Kesavakumar S J

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Project/Program Manager- Experis US (A Manpower Company)

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Client: Cisco Systems Inc. July 2011 - Present

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Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO) in Cisco helps IT effectively introduce

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changes to business organization using the Operating Model framework. Managing, leading Global

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Business Partners (GBP) by collaborating with other Program & Release managers ensuring quality,

stability & reliability for all projects participating in releases. LinkedIn

Kesavakumar S J

Roles & Responsibilities

Managing 50+ cross functional resources globally; projects varying $100K to $3M

About Me

Drive the on-time and effective delivery of high quality Enterprise Releases of varying

Decisive, action-oriented

magnitude across Cisco IT (working with Dev PM, QA PM & Operations)

and results focused

Follow Release planning,execution processes, define & manage release schedules/milestones

professional offering

from scoping until the production

Collaborate & manage release processes across all functions within Cisco IT & Business stake ~10 yrs. of experience in

holders Project/Program

Identify and track key metrics critical to project success that improve predictability, identify risk Management, Release &

& execute on the mitigation strategies Change Management,

Implementing metrics, processes & tools to automate project health reporting and team Analysis & Design, Data

intra/inter communications warehousing (DWH) tools

Superior communication skills (status reporting) with Senior Leadership team including Cisco and methodologies.

Managers IT’s, Director’s & VP’s.

Offer out standing talents

Implementing best practices & spearheading continuous improvements with all release

in team building, budget

methodologies (Agile/Waterfall) within the framework of Cisco's corporate risk controls

management, developing

(Sarbanes-Oxley)

project scope (budgets,

timelines and delivery

Release Program & Transition Manager- Vedicsoft Solutions

dates), project& release

Client: Cisco Systems Inc. March 2009 – July 2011

planning, organization

relationships, continuous

BIDS EDW is one of the largest revenue generating groups within Cisco. Managing, leading the

design improvements and

planning efforts & execution of releases in both EDW data warehouses - Oracle & Teradata

conducting status

meetings and group

Roles & Responsibilities

reviews

Managed 6 resources globally; releases varying $1M to $0.5B

Participative management

Responsible for ensuring a coordinated & consistent response across multiple development

professional; results

teams during the IT scoping & development of functional specifications for a given release.

focused, entrepreneurial

Provide leadership to cross-functional teams by providing periodic progress reports to senior

and practical

management at various stages of the release lifecycle spread across 6+ months.

Work with cross-functional core team to define & document the readiness scope, develop Experience in design,

detailed readiness plans, track/manage the plan to successful completion of multiple releases development,

Responsible for setting up of various infrastructure (database, Informatica, $U ) for Release test implementation,

cycles & continue as the single point of contact for any escalations during releases. maintenance & operation

Responsible for risk management by identifying the potential risks in advance, proposing of multiple projects and

mitigation plans and securing management sign off ability to lead a team

Senior Software Engineer – Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Interest Areas

Client: Cisco Systems Inc. December 2004 – March 2009

Release Management

Roles Played: IT Analyst, Business Operations Lead

Program/Project Management

Cisco Finance IT group is another key contributor to the organizations revenue. Team specializes in IT Operations

OLAP Reporting for Business Metrics like Bookings, Invoice, Revenue, Deferred Revenue, P&L to Process Governance

perform critical business reports along with Data Integrity & reconciliations.

Roles & Responsibilities

Managed 4 offshore resources in providing 24/7 support to Cisco Finance IT team

Responsible for 24/7 uptime of critical P1 Finance applications. Audit, compliance reporting to

IT & Business teams

Closely interact with Controllers, Manager’s, IT Team to lay out new business models &

processes

Act as single POC for application releases, business critical P1’s, management escalations,

infrastructure upgrades & providing management reporting on the potential issues/risks

Preparation of technical specification documents & analysis of business requirement by

working closely with various application, business teams & SME’ s

Skills

Management Profile

Project Planning & Development Operations & Transition Management

Release & Change Management Program Management

SDLC & Release methodologies Onsite/Offshore team management

Technical Profile

Informatica, Hyperion Essbase 6.5/9.x, Data Stage

Data Warehousing

Business Objects 6.5/6.0/5.1/5.0 MS Access Reports

BI Tools

Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8.0/7.x, Teradata V2R6.x, Teradata V12 IBM

Databases

DB2, MS Access

SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, TSO, VSAM, Sun Solaris, MS DOS, Win

Programming GUI /Environment

3.x/95/98/NT/XP, Red Hat Linux, S 390 Mainframe system

Microsoft Office, HP Portfolio Management, Dollar Universe,

Other Tools

Remedy, Rally, JIRA, Perforce, Bamboo, Quality Center

Education

Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science (MS University 1999-2003)

Awards/Honors/Certifications

Operational Excellence Award (multiple times) - Cisco Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

team for successfully managing, leading & driving all programs & production releases

Release Recognition Award – Cisco Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO)

for drastically reducing Teradata Production down time

Certificate of Appreciation – Cisco Application Technology Services Organization (ATS)

team for outstanding performance & significant contribution to Kintana/PPM migration to

Richardson

Certificate of Appreciation – Cisco Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO)

for Quality Process Governance across all FY12 Infrastructure releases

Pat On Back Award (multiple times)- Satyam Computer Services Ltd for out standing

performance

ITIL V3 Fondation, Oracle Certified Associate, IBM S390 Mainframe Professional

(Currently undergoing PMP training to attend exam in October 2014)

Achievements

Enabled Mobility (for iOS platforms) for easy accessibility & project status tracking (Cisco)

Architected implementation of Enhanced User Release Experience program (robust

process enabling reporting & data through end to end problem management) saving $500K

annually (Cisco)

Faster data availability to Business Stakeholders during Prod Releases by reducing

Business disruption from 5 days to 12 hrs. & budget reduction by $ 0.5M (Cisco)

Introduced Project Portfolio Management workflow for Teradata platforms by working

with HP vendor & Configuration Management reducing man hours thus saving $75K

annually (Cisco)

Handled Teradata Production releases, data worth of 130 Terabytes (core financial data for

Cisco Finance IT, ~ 50M Revenue) (Cisco)

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