Harish Chandran

About Harish Chandran

With over 20 years of experience, I specialize in leading high-performing teams and delivering strategic technological solutions. At Wabtec Corporation, I drive initiatives in HPC and VDI infrastructure, engineering search tools, and software license optimization, all contributing to measurable productivity improvements and cost efficiencies. My role emphasizes collaboration with engineering and business teams to align technology strategies with organizational goals. My expertise spans cybersecurity, infrastructure strategy, and program management, with a focus on streamlining processes and implementing innovative tools. By fostering cross-functional partnerships and mentoring teams, I ensure the delivery of impactful outcomes. Passionate about leveraging technology to enable business transformation, I remain committed to meeting and exceeding organizational objectives.

Experience

1. Sr Engineering Manager

   Wabtec Corporation

   Jun 2020 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading a High performing team of Managers and Engineers to achieve business objectives and attain the targets as per business satisfactionLeading the Strategy & Architecture for the HPC and VDI On-Prem and Cloud infrastructure which has enabled the 40% improvement of design simulationsLeading the Wabtec Search tool strategy & building an Engineering Unified Search tool for Wabtec which indexes the engineering data from different Engineering systems which provides productivity benefitsDriving the Engineering software license optimization partnering along with Engineering functional teams to find cost opportunities by eliminating unused licenses & invest in licenses as requiredPartnering with Business to build a robust Lab Information management system and KPI Dashboard to facilitate business in driving lab efficiency and improving equipment utilizationIntroducing & driving adoption of remote collaboration & mixed reality technologies to engineering labs & Wabtec design engineers; delivering better solutions through collaboration and improving productivityLed the IT Project Management & Operations of OMRS – Indian RailwaysLed IT partnership with business for IT & network requirements for the Engineering labFinancial planning & managing budget, constrains, delivery timeline, reviewing risk log, issue log, P&L, PO, contract, RFP documents, technical proposal, BOQ; spearheading IT service processes such as Incident, Problem and Change ManagementPartnering with Business to develop long-term product plan, managing release planning cycles for all products, understanding products with their interrelationships to business and ensuring appropriate availability & stability to the businessReviewing the architectural & design specification and transforming business requirements to strategic and sustainable solutions

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Software Project Management
• Checkmarx
• Web Applications
• Scrum
• Devops
• Chef
• Agile Project Management
• Testing
• Rally
• Apache
• Pl/Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Linux
• Weblogic
• Integration
• Unix Administration
• Openid
• Vignette
• Jboss Application Server
• Project Management
• Program Management
• Sonar
• Liferay
• Flyway Db
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Toad
• Jenkins
• Software Documentation
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Struts
• Siteminder