Program Management, Scrum Master, AWS solutions architect

Kandasami Subramanian

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kandasami-subramanian

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SUMMARY

An accomplished Director with 25+ years of IT experience in various domains-Insurance, HealthCare, Manufacturing, Finance and Energy Sector. Versatile, result oriented professional specialized in Transition, Service Delivery, Project, Program Management, Cloud solutioning and experience in managing multi-vendor teams. Motivated by new challenges with a passion to be successful in all endeavors.

• Project Management • Technology Integration • Revenue Maximization

• Program Management • Agile/Scrum Framework • Team Leadership

• Cloud Infrastructure • Budget Planning & Forecast • Process Improvement

• Technology Integration

• Performance Improvement

• Risk and Issue Management

• Account Management

CERTIFICATIONS, TRAINING & AWARDS

• OCI Gen AI Professional Jul 2024

Oracle

• Certified Scrum Master Aug 2021

Scrum Alliance

• Certified Solutions Architect Associate May 2020 Amazon

EXPERIENCE

Finzly, Inc Jun 2022 – Aug 2024

Director-Cloud Infrastructure

• Directed and implemented an automated onboarding and offboarding solution using PowerShell, Ansible, resulted 80% improvement per user onboarding time.

• Led the IaC initiative to centrally manage the EC2, RDS instances, ELB, Message Broker resources.

• Institutionalized Agile methodologies and improved cloud environment provisioning efficiency by over 50%.

• Planned, built and implemented cloud infrastructure services for Real Time Payment solution.

• Spearhead Zero Trust Network Access Implementation

• Devise and institutionalize Continuous Service Improvement.

• Managed and aligned Business Objectives with cloud infrastructure strategy to drive growth and profitability.

• Drove data migration activities, collaborating with stakeholders and following a structured application deployment across environments using AWS Systems Manager. Kandasami Subramanian

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Tata Consultancy Services Nov 2021 – Jun 2022

Client: Energy Sector FL

Program Manager

• Built data engineering team from the ground up, guided and directed to migrate client’s inhouse Management Information System to AWS Platform.

• Integrated external interfaces with varied technologies to AWS Glue, Event Bridge, Lambda, Python, API Gateway, Java

• Built second line and foster Knowledge Sharing culture.

• Assisted the team on agile methodology.

• Implemented Detailed Planning in development and deployment strategies for cloud-based solutions, significantly improving efficiency.

• Collaborated with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and IT teams to establish product roadmaps.

• Directed and provided technical assistance to the team on API design, performance, management aspects Cognizant Technology Solutions Sep 2008 – Nov 2021 Client: Energy Sector NY 2018-2021

Engagement Lead

Responsible for account management, delivery of multiple projects in addition to lead the data integration, cloud solutioning.

• Built data engineering team from the ground up, guided and directed to deliver client’s energy efficiency program within the span of 10 months, which benefited client’s wholesale, governmental customers to improve their energy usage.

• Executed large scale, multi projects to develop and commercialize client’s energy efficiency solution, which helps their customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from the baseline.

• Assisting and coaching team on agile/scrum processes.

• Ensure client’s enterprise digital initiatives by ingesting energy consumption, demand, billing data from varied sources using Pentaho, Python, API testing tools, data ingestion from the storage on AWS S3, AWS Lambda, API Management.

• Generated additional revenue ~40% within the span of 2.5 years. Client: Healthcare Provider CO 2014 – 2018

Delivery Manager/Engagement Lead

Responsible for knowledge transition, delivery management in addition to account management.

• Started with the capacity as transition manager and successfully executed transition of over 20 applications which were having diversified technologies including ColdFusion, php.

• In succession to knowledge transition, managed project delivery with the team size of 25 in addition to the external team, client’s IT team.

• Recommended best practices, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities. Kandasami Subramanian

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• Defined project management methodologies, processes and ensure the enterprise-wide effective usage of the processes.

• Brought in value addition through application rationalization, migration of their legacy authentication solution to Active Directory based solution, Member enrollment application migration from legacy business rule engine

(Drools) to Java. Architect and authored web-based solution which serve client’s health care members of over 100K (including their Regional Care Collaborative Organization) besides legacy webapp migration to .net.

• Successfully implemented Data Warehouse redesign project which improved the batch processing time ~57%.

• Helped the client as an early contender through faster time to market by implementing drug claims process implementation in Colorado region.

• Direct cost benefit of $133K to customer through application rationalization.

• Customer recognition for successful migration of Member Enrollment System. Client: Healthcare Provider OH 2012 – 2014

Project Manager

Responsible for managing client’s Broker, Shopper portal & mobile application initiatives.

• Based on extensive experience in establishing Project Management Office (PMO) teams and successfully executing small to medium-scale upgrades and maintenance projects at offshore, the client extended the invite, to lead the implementation of the Affordable Care Act initiatives, for their Small Group Quoting, Renewals systems.

• Appraised business managers, application owners about the progress of each project and tabled the risk & mitigation plans, effectively managed the issues, resourcing, budget.

• Ensured continuous process improvements, optimization by addressing the key focus areas which are resulted from customer feedback, product backlog examination.

• Managed and implemented multilingual support feature in their shopper portal and mobile applications which was one of the HIX mandate besides managing Lights-on other enhancements. Client: Internal India 2010 – 2011

Project Manager

Application Value Management Center of Excellence (AVM CoE)

• Led comprehensive testing of estimation portal and conducted productivity benchmarking for critical service types including Service Request, Incident Management, Problem Management, and Change Request.

• Delivered enterprise-wide training on Estimation Portal usage, resulting in streamlined RFP responses and increased efficiency across business units and locations.

• Led internal initiative to enhance customer value delivery by standardizing best practices across Business Units

• Developed centralized repository for best practices, tools, and resources to support project teams in estimation, maturity assessment, and knowledge transition

• Designed and implemented critical reports analyzing various Application Maintenance project metrics, including Onsite/Offshore Ratio, Onsite/Offshore Pyramid, Span of Control, and Primary Ownership (Vertical/Horizontal)

• Modernized legacy portal hosting mainframe REXX tools, migrating from classic ASP to ASP.NET, improving functionality and user experience

• Spearheaded global effort to consolidate best practices from diverse business units, establishing streamlined processes for maintaining and updating the central repository Kandasami Subramanian

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Client: Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing India 2008 – 2010 Senior Associate

• Led a diverse global team across multiple countries, managing complex data center migration for client’s strategic initiative.

• Orchestrated multi-faceted data center relocation using various transformation techniques including Physical to Virtual, Virtual to Virtual, and Lift & Shift methodologies.

• Oversaw comprehensive knowledge transfer from support team, ensuring continuity of operations post- migration.

• Directed server migration activities, including status reporting, estimation, planning, and execution, maintaining project timelines and quality standards.

• Managed a 12-member team for healthcare client project, delivering high-quality technical and non-technical solutions on schedule.

• Spearheaded the expansion of claims system field length, encompassing analysis, design, development, and implementation phases.

• Conducted system modifications, testing, and debugging to meet evolving client specifications.

• Provided mentorship in Unisys and XIDE technologies, enhancing team proficiency in code change implementation.

• Assumed Team Lead role, focusing on requirement analysis, status reporting, estimation, and project execution.

• Established and managed a cross-functional support team handling applications ranging from legacy mainframe to cutting-edge .NET technologies.

• Facilitated seamless knowledge transition from both vendor and client IT departments, ensuring operational continuity.

• Led SWAT team initiatives to propagate best practices across the organization.

• Championed automation efforts to improve team throughput and efficiency. SKILLS

• AWS EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, SSM, Glue, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Route53, ELB

• Python, Java

• MongoDB, MQ SQL, MySQL, IMS, IDMS, DB2

• Shell Scripts, Perl, Mapforce, ColdFusion, Visual Basic.

• GitHub, Visual Source Safe, JCL, REXX, VSAM, Change Man, Revolve, EasyTrieve,

• Jira, Confluence, Postman, Insomnia, HP OpenView, Vantive

• MS Project, Planview

• SharePoint, Excel

• Pentaho

• RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azkaban, Jenkins. IBM MQ

• Ubuntu, Windows, OS/390, MVS/ESA, z/OS, VAX/VMS, Tomcat, CA-7, Tidal Kandasami Subramanian

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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE 1997-2008

Experience in handling several transition projects in abroad (UK, Netherland) time-to-time.

• CGI (Formerly Logica) IT Consultant 2004-2008

• GE Global Technology Solutions Business Analyst 2001-2004

• HCL Perot Systems Associate 2000-2001

• Capgemini (Formerly Patni Computers, iGATE, Mascot Systems) Associate Consultant 1997-2000 EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Bharathiar University, India

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