Babu Ramanathan

Experience

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  Rosemount

  Aug 1989 - Jul 1992

  Project Engineer

  Project Engineer

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  Yokogawa

  Aug 1992 - Jan 1997

  Senior Project Engineer

  Worked on the end to end Project Management for Centum-CS (Distributed Control System) system specific to Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS). Got deputed to work at Yokogawa, Japan.

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  Invensys

  Feb 1997 - Jul 2000

  Lead Engineer

  Lead Engineer for the world’s largest grass root refinery project at Jamnagar. Got deputed to work at Invensys, US. Completed the first Six Sigma Project as a Black Belt (as part of the certification) in Australia.

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  Wipro Limited

  Aug 2000 - Mar 2009

  General Manager

  Heading the Office of Mission Quality, Risk & Operational Excellence for the BFSI Strategic Business Unit (3 Verticals): Banking & Financial Services, Securities & Capital Market and Insurance. Additionally was also responsible for BTS (Business Technology Services (e-Enabling) across Wipro (Horizontal Practices) - Business Intelligence and Data-warehousing, Microsoft, Portal and Content Management, SOA BPM and Enterprise Securities Services. Significant contribution to 3 Mergers and Acquisitions involving end-to-end work from Due Diligence, Integration with QMS, Onboarding and Transitions, etc. Was also responsible to drive end to end cost of delivery optimisation across all the strategic business delivery units. POC role to end to end manage one of the global banks for their captive (GCC) on a BOT mode of engagement (ramped up from 0 to 1500 people). Delivered governance with visibility to engagement performance with clearly defined KPI’s, implemented in-house product to measure data of the engagement performance, conducted management reviews, deployed continuous improvement initiatives using Six Sigma, Lean and Other global standards of excellence. Show less

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  Ciber Global

  Apr 2009 - Dec 2010

  Senior Vice President

  Enterprise Global Head: Quality Management Office & Information Security, Risk and Compliance OfficeExtensively worked with Ciber US for Ciber Worldwide process roll-out (ISO, ITIL, CMMI).

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  Tesco

  Jan 2011 - May 2011

  HPD and India IT Leadership Member

  Heading the Quality & Program Management Office, Vendor Management Office. Provided global leadership support in driving quality process governance (using a common framework: IT Way) and optimization across Tesco Worldwide, delivered value using JIT engagement model to drive vendor relationship (outsourcing and establishing seamless supply chain of resource).

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  Polaris Consulting & Services Ltd

  Jun 2011 - Dec 2012

  Senior Vice President

  Responsible as the Custodian for Quality (QMS, ISO, ITIL, CMMI, Agile), Risk Office and Customer Experience for the Services Organization, the Products Organization (Intellect - Banking Product), the various Geographies (North America, MEA, Europe and APAC), and the office of Business Process Engineering. Worked closely with customers (global bank’s) captives (GCC) to manage their end to end program deliverables as per the contractual commitments and owned the NPS. Managed the QBR’s of customers to ensure periodic performance discussions are governed. Show less

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  UST Global

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2020

  General Manager

  During my tenure with UST Global, my primary responsibility was Customer Success. Customers were: Global Banks, Healthcare, Retail, Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Logistics and Transportation, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive and Hi-Tech. My significant value add during my tenure was to work closely with the global capability centres of our clients to make sure we ensure non-disruptive management of our commitments to achieve smooth transition and on time every time delivery expectations. Roles that I performed are (1) Business Head to manage Consulting with P&L, (2) GCC management, (3) EBITDA Management with focus on Delivery Cost Reduction, (4) Enterprise PMO product implementation (SaaS Product: Digite’s Swift ALM), GRC across the enterprise, Process Excellence - QMS ownership, ISO, ITIL, CMMI, Agile custodian), Delivery Assurance, Customer Success and Management Representative for Quality and Delivery. Business Consulting focus was to directly work with customers (and their GCCs) to solve their business challenges and specific focus areas that require optimisation and digitisation using deep subject matter expertise, advanced design thinking solutions & frameworks, leveraging smart automation suites, easy product plug-ins and intelligent digital plug and plays. I was also a technology leader for developing the collaborative platform & leading the product development team for automation and digitization. GCC Management and oversight: Worked closely with the global capability centres of clients (setting up the end to end process of customer onboarding, talent pool management & monitoring, tracking and reporting of performance of engagements against committed KPI’s, & end to end governance, risk and compliance management, staff augmentation, management reviews, and NPS ownership). Winner of "National Quality Excellence Award" for “Planning, Processes and Systems”. Show less

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  SimpliContract

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2021

  Vice President

  Business Development (P&L Management) & Strategy:Build and manage partnerships in North America to Go-To-Market for the SaaS product SimpliContract (a Contract Lifecycle Management Product, with AI, ML, NLP capability). Contract Assurance Domain.

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  Braintree HR Consulting, INDIA & TexasSoft Technology, USA

  Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

  President & Chief Operating Officer

  New Client AcquisitionsBusiness GrowthOverall Operations

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  SimpliGrow IT Solutions and Services Pvt Ltd

  Jun 2022 - now

  Founder and CEO

  Client AcquisitionsPartnerships and Alliances