Kalyani Manchiraju

• Spearheaded enterprise-wide cloud adoption and migration strategies from AWS and Azure to GCP to enable scalable, secure, and cost-effective digital transformation and improve operational efficiency.
• Defined and delivered cloud migration roadmaps aligned with long-term business objectives.
• Directed cross-functional delivery across IT, Core Services, SRE, Security, and Data Engineering, managing multiple software development and quality initiatives.
• Led global, distributed teams (local and offshore) across major stability remediation programs, improving delivery timelines and system reliability.
• Spearheaded the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and observability platforms, reducing manual QA efforts and increasing deployment efficiency.
• Established delivery governance, enhancing communication, risk mitigation, stakeholder engagement, and financial oversight.
• Partnered with Product, Development, and QA teams to drive SDLC best practices, process automation, and quality-focused remediation plans.
• Delivered key integrations for Workday, NetSuite, and MLOps projects, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions.
• Created detailed business cases to support cloud investment decisions, addressing cost, risk, and ROI. Achieved $3M+ in cloud cost optimization savings through strategic cost controls and operational improvements.
• Manage Enterprise Infrastructure Program/Project Managers - 4 TPM’s, 2 contractor TPM and 1 Business Analyst
• Mentored and developed a high-performing team of TPMs and engineering managers.
• Collaborated with senior management and stakeholders to define program goals, priorities, and success metrics.
• Optimized cloud cost spending budgets totaling over $28M for 2024, achieving savings exceeding $3M through strategic cost management and value delivery initiatives.
• Established reporting frameworks, including MBR, QBR, and OKR reviews and updates, to communicate progress, risks, and mitigation strategies to executive leadership.
• Eliminated the risk of losing millions of DAU (Daily Active Users) on Firefox by updating the Root certificate that was identified and implemented on time.

• Providing leadership on multiple projects under the Community Results Routing Program ensuring coordination of shared resources, common activities, and other dependencies across projects with a goal to eliminate the negative impact and maintain launch error rate at less than 2% to the community clinics.
• Seamlessly managed the upgrades and rollout of multiple 3rd party vendor application programs (ISCV, XPER, CardioLab, MUSE, NDSC, TeleMED, PaceART, iECG, Orpheus etc) to support Connect Care wave 1 rollout for Cupid, Radiant and Lumens modules.
• Delivered 4 Connect Care Projects/Epic modules (Cupid, Lumens, Endoscopy Imaging and Radiant) with an overall budget of $10MM Responsible for weekly / monthly reporting meetings and ensure the project is progressing as planned.
• Worked with procurement department on the Master Vendor agreements and successfully implemented the agreements as the projects rolled out.
• Managed 3 different vendors (Philips, GE and DataCM) and their contracts for the execution of the projects.
• Directly managed 3 temporary resources and 4 contractors on the projects.
• Lead the reporting, scheduling, budgeting, resourcing, ensuring quality & escalating issues with 4 projects within CC Program.
• Documented & processed change control requests from stakeholders.
• Instituted and implemented quality audit processes for all projects to reduce implementation errors by over 90%.
• Significantly reduced Launch issues by over 90% between Wave 1 (~34% errors) and Wave 3 (2% errors).
• Adopted 2 projects in critical state and managed to successful completions by effective leadership and communication.

IT Portfolio Delivery Manager Sep 2017 – Sep 2018

Boardwalk Rental Communities

q Managed the IT Project Portfolio roadmap including cross-program strategic planning, sequencing, and project life cycle execution by delivery and execution of 14 projects across 6 IT Programs with overall budget of $12MM while delivering on 100% agreed timelines

q Created and implemented PMO best practices, processes and procedures ensuring alignment with SDLC and business processes using an Agile methodology

• Oversaw program management plans that define key activities, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements to achieve program objectives; therefore, streamlined the conflicting priorities and project delays, and drove to deliverables that led to revenue of over $8MM.
• Prioritized projects and work based on risk, funding, and organizational strategic plans, to facilitate the delivery of complex IT projects and programs.
• Developed relationships with cross-functional program team members and worked closely with business and operations partners to ensure acceptance, quality, and integrity of program goals and initiatives.
• Monitored program results by assessing variables including costs, benefits, program availability and capacity, and current and future organizational structure.
• Conducting 'Make' or 'Buy' decisions at both the operational and strategic levels as they apply to both business and IT.

• Rich experience working in multiple industries: manufacturing, health, upstream oil and gas (AER, FT Services, Devon), and utilities.
• Successfully managed the IT Project Portfolio, including cross-program strategic planning, sequencing, project life cycle, and execution of 14 concurrent projects across 6 IT Programs, with an overall budget of $12MM while delivering on timelines.
• Conducted 'Make' or 'Buy' decisions at both the operational and strategic levels as they apply to both business and IT strategic planning and roadmap development of the portfolio of projects, including prioritization by aligning them to corporate vision and goals for the upcoming years.
• Developed relationships with cross-functional program team members, and worked closely with business and operations partners to ensure acceptance, quality, and integrity of program goals and initiatives.