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Krishna Mohan Kaluri

Krishna Mohan Kaluri

Senior Program / Delivery Manager
Hyderabad,TG

Summary

  • Sr. Program Manager / Delivery Lead with 19 years' experience delivering multi-million-dollar data-centric programs.
  • Deliver within operational and financial efficiency goals drawn out for the program.
  • Manage cross-functional project teams, planning and organizing, and executing complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new projects and processes.
  • Manage the end-to-end delivery of project / engineering work ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery.
  • Articulate scope, timelines, dependencies, owners, actions, risks, and mitigations with program stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing delivery approaches, constraints, and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays. Team building & mentoring, Relationship building & Vendor management

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Associate Director - Data Engineering

Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Hyderabad, Telangana
07.2021 - Current
  • Manage 120+ FTE for Procter and Gamble D&A projects
  • Global delivery of multiple CPG domain-based data engineering projects
  • Win a Mega D&A Transformation RFP with deal value of $13.4 Million
  • Accountable for account level talent acquisition strategy, identifying, hiring and onboarding required skills for program. Ensure demand-capacity-skilling balance.
  • Oversee account growth of nearly 400% in one year
  • Setup highly robust new FTE onboarding program by designing onboarding process and setting up highly successful ‘Academy’ site.
  • Develop an account level organization structure for effective governance of high growth account by carving our 11 towers of governance.
  • Define operating model with established Data Architectural guidelines & templates for various data architecture service requests. Understand and review Data Architecture needs and processes, setup Data Architecture as a Service framework,
  • Form high functioning team of self-organizing / self-managing team of Azure Data Engineers, Azure testers, business analyst and scrum master to deliver Trade Fund / Investment modernization program in Agile methodology. Mentor team on agile principles and coach program to adopt Azure DevOps usage.

Tech Stack: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, PySpark, Azure Analysis Services, Synapse, SQL DB, Power BI, Platform Engineering on Angular and Java

  • Analyzed impacts of regulatory changes on operations and developed mitigation plans

Program Delivery Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad, Telangana
01.2020 - 07.2021
  • Manage 290+ FTE with TCV of $25M for Apple Corporation
  • Formed and led high performing teams in delivery of engineering projects, resulting in successful delivery.
  • Manage portfolio of data modernization, support / enhancement, engineering projects, platform support & upgrade projects, involving cloud, big data, open-source frameworks
  • Grow revenues by identifying opportunities to scale existing projects, drive productivity improvements and efficiency to enhance gross margins
  • Attract and retain high caliber talent and clearly communicate vision, goals, and objectives of organization and guide others in linking their activities to success of account / program
  • Increase team skill profile by constantly helping team in moving towards multi-skilled profile.
  • Oversee 15+ Automations across multiple tracks
  • Possess business acumen to manage revenues profitably and meet financial goals consistently. Able to quantify business value for clients and create win-win commercial propositions

· Programs / Projects Managed:

  • Terminus Data Modernization – Core Automation, Data Migration, Application Migration – Operations, Application Migration Finance
  • Informatica Axon and Informatica CDQ Implementation on AWS
  • Legal & Reals DW
  • Canon Data Anonymization Enhancement & Support

Tech Stack: Spark / Scala, Java, Python, Snowflake, Teradata, AWS, Informatica Axon, Informatica CDQ and multiple in-house / custom frameworks, Tableau

Program Implementation Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
London, London
06.2018 - 01.2020
  • 40+ FTE @ GBP 18.7 Million TCV for British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Programme Management / Implementation Management of multi-million-dollar application development Data Management programme involving Cloud (AWS) / Big Data / Data Integration, Data Lineage, Data Catalogue technologies
  • Responsible for complete platform infrastructure and license sizing - bill of material (BOM), involving 3rd party contracts with AWS, Informatica, BMC and Cloudera. (Ship To in some contracts and Bill To in some contracts)
  • Change Management across functional, non-functional and security requirements for programme
  • Collaboratively developed Test Environment Management approach
  • Own and manage Cross Organization Dependencies across 5 organizations
  • Ensure contract obligation adherence
  • Lead team of business analysts for elaboration of high level (epic) functional and non-functional requirements into detailed user stories with acceptance criteria.
  • Project / Tracks Managed: AWS Infrastructure Setup, Active Directory Setup, Data Migration, Data Integration, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Data Catalogue and Control M
  • Program Value: GBP18M, Total FTE: 40
  • Tech Stack: Informatica BDM, Informatica BDQ, Informatica EDC, Informatica CDI, Informatica Relate 360, Cloudera Data Platform, Control M and AWS

Technical (Data) Program Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
London, London
05.2016 - 06.2018
  • Manage 65 + FTE @ $6.5 Million for Inmarsat Satellite Company
  • Deliver complex, multi-organization, multi-year, iterative-release Billing Transformation Program
  • Prepare weekly status packs covering RAID log with all stakeholders. Track and report inter work stream (program level) dependencies and their impacts on release
  • Deliver Data Migration from multiple billing applications to target platform via Releases 1 - 6.
  • Build Customer Master Data application involving data cleansing, standardization, deduplication, survivorship, DQ rules processing and customer hierarchy checks.
  • Timely escalation of potential issues to avert point of no return situations
  • Handle dependencies across cross-functional teams in multi-vendor scenarios
  • Manage program with continuous source system evolutions
  • Project Tracks Managed: Data Migration for multiple billing systems, Billing Data Quality System, AWS based Data Archival

Tech Stack: SingleView Billing, Talend ETL, Talend Data Management for MDM, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Redhat ESB, AWS, PostgreSQL

Delivery Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamilnadu
04.2015 - 04.2016
  • Manage 110 FTE @ $7 Million TCV for AT&T
  • Manage multiple high value, high visibility, complex projects ranging from large data audit framework project (DLAQM), continuous enhancement of flagship uVerse video content management platform (UDAS), bigdata based data storage and abstraction platform, etc.
  • Internal / External Stakeholder management and relationship management with client counterparts.
  • Budgeting and Forecasting demand capacity needs, Resourcing, SOW ownership, SLA adherence across program
  • Define and manage project pacing, manage interdependencies and obtain incremental benefits before each project is complete
  • Conduct impact assessments for changes to source systems or addition of new source systems on downstream
  • Work closely with senior stakeholders of account towards business development activities
  • DLAQM Program nominated for Cognizant Global Project of Year (2015).
  • Knowledge Management: Create practice wide ‘business benefits'-based case studies.
  • Drive innovation within program valued at $700K
  • Projects / Tracks Managed: Large Data Audit framework project (DLAQM), Enhancements to uVerse Video Content Management Platform (uDAS), Big Data based data storage and abstraction platform etc.

Tech Stack: Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle, Cassandra, Hadoop Hive, Pig, Scoop. SAP BO, MicroStrategy, Oracle Golden Gate

Technical Program Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Auckland, New Zealand
09.2014 - 03.2015
  • 45 FTE for Telecom New Zealand / Spark New Zealand
  • Project planning, monitoring and execution, capacity planning, cross organization dependency management and risk management
  • Establish quality standards and quality assurance plan for implementation project
  • Create end to end source target mapping and release management for continuously evolving source system structures.
  • Data Migration / Data Integration from Siebel CRM for Customer Master, Single View for billing data, Concept Wave for order & product data, VME for CDR data and Cell Site for geo spatial information.
  • Create Cut over plan aligning with larger Customer Release involving multiple over 20 source systems

Tech Stack: IBM DB2, Oracle, IBM TDW, IBM Data Studio, IBM Data Architect

Senior Data Architect

Hexaware Technology Solutions
Bonn, Germany
06.2014 - 08.2014
  • Analyze business requirements, pain-points in existing MDA DWH of UNFCC and design conceptual and logical data models for proposed data warehouse
  • Provide quality standards and quality assurance plan for implementation project
  • Prepare Implementation approach and project plan, End to end data mapping sheet showing data lineage from source system to DWH to end reports/cubes
  • Define technical architecture and design for proposed DWH system
  • Define Data acquisition, cleansing and transformation (ETL) strategy

Data Architecture Consultant

Hexaware Technology Solutions
London, United Kingdom
10.2013 - 02.2014
  • Identifying data entities for GTB's Component Products (CP) and establish business definition for all identified data entities (Business Glossary)
  • Determining ownership for data entities - Source function of data entity to this CP
  • Establishing CRUD matrix via mapping each data entity to DB ecosystem - Consumers and Providers of data to this CP
  • Publishing vision per data entity, covering security, quality, governance, retention and archival policies – Demonstrate for 20-25 key data entities.
  • Developing strategic golden source roadmap for data entities
  • Establishing key attributes and their definitions for each of identified data entities – Data Dictionary
  • Establishing relationship between each of data entities – Logical Data Model
  • Demonstrating how core entities map to life cycle of process – Document various data entity states provided by consumers (use cases)

Program Manager

Hexaware Technology Solutions
Brussels, Belgium
01.2009 - 08.2013

Delivery management of the following projects with Insurance organizations from Belgium

  • Sigedis Phases IA, IB, IC, 2A, 2B and 2C
  • QMF to SAS Phases I, II and III
  • Query Migration from SAS MF to SAS Linux
  • Sigedis Migration from SAS MF and Windows to SAS Linux
  • Employee Benefits SAS Migration from Mainframe to Windows
  • SAS MF Migration (Life, Non-Life, Employee Benefits and General Systems)
  • Solvency II Implementation
  • International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

Tech Stack: DB2, SAS 9.x, Windows / Linux / Mainframe, Altova, SAS IMAP Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide 4.x, SAS DI, IBM IIW, VMS, QMF

Techno Functional Lead

Hexaware Technology Solutions
Charlotte, North Carolina
02.2007 - 12.2008
  • Design Cognos 8 BI Architecture for ICPRP project in conjunction with PeopleSoft EPM architecture.
  • Install / configure and administer 13 Solaris based Cognos environments.
  • Design & document 35 Business and Technical Requirement Documents, Unit Test plans, SIT Plan, Performance Test Plan, Security Reports and Security Audit Reports.
  • Design and set-up robust security and security maintenance process for application
  • Design and set-up Cognos security using Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL v6.1 and Microsoft Active Directory 2003.
  • Designed complex combination stacked bar charts with multiple X Axis, multiple Y Axis, pie charts with drill through functionality
  • Designed platform independent Cube models

Project Lead

Hexaware Technology Solutions
Multiple, US, Germany
02.2006 - 02.2007
  • Onsite Lead for EDW SAS Migration for large retail bank, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • BI Transition Lead for large receivables management company, Bethlehem, PA
  • Cognos Developer for one of largest leasing company in Germany

SAP BW Consultant

Catalytic Software
Hyderabad, Telangana
12.2005 - 01.2006
  • SAP BW & Cognos Lead for large chemical company based out of USA

Cognos Developer

Samsun Technologies
Painsboro, New Jersey
06.2003 - 07.2005

Cognos Developer for a reinsurance company

Education

MBA - Finance

Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, NJ, USA
08.2001 - 05.2003

Skills

    Technical Program Management

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Accomplishments

  • Digital Collaborator Award by Cognizant UK
  • Star of North America award by Hexaware US

Trainings / Certifications

2022-04 SAFe Certified Scrum Master

2022-02 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

2022-03 AWS Certified Practitioner #ZP5BFKJKLFQEQLC6

2020-11 Snowflake Certified - Udemy

2019-12 AWS Big Data Speciality – Linux Academy # 277734

2014-20 SAFe Agile Certified Practitioner

2014-01 Bullet Proof Manager by Crestcom

2004-07 SAP Certified BIW Consultant #S0003117640 (expired)

Pursuing PMP

Timeline

Associate Director - Data Engineering

Larsen & Toubro Infotech
07.2021 - Current

Program Delivery Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2020 - 07.2021

Program Implementation Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2018 - 01.2020

Technical (Data) Program Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2016 - 06.2018

Delivery Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2015 - 04.2016

Technical Program Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2014 - 03.2015

Senior Data Architect

Hexaware Technology Solutions
06.2014 - 08.2014

Data Architecture Consultant

Hexaware Technology Solutions
10.2013 - 02.2014

Program Manager

Hexaware Technology Solutions
01.2009 - 08.2013

Techno Functional Lead

Hexaware Technology Solutions
02.2007 - 12.2008

Project Lead

Hexaware Technology Solutions
02.2006 - 02.2007

SAP BW Consultant

Catalytic Software
12.2005 - 01.2006

Cognos Developer

Samsun Technologies
06.2003 - 07.2005

MBA - Finance

Fairleigh Dickinson University
08.2001 - 05.2003
Krishna Mohan KaluriSenior Program / Delivery Manager