Project Management & Gen AI
25 Years of Experience
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Executive Summary Kumaran has 20+ year experience in IT Projects with excellent Delivery Management, client-handling and mentoring skills. He is an expert in DevOps as well as Agile, Scrum and Kanban methodologies. He has played critical roles like Program Manager, Agile Coach and Transformation Manager. Kumaran is a goal oriented change agent and is driven by vision and values. He possesses the rare combination of Development skills as well as Operational skills in the realm of Applications. He has successfully managed multiple Programs across Healthcare and Remittance Processing domains
Wipro, SaaS/Cloud Product, Information Services
Cognizant
Cognizant
Wipro, Cognizant, Cognizant, Cognizant Technology Solutions, J&B Software, Botree Software International Pvt Limited, Softech Systems (Private) Limited
Job Title : Project Management Consultant
Company name : Wipro
Period : September 2021 - Present
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Title : Program Manager
Company name : Cognizant
Period : May 2015 - June 2020
Summary : • Application Development / Maintenance Project Management using Waterfall, Scrum / Kanban methodologies right from RFP, Requirements, Estimation, Planning, Build, Deployment and Support
• Program Management and Product Backlog Management for the AppLens and mainspring platform development
• Defined and Institutionalized delivery process for the Organization based on ITIL, DevOps, Scrum & Kanban
• Rationalized the Process definition for the Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) organization
• Conceptualized several Frameworks & Tools and industrialized them across the ADM organization
• Handled Transition Management for various clients both from onsite (USA) as well as from offshore
• Proven aptitude in managing projects and new systems implementations for streamlining operations within the triple constraints of Scope, Cost, Quality and to standardize delivery
• Performed DevOps Assessment, Tool Assessment, Process Assessment for clients across multiple domains
• Excellent communicator with exceptional interpersonal and problem-solving skills and flexible attitude
• Enabled Service Delivery Transformation for clients spanning across multiple domains through Zero Maintenance, AIOps and SmartOps frameworks
• Designed the enterprise Tools Framework to ensure seamless flow of quality deliverables and reduce manual effort
• Contributed 500+ hours as a trainer on Instructor Led Training with Cognizant Academy on topics – Delphi 5, incident management workshop, problem management workshop, Tools and Agile based Delivery models
• An avid learner – Successfully completed certifications on Python, Data Science, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Google Cloud Fundamentals & AWS DevOps Engineer
Location : ELCOT SEZ - Cognizant CKC Sholinganallur, Chennai
Job Title : Program Manager
Company name : Cognizant
Period : August 2014 - April 2020
Summary : Kaiser Permanente (Revenue - 1 million / month; Team Strength: 30)
Roles : Transition Manager & Program Manager
• Offshore Transition Manager - Responsible for managing transition of 100+ application’s production support functions from incumbent vendor to Cognizant
• End to end Ownership for all the Niche COTS applications.
• Tracking Due Diligence activities and preparing the DD Summary at tower level.
• Plan transition, execution and monitoring using the KT Portal
• Tracking day to day KT progress, playback sessions, SME feedback during the transition
• Coordination with various technology groups with in Cognizant to ensure right composition of teams and seamless knowledge transition
• Risk assessment and monitoring to closure
• Steady state and Day 1 readiness planning and smooth rollover to steady state
• Status reporting, governance reporting (both internal and Customer), Metrics reporting.
• Post-transition took over the overall Project Management for the entire project
• Performed Budgeting for the project for its entire 3 year duration
• Created a framework on SLA calculation and Metrics monitoring to track the SLA adherence for the project.
• ERP – End to end ERP implementation projects for Healthcare clients using MS Dynamics 365
• Solution Architecture - Perform Tool Assessments and recommend an effective and efficient Tool Architecture
Location : CRC Chennai
Job Title : Service Delivery Manager
Company name : Cognizant Technology Solutions
Period : October 2006 - July 2014
Summary : Emdeon ( Revenue - 1.5 million / month; Team Strength: 50)
Role : Service Delivery Manager
• Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management solutions, connecting payers, providers and patients in the U.S. healthcare system. Cognizant offers IT, IT IS, BPO and QA services to Emdeon.
• Managing the major IT projects in Emdeon as part of the AVM portfolio
• Implemented Cognizant’s AVM framework for Emdeon.
• Started with managing projects in T&M and moved into managed services
• Defined the Service catalog and SLA framework for Emdeon along with the client team.
• Set up the Service Management Office and Transformation Office teams for Emdeon to enable CSI framework
• Implemented the Idea management and Knowledge Management framework for the Emdeon account.
• Has been part of Emdeon since the inception of the engagement and have been felicitated by the customer during the client visit.
Location : DLF Chennai
Job Title : Project Manager
Company name : J&B Software
Period : June 2002 - September 2006
Summary : TMSImage is the product for the remittance processing industry. This software is used to process the checks, stubs for the banks and balanced after which the transactions are extracted to the mainframe. This base product is customized to suite different customers needs.
Lead the JPMC-NYS project which is executed for NewYork Department of Taxation and Finance. The software processes the taxes paid for personal and fiduciary in NewYork, and generates the extracts and exports the images to JPMC’s mainframe systems.
Developed the customization of TmsImage for Merrill Lynch, Cabela, Thrivent Financials, FCNB (First Community National Bank). Executed end to end phases of SDLC from Requirements gathering, Estimation, Development, Testing and Implementation
Job Title : Project Leader
Company name : Botree Software International Pvt Limited
Period : March 2000 - June 2002
Summary : • ELIXIR is a Healthcare product, which automates the Healthcare and Administrative procedures related to a Hospital. The product is developed in a component-based technology, extensively using the Object Oriented features of Delphi.
• Designed and developed Pharmacy module integrated with Finance for GKNM hospitals.
• Designed and developed a full fledged Theatre Management System that takes
Title : Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
Period : March 2024 - March 2025
Summary : ABA1794855EDCE2D, microsoft.com, https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/CSKumaran-9557/ABA1794855EDCE2D?sharingId
Issuing Authority : Microsoft
Title : Google Cloud certified Cloud Digital Leader
Period : July 2023 - July 2026
Summary : Blockchain ID: 797419, credential.net, https://www.credential.net/ae852def-f0cd-44bb-a50a-1664c0f51b64?key=9d474ba1d860be7d90acf336e5faf47dec1c17114c9d51e5f7f391b13dcacfb3
Issuing Authority : Google Cloud
Title : PM - Leadership Excellence and Acceleration Program (PM - LEAP)
Period : November 2022 - Present
Issuing Authority : Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning
Title : Build Facial Recognition Application using Python
Period : April 2021 - Present
Summary : 71TE9V11Z796z36Sa3, guvi.in, https://www.guvi.in/verify-certificate?id=71TE9V11Z796z36Sa3
Issuing Authority : GUVI Geek Networks, IITM Research Park
Title : Big Data Computing
Period : January 2021 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS92S81330310094804, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS92S81330310094804
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Title : Introduction to Industrial 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things
Period : January 2021 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS69S51330480094804, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS69S51330480094804
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Title : Introduction to Internet of Things
Period : January 2021 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS66S71330552094804, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS66S71330552094804
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Title : Artificial Intelligence
Period : November 2020 - Present
Summary : TN01030127, swayam2.ac.in, https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/photo/view/certificate?file_path=examform/certificates/ns_cec20_cs10/b8bb7276d31011ea9ec5cd8071800551_cec20-cs10.pdf
Issuing Authority : SWAYAM MHRD
Title : Blockchain Essentials
Period : November 2020 - Present
Summary : 2a44eb8cba8a474b93be4f61526354e8, cognitiveclass.ai, https://courses.cognitiveclass.ai/certificates/2a44eb8cba8a474b93be4f61526354e8
Issuing Authority : IBM
Title : IBM Blockchain Essentials V2
Period : November 2020 - Present
Summary : credly.com, https://www.credly.com/badges/bf69a215-c534-47c1-aed8-19b4e272e35e/linked_in_profile
Issuing Authority : IBM
Title : Data Analytics with Python
Period : June 2020 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS46S1AS240282, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS46S1PC240282
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Title : Data Science for Engineers
Period : June 2020 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS28S1PC146681, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS28S1PC146681
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Title : Google Cloud Computing Foundation
Period : June 2020 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS55S1AS637526, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS55S1PC637526
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Title : Machine Learning, ML
Period : June 2020 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS49S1PC955667, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS49S1PC955667
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Title : Python for Data Science
Period : June 2020 - Present
Summary : NPTEL20CS36S1PC002908, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/noc/Ecertificate/?q=NPTEL20CS36S1PC002908
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Title : Professional Scrum Product Owner - 1 (PSPO-1)
Period : November 2019 - Present
Summary : 474420, scrum.org, https://scrum.org/certificates/474420
Issuing Authority : Scrum.org
Title : Business Analytics & Text mining modelling using Python
Period : October 2019 - Present
Summary : NPTEL19MG47S11183894, nptel.ac.in, https://nptel.ac.in/content/noc/NOC19/SEM2/Ecertificates/110/noc19-mg47/Course/NPTEL19MG47S11183894191051905.jpg
Issuing Authority : Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Title : Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Period : September 2019 - September 2021
Summary : 000988223
Issuing Authority : Scrum Alliance
Title : DevOps Foundation
Period : August 2019 - Present
Summary : 9980067532254686
Issuing Authority : DevOpsInstitute
Title : Team Kanban Practitioner
Period : August 2018 - Present
Issuing Authority : Lean Kanban University
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