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Vidhyaa Veeramuthu

Wellington, New Zealand
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” 
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Vidhyaa Veeramuthu

Summary

Key-enabler with strong people and analytical skills to manage multiple priorities and step-up to take charge of team’s success and challenges confidently. 12+ years of experience in shaping organisation’s vision through driving successful project portfolios.

Overview

15
years of professional experience
5
Certifications
3
Languages

Work History

UBT

Digital Portfolio Manager
03.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Collaborated with product managers, technical partners, delivery teams, and global stakeholders for effective and timely delivery of a web and mobile job search application.
  • Led the revised plan for a Content Management System project by working closely with the clients on the requirements and developed new baselines for successful delivery.
  • Provided timely, accurate advice on projects progress, portfolio changes and annual performance information to executive governance board.
  • Created an optimal environment for the scrum teams and facilitated sprint ceremonies including sprint plan meeting, check-ins, demos, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups to handle backlogs and new requests from the product owners.
  • Prioritised the enhancements, bug fixing and improvement initiatives for the travel management backoffice and developed design and delivery of the mobile app within the community ecosystem.

Fire And Emergency New Zealand

Principal Advisor, ICT Portfolio
10.2020 - 03.2022

Job overview

  • Led the year zero Portfolio: Aligned the ICT initiatives to the organisation's strategic needs and prioritised, allocated, monitored, and reported on progress of key initiatives worth ~20 million undertaken by the CIO and provided independent advice to the ICT Leadership team on pipeline projects and forward work planning.
  • Provided peer review, quality assurance and mentored colleagues on multiple facets of project and programme lifecycle management such as risks, issues, benefits for timely value recognition within agreed budget.
  • Studied and tweaked the Annual business plan, in alignment with the 10-year strategic intent for an achievable and affordable portfolio.
  • Led portfolio planning and prioritisation, including resource planning, organisational impact assessment, milestone, and dependency management for FY 2022-23.
  • Led the individual programme governance forums and facilitated Executive level forums with Portfolio reports and completed artifacts such as o Business briefs, business cases, change request, closure report and approval memos.

Ministry Of Business, Innovation, And Employment

Portfolio Analyst
01.2018 - 10.2020

Job overview

  • Led and supported the implementation of Information Technology’s inaugural Program Management Office capability covering, project, practise, governance, administration, and reporting for ~30M portfolio directly and interfacing with two other business PMO’s.
  • Developed the ICT PMO requirements roadmap for ICT to meet the Government Investor Confidence Rating (ICR) administered by Treasury, resulting in ICT attaining a 90% confidence rating in its inaugural audit.
  • Developed framework, set standards, and facilitate to deliver the programme of work. Provided coaching and mentorship, empower the team to self-organise and build the required capability.
  • Led the facilitation and development of project, reporting, and methodology standardisation across managers, project staff and business stakeholders outside MBIE to provide accurate information for decisions efficiently.

Datacom

Service Delivery & PMO Coordinator
09.2016 - 12.2017

Job overview

  • Facilitated, coordinated and acted as the primary point of contact for the for the client across Datacom’s Operations and Service Delivery business having oversight of the business-as-usual activity as well as delivering mid-sized projects on behalf of the client.
  • Worked collaboratively within the account team and the client to ensure clarity of requirements, quality supply and KPI for delivery and embedded into the delivery capability.
  • Produced reports for performance measurement requirements – SLA’s, Operational, Pipeline and Service management.
  • Effectively managed the client’s needs across all internal Datacom business with regards to project estimation, issue escalation and resolution, including maintain a profitable margin within the lines of business.
  • Proven negotiator between the business, and Datacom teams when required to find solutions to commercial, procurement, financial or resource constraints for delivery, maintaining the performance index and utilisation.

HCL Technologies

Senior Executive PMO
05.2013 - 10.2015

Job overview

  • Managed and lead the Projects under five geographically distributed programmes of works from Request for work phase to project closure (billed) phase.
  • Oversee project & programme performance by reviewing project health and sanity at each stage gate. Managed and resolved project escalations from time to time.
  • Owned the overall project profitability, resources and finance dashboards and meticulously tracked the portfolio health. Contributed to the margin improvement for FY 2016 by identifying and fixing the revenue leaks and minimising overhead expenses within the business unit.
  • Collaboratively worked with the organisation’s internal functional departments for accurate project estimation of the upcoming projects and seamless project execution of the existing projects.
  • Organised periodic governance and leadership reviews for the business unit. Prepared, facilitated, and published yearly external audit and client reviews for the overall engagement. Celebrated project success and recommend for rewards and recognitions based on the staff performance.

Roots Multiclean India, BrahMoS Aerospace, HAL

Multiple interns and student roles
06.2009 - 04.2013

Job overview

Business Process Mapping, Current state assessments and Future roadmap;

Inventory management and automated stock ordering / replenishment

Management Internships

Education

PSG Institute of Management
Coimbatore, India

MBA from MBA in Operations And Technology Management
04.2001

Amrita Institute of Technology
Coimbatore

Bachelor of Technology from Aerospace Engineering
04.2001

Skills

Analyzing Investment Opportunities

Governance and reporting

Annual Performance Reviews

Project and Programme Management

Strategic Plans, Portfolio Prioritisation, Pipeline Management

Certification

Management of Portfolios

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Timeline

Digital Portfolio Manager

UBT
03.2022 - Current

Principal Advisor, ICT Portfolio

Fire And Emergency New Zealand
10.2020 - 03.2022

Portfolio Analyst

Ministry Of Business, Innovation, And Employment
01.2018 - 10.2020

Service Delivery & PMO Coordinator

Datacom
09.2016 - 12.2017

Senior Executive PMO

HCL Technologies
05.2013 - 10.2015

Multiple interns and student roles

Roots Multiclean India, BrahMoS Aerospace, HAL
06.2009 - 04.2013

PSG Institute of Management

MBA from MBA in Operations And Technology Management
04.2001

Amrita Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology from Aerospace Engineering
04.2001
Vidhyaa Veeramuthu