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Ponmurughu S
IT Manager - DevOps And Quality Engineering
Chennai
Summary
Seeking a challenging position to ideate, design, lead & transform initiatives on DevOps, Agile, Quality Engineering and Cloud Implementations where creative ideas & implementation are always welcomed to increase value creation Passionate Engineering/Management professional & a transformational leader around 16 years of experience as Program Manager, Principal/ Solutions Architect in developing solutions, building and leading high-performance teams in DevOps & Quality Engineering / Automation programs for large product & services organizations covering Digital, eCommerce, IoT, SAP, Engineering & Data platforms around BFSI and Manufacturing business domains.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
23
23
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Manager - IT DevOps & Quality Engineering Program
Lennox India Technology Center
Chennai
09.2017 - 03.2020
- Successfully demonstrated setting up high performing DevOps and Quality Engineering teams , department structure/Hierarchy with clear Roadmaps based on business needs and requirements.
- Daily operations, Workflow & processes for a smooth functioning and to attain high excellence.
- Setting up KRAs and KPIs for team members in line with Team growth plans
- Best Practices - Successfully setup up the internal processes within the department to drive industry best practices to attain high level maturity
- Successfully set up reviews and governance for the active monitoring of all project deliverables in the organization
- Innovation Committee member responsible for fostering a culture of innovation within the organization
- Continuous improvement using industry best practices, tools and processes to best align with the needs of business.
- Governance and Reporting – As a Program Manager successfully demonstrated the overall governance of the department and provide formal reporting of their KRAs to the Business Stakeholders/ Directors of the company every month and every quarter on board review meetings.
- Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
- Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
- Supervised labor costs and departmental expenses to remain in line with budget.
- Recruited and hired top performers to add talent and value to department.
- Kept detailed records of daily progress to identify and correct areas needing improvement.
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
- Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.
Technical Architect
Lennox – DevOps Engineering
Chennai
09.2017 - 02.2020
- Demonstrated architecting & delivering solutions through ideation, design & implementation
- Designed & Developed Assessment questionnaires for DevOps
- Designed & formulated metrics across SDLC & Prod Operations to realize value
- Conducted & Presented DevOps Assessments for various teams at all levels
- Migrated projects from TFS to AzureDevOps (VSTS) Cloud version of Microsoft DevOps toolset
- Onboarded projects on AzureDevOps and pioneered AzureDevOps to be the 1Engineering platform for DevOps
- Worked on AzureDevOps-ServiceNow/Jira integrations
- Sonar implementation at enterprise level
- Performance testing Infra-as-Code requirements were designed and implemented using Azure & AzureDevOps
- Automated Build and release using Azure Pipelines
- Designed and implemented ALM solutions using AzureDevOps
- Worked on DevOps for MDM, eCommerce, IoT and Engineering applications
- Engineered architecture and infrastructure for 300+ AzureDevOps users.
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
- Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
- Performed quality code review and removed technical debt and security vulnerabilities.
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Developed DevOps architecture according to business needs.
Solution Architect/Consultant - DevOps & Cloud
VirtusaPolaris
Chennai
05.2016 - 08.2017
- Demonstrated architecting & delivering solutions through ideation, design & implementation
- Designed & Developed Assessment questionnaires for DevOps
- Designed & formulated metrics across SDLC & Prod Operations to realize value
- Conducted & Presented DevOps Assessments for various clients at Dipstick & Deep dive levels
- Formulated DevOps road maps for various levels of DevOps Adoption covering 9 C’s
- Proposed DevOps Dashboards & Scorecards for various levels of teams
- Conducted Lean Coffee type workshops to create agenda, bring out ideas, identify challenges for opportunity pipeline
- Observed, documented & Presented retrospectives & patterns during DevOps Adoption / Implementation
- Worked on setting up continuous Integration & Zero Touch Deployment until QA environments using Jenkins / Teamcity, Git & Artifactory
- Evaluated CI/CD tools for clients based on integration, purpose, easy of use & community orientation to enable DevOps at scale
- Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
- Guided and influenced existing partners on recommended upgrades and enhancements to integrated solutions.
- Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
- Managed and delivered advanced customization and configuration for DevOps solutions.
Senior Consultant
VirtusaPolaris
Chennai
03.2016 - 05.2016
- Worked on RFPs/RFIs with respect to DevOps solutions proposed for Selected & End to End offerings
- Collaborated with various engagements to observe patterns & antipatterns to arrive at a common DevOps framework to baseline & benchmark
- Presented DevOps offerings & provided thought leadership to various clients during Presales events & client visits
- Worked with Practice to setup a Continuous delivery pipeline demo to visually represent the best practices of DevOps in a nutshell using commonly used tools across software delivery.
- Developed custom solutions based upon clients' strict requirements.
- Streamlined processes to cut downtime and optimize employee productivity.
- Identified key areas in need of improvement and implemented plans to rectify issues.
- Exceeded customer requirements with accurate and deliverable solutions.
- Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.
- Monitored and managed staff performance to attain target metrics both individually and team unit.
Technical Manager
Temenos India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
05.2012 - 02.2016
- DevOps, Product Integration, SCM & Release Management, Understanding, Conceptualizing & Implementing Continuous Integration & Delivery of products with tools & automation aided with Agile & Test driven development to make an efficient DevOps organization with Cloud offerings of software
- Performed and lead teams on Integration, Configuration & Release Management
- Provided domain knowledge leadership to team on DevOps, Integration, configuration & release Management
- Worked on setting the build and release deliverables on Azure Cloud
- Worked on IAAS, SAAS & PAAS server environments
- Worked in Installation & Configuring systems, tools and scripts pertaining to build system or configuration management system
- Devising Backup Strategy, planning, implementation and auditing for Build and Release artefacts
- Preparing Dashboards for Annual release, Monthly releases, updates and patches with the status reports and publishing to portal.
- Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.
- Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
- Analyzed company processes to determine outsourcing feasibility.
- Communicated project status, delivering audience messages and change management with clients.
- Designed, implemented and monitored integration between applications while coordinating updates and developing test cases.
Analyst App I
Bank of America
Chennai
04.2011 - 05.2012
- Worked in handling the daily build and release engineering activities
- Executed Branching, Labeling and merging concepts in Clear case & Perforce
- Build Automation using Cruise control, Ant & Perl
- Worked in handling Maven/Hudson based build environments and configuration
- Executed Edition creations in Interwoven control hub for test & release deployments
- Executed Fortify scans & reported for security code vulnerabilities for all product platforms
- Worked on UNIX and windows based environment for all SCM activities
- Configuring new components/projects into the Cruise control
- Handling day to day activities of SCM – checking CC instance, ENV records, review the status of our running applications/tools for possible errors, etc
- Involving into the triage issues – missing files, wrong check-ins
- Good Knowledge of Nexus & Archiva deliverable artifact repository management tool and its working with maven
- Work on Automation Scripts for the system
- ENV Record monitoring (PERL/CGI/HTML)
- Enhanced Disk clean up Perl script to handle cleanup of Apache logs in servers
- Setup Application Build & Release Automation on Jenkins to run & deliver Major & Minor Releases
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
Senior Quality Engineer /Quality Specialist
SAP Labs India
Bengaluru
07.2007 - 03.2011
- Worked closely with teams as a single point of contact across Germany, Bulgaria, Russia & India to drive Java Development & Maintenance processes for around 300 members
- Performed regular software build and release activities for Main releases, service packs, patches and hot fixes
- Have been instrumental in Piloting of JCWB & Wiki to ensure high quality and close collaboration of people within processes
- Formulated good education, support and best practice documentation for development related to Build & Release processes and tools
- Performed user management on Perforce & NWDI (Version Control) for organizing and controlling the fixes done for
- Different releases as a quality check process
- Used Lean principles & Agile techniques to eliminate waste & non-value adds in the processes to drive value
- Solved issues on build scripts(Ant) for nightly builds in Ant environments
- Executed product/apps Smoke tests on all patch systems before every patch release
- Executed upload, Test, Release of STFK for PI remote infrastructure connectivity from CSS to customer systems
- Generated Patch statistics chart & graph as a Quality assurance feedback measure for continuous improvement
- Executed Integration acceptance testing executing manual & automation test cases for scenario tests.
- Integrated diagnostic automation to accelerate and sharpen post-production testing.
- Demonstrated product and quality expertise in product inspections.
- Facilitated process improvements to successfully decrease errors.
- Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
Software Executive
Caritor India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
05.2006 - 07.2007
- Handled Official customer releases & internal releases for an iterative development model (URUP)
- Generating Building UFSS Application using Enterprise Application Environment
- (EAE) in Windows, .Net & Unisys MCP environment for QA to Test
- Clear Case (Version Control) Administration, including multisite operations
- Installed and configured rational products like Clear case, Clear Quest, Robot, Test Manager, Rose and Requisite Pro
- Created and Maintained Databases in EAE Runtime Environment for Generate / Build process
- Have been the owner in driving & rolling out the development & maintenance processes to development community
- Responsible for Pilot Migration from EAE 3.3 to AB Suite
- Drafted POC statistics for the performance of ABSuite tool
- Installation, Administration and Troubleshooting of Microsoft Operating Systems Which includes Windows XP/2000 Professional and 2003 Server
- Installation of all software required for product development in respective servers
- Backup Strategy planning, implementation and auditing
- Recommended changes, improvements or enhancements in products to product development team based on customer feedback.
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
Education
MBA - Technology Management
Anna University
Chennai 06.2007 - 05.2009
B.E - Electrical & Electronics
Anna University
06.2001 - 05.2022
Skills
Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Proposal Management, People Managementundefined
Additional Information
- Cloud: , Azure / Amazon Web Services (AWS) Experience Awarded Gold for TFS to AzureDevOps migration Platinum Award for Idea on Hermes view Omnichannel(B2B) Silver Award for AzureDevOps License saving Gold for recognized Internal Trainer SPOC for DevOps Presales India Temenos Employee recognition award in 2015 Star Performer Award in 2009 Co-inventor for Patent Awarded Best Team Player award for contributions in Unisys project Manager - Lennox
Accomplishments
Patents
- ASSESSMENT OF USERS FEEDBACK DATA TO EVALUATE A SOFTWARE OBJECTASSESSMENT OF USERS FEEDBACK DATA TO EVALUATE A SOFTWARE OBJECTUS 2009E00996US01 · Issued Apr 4, 2017
MVP - Most valuable Player Award for Q2 2019MVP - Most valuable Player Award for Q2 2019
Issued by Lennox · Jun 2019
Gold Award - Successfully migrating to AzureDevOps(Cloud) and establishing ADO as 1ES for the organization
Issued by Lennox · Nov 2018
Platinum Award(1st) in Digitization Challenge
Issued by Lennox International · Jul 2018
2015 Q3 Temenos Employee Recognition Award
Issued by Temenos - Talent & Development · Sep 2015
2015 Q2 Temenos Employee Recognition Award
Issued by Temenos - Talent & Development · Jun 2015
Star Performer - Handling SAP NW Maintenance Releases
Issued by SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd · Jan 2009
Best Team Player Award
Issued by NTT DATA(Formerly Keane International) · 2007
Certification
- Lean Bronze
Interests
- Farming
- Real Estate
Cinephile
Love all kinds of movies for the amount of creative and organized efforts taken.
Timeline
- Lean Bronze
01-2020
Manager - IT DevOps & Quality Engineering Program
Lennox India Technology Center
09.2017 - 03.2020
Technical Architect
Lennox – DevOps Engineering
09.2017 - 02.2020
Solution Architect/Consultant - DevOps & Cloud
VirtusaPolaris
05.2016 - 08.2017
Senior Consultant
VirtusaPolaris
03.2016 - 05.2016
- Certified Scrum Master
01-2016
Technical Manager
Temenos India Pvt Ltd
05.2012 - 02.2016
Analyst App I
Bank of America
04.2011 - 05.2012
Senior Quality Engineer /Quality Specialist
SAP Labs India
07.2007 - 03.2011
MBA - Technology Management
Anna University
06.2007 - 05.2009
Software Executive
Caritor India Pvt Ltd
05.2006 - 07.2007
B.E - Electrical & Electronics
Anna University
06.2001 - 05.2022
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