KARUNAGARAN VARATHARAJI
Senior Maximo Consultant
Houston,TX
Summary
Seasoned IT professional with 16+ years of experience implementing IBM Maximo technologies in diverse industries such as Oil & Gas, Airline, Retail, Manufacturing, and Utilities. Skilled in requirement gathering, business process management, risk compliance, model validation, and quality analysis. Proficient in information systems methodology from conceptual design to end user training. Expertise in IBM Maximo asset management, including material management, inventory, and mobile applications. Strong background in development, testing, and functional roles. Demonstrated leadership abilities in leading teams of various sizes and adept in Agile and Scrum environments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Consultant / SME / Solution consultant
Savvy Info Systems
05.2023 - Current
- Maximo V7.6 installation, environment setup, interfaces and WebSphere configuration
- JMS queue configuration in WebSphere & Maximo integrations (MIF)
- Requirement gathering, analysis and design
- Maximo development using application designer, maximo configurations
- Creating automation scripts and conditional expressions
- Workflow designer, Crontask manager, creating escalations & communication templates
- Maximo Scheduling V7.6.8 & work management
- Defects and enhancement – development and support
- Maximo Integration with other systems like SAP, GIS, Oracle ERP, SCADA, Click, Vision, PCS, Workday etc.
- Maximo release management
- UAT and business support
- SNOW tickets and change management
- Regression Testing and review the changes
- Maximo Trainings and documentation
- Creating BIRT reports
- IBM Maximo best practices and IBM hot fixes (Patching)
- MAS USUI project: -MAS 8.10 upgrade and setup -Overall knowledge and understanding on Cloud platforms like AWS, IBM Cloud environments -Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, RedHat Openshift, and other containerized environments -MAS deployment and integration with other systems -MAS enhancements – requirement gathering, creating process and functional documents (BRD & FSDD) -SAP to Maximo report conversion -Maximo BIRT and PowerBI report analysis and design -FSDD and other system documents creation for reports -MAS functional support and release process -UAT and peer review
Solution Consultant
KForce Inc.
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Led the technical side of the Maximo-Sceptre implementation
- Developed process improvement initiatives with process owners which includes documenting current process to identify pain points & opportunities, supporting data analysis, facilitating the design of the process changes & supporting implementation of the change
- Implemented Maximo integration between Sceptre and other ERP systems through MIF
- Created several BIRT reports for inventory and work order transactions
- Created test scripts based on business scenarios
- Data replication between sceptre and Maximo systems using IBM CDC
- CDC administration and subscription, access management
- TFS Dashboard preparation and building reports
- Hosting sprint planning meetings with product owner and Issue on call with different stakeholders
- Successfully completed several implementations through agile methodology
- Application support, regression testing, end user training
- Developed Bulletins for business and end user communications
- Created and maintained knowledge articles, help documents for system core functions and recent issues
- Incident & problem management through ServiceNow & Remedy tools
- UAT testing and support
- Requirements & issue analysis, tracking and closure throughout the Lifecyle
- Supporting various data visualizations reports using Spotfire for various departments within TechOps
Senior Maximo Consultant
TATA Consultancy Services
04.2015 - 03.2022
- Business study on United Airlines Engineering & Maintenance process and develop detailed strategy to provide consultancy solutions
- Maximo installation, environment setup, interfaces and downstream applications
- Managing 10 members team and leading the project in front
- Working with primary stakeholders and co-ordination with United leadership
- Create solution design documents, process & system help documents
- Create strategy & Plan for Data migration and archival process
- Develop system wide document for all the applications interfaced between Sceptre – Maximo
- Create Maintenance Manuals, runbooks and other knowledge documents for system improvements.
- Supporting Material demand forecasting (MDF) process for efficient planning of materials
- Co-ordinating Monthly IPFA process with Business for inventory optimization
- Assisting data retention and recovery plan
- Support Maximo Deployment process and implementations
- Analysis on System Bugs and troubleshoot through system logs
- Work on new POC’s and Project proposals for upcoming future projects
- Incident management and report status meetings with Business for issue closure
- Assisted United Airlines in designing & testing Business Intelligence (BI) Maintenance reports: PO & SO Report, Inventory issue and transfer reports using BIRT reporting
- Ad-hoc reports and on call issue support
Offshore Maximo Technical Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
02.2014 - 04.2015
- Maximo Upgrade: Configuration Management: Application designer (xml changes) changes & Field controls(sigoptions) on Modules Inventory, Purchasing, Assets, Planning, Preventive Maintenance and Work orders
- Creating Escalations, Configuring PM Crons
- Security Groups (Data, Object, Site restrictions)
- Validation of Maximo Environments – Sanity Checks & Post migration activity on Dev, Test and Stage Environments
- Regression and functional testing on overall modules like inventory, purchasing, work orders, PM etc.
- E-mail Listener configuration - Implemented the OOB functionality with Microsoft outlook for Cummins
- Romanian Translation Project: Sole owner for Execution
- Co-ordination with Translation vendors and IBM for the translation issues
- Working directly with Translation vendors for the Romanian translation of Maximo screens
- Sending regular updates to the customer
- Analysis and issue resolution
- Managing deployments
- Issue Log creation
IBM Maximo Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2013 - 02.2014
- Support Tickets analysis, requirement gathering, requirement analysis and design
- Change document creation, solution design document and user communications
- Support metrics report generation and conduct Scrum meetings
- Co-ordinate with business for open issues and bring them to closure
- Conduct performance validation on live environments
- Perform quality analysis for new enhancements and report the gaps to stakeholders
- Host the change implementation meetings with different stakeholders and post successful status to Business group
- Create system architect diagrams and interfaces mapping documents
- Create and manage maintenance templates for end user communications
- Develop work instructions document for Maximo end users based on the roles
- Create new reports and manage deployments
- Upload and manage the latest code changes for each release through IBM Clear Case
- Create the scenarios and track the changes till the implementation through Clear Quest
- Incident management and ticket metrics analysis based on ticket history
Onsite QA Lead
TATA Consultancy Services LTD
06.2012 - 05.2013
- Test estimation for SAP project
- Document the test plan
- Test design review
- Test execution review and defect triaging meetings
- Create Testing exit report
- Hosting Testing planning meetings, Testing triage meetings with development team
- Offshore-Onshore co-ordination
- Providing daily/weekly Testing progress status reports and reporting to management
- Act as Key point of contact for all testing aspects of releases, providing testing services and coordinating testing resources
Maximo Developer
TATA Consultancy Services LTD, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
10.2008 - 06.2012
- Requirement gathering, analysis and design
- Regular meetings with project stakeholder meetings
- Onshore offshore co-ordination
- End to end Maximo Installation, data base creation and JMS Queue Configurations
- Maximo Environment setup and Interfaces development
- Upgrade from Maximo 4 to Maximo 6.2.6
- WebSphere Instance Migration from 6.0 to 6.1
- WebSphere and Maximo system administration
- Access Management and version controlling
- Create Deployment process and documentation on latest issues
- Apply Maximo Patches 6.x and hotfixes
- Maximo Deployments with enhancements and bug fixes
- Configuring Maximo interfaces with Mobile handheld devices (Syclo Agentry Servers)
- Change document creation, solution design document and user communications
- Support metrics report generation and conduct Scrum meetings
- Co-ordinate with business for open issues and bring them to closure
- Assist in server patching on difference environments (Dev, Stage, Prod)
Education
M. Tech - Electrical Drives and Control
Pondicherry Engineering College
B. Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Regency Institute of Technology
Skills
IBM Maximo application suite (MAS) V80
IBM Maximo 71
MIF – Maximo integration framework
Maximo Industry Solutions & Add-ons
Report Analytics
Jira, SNOW, Confluence
Project Management
People Management
Decision-Making
Outstanding communication skills
Project management
Consulting
Certification
IBM Maximo application suite (MAS) V8.0 certified professional
Accomplishments
- Achieved Automated service request creation by introducing Email Listener functionality for Maintenance tasks.
- Implemented Romanian Translation project and introduced new language RO in Maximo within 6 months timeframe.
- Supervised team of 15staff members.
Timeline
Senior Consultant / SME / Solution consultant
Savvy Info Systems
05.2023 - Current
Solution Consultant
KForce Inc.
04.2022 - 04.2023
Senior Maximo Consultant
TATA Consultancy Services
04.2015 - 03.2022
Offshore Maximo Technical Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
02.2014 - 04.2015
IBM Maximo Lead
TATA Consultancy Services
05.2013 - 02.2014
Onsite QA Lead
TATA Consultancy Services LTD
06.2012 - 05.2013
Maximo Developer
TATA Consultancy Services LTD, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
10.2008 - 06.2012
B. Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Regency Institute of Technology
M. Tech - Electrical Drives and Control
Pondicherry Engineering College