Magesh (Max) Narayanan
Powell OH 43065 614-***-****
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Summary
IT Manager with diverse Technical and Leadership experience
Consistent top 1%-10% high-performer
Strong leader and team-motivator - demonstrating vision, providing direction and delivering business value
Over 20 years of IT development and management experience
Demonstrated Leadership Capabilities
Results Leadership
o Lead the team to meet and exceed availability, performance, quality and financial KPIs
o Established and nurtured business partner relationships
o Accountability for delivery of large programs ($3 million +) and small projects
o Identified and executed opportunities to reduce labor and non-labor costs
o Established Demand Management processes with our business partners
Thought Leadership
o Evaluated technologies and methodologies for adoption by solution area
o Worked on large effort to re-work the business process model
o Set and executed on Strategic and Tactical Roadmaps
o Established best practices for solution development and deployment
o Championed Continuous Improvement and Lean Management methodologies usage.
People and Personal Leadership
o Lead a substantial increased in teams engagement score (Gallup Engagement Score)
o Established mentoring relationships to help people grow
o Actively involved in talent acquisition and providing coaching and feedback.
o Consistently exhibited the values of ‘Accountability’ and ‘Bias for Action and Passion for Results ‘
o Strong believer in following Industry and technology trends
o Involved in Communities of Practices in sharing and receiving ideas for improvement.
Experience Summary Highlights
Manager, IT Applications, Nationwide – 2 years
Consultant, IT Architecture, Pricing Solutions, Loss Reserving and Risk Management, Nationwide – 4 years
Specialist, IT Architecture, Nationwide – 2 years
Specialist, IT Application Development, Nationwide – 4 years
IT Areas of Expertise
Asset and Financial Management, Service Management, People Management, Performance Management, Solution Delivery, Project Management
Data Integration, Rules Engines, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence
IT Job Family Experience
IT Architecture Domains
• Application Domain
• Functional Domain
• Data Domain
• Information Domain
• Systems Domain
Application Development
• Estimating
• Solution Scoping
• Quality Assurance and Control
Project Management
• Project Planning
• Project Execution (small projects)
• Project Measurement and Control (small projects)
Solution Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Creating Use Cases
Technology Skills
Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata,
C, PL/SQL, COBOL, C++, Java, UNIX Shell Scripting, Perl
Informatica, Microstrategy
J2EE, Groovy/Grails
Industry Experience
Property and Casualty Insurance, Life Insurance, Banking, Retail
Work Experience
Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH 2003 - Present
Manager, IT Applications
Consultant, IT Architecture
Specialist, IT Architecture
COMSYS, Columbus, OH 1997 - 2003
Consultant Leader
Information Management Resources, Clearwater, FL 1994 - 1997
Senior Programmer Analyst
Tiger Systems, Bangalore, India 1993 - 1994
Programmer
Vantage Systems, Chennai, India 1992 - 1993
Engineer
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering from University of Madras, India
PG Diploma in Software Engineering from Indian Computer Academy, Bangalore (an affiliate of Harvard University)
PMP Certification from Project Management Institute
Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University