Advisor

Ravishekar Kalepu

Early Stage Investor and Advisor

Self

Location
India
Education
Master's degree, Commerce
Experience
28 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :28 years, 7 Months

Early Stage Investor and Advisor at Self
  • India - Hyderabad
  • My current job since May 2015

• Invest behind exceptional teams, at early stage with bold transformative idea / technology and disruptive business models
• Guidance to fine-tune strategy
• Refine business / revenue model
• Market validation
• Strategic Advisory services.

Program Manager at Agreeya Gulf Solutions Inc
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2014 to March 2015

Liaise proactively with the business to ensure that it gets the most out of the current systems and identify opportunities to support the tactical and strategic requirements.
· Manage the dependencies between the program from both technical and resource perspective
· Ensure tracking costs, expenses, resource utilization, issue and risk on assigned projects. Own timely escalation to management.
· Manage both IT and business resource across the program of projects in direct and indirect control in the role of Program Manager
· Handling Delivery and Project Management from Onsite and manage Offshore/Onsite Team

Delivery Head at Pegasys Information Technology pvt ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • August 2012 to July 2014

Deliver assigned projects on time and within budget working as part of a team.
· Deliver solutions to business problems in a delivery focused and fast paced environment.
· Manage both IT and business resource across the program of projects in direct and indirect control of the Program Manager
· Manage the dependencies between the program from both technical and resource perspective
· Liaise proactively with the business to ensure that it gets the most out of the current systems and identify opportunities to support the tactical and strategic requirements.
· Develop an approach to delivering individual projects and a program that ensures the needs of the business are met.
· Provide CRM consulting in deciding which product suits their business needs to ensuing customers.
· Implementation of SalesForce and integration with Market Demand Generation Software
· Worked within the marketing group to prepare web presence and marketing material to coincide with product development roadmap.
· Built partnership with local business to trust FieldAware with running the crucial scheduling, documentation, inventory and billing sections of their business and supported those businesses thru the development and issues risen as the product matured.
· Performed competitive analysis, field interviews and business process assessment with large volume of field service related business for application requirements gathering.
· Translated analysis findings to development group to prioritize build efforts and initiate product build.

Global Delivery Head at Polaris Financial Technology ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • July 2011 to April 2012
Principal Consultant at Oracle India.pvt ltd
  • India - Hyderabad
  • November 2006 to October 2010

Hands-on Siebel 8.​x system support, design, technical architecture, implementations, upgrades and patches.
· Installing, configure, and troubleshoot Siebel Servers (Enterprise, Server, SWSE, Gateway, and File System) in a Linux Environment. Apply product specific patches and post installation patches for Siebel modules.
· Discussions with stakeholders for timely Product upgrades and patches and getting their buy-in for downtime and deploying the same as per the schedules to give better ROI to stakeholders / customers.
· Siebel Remote, Multilingual Installation, Knowledge of workflow, Assignment manager, EIM loads (Legacy data loads).
· Siebel System Architecture utilizing multiple servers Load Balancing using Siebel internal, F5 Networks Big IP, and MLOV.
· Siebel System Administration daily activities such as configuring application components, parameters, and configuration files; using the Siebel command-line server manager interface; logging and event notification, gathering diagnostic information using Siebel Application Response Measurement (SARM); supporting High Interactivity clients; and using Application Deployment Manager (ADM) to deploy application customizations.
· Siebel authentication and access control using LDAP, Active Directory and SSO (Siebel authentication adapters).

Programmer Analyst at Prosoft Inc , Atlanta , GA, USA
  • Other
  • April 2003 to July 2003
Programmer Analyst at NTSI Inc, Charlotte, NC, USA
  • Other
  • April 2001 to February 2003
Programmer Analyst at Trustek Inc, NJ, USA
  • Other
  • July 2000 to March 2001
Systems Analyst at Polaris Software Labs Ltd
  • Other
  • June 1999 to May 2000
Asst Mgr - IT at GATI Corporation Ltd
  • Other
  • October 1997 to May 1999
Systems Administrator at Karvy Consultants Ltd
  • Other
  • April 1997 to October 1997
Programmer at Venkateshwara Hatcheries - BFFL
  • Other
  • May 1995 to March 1997
EDP Incharge at Goodhealth Agrotech Ltd
  • Other
  • April 1993 to May 1995
Programmer Analyst at Checkpoint Software
  • Other
  • May 1991 to March 1993

Education

Master's degree, Commerce
  • at School of Distance Education
  • April 1991

Specialties & Skills

Program Management
Global Delivery
People Management
Pre sales Technical Support
Project Management
ITIL v3 foundation
Siebel administration
MS Project

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Telugu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Siebel 8 Consultant Certified Expert (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
February 2009
Duration:
120 hours
Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Mantra Management Pvt Ltd
Date Attended:
June 2010
Duration:
35 hours