KARTHIK KARUNAKARAN MENON
Project Manager
Coimbatore
Summary
Results-driven professional with a solid educational background in B.E. and MBA, offering over 16 years of diverse experience in PLM, Service Delivery, Project Management, Business Analysis, and Incident Problem Management. Specialized in Engineering Change Management, BOM, Design and Development, Supplier Coordination, Market Research, Business Consulting, Digital Marketing, and E-Learning-LMS. Proven track record of success in delivering high-quality results and driving business growth through strategic initiatives.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Project Manager
MechiSpike Solutions Pvt Ltd.
01.2021 - Current
- Led team of 15 across three projects which include staff augmentation and Time and Material Contract projects.
- Release PO opportunity to block and demand resources specific to skillset for upcoming milestone requests from customer.
- Have Project Technical Reviews (PTR) with external reviewer from Practice team to ensure quality delivery to customer.
- Document the risk, issues and task list based on the WBS developed in Team center PMC and QPMR Sharepoint site for visibility to Quality team and customer.
- Issue tracking in Polarion to document customer issues during Hypercare support and fix them as a part of enhancement or bug fixing phase of the project.
- Project revenue forecast on opportunities for each quarter of FY in terms of resource and work packages delivery.
- Measure the team velocity for each sprint to map the capacity planning required for the upcoming sprints of the project.
- Publish burn up/down chart to customer on the progress and target based on the product backlog data to be migrated.
- Ensure there is no slippage of delivery as per project plan through damage control and risk tracking.
- Project deliveries through Sprint cycle tracking in JIRA for tasks as well as solution enhancements post Go-Live for Honeywell.
- Successful Go-Live deployments for Wave1 of two project tracks – IGS Pick to Light and WinGKS Raleigh region.
- Received customer appreciation for successful deployment of complicated project track s which contribute to 30% of entire program revenue.
- Coordinate with customer for change requests as part of MR1 milestone to consider the cost and solution deployment for next milestone MR2.
- Configuration management for the process, workflow, and dashboard maintained with versioning to accommodate the preparedness of change requests from customer due to impact from several SBG’s.
- MPP preparation for project wave within each track with capacity planning, schedule and detailed work break down.
- End to end project tracking through JIRA with resource mapping to tasks and linking the FTR, OTD of these tasks to project deliverables.
- Defined SOP’s and monitoring to perform data model changes in QA with product owner’s approval during each release to ensure testing before deploying to Prod environment.
- Initiate actions for export control related to ITAR before Go-Live by configuring users across different regions for data access.
Assistant Manager
Renault Nissan India Pvt Ltd.
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Transferred the Migration of Serial life projects between PDM’s, CatiaV5 to V6 in Ennovia executed by 33 FTE in Romania to India and achieved the migration KPI with just 14 FTE.
- Process definition and solution identification done for exchange of Cad data from NX9 (Teamcenter8) to CV5 (GDG) for study data as well as for milestone for development projects.
- Conversion handled from CV5 to NX7.5 & NX9, PLMXML+JT=>CV5, CV5/NX to JT.
- Export PLMXML file from Team Center to input for conversion mapping of the BOM structure.
- Migration of sensitive legacy data (drawings, documents, project plans) to usable/compatible version in Ennovia.
- SLA defined on team’s scope.
- Organized Floor support program for user knowledge.
- Managed Lead time of workload by resource leveling, automations– (Sharepoint, PDM auto-export tools).
- Parametric mapping of source attributes to respective destination source attributes and CAD templates through pre and post process of the data to satisfy the requirements.
- Export Logical and Physical (LP) reports to confirm the quality of the BOM and also ensure reflection of the changes in the project mockup in Ennovia and check for correctness from Structure manager in Team Center.
- Received the vice president award for best process compliance and customer satisfaction.
- Service initiation of new requirements by creation of SOP and approval from customer to kick-off service requests handling with proper framework and process identifications.
Assistant Manager
Renault Nissan India Pvt Ltd.
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Performed Bottom up approach to identify attributes for measurement.
- Implemented Best Output Work Process (BOWP) by One Documentation.
- Followed Symptoms Cause Action (SCA) technique to track, document and act on issues.
- Followed ITIL process for tracking failures and low customer satisfaction index.
- Linked request with errors by Incident creation – support/development team to resolve Problem linked to incident.
- Defined KPI Metrics First Time Right (FTR), On Time Delivery (OTD) grouped by incidents and SLA criteria for each activities.
- Performed Bottom up approach to track Work Performance Data (WPD) to identify attributes for measurement.
- Implemented Best Output Work Process (BOWP) by One Documentation.
- Deployed SharePoint integration through breakdown deliverables -batch scripts created to read, calculate metrics.
- Webpage created and access provided to top management to view the dynamic metrics any time.
- Implemented Effort spent category to track actuals.
- Budget (GPS) vs Billed (Rodis) vs Actual Effort Spent (WAC)- Management report generated to view trend on resource hiring and budget savings.
- VOC/CSAT deployed in Google forms - integrated to FTR failure of metrics.
- RCA, User stories done for improvement plans.
- Communication with business stakeholders on the updated service portfolio management status based on team’s KPI reports of FTR, OTD along with Problem’s linked to incidents which need action.
- Other Activities: Interview and Hire - FTE and Vendor Payroll.
- Monitor and request management for additional tools based on CAPEX and OPEX budget availability.
- Lead & drive activities for Automation, Tools deployment, Service Portfolio creation and management.
- Create training plans, Skill Matrix, Support PM in preparation of Organization Chart.
- Co-ordinate with HR team for Vendor/Local resource PO (pay order) release activity.
- Created Business Continuity Plan-model (BCP/BCM) during unexpected external factors like flood, cyclone, etc.
- Tools and Quality measurements updated for each process to support organizational CMMI level 3 compliance.
Application Engineer
Onward Technologies Ltd.
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Check for Cad Data, MBOM and JT issues of each product mockup for data migrated to Team center from Windchill.
- Run Cad Quality check and Team Center BOM comparison to match HVC (BOM tool) with EBOM.
- Check-out and check-in parts after discussion with the designer on changes in the part in relation to errors due to failure of mating in assembly to make design corrections with the help of parent drawings and Change Notice (CN).
- Categorize and send the quality issues of major design errors to the designer for his action.
- Identify JT tessellation issues and BOM issues in Team center to check and update based on BVR report with Captain Access.
- Perform visual comparison of part in Team Center VisMockup to identify quality errors.
- Recognized by caterpillar for successful Go-Live of Track Type Tractors (TTT) to Production in Team Center to downstream manufacturing systems from the legacy system for contribution until project sunset.
- Huge number of legacy drawings for the project to be converted to 3D models and drawings.
- Project complexities included hose routing in Creo and received KT to propose standard process for project requirements.
- Enabled Team lead’s requirements to continuously monitor and report the progress on the project and prepare reports for the meeting with Onsite Engineer.
- Maintain mockup quality through BVR report to trigger JT or resolve part issues like named references and part naming conventions.
- Publish data to global site DB in Team Center after workflow review approval/ completion using workflow designer.
CAD Engineer
Olho Technik India Pvt Ltd.
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Design and develop plastic parts for cost sensitive markets by converting internal Stainless Steel parts to plastic.
- Change notice of parts/assemblies for new revision to accommodate design changes as per customer/marketing team feedback.
- Check-in/out design elements to update the version of parts in intralink to merge new changes before release for production.
- Coordinated with Craftsman automation to check injection molding feasibility of new parts and the tool complexity to reduce shrinkage/ warpage issues by design control tactics like uniform thickness, rib design.
- Collaborated with the German team onsite in Germany to compensate product release milestone of GC500 to assess manufacturing feasibility of Stainless Steel parts at shop floor.
- Replaced Stainless Steel with plastic to reduce cost of manufacturing in Proe Wildfire 2. Complex sheet metal operations achieved by creating separate plastic parts for nozzles and integration by vibration welding and hot plate welding process.
- Functional product improvements like material selection (PPGF30) material chosen to withstand harsh environment and maintain aesthetic appeal.
- Other Activities: Request for prototype & manufacturing feasibility of the design.
- Request (RFQ) based on quantity & Co-ordinate to release PO to the supplier for sourcing of parts.
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2008 - 01.2011
Education
MBA - Systems
Alagappa University
01.2021 - 12.2021
B.E. - Mechanical
TamilNadu College of Engineering
01.2003 - 12.2007
12th Grade - undefined
Sri Sowdeswari Vidhyalaya
01.2001 - 12.2003
10th Grade - undefined
Carmel Garden Matriculation
01.2000 - 12.2001
Skills
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Access
- One Note
- Excel
- Excel Macro
- One documentation
- Certified Scrum Master
- Agile
- Lean
- Waterfall
- Burn down chart
- MPP
- Project Management
- ITIL
- CSAT
- BCM
- Risk Management
- VOC
- Yammer
- Budget vs Headcount report
- RACI Chart
- MIS
- JIRA
- Power BI
- Mendix
- SharePoint
- Articulate 360
- Problem solving
- Decision Making
- QC Story
- RCA
- Improvement plans
- QMS
- BOWP coordinator
- WL/WF Management
KPI tracking
Requirements gathering
Cross-functional coordination
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
MechiSpike Solutions Pvt Ltd.
01.2021 - Current
MBA - Systems
Alagappa University
01.2021 - 12.2021
Assistant Manager
Renault Nissan India Pvt Ltd.
01.2018 - 01.2021
Assistant Manager
Renault Nissan India Pvt Ltd.
01.2014 - 01.2018
Application Engineer
Onward Technologies Ltd.
01.2014 - 01.2018
CAD Engineer
Olho Technik India Pvt Ltd.
01.2011 - 01.2014
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
01.2008 - 01.2011
B.E. - Mechanical
TamilNadu College of Engineering
01.2003 - 12.2007
12th Grade - undefined
Sri Sowdeswari Vidhyalaya
01.2001 - 12.2003
10th Grade - undefined
Carmel Garden Matriculation
01.2000 - 12.2001
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