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Champion Advisory Committee

DirectorOracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Kalyan S has 23+ years of experience in IT industry. He has around 14+ years of Project & Service Management experience, especially in the following domains: eCommerce, CTI, Talent Management. 

Kalyan is a certified PMP since December, 2008 and since then he has been actively conducting advocacy sessions on Project Management processes. 
Kalyan is PMI-ACP certified since Aug 2014.
DASSM certified since Nov 2020 
PMI-RMP certified since Oct 2022 and
Wicked Problem Solving Practitioner 
Customer Delivery HeadTech Mahindra
  • Associated with Tech Mahindra as Delivery Head overseeing a portfolio of $100m TCV and part of the elite Global Leader - 1000 leaders group.
  • PMP certified (Sep-05), PMI India Senior Champion, Certified Scrum Master (Jun-07).
  • Key Achievements:
    • Invited & felicitated by Mr. Raj Kalady – MD PMI India & Dr. Ed Hoffman, NASA’s First Chief Knowledge Officer for my contribution to PMI India’s EEF(Excellence Enabler Group) on 08-Jun-18 in Bengaluru.
    • One of the top 14 associates from the organization (Tech Mahindra) to be selected to meet the CEO as part of #ConnectToTheCEO programme on 25-Apr-16.
    • Selected as ‘Global Leader’ as part of 1000 leaders programme – batch IV at Tech Mahindra.
    • Invited as a speaker by PMI at PM Conclave 2012(01-Dec-12 & 02-Dec-12)
      • Conference was attended by around 400+ delegates
      • Speaker panel: Dr. FC Kohli(TCS founder), Mr. Gurumurthy Natrajan(ED – ONGC) etc
    • Article on ‘Best Practice on Transitioning’ i.e. ‘KT-DRS’ was published in PMIPCC newsletter
    • Invited by Malla Reddy College of Engineering as Chief Guest on 22nd August 2009.
    • Invited to Mahindra Innovations Mela 2015 & 2016 events at Mahindra Towers, Mumbai to present the case studies around the innovations that were selected amongst 500 nominations across the organization.
      • Had the privilege to meet, greet and present the same to Mr. Anand Mahindra.

Awards:

  • ‘Grand Salute – Live Wire’ award in Mar-18 by Tech Mahindra.
  • ‘People Champion 2017’ in Sep-17 @ Tech Mahindra


Technical Program ManagerFourKites, Inc.
I hold a Bachelor's of Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communication from Mangalore University.
I started my career with Deustche Software as a mainframe developer, joining Hewlett Packard later to design and develop mainframe applications.
Held various roles thereafter working at client's location in Canada, continuing to into leadership roles as a module lead, team lead, project lead. Applying this experience to work on bigger roles as a project manager, service level manager and currently as a Service Delivery Manager.
Currently I work as the Delivery Manager within the Analytics and Engineering Business.
My other interests include sports, running, philosophy, arts.
Senior Quality ManagerNokia Solutions and Networks India Private Limited – A Nokia Corporation
Overall experience of 24 years in Services and Telecom. Currently working with NOKIA(fAlcatel Lucent) from last 16 years. He played multiple roles like Project Manager, Program Manager,.. . His current role is of Sr. Project Quality Manager with Fixed Networks – Network Infrastructure BG. He has completed MBA(Systems) From Lucknow University in 1999. He is a Project Management Professional(PMP) Certified from Project Management Institute in 2007, Scrum Master in 2009 and PMI ATP Instructor PMP(2022). He is a lead PMP Instructor in Nokia and trained over 950+ Nokia Employees till date. He also supports various PM programs within Nokia. He is working closely with PMI India on PMCD & PgMCD initiative activity for last few years.
DirectorInternational Game Technology(IGT)
Monika Muddamshetty has approx.17 years of experience in dealing with the 5Ps ( People, Processes, Projects, Programs, Portfolios), with global clients and teams to Deliver Improved Outcomes - in the IT, Telecom, Gaming industries.
 
An engineer by education, with various professional certifications such as PMP®, PMI-ACP®,DASSM®, SAFe® Program Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Methodology – Green belt, and PMI micro-credential Agile Hybrid Project Pro.
 
Currently working as Director at International Game Technology (IGT) and serving as the Chairperson, ICT at IGT India Pvt. Ltd (Internal Committee POSH at Work as per The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013).
 
Also served as Director on the Board of Project Management Institute Pearl City Hyderabad Chapter (PMIPCC) for approx. years, was instrumental in setting up the PMI Region11 Social Media Taskforce(RSMTF), an ardent DEI evangelist, Speaker, and Master of ceremonies at various virtual and in-person events.
 
She strongly believes in “Driving the Change you want to see around you”!