Anthuvan Anbu Selvan James Lawrance

Lead cloud migration project, overseeing planning and delivery of critical application and infrastructure migrations to Azure. Collaborate with architects and developers to make informed decisions. Support technical discussions, resolve issues, and ensure adherence to KPIs. Provide strategic direction, report status to executives, and drive process improvements.

• Coordinate, guide and manage the planning and delivery of critical Application and Infrastructure Services migrations from an on-premise Data Center to Azure
• Active involvement with solutions and delivery decisions with Architects, Developers by understanding the solution's technology components
• Works closely with technical leaders on the delivery team, understands/facilitates technical discussions with the team, supports and helps resolve technical issues impacting delivery, Will answer high level technical questions without a dependency on additional technical resources
• Proactively ensures adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs) and provides strategic direction to drive success.
• Status reporting & managing executive communications - Reports on program level status and delivery status to executive stakeholders
• Drive incremental process improvement by reflecting on and broadly sharing lessons learned.

Manage application defects by collaborating with development teams and implementing preventive measures. Monitor IT application performance using tools like Kibana and Grafana. Design and standardize IT operational processes through client walkthrough sessions and real-world piloting. Partner with stakeholders to define service improvement requirements and provide ITIL process knowledge. Conduct root cause analysis to identify gaps and improve IT productivity. Create weekly metrics reports to support data-driven decision-making.

• Perform Defect Management for Application bugs and collaborate with development teams to fix application defects faster and prevent reoccurrence of defects
• Use monitoring tools like Kibana, Grafana, Net spring to monitor performance of the IT applications.
• Design IT Operational & Support processes, conduct process walk-through sessions with client Operations team & managers, pilot processes in real world situations and implement designed processes to ensure standardized operations in the IT Operations team.
• Partnering with service customers, Automation service delivery lead, vendors, Development teams and IT infrastructure teams to identify and clearly define requirements associated with service capability improvements & automation.
• Provide ITIL process knowledge and serve as a liaison between the IT service delivery teams, Business Operations and the various service management process and tools teams.
• Perform root cause analysis using five why & Fishbone methodology to identify gaps in People, Process & Technology to eliminate downtime of the IT Applications & Infrastructure (VDIs, Servers, Data Center components), improve productivity and identify cost savings.
• Design, create, and publish weekly metrics reports that support data driven decision making for the service.

Managed AWS migration from planning to execution, including risk management and resource allocation. Facilitated daily scrums, sprint planning, and retrospectives while managing agile release backlogs in JIRA. Evaluated current service levels and designed business continuity plans for future application portfolios. Collaborated with McGRAW Hill partners and coordinated with technical stakeholders for project implementation. Managed SRE teams post cloud migration.

• AWS migration planning, tracking, risk management, resource allocation, and execution.
• Facilitating daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, review, and retrospection meetings.
• Develop and manage the agile release backlog, sprint backlog, and storyboard in JIRA.
• To evaluate the current service levels of the application portfolio.
• To design the business continuity plan for the future application portfolio.
• To design and implement the service delivery protocols for the future state of the application portfolio.
• Working with various partners of McGraw-Hill for the implementation of the projects.
• Active involvement with solutions and delivery decisions with architects and developers by understanding the solution's technology components.
• · Coordination with different technical stakeholders like application support team, Business and product vendor.

Led GTS Division DataCenter migrations, ensuring smooth separation with MHE and ATOS. Managed stakeholder communication and engaged Wipro teams for proactive solutions. Evaluated application health, ensured alignment with business requirements, and oversaw people management for project delivery.

• Leading GTS Division business unit migrations for the complete initiative and ensure that the separation happens smoothly in partnership with MHE and ATOS (Infra team)
• Stakeholder communication and management which includes meetings/workshops and discussions with McGRAW Hill leadership and business
• Engaging relevant practices and center of excellence teams from Wipro to provide proactive and cost effective solutions where possible
• To evaluate the technical health of the applications, the business requirements and ensuring applications are fit for migration and develop the migration roadmap.
• People management for delivery of the projects/services

Build & Maintain Multiple Pearson & MHE Applications

• Built and maintained MHE applications, overseeing project planning, execution, and reporting. Prioritized tasks, ensured compliance with standards, and drove technical design and coding efforts. Mentored team members, managed test strategies, and tracked defects while delivering timely reports to leadership.
• Project Planning, Tracking, Resource allocation, Execution & Reporting Finalize / Prioritize the list of SRs & BAU tasks to be delivered for a given week / month along with MHE Project/product Manager and create appropriate plans to deliver
• Review and ensure all tasks to be performed in accordance to Developer Reference Manual
• Drive Technical Design, Coding, reviews, IT, UAT, Defect fixes and Deployment
• Identify and pursue opportunities to enhance performance of code & application.
• Mentor' fellow team members on technical design and coding issues Manage delivery of Test strategy, Test cases, IT and UAT test plans for various releases / Projects
• Review traceability matrix to make sure all the use cases and test scenarios are well covered.
• Review and track Defects, Enhancements, Configuration & Test plans in HP ALM
• Identify and mitigate projects risks and escalate issues on time to find resolution
• Conduct daily scrums to create synergy between teams to deliver quality on time
• · Create and publish MIS reports to both MHE & Wipro leadership team on monthly / quarterly basis

• Contributed to development and testing processes.
• Participated in project meetings and provided support.
• Served as onsite coordinator and contributed to release management.