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C Srinivasan Pillai

Portfolio Lead
Chennai,TN

Summary

Portfolio Lead with over 23+ years of successful experience in Program management, technology and Functional. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in IT industry.

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education
22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Engagement Portfolio Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
09.2018 - Current
  • Leading a major Portfolio for Walmart (Ecommerce) with a revenue of ~$50M per annum.
  • Brought in additional revenue of ~$8M to the base account revenue by showcasing our successful deliveries across the Finance domain (eg: FinTech Data Services and CILL programs).
  • Spearheaded several RFPs with multiple service lines and successfully converted them into contracts (few notable ones, Technology modernization projects, Tririga implementation, FinTech 2.0, Flash visualization) Account level initiatives.
  • SME (Subject Matter Expert) development – planned and implemented SME development framework (Functional & Technology) across the account to mitigate the risk of losing functional knowledge.
  • Learning champion - coordinated with Academy team to upskill & cross skill more than 100+ associates on niche skills such as Scala, Spark, Azure cloud.
  • Runners up, twice, in GPOY (Global Project Of the Year), in 2016 & 2017 (a prestigious organization level award across all regions for the best project) Organizational Initiatives & Certifications.
  • Actively involved in Diversity & Inclusion initiatives across RCGTH BU (Unconscious Bias training).
  • Performed Delivery Assessability for critical programs across RCGTH BU

Program Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
02.2014 - 08.2018
  • Handled multiple large & critical programs (SNE - $15M, CILL - $5M, Flash report visualization - $2M etc…). Played a Program Manager role taking full ownership of the program deliverables, operations and stakeholder management
  • Provided technology and business insights to optimize cost and enhance business value (Application rationalization, ChatBots (Automation), $32M annual savings in SNE program, BlockChain (Procure to Pay / RealEstate contracts), etc…)
  • Successfully executed projects using Managed Outcome, Fixed capacity based execution models, optimizing cost for customer and the organization
  • Certified in various Organizational Digital & leadership programs – DigifyMe, TechnoMaster, Automation (RPA), AI/ML, CCPM
  • Streamlined Forecast process (templatize across portfolios) to provide more accurate forecast to leadership and organization systems
  • Margin Improvement plans – optimize cost and improve revenue opportunities

Program Manager

Computer Sciences Corporation
Dubai
08.2011 - 05.2013
  • Played a Program Manager role for Emirates Airline and managed multiple projects for external airlines with size over AED 2.5 million (approx.1700 PDs of effort).
  • Performed cost benefit analysis / ROI to provide business case on product enhancements.
  • Handling diversified customer base and managing their expectations to deliver a quality product.
  • Performed budgeting and forecasting for multiple projects.
  • Established an excel based tool for forecasting and tracking effort & cost across projects.
  • Performed a role of scrum master (Agile).
  • Reported monthly status & progress to Vice President (IT).

Project Manager

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
08.2010 - 07.2011
  • Client: PepsiCO, Team size: 21
  • Devised statistical process controls to monitor process and determine variations to take any corrective / preventive actions (eg: Control charts).
  • Instrumental in setting up factory model to handle production support & operational projects.
  • Received customer satisfaction rating of 6.5 / 7.
  • Customer appreciated the communication and risk management skills.
  • Received “Best Project Manager Award” from Service Line.

Project Leader

Wipro Technologies
Chennai
09.2006 - 07.2010
  • Client: IATA, Project: AMS, Team size: 26.
  • Implemented process models to stream line maintenance operations (release process, incident management process & change request management).
  • Metrics tracking - maintenance metrics such as NOTI, Rejection Index & back log index were tracked.
  • Implemented Knowledge management to capture transitional knowledge.
  • Participated in numerous proposals for IATA and other programs.

Sr. Developer, Technical Lead, Consultant and Technical Architect

Unique Computing Solutions, SmartEnergy Inc
Boston / Albany (US)
06.2000 - 07.2006

Worked in United States for 6 Years (Jun 2000 to July 2006) for Unique Computing Solutions, SmartEnergy Inc., & SoftwareArt – taking up diverse roles such as Sr. Developer, Technical Lead, Consultant and Technical Architect

Developer

Transformation Systems Ltd
Chennai, India
11.1997 - 05.2000
  • Building eCommerce sites such as Yelam.com, VacationLink and AssetTracker.

Education

PGPM - Entrepreneurship

Indian Institute Of Management (IIM)
Kashipur
09.2017 - 12.2017

ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT -

Indian Institute Of Science (IISc)
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 12.2015

Certified Scrum Master - Agile Methodology

Scrum Alliance
10.2013 - 10.2013

PMP - Project Management

Project Management Institute
04.2006 - 04.2006

SCJP (SUN CERTIFIED JAVA PROGRAMMER) - Technology

Sun Microsystems
09.1999 - 09.1999

B.E (COMPUTER SCIENCE) -

SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGG., MADRAS UNIVERSITY
06.1993 - 05.1997

Skills

Portfolio, Program and Project managementundefined

Accomplishments

  • Digital Transformation – RFPs (participated in several proposals to transform legacy systems into Digital business. Few of them listed below).
  • FP&A Legacy modernization.
  • RPA & ChatBot – enable automation of Financial & HR operations (using UIPath).
  • SOA enablement – exposing data as a service (abstracting legacy data using REST APIs / Microservices).
  • Cloud enablement – migrate legacy applications to Microsoft Azure cloud (PaaS).
  • Proof of Concept – managed couple of PoCs to transform business and optimize cost.
  • IoT – Deciphering legacy control systems & Data extraction.
  • Hyper-personalization – Persona based systems.
  • Data Visualization – dynamic reporting using ReactJs.

Timeline

Engagement Portfolio Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2018 - Current

PGPM - Entrepreneurship

Indian Institute Of Management (IIM)
09.2017 - 12.2017

ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT -

Indian Institute Of Science (IISc)
06.2015 - 12.2015

Program Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 08.2018

Certified Scrum Master - Agile Methodology

Scrum Alliance
10.2013 - 10.2013

Program Manager

Computer Sciences Corporation
08.2011 - 05.2013

Project Manager

Wipro Technologies
08.2010 - 07.2011

Project Leader

Wipro Technologies
09.2006 - 07.2010

PMP - Project Management

Project Management Institute
04.2006 - 04.2006

Sr. Developer, Technical Lead, Consultant and Technical Architect

Unique Computing Solutions, SmartEnergy Inc
06.2000 - 07.2006

SCJP (SUN CERTIFIED JAVA PROGRAMMER) - Technology

Sun Microsystems
09.1999 - 09.1999

Developer

Transformation Systems Ltd
11.1997 - 05.2000

B.E (COMPUTER SCIENCE) -

SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGG., MADRAS UNIVERSITY
06.1993 - 05.1997
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