Jaganathan Vimalanathan PMP CSM Mobile: 818-***-****

Experience Summary

Dedicated and results-oriented Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in leading and managing complex projects. Proven track record of assuming fiscal responsibility, ensuring project delivery within budget and timelines, and fostering strong client relationships. PMP certified which evaluates and certifies the concepts, methodologies and practices for project management practices. Adept at leveraging tools like MS Project and Jira to enhance project efficiency.

Experience

01 Company: Capgemini Americas Inc

Role: Project Manager

Project Duration: Feb 2013 to Current

Responsibilities:

Extensive project management activities included: people management, schedule management, risk management, metrics, and quality procedure adherence

Managed enterprise level implementation projects valued above $1M, build and manage the project management office, recruit project managers and technical staffs for the project

As a PMP (Project Management Professional) certified project manager, responsible for overseeing projects from the planning stage through implementation, testing and reporting

Coordinated technical changes with cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration of system upgrades.

Defined project activities, milestones, and sequencing tasks to meet objectives and deliverables.

Identified, documented, and escalated project issues and dependencies to the appropriate management team.

Communicated technical change activities and scheduled outages effectively to stakeholders.

Managed change requests, tracking progress with team members and updating statuses in ServiceNow.

Hosted stakeholder meetings to intake, track status, and understand new project and technical requests.

Prepared key documents, presented business cases, and produced reports while collaborating with stakeholders to bring technical deliverables for projects to completion.

Managed 3rd vendor negotiations, worked on their proposals with finance team and creation of SOW for the services provided

Identify, assess, and mitigate risks at the project and portfolio levels

Experience in developing and executing strategy for cloud migration and implementation

Developed a communication plan in facilitating proper and on-time communication with key stakeholders and project teams

Company: Capgemini Americas Inc

Role: Project Manager/Scrum Master

Project Duration: Feb 2009 to Jan 2013

Responsibilities:

Managed the successful migration of Theatrical/Television data from Legacy Mainframe (VSAM and Flat Files) to SQL DB which had a cost saving of $5 Million per year. Worked with client functional and technical implementation teams, scoped the technical work, selected resources, and developed the Staffing, Master Data conversion, Regression testing, and Integration plans

Managed the upgrade and roll out of SAP GUI 7.60 and Win shuttle 12.1 to 3000 SAP users across different platforms like Desktop, Citrix and VDI’s.

Accountable for the rewriting of legacy Great Plains ERP system into SAP finance system

02

Company:

Capgemini India Private Ltd

Project Description:

Support, Maintenance and Enhancement of client Mainframe systems on 24/7 basis. Enhancements to the LCIS (Legacy Customer Information System) which is the core system for client business and billing. Address the issues raised by business users.

Role:

Team Leader/Software Developer

Duration:

Aug 2004 to Jan 2009

03

Company:

SCOPE International Pvt Ltd

Project Description:

Support, Maintenance and Enhancement of IMEX (Imports and Exports) mainframe system.

Role:

Software Developer

Duration:

Nov 2003 to Aug 2004

04

Company:

Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

Project Description:

Support, Maintenance and Enhancement of Services and Parts Operations (SPO) Mainframe system.

Role:

Developer

Project Duration:

Oct 2000 to Nov 2003

Professional Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) by Scrum Alliance

AWS Solution Architect Associate by Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Expired

Higher Education

Bacherlors of Engineering, Regional Engineering College (REC) - Jaipur

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