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Work Background

SOLARTIS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITEDSenior Manager

Jul. 2024 - Jan. 2025Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India• Established a Centre of Excellence for product implementation, driving innovation and best practices to boost team performance and productivity by 25%. • Developed and executed program frameworks across 10+ customers, resulting in a 15% improvement in operational efficiency and a 10% reduction in project risks. • Mentored team members to foster career growth, providing strategic coaching and guidance on technical skills to drive exceptional performance. • Leading teams to enhance the quality of project deliveries by providing strategic guidance and mentorship, cultivating a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Proactively identifying and overcoming obstacles to ensure seamless, efficient project execution and process optimization, driving successful outcomes across the board.

Nous InfosystemsSenior Program Manager

Jan. 2024 - Jun. 2024Bengaluru, Karnataka, India• Oversaw business environment, program goals, and risk mitigation plans, ensuring alignment of KPIs and strategic objectives across individuals, business units, and project teams. • Acting as the key liaison for daily business metrics and issue resolution, ensuring smooth operations and swift problem-solving. Empowering the team through visionary leadership, guiding career development, and driving individual performance by providing mentorship, coaching, and expertise on technology stacks and certifications. Enhanced business value proposition for customers and the organization by developing effective relationships between stakeholders to streamline the delivery process. • Enhance the business value proposition for both customers and the organization by cultivating strong, strategic relationships with customers, partners, and internal teams. Streamlining delivery processes to foster collaboration and ensure the achievement of key business objectives, driving mutual success and long-term customer satisfaction. • Champion the adoption of industry-leading methodologies, processes, and tools by collaborating with organizational leaders to establish best practices that drive innovation, efficiency, and sustained success. • Inspiring and leading the team to elevate project delivery quality through innovative guidance and a steadfast commitment to excellence. Proactively identifying and overcoming challenges that could hinder successful outcomes, while ensuring seamless, efficient project implementation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high-performance leadership.

WiproDelivery Manager

Jan. 2021 - Aug. 2023India• Led end-to-end strategy & execution of programs/projects, contributing to the organization's achievement of business goals. • Strategically monitoring the business environment, financial performance, & program objectives, while executing proactive risk mitigation plans to ensure seamless alignment with KPIs. Drove performance across individuals, teams, & business units, ensuring all efforts are tightly aligned with organizational goals & long-term strategic vision. • Crafting & executing comprehensive program plans & strategies, including detailed roadmaps, dependency mapping, & optimized resource allocation, to ensure seamless alignment with both organizational goals & client objectives. • Transforming customer experience by identifying key pain points & delivering tailored, innovative solutions that surpass expectations. Leveraging data-driven insights & continuous feedback to drive satisfaction, loyalty, & lasting relationships. • Forging transformative partnerships & driving high-impact stakeholder collaboration (vendors, clients, & internal teams) to streamline delivery processes & accelerate the realization of digital business objectives. • Spearheading & masterminding the end-to-end management of multiple high-stakes Request for Proposals (RFPs), ensuring their exceptional execution to surpass business objectives & accelerate organizational growth. • Cultivating a relentless culture of continuous advancement & mastery in project management to maximize efficiency & drive exceptional results. Championed integration of groundbreaking innovations, industry-leading methodologies, processes, & tools in strategic collaboration with organizational leaders. • Empowering the team to deliver exceptional project outcomes through visionary leadership & dedicated support, instilling a culture of relentless excellence & innovation. Proactively identifying & eliminating obstacles to ensure flawless, efficient execution & the seamless achievement of project objectives.

CognizantManager - Projects

May. 2011 - Jan. 2021Chennai Area, India• Successfully managed projects and programs by collaborating with clients, optimizing continuous delivery, automating releases with the DevOps team, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to drive project excellence. • Pioneered transformative team upskilling initiatives, uncovering 20+ high-impact utilities beyond core deliverables. Spearheaded dynamic knowledge-sharing sessions on emerging technologies, accelerating professional growth and fostering a collaborative culture. Empowered the team with advanced skills in sustainable engineering, customer insights, loyalty, cultural intelligence, strategic decision-making, and innovative problem-solving, ensuring long-term success and resilience. • Architected and optimized processes to establish exceptional control and mastery over applications and ecosystems. Developed and implemented agile workflows to efficiently manage production tickets and high-priority incidents, quickly resolving critical issues and driving continuous performance improvement. • Led agile execution of both minor and major release planning, ensuring seamless, high-impact deployments while safeguarding production stability as a gatekeeper for critical fixes. Championed the Scrum Master role, proactively identifying and eliminating roadblocks, while empowering the team through advanced upskilling in agile methodologies and cutting-edge technological trends. • Utilizing deep technical expertise in Microsoft technologies, I design and deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that fuel digital transformation and maximize business impact. With proficiency in cloud services, enterprise applications, and infrastructure, I create scalable, future-proof systems that enhance efficiency and integration. Leading forward-thinking initiatives, I empower organizations to achieve exceptional agility and long-term success.

CognizantSenior Associate

Mar. 2007 - May. 2011Chennai Area, India𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔- ✔ Project Planning Mastery: Developing comprehensive project plans and strategies encompassing delivery plans, dependency identifications, and resource utilization strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and program objectives. ✔ Project Ownership: Served as primary point of contact for day- to-day business execution, project delivery, metrics tracking and issue resolution. ✔ Efficient Partner Relationships: Developed effective working relationships with cross functional teams and customer teams to enable smooth delivery of project and achieve business objectives. ✔ Delivery Quality Leadership: Leading team to implement measures to elevate the quality of project deliveries by providing expert guidance fostering a culture of delivery excellence. ✔ Technical Leadership: Implemented various projects using various Microsoft technologies (ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net, .Net Core, Web API, MVC, Azure) while guiding the team members and helping resolve their challenges. Designed architecture for multiple projects which helped both myself and organization to achieve mutual growth.

PSI Data SystemsTeam Leader

Dec. 2005 - Mar. 2007Bengaluru Area, India𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ✔ Publish weekly status reports for the senior management on project activities. ✔ Publish monthly project health reports and conduct reviews with customers to monitor the project health. ✔ Was involved in designing the architecture of various applications. ✔ Was involved in coding and co-ordination with internal and external teams. ✔ Team Management associated with effort estimation, prioritization and activity planning. ✔ Introduce process to handle the production support tickets and scenarios. ✔ Fixing issues on Priority and provide enhancements to fine tune the bottle necks in applications. ✔ Coordinating with the reporting manager in preparation of metrics and adherence to quality processes.

Subhashree Infotech Pvt LtdProject Manager

Jun. 2004 - Dec. 2005Chennai Area, India𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ✔ Requirement Analysis, development of HLD, Database Design, Segregation of Modules, Verifying Test Cases for various projects while maintaining high customer satisfaction through continuous discussion and updating of work in progress to clients. ✔ Worked with various international clients spanning across the globe. ✔ Gathered functional requirements from Business users for Cheque Leaf Information Processing System for Ingram Micro (India) Ltd., and formulated them along with the associated Business Rules & Validations, process/activity maps and the state transition diagrams. ✔ Was materialistic in the requirements gathering, planning, database design, development and implementation of a web portal for Citizen Watches India Ltd., Involved in development of a template to update the website contents and manage products, i.e., add, modify or remove products from time to time ✔ Arriving upon estimation for implementing the requirements using WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) technique and validated the same using FPA (Function Point Analysis). ✔ Created Business Process Definitions. Pre & Post Conditions were analyzed and formulated in the Functional Specifications. ✔ Created the Logical and Physical data models adhering to the RDBMS concepts as part of the database design. Generated the tables, indexes, and views and provided the required grants and privileges. ✔ Created PL/SQL Stored Procedures & Triggers for processing the database operations. ✔ Was involved in solving critical performance issues using database query optimizations. ✔ Was responsible for scheduling the team activities. ✔ Was responsible for timely delivery of deliverables. ✔ Was responsible for implementation and configuration of the environment at client infrastructure.

Maansarovar SoftwareSenior Developer

Jan. 2002 - May. 2004Chennai Area, India𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ✔ Design and Development of web based application for managing the transactions of accounts of various clients and transmit the data to the centralized server located at the parent company and other departments of Ohio State. ✔ Involved in unit testing, integration testing and implementation. Also participated in remote end user training through chat. ✔ In the implementation Phase of the Project, was a Quality Coordinator and was responsible for analyzing and fixing the bugs reported by the client and in the development of new functionalities as specified by the client. ✔ Learnt Advanced Java technologies to participate in the project. ✔ Also earned knowledge on the configuration and implementation on Linux Servers outside out of own interest.

VirtualByteDeveloper

Mar. 2000 - Nov. 2001Chennai Area, India𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 - ✔ Involved in Design and Development of various applications like Hospital Maintenance System, School Management System and Asset Manager as the products range of the organization. ✔ Also involved in the Database Designing and User Interface Designing. ✔ Also was materialistic in developing in-house Project Management system and HRM systems for automation. ✔ Was delivering assignments before schedule. ✔ Was promoted as Developer in a span of three months as recognition for the commitment and dedication towards work.