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Venkatagiri Nagarajan
Technical Program Manager
Chennai
Summary
21 years of work experience in IT industry Started career at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and worked in Wipro and Infosys and have done various roles starting from software trainee to Senior Project Manager Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist Expertise in Project Management – Planning Multiple Projects, Monitoring Progress, Defining Governance, Managing Budgets, Risks & Mitigations, Resource Utilization and Stakeholder Communication A Highly accomplished leader with excellent analytical / problem solving / presentation skills, proficient in Planning and Executing Large IT Projects EXPERIENCE SNAPSHOT Currently handling responsibilities as a Senior Project Manager at Infosys in Enterprise Applications Services – Oracle Unit for a leading American Manufacturer of Home and Security Products Led offshore and onsite teams to facilitate regular interaction with client team in planning, delivering, tracking, and reporting of scheduled activities to Senior Leadership Strong Business communication skills – vast experience in engaging and communicating with diverse groups of end-users, client managers and technical architects. Mentor project team members and up skill them in both technical and process front Expert in managing resources, delivering solutions within SLA, and managing escalations. Working experience in Scrum & waterfall methodologies under several functional roles such as Developer, Technical Lead, SME, Business Analyst, Scrum Master & Program Manager Presenting RFPs and winning multiple projects. RECOGINITIONS Senior Project Manager for Oracle ERP Cloud Implementation Program at Infosys to bag Infosys Excellence Award for Best Project Execution Received ‘Most Valuable Player’ at Infosys multiple times. Received ‘Best Team‘ Award at Infosys for leading an Oracle Cloud Implementation Project for leading Media and Publishing Services Company Received frequent ‘Insta Awards’ for best team end-end management.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificates
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Johnson Controls
10.2020 - 02.2023
- Handled multiple projects within Oracle Cloud ERP such as Project FOCUS, Oracle Financials Cloud Implementation, Oracle Financials Cloud Support, Oracle EBS R12.2.5 Upgrade
- Effective communication & people management across multiple stakeholders and cross functional teams involved in project implementation under Agile methodology
- Timely assessment of risks and planning mitigation
- Efficient on-time delivery amidst pandemic, collaborating remotely across teams spread across geographic locations
- Scrum teams with 20 team members directly reporting along with client’s PMO team
- Reporting progress to senior leadership and handling of Governance meetings with senior leadership across organizations
- Project Staffing Management, Risk Assessment & Mitigation, Knowledge Transfer Activities Planning and execution
- Participation in resource & effort estimation for portfolio’s RFPs Projects Executed in Infosys as, As part of the Project FOCUS (, Consolidation and Unified Systems) implemented in Johnson Controls for Switzerland, Portugal and Belgium Entity handled the following responsibilities including
- Project Monitoring and Tracking of Client Deliverables using Atlassian JIRA
- Tracking Project Status with Functional and Technical teams
- Weekly status reporting to Project Governance Team and Quarterly status reporting with Senior Management Team
- Coordination with Testing Teams
- Tracking Change Requests end to end from requirements until production implementation in JIRA
- Hypercare Support Manager and tracking incidents and Service requests in ServiceNow
- Leading Enhancement Track and scheduling monthly production release with multiple teams including Build, Test , RUN and Business Operations team
- Managing Subcontractor Resources right from Sourcing to work delivery and effort approval in Infosys managed Subcontractor Management System
- Tribune Publishing – Peoplesoft to Oracle Financials Cloud Implementation
Senior Project Manager
Infosys Ltd
Chennai
06.2019 - 02.2023
Lead Consultant
Infosys
05.2014 - 02.2023
Project Manager
03.2017 - 09.2020
- For Peoplesoft to Oracle Financials Cloud, ARCS, RMCS Cloud Implementation Program handled the following responsibilities
- Managing team size of 20 functional and technical resources to deliver client deliverables as per milestones committed in the Project Plan
- Deliver Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Program as per plan committed in Statement of Work agreed between Tribune and Infosys – Mar 2017 until
Lead Consultant
Infosys Ltd
Chennai
05.2014 - 05.2019
BSA (Business System Analyst)
Motorola
- 08.2018
- Managing Hypercare Support and AMS (Application Management Support) of the Implemented Oracle Financials, ARCS Cloud – Account Reconciliation Cloud Service and RMCS Cloud – Revenue Management Cloud Service for Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the program from Feb 2018 until Sep 2020
- Incident and Service Request Management as per the agreed SLA levels
- Executing small projects whose effort is between 40 to 200 hours with agreed project team
- Level3 Communications – JDEdwards to Oracle E-Business R12.2 Implementation (, – Networks and Enterprise
Level3 Communications / Global Crossing
05.2014 - 02.2017
- Extensive Oracle E-Business Suite Experience in, since May 2014 across multiple engagements including Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 Implementation, Peoplesoft to Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2, Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.5 Upgrade.
Senior Consultant / Project Manager, As
Works
01.2012 - 04.2014
- Senior Techno-Functional Consultant and, Manager handled the below responsibilities in the projects executed while working in Wipro
- Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 to R12 Upgrade, Enable Leading Telecommunications Service Provider in US to migrate from Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 to R12 Upgrade
- Responsibilities:
- Creating, Tracking, coordinating, revisiting the plan as required, executing, and monitoring the project progress
- Coordinate all the stages of the project from requirements, testing to Go-Live
- Prepare weekly status reports and share it to the stakeholders of the project
- Document the risks and prepare risk mitigation plan
- Interact with all the stakeholders to determine the work priorities
- Managing the development team at offshore to deliver the requirements on time
- Support the team for any functional expertise required for the project activities
- Oracle E-Business Suite R12, : LMW Oracle 11i Implementation
Wipro
03.2011 - 04.2014
Project Manager
Wipro
11.2014 - 01.2014
Order Entry
Cisco
Libertyville
03.2011 - 12.2011
- As Onsite hire in US worked in Oracle R12 Implementation Program as Conversions Lead for 6 months and then moved to India in Oct 2011
- Responsibilities:
- Create Functional Specification documents with development requirements
- Create and update the BR 100 document in line with the Oracle ERP system
- Perform setups and changes to setups in the system to accommodate customer requirements
- Impact analysis of the legacy systems for the fitment into the global platform
- Analysis of all the 226 interfaces which involves both inbound and outbound from Oracle ERP system
- Prepare the systems for the CRP1 and CRP2 conducted in Penang with the Business users
- Managing the development team at offshore to deliver the requirements on time
- Prepare the weekly status reports and PMR reports to the project stakeholders., The Separation Project is focused on the Re-Org and Spin of the Mobile Devices business and the reorganization of Motorola into two distinct entities namely Mobile Devices and BMS (Broadband Mobility Solutions)
- Project Separation- Reorg is a global project that will implement the virtual separation of Motorola BMS and Motorola MD in Oracle ERP and work stream applications, allowing separate fiscal reports as well as all official documents to be generated by these applications
- The project is focused on assessing the impact to the external facing documents and make configuration changes to the ERP system to support the re-organization of Legal Entities
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understanding Business requirements and developing Customer Requirement and Technical Design Documents
- Impact Analysis for External facing documents like Purchase Order, Commercial Invoice, Pack list, Pallet Label due to the reorganization of legal entities
- Creation of common function to identify the new and old company names
- Development of Sales Order Conversion Program to convert internal sales orders
- Code Review
- Development of Unit Test Plan and performing Unit Testing
- Coordination with System Testing team
- Coordination with Customer and Onsite team
- Training & Coaching team members
- Status Reporting and Project Tracking, Oracle 11.0.3 –, , Purchasing and Inventory, PL/SQL, Optio, Toad 8.5, – HR IT
- Project Title: Cisco – HR IT – OHRMS R12 Enhancements
Architect
Wipro
03.2011 - 10.2011
Consultant , As Consultant
Gantec Corporation
07.2010 - 02.2011
- In US worked in Oracle R12 Implementation Program as Technical Lead for 6 months
- Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Implementation
- Enable Leading Mobile Phone Manufacturing Company in US to implement Oracle E-Business R12 for Financial and Supply Chain modules
- Responsibilities:
- Responsible for studying the business process followed in the distribution center
- Preparing the process maps for each of the process such as Procure to Pay, Plan to Build, Order to Cash and NPI
- Interacting with the business users in collecting the information related to the business process
- Preparing the business case and solution architecture
- Presenting the process maps and architecture to the stakeholders and business users.
Team Lead
Gantec Corporation
07.2010 - 01.2011
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
06.2002 - 07.2010
Functional Consultant
Oracle
Libertyville
11.2009 - 06.2010
- Mobile Devices Accessories business (Companion Product) in North America operates its Retail businesses sharing the ERP and EDI environment with CHS (Connected Home Solutions) Business Unit
- Due to Separation of Motorola into two business units, all shared environments will have to be split and migrated to one of MD owned ERP’s
- The EDI platform will be migrated to MD (Mobile Devices) standards
- The scope of this project is to split the shared environments and migrate to MD ERP
- It also consists of migrating customers from CHS to MD ERP
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Documenting business requirements; Data design and process re-engineering to fit with the
- Oracle system; Prototype new business processes; Design legacy data conversion; Configure
- Applications; Create test scenarios
- Development of extraction programs to extract customers and Open AR Transactions
- Created staging table to store the customers identified for migration and created insert script to load the customer information
- Customization of Sales Order Acknowledgement Report
- Modification of Order Import program to align to the new EDI 850 format
- Developed custom programs: (1) a program to send out updated software versions to entitled customers (utilizes the standard Oracle order API to create and book orders) (results in a mass shipment of the new software version to customers) (PL/SQL – 6000+ lines) and (2) a program to process a flat file containing inventory (INV) and bill of material (BOM) data into the open interface tables to load these items (utilizes the standard Oracle API for Importing Inventory, Items, Inventory Categories, and BOMs) (results in items loaded without users having to manually enter them into Oracle) (PL/SQL – 3000+ lines)
- Environment: Oracle 11i (11.5.10.1) – (Order Management , Purchasing and Inventory) , PL/SQL, Reports 2.5, Toad 8.5
- Motorola Mobile Devices
- Project Title : Motorola Mobile Devices – Project Separation – Reorg Phase
IT Analyst
TCS, Motorola Mobile Devices
06.2002 - 06.2010
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
07.2009 - 10.2009
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
San Jose
03.2009 - 06.2009
- The OHRMS Enhancements project involved enhancements made to the R12 Oracle HRMS system implemented in Cisco
- The enhancements were made to stabilize the R12 Oracle HRMS system implemented in Nov 2008
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understanding Business requirements (MD50) and developing Technical Design (MD70) document for HR Interfaces
- Interface Development for Core HR system
- Enhancements to Stock Vesting Interface
- Enhancements to LOA Interface (Leave of Absence)
- Development of Bulk Load Responsibilities program to assign responsibilities to users
- Unit and System Testing
- Assistance for System and User Acceptance Testing
- Training & Coaching team members
- Status Reporting and Project Tracking
- Coordination with Customer and Onsite team
- Environment: Oracle R12 Core HR, Payroll , PL/SQL, Toad 8.5
- Motorola – Government and Public Safety Business
- Project Title: G&PS Global Ship Commit and Integrity Project (Testing
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
Schaumburg
10.2008 - 02.2009
- The G&PS Global Ship Commit and Integrity Project involved enabling ATP (Available To Promise) functionality by applying ATP related patches in GEMS 11i instances for North America and EMEA regions
- The goal of this project is to improve FSSD (First Schedule Ship Date) accuracy and achieving 92% OTD (On Time Delivery)
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Impact Analysis of the existing customizations due to enablement of ATP functionality
- Developing test cases in the areas of Purchasing, Inventory and Bill Of Material (BOM)
- Unit and System Testing
- Assistance for User Acceptance Testing
- Training & Coaching team members
- Status Reporting and Project Tracking
- Coordination with Customer and Offshore team
- Environment: Oracle 11.5.8 Order Management, Advanced Pricing, Shipping Execution, Purchasing, PL/SQL, Toad 8.5, Oracle 9i
- Motorola – 1
- Government and Public Safety 2
- Home and Networks Mobility
Oracle, Techno-Functional Consultant
Apps
Schaumburg
03.2008 - 09.2008
- The Order Management Transformation Program of Motorola addresses business process transformation of Motorola’s Order Management (OM) and implementation of the same in Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2 environment
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understanding Business requirements and developing development requirements for Conversions and Interfaces
- Business Requirements Study
- Unit and System Testing
- Development of data migration programs to migrate items and pricelists
- Data migration from Oracle 11.0.3 systems to Oracle 11i system
- Data migration from Legacy system and Oracle 11i system
- Preparation of Unit Test Plan
- Training & Coaching team members
- Status Reporting and Project Tracking
- Coordination with Customer and Offshore team
- Environment: Oracle 11.5.10.2 Inventory , Order Management , Accounts Receivables, Purchasing , Advanced Pricing , PL/SQL, Toad 8.5, Oracle 10g
Functional Consultant and Business System Analyst
Oracle Apps Techno
Schaumburg
04.2007 - 02.2008
- The Networks and Enterprise BSA Resource Pool Project involves doing enhancement projects in Oracle Application used in Networks and Enterprise Business of Motorola
- This project involves collecting customer requirements and providing business requirements to the Development team
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understanding Business requirements and developing development requirements
- Preparing Technical Design for work requests
- Co-ordination with development team and prepare system test plan
- Modification of Terms and Conditions in Purchase Order Document
- Development of Procedure to update promise date in sales orders
- Assistance in Customer Acceptance Testing
- Status Reporting and Project Tracking
- Coordination with Customer and Offshore team
- Implementing Lite Projects in Production
- Knowledge Transfer to Production Support Team after implementation of Lite Projects
- Environment: Oracle 11.5.8 Order Management, Purchasing , Shipping, PL/SQL, Forms 6i, Toad 8.5, Oracle 9
Oracle Apps Techno-Functional Consultant and Production Support Analyst
Motorola
Libertyville
01.2005 - 03.2007
- The MDb(Mobile Devices) Oracle 11.0.3 Global Support involves providing enterprise wide support to Oracle Application used in Mobile Devices Business of Motorola
- This project involves working on problem and incident management which mainly focuses on issues related to production
- This also involves working on enhancements and bug fix
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understanding Implementation and Consolidation of requirements, and providing solutions for the issues raised by business Users, which includes Oracle Applications Setups, suggest workarounds and Solving Problem Tickets for Purchasing, Planning, and Engineering and Order Entry modules
- Provide techno-functional solutions to resolve Business requirements/issues
- Co-ordinate with team members and business to resolve existing queries/issues
- Enhancements to the existing reports and packages
- Understanding the User Requirements and resolving the problem and incident tickets created by the customer
- To create Standard Operating Procedures for all the problem and incident tickets
- Root Cause analysis of Problem Tickets
- Participate in Pre and Post activities of Planned and emergency downtime and disaster recovery
- Environment: Oracle 11.0.3 Purchasing, MRP, Engineering, Order Entry, PL/SQL, Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5, Toad 8.5, Oracle 8i
Functional Consultant
Motorola, Techno
Chennai
09.2003 - 12.2004
- IDEN
- Project Title: iDEN Oracle 11i Migration
- Oracle Apps, The iDEN Oracle 11i Migration project involves migrating existing 10.7 Manufacturing and Distribution instances to a common Oracle Apps 11i instance (version 11.5.9)
- The project involves development of data migration programs to migrate master data like customers, items, BOM, Item Categories etc and transaction data like On-hand balances, Open AR transactions, Open Sales Orders etc
- The project also involves migration of custom interfaces and development of new interfaces
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Business Requirements Study
- Unit and System Testing
- Development of data migration programs to migrate items , item categories , BOM , onhand quantity
- Data migration of customers , price lists and purchase orders from Oracle 10.7 systems to Oracle 11i system
- Building new interfaces
- Preparation of Unit Test Plan
- Report Customization
- Environment, Oracle 11.5.9 Purchasing , Order Management, Inventory, Bill of Material, PL/SQL, Forms 6i
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
Coimbatore
10.2002 - 08.2003
- Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) is a global player and leading manufacturer of textile machines
- The project involved implementation of Oracle Applications E-Business suite of products (11.5.8)
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Reports development & Customization in the following modules
Education
B.E - Sandwich Mechanical
PSG College of Technology
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Bharathiyar University
Skills
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Accomplishments
· Senior Project Manager for Oracle ERP Cloud Implementation Program at Infosys to bag Infosys Excellence Award for Best Project Execution
· Received ‘Most Valuable Player’ at Infosys multiple times.
· Received ‘Best Team‘ Award at Infosys for leading an Oracle Cloud Implementation Project for leading Media and Publishing Services Company
· Received frequent ‘Insta Awards’ for best team end-end management.
Certification
Scrum Master
Interests
Cycling
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Johnson Controls
10.2020 - 02.2023
SAFe Agilist
09-2019
Senior Project Manager
Infosys Ltd
06.2019 - 02.2023
Scrum Master
09-2018
Project Manager
03.2017 - 09.2020
Project Manager
Wipro
11.2014 - 01.2014
Lead Consultant
Infosys
05.2014 - 02.2023
Lead Consultant
Infosys Ltd
05.2014 - 05.2019
Level3 Communications / Global Crossing
05.2014 - 02.2017
Senior Consultant / Project Manager, As
Works
01.2012 - 04.2014
Wipro
03.2011 - 04.2014
Order Entry
Cisco
03.2011 - 12.2011
Architect
Wipro
03.2011 - 10.2011
Consultant , As Consultant
Gantec Corporation
07.2010 - 02.2011
Team Lead
Gantec Corporation
07.2010 - 01.2011
Functional Consultant
Oracle
11.2009 - 06.2010
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
07.2009 - 10.2009
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
03.2009 - 06.2009
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
10.2008 - 02.2009
Oracle, Techno-Functional Consultant
Apps
03.2008 - 09.2008
Functional Consultant and Business System Analyst
Oracle Apps Techno
04.2007 - 02.2008
Oracle Apps Techno-Functional Consultant and Production Support Analyst
Motorola
01.2005 - 03.2007
Functional Consultant
Motorola, Techno
09.2003 - 12.2004
Functional Consultant
Oracle Apps Techno
10.2002 - 08.2003
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2002 - 07.2010
IT Analyst
TCS, Motorola Mobile Devices
06.2002 - 06.2010
BSA (Business System Analyst)
Motorola
- 08.2018
B.E - Sandwich Mechanical
PSG College of Technology
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Bharathiyar University
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