Vijayakrishna PV
Chennai
Summary
IT Delivery Professional specializing in software development and data migration. Managed large-scale integration projects within telecommunications, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to governance standards through effective stakeholder communication and risk management. Contributed to successful decommissioning of legacy systems by leveraging advanced tools for reporting and incident management.
Overview
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18
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years of professional experience
Work History
Integration Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2025 - Current
- Project Title: Data migration Transformation Program
- Domain: Telecommunication
- Duration: Dec 2022 to Dec 2024
- Operating System: OpenVMS, ETL
- Programming Languages/utilities: COBOL, DCL, DTR Utility, ACMS, DEC Schedulers, Helix
- Database: Oracle 10G – SQL*Plus / Oracle RDB
- Led integration for FMCT (Fixed Mobile Convergence Transformation), managing configurations, coordinating multiple teams, and ensuring successful delivery of integrations.
- Managed integration landscape for applications and vendors.
- Collaborated with Solution Architects, Development, QA, Infrastructure, and Business teams to align integration efforts.
- Manages integration plans, schedules, and governance.
- Drives Interface Functional Assessments (IFAs) and integration approvals.
- Resolves cross-team blockers and integration issues.
- Monitors integration testing (SIT, E2E, Regression, UAT support).
- Delivered status reporting, RAID management, and stakeholder communication to maintain project transparency.
- Client: Virgin Media O2, UK | FMCT
Migration Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2022 - 12.2024
- Project Title: Data migration Transformation Program
- Domain: Telecommunication
- Duration: Dec 2022 to Dec 2024
- Operating System: OpenVMS, ETL
- Programming Languages/Utilities: COBOL, DCL, DTR Utility, ACMS, DEC Schedulers, Helix
- Database: Oracle 10G – SQL*Plus / Oracle RDB
- Description: Delivered enterprise-scale data migration initiatives as part of a major Business & IT transformation program, transitioning legacy IBM CUK and HP SMP platforms to NetCracker 360. Enabled successful decommissioning of legacy platforms and delivered high-volume data migrations for PAYM (~14M) and PAYG (~8M) subscribers across customer, billing, and usage domains.
- Responsibilities:
- Owned end-to-end migration delivery including planning, execution, validation, cutover, and post-migration stabilisation
- Led stakeholder coordination across business, IT, and multiple vendors ensuring aligned execution
- Governed risks, dependencies, CRQs, incidents, defects, and work orders to ensure delivery quality and data security
- Coordinated multi-vendor teams and resource plans to meet aggressive timelines and business milestones
- Created the migration model diagrams, which helped the client migrate a large number of subscribers (250K, 300K, 350K and 400K)
- Produced executive dashboards and MI reports with Power BI and Excel to provide insights for stakeholders
- Supported live production cutovers and incident management during migration events
- Utilized BMC Helix and JIRA for incident, change, and defect management
- Client: Virgin Media O2, UK | Data Migration Transformation Program
Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2019 - 12.2022
- Project Title: ACM – Agent Customer Maintenance
- Domain: Financial Service
- Duration: Jan 2019 to Dec 2022
- Operating System: Open VMS, AS/400, Synon
- Programming Languages: COBOL, DCL, DTR Utility, ACMS, DEC Schedulers, JCL, CL
- Database: Oracle 10G – SQL Plus / Oracle RDB, DB2
- Description: Delivered the quality BRD documents by analyzing and understanding the complex technical flow of Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores functionality and developing the code to migrate the database information.
- Responsibilities:
- Analyzed the WU (Western Union) Business Functionality with the help of ZDLC tools.
- Prepared technical functional documents.
- Delivered the BRD documents to Sales Force team for migration
- Conducted application walkthroughs for Business Analysts to clarify ASIS business functionality and addressed queries during application migration.
- Client: Western Union | ACM – Agent Customer Maintenance
Sr Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2009 - 12.2018
- Project Title: Health Net Inc. (Technical Release Management Office)
- Domain: Health Insurance (Healthcare)
- Duration: Jan 2009 to Dec 2018
- Operating System: Open VMS
- Programming Languages: COBOL,DCL,DTR Utility, ACMS, DEC Schedulers, CMS
- Database: Oracle 10G – SQL*Plus / Oracle RDB
- Description: Exclusive support on configuration management, scheduler operations, release planning, environment management and related activities. We support End to End Release & Implementation related technical, administrative, and managerial activities throughout the year. We also take care of complete strategic planning for large program implementations and operational execution. Handled the issues on installing & upgrading OpenVMS and RDB database software, Write DCL Scripts on daily basis, handled DTR and handling application issues
- Responsibilities:
- Created the Release SIT and UAT environments.
- Created jobs in required environments.
- Deployed code to SIT, UAT, and Production environments, troubleshooting defects and incident tickets while leveraging expertise in design, coding, unit testing, and system integration testing.
- Developed DCL routines to maintain DEC-Schedulers hierarchy and manage abort notifications, enhancing operational reliability. Maintained ST/SIT/UAT/PROD Env., (Configuration activity, scheduler creation, screen changes, moving component. Visio diagrams, disk space usage, and Scheduler entries and created automated DCL tools.
- Client: Health Net Inc. | TRMO – Technical Release Management Office
Education
Master of Engineering (M.E) -
MIT, Anna University
B. Tech -
PBR VITS
HyderabadIntermediate -
SGVRM Junior College
APS.S.C -
ZPB High School
APSkills
- Data migration
- Integration Development
- Release management
- Cloud Integration Tools
- Scripting & Data: Advanced Excel, Power Query
- Release planning
- Cutover coordination
- Program & Delivery Management RAID Governance Executive Reporting
- IT service management
- Integration governance
- Interface management
- Documentation management
- Delivery Methods: Agile/Scrum, Waterfall
- Stakeholder leadership
- Developing project plans
- Test engineering
- Estimating time
- Stakeholder management
- Robotic process automation
- Web application development
Personal Information
Title: Tech Lead – Projects
Disclaimer
Title: Tech Lead – Projects
Languages
English, Hindi, Telugu
First Language
Timeline
Integration Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2025 - Current
Migration Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2022 - 12.2024
Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2019 - 12.2022
Sr Developer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2009 - 12.2018
Master of Engineering (M.E) -
MIT, Anna University
B. Tech -
PBR VITS
Intermediate -
SGVRM Junior College
S.S.C -
ZPB High School