SANDOSH MANAVALAN
Product Management & Delivery Consultant
Kakkanad
Summary
Energetic and Passionate leader in software delivery management, with 25 years of hands on experience, looking for avenues to solve delivery related issues for small and medium enterprises. Setting lean and mean operating procedures for delivery arm is the key focus area.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
VP - Client Delivery
NdimensionZ Solutions Private Limited
11.2018 - Current
- Manage complete delivery lifecycle to production for client specific projects.
- Support client in migrating existing projects to new technology stacks.
- Manage escalations and setting of expectations with client, as and when required. Re-establish milestones with win-win position for client as well as for delivery firm in cases of any foreseen delays in schedule.
- Manage Risks for client project and deliver as per stated milestones.
- Streamline existing delivery operating procedures so as to make it lean and meaningful. Tracking change management and continuous improvement for reducing effort variance and schedule variance. Applying automation and reusability wherever possible is key principle.
- Manage Risks and help program to mitigate them with proper steps in place.
- Manage Issues with proper root cause analysis followed by corrective and preventive action in place.
- Manage P&L for the projects and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.
- Devised new product lines based on market RFPs and by using bench cost of organization.
- Hired and managed new managers to drive business growth.
Head of Products and Service Delivery
JTSi India Private Limited
10.2015 - 11.2018
- Single point of contact for the service delivery projects handled from Kochi unit.
- Established up a lean and meaningful delivery process.
- Managing all clients and their associated projects.
- Directly reporting to CEO.
Sr. Service Delivery Manager
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
04.2013 - 09.2015
- Product Delivery Head for Oil and Gas Logistics division's product named "iLogistics Neo", which is migration of an existing product to a new technology stack.
- Single point of contact reporting to Vertical Head for OGL.
- Representing quarterly updates to Vertical Head as well as to the chairman of the group.
- Steering discussions with existing clients to migrate to the new product suite, travel across sites to conduct product demos / remotely.
Project Manager
Infosys Technologies
04.2012 - 03.2013
Project Manager; Product Manager
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited, Infosys
3 2009 - 03.2012
Product Implementation & Product Business Solution Group Manager
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
10.2007 - 02.2009
Project Leader & Application Consultant
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
4 2006 - 10.2007
Team Leader
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
03.2004 - 03.2006
Senior Software Engineer
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
03.2003 - 02.2004
Software Engineer
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
11.2000 - 02.2003
Education
B.Tech - Computer Engineering
Cochin University of Science And Technology
College Of Engineering Adoor (IHRDE Institute) 08.1995 - 10.1999
Skills
Developer 2000 – Oracle Forms 50
Business Objects
SharePoint 2010
NodeJS
MongoDB
Spring Boot
Java
C
C
Visual C 60
IBM Rational CLM
MS Office
MS Project
Rational Rose 2000
Visio Professional
Eclipse
VSS 60
NodeJS
MongoDB
IBM Rational CLM
MS Office
MS Project
Rational Rose 2000
Visio Professional
Eclipse
JIRA
Accomplishments
- Independently leading the product development arm of 80+ team members for a Product to manage the complete logistics management aspects for upstream Oil & Gas Logistics business, reporting directly to the Business Unit Vertical Head.
- Received Gift Cheque from Shell Global Program Manager for facilitating successful Product Implementation at SMEP, Feb’07.
- Acquired customer appreciation for optimising the interface bottleneck query (running in backend) from 30 mins. to less than 2 min. This was acknowledged within the monthly delivery report shared by the Customer Delivery Manager, Jan’05.
- Nominated for: Executing the role of Solution Architect for Fortune 5 Company (Shell) for more than a year.
- Interviewee for the Shell Post Implementation Review.
- Representative from IBS to participate in the ‘Shell GLMS Marine Workshop’, conducted at SMEP office, Sept’06.
- Certified IBS Trainer for the CMMI Awareness Program in Sept’09.
- Attained IBS Best Performance Award for the period Jul’07–Dec’07.
- Undergone the auspicious PMDP (Project Management Development Program) and received certified as Future Manager in IBS in Nov’05.
Growthpath
- Software Engineer,
- Senior Software Engineer,
- Team Leader,
- Project Leader & Application Consultant,
- Product Implementation & Product Business Solution Group Manager,
- Project Manager; Product Manager,
- Product Development Manager,
- Sr. Service Delivery Manager,
- Head of Products and Service Delivery,
- VP - Client Delivery
Key accounts handled
- ConocoPhillips, US.
- Shell International Exploration and Production B.V., Hague, The Netherlands & their following Operating Units: SEIC (Sakhalin Energy Investment Company), Russia. STOS (Shell Todd Oil Services Limited), New Zealand. SMEP (Shell Malaysia Exploration & Production), Malaysia. SEPCo (Shell Exploration & Production Company), US. SCiN (Shell Companies in Nigeria), Nigeria. SPEX (Shell Philippines Exploration), Philippines. SAI (Shell Aircraft International), Netherlands. BSP (Brunei Shell Petroleum), Sultanate of Brunei. SIPD (Shell IRAQ). NCPOC (Shell Kazakhstan).
- British Petroleum, Houston, US
- Qatar Airways IT Unit, Doha, Qatar
- C-Logistics, Fourchon, US
- GulfShare, New Orleans, US
- Atraxis AG (IT Division of the erstwhile Swissair Group), Switzerland.
Other courses
- Certified for PMP exam preparation course.
- Successfully completed external technical course & certified from Winsoft–Advanced School for Information Technology Trivandrum for C++ || Oracle 8i – SQL, PL/SQL || Developer 2000 – Oracle Forms 4.0 || Visual C++ 6.0 || Java.
Trainings attended
- Undergone the auspicious PMDP (Project Management Development Program) and successfully got certified as future Manager in IBS – Nov 2005.
- External Training for Account Mining and Management.
- Leadership training course at Asian School of Business.
- Completed training from SimpliLearn for appearing the PMP certification course.
Personal Information
- Location Preference: Kochi
- Date of Birth: 11/17/77
Timeline
VP - Client Delivery
NdimensionZ Solutions Private Limited
11.2018 - Current
Head of Products and Service Delivery
JTSi India Private Limited
10.2015 - 11.2018
Sr. Service Delivery Manager
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
04.2013 - 09.2015
Project Manager
Infosys Technologies
04.2012 - 03.2013
Product Implementation & Product Business Solution Group Manager
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
10.2007 - 02.2009
Team Leader
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
03.2004 - 03.2006
Senior Software Engineer
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
03.2003 - 02.2004
Software Engineer
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
11.2000 - 02.2003
B.Tech - Computer Engineering
Cochin University of Science And Technology
08.1995 - 10.1999
Project Manager; Product Manager
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited, Infosys
3 2009 - 03.2012
Project Leader & Application Consultant
IBS Software Service Pvt. Limited
4 2006 - 10.2007
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