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Palaniappan Alagappan

Palaniappan Alagappan

Engagement Portfolio Lead | Service Delivery Director
Chennai

Summary

Dynamic leader with proven track record of successfully managing large projects and initiatives and achieving desired business objectives. Skilled in building and nurturing strong client relationships, driving account growth through upselling and cross-selling, and managing multi-million-dollar portfolios to achieve strategic business objectives. Proven expertise in overseeing end-to-end service delivery for global clients, ensuring seamless operations, SLA adherence, and exceptional customer satisfaction. Proven ability to lead global teams, and deliver cutting-edge digital transformation projects. Skilled in agile methodologies, client engagement. Formerly with Cognizant,. Skilled in developing and executing strategies, managing budgets and resources, and leading cross-functional teams.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Delivery Lead, Program Director

Dedalus
11.2021 - Current
  • Company Overview: Dedalus is a global leader in healthcare and diagnostic software.
  • Managed Dedalus India customers: Program Director for the Apollo account, managing Dedalus products deployed across 45+ Apollo hospitals and other leading healthcare institutions. Accountable for maintaining customer relationships, ensuring satisfaction, and driving customer success across multiple accounts
  • Engaged key stakeholders such as executives, CIO, directors, project sponsor and program team
    Client Portfolio: Managed relationships with leading hospitals such as Apollo, Medanta, Artemis, Sathya Sai, and Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospitals
  • Accountable for revenue and profitability
  • Spearheaded a comprehensive digital transformation initiative for a major hospital chain in Asia, overseeing program management, delivery, support, and maintenance of Dedalus' digital transformation products
  • Managed cloud-based deployment, hyper care, and application support with a team, ensuring smooth operations, quick issue resolution, and reliable performance
  • Managed premium hospital accounts, and built a strong working relationship with clients
  • Identified upselling and cross-selling opportunities for additional products and services
  • Assisted clients in getting maximum value from Dedalus
  • Led a team of IT professionals, Functional specialists, project managers, developers, technical staff to ensure successful project execution

Associate Director, Delivery Leader, Engagement Portfolio Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2008 - 11.2021
  • Played Portfolio Lead: Directed a diverse portfolio of projects, driving strategic alignment, optimizing resources, and delivering successful outcomes across multiple business units
  • Led interactions with US-based customers, ensuring clear communication and alignment on business objectives
  • Worked onsite with US clients during critical project phases, streamlining the transition of products to offshore teams and ensuring end-user satisfaction
  • Accountable for Key Business Metrics: Managed revenue, profitability, Net Promoter Score (client feedback), value adds and innovation, utilization, budgeting, and forecasting to drive successful outcomes
  • Key Client Portfolio: McKinsey and Company, Fresenius medical care, TD Ameritrade, Kaiser Permanente, naviHealth, Samsung Healthcare
  • Delivery Leader: Led cross-functional teams to meet business objectives, managing cloud, help desk, testing, data analytics, data warehouse, BPO, consulting, and technology projects by collaborating with horizontal teams across the organization
  • Business development from small-size to multi-million-dollar deals
  • Built working relationships with customers for business growth & Managed multiple clients
  • Spearheaded applications roadmap, transitions, re-engineering, implementation, integration, product backlog, release planning, support strategies and budget planning
  • Agile development Manager, Spearheaded Green field development projects, transitioned products to offshore and created offshore delivery team, delivered Digital projects that include IOT, Mobile, cloud and Data Analytics
  • Managed delivery team to ensure timely and accurate customer deliveries
  • Overseen daily activities of the delivery team and provided direction and guidance as needed

Senior System Analyst

iSoft R&D Pvt Ltd (DXC Technology)
03.2004 - 06.2008
  • Lead i.Labs dev team, Laboratory product development

Developer

Misys Hospital Systems (Sunquest Information Systems)
03.2001 - 03.2004
  • Part of Sunquest Laboratory Development team

Developer

Pragati Software
11.2000 - 03.2001

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - computer science

Bharathidasan University
09.1994 - 04.1998

Senior Leadership Program -

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow
10.2023 - 10.2024

Skills

Portfolio Management

Global Delivery Management

Program Management

Project Management - Agile & Waterfall

Domain: Healthcare and BFS

Tools: Jira, Confluence, MPP

Technologies: Core Python, Visual Basic, Java Script, HTML, CSS, SQL Server, Mumps, Caché, NET

Certification

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ITILF)

Awards

Cognizant - Healthcare Associate (Employee) of the Year, 2016

Key Assignments and Projects

Result-driven IT professional with remarkable success in building teams and executing programs in various technology platforms, executed large programs and managed cross-functional teams like Digital, Analytics, Development, QE&A, Infrastructure & Cloud


Digital Transformation of EMR /EHR - Spearheaded delivery, implementation, support and maintenance of Dedalus CSP (Persona) product in a large hospital chain in Asia. The benefits include the transformation of Clinician–patient experience and an increase in the adoption of EHR. The product is Electronic Patient Record (EPR) agnostic and Integration through HL7 FHIR standards. The product is deployed in a Hybrid cloud


Managed clients and client programs for Cognizant, Account Auditee for Cognizant ISO 9001 Certification


Data Orchestration Platform – Greenfield product developmentof an orchestration platform for data science with an automated library of process pre-built and standardized collaboration tools. Built over 8 months in Liferay, React, jBPM, PostgreSQL, Keycloak, and elastic search. Responsible for the end-to-end delivery from the requirement to deployment


Kidney Care Portal and mobile App – Developed a portal for the world’s leading provider of products and services for people with chronic kidney failure. The application allows patients to undergo dialysis remotely from home and capture vitals and flowsheet data via laptop, mobile, or tablet. It integrates with clinical systems such as Siemens Sorian EHR, FHIR HL7, and Mirth HIE, providing real-time patient data to Nephrologists and Caregivers. The portal was built using the Liferay platform


Post-Acute Care Portal - Greenfield product development of a Post-Acute Care portal for a PAC provider. Delivered to market within 5 months from requirements gathering to production deployment, despite a complex architecture. Translated product vision into the application using Agile methodology, with the portal built on the .NET platform


Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) – Development of CPOE module covering all aspects of Order/ Order Set management and integration of CPOE with a third-party clinical decision support system. Development of Physician dashboard, Patient summary, and Configuration Management modules. Agile is adopted for quick time to market and the system is built in Java platform


Patient centered Laboratory solution – Responsible for delivery of various maintenance and development release for i.Laboratoy, which is a comprehensive solution designed to fulfil a laboratory’s clinical and business needs. This product is live in more than 100 laboratories across the UK and built in VB and Mumps


Mumps/ Intersystem Cache based Legacy – Led Back office system development for large electronic trading platform, maintenance and production support teams comprising of 75 associates at offshore and built a strong 50-member team primarily for Cache technology focused on development and maintenance activities


Program Manager for Cognizant Healthcare solution team creating healthcare-specific IP for Cognizant, Spearheaded development of BI solution for hospital, Hospital Performance Management (HPM) and an ambulatory EHR solution, PowerHealth

Timeline

Senior Leadership Program -

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow
10.2023 - 10.2024

Delivery Lead, Program Director

Dedalus
11.2021 - Current

Associate Director, Delivery Leader, Engagement Portfolio Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2008 - 11.2021

Senior System Analyst

iSoft R&D Pvt Ltd (DXC Technology)
03.2004 - 06.2008

Developer

Misys Hospital Systems (Sunquest Information Systems)
03.2001 - 03.2004

Developer

Pragati Software
11.2000 - 03.2001

Bachelor of Engineering - computer science

Bharathidasan University
09.1994 - 04.1998
Palaniappan AlagappanEngagement Portfolio Lead | Service Delivery Director