Areas Of Expertise:

• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid Delivery
• Financial Management
• RAID Management
• Status Reporting
• Resourcing Strategies and Plan

Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communications), SSN College of Engineering

About Rajiv Boddupalli

Rajiv is an accomplished Senior Project Manager/Product Owner who joined Seven Consulting’s Sydney team in August 2022. He has 18 years of experience with management and technical skills. He is an effective communicator adept at identifying business needs and bridging the gap between functional groups and technology to foster targeted and innovative solutions delivery.

What Rajiv brings

• Rigorous analytical ability and process improvement skills.
• Highly committed in business and technical teams which includes operating model definition and data transformation components.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multiple data projects or work streams.
• Skills and experience in technical data and Reporting projects.
• Experienced in Banking, Finance and Retail Domains

Key Clients:

• Coca-Cola Europacific partners 
• NSW Govt Dept of Communities and Justice (DCJ)
• Westpac
• Woolworths

Key Achievements:

As Senior Project Manager at Coca-Cola Europacific, Rajiv was part of transactional portfolio in Coca-Cola Europacific partners, managed multiple programs / projects in Finance and Supply chain domains. Notable among his responsibilities was the management of the Reset Program,  to update and integrate the finance master data to align financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting of Coca-Cola Australia to Coca-Cola Europacific partners, this project involved integrating 12 SAP and non-SAP applications across the company. Additionally, Rajiv successfully led the TOLL EDI integration wherein he implemented a new EDI solution with a key transport partner for freight order acceptance and create a template for EDI interfaces with other transport partners in the future. Other significant achievements of Rajiv includes automation of vendor payments via Rabobank using Westpac payments plus solutions, and implementation of an updated routing solution for delivery of orders in New Zealand business. 

As a PMO RAID Manager in PaTH (Process and Technology Harmonisation) program of NSW Govt Dept of Communities and Justice (DCJ), Rajiv worked to streamline the RAIDD (Risk, Assumption, Issue, Dependencies, Decision) items for the program by creating a new simple, measurable and effective template for RAIDD and put it into practice. This is a large program to upgrade the core Business platform across various NSW Government agencies to one SAP platform and is delivered across multiple Horizons. The Budget for Horizon 1 is $250M.

As Senior Project Manager at Westpac, Rajiv managed the implementation of a new Regulatory reporting platform on Westpac Virtual Private Cloud by mobilising and leading a team of Axiom Vendor team, Infrastructure team, Technology team and DevOPS team to implement multi-tenant and multi jurisdiction regulatory reporting reports for Australia and Singapore. He successfully handled the end-to-end delivery work including SoW with Vendor. The cost of this program is $12M. Rajiv conducted weekly and monthly forums with all internal and external stakeholders. He provided status reports to monthly steering committee which includes Senior Management.

As Senior Project Manager at Westpac, Rajiv worked closely with the business for industry wide programs like Economic Financial Statistics (EFS), GL Upgrade, APS221, Basel 3 and MAS610 in the Finance and Risk e Line of Business. He created a dashboard style roadmap which tracks the timelines for various projects, resource requirements. Total cost of the delivery was $3M per year.

As Delivery Partner at Westpac, Rajiv managed the delivery of Enterprise Batch Integration projects on Informatica and TIBCO platforms with team of 120 people in onshore and offshore. Annual cost of delivery is $20M. He worked with client-side stakeholders through weekly forums, delivery tracking mechanisms and status reports. Rajiv also tracked and provided delivery KPIs through Governance forums.

As IT Project Manager at Woolworths, Rajiv successfully delivered the Replenishment Reporting solution using Business Objects as reporting tool, creating data mart on Oracle Exadata platform with Informatica as ETL tool. This solution enabled the logistics Business team to measure the performance of planners and buyers. Using these reports business can apply stock replenishment overrides. The project budget is $2M.