VANITHAKUMARI KRISHNAN
CHENNAI
Summary
Engineering excellence leader with expertise in building a strong, motivated technical capability consistently deliver high-quality results against challenging targets with agility. Focus on continuous improvements and recommending measures to improve productivity. Strong in diverse technology in building SAAS products with customer eye vision and ROI. Seasoned Head of Human Resources with significant experience in strategic planning, employee relations, and talent management. Possess strong leadership skills, adept at fostering a positive work environment while driving organizational growth and performance. Notable achievements include successful implementation of innovative HR programs and initiatives that have significantly improved employee engagement and productivity levels.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Head Salesforce Capability Lead
Barclays
Chennai
01.2020 - Current
- Heading HR Technology India and accountable for all deliverables.
- Heading DEI technology delivered key initiatives on Veterans, diverse slates, and pools in Taleo, GSAP, and Data.
- Heading Salesforce Capability Lead in last 2 years building a strong Salesforce capability and delivering multiple solutions in Functions Technology in a highly secure control environment.
- Delivered data warehouse and data analytics projects successfully meeting all the Non-Functional requirements and made Go-Live in 3 months.
- Build innovation capability team contributing COVID chatbots supporting task force team.
- Drove business outcomes and strong employee engagement through the implementation of a new community portal for colleagues to raise HR queries and multiple Function technology service lines to consume the services.
- Drove Engineering Excellence for all HR applications winning 2 consecutive engineering excellence awards for reducing lead time and automation in CI/CD and testing.
- Collaborated with multiple business and functions technology stakeholders in matrix model.
- Facilitate Steer Co bi-weekly calls and monthly Business's forums. Challenged the status-quo to do the right things.
- Done several POCs in Salesforce engaging different business model/EUDA migration to CRM solution.
- Advocated for employee needs and benefits, promoting engagement, transparency, and interactive communication.
- Led initiatives to foster positive employee relations, workforce engagement, and inclusive work culture.
- Mentored and coached cross-portfolio team members to improve job performance and guidance to meet career goals and objectives.
- Supporting on the data engineering platform formation for functions data platform across functions technology.
Head of IOT Technology
TCL, Tata Communications Limited
Chennai
11.2018 - 11.2019
- Identifying and implementing strategies for building team effectiveness by promoting a spirit of cooperation between multiple teams across India Location
- Monitoring the Challenging Project in delivering the Application with High Scalability and Availability for multiple IoT Products SMART Light, SMART Metering, and Safety Devices development based on Java-based technologies (Spring, Kafka, microservices, docker)
- End to End Support for the Delivered IOT Solution to the Customers
- Collaborating with stakeholders while keeping them informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all requirements and deliverables
- Organizing/ participating in project review meetings for evaluating project progress & de-bottlenecking
- Managing project baselines and controlling them with respect to cost, resource deployment, time over-runs, and quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects.
- Enabled real time monitoring system and alert notifications for SMART lights,Smart Watch,SOS programs.
- True agile implementation on MVP to GTM headed the SMART badge ,SMART Lights execution right from POC to deliverable to customer in 6 months time.
Director of Technology & Software Role
ELI India
Chennai
10.2015 - 08.2018
- Directed the Engineering Teams across multiple regions in India & US in delivering MVP using Agile Process targeting for the highest NPS score
- Contributed as:
- Key Data Analytics Architect and built the Provider Analytics Dashboard and Unified Platform for multiple products focused
- Heading the Chennai Division in the COO role.
- Met the KRAs in delivering the quality deliverables on time and performed multiple POCs and design thinking
Associate Director
ISGN
Chennai
10.2013 - 08.2015
- Headed the Mortgage multiple technology-based BU Products having around 150 Engineers overall 12 Scrum teams
- Engaged in completing multiple POCs in the NexGen Product Initiations
- Initiated & completed the AWS Migrations and Integrations of existing Legacy Products
Program Manager, .NET Architect
Samsung India
Chennai
07.2011 - 10.2013
Project Lead / .NET Architect
IBM India
Chennai
07.2009 - 07.2011
NET Technical Lead
with Accenture
Chennai
02.2004 - 03.2007
Program Engineer
Wipro
Hyderabad
04.2003 - 02.2004
Technical Lead
Indchem
Chennai
08.2002 - 04.2003
System Executive
NIIT
Chennai
03.2000 - 08.2002
Education
Advance in Data Science Technology - Data Science
IIT Madras
Chennai07.2022
Leadership Skills – HBS Online - Leadership Skills
HBS
01.2021
PG-BABI -
University of Texas
01.2019
MCA -
University of Madras
01.2002
GNIIT -
NIIT
01.2001
B.Sc. - Physics
Anna Adarsh College for Women, University of Madras
01.1999
Skills
- Strategy Planning, Stakeholder Management, Project & Program Management, Motivational Leader, Change Agent Decision Maker
- Team building ,collaboration and Leadership -Collaborator Planner, Effective communicator
- Architecting of Descriptive, Predictive data analytics and Cloud hosted Product Development & Designing
- SAAS Products - AWS – S3, EC2, Kinesis, IoT, Lambda, Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS SQL Technology Selection & Management Server, PostgreSQL, Integration with Mule ESB, Java Spring Boot, Kafka
- Latest UI Frameworks - Angular Ember JS, React JS HTML5/CSS3, Vendor Negotiations
- Bootstrap & Mobility Effectively Optimized and automated the DevOps Process using Docker and POCs in Kubernetes Web/ SAAS Application Development
- Transforming monolithic to microservices architecture using Java/NET technologies
- SQL SSAS, Qlik Sense, Tableau, Power BI, R Programming, Predictive Solution Architecture
- Data Modelling, SQL SSIS, ETL, Jasper Reports, SSRS, Google Analytics
- OLTP/OLAP using SQLServer
- Performance Evaluation
- Open-Source Databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL NOSQL MongoDB
- Design Tools: Rational Rose and Visio
Timeline
Head Salesforce Capability Lead
Barclays
01.2020 - Current
Head of IOT Technology
TCL, Tata Communications Limited
11.2018 - 11.2019
Director of Technology & Software Role
ELI India
10.2015 - 08.2018
Associate Director
ISGN
10.2013 - 08.2015
Program Manager, .NET Architect
Samsung India
07.2011 - 10.2013
Project Lead / .NET Architect
IBM India
07.2009 - 07.2011
NET Technical Lead
with Accenture
02.2004 - 03.2007
Program Engineer
Wipro
04.2003 - 02.2004
Technical Lead
Indchem
08.2002 - 04.2003
System Executive
NIIT
03.2000 - 08.2002
Advance in Data Science Technology - Data Science
IIT Madras
Leadership Skills – HBS Online - Leadership Skills
HBS
PG-BABI -
University of Texas
MCA -
University of Madras
GNIIT -
NIIT
B.Sc. - Physics
Anna Adarsh College for Women, University of Madras
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