RAVI KRISHNASWAMI

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Have several years of experience in the industry.

Program Manager/Project Manager with over 20 years of experience executing projects and programs in the domains of Product Design and Development including supply chain, Manufacturing and Die Engineering, and Vehicle Sales Service and Marketing.

Have several project experiences in managing and implementing data center migrations, consolidations and transition to operations using the ITIL processes. Included data center consolidations for acquisitions, data center infrastructure implementations to support client cloud based applications. Cyber security concerns were always taken into account.

Program Manager/Project Manager with over 20 years of experience executing

Have executed sizeable and global projects and programs in applications software development, including Teamcenter PDM/PLM system and implementation of IT infrastructure. Have used standard processes and data standardization to improve the efficiency of the development, implementation and deployment.

In several assignments, have successfully handled customer relations and satisfaction, budget management, profit and loss, supplier relations, business process re-engineering, offshore development, system design & analysis, testing and deployment for the development & delivery of new and innovative technologies.

Served as the President for the Project Management Institute Great Lakes Chapter in 2010.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Madras University

Master of Technology Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

M.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering, University of Rhode Island

M.S. Courses in Computer Engineering – Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Networking, University of Massachusetts

TRAINING

Regularly participated in leadership related training such as Project Management, Financial Management, People Management, Effective Proposal Preparation

CERTIFICATIONS

Engineer in Training (EIT): 1981

Project Management Professional (PMP): 2003

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – foundations: 2008

Six Sigma Practitioner training in EDS

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

GPAS at CISCO Systems Inc. Nov 2008 – July 2016

Consultant – Project Management and Processes

Data Center and Infrastructure Implementations

Supported the management of Data Center infrastructure implementations to host cloud based applications for CISCO clients.

Drove the development of a process for governance implementation for Data Center migrations, consolidations and retrofits.

Developed the end to end process model and documentation for adding, moving or decommissioning infrastructure assets within a data center. The Agile methodology, daily scrums and user stories were used in the development and documentation of the process models.

Developed the Business Requirements Document (BRD) for Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM). Participated in the selection of the DCIM vendor and software. Implemented the CISCO Energy Management (CEM) software for the CISCO data centers.

Completed a pricing model, resource matrix, and document structure for the global innovation labs.

Successfully led the technical implementation of a solution for load balancing and failover of IT infrastructure for a support services application.

Flawlessly and in a timely fashion completed the planning and leading of teams to move four different entire data centers from one location to another including consolidation and virtualization. Included the consolidation, integration and transition to operations of the data centers of CISCO acquired companies. Completed all planning documents including a Project Charter. Developed SLAs to transition to operations

Led a team to develop and document a process for the assessment and development of IT architecture and infrastructure to requirements. Selected use case projects and exercised the process to validate it.

Executed the requirements gathering and planning of several “Complex” infrastructure projects for estimation and execution. One of the projects was the requirements gathering and planning of an entirely new SAP application.

Participated in the development of the process for Infrastructure and Middleware New Services requested by Service Owners

Drove the participation in the external audit for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance and for the ISO 9001 certification for the infrastructure operational support,

EDS: Jul ‘07 – Aug ‘08

Program/Project Manager – Engineering Services Management

Project: Infrastructure transition/outsourcing

Managed, Defined and Implemented ITIL based Service Support and Service Management Processes in support of the client Transition Management Operations (TMO) for infrastructure outsourcing. The task included participation in SLA development

Created the resource allocation matrix with appropriate skilled resources and levels

Created weekly Process 4-UP reports for roll up to the Enterprise Services Management (ESM) 4-UP report

Developed and Maintained the Project Schedule for Process on both MS-Project and MSPS

Integrated the schedule with other areas of the Program – especially engineering and implementation of infrastructure tools

Maintained and acted on the project risks/issues/action items including escalations

Project: Plan for a program/project for implementation of GM infrastructure tools

Identified the problems in executing the changes and releases of EDS Corporate infrastructure tools for GM and defined a program/project to improve the release process.

Project: Definition of program scope for Teamcenter Community (TcC) migration

Created the Program Charter and the Process Design Summary for the Program

Determined the resource requirements for the Program

Determined the governance structure for the Program

Capgemini: Jul ‘06 – Jul ‘07

Senior Manager

Project: Proposals, Development and Deployment of GM Global Sales Services and Marketing (GSSM) Systems.

Developed proposals, solutions and quotes for General Motors Information Technology Service Requests ( ITSRs ) for varied web based applications and infrastructure projects.

Managed several projects that developed processes for Project Management, bid response development, testing, vendor management and bundled software releases. Included management of Best Shore resources.

Initiated and managed multi vendor projects for implementing improved data exchange capability between GM and its dealers.

Developed an integrated schedule for and implemented a system for extending the web based application to gather and report on dealer inputs on sales revenues to the GM Middle East dealers

Completed the Plan and Define phases of the project to replace an existing Access based system to gather and analyze dealer leads to run directly off the dealer leads database

Developed the architecture for the implementation of the Google Search Appliance for GM Brand Sites taking into consideration the existing web and application architectures. The implementation used HTML.

All projects used the GM corporate SDP-21 project management methodology

GM IS&S through Vision IT: Nov ‘02 – Jul ‘06

Project Manager/ Sr. Business Process Engineer

Project: Project Planning and Definition, Requirements gathering, and BPR

Initiated projects, and did plan and define phases of several projects for the GM Die Engineering Services organization involving Teamcenter and CAD/CAM/CAE technologies.

Provided the oversight and management over the implementation of Teamcenter at the GM Die Engineering Services organization by managing the implementation resources and the requirements definition by the business

Did business process mapping and re-engineering for the Die Engineering Services to efficiently and successfully implement the Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) System – TeamCenter Engineering using the DOD developed IDEF0 methodology.

Participated in the promotion and in the audit of the organization to achieve CMMi Level 2 and 3 capabilities.

Supported the management of a web based system, utilizing JAVA and SQL queries that supported all the engineering and business applications other than those using the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM for die engineering services

Defined Die Engineering Services requirements to use SAP as a plant floor scheduling system.

Digimine: Jan ‘02 – Jun ’02

Account Manager

Project: Applications development, data hosting, and daily web activity data analysis for the Chrysler Corp. customer facing sales web site

Responsible for contract management, delivery, requirements gathering, and client relationships for the $2 million business sold.

Responsible for identifying and consummating add on business

UGS: Mar ‘98 – Oct ‘01

Program/Technical Manager

Project: Applied UGS CAD/CAM/PDM and infrastructure technologies and processes to maximize collaborative design and product development efficiencies

Orchestrated the implementation of a multi million dollar project for Engine Design Life Cycle including technology infrastructure, engineering applications (CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM – Teamcenter) and engineering processes, to enable collaborative design, for a GM Powertrain program, at a supplier (Ricardo) site.

Successfully and in record time transitioned GM’s multi million dollar Product Data Management (PDM) application development and support program for the Teamcenter system, which was managed for 2 years in EDS to UGS. As part of this the SDLC development method of EDS used for development was mapped to the UGS SDLC development method.

EDS: Jan ‘85 – Mar ‘98

Program Manager

Project: Program Management of GM Product Data Standardization & PDM

Managed worldwide CAD/CAM/PDM technology implementations for GM to improve product data interoperability, product data management and system communization. $2 Million Dollar per year and 20 person programs

Responsible for the GM program to customize the PDM system (Teamcenter) to GM requirements.

1.Several team leaders were managed as part of the program. They used the EDS SDLC development methodology.

2.Conducted sessions for requirements gathering from several GM divisions to generate a

consolidated set of requirements

3.Coordinated the development of the requirements to be done by the vendor – UGS

4.Ensured that the custom developed functionality was tested and bundled for implementation.

5.Managed the financials and expenses to ensure that the project was producing the profit margins expected of EDS while staying within the budget

6.Generated the monthly billing for GM from EDS

Managed the development of several prototype applications to demonstrate the integration capabilities of the ISO standard data model between varied CAD systems and between CAD systems and product management systems (Teamcenter). All of these prototypes were developed using the EDS SDLC process. Prototypes were developed using C++

Responsible for customer relationship, multiple projects management, operational metrics collection and reporting, management of EDS and external resources, budgets, P&L, system development agreements & pricing for GM technology programs

Technical Project Manager / Senior Systems Engineer

Project: Development and implementation of CAD/CAM/PDM technologies.

Led development of a CAD and CAE integrated application for die casting die cooling line placement. The application was done using the EDS SDLC process

Technical Manager at AIAG to lead cross industry, cross government wide implementation of new CAD data standard in the supply chain.

Led a multi national team to develop the ISO Product Configuration Management logical data model to capture several Bills of Materials. This data model was used to develop the first version of the PDM system by UGS

Had a leadership role to define and implement new divisional CMM / SEI project management and estimation processes to improve the CAD/CAM software development process and quality within an EDS organization of 200 people

1973-1985:

Wang Laboratories Inc.,– Developed the Professional Computer as a Printed Circuit Board manufacturing equipment, inventory and process controller.

Computervision Corporation,– Developed NC Post-processors for 2-axis to 5-axis machines. Conceived and developed a machinability database.

Cleveland Twist Drill Company, – Designed thread roll profiles and developed processes for thread roll grinding for machine operators.

Governor’s Office on Highway Safety – Operated the NHTSA Fatal Accident System for the State of Rhode Island. Collected data from the DMV and Police and generated reports and analysis to support legislations.

Larsen and Toubro Ltd. Mumbai, India - Managed plant engineering functions - factory facilities, equipment and labor.

Volunteer Work

2010 President of the non-profit organization - Project Management Institute Great Lakes Chapter (PMIGLC). Responsible for a membership of 1700.

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