VENKATACHALAPATHI KANAGARAJ
Chennai
Summary
Proven leader in technical project management and cross-functional team leadership, achieving significant cost savings and efficiency improvements at Barclays. Expert in project execution, risk management, and compliance, with a strong background in software engineering from Allscripts. Skilled in negotiation and issue resolution, consistently delivering projects that exceed expectations.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Vice President - Technical PM
Barclays
09.2019 - Current
- Technical PM for the execution of the Confirms decommissioning project, aligning with Barclays' 3-year plan, achieving 200k per annum cost savings in TCO, eliminating legacy technologies, and aligning the data to the authorized data sources.
- Collaborated across 15 different teams, communicated the project status in a timely manner, managed risks, and ensured the project met the timelines.
- Lead the technology governance and compliance for the legacy EUDA automation project for the Japan Structure Note Business, 15 structured notes trades, 33 external client notifications, and 26 lifecycle instruments.
- Enhanced compliance by implementing governance for two vendor projects, increasing efficiency.
- Achieved zero deployment failures for 2024, enhancing reliability by developing deployment guidelines.
- Bolt is a workflow automation tool across GMO, serving more than 450 mailboxes.
- Successfully led the critical delivery for the EWS to Graph API migration.
- Tech lead for ensuring the Sapience vendor tool follows the governance, and led the transition from TC02 to TC11.
- Tech lead for transitioning CRUD+ from Operations-driven to Technology stack.
- Technical PM for executing the SmartIQ POC: contract negotiation, planning, and execution.
- Leading tech priorities for vendor projects to improve on key metrics, including incident reduction count, deployment automation, and other tech debt activities, were successfully completed on time.
Expert Software Engineer
Allscripts
09.2009 - 09.2019
- Company Overview: Healthcare information Technology Company
- Lead Technical architecture, design and integration of multiple modules across Emergency Department Application
- Effectively played Scrum Master Role
- Team building, Client communication, Requirement gathering and managed key metrics within permissible limits
- Healthcare information Technology Company
Senior Software Engineer
Keane
01.2006 - 01.2009
- Company Overview: Global technology services firm
- Worked in Technology Center of excellence for a pharmacy system project
- Team building, Client communication, Requirement gathering
- Global technology services firm
Education
MBA - TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
ANNA UNIVERSITY
01.2024
BE - ELECTRICAL ENGINNERING
MADRAS UIVERSITY
01.2003
Skills
- Project management
- Software design, planning, and execution
- Issue resolution skills
- Recruiting and hiring
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Reporting, meeting minutes, records management
- Negotiation
Timeline
Assistant Vice President - Technical PM
Barclays
09.2019 - Current
Expert Software Engineer
Allscripts
09.2009 - 09.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Keane
01.2006 - 01.2009
MBA - TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
ANNA UNIVERSITY
BE - ELECTRICAL ENGINNERING
MADRAS UIVERSITY
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