Project Management

Kannan Sowminarayanan

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Kannan Sowminarayanan

Experience Summary

Over 20 years of result oriented and progressive leadership experience in defining strategy and roadmaps program management across leading global customers

More than 10 years of experience in end to end program and project management managing multiple projects with global teams, coordinating with multiple business areas, technical horizontals and CoE’s for implementing systems and processes

Management of project & program implementing Data Warehouse and data migration solutions

Experience in defining strategy and roadmaps for programs creating detailed plans for each projects and its phases under the program.

Managed and delivered multiple projects & programs simultaneously for customer accounts with responsibilities of standardizing development & project management processes, issues & risks management, project tracking & reporting, customer management, resource, schedule & cost management, standardization of quality & metrics management process.

Release management to ensure combined releases by project and release cycles. Discuss with all stakeholders to determine the environment for each release and the projects for each release cycle

Monitor and track progress of all projects and programs to ensure successful implementation of regular release cycles

Business centric and focused on successful delivery and output that would provide value to the customer

Strong team player and have provided guidance to enable my team achieve higher levels to take more responsibilities for successful delivery

Also played roles of transformation manager to study customer processes to identify bottleneck and improvement areas. Implement solution that would provide value addition in terms of cost and schedule during project execution.

Experience in managing programs in Agile Models DevOps and CI&CD. Training and transforming customer processes to adopt to Agile and Devops models

Business development experience for Cognizant UK & Swiss BFSI. Provided solutions to proposals requests from customers that include technical, governance, delivery structure, schedule & financial estimation.

Over 3 years as business analyst supporting various insurance products and project installs. Experience in providing functional and technical support with third party vendor products

Experience in business requirement definition, functional & technical design, coding, functional and UAT testing, traceability of business process to application functions to technical coding

Strong knowledge in financial sector particular in areas of Wealth management, Credit card processing, payments, settlements, SWIFT standards, PCI standards, Retail banking, Online and Mobile Banking, Digital channels, insurance distribution, compensation, mutual funds and exchange operations

Functional Skills

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Financial Services Experience in credit card operations particular in areas, authorizations, payments, settlement, clearance, statements, product controls and account updates

Experience in implementing custom online banking solutions for retail banking. Also experienced in implementing mobile banking, digital channels

Overall understanding on Payments and cross products functions from messaging, payment processing, error process, positions and client reporting

Possess a good understanding of mutual fund operation on fund accounting, transfer agency operations

Knowledge of exchange operations from trading to settlement and screen based trading

Possess a good knowledge on insurance processes in distribution, compensation and agent/agency management

MRO Operations Knowledge of supply chain management for MRO operations particular in areas of pricing and warehouse management

Technology Skills COBOL, CICS, SQL server, DB2, IMS, JCL, JIRA, VSAM, MS Project Plan, Understanding of Content Management, DevOps, IaaS, Paas, SaaS, Agile Methodology, Waterfall and Iterative development model Educational Background

PGDBM (Finance & IT) 2004 - Executive MBA program from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Silver Medalist and a Roll of Honor student

Bachelor of Engineering 1996 – University of Madras Kannan Sowminarayanan

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Employment History

Cognizant Technology Solutions – Jan 2000 till date; Current Designation – Senior Project Manager

Covansys – Jan 1997 to Dec 1999

Project Experience

Transformation Manager for Global Life Science Customer Client Global Life science customer

Duration Oct 2016 till date

Location Foster City, CA

Abstract Delivery & Transformation Manager for Customer Testing CoE. Responsible for managing transformation and implement projects using tools & automation that will enable a higher ROI and lower cost of project execution for customer. Also responsible for standardizing the contractual metrics, data collection and periodic reporting process.

Role Create and track transformation management plan that includes a roadmap for the tools & automation implementation across various projects for 2016 & 2017

Calculate ROI based on the percentage of automaton and obtain customer approval for implementing the transformation across projects

Implement Workday solution as part of multiple solutions. Workday implementation includes implementation & integration

Managed services model with responsibility for managing multiple projects from estimation till delivery. Ensure projects are delivered on schedule with in budget

Resource management to ensure correct skill fitment and cost under control. Risk and issue management to ensure that projects are on track at all times

Standardized the contractual metrics in discussion with customer and other stakeholders

Provided guidance to team for data collection and periodic reporting to showcase quality to customer

Proactive solution to identify improvement areas through metrics and implement it across projects to ensure higher ROI and better performance and productivity

Provided leadership through periodic governance meeting to discuss projects status and project ROI for future business progress and development

Business development to provide solutions for proposals from customers that include various technical, financial and delivery solutions Kannan Sowminarayanan

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Delivery Management of Quality Engineering & Operations for a Large Credit Card Customer

Client Credit Card Customer

Duration June 2015 till Sep 2016

Location Cognizant US

Abstract Delivery Management of Quality Engineering & Operations (QEO) sub unit of Enterprise Software Quality management area. Responsible for stabilizing the operations, providing continuous operational support for quality teams, identifying improvement opportunities and gaps, implement solutions for improvement and track transformational benefits and ensure benefits turned over to the customer in terms of optimized cost or resourcing. Implementation of regular releases and new projects in Payments and settlement areas.

Role Responsible for delivery of QEO team which enables all test environments to be up and stable 24x6

Providing Leadership to the QEO team to guide and enable them which will ensure that application or environment issues are minimal

Manage and coordinate with multiple stakeholders for arriving at the optimal project grouping for implementation in test environment for testing

Ensure environment are up to date with current code from all projects and under control on a continuous basis

Release management to ensure combined releases by project and release cycles

Discuss with all stakeholders to determine the environment for each release and the projects for each release cycle

Monitor and track progress of all projects and programs to ensure successful implementation of regular release cycles

Responsible for managing the program in a output based pricing with right resourcing to meet profit goals

Created analytics based reporting with various parameters to identify least performing application development areas and to help customer remove bottleneck and improve performance

Managed programs in Agile model with Devops model ensuring continuous integration and continuous delivery

Created an operational automation and transformation automation work item tracker mapping to goals and sub goals of customer 2020 plan. Tracked the performance of the operational improvement and transformational impact, quantified and reported to the customer on periodic basis

Reporting performance during monthly governance call to all stakeholders and ensure all metrics are met as per the contract

Ensured benefit turn over to customer resource and/or cost optimization Kannan Sowminarayanan

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Business Development for BFS UK & Swiss Markets and Delivery Manager for a Midsize UK Bank

Client BFS UK & Swiss Customers

Duration Jul 2013 - June 2015

Location Cognizant India Of fshore

Abstract Business development for BFS UK & Swiss customers. Responsible for managing responses for RFP/RFI’s in addition to providing solutions for technology areas. Coordinate with technology horizontals & corporate groups for providing responses as expected by the customer. Responsible for presentations for follow up customer meetings. Ensure solutions differentiators are highlighted to customers in addition to support in pricing level discussions. Also responsible for maintaining BFS UK corporate presentations.

Delivery manager for implementing a Data Warehouse solution for a Midsize UK retail bank to analyze the customer data for marketing

Role Responsible for managing responses to RFPs/RFIs for various BFS UK customers

Provide solutions, governance model, differentiators, case studies & pricing

Provide leadership through coordination with multiple horizontals and corporate groups to provide responses

Prepare & maintain responses plan and ensure responses are in track as per the plan

Provide estimates, pricing and profitability calculations and include them as part of responses

Address general information requirement in areas such as Information security, networking, legal and financial information

Project Management for implementing a Datwarehouse solution from requirement to implementation. Managed schedule, risk and issues for a fixed price project. Ensured successful implementation of project without any defect leakage

Project Planning through work break structure and arrive at schedule duration for each phase and meet implementation date set up by customer considering aspects of resource needed and cost for completion of each activity and profitability

Project Monitoring and tracking to ensure risks/issues are captured and mitigated early in life cycle

Mobile banking and Digital channel solution implementation for midsize UK bank Delivery Management for a Large Swiss Bank

Client Large Swiss Bank

Duration Dec 2008 – Jun 2013

Location Cognizant India Of fshore

Abstract Delivery Management includes support for business development, forecasting, Kannan Sowminarayanan

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resource management, setting up of project teams, delivery management, implementing new organizational processes at SBU level, ensuring quality & timely delivery of all projects in the account

Role Delivery management of all Wealth Management America (WMA) and Wealth Management and Swiss bank projects ensuring that delivery is on time and within budget

Manage multiple projects and programs and projects in an Agile and Iterative development model

Initiate new projects in discussion with customer and create project plans through standardized WBS process considering cost, schedule and profitability

Monitor Track projects for issues & risks and mitigate them early. Report performance to all stakeholders periodically.

Ensure successful project delivery & implementation within timelines and budget

Multiple project delivery and track all project risks, issues and status on continuous basis for implementing proactive solutions and ensuring deliverables are of high quality

Manage contract for new projects and monthly invoicing based on the pricing models

Setting up of the ODC environment for WMSB for execution of projects in onsite offshore model

Projects range from Co-sourced, managed services, fixed bid and staff aug model

Resource management across the account. Ensure minimal and required buffer

Enhancing the skill set of the associates in the account to meet the expectations of the customers in new technology

Responsible for Best in Class, BFS Engineering excellence processes as SBU champion

Business Development for APAC Insurance Markets

Client APAC Insurance market

Duration Sep 2008 – Dec 2008

Location Cognizant India Of fshore

Abstract Develop business plan and strategy for market penetration. Coordinate and support sales team in business development activities. Develop and substantiate Investment plans for business development and to project Cognizant brand in new markets. Role Create detailed business plans on APAC markets

Investment plans for activities to project Cognizant capabilities

Creating a country wise list of insurance players and shortlist clients based on defined criteria’s as per the business plans

Setting up weekly calls with sales team to provide focus list of clients and for status tracking on follow-up and new requirements

Create client profiling for each customer and provide to the sales support groups Kannan Sowminarayanan

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and sales teams

Senior Business Analyst - PMACS (Producer Management, Accounting and Compensation System)

Client Global Insurance Customer

Duration Jan 2005 – Sep 2008

Location West Des Moines, USA

Technology SQL server, Java

Project Abstract PMACS application supports Agent/Agency information, Licensing and appointment information for agents/agencies, Compensation and accounting. The applications supports only on the Individual Distribution group business area. Business analysis and requirement creation for various project inclusive of transition of product from client server to Web platform

Role High Level Strategy for design, resourcing, timelines, project execution strategy

New business development, financial planning, Project planning and tracking

Analysis of systems for Enhancements and improvement of business processes

Design and Implementation of projects involving changed and new business processes

Analysis of new requirements and developing the high level design

Manage projects involving new product installs that involve client, application development team, third party vendors, upstream downstream partners, QA partners

Lead effort on application rationalization involving system merging, analyze and develop gap functionality, data conversion efforts Custom Management reporting and Mainframe Standardization Client US Trust

Duration Jun 2003 – Jan 2005

Location Chennai, Kolkata

Technology IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL, Crystal Reports Project Abstract Mainframe Standardization - This project involves consolidation of the various mainframe systems into one single Mainframe with a standard COBOL Usage. Custom Management Reporting - Develop reports that is shared with customer Senior management and also to the Clients of customer

Role Provide domain expertise for various project initiatives

Analysis of new requirements, developing the high level design & specifications

Knowledge transition, setting up of offshore teams, coding, Metrics management Kannan Sowminarayanan

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Infrastructure setup for new ODC

Project Management and delivery responsibilities OEP application enhancement and IAS Reengineering

Client US Financial services company

Duration May 2001 – Jun 2003

Location Kolkata

Technology IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS

Project Abstract The IAS application is part of fund accounting systems used for calculation of NAV, ROI, Trading of shares on the funds etc., Enhancements were carried out on error correction systems and incorporating short sales capability into the system. OEP system handles the Institutional Investors accounts. The system calculates the dividends, position of various funds, handles purchases, redemptions, transfer of shares for each institutional account.

Role Analyzing the proposed client requirement and preparing the business requirement document as per the identified requirements

Tuning the architecture of IAS application

Designing modules and preparing detailed design documents as per business requirements documents

Estimation, project tracking and distribution of work to all team members PCF Re-architecture

Client US Financial Services Company

Duration Jan 2000 – May 2001

Location Chennai

Technology IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS

Project Abstract This Project is to re-design the PCF application of the customer. It Involves database redesign. PCF application is the control application that sets the process and properties for each card member such as credit limit, withdrawal balances, type of card holder etc., The application database was static and whenever there were new properties added it led to change of the database. The database was redesigned to be more dynamic in nature

Role Perform an impact analysis to identify components affected by modified architecture

Change the identified affected components.

Analyze the specification document sent by the client for discrepancies with the current business logic of existing programs and come up with a discrepancies Kannan Sowminarayanan

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Coding of new programs against the modified new database

Test the coded programs against the database and also comparing it with the files and databases from current production using the de-conversion logic Pricing Applications Support

Client US MRO Company

Duration Feb 1997 – Jan 2000

Location Chennai

Technology IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS

Project Abstract The project is to study the business of the pricing applications, interact with users, and support the applications.

Role On call support

Enhancements like new pricing logic for different clients, adding new price buckets, and daily download of prices to a new ERP system

Understanding the pricing applications and its fit in the overall supply chain

Setting up offshore team to provide support from offshore such as quality processes, knowledge transfer, establishing communication channels and processes etc.,

Weekly and monthly status reporting

Produce a detailed diagram of the supply chain process

Write programs for downloading the data from IMS and DB2 databases to be sent as file for uploading in ERP databases as one time effort

Differential or daily updated data was downloaded and sent to be updated in ERP databases

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