Hemanth Kanakagiri

Experience

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  IBM

  Sept 2006 - Oct 2008

  System Engineer

  Joined IBM as a Mainframe programmer, Lead the team that delinked the Financial system of IBM InfoPrint from IBM Global into Ricoh.Worked extensively on SQL on DB2 database. Maintained legacy databases and created the DB objects to create and maintain custom reports.

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  CSC

  Dec 2008 - Feb 2014

  Technical Analyst

  Joined CSC to continue my IT journey in mainframes. Simplified the support activities by creating ready checklists. Developed solutions using complex SQL queries and Excel macros to automate manual job execution and automated the regular financial reporting. Resulted in saving several hundred man-hours per year to the customer.

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  Entransys - Enterprise Transformation Systems

  Mar 2014 - Dec 2016

  Founding Member

  Pursued my calling and joined an Analytics start-up and experienced the risks and challenges of the start-up organization. Worked closely with the founder to build the organization. Wore different hats – Developer, Project Manager, Pre-Sales Consultant, Digital Marketing Strategist, Enterprise Architect, Data Science Practice Head, Executive Assistant to the Board and Driver.

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  YASH Technologies

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2022

  Manage Business Consulting in Manufacturing and Supply Chain. Program lead for Cloud Analytics platform implementation at fortune 500 organizations to enable Digital Manufacturing Pre-Sales Solution consulting to position digital technologies and develop innovative solutions to solve business problems. Primarily focusing on Data Science to provide Analytics solutions in Manufacturing and Supply Chain to large enterprises across US, Middle East and SE Asia geographies.

  • Manager - Business Consulting Group

    Mar 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Presales Solutions Architect

    Jan 2017 - Mar 2020
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  EY

  Jan 2022 - now

  Senior Manager - Digital & Emerging Technologies

  Portfolio Management in Digital Manufacturing to conduct transformation assessments and drive the implementation with hybrid team of external and internal consultants, architects and project managers. Work with various clients to design and build robust solutions using Industry 4.0 and drones technologies.• Strategic Assessment & Consulting: Spearheaded digital manufacturing assessments, identifying technological advancements essential for aligning with clients' digital strategies and long-term goals.• Demand Management & Prioritization: Collaborated with business to identify, prioritize critical technology solutions, including MES, energy management, predictive maintenance and digital twins.• Portfolio Management and Governance: Monitor IT Project Intake, Planning, and Delivery to ensure projects are appropriately defined, planned, prioritized, funded, resourced, managed, and governed to successfully deliver on commitments, achieving intended outcomes, on time and within budget.• Risk Management: Collaborate with stakeholders and project managers to proactively identify risks and develop risk mitigation plans, ensuring effective issue management• Outcome tracking: Manage and track the budget consumption with value delivered through periodic reporting to the business sponsors on the critical KPIs• Alliance Management: Collaboration with OEMs, key industry leaders and vendors to drive joint innovation for solution development and support project delivery• Industry 4.0 Implementation: Leading the Industry 4.0 practice, delivering solutions like MES, Energy Management, Predictive Maintenance, Digital Twins and Data Lakes for sectors such as Automotive, Pharma and Chemicals, etc.• Drone CoE: Driving adoption of drone and counter-drone technologies. Perform consulting, vendor benchmarking, and feasibility assessments to identify drone use cases across business functions Show less