Gijo Kavanal
Houston,TX
Summary
Technical Project Manager | PMI-ACP | Agile Project Management | Business Analysis | Managing Change | Driving Efficiency | Technology Integration | Data Analytics | Work Auth: US Citizen
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Hewlett Packard
06.2022
- Single-threaded PM, instrumental in delivering impactful projects within a cloud-based solution built on AWS, utilizing various AWS services including Compute, Storage, Networking, Management, Analytics and Security products
- Successfully launched the new products by collaborating with over 5 diverse cross-functional team and effectively managing 25+ engineers, working across different technologies and time zones, resulting in a 20% customer base increase
- Led data analytics projects focused on delivering actionable insights to enterprise customers, fostering stakeholder engagement through effective communication and facilitation in workshops, sprint ceremonies, and Scrum calls
- Leveraged technical expertise to collaborate with architecture and operations teams, ensuring solution compatibility with company standards
- Engaged the UX team for comprehensive UX design and conducted RFC reviews with architects to establish a solid technical foundation, reducing dependency delivery timeline by 3 weeks
- Established a transparent communication framework by creating a progress tracking dashboard with real-time data like Scrum burndown charts and velocity
- This facilitated weekly reporting to leadership, while also spearheading monthly all-hands demos to ensure senior leadership visibility, understanding, and alignment with the product vision
- Managed a geographically dispersed team, ensuring seamless delivery through dependency management and knowledge transfer initiatives
- This included active mentoring, implementing best practices, and sharing lessons learned
- Delivered projects that leveraged ServiceNow integration and AI data model implementation to enable predictive analytics.
Technical Project Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
05.2019 - 05.2022
- Accomplished Global Transition, overseeing project planning and execution in collaboration across AMS, EMEA and APJ region project managers, yielding $6M in annual savings
- Managed regional shop floor integration, identified third-party manufacturing partners, and provided weekly updates to global supply chain leadership team
- Contributed to the development of RFPs, SoWs, and vendor selection processes for hardware and software required in the new factory setup
- Mitigated risk of single-source vendor by finding a global supplier for the entire hardware and software solution, achieving efficiency and cost savings through collaboration with HP's R&D team to define specifications
- Supply Chain Digital Transformation Project Manager: Through collaboration with One Network, a leading cloud-based supply chain management platform provider, spearheaded the establishment of a seamlessly connected infrastructure for global operations
- Orchestrated the creation of an integrated ecosystem, enhancing multi-tier data visibility, with a primary focus on optimizing HPE's supply chain by developing the solution, integrating data from RSPs, LSPs, suppliers, and HPE SAP
- HPE factories onboarding to S4/Hana project manager – Led the successful onboarding of HPE factories to S/4HANA, driving collaboration across teams to ensure a smooth transition
- Defect Management - Collaborated with stakeholders to prioritize defects and ensure alignment with project objectives and facilitated communication between developers and testers to ensure timely defect resolution
Technical Delivery Manager/Architect/Technical Lead
Hewlett Packard/DXC
01.2011 - 04.2019
- Managed a diverse team overseeing the development of over 10 Front End Web applications, Middleware applications for HP's Product Lifecycle Management business
- Designed and developed AS.NET web applications, web services in .NET, supported multiple web applications in the Product Lifecycle management space
- Migrated product SKU creation web application to AWS, leveraging services like EC2 for compute, S3 for storage to achieve increased scalability, improved performance, reduced costs
- Led initiatives in infrastructure and framework development, including the migration of legacy applications to C# and .NET, IIS administration, SSL technologies, SharePoint, and SQL Server
- Spearheaded successful company separation, contributing to 18 critical assets infrastructure separation
- Implemented processes to reduce support tickets by 50% for PLC applications, served as a release manager, and led teams in gathering business requirements and converting them into technical specifications
- Conducted application design review and code review meetings, managed year-end activities for HP's PLM business, and executed IT optimization programs, including asset retirements, DB upgrades, and infrastructure refresh
- Effectively utilized ITSM tools to manage incident resolution processes, adhere to established procedures, and implement change management practices.
Application Development Team Lead
APS Inc
Houston
04.2003 - 11.2010
- Managed a team of 5 plus employees in the successful execution of HP refurbishment programs, achieving a 15% reduction in refurbishment costs, alongside set up the IT infrastructure and IT team
- Collaboration with Stakeholders: Collaborated effectively with internal teams (HP Refurbishment, Shop Floor) and external partners (Foxconn, Vendors) to ensure timely procurement of materials and efficient logistics for program delivery
- Technology Implementation: Led the development and implementation of warehouse, shopfloor, testing automation, and EDI infrastructure, streamlining program management and boosting 20% throughput.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering -
Bharathiar university
Associate degree in computer science -
Madras Technical Board
Skills
- Requirements Gathering
- Technical leadership
- Agile project management
- Analytics
- Database configuration
- Business Analysis
- Software Development
- API Development
- Continuous integration
- Application design
- Application testing
- Proficiency in AWS, JIRA, AZURE DEVOPS, MICROSERVICES, NET , POWER PLATFORM, MYSQL, ORACLE PL/SQL, WEB SERVICES
Certification
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), 04/01/24
Accomplishments
- HP CIO AWARD RECIPIENT
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Hewlett Packard
06.2022
Technical Project Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
05.2019 - 05.2022
Technical Delivery Manager/Architect/Technical Lead
Hewlett Packard/DXC
01.2011 - 04.2019
Application Development Team Lead
APS Inc
04.2003 - 11.2010
Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering -
Bharathiar university
Associate degree in computer science -
Madras Technical Board
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