MANIKANDAN S
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Program Manager with 25 Years of IT experience with 12 Years of Automobile domain and proficient in Airlines Cargo Management experience. 15 Years of Project Management, Vast experience in ISO:9001 and CMMi compliance practices Domain expertise in Automobiles, Airlines Cargo Management, Telecom, Banking, , Fund and portfolio management, Exports Management etc. Extensive experience in managing Application development and maintenance projects. Create and manage proposals, Statements of Work and detailed project plans for customer integrations including timelines and effort estimates. Project management, consulting, Pre & Post sales support, RFP/RFQ, Tendering. Technical business development to the sales organization through technical contacts with the customer including product presentation, workshops and technical updates.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Head
Coforge Ltd (NIIT Technologies Ltd.)
04.2022 - Current
- Project: TOPSERV, USED Cars, T Connected Cars
- Client: Toyota Kirloskar Motors
- Technology: Java, J2ee, Struts, Spring & Oracle 11g.
- Toyota Kirloskar Motors, India has about 350 Dealers and Branches spread across the country (India). These Dealers are responsible for providing the After Sales Service to Toyota customer. In order to streamline the After Sales Operation, they have decided to develop a new centralized Web based application for After Sales System called, ‘TOPSERV’.
- Managing a team size of 40 for the development and support and maintenance, enhancing the applications. Application Handled with the teams are
- 1. TOPSERV-Service and Parts
- 2. USED Cars –Toyota UTRUST
- 3. TConnect- Telematics application of online Toyota connect.
- 4. CAFÉ
- 5. Service parts
- 6. Currently upgrading the system to modernize technologies to Microservices.
Senior Project Manager
Coforge Ltd (NIIT Technologies Ltd.)
10.2016 - 04.2022
- Project: Cargo Management System (CMS)
- Clients: GRU Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Technology: Java, J2ee, Struts & Oracle 11g.
- This application is being developed and implemented for GRU Airport to replace their legacy system with a central application to support and optimize all cargo handling processes. The implementation will enable GRU to have a single platform Cargo handling system. Which will handle all the performance and operational needs of the cargo terminal, including core processes such as Import, Export, Domestic Cargo, Courier, Abandoned Cargo, Truck management, Forklift management, ULD management, Resource planning and Customer services.
- As project manager involved in the following tasks
- GRU International Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil from Nov 2013 as an Onsite Project Manager Role. Managing 10 people in onsite and 18 people from offshore.
- Preparing/Implementing project plans within fixed budgets and deadlines.
- Managed and successfully completed end-to-end project management involving client, commercial, IT, support and vendors.
- Customer interactions directly with the Directors of cargo and IT departments. Reporting to senior management in the company.
- Planning, scoping, understanding and negotiation on requirements and timely delivery. Functionally involved in Export, Import, Forklift management and customer service process.
- Analyzing the metrics report of the project and implement corrective/preventive actions. Participate into the Quality/security audits, Steering committees, SMR’s.
- Proactive risk management, dependencies planning and tracking, resource planning.
- Communicates and enforces coding standards and ensures technical teams are contributing to our code library.
- Providing technical support to application development teams; evaluating Oracle features & products.
- Define the testing Strategy, prepare the test plan.
- Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case, UAT, Verification and Validation.
- Monthly dashboard reporting to top management
- Weekly reporting on risk assessment of the project and recovery planning
- Mid-month reporting on project risk score and risk ranking
- Worked with different customers like SONY Media and Emirates Group IT division.
Delivery Manager
MetricStream Infotech Pvt Ltd.
01.2011 - 05.2011
- Role: Delivery Manager (Domain-Governance, Risk, Compliance)
- People and Product Management
- As delivery manager involved in the following tasks:
- Oversee the product customization of the two clients BAPCO and NASDAQ from offshore. Managing 14 people offshore and 4 people onsite.
- Managing delivery-initiation till closure, client relationship, status reporting, and escalation management.
- Managing projects in both Agile and Waterfall development environments.
- Managing Resource requirements.
- Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
- Responsible for holding weekly internal and external meetings on progress with the clients.
Project Manager
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
10.2008 - 01.2011
- Role: Project Manager
- Domain-Telecommunication
- Project: AT&T (USA), Vodafone (Portugal)
- Technology: Oracle 10i, Java
- As project manager involved in the following tasks.
- Working closely with stakeholders to understand their needs like AT&T (USA), Vodafone (Portugal).
- Preparing/Implementing project plans within pre-set budgets and deadlines.
- Managing applications in terms of incidents, capacity, problems and standardization initiatives.
- Analyzed business challenges, identified business problems, evaluated impact & proposed solutions
- Develop Estimates in White band Delphi and Work breakdown structure.
- Expertise in MPP for Project Management and IBM RPM (Rational Portfolio Manager) for the Project process and release management and change management.
- Experienced in managing multiple full project lifecycles from business development to final delivery.
- Involved in planning three-year strategic road map for the client.
Project/Technical Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd
08.2007 - 10.2008
- Domain: Banking
- Project: Deutsche Bank-DARE
- Technology: Oracle 10i, Developer 2000
Project Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
11.2004 - 10.2007
- Client: Telstra Australia
System Analyst
Bahwan Cybertek Pvt Ltd
05.2000 - 07.2004
- Client: Ministry of Finance (Muscat)
Education
M.C.A -
Madurai Kamaraj University
B.Sc - Physics
Madurai Kamaraj University
05.1997
Skills
- Methodologies: V-Model, Waterfall & Agile
- Languages: VB 60, HTML, XML
- Operating System: MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7
- Database: Oracle 8/9/10g, MS SQL Server, MySQL
- Tools: MS Project 2013, SQL Enterprise Manager, BIZAGI, ERWIN, VISIO and project management tools
- Business Verticals: Automobiles (Service and Sales), Airlines Cargo Management, Telecom, Banking, Fund and portfolio management, Exports Management etc
- Problem-solving
- Project management
- Strategic planning
- Process improvement
Certification
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
- ITIL Foundation Certification
Timeline
Program Head
Coforge Ltd (NIIT Technologies Ltd.)
04.2022 - Current
Senior Project Manager
Coforge Ltd (NIIT Technologies Ltd.)
10.2016 - 04.2022
Delivery Manager
MetricStream Infotech Pvt Ltd.
01.2011 - 05.2011
Project Manager
IBM India Pvt Ltd.
10.2008 - 01.2011
Project/Technical Lead
HCL Technologies Ltd
08.2007 - 10.2008
Project Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
11.2004 - 10.2007
System Analyst
Bahwan Cybertek Pvt Ltd
05.2000 - 07.2004
M.C.A -
Madurai Kamaraj University
B.Sc - Physics
Madurai Kamaraj University
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