PADMALAYA RAGHUNATHAN
Chennai
Summary
Experienced business leader with a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives, optimizing business performance, and leading teams to achieve profitable outcomes. Skilled in problem-solving, overcoming challenges, and making key decisions that set clear business direction. Recognized for delivering high-impact business process improvements that enhance productivity, performance, and profitability. Known for attention to detail, effective team leadership, and a results-oriented approach to achieving organizational goals. Adept at tackling challenges, solving complex problems, and identifying growth opportunities. Highly skilled in motivating teams, improving communication, and delivering successful projects that align with organizational objectives.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project manager – Data Services
Goldman Sachs Inc.
09.2018 - 10.2019
- Managed the Global Credit Data team (7 members), overseeing all aspects of data feeds (internal and external) and providing strategic solutions for data management
- Led the team to develop a generic data usage analysis tool that functions as a 'sniffer' to monitor and collect data usage for mortgage data loaded from external vendors into the mortgage database. This project, driven entirely out of Bengaluru, was recognized as a milestone achievement by the Bengaluru Operating Council for its impact and success.
- Led the User Requirement Management in Credit Data : Prioritized tasks, allocated resources, and tracked multiple initiatives to ensure timely delivery, Collaborated with teams to refine user requirements and aligned projects with business objectives, Maintained clear communication with stakeholders, providing timely updates on progress and risks.
- Led the hardware migration of the Sybase IQ database, including setting up a new environment, implementing a disaster recovery strategy, managing failover execution, conducting firewall policy checks, and communicating with downstream app owners and divisional strategies to ensure smooth operations during migration
- Directed the mortgage database migration from legacy Sybase IQ to the organization’s Data Lake solution
- Optimized infrastructure and licensing costs by analyzing usage patterns derived from the tool, resulting in cost-saving opportunities and improved resource allocation
- Decommissioned 14 vendor feeds out of 37, leading to significant improvements in compute capacity, reduced database storage, and licensing cost savings
- Conducted business process analysis, designed and reviewed the ETL process, and completed the migration of data from 3 vendors in 11 months, improving data accessibility and long-term storage efficiency
- Revamped and streamlined processes by decommissioning unused hosts on obsolete hardware, resulting in significant cost savings
- Allocated savings to set up development and QA databases, improving testing and development efficiency
- Provided production support for data feeds, ensuring smooth data flow and minimizing issues related to data integrity and delivery
Project manager & Schema owner
Intel
04.2012 - 05.2013
- Defined project scope, roadmap, and release plans while performing resource allocation for a team of 7, ensuring timely and successful delivery of project milestones
- Managed the disposition of new requirements from various domains, ensuring alignment with project goals and effective prioritization
- Tracked and monitored two major releases, focusing on rigorous testing and multiple rounds of build packaging to ensure quality and smooth deployment
- Presented project design changes in key forums to secure ratification, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives
- Led project release kickoffs, updates, and closures in approval forums and steering committee meetings with senior management, providing clear communication and securing necessary approvals
Database programmer, Data modeler & Schema owner
Intel
06.2008 - 04.2012
- Worked across multiple manufacturing process technologies in roles such as database programmer, data modeler, schema owner, and Level 3 support, contributing to various aspects of database management and support
- Served as the key point of contact, providing subject matter expertise, consultation, and impact analysis on issues related to data loss and integrity, specifically affecting manufacturing processes
- Trained and mentored interns, new hires, and junior support personnel (Level 1 & 2), fostering knowledge transfer and skill development across the team
- Provided 24x7 support for mission-critical issues in manufacturing sites, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
- Designed complex database schemas for multiple releases, ensuring optimal data storage and quality, while maintaining downward compatibility with downstream tools extracting data from the engineering database
- Worked on developing a new data usage analysis tool that analyzed extracted queries run on the test data warehouse, identifying and generating end-user usage patterns to inform business decisions
- Created detailed reports on usage patterns based on various criteria, presenting findings to management forums to support critical decision-making
- Submitted a paper for journal publication, selected as one of the top 10 out of approximately 500 submissions, highlighting thought leadership in the domain
- Co-authored the prestigious 'IADB Document'—one of the key technical resources at Intel—highlighting contributions to internal knowledge sharing and process documentation
Database programmer
Intel
06.2004 - 05.2008
- Key contributor to the development of an automated execution planning system, reducing manual game plan analysis efforts and enabling improved reporting, product, and resource/capacity planning for factory operations
- Provided 24x7 support for the automation solution within the production scheduling system, ensuring smooth and continuous operations
- Served as the single point of contact for subject matter expertise and impact analysis, addressing any issues affecting the production scheduling process and mitigating disruptions to operations
Education
Master of Project Management -
Colorado State University - Global Campus
01.2017
Master of Computer Applications -
PSG College of Technology
01.2004
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Auxilium College
01.2001
Skills
- Oracle 11g RAC/non-RAC
- MS SQL Server
- Sybase IQ
- C
- Python
- MS Project
- Adexa
- Real-Time Dispatcher (RTD)
- SQL Server Management Studio
- MS Visual SourceSafe
- JIRA
- Perl
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, BHW2ZDMBGEQ4Q257, 03/14/22, 11/30/27
- PCEP – Certified Entry Level Python Programmer, sniv.N6Lv.U7b1, 02/12/25
Key Strengths And Accomplishments
- Catalyst for streamlining processes/systems enabling better decision making.,
- Effectively led project releases of different complexity across geographies and presented in various steering committee and approval forums., Trained and mentored interns, analysts, associates, level 1 & 2 support personnel, manufacturing, and planning representatives.,
- Highly innovative and adept in working with uncertain requirements.,
- Excellent stakeholder management coupled with outstanding communication and presentation skills.,
- Dealt with challenges that the business complexity provides with great professionalism.,
- Key point of contact providing subject matter expertise, consultation and impact analysis initiatives.
Awards
- ATD Divisional Recognition Award for 'Outstanding efforts in implementing ATPS ATD Gameplan'.
- TMG Excellence Award for 'Outstanding contributions to Factory output responsiveness Via ATPS System'.
- Department award for 'Implementing ARIES 8.0 on 11g RAC'.
- Department award for 'Implementing one stop DI solution DIAMOND, across TD and ATM'.
- Department award for 'Delivering innovative analysis that has provided new insights in Aries data usage by ATM and the Divisions and enabling us to take a fresh approach toward more efficient solutions'.
- Key resource in driving the mortgage data usage cost optimization project which featured in Bengaluru Operating Council (Engineering Division) presentation to the Head of Goldman Sachs Services, India.
- One of the 3 panelists in the candidate engagement session for the 7th and 8th edition of returnship program (back to work program) in 2019 sharing returnship experience and motivating the applicants to restart their career.
- Key speaker focusing on team engagement, support and network and returnee experience in 'Manager sensitization' session for 2019 returnship program.
Key Skills And Technologies
Oracle 11g RAC/non-RAC, MS SQL Server, Sybase IQ, C++ (OOP concepts), Python (Beginner), MS Project, Adexa, Real-Time Dispatcher (RTD), SQL Server Management Studio, MS Visual SourceSafe, JIRA, Perl
Timeline
Project manager – Data Services
Goldman Sachs Inc.
09.2018 - 10.2019
Project manager & Schema owner
Intel
04.2012 - 05.2013
Database programmer, Data modeler & Schema owner
Intel
06.2008 - 04.2012
Database programmer
Intel
06.2004 - 05.2008
Master of Computer Applications -
PSG College of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Auxilium College
Master of Project Management -
Colorado State University - Global Campus
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