Vijay Palanivel
IT project Manager
Coimbatore
Summary
Results-driven IT Project Manager with 15 years of experience in project planning, risk mitigation, and project leadership. Passionate about delivering high-quality work, driven and innovative, always seeking opportunities for process improvements. Attention to detail ensures organizational efficiency, while excellent communication and client-facing skills drive better outcomes. Building positive relationships with customers and stakeholders comes naturally, excelling in requirements gathering, scope development, and inventory coordination. Strong planning competencies adept at overseeing complex and high-value technical projects.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2009 - Current
- Experience in managing teams application development & support for an Insurance & Retail customers
- Portfolio consists of 100+ different technologized applications across multiple line of insurance business
- Application Restoration manager(Incident Management) across multiple towers to adhere the customer defined SLAs
- Managing Infra related projects like version upgrade, migration(lift &shift) and Disaster recovery management
- Ensuring on-time delivery, sprints planning, review estimations, validation of solution approaches and metrics preparation are part of daily activities
- Audit existing process, compliance, prepare demand overview, identification best practices, and implemented the same
- Conducted daily, weekly meetings, stand-up calls to track / plan release better, assessing risks, remediation plans are part of the routine
- 'Weekly Tech Connect' for early risk detection
- Conducted virtual interviews for new recruits, as part of GenC program in organization
- Project Experience: -
- App Migration: Conversion Admin policies to new platform, current state analysis - POC creation/execution, Rewire, lift & shift model, Rebranding, Decommission analysis /strategy planning
- Cloud Migration: Migrate Java services to AWS with enhanced features like secrets manager, ECS/EC2 to Fargate as a part of optimization with thorough performance testing for effective cost management
- Modernization: Enhancement/integration of legacy Mainframe apps with payment capabilities
- Infra Upgrades: DB2 upgrade, Dotnet migration, MQ upgrades, Legacy SFTP, Server upgrades, Java AWS migration
- Incident Management: Adhere SLA defined by customer, handle P1/P2/P3 outages and customer on time communication
- Infra related projects: Disaster Recovery management, Weekend Infra upgrade support management & Automated script validation of production applications
- Previous Projects:
- Panorama conversion / Rewire Client - MetLife Leading offshore delivery of this conversion project for Classic set of applications
- Panorama project involves Analysis of current design, plan policy conversion for ADMIN, auxiliary applications
- Proof of concept creation / AD hoc modules are part of this conversion project
- Rewire modules that still requires converted policies to be processed
- It has three modes of execution Lift & Shift, decommission & rewire
- Leading conversion work on all three modes for Classic application group
- Rebranding, Compliance - Metplato P&C
- Client - MetLife / FARMERS insurance Leading, coordinating offshore delivery of rebranding project for one of the P&C applications in the Classic group
- Project aimed to rebrand company name references in all kind of correspondence in the P&C application
- Forms, online screens, internal reports, email ids, address, hard coded reference of customer names are under scope of change
- DB2 Version upgrade: Managed DB2 version upgrade for 150+ applications across Retail & Classic areas of MetLife
- Deprecated function analysis, impacted modules, components across applications, Milestone tracker for lower & PROD region upgrades
- REXX tool was developed to replace the old version of DB2 loads with new loads which saved around 20% of cost utilization
- Dotnet & Windows version upgrade: Managed distributed application's version upgrade of 30+ applications with a revenue of $30K with clear planning from discovery till the migration
- Ensured no slip in production and no impact to Business
- Legacy FTP migration to Enterprise Hub: Managed the Legacy server migration of 1500+ Mainframe jobs to an enterprise hub server
- Detailed analysis of impacted servers across mainframe applications
- REXX routine was developed to identify the impacted JCL/PROC/Copybooks with legacy servers
- Phase wise planning & execution of $176K project without any defects
- Comparex utility migration to IBM FILEMANAGER Managed the Comparex utility migration to IBM Filemanager for 100+ complex jobs of $119K
- Derive the functions that are equivalent to the new utility & execute the project in crucial timeline in order to avoid end of life support of existing tool
- Compuware File-aid - IBM FILEMANAGER Migration Client - MetLife Worked as a senior developer, participated in detailed planning of this migration project
- Designed / Created REXX routines to scan and update control cards for utility migration for Retail set of applications
- Framed unit test strategies to ensure smooth migration to FILEMANAGER
- Application Restoration Manager Worked as Incident lead, Incident Manager & Application restoration manager in production support area to manage the daily batch trails of 300+ applications without any slippage to it's SLA
- Managed multiple P1/P2/P3 tickets with protocoled communication to customer & engaging technical & Infra teams towards resolution
Education
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - PHYSICS
SACRED HEART COLLEGE
HIGER SECONDARY - undefined
INDIAN MATRIC HR SEC SCHOOL
SECONDARY SCHOOL - undefined
INDIAN MATRIC HR SEC SCHOOL
Skills
Software development
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Project Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2009 - Current
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - PHYSICS
SACRED HEART COLLEGE
HIGER SECONDARY - undefined
INDIAN MATRIC HR SEC SCHOOL
SECONDARY SCHOOL - undefined
INDIAN MATRIC HR SEC SCHOOL
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
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