MANIVANNAN KARUPPUSAMY

Professional Summary

Experienced in driving company growth, managerial and analytical skillset with team building, leading, motivating, excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skillset. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills, developed strategic initiatives and capture emerging business opportunities. Innovative and goal-oriented, worked across different clients and handled multiple projects with end-to- end ownership.

Work History

Cognizant Tech Solution Ltd - Senior Manager

San Diego, CA, 02/2015 – Current

Client name : Corelogic, Solutionstar Mortgage LLC and Nationstar Mortgage LLC

Delivery and Project Manager with 15+ years of experience managed and delivered multiple projects with demonstrated success. Expert in needs of analysis, project scoping, business modeling and strategic planning. Skilled in process improvement, risk assessment, cross- functional collaboration and project deployment. Passionate about emerging technologies and dedicate to exceeding expectation in reducing costs, improve efficiencies, increase revenue and drive through automation. Worked extensively in onshore, nearshore and offshore delivery model.

Leading day-to-day project management efforts: Scrum master, work plan management, risk/issue management, reporting status, driving project deliverables. Communicating effectively with project team leads and members of milestones. Aligning, tracking, and ensuring proper execution of the project as it relates to resource planning, business process changes, training, financial health, and operational readiness. Recognizing and managing cross-team dependencies, properly managing risks and changes.

As a Senior Delivery/Project Manager for Cognizant, I have executed large programs that involved multiple project work streams. Converted short-term engagement into FTE also some of the FTE engagement to Managed services. Handled revenue close to 9 Million dollars annually across different accounts and projects.

Collaborated with the clients to understand the requirements, to determine potential project impact, to tailor the project approach, plan, and deliverables accordingly. Delivered appropriate integration, training and implementation plans and activities. Managed stakeholders and multiple project teams in the context of a single aditnh@r.postjobfree.com

940-***-****

San Diego, CA 92126

Skills

Management

· Agile project management

· Scrum Master

· Risk Management

· Managing multiple clients/accounts

· Delivery and Team Management

· Budgeting and Cost Analysis

· Vendor Management

· Process Productivity Improvement

· Onshore/Offshore Management

Software

· JIRA

· QuickBase

· Confluence

· SAS

· Tableau

· Python

· GCP & BigQuery

· SQL server

Data & Analytics

· Surveillance testing

· Deployed models into production

· Tableau Dashboards

· Backtesing & Forwardtesting

· Time series

· Model performance testing

· Analytics Surveillance platform

· Google Cloud platform

· BigQuery Tableau interaction

· Automating SAS code/Macro

· Converted SAS to Python

project. Worked with business analysts and scrum masters to maintain project velocity and requirement analysis while ensuring delivery of products that meet timelines and requirements. Daily scrum, Sprint planning, Kanban boards, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective are the regular process followed.

Performed content review and quality control for a portfolio of documents to drive alignment with policies and best practices. Proposed and implemented plans to resolve issues and execute corrective actions, driven continued team progress on multiple projects during and between meetings, determined actions required to achieve team goals and leverage program/project staff accordingly.

Transferring and migrating legacy and on premises data to Google cloud platform, working extensively building dashboards using Tableau and BigQuery. Managing various products and projects as part of Next Gen platform.

Collaborated with key stakeholders to assess process alignment and prioritize revisions as necessary to ensure continued relevance, Align activities and resources to achieve on-time and within-budget project deliver, working closely with numerous customers, customer organizations, and partners. Monitor, manage, and report on the project's finances, managed risks and make adjustments to ensure the project stays on track. Reports presented to senior management within the company and customer accounts. Support new business development activities.

Driven standardization and the adoption of best practices across the organization, including developing processes and tools that encourage knowledge sharing and continuous performance improvement

Assessed all phases of product lifecycle, including identifying and recommending opportunities for changes to unit stakeholders. Managed inventory, production, workflow and distribution, analyzing each stage of product life cycle and recommending improvements to streamline processes. Supervised and managed all product-related communication to achieve messaging accuracy and product correctness.

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Manager

Bangalore, India, 06/2005 - 02/2015

Client name : Corelogic, JPMC, Solutionstar Mortgage LLC and US Bank

Analytics Surveillance Platform -Managed a team of resources to build the platform that will track all the model health and performance. Defining the scope, tracking the deliverables as per the SLA, managing the project in JIRA into a monthly sprint planning. Served as a subject- matter expert for a domain of data, and supported key stakeholders, including operations, product and quality.

• Home Price Index - Oversee business-critical tasks including change management, incident management, user management, security access and controls, work order management, application and business data recovery and disaster recovery. Execute the SAS model on monthly mode to meet the product timeline.

• Trend Products - Propose and integrate new automation functions for Education

2011

MK University

MBA: Finance

2000

Loyola College

Master of Arts: Economics (Honors)

1998

Loyola College

Bachelor of Arts: Economics

SAS operations. Foster best practice execution through active oversight and team facilitation. Discuss the results with Product owners and handled all the client inquiries with quick TAT.

• Disposition Model development - Interacting with business users about report requirements, Developing detailed process workflows with automation. Participate in business requirements and functional requirements gathering, which involves a review of existing Risk and Control Assessment systems configurations and operating methods as well as understanding the Action Drivers and Risk Mitigation Plan Dependencies.

• Collateral Risk Solution - Managing and executing all phases of the data lifecycle including issue identification, hypotheses formulation and data analysis and strategy implementation. Performing statistical and financial analyses on process improvement projects.

• Analytical Production Operation - Serving as primary client contact on all phases of the analytic project from problem definition through presentation, appropriately managing client expectations throughout the project. Accountable for the overall management of analytic projects. Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining and engineering as well as modeling, visualization and communication deliverables.

• Auction Engine - Developing requirements, outlines and schedulers for information technology projects, overseeing all phases of project from conception to completion also assist with upgrading information security. Ensuring project completed within budget and on time, follow standards to manage projects through the project lifecycles of initiation, planning, execution and breakdown structures.

• Loan Integrity and Quality - Applying data management principles to model data assets, building and maintaining conceptual, logical, and physical data models. Developing and deploying the technical standards, procedures, and guidelines used to govern data models.

• Loansafe Model Development - Contributing to development of cutting-edge data modeling and mining environment using latest software tools plus technologies. Performing as main user, direct continuing database infrastructure development for optimizing modeling. Works closely with the end user, business technologists, and others to understand and prioritize business goals and information needs. Participating in the development of system requirements and design specifications refines conceptual systems design requirements into the technical design.

GE Capital International Services - Business Analyst Bangalore, India, India

04/2004 - 05/2005

Leading a Project Lead role for Data Integrity it is Six Sigma Green Belt process to track file movement and measure the resulting defects. Designed a Data file tracker used to track the whole process.

Monitoring mechanism put in place, which measures the accuracy of the data capture, data file tracker is used on a weekly call with are survey vendors to track the defect.

Errors in data files and delay in dispatching the files process into control. Automated the data pulling process by scheduling the codes. Part of VOC Website creation team.

Able to reduce manual repetition works that helps client in an efficient manner, standardized the format for all the clients both Care Center and Collection, designing the web page in a friendly way which is faster to access, managing the database and loading of files on monthly and trimester based.

Developed a Central Workplace to reduce the number of handoffs and for archiving the past data that preserves the integrity of the process. Loading of weekly raw data files, monthly coded data files and files used for client presentations as well, historical data accessed from Workplace, data files are available round the clock. Ford Information Technology - Software Engineer

Bangalore, India, India

02/2002 - 04/2004

Part of the project team and was involved in the below activities, Impact Analysis of the programs, detailed analysis of reports are submitted in Excel format, coding using SAS, SQL and JCL and also prepared document with the program specifications.

Data Dictionary delivered monthly ORDW database for Retail Purchase and Non-Purchase, Lease Purchase and Non-Purchase. Taking into consideration of Retail and Lease purchase there are 176 variables, Retail and Lease Non-Purchase consists of 127 variables, in certain cases, there may be few blanks and special characters these things are sorted out with the frequency distribution and these errors are rectified in the coming month ORDW update or data refresh process. Additional Information

HONORS & AWARD

Received best performer award from client for delivering one of the successful projects with end-to-end ownership.

Received Platinum award at account level Best Performance Awarded the best team member twice in Cognizant.

Certification

Mastering Agile Scrum Project Management.

PUBLICATION

A Statistical/Mathematical Approach to Enhanced Loan Modification Targeting.

https://www.cognizant.com/InsightsWhitepapers/A-Statistical- Mathematical-Approach-to-Enhanced- Loan-Modification-Targeting.pdf

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