Key Skills

Global Delivery Management

Strategic Roadmap

Big Data & Analytics

Cloud Migration

Product Development

Business Intelligence

Data Engineering

Budget and Resource Planning

P&L Accountability

One publication on Cloud and Agile

Career Timeline

Profile Summary

Performance-driven professional with total over 2 decades of rich & extensive national & international experience in impacting organisation profitability through effective strategic & tactical management decisions, large program delivery and people management across Market Research (FMCG), Banking, and Capital Market domains.

Track record of delivering strategic programs such as Loyalty and On Demand Aggregation for Nielsen, Mortgage Underwriter for Citibank N.A., and Payment Gateway and Data Migration/Conversion for Citibank Banamex, and Core Brokerage 24 months history data for Charles Schwab.

Skills in identifying underlying risks, deficiencies, and opportunities at forefront; with expertise in Big Data, Analytics, Cloud Migration, Data Engineering and other cutting edge technologies.

Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and attract good talent. A strong believer of ‘Collaborative Leadership’ style and a passion for mentoring teams.

Swiftly completed technical programs with competent cross-functional skills and ensuring on time deliverables within pre-set cost parameters.

Completed PG Diploma in Business Analytics and Intelligence and Azure Cloud Fundamentals. Hands on in Python and language R. 1992-1995 1995-1996 1996-1998 1998-2005 2005-2008 200*-****-****-Sep 2020 Technologies

Notable Accomplishments Across the Career

At Nielsen India Private Ltd., Chennai, India

As Technical Delivery Lead (and Product Owner), successfully delivered 3 large Big Data based programs that are part of the major Digital Platform

First to implement the Agile methodology in the platform

Track record of setting up technical teams in Chennai centre. At Wipro Technologies, Chennai, India

Pivotal in leading portfolios with annual revenue up to US$30 million and team size of 250+ members for global financial clients based in the USA/LATAM/Singapore

Successfully received ACSAT of 6+ out of 7 for the two consecutive years. At Charles Schwab & Co., Inc, USA

Executed 3 medium-sized strategic projects in the Core Brokerage business division.

Received CIO’s award for completing the critical project on time Publications

Adoption of Agile in Transformation programs (IJRAR-July 2020)

Java/J2EE, Python, R, Spark/Scala

Angular, Ext JS, HTML

Snowflake,Databricks,Postgres,

Hive

Azure Cloud

ADLS, HDFS, Airflow

TIBCO Business Works,

WPF, Pega, JRules

Ab Initio, Teradata

IBM COBOL, DB2, CICS, and MQ

Confluence, JIRA, SonarQube

Bitbucket

KARUNAKARAN PALANISWAMY (KARUN)

Senior to Top Level Assignments

Technical Program and Delivery Management

adgv7r@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pkarun +91-996******* Charles Schwab & Co.,

Inc, USA

Nielsen India

Private Ltd.,

Chennai, India

Computer People, USA

deputed at Kaiser

Permanente

Wipro Technologies,

Bangalore, India

Modis IT Consulting, USA

(contractor for Charles Schwab &

Co., Inc, USA)

Wipro Technologies,

Chennai, India

Work Experience

Nov’16 to Sep’20 with Nielsen India Private Ltd., Chennai, India Program Lead

Role:

Instituting & executing high-level technical/program delivery strategies, making high-stakes decisions and overcoming complex business and technical challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity; along with budget and resource planning for optimum output

Collaborating with:

o Stakeholders while keeping them informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all requirements and deliverables; involved in the products roadmap o Portfolio, product leadership, architects, quality, release management and DevOps teams for planning and implementation

Creating and sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team members

Monitoring technical program baselines and controlling them with respect to cost, resource deployment, time over-runs and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution

Performing active role in Nielsen’s expansion in Chennai, formed and mentored technical teams Key Programs Managed:

Loyalty Dashboard and Analytics ($2.5 million annual spend, Team size: 15)

Delivered Loyalty program on time with zero defects to major retail clients in USA and Europe. This program is expected to bring more than 60 million in the next 2 years. Built in a Cloud-first approach, it would increase Retailer Adoption and Product Penetration by launching highly Intuitive Dashboard and Analytical applications to understand

“what happened and why it happened”.

Cloud Conversion: Currently driving the migration of legacy data preparation (in SAS) and data conversion

(Netezza/Oracle) applications to the Cloud (Python/Snowflake/Airflow) to improve the Agility and reduce the cost. Technology Used: Azure Cloud, Java/J2EE, Spark/Scala, ADLS, Angular, Snowflake, Databricks, Python, and Air Flow Nielsen Enrichment Studio ($6 million annual spend, Team size: 27)

Delivered the data Enrichment and integration platform built in a Cloud-first approach that will have the key capability to harmonize Nielsen/Client/3rd party data to create new insights for applications and analytics. It is an easy-to-use end-to-end user solution that generates data transformation instructions at run time and publishes harmonized data to the data lake and allows any user to use the same

First to implement the Agile methodology in the platform Technology Used: Azure Cloud, Java/J2EE, Spark/Scala, ADLS, HDFS, Ext JS, Snowflake, Postgres, Hive and Machine Learning underpinning Item reference data.

On Demand Solution ($1.5 million annual spend, Team size: 7)

Delivered the OnDemand Solutions that would perform aggregation of the dis-aggregated Retail Measurement data on-demand basis. This application is becoming the central place for the aggregation in the Connected Platform, and it has allowed Nielsen to either retire or ring fence other aggregation engines across the global application stack. Technology Used: Azure Cloud, Java/J2EE, Spark/Scala, ADLS, Angular, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Python, Katalon and Ready API.

Oct’08 to Oct’16 with Wipro Technologies, Chennai, India Delivery Manager

Role:

Handled projects delivery for Citi LATAM, Citi Mortgage and BNYM Asset Management Portfolios

Managed Internal Operational parameters such as Revenue, Billable Head Count and Operating Margin

Engaged in identifying and implementing strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between team of 250+ members spread across India, USA, Singapore, Mexico and Brazil

Played a key role in establishing 2 development centers in Mexico, and TIBCO and Ab Initio COE to upscale associates for project needs

Revenue:

o US$30 million per annum revenue (Sep’10–Oct’16) for Mortgage, Consumer Banking Northern America and LATAM Divisions of Citibank

o US$5.2 million revenue (Oct’08–Sep’10) for Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) Asset Management Key Projects Managed:

Payment Integration

Developed client server application to replace the legacy system. The core functionality is to receive/send payment instructions from/to the Central Bank of Mexico, process the incoming/ outgoing instructions and send the acknowledgement to the Central Bank/Citibank Banamex. Technology Used: UNIX, Java/J2EE, CSS/HTML and Oracle Enterprise Data Migration

Managed development of ETL projects as part of constructing the Enterprise Data Warehouse for Citibank Banamex to consolidate their data in a single place to support “Go To Common” Rainbow program which included Data Conversion, Migration and Integration

Technology Used: UNIX, Ab Initio and Teradata

Mortgage Underwriter

Ensured effective development of Underwriter application to replace the legacy system; this was a part of Mortgage Loan processing transformation embarked by Citi to improve the customer experience and revenue Technology Used: UNIX, Websphere Portal Factory, TIBCO BW, Java/J2EE, JRules, Pega and Oracle Asset Management Maintenance and Support

Administered one of the highly critical support projects (with 5 SLAs) and stabilized the execution in 3 months Technology Used: Mainframe, COBOL and Datacom

Jan’05 to Sep’08 with Charles Schwab & Co., Inc, USA Technical Project Manager

Key Projects Managed:

Enhance Mainframe Fallback Region

The project was executed to enhance the Mainframe Fallback environment with brokerage accounting functionalities to improve customer experience during the primary environment outage. The total budget was $1.2 million and managed a cross-functional team of 30 members from Mainframe, Distributed and System Groups.

Bagged CIO’s Excellence Award in 2007 for accomplishing the project on time and within budget Technology Used: Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, MQ, CICS and Easytrieve Firm Accounts Processing Migration

This project was executed to migrate dealer ledger and inventory accounts from Mainframe to the distributed environment and provide the user interfaces using the latest technology

Managed a 14-member cross-functional team

Technology Used: Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, MQ, CICS, ASP.NET and PL SQL Previous Work Experience

Jul’98 to Jan’05 with Modis IT Consulting, USA as Sr. Programmer Analyst (contractor for Charles Schwab & Co., Inc, USA)

Oct’96 to Jun’98 with Computer People, USA deputed at Kaiser Permanente as Technical Consultant

Apr’95 to Sep’96 with Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India as Systems Manager

Aug’92 to Mar’95 with SPIC Ltd., Chennai, India as Systems Analyst Education

2019-20: PG Diploma in Business Analytics and

Intelligence (PGDBA&I), Amity University. Waiting for the certificate.

2005: Project Management Institute (PMP) certification

1992: MCA (Master of Computer Applications)

from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India

1989: B.Sc. (Applied Sciences) from P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Personal Details

Contact Address: 6D, Grand Residency, 137

Velachery Main Road, Velachery,

Chennai – 600 042

Languages Known: English, Tamil

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