Manager Program

SRINIVASAN BALUSAMI

SENIOR ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGER

https://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasan-balusami-a99a4318/

Successfully delivered projects by implementing right process and its efficiency improved continuously with appropriate tools based on project requirement. Achieved projects goals of overall cost spend reduction, timely project roll out using best practices, maintaining high industry standards including cyber security. Track the deliverables to closure and mitigate the risk upfront. Adopting automation frameworks to increase the productivity and enable quality by identifying the defects at early stage.

Experience Summary:

Domain experience in consumer goods (10+ years), Insurance (2+ years) and manufacturer and logistics (6+ years)

NPI product manager for flagship product worth of 64M revenue.

As Release train program manager, responsible for schedule and cost of the project.

Accountable for wall to wall or end to end for the project deliverables across all different functions and their deliverables

Ensure the cyber security compliant for the releases

Good exposure in web & mobile technologies as latest trend in the industries

Have been worked in both service based (13+ years) and product based (6+ years) companies. Overall 20+ years of experience in which 10+ years in program management.

Identify KPI metrics of the project, track the status and publish it using various dashboards

Experience in Consumer Goods, Manufacturing & logistics and Building technologies and insurance domain.

Participate in the technical discussion and reviews

Good in business development & meeting revenue targets. Managed & grown accounts with full accountability for all services delivery & financial responsibility. Built Accounts from scratch to $8 million

Proficient in planning, managing teams for successful execution and delivery of projects.

Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities. Possess a flexible and detail oriented attitude

Expert in identifying the risks and mitigating risk strategies.

Strong in financials management (Budgeting, Forecasting, and Profitability Management).

Certified as SAFe Agilist from Scrum alliance. Expert in Agile methodology

Area of Expertise:

Customer relationship

Project Management

Communication management

People management

(Relative) Estimation

Project Chartering

Release Planning

Cyber security

Defect management

Governance

Risk management

Conflict resolution

Agile principles/SAFe4.5

Web technologies

Recruitment

Innovation

Revenue management

Database design

Mobile technologies

Define & track KPI

Budgeting and costing

Problem solving

Process Improvement

Technical review

Goal setting & career planning

Leadership

Z21

Vendor management

Professional Experience:

Honeywell Technology Solutions Ltd. Apr 2018 – Apr 2020

Caterpillar Pvt Ltd. May 2014 – Mar 2018

Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd. Oct 2003 – Apr 2014

Ramco Systems May 2003 – Sep 2003

Reliance Tech. Aug 2001 – Apr 2003

Portable Infoway Pvt Ltd. Oct 2000 – Jun 2001

CHS Solutions Pvt Ltd. Jul 1999 – Jun 2000

Education:

Master of Computer Application from Madurai Kamaraj University (1999)

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Madras University (1996)

Phone No: +91-984*******

Email:adj3uu@r.postjobfree.com

Technical Skills

Language:

C#

JAVA

C/C++

Cloud:

Azure

AWS

Web Technology:

HTML5

CSS3

ASP.net

PHP

Python

JS:

Angular

Node

Bootstrap

Database:

MS SQL Server

MangoDB

Oracle

MySQL

MS Access

Tools (IDE):

MS-Visual Studio

Agile Tools:

JIRA

Target Process

VS teams

Version control:

MS VSS

Git

Operating Systems:

Windows Family(XP,7,8, &10)

Mobile:

iOS

Android

Certifications

SAEe Agile 4.0 (Release train manager)

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum alliance

Agile Mindset

Six sigma in Honeywell

Professional Experience

HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTION LTD, India Apr 2018–Apr 2020

Senior Advanced Program Manager

Wall to Wall program management of all security products in the access domain including hardware, firmware, software delivery by collaborating with all function like marketing, sales, marketing communication, software engineering, hardware engineering, electronic & mechanical engineering, regulatory, operations, legal, etc by creating program roadmap, identify measureable KPI, manage stakeholder, collaborate with different stakeholders to make quick decision, close the risk & impediment at required time, seek the approval from phase gate approval team with appropriate details. Launch the project and socialize the details about project to other product in the organization. Enable the essential functionalities in mobile application based on customer requirement

Roles and responsibilities

NPI manager for key products

Prepare metrics and track the program. Identify KPI for each project.

Accountable for incremental revenue year on year of 64M for flagship product

Responsible for schedule and cost for each release of products

Responsible for process compliance in execution model of Agile release train.

Manage all cross functional team in different time zone including vendor resource and deliverables

Reduce the cost by implementing the ideas from innovation

Participate in architecture, design and code review

Agile Release Train Program Manager

Honeywell building technologies department has various products for the customer needs to provide security to the builds with secured access control system with help of hardware, firmware and software. Following Z21 process (Zero to one) for faster delivery to the market with adherence to high quality with differentiating factor of cyber compliant of all product.

Roles and responsibilities

Created solution train and agile release train for all the functional streams

Facilitated PI planning, scrum of scrum, Pre PI planning, System demo, program backlog grooming, portfolio review, PAC approval

Cross functional status meeting and tracking of their deliverables

Product won CEO award for the year 2019

Responsible for vitality

Show 10% productivity improvement for the year.

Make sure that all releases are cyber compliant

Oversee the mobile application development and deliverables

Projects handled

PRO-WATCH, WIN-PAK, VINDICATOR Apr 2018 – Apr 2020

CATERPILLAR INC. – Chennai, India May 2014–Mar 2018

Manager 2

Managed overall delivery of all telematics projects which is executed from Chennai like Product link web, preventative maintenance, visualization, operator id etc with help of product owners who will have vision to have the feature in the product and do the release planning based on available timeline and prioritize the feature and get the commitment from product owner and delivery team to arrive at project plan which is used to track it and complete the project on time by utilizing agile methodology.

Roles and responsibilities

Managing program delivery in off board telematics projects at Chennai

Accountable for profitability, stakeholder satisfaction and project delivery of 3 M USD

Responsible for managing stakeholders, high level program timeline, issue resolutions

Collaborated with cross functional team of the Product Owners, Business and Engineering Teams to track the progress and resolve the issues & dependency

Reduce the cost by implementing the ideas from innovation

Managing resource recruiting from different supplier based on project needs

Recognized with Outstanding Performance award in Caterpillar

Participate in architecture, design and code review

Enable critical functionality in mobile as native application or mobile application with responsiveness

Engineering team leader

Unified fleet solution will enable VSS to generate revenue from other OEM machines by directly providing a Mixed Fleet Management Solution to end customer. This objective achieved by getting all OEM data into centralized data and generates different kind of report to take critical decisions. Dedicated web pages for fleet & utilization will give real time update about the asset to project managers to utilize the asset to maximum possible level. Different kind of alerts will help to take immediate action for the assets based on alert type to the site managers.

Roles and responsibilities

Established agile process for team of 22 members and successfully delivered the product of 1.4 M USD

Organized and facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, daily stand up, reviews, demos and Retrospective meetings

Tracking and status reporting on periodic basis

Project won 3rd place in Chairman’s award

Responsible for to ensures practice standards are met.

Status tracking and reporting throughout the project life cycle.

Implementing the efficiency to reduce the cost of the project.

Budgeting and Cost management

Projects handled

TELEMATICS PROGRAM E2E Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

KIEWIT UNIFIED PORTAL May 2014 – Jun 2015

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PVT LTD – Chennai, India Oct 2003 – Apr 2014

Manager

Owning complete offshore delivery for $9M account for year 2013 to 2014 in the insurance domain

Responsible for managing scope, budget, project plan, tracking, change control and other aspects of the development projects.

Responsible to build $30M from scratch in Brand related to projects.

Follow-up the resource need for onsite and offshore managers.

Generates proposals for clients, and leads RFP responses for technical consulting opportunities.

Use strong planning and organizational skills to priorities based upon business objectives and service level agreements while maintaining business revenue goals.

Responsible for to ensures practice standards are met.

Created a personal, collaborative approach to project management with active participation by the program manager, project managers and stake holders.

Interface with client at multiple levels like Business Stakeholders, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Quality Assurance team, Sr. Manager and Associate Director.

Status tracking and reporting throughout the project life cycle.

Participate in Technical Review meetings

Key Responsibilities

Program/Delivery Management

Resource Utilization

Account Planning

Task Order Management

Invoice Management

Revenue Management

Profitability Analysis

Budget and Operating Margins

Operations

Projects handled

NATIONAL LIFE GROUP (INSURANCE CLIENT) JAN 2013 TO MAY 2014

QUAKER BRAND WEB SITE DEC 2011 TO DEC 2012

NATIONAL ACCOUNT PLANNING JAN 2009 TO DEC 2011

CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT TOOL JAN 2008 TO DEC 2008

NESTLE ACQUISITION TOOL JAN 2007 TO DEC 2007

PROFILING TOOL JAN 2006 TO DEC 2006

SCHWAN’S RSG & CONTEST REWRITE OCT 2003TO DEC 2005

Clients

SCHWANS FOOD COMPANY, NESTLE, PEPSI CO, NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE

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