Hi, I’m
Venkatesh Kanakarajan
Delivery Manager
Summary
Accomplished project management professional with extensive management experience and a proven track record of managing large teams, delivering projects successfully, strong leadership & technical skills and looking forward to utilizing the expertise to innovate, lead big teams, run complex projects and contribute to organization success. Skilled in identifying opportunities for technological enhancements and implementing effective solutions. Adept at leveraging new tools and methods to solve problems and enhance productivity. Excels in adapting to fast-paced environments and driving technological advancements.
Overview
2025
years of professional experience
1999
years of post-secondary education
3
Certifications
Work History
LTIMINDTREE
Senior Manager
5 2022 - Current
Job overview
- Responsible for successful execution of projects in my portfolio, fulfilment of demands across multiple technologies quickly, increase LTIM headcount & grow business, handling escalations and help customer address pain points
- Guide project managers & leads and review each project ensuring all issues & risks are properly addressed
- Manage complex products and deliver as per schedule
TECH MAHINDRA LTD
Senior Technical Manager
06.2007 - 04.2022
Job overview
- Several contributions across multiple service lines starting with technical lead for a warranty system and playing the role of senior manager managing multiple projects across service lines and a strong team of 75+ resources
- Responsible for successful execution of projects in my portfolio and also ensure support teams adhere to the SLAs and help the customer run the business smoothly without any disruptions
- Guide project managers and review each project ensuring all issues & risks are properly addressed
- Publish the project details in dashboard to senior management every week
- Work with various business leads to gain insights about future projects and accordingly plan budget and resources
- Provide improvement plans for all support projects across business areas every quarter resulting in savings
- Fulfil resource requirements by working with resource management groups and conducting internal/external interviews based on forecast and urgent resource needs
- Lead key automation initiatives in CI/CD and AWS migrations
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
Project Lead
12.2004 - 05.2007
Job overview
- Lead the team for enhancements and migration projects
- Travelled to on-site (USA) for knowledge acquisition
- Decision making in choosing the technology when migrating and enhancing the application which helped to complete development faster and also benefitted customer as it eliminated infra & license costs
- Design and development
- Maintenance, creating test cases, preparing System maintenance technical documents, bug fixing
- Involved in designing the functional specification & coding for the test management product
CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING (C-DAC)
Member Technical staff
10.2001 - 11.2004
Job overview
- Several contributions across different projects which were all related to help customer digitize key documents including manuscripts, paintings, etc
- Develop applications that provide options to create libraries in different Indian languages
- The library is composed of several categories, which can include several sub-categories and resemble the form of a tree structure
- The user can create a library that can contain audio/video files, document files that includes various formats and images in the form of gif, jpeg and png
- Also allows metadata to be tagged for each file in different Indian languages
- Developed Image editor to edit the images with edit options like Crop, cut, paste, zoom, rotate, sharp and blur
- Also, provided options to select image from different sources like local hard disk, remote machine, internet or twain supported scanners
- Responsibilities include analysis, coding & testing of all these functionalities in multiple OS
BOX INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Programmer
04.2001 - 09.2001
Job overview
- Developed Inventory system that maintains all data pertaining to customers, vendors, products and also maintains invoice details, item receipts details and customer payments
- Involved in coding & testing using VB6, MS-access
ITEX INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Programmer
10.2000 - 03.2001
Job overview
- Involved in development of HIPAA project– Federal law in US to protect sensitive health information of patients
- Involved in detailed analysis to design and build the database
- Involved in coding & testing using Swing for GUI and JDBC for database connectivity
CCS INFOTECH LTD.
Programmer
10.1999 - 09.2000
Job overview
- Involved in development of e-commerce web site to sell computer related products and provide options like shopping cart, search options, bid options
- Involved in designing, coding & testing using ASP & SQL server
Education
Jerusalem College of Engineering
B. E. from ECE
Skills
People Management
Certification
SAFe Agilist
Accomplishments
- Successfully increased the head count to 89 within 6 months in my portfolio by fulfilling resource demands quickly across multiple technologies & roles.
- Proper planning for getting transition and successfully managed a complex DevOps project for a mobile application.
- Successfully executed digital projects with mobile and web technologies related to Vehicle Surveys and benchmarking data that won accolades from customer at the highest level.
- Successfully demonstrated POCs on JBOSS migration (from WAS server) which resulted in winning projects close to one million USD.
- Showcased our company’s potential to execute projects during business travel to USA that later helped us to win projects worth 5+ million USD.
- Transitioning the entire portfolio to Agile framework through various means.
- Discussed with multiple support teams to understand the time spent on manual activities, came with a plan to automate and executed it resulting in cost savings.
- Driven teams on automation initiatives with tools like Talend and UI Path.
Overviewofprofessionalbackground
20, Senior Manager, LTIMindtree, 75, 8000000, Java/J2EE, Mainframe, Informatica, BO reports, .NET, Angular, React
Timeline
Senior Technical Manager
TECH MAHINDRA LTD
06.2007 - 04.2022
Project Lead
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
12.2004 - 05.2007
Member Technical staff
CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING (C-DAC)
10.2001 - 11.2004
Programmer
BOX INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGIES LTD
04.2001 - 09.2001
Programmer
ITEX INFORMATION SYSTEMS
10.2000 - 03.2001
Programmer
CCS INFOTECH LTD.
10.1999 - 09.2000
Senior Manager
LTIMINDTREE
5 2022 - Current
Jerusalem College of Engineering
B. E. from ECE
01.1999
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