Karthikeyan Ramakrishnan

Experience

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  CSC

  Feb 2004 - Mar 2008

  Team Lead

  • Requirement Gathering and analyzing the User Requirements with a month’s visit to the SAG, US, Burbank• Preparing Use Case Diagrams, Object Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams using the SELECT tool• Preparing Software Specification• Developing and Unit Testing of all business functionalities as per the requirements document• Coding of specific modules and reviewing peer code as per audit requirements• Preparing Unit Test Plans and Unit Test Results• Integrating the whole Application and Performance Testing. • Deployment at Client site and Providing technical guidance• Database activities and report generation using Crystal reports 6 Show less

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  DXC Technology

  Apr 2008 - now

  • Client facing and status updates with Forecasting for future needs and participate in Business discussions for future projected Proposals with the client• Manage a team of eight at onsite to provide application support services for 85 applications spanning all the regions KP extends their services.• Responsible for reviewing and hiring employees at onsite for every opportunity of DXC business expansion from additional support requested by Kaiser• Build the team and ensure that they get rewarded in the appraisal process for the work completed during the year. Also, would be responsible for mentoring the team for career growth and provide them enough opportunities to self-grow. Recommend the resources for promotion to next level as per their appraisal review.• Collate and maintain DXC team’s performance metrics every month to present it to the Kaiser’s Executive Director and Directors for their review and feedback. • Prepare and present decks for the monthly governance meetings to the Exec Directors, Quarterly Business review presentation to the Kaiser VP.• Effort tracking for all the onsite and offshore resources and furnish the invoice to Kaiser for the services offered as part of the managed services.• Approve the timesheets of the resources on a weekly basis and acknowledge the leave requests of the resources• Mitigate the risks and plan for all the contingencies with atmost care and very quick response time as the healthcare services information are very data sensitive and secure. Responsible for maintaining the SOX/PCI controls for all respective applications and provide frequent reports. Show less Managed a team of 30 production support professionals and 8 ETL developers at offshore.•Define and manage scope, budget, schedule, priorities and risk throughout the multiple projects•Report promptly to management and business partners regarding critical outages until resolution.•Interact with infrastructure, release management, change management, QA, DBA and application teams.•Coordinate escalation and resolution of major service issues.•Manage off-shore, outsourced vendor to an SLA and execution of critical situations.•Discuss all production support aspects with application development management•Allocate resources to resolve problems/incidents.•Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for the scrum teams. •Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. •Track, escalate and remove impediments. •Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. •Track burn down, issues and progress in Rally. •Work with component teams to resolve issues.•Implemented Issues Tracking in Rally to effectively track impediments against user stories.•Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetingsLead technical trainer for Core Java and Oracle SQL in Computer Sciences Corporation since 2006 Show less • Was a team lead leading a team of four for the delivery of the data conversion from Legacy cobol to enterprise Oracle.• Technical solutions (Informatica and Oracle) on various issues in the form of Defects/Incidents/Deployments/Delivery• Design, develop and implement the informatica Sessions, mappings and workflows as per Business needs• Mentor the campus recruits on Informatica, Oracle and train them to be active contributors to the project development• Succeeded in the implementation of Agile Scrum methodology as a Scrum master too with the offshore team involving developers and testers and a Product Owner at onsite.• Provide inputs to the DXC Management for their Project Performance Meetings on the Data Conversion project• Timesheets, provide inputs to senior management for employee appraisals, reviewing the skills of possible recruits for open positions Show less

  • Professional Project Management

    Aug 2016 - now

  • Senior Professional

    Jun 2012 - Jul 2016

  • Professional: Application Development

    Apr 2008 - May 2012