Kandeeban R
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Freelance Project Management IT Consultant
01.2024 - 02.2025
- Responsible for managing end to end delivery IT Projects (From Pre-sales to Implementation till the closure of the projects) & support for CMMI Process.
Software Development Manager / Product Owner
ICON plc (Expleo Technologies)
09.2022 - 12.2023
- Single Point of Contact of our Clients & Management and handling client and maintaining their relationship. Interactions with Production team related to the Software Product and Projects development. Deliver the products within specified time and getting the client response / feedback for the product and support sales team. Support on RFP, RFQ for the proposals.
- Scope Management
- To agree business priorities for project requirements with the stakeholders and reviewing available capacity of the teams in India and agreeing a scope for each project Release with all stake holders.
- Delivery Coordination
- To coordinate incident and minor enhancements status for development, system test, regression test and performance test phases for each maintenance release and sign off with customer after release completion.
- Communications
- To report on delivery health to Management Board and Senior Stake holders on weekly basis.
- Resource Management
- Responsible for all aspects of resource management, including, but not limited to, technical talent acquisition, resource planning, allocation, mid-year and yearly performance evaluation, mentoring/coaching etc.
- Product Management
- Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives.
- Create and maintain a product roadmap that outlines the product's key features, milestones, and release schedule.
- Define and prioritize product requirements based on the Product feature business impact, and technical feasibility, user stories, and features based on customer feedback and market research.
- Understand technical concepts and work with technical teams based on Customer expectations.
- Work closely with the UI/UX design team to ensure the product vision is suitably accomplished.
- Conceptualize impactful features and product offerings by collaborating with internal teams like engineering, design and business development with my interpersonal skills.
- Work with QA team to generate test scripts.
- Maintain the JIRA dashboard for the product backlog.
- Identify and fill Product gaps in the backlog.
- Manage the product life cycle, including strategy, requirements, target user research, prototyping, user experience journey, stakeholder satisfaction, etc.
- Analyze customer pain points and conduct RCA.
- Demonstrate product features to clients/customers, & internal employees.
Freelance IT Recruitment
Strivex Consulting
10.2021 - 09.2022
Talent Acquisition Manager - IT
VDart Software Services
06.2019 - 09.2021
- Responsible for End-to-End Resource Demand Fulfillment and Supply Planning.
- To guide / Lead/Train/coach & mentor a team of Managers/ Leads/Recruiters on various sourcing strategies to source & deliver the best fit candidate pool.
- Execute Fulfillment plans for all Open Resource demands through Resource Deployment Managers at different Global Delivery Locations across India.
- Engaging with Business units to understand business requirements and staffing resources as per the stakeholder expectations
Ph.D. Pursuing – PhD Scholar – Freelance IT PM Consultant
11.2016 - 05.2019
Senior Manager - IT
Eagle Software, Chennai
02.2016 - 10.2016
- Single Point of Contact of our Clients & Management and handling client and maintaining their relationship. Interactions with Production team related to Software Product and Projects development. Deliver the quality products within specified time & cost and getting the client response / feedback for the product and support sales team.
IT Project Manager
Capgemini
01.2015 - 11.2015
Ph.D. Pursuing – PhD Scholar & Freelance IT PM Consultant
06.2013 - 12.2014
IBM
10.2007 - 05.2013
GFT & DOT Technologies (Deutsche Telekom AG), Germany
05.2005 - 10.2007
Tech Lead/Sr. Associate
IBM
10.2000 - 01.2004
- As Consultant in this project my responsibilities were
- Leading a team and manage Clients expectation in terms of billing, delivery, Quality.
- Planning Project for End to End solution being delivered to Client.
- Highlight high level risk when a Project starts and take preventive measures to prevent the Risk becoming an Issue.
- Preparing Requirement Traceability Table to make sure that none of the client requirements are missed in any phase and No defects are being leaked from one phase to another Phase.
- Designing and developing the workflow program and handling various phases of application development. Coding and Review as per the project timelines.
- SIT support for the application deployed in all SIT environments.
- UAT support for the application deployed in all UAT environments.
- Handling project documentation for each module of the application.
- Acting as a functional resource by taking active parts in reviewing codes.
Education
Ph.D - Computer Science
Madras University
01.2020
Master of Science - M.Sc Computer Science
Bharathidasan University
01.1994
Skills
- Role::Project Manager
- Name: Kandeeban
- Skills
- Project Management 10 Years 4
- Stakeholder Management 10 Years 4
Certification
- CSPO certified.
- IBM PDF Level 4 in EDM (Engagement and Delivery Management)
- Certified in IBM for Project Management practice (equivalent to PMP)
- Best Performance Award from IBM
- Trained & expert in Agile Process
Overseas Experience
- - IBM, Raleigh, NC, USA
- - IBM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- - Deutsche Telekom, Frankfurt, Germany
- - IBM, Singapore
- - Nepal Government.
Management Expertise
- Product Management
- Technical Delivery Management
- Portfolio Management
- Leadership & Mentoring
- Process Improvement
- People Management
- Resource Planning
- Client relationship Management
- Multi Geography Project Team Management
- Resource Capacity Management
Timeline
Freelance Project Management IT Consultant
01.2024 - 02.2025
Software Development Manager / Product Owner
ICON plc (Expleo Technologies)
09.2022 - 12.2023
Freelance IT Recruitment
Strivex Consulting
10.2021 - 09.2022
Talent Acquisition Manager - IT
VDart Software Services
06.2019 - 09.2021
Ph.D. Pursuing – PhD Scholar – Freelance IT PM Consultant
11.2016 - 05.2019
Senior Manager - IT
Eagle Software, Chennai
02.2016 - 10.2016
IT Project Manager
Capgemini
01.2015 - 11.2015
Ph.D. Pursuing – PhD Scholar & Freelance IT PM Consultant
06.2013 - 12.2014
IBM
10.2007 - 05.2013
GFT & DOT Technologies (Deutsche Telekom AG), Germany
05.2005 - 10.2007
Tech Lead/Sr. Associate
IBM
10.2000 - 01.2004
Master of Science - M.Sc Computer Science
Bharathidasan University
Ph.D - Computer Science
Madras University
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