Kumarswamy Chandrasekharaiah, PMP

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Nov 2000 - Dec 2007

  Led the Development program for JP Morgan Chase to develop a common Transaction Approval System for Overdrafts as a result of the merger between JP Morgan and Heritage Chase bank. • Was initially involved as a role of a Onsite Coordinator to manage the initial phase of the program which was prestigious project for TCS which would potentially open the gates for other transformational projects for TCS• Moved to offshore and officially took over the role of a project manager and managed the offshore delivery team for delivering future phases Successfully managed the development of a Hedge fund Management project for JP Morgan –• Led the pre-sales process from delivery side in opening of new account• Was involved in role of Overall account anchor from delivery for the account• Delivered multi-country ongoing support and enhancements Show less Started my career as a mainframe developer for the initial 1.5 years, performing migration from IMS to DB2 using PL/I for a Swiss Telecom provider - Swisscom.Was a key personnel in the Support and Enhancement team for the Single Sign On project for American Express account (AMEX). Later started playing the role of a Senior Developer handling development projects for AMEXLater was elevated as a Tech Lead @ Onsite location and started playing the role of an Onsite Coordinator for AMEX and JP Morgan projects.Was involved in the complete life cycle of the project starting from Requirements Gathering, Design, Development, testing, UAT support and Post Production support activities.Was exposed to various functional areas involving Telecom operations, Managing Security, Access Identity and Access Management. Acquired expertise in Java development using Core Java, Servlets, JSP, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Mainframe etc. Show less

  • Assistant Consultant

    Mar 2005 - Dec 2007

  • Information Technology Analyst

    Nov 2000 - Mar 2005
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  IGATE

  Dec 2007 - Jan 2014

  • Program Management at Onsite, responsible for Project Scoping, Planning, Developing WBS, Timelines, Project Execution, Project Delivery, Project Monitoring and Controlling, Project Tracking. • Involved in Customer Management, Escalation Management and Vendor Management.• Coordination with the various teams / stakeholders • Effectively managed multiple reconciliation projects and responsible for Project Execution, Project Delivery, Project Monitoring & Controlling and Project Tracking.• Effort Estimation for new requirements• Developed and managed Project schedules and financials.• Created, monitored and tracked Project Issues & Risks.• Client Coordination & Liaising

  • Program Manager

    Jun 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Senior Project Manager

    Dec 2007 - May 2012
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  Capgemini

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2017

  Portfolio Manager

  • Portfolio Manager managing delivery for 2 separate delivery units, Capital Markets and Enterprise Reconciliations handling an overall team size of over 140+ resources• Managing multiple projects and programs with overall annual revenue of over $10 MM• Handling projects using DevOps, Agile SCRUM, Lean and Waterfall methodologies• Managing RPA implementations using Blue Prism • Responsible for overall Project Execution and Delivery, Customer Management, Escalation Management, Stakeholder and Vendor Management.• Handling and leading strategic pursuits – RFP responses, Developing solutions with differentiation, client-site presentations Show less

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  GrayMatter Software Services Pvt Ltd

  Jan 2018 - Dec 2020

  Program Manager

  • Handling the overall delivery of the organization which is specialized in the field of Business Intelligence and Analytics. • Setup of overall delivery structure and end to end delivery process for the organization and established governance structures and operational plans that support strategy execution, cascaded strategic objectives to the middle & lower-level teams• Managing various BI implementations and application development and maintenance for some of the leading Airports which includes - Gatwick Airport, London, Winnipeg Airport, Winnipeg, Eldorado Airport, Bogota, BIAL, Bangalore, and Montevideo Airport.• Handled a program for developing a large-scale eCommerce application, thereby integrating various systems using Java, React Native, Node Js, Reaction Commerce, Strapi, MongoDB• Technology exposure to Java / J2EE technologies, Data Warehousing using Pentaho& BODS, Big data using Spark, BI tools like SAP BO and Power BI• Working closely with the CEO to support him to achieve the overall targets / goals in terms of delivery. Show less

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  Soroco

  Dec 2020 - now

  • Heading the Customer Success Team for APAC and managing the product implementations of Soroco’s flagship product – Scout which is based on Task Mining and Process Discovery • Working closely with the Product team driving improvements on the product based on the customer experience. • Head of the Automation team managing automation projects for more than 15+ customers in Asia Pacific and Americas region. • Responsible for overall Project Execution and Delivery, Customer Management, Escalation Management, Stakeholder and Vendor Management.• Responsible for account growth with new customers and expansions with the existing customers

  • Head of Implementation Success for APAC

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Senior Manager

    Dec 2020 - Aug 2023