Sudheer Kareem, Senior program manager

Sudheer Kareem

Senior program manager

Emirates Nbd

Location
India - Kerala
Education
Bachelor's degree, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation
Experience
24 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 1 Months

Senior program manager at Emirates Nbd
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2023
Senior Engineering Manager at IBM India research lab
  • India - Cochin
  • August 2021 to December 2022

Successfully delivered multiple high value in-house development and package acquisition projects
§ Acted as executive intermediary during delivery process, enlisted involvement from other executives, facilitated
as a coach and served as tiebreaker during the rollout of digital transformation programs.
§ Adept at business models including Product Development Consulting, Outsourced Product Development, Offshore
units and global IT services.
§ Partnered effectively with the IT organization and external partners in the execution of projects supporting the
digital platforms.
§ Instrumental in moving between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals,
creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
§ Assisted organizations in their DevOps and Agile software transformation journey. This entails training, mentoring,
and coaching around Agile & DevOps transformation program management, team (re)formation, agile processes
and metrics, composition for teams and departments and helping the stakeholders master their agile roles and
responsibilities.
§ Successfully managed more than 80+ human resources from different IT departments and directly dealt with
senior executives within IT and business
§ Received the Emirates’ “Chairman’s Award” in recognition of implementing a key strategic project for monitoring
on time performance and health of the emirates aircrafts. Ensured to deliver the project within 60% of the planned
cost by adapting latest technologies that was available in the market.

Program Manager at Emirates NBD Group IT
  • May 2018 to July 2021

Digital Transformation
§ Managed large IT programs for ENBD core banking domain, aligning to banks digital transformation strategy
§ Responsible for end-to-end Project Management ensuring effective planning and execution of all project lifecycle
activities including but not limited to creating and managing Project Management Plan, Risks and Issues
management, Resource Utilization, Budgeting, Stakeholder Management and Project communications.
§ Collaborate with functional leaders and deliver the new Product through the phases of Business Case & Concept
Development, RFQ, RFT, RFP, Detailed Planning, Execution & Delivery
§ Managing dependencies, Liaising between multiple scrum teams, track risks across projects, overcome obstacles
and get the best value against constraints.
§ Breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering programs in Waterfall/agile delivery
models.
§ Making sure all the new Implementations are aligning to ENBD’s latest technology/Platform stacks such as
Microservices, Iass, Pass & using API gateway.
§ Establish and maintain project dashboards, and provide accurate progress reports and updated plans at pre-
defined intervals to banks senior management

Software Engineering Manager at Emirates Airlines Group IT
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2008 to March 2018

Engagedas a Technical program manager, responsible for planning software delivery work program inERP domain,
which includes new software developments and enhancements.
§ Complete ownership for the delivery of the high quality software which includes estimations, technical design,
programming, testing, and implementation and post implementation.
§ Effective stakeholder management across all levels (including executive level) in business and IT to ensure
successful deliveries.
§ Leading a team of multi-disciplinary professionals and liaising with the client at all stages of the project for securing
approvals, finalization of specifications, reporting progress and final handover.
§ Leading project reviews to assess schedules, processes and risks. Guiding the project team using appropriate
methods to ensure that they understand their deliverables and know the best practice for delivering them.
§ Responsible and involved in development and defining of Agile Transformation strategy for multiple programs and
thereby driving the program into a DevOps platform
§ Execute the program using Agile methodologies such as Scrum, CI/CD, DevOps; catalyst in transforming
organizational culture to bring in agility & predictability in delivery

IT PROJECT MANAGER at Wipro Technologies
  • India
  • June 2007 to July 2008
ASSOCIATE IT CONSULTANT at IBM Global services Indi
  • February 2005 to June 2007
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER at B-Commerce Info systems
  • India
  • April 2000 to January 2005

Education

Bachelor's degree, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation
  • at Calicut UniversityIIM
  • January 1999

courses: Certification on Strategic Leadership program from

Master's degree, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation
  • at Calicut UniversityIIM
  • January 1999

courses: Certification on Strategic Leadership program from

Master's degree, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation
  • at Calicut UniversityIIM
  • January 1999

courses: Certification on Strategic Leadership program from

Specialties & Skills

Portfolio Management
Digital Innovation
IT Strategy
Program Management
IT Project Management
Digital Transformation
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