Santhosh Ravindran

About Santhosh Ravindran

Overall 18 years of Experience in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & BigData technology with Insurance Domain (Life & Annuities) knowledge acquired across the major insurers in the USA market by servicing at Offshore and Onsite.• 5+ years of experience in program management role for multiple projects/programs• 8+ years of experience in project management for Big Data, Data Warehousing - Application Development, Maintenance and Production Support area to manage deliverables across diversified and remote teams• Executed below Transformation projects, i)Legacy modernization - Mainframe to Cloudera Hadoop offloading migration project ii)Technology transformation Java and Message Queues to PLSQL migration project Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle PLSQL conversion project• Experience in agile methodologies and tracking status using JIRA tool• Effectively track and communicate program status to senior management and stakeholders using project management tools from Microsoft and QlikView dashboards• Experience in resource and operations management• Executed Data projects proposals & derived estimation• Managed BigData and Business Intelligence Proof of Concepts• Experience working in a multi vendor engagement model• Good communication skills (interpersonal, verbal, presentation written, email)• Impressive handling of different projects across various line of business by prioritizing and managing effectively• Good exposure in handling diversified remote teams and stakeholders globally• Experience in interacting with global customers / stakeholders• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams• Comfortable working with business leaders at all levels, including senior management• Involved in post divestiture separation and transition management work of few major insurers

Experience

1. Program Manager

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Jan 2020 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Playing Program Manager role for multiple projects related to Enterprise-wide upgrades, EoL - Hardware and Software. • Responsible for execution of program deliverables and tracking of program health• Lead the coordination & execution of assigned Technology projects/workstreams, including Project Planning, Project Delivery, External Partner/Vendor engagement & relationship management.• Experience in managing senior resources and project deliverables with providing regular project updates & status reviews to stakeholders.• Act as a liaison between business, vendor/solution provider, and customer groups, using communication skills to elicit, document, analyze and validate requirements.• Familiar with processes, tools and metrics related to project/program management• Review/update MOM’s and action logs, dependencies, assumptions• Setting up and leading governance, tracking timeline & milestone• Creating Project Charter, Project Plan, RACI matrix and other necessary artifacts• Manage project/program level risk/issues and ensure mitigation• Forecasting, creating, managing budgets and resources.• Manage changes to the project/program scope, schedule and costs using appropriate techniques

Education

• Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2002 — 2006

• Nadar Saraswathi Boys Higher Secondary School, Theni

  Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

Skills

• Business Objects
• Pl/Sql
• Business Intelligence
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Quality Assurance
• Production Support
• Sql
• Proof Reading
• Software Project Management
• Sap Businessobjects
• Business Analysis
• Databases
• Team Leadership
• Requirements Gathering
• Xml
• Informatica
• Onsite-Offshore Delivery Model
• Team Management
• Unix
• Customer Oriented
• Etl
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Core Java
• Testing
• Dependable Team Player
• Data Warehousing
• Sdlc
• People Skills
• Software Development
• Pagination