Rajeev Sharma, Pmp, Csm
About Rajeev Sharma, Pmp, Csm
Rajeev Sharma is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Kohl's with extensive experience in program and portfolio management, specializing in cloud computing and Agile methodologies.
Current Role at Kohl's
Rajeev Sharma serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at Kohl's, a position he has held since 2018. Located in Milpitas, California, he is responsible for various high-impact initiatives, including driving Peak Readiness initiatives for the Kohls.com platform. His role focuses on ensuring the platform operates in Active-Active mode, thereby enhancing user experience and cloud infrastructure availability.
Previous Experience at Infosys Limited
Prior to his role at Kohl's, Rajeev Sharma had an extensive career at Infosys Limited. He served in multiple roles, including Senior Program Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2016 to 2017, Portfolio Manager in Hyderabad, India from 2014 to 2016, and Program Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2006 to 2014. He also held the position of Project Manager at Infosys Tech Ltd from 2002 to 2006 in India.
Educational Background
Rajeev Sharma has a strong educational background. He studied Civil Engineering at Osmania University, earning his Bachelor's degree from 1993 to 1997. He subsequently attended IIIT Hyderabad, where he specialized in Mainframe Technologies, completing his course in 1997. Rajeev also pursued Project Management at PMI, achieving PMP certification over a decade-long study period from 2012 to 2022.
Technical Expertise and Specializations
Rajeev Sharma has implemented solutions across various cloud computing technologies, including AWS and GCP. He specializes in Agile methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, TDD, and Kanban, utilizing tools like Rally and Jira. Rajeev has extensive experience working with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Kafka, Mirror Maker, Cassandra, Google Spanner, Redis, Sqoop, and Hive. Additionally, he holds domain expertise in the Finance sector, specifically within Payment and Equity.
Key Projects and Initiatives
During his tenure, Rajeev Sharma has led several key projects and initiatives. Notably, he developed the 2020 roadmaps for the Product Master Database, which involved migrating over 64 applications to cloud-based GraphQL services. He has also identified and implemented key security initiatives across the enterprise, including VAULT.