SM SARAVANAN
Summary
Profile Summary Overall 20+ years of professional experience in Technical Program Management, Product Design & Development, Embedded System Integration & successful delivery of numerous software products across diverse domains. PMP certified and proven abilities in Project Management as well as People Management. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) & Advanced-ScrumMaster (A-CSM) and rich experience in software development life-cycle (SDLC). Trained in 6 Sigma as a green belt and familiar in NPI, DFMEA, APQP, DVP & R Processes. Having more than 2+ Years of International work experience (onsite at USA) as Project Lead & Project Liaison. Filed 4 patents (pending) on Electronics System & software Integration.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Amazon Sr. Technical Program Manager
09.2022 - Current
- Leading large programs with multiple stake holders to deliver the services & tools for publishing & validating accounting entries for financial transactions across the Amazon’s Ecommerce digital product landscape
- Led accounting automation program for recording the transactions of digital bundle promotions in order to for improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness and reduced the on-boarding time on various
- Amazon digital services from 18 weeks to 2 weeks
- Led standard integration program for accelerating digital subscription launches for diverse Amazon digital ventures and successfully achieved the adaptability to other marketplaces within a significantly reduced timeframe of 3 weeks, previously taking 12 weeks
- Coordinated with multiple cross fictional teams to ensure the software development compliance by surfacing the safety & security metrics and upgrading monitors & alarm systems
- Collaborated with development & Testing teams to create the missing testing frameworks and automate the end-to-end testing, resulting in a 70% reduction in the usual churn in QA cycle
- Partnered with QA team in identifying performance standards, measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly
- Established program governance, communication channels and escalation process, defined reporting cadence, published weekly workstream reports and executive summary dashboard highlighting wins, misses, issues & next steps
- Identified potential operational risks & roadblocks, developed mitigation plans and communicated to stakeholders proactively to remove barriers and obstacles that impact performance
Manager
Caterpillar, Engineering
07.2003 - 08.2022
- Managed many multi-year programs starting from Stakeholder Management, Requirement gathering & System design, establishing the project plan, estimation, sprint planning, assigning the tasks and feature review etc.
- Responsible for defining high level architecture, datalink messages (CAN / Ethernet), Operator controls (Joystick & Keypad) mapping, Software Specification Requirements (SRS), Software
- Development, concept design for UI/UX, PLC & HMI (Human-Machine Interface) Integration with
- ECU, Test bench (HIL) setup, test cases requirement for Quality Assurance etc.
- Lowered the warranty cost by 10% and reduce the unplanned downtime by predicting the failure by using Machine Learning model
- Automated the process of detecting the pitting & damages by using a Deep Learning Classifier and thereby cutting down the scrap cost $500k per year
- Led the new product launch programs of Rotary drill rigs in three market places to fill the gap in the product portfolio & improved the market share by 10%
- Applied Analytics techniques on machine data by using python & BI tools for troubleshooting
- Used Agile methodologies for Software deliveries & Waterfall for overall Program management
- Managed the overall schedule, execution and delivery of hardware & software with 100% quality
- Coached the team on agile methodologies and implemented the scrum framework to streamline the overall development process and ensured the incremental deliveries
Education
MBA - Technology management
Anna University
Chennai, TNBachelor of Engineering (BE) - Manufacturing Engineering
Anna University
Chennai, TNDiploma - Mechanical Engineering
Valivalam Desikar Polytechnic
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Management Institute
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) -
Scrum Alliance, Inc
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) -
Scrum Alliance, Inc
Skills
- Project Management :
- Agile - Scrum, Kanban & SAFe , Waterfall – PMP
- Soft Skills : Leadership, Team building, Training & Mentoring
- Tools : Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, JIRA, ASANA and Azure DevOps Power BI
- Tableau & QuickSight
- Analytics : Data Analytics, Data Visualization & Machine Learning
- Programming : Embedded C, Python & SQL
Timeline
Amazon Sr. Technical Program Manager
09.2022 - Current
Manager
Caterpillar, Engineering
07.2003 - 08.2022
MBA - Technology management
Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Manufacturing Engineering
Anna University
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Valivalam Desikar Polytechnic
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
Management Institute
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) -
Scrum Alliance, Inc
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) -
Scrum Alliance, Inc
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