Manager Project

VELLAY NARAYANAN

Doylestown, PA *****

***********@*****.*** 267-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/VellayappanNarayanan SENIOR GLOBAL IT MANAGER

Collaborative Sr. Manager leveraging technology, best practices, standard methodologies, and program/project management to implement organizational improvements. Utilize competency models to grow organization into cohesive team that delivers on targeted goals within budget. Expertise includes:

Program Management / Project

Management /Agile Product Owner

Team Development

Cross-functional IT Methodologies &

Techniques

CRM, Supply Chain

Global IT Industry Knowledge

Manufacturing, Consumer Goods,

Insurance, Telecommunication

Knowledge

Process Improvement

Application Development and Support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Unilever, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 2004 to Now

IT Core MD Solution Delivery Manager, Global Master Data 2015 to 2017 Program lead for Global Master Data Program. Managed project managers through best practices and methodologies. Oversaw execution, governance, and project budgets of over $2MM USD.

Successfully managed and delivered Global Material Master Data Program for 107 countries. 3 more countries WIP.

Managed around 2.1 million yearly budget with 60+ team members across 10+ countries, managed various 3rd party vendors (Accenture, IBM, BT, Incture, HCL, HP, Cognizant

Saved $148K by optimizing resources and convinced vendors to provide discount by promoting long term relationship instead of short term gains.

As a Product owner trained the team to change from Waterfall to Agile methodology, delivered 4 products successfully and saved $400k.

Managed L3 support (6 team members), supported 5 continents and improved SLA from 48% to 95%.

Manager BPM interfacing with 11 ecosystems (5 regional (Asia, Europe, Americas) ECCs, PLM, and BW).

Influenced the testing team to use auto testing by providing training, created the testing process to use HP QC for end to end defect tracking for the 26,261 script creation and execution.

Enforced MD Governance process in-place of strategic Master Data objects across functions.

Partnered with 30+ teams across the globe to deliver solutions to drive business requirements to achieve viable global solutions. (Solution Design Manager, Global architects, Domain leads, Cross Function leads, 3rd party vendors, business stake holders, program sponsors and SME Leads)

Managed 13 sub-team globally during various Post-Go-live support. Successfully handed over the Application to the support teams for various global releases.

Delivered yearly planning, program forecasting, business strategy and program technology roadmaps.

Engaged and developed relationship with leaders across organization to understand functional business requirements and identified opportunities for growth. Americas Solution Delivery Manager - Geography IT 2013 to 2015 Led centralized project execution team with global project managers. Tasked with execution of methodologies and best practices.

Managed and delivered America Master Data (Material, Vendor, Customer, and Pricing), has implemented in 29 North America and South American countries.

Managed around 800k yearly budget with 15+ team members across 5+ countries, managed various 3rd party vendors (Accenture, IBM, BT, Incture, HCL, HP, Cognizant, ESS for the last couple of years.

Led the Data Center migration from US to UK program for North America Customer Development 10 applications. Migrated 40+ servers (Development, QA,DR and Production environments) with very minimal down time

Managed multiple projects end to end from Pre-Idea (BOSCARD, BRD), ideas, Feasibility (Contract), Capability, Launch and closure (BRD to estimate to fund approval to project submission to project planning to PAD to Build to Test to T2S (KT) to Deploy to PGLS).

Evaluated IT department for acquisition and merger.

Delivered very high quality deliverable, less than 5 PGLS defects and they by keeping the customer happy. Reduced the cost around 32k USD in the last one year on these deliverables. Project Manager / Geo IT Innovation Business Partner 2004 to 2013 Led and delivered Functional specification, technical specification, Coding, testing, implementation and support various systems in North America.

The systems were Call Center, Food Solutions, Trade Promotion Management, Account Management & Planning System, Account Payment System, Account Bank Reports, Account Admin Tools, and Accrual Rates Administration System.

Future Technologies Inc., USA 2001 to 2004

Senior Consultant - Horizon-Blue Cross Blue Shield, NJ 2001 to 2004 Delivered Functional specification, technical specification, Coding, testing, implementation.

Led analysis that identified critical external manufacturers based on volume and product importance. Silverline Technologies Inc., and Ltd., USA, 1998 to 2001. Consultant – Strategic products and services – Lucent’s Associate, NJ 1999 to 2001

Coding, testing and implementation.

Software engineer – Silverline Tech India 1998 to 1999

Coding, testing and implementation.

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS

Master in Computer application (MCA) 1994 to 1997, Madras University, India.

Bachelor in Commerce (Finance) 1991 to 1994, Madras University, India.

Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology and System Management 1994 to 1997, NIIT, India.

CRM Siebel 1999, Siebel University, CA, USA.

PMP PMI 2008, NJ, USA.

Agile Methodology – Product Owner 2016, cPrime, VA, USA. VOLUNTEER WORK

Part of Core leadership team of NPO, raised around $500K, helped student education, food aid to senior citizens, and Marriage funding. Coach, Manager and been treasurer for soccer teams for the last 8 years.

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