Ganesh Kesavan
Project Manager
Chennai,TN
Summary
Resourceful Project Manager with over 22 years of expertise in organizing Business operations, Financial oversight and Resource Management to achieve smooth flow and Project Operations. Experience in monitoring projects by adhering to Project schedule and budget, managing Project team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
Chennai, TN
11.2010 - Current
- Responsible for implementing Digital Servicing products for Standard Chartered Bank
- Developed Project plan and responsible for monitoring progress against milestone dates
- Responsible for working with internal, external Governance stakeholders
- Managed Scrum of Scrums, Project Working Committee to provide periodic update to Stakeholders
- Managed cross functional, cross cultural teams for successful execution
- Responsible for update of Organizational Process Assets
Used JIRA, Clarity, Confluence extensively for tracking progress of Projects - Effectively managed escalations and shielded team from non project tasks
- Worked closely with vendors to manage deliverables and project resources
- Handled negotiations and Contract management with internal and external teams
- Proactively identified, analyzed, mitigated risks to avoid major impact on projects
- Responsible for managing onboarding and offboarding of resources without impacting deliverables
- Shared periodic constructive feedback with team, maintaining high levels of motivation
- Responsible for managing training requirements of project team
Worked on Project process improvements, performance metrics, dashboards - Delivered projects in Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Deployed Banking, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Information Cyber Security projects in Agile, Waterfall methodologies
Continuous Improvement Expert
Saipem ENI Group
Milan, Italy
05.2007 - 11.2010
- Worked on the Implementation, Upgrade and Integration of tools like Peoplesoft, SAP, Clarity with inhouse applications
- Managed standardization of processes by aligning to the delivered product functionalities
- Worked with various application teams across nationalities, verticals and vendors for requirement gathering
- Interacted with the Senior Stakeholders to identify the challenges, scope of improvements of the existing applications for future enhancements
- Acted as a bridge between the Business and Technology teams to continuously upscale the efficiency of applications and processes
- Managed "Train the Trainers" program to guide the employees of their domains
- Created and managed the document repository for the applications and processes
- Support the Senior Management with periodic Project update to meet the objectives
Senior Process Associate
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chennai
08.2005 - 05.2007
- Managed a team of Freshers to handle the Operational activities efficiently
- Acted as Subject Matter Expert and guided the team to meet their targets
- Monitored and reported the progress of the team with the stakeholders on their performance
- Shared constructive feedback with the team to elevate their performance
- Prepared Dashboards to share the metrics with clients
- Managed escalations and shared the "Lessons Learnt" with the team
- Ensured that the team are highly motivated
HR Officer
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
Chennai
08.2004 - 08.2004
- Handled the HR Transaction Processing activites of Standard Chartered Bank
- Managed high volumes with accuracy
- Ensured SLA is met at all times and stakeholders are communicated
- Responsible for preparing periodic reports with various stakeholders
- Trained the new joiners and managed the process documents
- Initiated several Process Improvements- Kaizen to increase efficiency
Education
MBA - Human Resources
University of Madras
PG Diploma - Human Resources Management
Pondicherry University
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
University of Madras
Skills
Self-motivated professional
Certification
Project Management Professional(PMP)
Timeline
DevSecOPS
04-2021
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
10-2020
Project Management Professional(PMP)
01-2018
Certified Scrum Master
01-2018
Senior Project Manager
Standard Chartered Bank
11.2010 - Current
Continuous Improvement Expert
Saipem ENI Group
05.2007 - 11.2010
Senior Process Associate
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
08.2005 - 05.2007
HR Officer
Standard Chartered Global Business Services
08.2004 - 08.2004
MBA - Human Resources
University of Madras
PG Diploma - Human Resources Management
Pondicherry University
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
University of Madras
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