Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan

Chief Technology Officer Chief Delivery Officer

Head of Engineering Product Director

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pradeepkumarg

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Thrissur, India

CORE SKILLS

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

§ Business Strategy and Planning

§ Delivery and Client Account Management

§ Budgeting, Costing, and Proposals

§ Agile and Waterfall Methodologies

§ Quality Management

§ Partner Account Management

§ Product, Project and Program Management

§ Technology Management

§ Software Solution Architecture and Design

§ Consulting and Digital Transformation Services

§ People Management, Team Building & Leadership

§ Data and Information Management

Twenty Five years of rich work experience in managing and delivering Fixed bid, T&M enterprise software projects and Product implementations across Asia Pacific, Europe, and USA, handholding CXO level stakeholders and meeting mutual expectations Multi-disciplinary experience across managing business critical projects for Global Customers, Services Delivery, Process Improvement, Cross-functional Integration, Program Management and Team building and high quality rapid results Proven product management capabilities though synchronizing PLM activities from requirement gathering, through business analysis, design, coding, testing, till release and upgrades for business software products Demonstrated expertise in architecting IT solutions for travel and transportation, banking, e-governance and Media verticals Defined, Incorporated, and Set up business ideas from scratch into fully operational BU Established COE focusing on Operations Leadership, Systems, Processes, and Research for product, project, program, and portfolio management Thought Leader, Exemplary People Manager, and Mentor who has guided multi-disciplinary teams including BAs, Programmers, Testers, and Support personnel IDSi Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Diploma in Business Management

B. E. Computer Science & Engineering

May 2011

June 1994

ICFAI, India

S.D.M College of Engineering and Technology, India Kochi, India Since June 2019

idsiinternational.com Part of IDSi group headquartered in New Jersey, USA, the organization offers enterprise software products and IT services for Engineering and Construction, E-Governance, GIS, Emergency and Incident Management domains. Global Delivery Head

Responsibilities:

• Leading complete portfolio of projects including budgeting, planning, team selection, Project execution, UAT, Data Migration and Go Live activities.

• Plan, execute, and control product development programs for the e-governance system AutoPlan BPAS [www.onlinebpas.in] for private and public sector clients

• State wide implementation and support of customized e-governance solution [AutoPlan BPAS] as part of EODB initiative by Urban Development Department, Karnataka, India

• Preparing proposals, business presentations to clients and handling resource planning, technical direction, effort estimation, tracking, risk management & mentoring.

• Expert in managing Agile and Iterative SDLC process models starting from requirement analysis, solution road map, design, testing & maintenance phases.

• Ensure that development activity aligns with the organisational technology standards, principles, architecture roadmaps, service management standards, and customer experience framework. Furthermore, to support development and definition of technical standards and approach.

• Responsible for acquisition and management of talent within team

• Manage implementation projects and business transformation initiatives through Go Live.

• Timely delivery of project deliverables adhering to quality and delivery SLAs. Microsoft Certified Professional Certificate Training on Oracle 10g Database Administration by Oracle Corporation Certificate Training on IBM DB2 by IBM, Bangalore Professional Training in Project Management by Accord Consultants Oracle 8i Certified Professional IBM Certified for DB2 7.0 Professional Certified ISO 9001 Internal Auditor Excellence award for the best people manager

• Lead multifunctional virtual teams across technical and business disciplines for product development projects from concept stage through GTM program.

• Steered CSAT surveys and feedback, and improving procedures to ensure that great customer service is provided at all times. Achievements:

• Reduced the development cost and time for by margins up to 20% in multiple projects resulting in multi-mn $ savings.

• Successfully delivered the product and service packages for large e-governance projects in India and US, within SLA. Unitybees Kochi, India Chief Technology Officer July 16 – March 19 unitybees.com Headquartered in Kochi and with Sales offices in US, UK and Germany, Unitybees is a software products and services company, offering software products and services, including digital transformation services to global clients. Responsibilities:

• Provide clear leadership and vision, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence and mentor them as they develop new skills.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance

• Lead the engineering and quality team for product development and deployment projects, within management guidelines.

• Responsible for all areas of the Software Engineering function and quality of service delivery, delivering best in class products and business practices to customer’s expectations, managing teams and projects across the business.

• Contribute to overall business strategy and annual budget process and hold responsibility for department budgets Initiate and develop creative and innovative processes for faster and quality delivery of innovative on-demand products.

• Respond to RFPs, develop proposals, manage product demonstrations, and guide the account managers. Key Projects:

• Custom Development, Implementation, Support, and Application Maintenance.

• On-demand digital products and services that solve both conventional and complex business solutions.

• Content driven Travel exploring solutions

Achievements:

• Limited the time overruns of projects to 10-20%, and cost overruns to 5-10% for key projects.

• Credited for design and successful implementation of 2 major products. IBS Software Services PLC Trivandrum, India Head of Technology Services March 99 – June 16 ibsplc.com A CMMi L5 company headquartered in Singapore with development centres in many part of the globe, and a leading multi-national company in the Travel, Transportation and Logistics (TTL) domain with 17 enterprise products for the TTL industry

Responsibilities:

• Operationalized a fully functional technology SBU, established partnerships with Industry leading solution providers. Managed Business Strategy, long term/short term objectives, Stakeholder Engagements, Business Development, Business Plans, Product & Delivery operations.

• Leadership role ranging from obtaining concurrence with CTO on business plans, identify target markets & opportunities, handhold presales sales proposal activities, generate revenues, bridging Sales & Technology Product Teams, Technical development of Product and Solutions and oversee delivery operations

• P&L Owner and Program Manager for the common technology frameworks of IBS products.

• Successfully led geographically dispersed multi-function teams

• Preparing proposals, business presentations to clients and handling resource planning, technical direction, effort estimation, project tracking, risk management & mentoring. Expert in managing SDLC from requirement analysis, solution road map, design, testing & maintenance phases in Agile and Iterative process models

• Manage client facing operations involving requirements and gap analysis, legacy data migration, customization, user acceptance testing, onsite support, and project milestone sign-offs.

• Interface with client CXOs to earn stakeholder acceptance and acted as escalation point.

• Executed the Big data project, translated business requirements and models into feasible and acceptable database designs. Ensured smooth interface with clients while designing internal and external data interfaces to ensure database development needs satisfy client specifications.

• A seasoned database expert and well versed in Oracle database technologies Key Projects:

• Custom Development and Implementation of Special projects, Smart products linked to IBS Products lines, Technology Consulting to clients, Database Architecture for multiple IBS products, HBSi Big data project Achievements:

• Lead the roll out Microsoft SharePoint to the entire organization; Initiated the Software Reuse program management; Published “Technology Trendz”, a half-yearly technology magazine for the organization.

• Lead Technology CoE’s like Re-useable Application Frameworks, Java, Database Technologies, Big data and Analytics, Microsoft Technologies, Mobility and User Experience under direct control. SOFTWARE TOOLS

EARLY CAREER

PERSONAL DETAILS

Responsibilities: Perform requirements analysis, Develop applications in Oracle Forms and Powerbuilder with backend database as Oracle

Key Projects: Billing System for London Electricity Achievements: Best Developer Award for developing bug-free code Date of Birth : 27th

July, 1970

Languages : English, Malayalam, Hindi

Address : 114, Pramadam, Happy Street, Viyyur, Thrissur - 680010, India. Business Modeling (Visio, Visual Paradigm) Scheduling Tools (MS Project, Open source PM tools) Project Tracking

(JIRA, Trello, Teamwork) Programming Languages (java, .Net, PL/SQL) RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL) Bigdata Analytics (Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, ELK stack, Pentaho) Dynamic Systems London, UK Programmer Analyst October 98 - February 99 Citicorp Information Technology Ltd. Bangalore, India Associate Consultant March 97 - September 98 Responsibilities: Perform requirements analysis, Develop Oracle PL/SQL programs with backend database as Oracle 7.0; Perform the role of Product DBA for the product group Key Projects: CITIL FundsPower

Achievements: Motivational Award for developing an interface between 3 enterprise products of CITIL K K Associates Trivandrum, India Software Programmer July 94 - January 97 Responsibilities: Perform requirements analysis, Design and develop MIS applications in Clipper. Develop applications in Visual Basic 3.0 with database MS Access Key Projects: Applications for various customers

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