Sampath Kumar
Gudiyattam
Summary
Strategic professional in business operations known for high productivity and efficiency in task completion. Specialize in process optimization, project management, and data analysis, ensuring streamlined workflows and enhanced operational efficacy. Excel in communication, problem-solving, and leadership, leveraging these soft skills to drive team success and achieve organizational goals.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Advisor, Program Management – IT
Dell Technologies PVT LTD
12.2019 - Current
- Owned platform for B2B applications, including OpenText and Boomi.
- Defined product vision to align development with stakeholder expectations.
- Monitored market trends and analyzed competitors to inform strategic initiatives.
- Prioritized features based on user needs and market demands.
- Facilitated creation of knowledge base to promote independent decision-making across teams.
- Ensured platform availability at 100% by optimizing job execution and alert systems.
- Led demand management to fulfill scheduling, performance, and cost requirements.
- Coordinated release management efforts with middleware and business teams for seamless deployments.
Advisor, Program Management – IT
US TECH SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
05.2019 - 12.2019
- Facilitated alignment between platform and business teams to ensure efficient job execution.
- Managed resources to address requirements of both platform and business teams during scheduled and unscheduled events.
- Assisted in transitioning from project management to product management model.
- Collaborated with platform teams to comprehend business requirements for seamless execution.
Lead Project Engineer
General Electric
06.2006 - 02.2018
- Company Overview: Gas Power Systems, Bangalore
- Drives risk mitigation to meet contract requirements (schedule, performance and cost) and provides direction to the team, and ensures follow-up; calls for decision, if required
- As part of licensing package team led the team in improving process and reducing the cycle time for the package delivery by 4 weeks from actual cycle time of 24 weeks and executed the project
- Kaizen implementation in optimizing engineering budgeting and improved drawing quality with FTY >95%
- Led Biomass gasification project from conceptual to implementation phase with agile/scrum methodology.
- Introduced Agile and Scrum methodology to execute and deliver projects on-time
- Improved team collaboration, transparency and trust among team members by daily scrum meetings
- Removed/mitigated risks and bottlenecks identified during scrum and sprint meetings
- Enabled team to resolve and avoid conflicts by insisting on Agile values
- Leading customer kick of meetings (CKOMs) to enable best NPS and clear project execution strategy
- Responsible for executing the project against the budget, schedule and quality
- Implementation of lesson learned from RCAs, fleet studies & RFIs into project executions
- Responsible for performing technical risk assessment and corresponding risk reviews and provides the input for the centralized project risk and opportunity management
- Mentored 25 members for DMAIC\DFSS GB certification with improved quality and reduction in cycle time.
- Gas Power Systems, Bangalore
Lecturer
Priyadharshini Engineering College
Vaniyambadi
01.1999 - 04.2004
- Teaching Chemical Engineering subjects
- Involved in setting up the Chemical Engineering labs and guided students in the projects
- Mentored students for technical paper presentation in national level technical symposiums
- Organized national level technical symposium
Education
M.Tech - Petroleum Engineering
IIT Guwahati
Guwahati, India05-2006
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
University of Madras
05-1998
Skills
- Product strategy and management
- Client collaboration
- Product improvement
- Business operations
- Project coordination
- Communication proficiency
- Negotiation techniques
- Data reporting
- Risk mitigation
- Release oversight
- Operational excellence
- Six Sigma methodologies
- Lean practices
- Agile frameworks
- Technology innovation
- Conceptual thinking
- Systematic thinking
Training
- PMP Certified
- Project Management trainings
- Leadership trainings
- Blackbelt Six-sigma training
- Agile and Scrum Methodology
- Blackbot Product Management
- PSPO Certification
Projects
PRODUCT TRANSFORMATION ENABLEMENT DATA-CENTER MIGRATION SECURITY AND END OF LIFE REFRESH BIOMASS GASIFICATION PROJECT DRAWING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Major Recognitions
- Credited with Ten GE Management Awards for expertise on Project Execution with innovative methods.
- Credited with Fulfillment Excellence Award for successful execution of projects.
- Game Change Award for successful migration of integrations from EOL Application with $80K Savings
- Delight Award for Get Healthier Programs
- Bravo Awards for successful delivery of Major programs with $500K Savings
Timeline
Senior Advisor, Program Management – IT
Dell Technologies PVT LTD
12.2019 - Current
Advisor, Program Management – IT
US TECH SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
05.2019 - 12.2019
Lead Project Engineer
General Electric
06.2006 - 02.2018
Lecturer
Priyadharshini Engineering College
01.1999 - 04.2004
M.Tech - Petroleum Engineering
IIT Guwahati
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
University of Madras