KUMARAVEL SUBRAMANIAN

• Dynamic leader with a proven track record at Photon, excelling in strategic planning and team leadership. Committed to optimizing processes and fostering strong client relationships to achieve outstanding project outcomes.
• Digital Transformation Leadership: Led enterprise-wide digital programs, delivering global solutions using various tech stacks within a $55M+ portfolio.
• Team Building and Scaling: Built, scaled, and mentored a 200+ member digital engineering team specializing in microservices, Azure, AWS.
• Portfolio Growth: Scaled my portfolio from $12M to $55M through delivery excellence and transformation initiatives.
• Strategic Account Management: Owned $55M portfolio delivery and P&L, optimizing margins, improving client satisfaction, and securing multi-year strategic partnerships.
• Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and strategic partners.
• Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities.

Client - HARLEY DAVIDSON

• Served as the executive liaison and Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Harley-Davidson’s AMS portfolio, overseeing all legacy systems and web applications to ensure operational continuity and strategic alignment with business goals.
• Directed large-scale transition initiatives, successfully moving applications through Secondary Support, Primary Support, and Steady State phases while strengthening governance, documentation, and support maturity.
• Led the enterprise-wide SAP Bill of Material (BOM) modernization initiative (2014), delivering all changes on schedule using only existing resources—achieving full compliance while maintaining uninterrupted support operations.
• Functioned as the Disaster Recovery Event Lead, coordinating rapid cross-functional response during application failures to minimize business disruption and accelerate service restoration.
• Provided strategic oversight for a 24x7 operation managing 200+ critical applications, ensuring SLA adherence, service reliability, and operational resilience.
• Proactively identified systemic risks, executed mitigation strategies, and ensured delivery commitments were safeguarded across the AMS landscape.
• Delivered executive-level Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) and long-term preventive strategies in customer governance forums, driving continuous service improvement and reducing recurring issues.
• Facilitated high-level customer discussions to define new business requirements and major enhancements, shaping the development roadmap and ensuring seamless execution by Application Development teams

Client - BOEING

• Delivered major enhancement programs through Agile iteration cycles, increasing delivery predictability and improving customer satisfaction scores.
• Secured AS9100 Aerospace Certification for multiple projects by leading end-to-end preparation, documentation, and audit readiness efforts.
• Improved cross-site execution quality by enforcing standardized process maps across onsite and offshore teams, reducing process deviations and boosting compliance.
• Enhanced product reliability by integrating PQM and FindBugs into the quality pipeline, enabling earlier defect detection and reducing defect leakage.
• Strengthened project planning accuracy by applying FP-NESMA estimation, resulting in more precise scope definition and effort forecasting for major enhancements.
• Upheld CMMI Level 5 maturity across all program streams, supporting continuous improvement and ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery outcomes

• Migrated legacy applications from MS-Access to J2EE and transferred application data to SQL Server 2005 using DTS and Integration Services.
• Successfully implemented a Shop Floor Data Collection System across three factories without disrupting business operations.
• Designed and deployed automated processes for Manufacturing, Sales, and Supply Chain departments, improving operational efficiency.
• Presented the Shop Floor Data Collection System at IT Corporate Headquarters in Paris, France, gathering local requirements and securing approval for multi-lingual support.
• Initiated and implemented the COGNOS reporting tool to develop Shop Floor reports, enabling Factory Directors to make data-driven decisions.
• Migrated all intranet applications to China to support collaboration with contract manufacturing partners.
• Implemented a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) layer to integrate with SAP in China and created web services for seamless data exchange between US and China environments.
• Developed a reporting system using Crystal Reports 9.0, providing actionable insights for business operations.
• Designed a centralized database for all manufacturing units in the US and China, hosted in California, enabling consistent and scalable data management.