Sankar Ganesan

About Sankar Ganesan

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt professional, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Project and Program Manager (PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner), SAFe certified Scrum Master and Agile Scrum Master (ASM) with a demonstrated history of working in the service industry. Skilled in Process Transformation, Product Development, Product Design, Change Management, and Business Development.

Experience

1. Manager Agile Program Management

   Publicis Sapient

   Sep 2022 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Leading cross-functional Digital Transformation teams. This includes overseeing burn rates, resourcing across concurrent work streams, and delivering strong margins for the CP account and company.• Managed project delivery across various Creative and Technology tracks, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Drupal CMS, SAP Gigya, and UI/UX. • Coached Technology and Creative teams to reach higher levels of Agile maturity. • Managed cross-functional teams comprising UI/UX, Developers/Architects, DevOps, Support, QA, Content Authors, and Project Managers for delivery across design, development, and platform roll-out/localization. • Oversaw the development of a Master brand website and its roll-out/localization across several countries and several languages. This effort received multiple appreciations from individual SBU Leads and markets. My strong PM skills were widely praised in the yearly Agency Appraise report from SBU Leads. • Built stronger SBU and Market relationships, leading to a more robust working partnership. • Established and maintained Governance Models and Ways of Working in a multi-agency model. Developed a strong RACI to keep accountability across multiple agency stakeholders, which facilitated the smooth execution of master development and the roll-out/localization of brand websites. • Developed a product pipeline with Product, Strategy, and Development teams, along with Client’s Strategic Business Unit leaders. • Managed project risks and assumptions through RAID Trackers and JIRA Dashboards, providing intermittent executive status reports and creating contingency plans to keep project timelines and budgets on track. • Managed the development of individual market web/digital campaigns simultaneously to enable market growth and enhance their marketing outreach.

Education

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

  2007 — 2009

• Sethu Institute of technology (Anna University)

  BE, Electronics and Communication

  2003 — 2007

• Sathyabama University

  Mtech, VLSI Technology

  2010 — 2012