Management Project Manager

Kesavakumar S J

Mobile: +1-408-***-****

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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kesavakumar-s-j/2b/43b/7a9

Summary

7+ yrs of experience in IT/corporate industry with expertise in Project Management, Release & Change Management, Analysis & Design, Data warehousing (DWH) tools and methodologies.

Good Knowledge of Enterprise Release Management, Environment planning & Change Management & ITIL processes.

Experience in design, development, implementation, maintenance and operation of multiple projects and ability to lead a team.

Sound knowledge of biz analysis, requirement gathering coupled with excellent interpersonal skills.

Oracle certified Associate with a larger experience in project management.

Self-motivated and able to work independently and as a member of a team.

Quick learner and adaptive to new and challenging technological environments.

Management Profile:

Project Management:

Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling large scale projects. Expertise in project management knowledge areas (Risk, Communications, Quality, Time, Procurement, Scope)

Release Management:

Planning the role out of software releases. Designing and implementing procedures for the distribution and installation of changes to IT. Effectively communicating and managing expectations of the customer during the releases. Execute, lead major/minor software releases and hardware upgrades, emergency hardware/software fixes, delta releases, full and package release.

Change Management:

CAB (Change Advisory Board) reviewer for major IT impacting changes. Ensure minimal destruction of services, reduction in back-out activities, economic utilization of resources involved in the change.

Operations/Transition Management:

Adept in Transition/Operational processes (Incident/Problem management, Service validation and testing, knowledge management)

Technical Profile:

Data Warehousing: Informatica Power Center 8.x/7.x, Designer, Workflow Manager, Work flow Monitor, ETL, Data mart, OLAP, OLTP, Mapplet, Transformations, Dollar Universe, SQL*Plus, Hyperion Essbase 6.5/9.x

BI Tools: Business Objects 6.5/6.0/5.1/5.0 MS Access Reports

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8.0/7.x, Teradata V2R6.x, Teradata V12 IBM DB2, MS Access.

Programming GUI /Environment: SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, COBOL, TSO, VSAM, Sun Solaris, MS DOS , Win 3.x/95/98/NT/XP, Red Hat Linux, S 390 Mainframe system

Education Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Professional Experience:

a)Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

Project Manager Jul’11 – Till date

Experis (Formerly Comsys), CA

Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO) in Cisco helps IT effectively introduce changes to business organization using the Operating Model framework. Managing & leading various Global Business Partners (GBP) by collaborating with other Program managers by ensuring quality, stability & reliability for all projects participating in a release.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible in driving the development and execution of project plan by working with project team to define, sequence & estimate duration & determine schedules to meet project timeline

• Prepare release ,testing strategy, approach & plan for all projects, ensuring consistency & adhere to standards

• Provide ERMO with high-level estimates of data requirements needed for the project at the Release Commit milestone (to secure support for data creation)

• Define weekly goals, baselines and provide them to ERMO by updating this information in the templates provided

• Generate test cases according to the test plan and upload these into Quality Center & manage the test execution process in Quality Center and log defects

• Escalate Infrastructure, Environment, data and cross-flow issues as needed

• Provide Release/Program Readiness Assessment to executives during leadership meetings

• Superior communication skills by interacting with Business and IT executives during the release, test cycles and transition timings

b) Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

Release/Program & Transition Manager Mar’09 – Jul’11

Vedicsoft Solutions Inc, Iselin, NJ

BIDS EDW is one of the largest revenue generating groups within Cisco. Their Release lifecycle spans from Development to Testing to Production deployment spreading across multiple Fiscal quarters. Managing & leading the planning efforts and end to end execution of releases in both EDW data warehouses - Oracle & Teradata forms part of my role.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define, track, and manage release content and program/project schedules being the Release/Program Manager.

• Responsible for ensuring a coordinated and consistent response across multiple development teams during the IT scoping phase and the development of functional specifications for a given release.

• Responsible for planning, coordinating and hosting the readiness & status meetings for all software releases with Senior Management and biz partners.

• Coordinate and provide leadership to cross-functional teams by providing periodic progress reports to senior management at various stages of the release lifecycle spread across 6 months.

• Work with cross-functional core team to define and document the readiness scope, develop detailed readiness plans, and track/manage the plan to successful completion at the closure of multiple releases

• Responsible for setting up of various infrastructure (database, Informatica, $U ) for Release test cycles & continue as the single point of contact for escalations or for issue resolution across the Release and Dev/QA teams.

• Responsible for risk management by identifying the potential risks in advance, proposing mitigation plans and securing management sign off.

• Involved in the analysis of requirements & specifications for various environments & also in the implementation of new architectural standards within the team

c) Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

IT & Business Lead Dec’ 04 – Mar’ 09

Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

Cisco Finance IT group is yet another key contributor to the organizations revenue. Team specializes in OLAP Reporting for Business Metrics like Bookings, Invoice, Revenue, Deferred Revenue, P&L to perform critical business reports along with Data Integrity & reconciliations. IT & Biz application support lead for all the finance applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Being the IT lead, responsible for 24/7 uptime of critical P1 Finance applications

• Audit and compliance reporting to IT and Business teams

• Closely interact with senior management, Controllers, IT Team to lay out new business models & processes

• Single POC for application releases, business critical P1’s, management escalations & infrastructure upgrades.

d) Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

IT Analyst / Support Lead Dec’ 04 – Mar’ 09

Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

Customer Profitability Reporting was one of Cisco's new initiatives for automated and accurate sales (Profit & Loss) report to senior directors and end user community. IT Analyst responsible for end to end rollout of this new reporting capability to the users & senior management.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Preparation of technical specification document & analysis of business requirements by working closely with the various application & business teams

• Provide 24/7 support by monitoring & fixing the processed data on quarterly basis and communicating to the core Business team on the availability of data and of any potential issues/risks

• Created Informatica mappings and sessions to accomplish data migrations. Also designed and managed quarterly data, workflows and scheduling processes

e) Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

Onsite Coordinator Dec’ 04 – Mar’ 09

Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India

Capital Data Mart reporting established a consolidated reporting database coupled with a web based reporting tool. Onsite coordinator and single point of contact for user issues and escalations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Single Point of contact to provide support for user requests and management reporting on the potential issues/risks

• Grant access to users for the Upload utility tool based on their current role in the organization.

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