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Ramya Gokarnesan

Chennai

Summary

Dynamic PMO Lead with extensive experience at Atos, excelling in stakeholder management and project planning. Proven track record in driving project success through effective change management and advanced MS Project skills. Adept at fostering team collaboration and delivering impactful results, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and enhancing operational efficiency.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PMO Lead

Mindsprint India Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - Current
  • Lead project teams composed of cross-functional representation from multiple business units
  • Acts as a Project lead for the project and responsible to align the team around the key deliverables.
  • Documents and tracks resolution of project issues, risks and change requests.
  • Responsible in collecting and preparing data for weekly status meeting with Business.
  • Responsible in leading internal/external communications strategy, status reporting, maintenance of project trackers, onboarding/offboarding of resources.

PMO/IT Project support Analyst

FinTark Limited
04.2023 - 09.2023
  • Assisted PM in maintaining project schedules, work breakdown structures, decision logs, meeting summaries and reports to ensure effective, ongoing communications.
  • Monitored costs, timescales, and resources used to achieve monthly financial reconciliations and forecasts.
  • Proactive management of project progress, risk, issues, change management and administration.
  • Provide co-ordination services to a project including capturing and tracking of actions.
  • Improve the planning and delivery process by collecting, maintaining, and reporting data in a consistent form.
  • Inline with the Client’s project governance structure, support the Senior Project Manager and the client PMO to provide monthly project reports, update cost models and track budgets.
  • Preparing the monthly Client SteerCo presentations.
  • Manage the client onboarding process for new members.
  • Timesheet monitoring of whole project team members.

Associate Consultant

Atos
Chennai
07.2011 - 03.2023
  • Working with the stakeholders for defining and documenting the operating model of the initiatives.
  • Providing operational support, tracking timelines.
  • Preparing regular reports and status update to track project performance, milestones, KPIs for senior management.
  • Working with the Business / Functions for assessing resource requirement for project execution.
  • Scheduling / Prioritizing project activities.
  • Planning and monitoring project timesheets.
  • Maintaining governance, process and tools for ARAA Practice.

Senior PMO

Atos
12.2021 - 07.2022
  • Development of documentation in support of processes, reporting and Governance and project Gating, creation of supporting operational procedures.
  • Preparing daily reports for customer with respect to incidents, changes, Problem status.
  • Responsible for attending customer meetings and preparing MoM.
  • Responsible for creating snow change requests for customer.
  • Employee assignment, WBS code creation in O2C.
  • Creating OMM reports monthly for presentation to clients.
  • Responsible for Action updates from customers.

Finance PMO

Atos
03.2021 - 12.2021
  • Working as a Financial analyst for NEST Project analyzing, comparing, discussing about the forecasting numbers and comparison between Actual and Forecast numbers.
  • Updating the NEST Project list everyday and circulate to Project Managers.
  • Assigning WBS and Person responsible in O2C Platform.
  • IBC updation in WebCIP Clarity tool.
  • Monitoring actuals vs forecast often and report to Project Managers.
  • Generating dashboard, Contract, Generic forecast reports monthly.
  • Provide financial support to accomplish plans, including financial modelling, scenario planning, monitoring performance against strategic decisions with a moderate opportunity to impact the business.

Senior PMO

Atos
09.2020 - 02.2021
  • Working in WEBCIP and PARMA tool and maintaining various entries by helping each GBU Project managers.
  • Entering project figures in WEBCIP project tool.
  • Generating report in PARMA tool.
  • Interacting with various GBU Project heads.

Senior PMO

Atos
06.2020 - 08.2020
  • Preparing and delivering various reports daily and Monitoring the mailbox at allotted time and solving the issues of UK customers such as Edrington Distillers, Johnson Matthey, Northern Foods, Lucite International, Karro, Park cakes, etc.
  • Preparing various reports daily for different UK customers.
  • Mailbox monitoring of daily issues.
  • Timesheet correction.
  • Quality review summary reports.
  • Solving various estimates coming in mailbox.
  • Work with business and technology subject matter experts to assess requirements, define scope, create estimates, and produce Project Charters and other documentation needed for funding approvals.

Atos-Syntel Timesheet Validator

Atos
03.2020 - 08.2020
  • Validating Atos Syntel timesheets of employees with booked and released dates against the master data and reports the mismatch entries to higher management, questions mismatch entries to concerned persons and gets that resolved.
  • Maintaining the master list of all timesheet entries.
  • Validation of timesheet of employees.
  • Timely reporting of mismatch entries.
  • Frequent meeting with PMs for timesheet mismatch entries.

Rapid Quality Manager

Atos
12.2017 - 02.2020
  • Project management including change management, reporting, status tracking, change management, and project reporting, AGILE (SCRUM).
  • Clear insight on the process of Project Management (PMO) and identifying and solving problems and providing ongoing services to ensure that problems stay solved and do not recur.
  • Preparing and Analyzing Pipeline & OPD Reports on monthly basis.
  • Quarterly LifeCheck Report submission.
  • RAPID Quality report to quality department monthly.
  • Support ad-hoc clean-up and bulk modification requests in sharepoint database.
  • Dashboard creation using VBA Macros.
  • Publishing the Utilization Report PowerPoint slide as per CoE on monthly basis.
  • Maintaining the quality of the RAPID Master File.
  • Scheduling meetings for current & upcoming RAPID’s as requested by the Rapid Manager’s.
  • Chasing the OPEN action items for RAPID on weekly basis.

Application Support

Atos
05.2017 - 11.2017
  • Application support in Teamcenter to MT.
  • Solving incidents related to Teamcenter issues in their MT environment.
  • Solves more than 3000 tickets and going on.
  • Preparing status reports and Project Management.
  • Identify appropriate resources needed and develop schedules to ensure timely completion of projects by meeting project milestones risks.
  • Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
  • Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
  • Anticipate bottlenecks.

Client Project Manager

Atos
07.2016 - 04.2017
  • Customizing Teamcenter AWC environment as per BMW requirements for their product data management.
  • May perform installation and configuration of Teamcenter software, coding, customization, GUI development, testing, debugging and deployment.
  • Involved in Maintenance, bug fixing, Testing and integration of the Application.
  • Practiced Agile methodology with Sprints and Code maintenance.
  • Maintained Java coding standards.
  • Involved in creating test plans and peer review.

Client Project Manager

Atos
01.2014 - 06.2016
  • A web-based master product data management repository that also helps teams manage critical processes such as change/configuration management, and detailed design.
  • It consists of three servers which is development, test and Production.
  • Manages data up to date.
  • Supporting applications includes creo, ProE, and Visualisation server.
  • Maintains data with full accuracy and customized as per customer requirements.
  • May perform installation and configuration of Windchill software, coding, customization, GUI development, testing, debugging, data migration and deployment.
  • Involved in coding and designing GUI as per requirement specifications.
  • Analyzing the client requirement and preparing functional specifications document.
  • Involved in Unit testing & Integration testing & Bug fixing of applications.
  • Preparing Unit test plan and Reports for the Client requirement.

Implementation Team Member

Atos
06.2013 - 01.2014
  • This Project is mainly on migrating Business logic code of PLM (Product Life Cycle Management) system from Legacy system to Upgraded System.
  • Gemalto uses Winchill 8.0 for their data management for SIM Cards design and manufacturing.
  • We as Implementation team helped them to migrate the legacy business logic to upgraded Windchill 10.2 system.
  • It is a Web based application that is used to collaborate across global design and Manufacturing centers.
  • Requirement Collection and Estimation of tasks.
  • Developing the code for given requirements.
  • Testing within the team members to ensure code quality.
  • Followed Agile Methodology.

Developer

04.2012 - 03.2013
  • Responsible for developing Excel based forms into GUI’s using Java Swing, RAC, ITK.
  • Configuration of any new requirements or changes for the business process as per the requirement of client.
  • Development: Customizing forms using Java, RAC.
  • Requirement Collection.
  • Designing the application.
  • Responsible in Creation of properties in BMIDE, data validation, testing.
  • Main goal is to manage the entire lifecycle of a component and its associated data through design and manufacture, service and maintenance and finally disposal.
  • Coding and Designing the swing based screens.

Tester

10.2011 - 03.2012
  • Writing manual test cases and used bug tracking tool for test cases.
  • Data input is taken from customer requirements and different data sources and new data warehouse is build and verified with the help of ETL tools.
  • Business and Requirement Understanding.
  • Validating.
  • Test Estimation.
  • Test Planning.
  • Designing test cases.
  • Design and develop a reusable architecture for the test automation.
  • Prepare reusable functions, which improve the robustness, re-usability, and maintainability of their test scripts.
  • Design and implement software components for a distributed object storage system in a service-based architecture.

Education

M-Tech - Communication Systems

01.2011

B-Tech - ECE

01.2008

Skills

  • Team Management
  • Project Planning
  • Stakeholder management
  • Operations Management
  • Communication
  • Monitoring
  • Issue/Risk Management
  • Change Management
  • Customer Focus
  • Planning skills
  • MS Project
  • Power BI
  • SharePoint
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • MS Excel Advanced
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • PM Methodologies
  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Hybrid
  • PM tools
  • Gantt Chart
  • JIRA
  • Mondaycom
  • Programming Languages
  • Java
  • Product Engineering tools
  • Windchill PDMLink 100
  • 101
  • Teamcenter 83
  • BMIDE
  • Technical Tools
  • Eclipse
  • SNOW
  • WEBCIP
  • PARMA
  • OrderToCash
  • SAP FieldGlass

Certification

  • PRINCE2 Agile Foundation, Axelos
  • PMP, Undergoing Training

Awards

  • Star Performer Award, FCI Migration Project, Atos, 11/08/15
  • Spot Award, Streamlining ARAA Practice Operations, Atos, 04/01/22
  • Best Employee Award, Project O2, Mindsprint, 05/01/24

Timeline

PMO Lead

Mindsprint India Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - Current

PMO/IT Project support Analyst

FinTark Limited
04.2023 - 09.2023

Senior PMO

Atos
12.2021 - 07.2022

Finance PMO

Atos
03.2021 - 12.2021

Senior PMO

Atos
09.2020 - 02.2021

Senior PMO

Atos
06.2020 - 08.2020

Atos-Syntel Timesheet Validator

Atos
03.2020 - 08.2020

Rapid Quality Manager

Atos
12.2017 - 02.2020

Application Support

Atos
05.2017 - 11.2017

Client Project Manager

Atos
07.2016 - 04.2017

Client Project Manager

Atos
01.2014 - 06.2016

Implementation Team Member

Atos
06.2013 - 01.2014

Developer

04.2012 - 03.2013

Tester

10.2011 - 03.2012

Associate Consultant

Atos
07.2011 - 03.2023

M-Tech - Communication Systems

B-Tech - ECE

Ramya Gokarnesan