Lakshminarayanan Venugopal

About Lakshminarayanan Venugopal

My career exhibits 20+ years of experience in Telecom Domain in GLOBAL DELIVERY with geographically distributed teams, project Management, stakeholder management, people Management and organization level workforce planning plus excellent communication skills, business reporting skills, negotiation and inter personal skills at all levels My experience includes managing large NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING teams spread across geographies. I am well versed with Cisco devices like routers, switches, virtualization devices, internet protocols, Layer 2 / Layer 3 Technologies and Network Management Products My development experience includes Microservices, Kubernetes,JAVA / J2EE technologies, UML, Design Patterns and UI design I have rich experience in Cisco Networking Configurations in MPLS, routing protocols like OSPF, BGP etc, Multi-Layer switching, Security configurations in Cisco routers, Catalyst Switches and Nexus switches My delivery experience includes AGILE methodologies, REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, Project Transitions, Business Models, PnL, SOW and SCHEDULE, COST, RISK Management and conducting project commit meetings and driving peer reviews. My team management experience includes TALENT BUILDING, motivation & rewards, APPRAISALS and with high focus towards delegation and developing leaders I have rich experience in business planning and workforce planning in Service Organization in IT Industry. I lead the workforce planning activities in Cisco account for HCL I have effective written and oral communication skills with proven expertise in report generation, information dissemination and analysis I have working expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning, R language and Android App development

Experience

1. Engineering Director

   Cognizant

   Jan 2022 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Engagement Delivery Lead

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science (MS), Software Systems

  2004 — 2006

• College of Engineering, Guindy

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Skills

• Performance Appraisal
• Requirements Gathering
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Distributed Team Management
• Project Planning
• Long-Term Customer Relationships
• Cisco Technologies
• Management
• Project Delivery
• Uml
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Machine Learning
• Agile Project Management
• Rally
• Data Analytics
• Project Management
• Network Management Applications
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Sdlc
• Android Development
• Descriptive Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Statistical Inference
• Requirements Analysis
• IT Service Management
• Team Leadership
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Itil
• Ooad
• Core Java