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Venkatesh Upadrista

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Upadrista Venkatesh began compiling technical encyclopedias as a high school student nearly twenty years ago. Born in India in 1976, Venkat studied mathematics and computers at Andhra University and received his bachelor’s degree in 1996. In 1995, Venkat took the vast collection of experimental facts from various sources and the research that he had been accumulating since his teenage years and began to deploy them on the early Internet. These pioneering efforts at organizing and presenting his ideas on technical designs defined a paradigm that other large-scale informational projects on the web have subsequently followed. In the late 90s, he shifted his career and perspective from the technical venue to management. Since then, he has been experimenting with and researching different management principles in a successful managerial career.

Upadrista Venkatesh is currently managing the delivery of multiple accounts for one of India’s top IT service providers. He has been an advisor to a number of e-business initiatives and has had a successful career in setting up PMOs and competency centers, aligning new verticals, etc. in his the IT industry. He has extensive experience working with customers and has been successful in all of his major assignments, earning the customers’ confidence. He also has worked in vendor management, being motivated to see himself succeed in the goal along with the vendor organization. His experience moves across product and project management. He has worked in a blended mixture of the onsite/offshore model and through his experience, has helped some customers move their strategies from the onsite model to the onsite/offshore model. He has a proven successful record of accomplishment as the advisor for major customers transforming their project models from the traditional life cycle model to the Agile development model. He has dealt with large project agreements bringing accounts from the conceptual stage to million–dollar programs and has demonstrated great expertise in pre-sales as well. His current research and interests focus on the management of strategic changes in an organization seeking to move to the Agile development approach.

You can reach him on his number 91-9849643233 or on his e-mail: Upadrista@yahoo.com.