Murugan Vadivel

Program Director

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Career Objective

Seeking a senior position with a leading firm where Program Management and architecture expertise in information management, applications support, data integration, data warehousing, and business intelligence is essential for providing complete, accurate, and timely information to support clients’ business objectives.

Professional Profile

Experienced Program Manager and a Solution Architect. Areas of expertise include:

• Program Management

• Project Management

• Solution Architecture

• System Design

• Project Planning

• Effort estimation

• Data integration

• Data warehousing

• Business intelligence / reporting / analytics applications

• Process / productivity Improvement

• Defining and Tracking SLAs / SLOs

• Defining and Maintaining the Governance Model

• Team leadership and management

• Onsite offshore coordination

• Managing the larger team

• GxP / Validation

Full-time and consulting experience on large strategic IT projects in multiple industries:

• Life sciences, Financial Services and Retail

• Clinical Developments (R&D), Managed Markets Finance, Oncology, Human resources,

Accounts Payable, Managed services, Application Development factory, Web hosting, Web application

Experience and Accomplishments

Cognizant Program Director for Novartis Clinical Developments (R&D) Informatics - Program revenue size of $10+ Million and completely responsible for the P&L of the program.

14+ years experience in Information Technology Consulting with demonstrated ability to lead and deliver successful implementations for many large Program / projects focused on complex integrated solutions with emphasis on multi-channel customer access and business intelligence.

Cognizant-Novartis veteran (5+ years) has been instrumental in successful execution of critical engagements in Novartis Pharmaceuticals spanning multiple Business Domains & Technology areas like Clinical developments (R&D), Managed Markets and Oncology

Played multi-faceted roles like Program Manager, project manager and Solution architect and have proved to be the backbone of the tremendous Cognizant-Novartis partnership growth story.

Cognizant Technology Solutions (Jan 2006 – Till date)

Novartis Clinical Developments (R&D) – Program Director & Sr Solution Architect

(Jan 2010 – Till Date)

Responsible for entire Project planning process including creating the project charter, effort estimation, staffing requirements, on-boarding schedules, functionality release planning, project organizational structure and skills and roles definitions.

System and application architecture definition, conceptual and detail design, programming specifications creation and implementation.

Responsible for tracking and monitoring project Health and making sure the smooth project delivery and timely delivery of the milestones.

Perform project quality reviews at defined milestones and ensures that all deliverables have been approved and their versions frozen.

Developing and maintaining an engagement governance model and structure for the Portfolio – including project reviews, steering committee meetings and PMO meetings Map out the customer’s IT / business organization.

Manage the operational tasks like Review / contribute to program level documents such as SOW and SLAs / SLO metrics and project billing for invoice generation.

Managing and leading the support team to support 50+ Clinical Development domain applications including Oracle Clinical and Argus spanning across the Drug Development business processes covering Clinical trial planning to Trail data Submission to FDA and the related environments end to end on a completely managed service model.

Managing the peak team size of 150+ resources located globally (US, Europe and India) consists of projects managers, solution architects, quality managers and technical developers and the testers.

Proactively understand the customer goals, needs and priorities, anticipate requirements and build solutions around the same.

Provide the solutions for customer problems based on an understanding of products/systems test results by ensuring compliance with respect to the client’s processes – quality assurance standards, quality tools and configuration management

Manage requirements gathering for the project(s) participate in cross-account requirements gathering and drive an end to end system implementation involving interaction with multiple stakeholders

Managing an effort distribution for the Non Discretionary / Discretionary work by working with Novartis business and IT leadership team based on the business criticality by conducting the demand management planning exercise on quarterly basis

Participating and supporting Novartis strategic planning and decision-making on the R&D applications.

Having Good Experience in GXP and 21 CFR PART 11 standards.

Key Projects:

Integrated Field Monitoring System – a Mobility (iPad) solution for the Clinical Trail Field monitors

• Integrated view of multiple applications under single window for Clinical Trial Field Monitors

• Field Monitors uses this system over 3G and complete the visit reports on time

• Real time access of the system, data and templates related to compliance

• Improvement in Data Quality.

• Improved productivity and efficiency for CRA

• Cycle time for visit reports submission is reduced.

• Throughput in open queries resolution increased

• Better application performance

• Quick start access to application

• Avoids offline and online connectivity issues.

• Scanning of documentation allows for increased compliance

• Avoids paper based templates

• Executed in Agile Methodology

• Well received at the Novartis Senior and the Executive management team Level

• Awarded as a project of the year in Novartis and Cognizant CBC

Green Light Solution Implementation

• GLS system is to ensure that Investigational & Medicinal Product (IMP) and Site Initiation will not start before all necessary key documents (Regulatory, Legal and Operational) are in place, thus ensuring compliance with regulations and improving quality and productivity

• Checklists that specifies which documents must be completed at a particular level(trial, country and site) for major milestones (known as ‘Checkpoints”)

• Escalation if documents or activities are missing.

• Final Protocol Package trigger point that includes documents at Trial level to initiate the Clinical Trial Process: Final Protocol Informed Consent Form, e-CRF/CRF.

• Ready to Initiate Site (RIS) checkpoint which is part of the Novartis Clinical Trial Process (CTP) that specifies which key Regulatory, Legal and Operational items or documents must be completed at a particular level (trial, country, site) through document lists.

Argus Call Center Integration

• Automate integration of adverse events from US CPO call center to avoid the data quality issues on account of duplicate data entry between call center and case processing site.

• To reduce the risk of errors linked to manual steps of collecting and typing in information and resources spent on reconciliation on a daily basis.

• Improvement in Data Quality.

• Improved productivity

• Reconciliation of Adverse Event Case from the Call center and the Argus system

DSUR – Drug Safety User Report

• Adverse Event reporting for the European regulatory Agencies

• Build Data Mart and Data warehouse

• Cognos reports

• Web module for user Managements

• Data Quality reports

• Complex validation Process

Oracle Clinical and JReview Upgrade

• Oracle Clinical Upgrade to 4.6.2 and TMS 4.6.2

• Setup a new hardware environment

• Complete validation of all the three environments DEV, VAL and PROD.

Clinical Database and Application Upgrade:

• Upgraded 20 instances of Clinical Trail databases from Oracle 9 to Oracle 11

• 15 TB size of data

• Multiple data centers located across the globe (US, Europe and Japan)

• Coordinated the team from 6 different vendor located across the globe

• Complex GxP Validation process

Novartis Managed Markets Finance – Program Manager & Solution Architect

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

Managed the peak team size of 60+ resources (15 onsite and 45 offshore) consists of projects managers, solution architects, quality managers and technical developers and the testers

Responsible for entire Project planning process including creating the project charter, effort estimation, staffing requirements, on-boarding schedules, functionality release planning, project organizational structure and skills and roles definitions.

System and application architecture definition, conceptual and detail design, programming specifications creation and implementation.

Responsible for tracking and monitoring project Health and making sure the smooth project delivery and timely delivery of the milestones.

Managed and lead the support team to support the applications CPCC (Rebate processing System), Government Pricing, Medicaid and Customer Profitability

Key Projects:

Monet – Contract Management System Implementation

Government Pricing and Medicaid System Upgrade

Contract Management System Implementation: Planning and Assessment

Novartis Oncology – Sr Project Manager & Solution Architect

Aug 2006 – Jan 2008

Managed the peak team size of 50+ resources (10 onsite and 40 offshore) consists of Technical leads, and technical developers and the testers

Project Management and coordination

Responsible for Requirement Analysis

Responsible for conducting meeting with Business owners for analyzing the requirement and the technical feasibility.

Responsible for Architectural Design

Responsible for System Design (Conceptual Design & Detail Design)

Responsible for System Integration Design & Implementation

Key projects:

Salesforce (Veeva) Implementation for Oncology Sales Force Implementation

ECDMS: Electronic Clinical Data Management System Implementation

Schering Plough

Jan 2006 – Aug 2006

Engaged as an onsite project manager/coordinator and

Project Management and coordination,

Configuring web hosting environment, application deployments and production support.

Project:

CWP (Common Web Platform) & CDAS (Clinical Documents Automation System) Support and Enhancements

Wipro Technologies (Oct 2002 – Jan 2006)

Johnson and Johnson

May 2005 – Jan 2006

Engaged as a project Manager

Requirements Gathering

Project Coordination

Project:

Health and Benefits system Survey - Implementation

Albertsons Inc,

Feb 2004 – May 2005

Engaged as Project Leader for B2C E-commerce system.

Responsible for requirements gathering, architecting, design, implementation and delivery of complex solutions primarily using JAVA, J2EE technologies

Project

B2C E-commerce system, Albertsons Inc., USA

Charles Schwab

Oct 2002 – Feb 2004

Engaged as a Technical Lead

Responsible for design, implementation and delivery of accounts payable processing system for automating accounts payable process.

Project

AP Imaging System

Sonata Software Ltd (Mar 2001 – Oct 2002)

Mode Media International UK

Engaged as a System Analyst

Responsible for design, implementation and delivery of accounts payable processing system for automating accounts payable process

Project

Content Management, Distribution & Retailer System, London, United Kingdom

Crum and Forster Insurance

Engaged as a System Analyst

Responsible for design, implementation and delivery of accounts payable processing system for automating accounts payable process

Project: Claims Front Office

Professional Memberships and Certifications

• Advanced Program Management Certification Program for executing Complex Programs by Stanford University, USA

• Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA)

• Project Management Professional (PMP)

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering -- Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India

Technical Summary

• Java • UNIX Shell Scripting • LOG4J

• J2EE • ANT • Linux

• SQL • PL/SQL • EJB

• Servlets • JSP • JAXP

• JDBC • RMI • HTML

• JNDI • JMS • TCP/IP

• Rational Rose • JavaScript • WebLogic

• DTD • IBM WebSphere • DOM

• SAX • MS project2000 • JDeveloper

• JBuilder • XSLT • MS Access 2000

• Jakarta Tomcat • Oracle • UML

• SQL Server • Solaris • Clear Case

• OOAD • CVS • DOCUMENTUM

• AGILE

• Mobility

• Data warehousing

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