Anand. K
Product Manager
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic and team-oriented IT Project Manager with 10 years of experience in asset management, risk mitigation and project leadership. Innovative and driven with passion for delivering high-quality work. Detail-oriented and focused on maintaining organization and identifying opportunities for process improvements.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
5
5
Languages
Work History
Product / Project Manager
TVS Supply Chain Solutions
Chennai
08.2022 - Current
- End to End product execution covering the entire SDLC cycle
- Determine and define the product and project scope, out of scope and objectives
- Understand the various organizational factors, assumptions, constraints, and boundaries in which the product and project needs to be executed
- Host the kickoff meeting with product stakeholders which includes Customer, Other IT vendors and Project team
- Understand the dynamics and create the Project planning and maintain the same
- Work breakdown structure for the team to be maintained and tracked
- Identification of Risk, Issues, Dependencies beforehand and work towards mitigation
- Host Weekly Status calls with various project stakeholders
- Participated in the Product & project Review, Audits, Forecasting, Timesheet tracking, Billing, and Invoicing
- Manage and lead the product’s project team which includes Business Analyst, Development team, testing team
- Maintain relevant trackers, Checklist, and knowledge documents during SDLC cycle
- Maintain good rapport project stakeholders and communicate the project status appropriately on time
- Monitor progress, understand dynamics, and adjust the plan
- Manage project escalation and changes in Scope
- Measure product performance to identify areas of improvement
- Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire product execution
Project Manager
CMA CGM GBS India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2020 - 08.2022
- Acting as connector and translator between Business and SAP TM Team
- PM ensure the adequation of SAP TM deliveries according to Business Requirements
- Challenging and writing Business Requirements/Return on Investment
- Prioritizing and engaging with SAP TM Team
- Helping the Business Requester to perform User Acceptance Tests
- Informing User community on the release of the functionalities delivered
- Coordinate with SAP TM team at Marseille to manage and deliver the SAP Shipping maintenance (TM), mainly with the Shipping Product Manager and the Business Experts Responsible for gathering business requirements, conducting need assessments, designs and drive developments based on SAP TM
- Have experience of SAP TM configuration and knowledge of change management
- As a part of application management services working on incidents and defects within SLA’s Creation and deployment of change requests and requests for fix
- Organize sessions with business stakeholders, capture the requirements and support end users on newly implemented solutions
- Manage the business requirements from blueprint till go live and provide hyper care support
- Planning weekly forecasts, resourcing, revenue generation based on business plans
- Leading a cross functional team in implementing project deliverables
- Managing a team size of around 50 people with a business portfolio of $4 million
- Responsible for conducting weekly meetings with the stakes to enhance the performance of SAP and to ensure timely delivery
Business Analyst
NSEIT Ltd
Chennai
08.2018 - 07.2020
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
- Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies
- Staying up to date on the latest processes and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems
- Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings
- Performing requirements analysis
- Documenting and communicating the results
- Effectively communicates insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management
- Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports
- Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff
- Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff
- Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency
- Ensuring solutions to meet business needs and requirements
- Performing user acceptance test (UAT)
- Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance
- Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures
- Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements
- Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users
- Managing competing resources and priorities
- Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects
Business Analyst
TVS Supply Chain Solutions
Chennai
02.2016 - 07.2018
- Developing and validating the recommendations for the client in the context of the business goals
- Was part of the Customer Service team of Logistics practice with responsibilities including development and implementation of Customer Service module
- Customer service module comprises of - CRM/ Portals/ Notifications on critical business communications to internal and external stake holders
- Responsible for Product development, Implement new functionality, Business, and process analysis
- Requirement Mapping, Solution mapping and design/ system & Integration
- Liaising with developers and clients - acts as a point of communication
- Identifying client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches.
Junior Engineer
Flextronics Technology India pvt ltd
09.2013 - 02.2016
- Providing production support for issues originating in SAP procurement and analyzing the incident tickets and providing solutions through Remedy Ticketing Tool Providing instant solutions to the end users on run time errors based on severity of the issues as per SLA
- Handling issues related to Purchase Requisition creation or PR to PO conversion, and Contracts
- Maintaining and streamlining release strategy for PR & PO
- Handling change management activities
- Ensuring the master data consistency like Material Master, Vendor Master, PIR, and Source List Involved in designing pass-through interfaces between SAP and legacy systems
- Knowledge about Functional module, message type, Inbound and outbound parameters
- IDOC’s interfaces for
- Purchasing and inventory activities related to Purchasing and Inventory Management between the SAP and Non-
- SAP system
- BE – ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education And Research
Tamil Nadu India 09.2009 - 05.2013
GED -
RS Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Tamil Nadu, India 03.2008 - 03.2009
GED -
New Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Tamil Nadu Chennai 04.2006 - 04.2007
Skills
Project planning and development
Accomplishments
- Successfully Implemented Application Rationalization for the organization by liaising with all IT Heads which resulted in 190+ applications being Retired with Replaceable Application with higher Scalability and Agility which can be used throughout
- Successfully developed and implemented phase-1 of a Global project - Customer Digital Platform which had integration and storage of all entity data and its DB’s so that in future data will flow into another system with a copy of the data pushed again into the central database. Also, a web application was built to search and visualize data stored.
- Successfully Implemented a project ‘Vessel Condition Database (VCD)’ for the business users of organization which made an impact on the business with increase in business value worth 1500 Euro / month.
- Successfully Implemented a project ‘Integration between Orchestra and Solman’ which resolved data quality issues with regards to release.
- Developed and Implemented a Web based Application for Railway Recruitment Board which was used by 2crore+ candidates to apply for the available vacancy.
At TVS Supply Chain Solutions:
At CMA CGM GBS India Pvt Ltd:
At NSEIT:
Certification
Pursuing PMP - Project Management Professional
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Tamil
- Kannada
- Marathi
- Telugu
Timeline
Product / Project Manager
TVS Supply Chain Solutions
08.2022 - Current
Pursuing PMP - Project Management Professional
07-2022
Project Manager
CMA CGM GBS India Pvt Ltd
07.2020 - 08.2022
Business Analyst
NSEIT Ltd
08.2018 - 07.2020
Business Analyst
TVS Supply Chain Solutions
02.2016 - 07.2018
Junior Engineer
Flextronics Technology India pvt ltd
09.2013 - 02.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education And Research
09.2009 - 05.2013
GED -
RS Matriculation Higher Secondary School
03.2008 - 03.2009
GED -
New Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School
04.2006 - 04.2007
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