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Education
B.Tech. Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Sree Chaitanya Institute of Engineering
2008
Certifications
- • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- • Agile Product Owner
- • Python for Automation (self-directed learning)
- • Applied Generative AI & Intelligent Document Processing in Enterprise Systems
Domains
- • Oil & Gas / Industrial EPC
- • Enterprise Engineering Software
- • Engineering Digital Twins
- • Industrial AI & Data Quality
- • Autonomous Operations Strategy
Core Skills
- • Scope & Acceptance Criteria
- • Agile Planning & Dependencies
- • Customer & Vendor Coordination
- • QA & Release Management
- • Data Architecture & Integration
- • Jira & Azure DevOps
- • SmartPlant Instrumentation
- • Python & SQL
Languages
- • English (Professional)
- • Telugu (Native)
- • Hindi (Conversational)
- • Tamil (Starter)
Prashanth Thipparthi
Industrial Digital Delivery | Project Management | CSPO
Profile Summary
Industrial technology professional and Certified Scrum Product Owner with a career spanning engineering, enterprise software delivery, and digital transformation since 2012. Seven years in product ownership at Hexagon, coordinating customer requirements, scope, Agile delivery, and release quality for enterprise engineering software used across 50+ countries. Currently Lead ? Digitalization at Bilfinger Tebodin Middle East, driving Engineering Digital Twin enablement and Autonomous Operations strategy for ADNOC assets. Combines industrial domain knowledge with vendor coordination, integration architecture, and engineering data governance. Seeking to bring this experience to Cognite as a Project Manager delivering Industrial AI customer outcomes.
Project Delivery Capabilities
- • Delivery planning: translate customer requirements into prioritised scope, user stories, acceptance criteria, and coordinated sprint and release delivery.
- • Stakeholder coordination: work across enterprise customers, engineering, QA, UX, and technology vendors to clarify requirements and validate delivery.
- • Quality and dependencies: coordinate testing, manage release dependencies, and evaluate acceptance criteria alongside patch and hotfix delivery.
- • Technical fluency: engineering systems, historian integration, enterprise data flows, contextualisation, asset hierarchies, and AI-enabled document workflows.
Key Achievements
- • Shipped 10+ major enterprise product releases for a platform used by industrial clients across 50+ countries.
- • Earned 3 Performance Excellence Awards and 2 Project Excellence Awards at Hexagon for critical product delivery.
Selected Industrial Delivery Work
- • SmartPlant Instrumentation modernisation ? defined scope, workflows, and acceptance criteria for loop drawings, offline engineering, and specification modules; coordinated engineering, QA, UX, and customer stakeholders while preserving legacy compatibility.
- • ADNOC Digital Twin enablement ? evaluate AI, analytics, robotics, and Digital Twin vendors; define integration and data architectures supporting engineering data readiness and autonomous operations use cases.
Work Experience
Lead – Digitalization
Nov 2024 – PresentBilfinger Tebodin Middle East
- • Drive Engineering Digital Twin enablement and Autonomous Operations strategy for ADNOC assets, covering use-case discovery, roadmap development, and data strategy.
- • Lead technical discussions with AI, analytics, robotics, and Digital Twin vendors; assess solution fit, scalability, cybersecurity, and integration feasibility.
- • Define integration architectures linking engineering systems, historian platforms, enterprise systems, and AI layers; review vendor proposals for operational sustainability.
- • Design real-time and batch data flows, contextualisation models, and asset hierarchy alignment in line with ADNOC digital frameworks and engineering standards.
Key Results:
- ✓ Established data flow architectures and governance frameworks supporting Digital Twin enablement across operational domains.
Senior Product Owner – AI Workflows & Digitalisation
Jan 2017 – Aug 2024Hexagon AB
- • Owned backlog and release scope against customer requirements and business priorities, using Jira and Azure DevOps to coordinate cross-functional engineering delivery.
- • Worked directly with enterprise customers to gather requirements, clarify technical constraints, and validate delivered features against acceptance criteria.
- • Led sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives; managed dependencies across multiple Agile release cycles.
- • Defined test scope, coordinated QA, and owned patch and hotfix release cadence for enterprise engineering software.
Key Results:
- ✓ Delivered modernisation across engineering workflows for a global industrial customer base, including Oil & Gas, Power, and Chemicals.
Instrumentation & Documentation Engineer
2012 – 2016Worley · SNC Lavalin · Monarch Engineering
- • Delivered instrument data sheets, equipment lists, and technical documentation for Oil & Gas EPC projects — developing deep fluency in how industrial data is structured, reviewed, approved, and handed over across project lifecycles.
- • Developed expertise in SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI) and engineering data management systems — grounding that directly informs how I evaluate and govern digital programme delivery in industrial environments.