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Bharathi Sandhyavandanam

Bharathi Sandhyavandanam

Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic Application Development Associate Manager at Accenture with expertise in project management and transition planning. Successfully led multiple high-stakes transitions, enhancing operational efficiency and achieving zero control issues. Proficient in Agile methodologies, I excel in stakeholder engagement and risk management, driving continuous improvement and delivering impactful results.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Application Development Associate Manager

Accenture
09.2021 - Current
  • Been part of Transition team in Accenture and handled KT stream for below transitions
  • Accenture – Telstra Joint Venture (800FTE, 8 missions)
  • Eversource Transition – (18 FTE, 4 applications)
  • Roche Speed Transition (50 FTE, 3 Products)
  • Roche MDMS Transition (20FTE, 1 Product)
  • Emblem Health (250 FTEs and 14 applications)
  • Cigna Health Care (200 FTEs, 20 applications)
  • Axis Bank (3 waves 311 FTEs and 374 applications Split into 15 Line of Businesses)
  • Project Planning, Management and Strategy: Develop a comprehensive transition plan, outlining the scope, objectives, timeline, resources, and risks involved in the transition process.
  • Collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and subject matter experts, to gather requirements and align on the transition strategy.
  • Lead and manage transition projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines and budget constraints.
  • Risk Management: Identify potential risks and challenges associated with the transition and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
  • Regularly monitor the progress of the transition and proactively resolve issues to ensure a smooth transition.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, keeping them informed about the progress, changes, and impacts of the transition.
  • Communicate project updates, milestones, and outcomes to stakeholders at various levels.
  • Engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, address concerns, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
  • Address concerns and queries from stakeholders in a timely and professional manner.
  • Resource Coordination: Allocate resources effectively to ensure that the transition tasks are completed within the defined timeline.
  • Collaborate with various teams and departments to secure necessary resources and support for the transition process.
  • Documentation and Reporting: Maintain detailed documentation of the transition plan, progress, and outcomes.
  • Provide regular status reports to stakeholders and management, highlighting achievements and challenges.
  • Quality Assurance: Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of transition activities, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational policies and industry standards.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify lessons learned from the transition process and incorporate feedback into future transition projects.
  • Continuously improve transition methodologies and best practices.
  • Tools known: SMART, KLEWER, QUASAR and JIRA

Senior Lead Engineer

Quest Global
10.2019 - 09.2021
  • Agile Methodologies and Scrum Master: Adapted to the new agile methodology – Learnt about different roles and the responsibilities involved for each role of product owner, Scrum Master, Team members, and actively participated in the discussions on how our work could be converted into agile format – Story Points creation and assignment.
  • Had been the scrum master of our team as a part of agile, conducted Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Sprint Closure meetings and daily stand-up meetings to get the status of projects and resolved roadblocks in their projects.
  • Had been a part of continuous improvement of the process followed by the team by carrying out retrospectives of each process importance, pros and cons and modified them into employee friendly at the same time inclining to safety and compliance requirements.
  • Completed all the projects that were assigned to me on time and provided outage and commissioning support that resulted in successful commissioning of all projects till date with zero control issues.
  • Had been the lead control engineer for projects and guided the engineers and contractors on executions.
  • Handled various cross functional teams – accessories, performance, combustion, applications, requisition during the execution of the projects.
  • Trained new joiners and interns and helped them in getting to know about GT and the processes of the team.

Process Automation Engineer

DOW Chemical Company
06.2018 - 10.2020
  • Software tools and Coding: Hands on experience on logic development, modification of different control loops and troubleshooting on all these controllers – Mark V, Mark VI, Mark Vie, ABB 800xA control builder version 6, GE Standards and Libraries & DOW standards and DPA libraries.
  • Handled site outages and provided commissioning and outage support – Clarified queries and carried out troubleshooting of the issues faced at the site providing prompt resolution and helped in reducing the downtime of the unit for customers.
  • Demonstrated SWAT to customers, to make them familiarize on the operational and functional changes pertaining to the upgrades added as a part of scope.
  • Knowledge on different methods of synchronization of generator, and hands on experience on custom code developments for site specific requirements like Black Start, Dead bus closure, Islanding and Grid Reconstruction that would power the auxiliaries of the plant automatically without manual intervention in case of grid failures and blackouts.
  • Development of Alarm Rationalization package – analysis and rationalization of the operator notifications – Alarm, Alert, SOE, and Diagnostic which reduced the total number of actionable alarms by 50%.
  • Proficiency in simulating (cloud based) different test cases and failure scenarios using tools like Artemis, Easy 5 model, Unity, VM Ware and ABB code-based Simulation.
  • Knowledge on tools like Product Life Cycle Management- PLM, Configuration Lifecycle Management – CLM, Spear process.
  • Expertise in Model Based Controls (MBC) complex scopes - DLN Upgrades, Advanced Gas Path, Auto-tune with Cold Day Performance, Turndown Tuning and enhancement, Variable IGV with Enhanced Transient Stability that would enhance turbine efficiency or Heat rate or Turndown.
  • Interpretation of P&ID drawings supplied as a part of new upgrades provided and addressed defects if any and worked on logic developments and modifications for fuel system upgrades and Fuel system, combustor and compressor upgrades.

Engineer/ Technologist

General Electric Company
09.2014 - 04.2018
  • Worked on new technology developments – NPI like NOx compliant variable peak load, Liquid fuel Peak load.
  • Migration of total code of DOW Chemicals Germany project, Schkopau, from MOD to ABB, was onsite for process understanding and collaboration with site team.
  • Hardware: Worked on Mark V to Vie migration and Mark VI to Mark Vie migration – supported and executed projects that had Vie migrations and rip and replaces.
  • Knowledge on different types of IO packs and terminal boards.
  • HMI and Network: Proficiency on I machine screens, cimplicity 6.2, cimplicity 7.5 and cimplicity 8.2.
  • Worked on the new gen User experience screens– Ux screens, active point HMI.
  • Acquaintance about power plant network 4108 drawings – how the HMI’s and controllers are connected and communicate over Ethernet and Modbus protocols.
  • Modifying graphics in Plant Explorer workplace using required objects, developing simulation code and testing.
  • Aligned my priorities with team’s priorities and worked towards a common goal of on time completion of project.
  • Organised GE Power Booth – explaining all the other businesses about what GE power does along with other team members.
  • Had been an active member in all the team fun activities.

Assistant Manager

Reliance Power
09.2011 - 09.2014
  • Field Exposure: GE Gas Turbine Commissioning and preservation: Analysed P&ID drawings and developed the device summaries and maintained records of all the calibrations.
  • Involved in the commissioning of 4 GE 9FA gas turbines with Mark – Vie control system.
  • Carried out cold loop checks, hot loop checks and functional checks of all the systems in gas turbine.
  • Prepared check lists and maintained records for the all the checks that were carried out during the commissioning.
  • Involved in the commissioning of TOM CO2 fire protection system.
  • 220 MW CCPP Maintenance: Carrying out preventive & defective maintenance of Gas turbine of Siemens V 94.2 and Steam turbine of Ansaldo make and their auxiliaries.
  • Knowledge on ABB and FOXBORO control system: Knowledge on auxiliaries like Lube oil, Hydraulic oil, heating and ventilation, Water injection, DM plant, Atomizing air and Aspirated Haz gas systems.
  • Knowledge on the working of all types of field instruments like pressure, flow, flame scanners, speed sensors, proximities and different types of control valves-pneumatic, hydraulic and MOV’s.
  • Familiar different types of vibration monitoring systems – VM600 system and Benteley Neveda online vibration monitoring systems.
  • Involved in Minor Overhaul thrice in all the activities of Siemens Gas turbine.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Business Analytics with specialization in Project Management and Analytical Models in Finance

BITS Pilani
Hyderabad

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Sri Venkateshwara University College of Engineering
Tirupati

Intermediate - Maths, Physics, Chemistry

Sri Chaitanya Academy Junior College
Tirupati

S.S.C - NA

Sri Gayathri English Medium High School
Anantapur

Skills

  • Application development
  • Project management
  • Transition planning
  • Risk management
  • Quality assurance
  • Agile methodologies

Certification

  • PSM-1 Scrum master certification, scrum.org
  • Agile Product Management Certification, Accenture
  • Project Manager Essentials for Associate Managers, Accenture
  • GE Croton Ville personal development Presentation Skills, Influencing Skills
  • 5-day long GE Croton Ville leadership training – Dialog to Decision

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to my knowledge.

Current Work Experience

Been part of Transition team in Accenture and handled KT stream for below transitions, Accenture – Telstra Joint Venture (800FTE, 8 missions), Eversource Transition – (18 FTE, 4 applications), Roche Speed Transition (50 FTE, 3 Products), Roche MDMS Transition (20FTE, 1 Product), Emblem Health (250 FTEs and 14 applications), Cigna Health Care (200 FTEs, 20 applications), Axis Bank (3 waves 311 FTEs and 374 applications Split into 15 Line of Businesses), Develop a comprehensive transition plan, outlining the scope, objectives, timeline, resources, and risks involved in the transition process., Collaborate with relevant stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and subject matter experts, to gather requirements and align on the transition strategy., Lead and manage transition projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines and budget constraints., Identify potential risks and challenges associated with the transition and develop mitigation strategies to address them., Regularly monitor the progress of the transition and proactively resolve issues to ensure a smooth transition., Communicate effectively with all stakeholders, keeping them informed about the progress, changes, and impacts of the transition., Communicate project updates, milestones, and outcomes to stakeholders at various levels., Engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, address concerns, and ensure alignment with organizational goals., Address concerns and queries from stakeholders in a timely and professional manner., Allocate resources effectively to ensure that the transition tasks are completed within the defined timeline., Collaborate with various teams and departments to secure necessary resources and support for the transition process., Maintain detailed documentation of the transition plan, progress, and outcomes., Provide regular status reports to stakeholders and management, highlighting achievements and challenges., Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of transition activities, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions., Ensure compliance with organizational policies and industry standards., Identify lessons learned from the transition process and incorporate feedback into future transition projects., Continuously improve transition methodologies and best practices., SMART, KLEWER, QUASAR, JIRA

Timeline

Application Development Associate Manager

Accenture
09.2021 - Current

Senior Lead Engineer

Quest Global
10.2019 - 09.2021

Process Automation Engineer

DOW Chemical Company
06.2018 - 10.2020

Engineer/ Technologist

General Electric Company
09.2014 - 04.2018

Assistant Manager

Reliance Power
09.2011 - 09.2014

Master of Business Administration - Business Analytics with specialization in Project Management and Analytical Models in Finance

BITS Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Sri Venkateshwara University College of Engineering

Intermediate - Maths, Physics, Chemistry

Sri Chaitanya Academy Junior College

S.S.C - NA

Sri Gayathri English Medium High School
Bharathi Sandhyavandanam