Dwaraka Iyengar
Texas, USA
Dwaraka Iyengar, PMP has over 30 years of IT management consulting experience in the government, health, housing, insurance, manufacturing, finance, retail promotion and transportation industries. Dwaraka is a Senior Manager, IT-PMO, at MoneyGram International Inc, a global leader in the financial service industry enabling money transfers. In this role, Dwaraka is in charge of mentoring Project Managers, establishing standards and ensuring IT delivers business value to the organizations. Prior to this, Dwaraka was Assistant Vice President, Technical Communications at Innodata, a publicly traded Content Management Solutions consulting service organization. At Innodata, Dwaraka stood up a global Program Management Office and also headed the business development and delivery wings of Technical Communications Practice. He is also a part-time instructor at Collin County Community College District in North Texas.
Dwaraka manages and leads large development projects and has also successfully done so for Fortune 500 transportation and retail promotion companies. Dwaraka was primarily responsible for implementing offshore projects and processes in those engagements. Prior to the offshore engagements, he had served as an Engagement Manager for Syntel Inc., an outsourcing IT company that consulted to Ford, AIG and Blue Cross Blue Shield among its clients. Dwaraka received his PMP certification in 1998 and has served on the award winning PMI Dallas Chapter education committee since then. Dwaraka is a Past President of the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is currently a member of the Governance and Admin Best Practices committee at the Region 6 level of PMI.
Dwaraka Iyengar can be contacted at projectmgmtprof@gmail.com.
Posted February 2015