Program Management and Project Management - Similarities and Differences
Sambuddha Deb - Chief Global Delivery Officer, Wipro Ltd

About the Speaker

Sambuddha Deb is responsible for executing confidential delivery contracts entered between Wipro and its customers. He is responsible for delivering world class products to all of Wipro's customers through all its Global delivery centres in a cost efficient manner.

Prior to this he was the Chief Quality Officer at Wipro. He was responsible for leading Wipro's Quality, Productivity, Six Sigma and Knowledge Management initiatives. He has been instrumental in leading Wipro through the PCMM Level 5 certification and the CMMi Level 5 certification. Sambuddha had successfully led the integration of Six Sigma into software development processes at Wipro and also broad-basing Six Sigma application to different functional processes across Wipro Technologies. He had launched Lean in Software for Wipro over the last three years. During his tenure, Wipro became the first non-US company to receive IEEE award for software process improvements. Wipro has also been the ASIAN MAKE finalist for Best Knowledge Management for the last 4 years.

He has been the Keynote speaker in International forums like IQPC, Gartner, Fabtech, World Data Mining Conference 2007 and International Association Product Developers symposium 2006. He was invited as a speaker for JPMC's Lab Morgan Speaker series. He has been a guest speaker at Marshall School of Management, USC, Stern Business School, NYU, Harvard Business School and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Prior to the current assignment, he was the Chief Executive for Wipro’s Manufacturing & Health Care Solutions worldwide. He has an Engineering Degree and a Post Graduation in Management. He has been in the Industry for the last 25 years. He has experience in software delivery, service, system Integration and sales.