Muthulekshmi Thanukrishnan

Experience

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  ORILLION CONSULTING LTD

  Jan 2001 - Apr 2003

  Junior Software Analyst
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  Virtusa

  Apr 2003 - Oct 2007

  Worked in the specified role for a banking giant in US Worked in the specified role for a banking giant in US

  • Technical Team Lead

    Jan 2006 - Oct 2007

  • Technical Lead

    Apr 2003 - Dec 2005
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  Cognizant

  Nov 2007 - Mar 2011

  Worked in this role for an Automation Company in US- Understand the entire data model of existing appliation- Upgrade servers to a major version and migrate contents- Check the working of all components in new application- Manage development and testing teams for performing migration smoothly Worked in the specified role for an insurance company in Middle East- Design of data model, application, integration layer for the entire renewed insurance page- Design of WDK components, data beans and integration objects- Implement the data as per insurance pre-requisites - Deployment and management of data consistency in development, testing and production servers Worked in the specified role for a Bio Science Giant in Europe- Design and migration of existing application to DCM- Upgrade OS, Database and applicataion- Move respective data layers and integrate the new components - Perform validation in all layers and submission of scripts Worked in the specified role for a pharmaceutical giant in US- New enhancements to the existing application- Validation of the changes and submission of scripts to validation team

  • Migration Manager

    May 2010 - Mar 2011

  • Technical Head

    Jan 2009 - Apr 2010

  • Migration Architect

    Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

  • Technical Manager

    Nov 2007 - Jun 2008
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  Cognizant

  Jun 2011 - Apr 2013

  Architect (Migration)

  Worked in this role for a pharmaceutical giant in UK- Involved in two projects, of which one is migration of applications / servers from one version to another and the other is migration of servers from one data centre to another- Analysis of all four layers (Database, Content Server, Application and third party integrations)- Create artefacts of existing system migration pain points and the mitigation steps- Migrate applications using technology support and perform validation in Development, Testing, Business , Production and DR environments- Work closely with the client architects for implementing these critical migrations and validation procedures- Completed the entire data centre migration with zero defect.- Create validation scripts and tools to test database data, regulatory Documents and server availability after migrations- Work closely with physical server migration team and administrators to provide them the necessary technical support. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Sept 2013 - now

  Building up and managing a competency created from scratch to support customers in Life Sciences Project in Content Management space• Efforts in creating the competency from scratch for Content Management dedicated to Life Sciences which involved technologies like Documentum, Veeva, CARA and Medidata• Worked on the Vendor Partnership to improve the business by obtaining badges for services which helped in bringing more business to the competency.• Leading / Mentoring the innovation team to complete the migration tool which is certified by Veeva and given to customer in no cost, thereby leading to more business in migration projects.• Grown the competency to 450+ team by recruitment, fresh graduates and contributed to the stable delivery of the projects during critical times.• Upskilling of team in new technologies and get them certified which makes them a value professional to the customer thereby improving the growth and pipeline.• Technical Governance and Oversight of all the projects for design and execution by reviewing / directing the solution leads for successful outcome • Leading the RFP’s on the solutioning front and participate in defense. 40-50% of success ratio maintained for the past 2 years for the competency contributing to new logos for the competency both in support and development. • Increased the revenue growth of the competency consistently to 25% in past 2 years.• Built a separate team with strong integration experience for integrating application with cloud / alternate sources. Working on a common integration platform to simplify the integration with multiple technologies seamlessly.• Mentoring the team for new cloud concepts in AWS and Azure to apply the same for customer in their transition to a cloud / hybrid model.• Brought all the aspects of SDLC in to the competency as separate teams so that the competency becomes one stop shop for all services related to Life Sciences Show less Leading a team of high professionals and developing & executing high-level solution & technical strategies, and overcoming complex business challenges using strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity• Ensuring that the enterprise solution spanned the customer’s business processes; designing innovative solutions that maximized the use of standard product capabilities to meet customer objectives • Providing comprehensive support to development staff to ensure that proposed solutions were technically viable • Working closely with software engineering and technical teams to ensure successful rollout of the solution; collaborating with business stakeholders so that business vision and requirements were addressed correctly • Defining the overall technical architecture for the web/mobile application that is envisioned with the customer• Understanding business needs and designing a roadmap for further development and extending post implementation support• Developing reports, building test cases and conducting unit & regression testing; optimizing the performance of the reports• Coordinating with users for system study, requirements gathering, analysis & testing of applications and managing smooth implementation of the same• Defining service standards and guidelines as per global best practices, governance structures, best practices for software development life cycle (SDLC) and documentation that serve as benchmark for excellent service delivery• Identifying ways to integrate data from the client’s other systems to report on multiple sources of information• Analyzing & reviewing business, functional and high-level technical requirements; designing detailed technical components for complex applications utilizing high-level architecture, design patterns and reusable code• Simulating, designing, developing & deploying computationally complex and practical data; building and delivering comprehensive data strategy roadmaps; Show less Worked in the specified role for a Retail Organisation in UK- Study the existing application and understand existing pitfalls in performance and usability- Create documents about pains points of the existing application- Come up with a new SOA design to use existing databases for the new application- Design neccessary integration parts in the sharepoint cloud application to access newly designed SOA layer- Communicate with SAP team about the neccessary input output model- Creation of metadata model for the newly designed application in sharepoint cloud without losing any of old data- Information Architecture design for this new Internet application studying the old application and integrating with business- Close communication with Sharepoint team, Integration team and business to build the new model- Testing support and test cases design- Deployment and production handover Show less

  • Business Development & Solutions Offering Head

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Principal Solutions Architect

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Senior Solutions Architect

    Nov 2011 - now

  • Integration Architect

    Sept 2013 - Apr 2014