Balamurali Shankar

About Balamurali Shankar

Head of Digital Skills Academy - IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation Former Vice President - Cognizant Technology Solutions and IT Delivery Head at VFI SLK Services.( VOYA India)VFISLK is a joint venture between Voya Financials (NYSE- VOYA) and SLK Software (India). Prior to Voya Balamurali was managing large complex portfolios, business units and programs spreading across Applications and infrastructure at Cognizant. He has incubated few practices and delivery models in Cognizant Insurance practice.

Experience

1. Chief Knowledge Officer

   Iitm Pravartak Technologies Foundation

   Jan 2023 — Present · Chennai, IN

Education

• Great Lakes Institute of Management

  PGP in Business Analytics & Business intelligence, Analytics

  2014 — 2015

• DRBCCC Higher Secondary School - India

  +2

  1979 — 1986

• Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

  B.E, Computer Science

  1986 — 1990

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science

  1991 — 1993

Skills

• Business Analytics and Embedded Analytics
• Global Delivery
• Sdlc
• Software Project Management
• Solution Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Pre-Sales
• Offshoring
• Project Portfolio Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Project Governance
• Pmp
• Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Pmo
• Agile Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Outsourcing
• Resource Management
• Project Delivery
• Data Warehousing
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• IT Transformation
• Program Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)