Lakshmikanthan Manickavasagam
Chennai
Summary
- PROFILE SUMMARY
- Performance-driven professional with over 23 years of rich & extensive experience in Strategic Delivery Management, Application Modernization, Transition Management and People Management
- Rich Domain exposure in Insurance (P&C, Specialty Products) & Retail.
- Account Delivery Leader, with experience in handling end-to-end application delivery and application modernization using Cloud (AWS), DevOps, RPA (UI-Path), and P&L accountability.
- Proposal Manager, with experience in CA-GEN Application Modernization, Application Automation (DevSecOps), IBM Infosphere migration, RPA (UiPath), Mobile App dashboards, Cloud Migration.
- Delivery Specialist, certified AWS Cloud, SAFe 5 Agilist, and INS24, with excellence in gathering and understanding the requirements of clients and other stakeholders, partnership management (at strategic and tactical levels), followed by the provisioning of suitable solutions.
- Led strategy planning, delivery management, resourcing, client management, process improvements, budgeting, cost optimization by steering cross-functional teams
- Consistent Record of Delivering Results: Steering Critical Programs to reduce operational expenses and executed strategies for operational & delivery improvement in the organization
- Rich experience in Leadership activities, entailing technical leadership & mentoring team members, planning, scheduling tasks and holding discussions with different functions & management
- People Leader, who has successfully led and motivated teams in cross-cultural environment towards growth and success in the organization; created a clear & compelling view of future through coaching and execution
- Drove service excellence through overall functioning of the process by identifying areas of opportunities and recommending process improvements for Business Transformation (Automation)
- A strategist with recognized proficiency in spearheading business to accomplish corporate plans and goals successfully CORE COMPETENCIES Strategic Planning Project/Program Management Account & Delivery Management Transistion Management Client & Stakeholder Management People Leadership Resource Optimization Performance Monitoring & Evaluation Team Building & Leadership
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Delivery Manager
Zurich Farmers/Foremost/Bristol West
01.2015 - 01.2022
Group Service Manager
01.2011 - 01.2015
Service Manager
01.2009 - 01.2011
Team Leader
XANSA, TESCO
Chennai
05.2004 - 03.2007
Programmer
Selcraft Softech, Workplace CGI
Mumbai
11.2003 - 04.2004
Programmer
ASHWINIIT
Chennai
05.2001 - 09.2003
Selcraft Softech, XANSA
DXC Technology
ASHWINIIT
07.2004 - 07.2003
Account Delivery Lead
01.2023
- Instituting & executing high level delivery strategies, making high-stake decisions and overcoming complex business challenges using experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity
- Guiding and mentoring technical team; advising clients on processes and technologies and evaluating solutions and technologies
- Leading delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries
- Modernizing client application through Cloud (AWS), Conternization, Mobile App & RPA
- Proposed CAGEN Application Modernization, Application Automation (DevSecOps), IBM Infosphere migration, RPA, Cloud Migration, Mobile App dashboard, etc
- Establishing & implementing escalation point for issues & risks and managing issue resolution & risk mitigation
- Steering responsibilities for Financial Performance (Utilization, Operational Efficiency & Profitability)
- Collaborating with key stakeholders on program deliveries through project/program steering meetings
- Creating & sustaining a dynamic environment that fosters the development opportunities and motivates the high performance amongst the team members
- Devising offshore work transition and migration, while leveraging onshore capacity to other areas of business
- Certifications Acquired
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist & AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Technology, Tool & Process Exposure
- Mainframes, Java, MS Technologies, RPA (UI Path) & AWS Cloud
- Service Now, Remedy, Rally & Jira
- Waterfall, PMP, Agile, SAFe & ITIL
Education
J.D. - Instrumentation & Control
Sathyabama Engineering College
Chennai04-2021
Skills
- Motivation and teamwork
- Effective communication
- Collaboration and accountability
- Innovation and execution
- Cloud migration strategies
- Application modernization techniques
- DevSecOps automation practices
- Financial performance management
- Process optimization methods
- Customer relationship management
Languages
Additional Information
- Address: No. 85B, Royal Court, Vivekanandha Nagar, Nesapakkam, Chennai-600078
Timeline
Account Delivery Lead
01.2023
Delivery Manager
Zurich Farmers/Foremost/Bristol West
01.2015 - 01.2022
Group Service Manager
01.2011 - 01.2015
Service Manager
01.2009 - 01.2011
Selcraft Softech, XANSA
DXC Technology
ASHWINIIT
07.2004 - 07.2003
Team Leader
XANSA, TESCO
05.2004 - 03.2007
Programmer
Selcraft Softech, Workplace CGI
11.2003 - 04.2004
Programmer
ASHWINIIT
05.2001 - 09.2003
J.D. - Instrumentation & Control
Sathyabama Engineering College
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