Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Project Management
Accomplishments
Additional Information
Spot Award for the Year 2021
Timeline
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TULASI KALYAN GAJJALA

Project & Service Management
Bangalore

Summary

Strategic and detail-oriented Solution Project Manager/Service Manager with over all experience of 13+ years of experience. Outstanding organizational, time management, planning, and problem-solving skills. Met all project deadlines Enthusiastic Service Manager eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in IT Industry . Dedicated IT professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Hardworking Project Lead with an exceptional commitment to exceeding client expectations. Engaging and friendly to manage work quality, key milestones and deliverables. Competent Project Leader skilled at team coaching and motivation. Proven success in meeting project deadlines, goals and objectives. Terrific interpersonal, problem-solving and organizational talents.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

SPM/ISM @GCOO/DDS/PRD

Societe Generale Global Solution Center
09.2023 - Current
  • As an SPM i have delivered 7 projects till date and 3 projects yet to be delivered
  • Develop a comprehensive project plan, outlining task timelines and resource allocations.
  • Manage project risks, issues and changes, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and successful project completion.
  • Build cross-functional teams and assign tasks, monitoring team member performance.
  • Establish clear lines of communication between stakeholders and ensure all stakeholders are informed of project status.
  • Develop and drive project governance, to ensure project is consistent with organizational direction.
  • Create project budgets and track project costs; monitor spending and provide financial recommendations.
  • Utilize project management tools and techniques to ensure objectives are met in a timely and cost effective manner.
  • Oversee resources and material procurement processes, staying current on relevant industry trends and regulations.
  • Manage client relationships and engage key stakeholders, both externally and internally.
  • Generate project reports and communicate progress updates to stakeholders and team members.
  • As an ISM i have 18 applications under me and i take the complete responsibility for those applications with full scope
  • As an ISM , i make sure the applications are complaint by all means
  • As an ISM , i make sure where the optimization is required
  • I plan the the changes by respecting the rules and plan for application major , significant changes by following the approval procedure
  • Planned and implemented quality assurance for all processes.
  • Provided various reports and perform special projects.
  • Created and distributed operational, billing, accounts receivable, profitability and trend reports.
  • Reviewed existing processes and procedures to provide efficiency recommendations.
  • Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
  • Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Proved successful working within tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment.
  • Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.
  • Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
  • Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
  • Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills while managing multiple projects.

Middleware Service Manager

Societe Generale Global Solution Center
11.2021 - 09.2023
  • Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
  • Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
  • Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
  • Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
  • Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
  • Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete projects on time.
  • Developed team communications and information for meetings.
  • Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
  • Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to supervisor.
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
  • Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.

Senior Manager

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
04.2015 - 11.2021
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
  • Maintained frequent interaction with senior management to measure goal achievement and determine areas of improvement.
  • Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
  • Held monthly meetings to create business plans and workshops to drive successful business.
  • Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Facilitated communication between internal personnel, contractors and vendors for project cohesion.
  • Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
  • Led server infrastructure development, quality assurance, staging and production systems.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
  • Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Designed, developed, modified and debugged programs.

Senior Consultant

Newt Global India Pvt Ltd.
11.2014 - 04.2015
  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Determined areas for improvement and implemented processes to alleviate problems.
  • Developed custom solutions based upon clients' strict requirements.
  • Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.
  • Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
  • Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions.
  • Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders.
  • Identified key areas in need of improvement and implemented plans to rectify issues.
  • Streamlined key process for entire department by implementing method to improve efficiency.

Software Engineer

Hindustan Unilever
11.2008 - 11.2014
  • Understand the business logic and Technical design documents
  • End to End configurations using AS2 on Sterling Integrator Interacting with external clients to make use of AS2 protocol for their business requirements
  • Exchanging the partner information with clients for the setup of AS2
  • On board the AS2 Trading partners
  • Creating flows and routing rules , performing testing with the client on Development Environment .
  • Basic understanding of EDI documents and translation Worked on EDI documents like 850,810,855 .. ,etc Handling priority Incidents reported by customers on message flow (Incident Management) .
  • Understanding the business standards EDI ANSIX12 and EDIFACT





Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

JNTU
Andhra Pradesh
09.2004 - 05.2008

Skills

SG Cloud Certified

Risk mitigation planning

Documentation and reporting

Requirements analysis

Product development

Project lifecycle management

Infrastructure development

Teamwork and Collaboration,Excellent Communication , Teambuilding

Unix , Linux

Sterling Integrator Admin

Sterling File Gateway Admin

Project Management

Project 1 : FTR Hub Migration from VM's to Cloud 


  • Understand the technical requirement of the project from the Product Owner and the Build Teams
  • Provided day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customers and the management
  • Planning the delivery of the overall program and its activities in accordance with the mission and the goals of the project with Agile Model(JIRA) and other activities
  • Planning calls with several clients to move the existing flows to new FTR Hub on Cloud
  • Assisted project team and clients by providing direction , input and feedback
  • Communicated with clients to set expectations for delivery
  • Constructed and delivered reports on project for Management
  • Recommended changes to the clients and management to enhance the project , appropriate .
  • Created changes on service now and present to the change review board to get GO for the migration

Project  2  :  AZDC Migration 


Scope : Create new configuration for external partner to send files SG using SET as  solution 


  • Setup regular connects with the external clients to understand the scope of work
  • Allocate skilled people to the project
  • Create JIRA cards and assign them to the team to track the status of the project
  • Track the project and update the status on a weekly basis to the management
  • Weekly connect with the external clients and project team to check the project status
  • Work closely with the team to fix the bugs
  • Present findings, requirements and problem statements for ratification by stakeholders and working groups
  • Identify and document any data gaps to allow change impact and downstream impact analysis to be conducted
  • Map the business requirements to the solution design using requirements traceability matrices (RTMs) and maintain through the project lifecycle


Project  3  :  Connect Express License Management 


Scope : To reduce the usage of IBM Connect Express product 


  • Provide overall strategic direction to minimize the license
  • Collaborate with retail team on marketing and promotions
  • Seek continuous improvement to reduce software expenses and make reporting processes more efficient and functional
  • Presenting the license overview to the management and take the inputs
  • Regular connect with GAM's and DSI's to take steps to reduce the license
  • Work to develop and understand the licensee’s perspective and convey these ideas to management to help create and maintain excellence in the overall customer relationship



Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 10 staff members.
  • Collaborated with team of 10 in the development of MTS.
  • Documented and resolved Critical Issues which led to Fruitful Results.
  • Successful in Infra migration to cloud .

Additional Information

  • Migration Projects
    Migrating Connect Express monitors from
    one server to another server from the
    scratch using IBM jar file CXCMD
  • Automation Projects Reducing the manual effort with in the project , automating tasks like SSL installation/renewal , Extract of Connect Express Monitor, Pushing the extract from one server to another . Majorly used Python .
  • Fixing Major Issues
  • Involved in fixing the major incidents related to File transfers .

    Other Intrests ::
  • Office/Learing new things along with
    regular work
  • Surfing/getting idea about new tools and technologies

Spot Award for the Year 2021

Received Spot Award for the Year 2021 , for migrating our Infrastructure to Cloud

Timeline

SPM/ISM @GCOO/DDS/PRD

Societe Generale Global Solution Center
09.2023 - Current

Middleware Service Manager

Societe Generale Global Solution Center
11.2021 - 09.2023

Senior Manager

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
04.2015 - 11.2021

Senior Consultant

Newt Global India Pvt Ltd.
11.2014 - 04.2015

Software Engineer

Hindustan Unilever
11.2008 - 11.2014

B.Tech - Computer Science

JNTU
09.2004 - 05.2008
TULASI KALYAN GAJJALAProject & Service Management