ELANGO PUGAZHENDHI

Role: PMO overseeing various project requirements.

• Team Size: Managed a team of over 25 professionals, including Business Analysts, Tech leads, Consultants, Test Team members, alongside Vendors, Clients, and Operations team.
• Budget: Managed budgets of up to $1.5 million.

Project 1: Indian Red Cross Society Digitization Project

• Key Responsibilities:
• Led the end-to-end development of the IRCS National Headquarters website and its microsites.
• IRCS Admin Panel (WebPanel): Managed the development of a web application for Pan India IRCS admins and volunteers to handle events, fund management, and distribution management during disasters, improving operational efficiency by 35%.
• Mobile App Development: Managed the development of a mobile application for IRCS distribution management.
• D365 Business Central Implementations: Project manager for Business Central implementations covering Finance, Inventory, and HRMS modules for 8 different IRCS accounts, resulting in a 30% increase in financial process efficiency.
• Infrastructure and Network Management: Managed the team for IT support and network requirements for IRCS, ensuring 99.9% uptime.
• M365 Implementations: Oversaw the implementation of Microsoft 365 solutions, boosting collaboration and productivity by 50%.
• Stakeholder Management: Conducted frequent calls with IFI internal teams, commercial and operations teams, CTO, IRCS SPOC, secretaries of IRCS, and other officers.
• Managed various vendor relationships, ensuring timely delivery and quality.
• Governance and Compliance: Followed up with team leads and reviewed governance compliance, documentation, change management, budgeting, and mentoring, ensuring adherence to industry standards.
• Project Management Tools: Utilized Azure DevOps for managing the projects through the Agile Process, creating various work items, and customizing the board for managing the product backlogs, sprint backlogs, querying, capacity planning, reporting, and other project management tasks, improving project tracking and delivery timelines.
• Used Microsoft Project Professional and PowerBI as well for enhanced monitoring and reporting.
• Recruitment and Training: Recruited, hired, and trained associates based on customer needs, enhancing team capabilities and performance.
• Overall Project Planning: Planned timelines, budgets, resources, and reporting, ensuring projects were delivered on time and within budget.
• Issue and Risk Management: Managed issues and risks during project execution and documented lessons learned for future reference, reducing project risks by 20%.
• Client Signoff and Cutover Management: Processed client signoff, stating that all project objectives and milestones were met, and managed the cutover to multiple environments, ensuring smooth transitions.

Project 2 - Social Impresario Business Central Implementations

• Role: Directed Business Central implementations for a restaurant chain.
• Team Size: Managed a team of 6 professionals.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Led the implementation of Business Central to streamline operations and improve efficiency, resulting in a 25% reduction in operational costs.
• Coordinated with various stakeholders to ensure project alignment with business goals, achieving a 95% satisfaction rate.
• Utilized Microsoft Project Professional and Azure DevOps for project planning and execution, enhancing project delivery by 30%.

Project 3 - Microsoft Azure DevOps and Project Professional Trainer

• Organizations: Hitachi and Amadasoft.
• Role: Conducted training sessions on Microsoft Azure DevOps and Project Professional.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Designed and delivered comprehensive training programs, increasing participant proficiency by 40%.
• Provided hands-on training and support to professionals to enhance their skills in Azure DevOps and Project Professional, resulting in improved project outcomes.

• Leading and managing a team of application developers, and successfully implementing Final Inspection Software Products at Good Luck Industries.
• Orchestrated project management for the application development team, overseeing the recent deployment of CalibMaster, a web application catering to calibration labs nationwide in India.
• POC and Pilot Implementations of 7QC tools Application at Hero Motors, Delhi.
• Team Size: 25.

• Managed end-to-end Microsoft Dynamics D365 F&O and Business Central implementations.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, project plans, schedules, resources &, budgets.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams for successful project deployments and delivery.
• Projects Handled: NIIT, Channel, WHO, and EValueServe.
  Team Size: 45.

• Project Manager for ODOP Project (One District One Product) under PM FME Scheme.
• Connected with 50+ Food processing enterprises, achieving a 40% conversion rate.
• Evaluated and onboarded Micro Food Processing Enterprises (MFPE) from start to finish.
• Prepared reports and presentations for NAFED, launched 7 products and 9 brands, and continued brand development.
• Team size: 60.

• Handled CMMS and IoT implementation projects in industrial and residential verticals.
• ISO MR for the Company – Conducting audits and training the field employees on standards.
• Coordinated with vendors and customers, and provided solutions, along with outsourcing strategies.
• Projects Handled: Ashok Leyland, Salcomp, Multiple Apartment Maintenance Projects.
• Team Size: 150.

• Founder of the company, managing end-to-end operations of building the business.
• Successfully established and promoted Chola Art Gallery, Zinger Academy, and Futechy as new brands.
• Contracts: Tecxpera Technologies.|CMCH | PayAsia (National Institute of Electronics & IT).
• Team Size - 80.