Chithra C

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Program Director

22+ years overall IT experience, 6+ years of experience in managing large complex programs, 16+ years of experience in delivery management. Passionate on technology and aspiring to work on techno functional roles

Areas of Work

Successfully managed complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements.

Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.

Define Business Process; identify the risk, doing risk analysis and providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.

Adept in providing Analytical Support to key business Applications /solutions

Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

Acted as liaison between management and development team for Requirements and QA.

Managing reports, analysis and decision-making for a change request.

Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management

Effective collaboration with technical teams in arriving at solutions/reviewing solutions

Technical Competency

J2EE, Mobile Development (Android) – Hands on Experience

Experience working in Microsoft Technologies (VB, .Net, ASP)

Migration of HCM solutions

Migration of applications to AWS

Professional Experience

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2018 – 2019)

Program Director - Offshore

Client: Leading bank in Mexico

Program Management of the Lift & Shift of applications onto cloud

Migration of COTS products (Tier1 & Tier2 ) applications onto AWS

Design and implementation of devops/automation of infra and application deployment

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2017 – 2018)

Delivery Director - Offshore

Automation assessment and solutioning

Involved in the automation assessment of the account portfolios, driving PoC on automation.

Technical delivery of the adapter solutions for DE platforms

Development of various assets under GTO

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2014 – 2016)

Program Director - Offshore

Client: Leading HCM Solution Provider in US

Program Management of the migrations of the end clients of customer from source product to target product

Source and target products are disparate systems and don’t have one-one mapping directly

Managed team size of 300 + members from cross functional team (Data Management, Testing, Security, Business Analysts, etc.)

Involved functional analysis of source and target products, mapping of features, technical analysis of data, reports, interfaces, development of tools to utilize the functional webservices to migrate the data, customer profiling / grouping/ scheduling for migration and automation of migration testing

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2009 –2014)

Portfolio Manager

Client: Largest card issuer in US

Offshore Delivery Management of Risk Platforms

Managed a team size of 400+ members across cross functional teams and lines of business.

Managed a revenue of 75+ M involving programs/projects from Datawarehousing, Business Process Management, UI design & Testing horizontals

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2009 –2014)

Program Manager

Client: Leading provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services across six continents

Program Management of development of NextGen Platform for Corporate Customers of the client

Highly visible complex program delivered in Agile Model (Daikibo)

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2006 –2009)

Program Manager

Client: Financial Services company in US

Development/Delivery Management of Tools for Financial Planning and Analysis which would aid in faster turnaround of investment proposals for customers

One of the large complex program for the client after their spin off from parent company

Cognizant Technology Solutions (2001 –2006)

Project Manager

Client: Stored value card provider in US

Project: Backoffice Migration

Delivery Management of Migration of the back office systems (Database Objects, Reports) and the impacted applications

Cognizant Technology Solutions (1999 –2001)

Technical Lead

Client: Network provider in Japan

Design and Development of the Order Management System

Development in Java swing, Vitria (Workflow Engine), TOPLink and EJB

Cognizant Technology Solutions (1998 –1999)

Sr. Developer

ERP Financial Product

Program: Porting of ERP Product from MS SQL 6.5 to MS SQL 7.0. The migration comprises of Financials and Human Resources modules.

Polaris Software Lab (1996 –1998)

Sr. Developer

Product Development

Development of enterprise-wide software process / project management product with unique features that is indispensable for the life cycle of any software project.

Additional Skills

Trained on Program Management as part of cognizant certification process

Certified Android Developer from Simplilearn

PMI Certified

Certified J2EE & WAS Developer

Software Methodology/Tools: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall

Languages: Core Java, Java EE, JavaScript, HTML, SQL

Standards & Frameworks: Spring, Servlets, XML, JSON, Angular JS

Web/Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere Application Server

RDBMS: DB2 10.1, MSSQL

Utility Tools: HP ALM/QC, MS SharePoint, AJAX, Maven, node.js

Education

B.E (Electronics & Communication) from Madras University, India, 1995

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