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Sankar Natarajan

Sankar Natarajan

Summary

Results-oriented Professional offering 17 years experience in Project Management, Application support, Release Management, Environment Handling, Helpdesk, Cloud and DevOps. Result-oriented professional. Highly organized process improvement leader skilled at building rapport with vendors, customers and cross-functional teams at all organizational levels. Experience in handling multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment without compromising on quality and adhering to defined processes.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager & App Support Manager

Virtusa Consulting services pvt ltd.
8 2022 - Current
  • Administered 3 projects in BMO, PDDF, SRE & Workfusion
  • Transition from CGI to Virtusa for BMO PDDF Project
  • Lead the ASG transition from TechMahendra for BT WFMT project
  • Implemented automation and streamline the process
  • From scratch build the team to stable position
  • Client engagement / Delivery, Roster preparation, Timesheets / Chorus updates
  • Coordinates Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and reviewing, enhancing team collaboration
  • Track and publish service level performance reports dashboards regularly.

Sr. Project Lead, App Dev

Microland Ltd.
01.2021 - 08.2022
  • Promoted to leadership role accountable for maintaining key business applications and systems
  • Plan, coordinate, and execute software upgrades
  • Performed daily support operations and providing assistance on complex trouble tickets
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with IT vendors
  • Led efforts to restore service in a timely manner for critical business functions, application and infrastructure services, comprised of professionals from several different countries and time zones
  • Implemented and executed major incident management processes including invocation, ownership, escalation, communication and restoration of service
  • Cloud SSL certificate renewals for various applications in Dev, QA and Prod environments
  • Assisting and coordinating for the DevOps pipeline issues
  • Coordinating across team for resolving the issues within the SLA
  • Ownership for AWS code commit.

Tech.Lead, DevOps

ASM Technologies Ltd.
3 2020 - 10.2020
  • Creating and Maintaining the Regular and Nightly build pipeline in Jenkins at Linux instances through AWS (EC2)
  • Coordinating with the Client from requirement gathering to the demo and updating the daily status
  • Monitored team progress toward timely delivery of goals and Ensured deadlines were successfully met and maintaining all the details.

Tech.Lead, DevOps, Config & Environments

Future Focus India Pvt Ltd.
01.2018 - 10.2019
  • Creating and Maintaining Windows and Linux instances through Cloud and making sure all the AWS cloud instances are replaced whenever will get new AMI released by cloudOps team, so that they stay compliant
  • Keeping the Sonar server, Master Jenkins and Slaves up and running along with all the list of appropriate software and plug-in installed in them
  • Making sure all the build/deployment failures are rectified as soon as possible
  • Supporting the release days (usually Thursdays) till late hours to support the smooth release
  • Making sure the Oracle/Mainframe DB's gets refreshed and masked on time with less or no effect on the delivery schedule
  • Helping out other teams so that they are able to deliver before time
  • Keeping up with the latest tools like nexus for storing the artifacts, jar, ears etc to be hosted on cloud to deliver faster and provide more security.

Technical Lead – Build, Release & Deployment

Napier Healthcare Solutions (I) Ltd.
02.2016 - 09.2017
  • Working as an integral part of Build & Release team responsible for planning and implementing Build, Source Code management, Application support and process to Napier Products
  • Mobilizing resources from development and infrastructure team to coordinate migration, security and environmental issues from client environment
  • Work closely with operations team to ensure that Build successfully rolled out till production
  • Build release to Development, Testing and Client (CI & CD)
  • Co-ordinate with Development and Testing for Application support, DB support, Release, Maintenance Release, Emergency Release, Hotfix releases and Patches.

Professional I - Service Delivery Coordinator

CSC India Pvt Ltd
11.2012 - 02.2016
  • Leading a team of 9 member - Helpdesk, Build & Release team managing complex Enterprise Hospital Management System an end to end Health Care product for Mid & Large size hospitals catering to customers in Middle East, South East Asia, South Africa and India
  • This application developed using JAVA & Oracle Forms as front end and Oracle10g as backend
  • Ownership for various types of Releases as per schedule

Sr.Engineer– Release & Deployment

Binary Spectrum Softech PVT Ltd.
05.2011 - 11.2012
  • Worked as part of 4 member Build, Deployment and Release team managing CareEMR (Electronic Medical Records) an Health Care product, EMR Stands for Electronic Medical Records
  • All the details of the patient will be stored, retrieved and modified electronically, thus saving a lot of paper work and hassle when patient moves between different practices
  • This product is for Mid size hospitals catering to customers in Middle East, India & US
  • This application developed using DOTNET and SQL Server
  • Responsible for release activities between development & testing teams and releasing the product to sites and maintain customer's pre-production and production environments.

Senior QualityEngineer (Release Management)

iSOFTHealth Management India (PVT) Ltd.
12.2006 - 04.2011
  • Worked as part of 6 member Build and Release team managing eHIS– Hospital Information System an end to end Health Care product for Mid & Large size hospitals catering to customers in Middle East, South East Asia, South Africa and India
  • This application developed using JAVA & Oracle Forms as front end and Oracle10g as backend
  • Responsible for coordinating release activities between development team and operations team to release periodic feature enhancements and hot fixes as per the Release plan.

Education

B.Com -

Jamal Mohamed College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy
Duration: 1991 – 1994

M.Com - undefined

Annamalai University, Chidambaram
Duration: 1995 – 1997

PGDCA - undefined

Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai
Duration: 1994 - 1995

Skills

Project Management

Certificationtraining

  • ITIL V3 Foundation
  • ISTQB Foundation
  • Prince2 Foundation
  • Attended corporate training AGILE Methodology
  • Attended corporate training on Change Management
  • Attended corporate training on PMP

Technicalskillset

Windows, LINUX, Subversion, BitBucket / GIT, PVCSTracker, SPIRA Team, Bugzilla, Assyst, AWS, Jira, SonarQube, Jenkins, Nexus, Confluence, Oracle10g & 11g, MS SQL server, Oracle 10g & 11g Application Servers.(OC4J &Web-logic), Apache Tomcat, IBMWebsphere, Manual Testing

Timeline

Sr. Project Lead, App Dev - Microland Ltd.
01.2021 - 08.2022
Tech.Lead, DevOps, Config & Environments - Future Focus India Pvt Ltd.
01.2018 - 10.2019
Technical Lead – Build, Release & Deployment - Napier Healthcare Solutions (I) Ltd.
02.2016 - 09.2017
Professional I - Service Delivery Coordinator - CSC India Pvt Ltd
11.2012 - 02.2016
Sr.Engineer– Release & Deployment - Binary Spectrum Softech PVT Ltd.
05.2011 - 11.2012
Senior QualityEngineer (Release Management) - iSOFTHealth Management India (PVT) Ltd.
12.2006 - 04.2011
Project Manager & App Support Manager - Virtusa Consulting services pvt ltd.
8 2022 - Current
Tech.Lead, DevOps - ASM Technologies Ltd.
3 2020 - 10.2020
Jamal Mohamed College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy - B.Com,
Annamalai University, Chidambaram - M.Com,
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - PGDCA,
Sankar Natarajan