Art of possibility with Technology
Manny Tammana
Data Leader
Frisco,TX
Summary
20+ years of professional experience in Program, Project & Product management. Art of possibility with Technology, Cloud, AI/ML, Gen-AI is a journey. Working with customers & people is a forte.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Masters in Computer Science
3
3
Certification
Work History
VP, Program Management - Delivery
Mastech Digital
Frisco, TX
08.2022 - Current
- Global Program Lead for Data Delivery (DWH, Analytics AI & ML)
- Build & lead a world-class team of technical team of project, product, program managers with a mission to power intelligence for our customers
- Technical Acumen with the ability to proactively identify and mitigate technical risks throughout delivery life-cycle
- Lead technology focused discussions with senior leadership by providing valuable insights and recommendations that guide technology-based decisions
- Extensive focus on execution, follow-through, accountability, and results
- Cross-team collaboration; able to work across different departments, functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to get the job done.
- Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and deep seated empathy for teams and partners
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- Excellent problem solving and influencing skills
- A quantitative approach to problem solving
- Collaborative implementer & a systems thinker
- Highly TPM leader to grow and develop a team with reusable practices
- Ability to simplify the technically complex and drive well-educated decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives
Director, Partner
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2018 - 08.2022
- Sales & Delivery – AI, ML & Analytics
- Key Responsibilities Responsible for managing and growing a multi-million-dollar Program Portfolio, support, & services business Deliver strategic & tactical guidance during the solution development process to align with sales Managing customers – Relationships, Mindshare, expectations & satisfaction Understands customer businesses by pro-actively involvement including executive programs Manage & drive AI-ML Service-line leads, pipeline & forecast Work & Research customer issues to determine business issues and convert them into pipeline activity Drive Program strategy & execution of all partner initiatives in the United States & Canada; Ensured short- and long-term expansion, including setting the strategy Perform & Transform delivery via digital journey, process/service improvements & best practices Client Stakeholder & Communication management - both internal & external Create, Plan & execute enablement plans for various teams in support of business plans Work with cross-functional teams (Sales, Delivery, Offerings, Solutions, Practice) in Cognizant to build AI/ML market plans for strategic accounts Manage & Drive AI-ML Practice leads, pipeline and forecast Work with Cognizant & Account teams (IT, Business, Vendor Management) to brainstorm, identify, develop & deliver plans, execute proof-concepts & deliver value solutions Drive Quarterly-Business reviews internal to Cognizant & Client/Account teams Support & Drive growth, expansions in new Segments, Lines-Of-Businesses & Geographies Build Go-To-Market plans/ strategies & delivery it for multiple accounts in Insurance Vertical Evangelize benefits of Cognizant’s GTM Strategies, offerings, Enablement & Delivery Defining & executing strategic roadmap and associated budget across the teams Being passionate about customer & partner experiences, think outside-the-box & challenge the status-quo Hire, mentor and lead team across cross functional skills BD-analysts, program & product managers
Global Program Director
Wipro Technologies
04.2015 - 10.2018
- Key Responsibilities Delivery, Client Engagement Management, Program/Account Management Managing customers – Relationships, Mindshare, expectations & satisfaction Work with cross-departments (Sales, Delivery, Practice) in Wipro to build market plans Manage & drive AI-ML Service-line leads, pipeline & forecast Leadership connect is absolute key to this role, which is one of my forte Gathering, prioritizing GTM requirements, defining the vision, scope of work and work closely with engineering, sales & marketing Ensuring revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met Driving customer-facing & back-end projects & support business reviews with Leadership team Worked on Enterprise level Data as a Service & Data as a Product initiatives
Senior Client Engagement Manager
Sony Network Entertainment
San Mateo, California
05.2011 - 03.2015
- Create, Plan & execute enablement plans for various teams in support of business plans Delivering re-architected legacy Video-Royalties Product using Data Warehousing (DWH)/Business Intelligence (BI) technologies reducing the cost of ownership by $ 3 Million Customer Engagement to bridge the gap between engineering and customer Leading & developing Business Intelligence/ Analytics Products and development teams Develop & liaise a trusted advisor relationship with our customer’s Product, project managers & executive sponsors Assess our customer’s business objectives to ensure deployment is aligned to the company strategy Collaborate with Sales teams to drive opportunities for expansion and renewals within existing customers SEN-TV (IPTV) Product portfolio level analysis to derive pricing which helped increase revenue Online Store Analytics - sales, footprint, downloads, etc
- Which helps customer profiling to improve online storesales Managed multiple highly complex cross-functional technical software programs, projects, and initiatives “Events” project using “Big-Data” solutions to improve customer experience Initiated and oversaw multi-division Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies establishment
Senior Manager
Informatica Corporation
Redwood City, CA
07.2010 - 05.2011
- Responsible for account management for 2 marquee accounts including solution delivery for Data-warehousing, Data quality using Informatica Products Generated sales pipeline in excess of $8M in 2009 and $10M in 2010 Responsibility for Partner engagement to drive sales, in 2010 increased the partner-generated sales by 50% Sales Engineering management - Budgeting, Planning & Management for Named Accounts Lead regional Quarterly-Business-Review (QBRs) leadership meetings, responsible for pre-sales training programs
- Supported on-boarding of Inside sales, SEs, Channel Partners & Partners
Senior Manager
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
Oakland, CA
08.2009 - 07.2010
- Responsible for Technology/vendor recommendations, End-to-End Data Life Cycle Management Responsible for technical delivery implementation of blended BI and IBM PPO (Power Plant Optimization) solution This solution helped the plant supervisor to schedule production of ice-cream batches with least wastage of raw materials, this resulted in a savings of 2.2M over 1.5 years Lead & managed technical data team along with offshore component to architect solutions When Nestle bought frozen pizza, I was helping them with DWH integration efforts and was responsible for the consolidated sales data warehouse, the project was delivered 2months ahead of schedule, which resulted in direct savings of ~ 400K
- Lead white board presentations & high-level architecture design discussions around technology product suite
Senior Manager
Informatica Corporation
Redwood City, CA
08.2008 - 07.2009
- Responsible for account management for 2 marquee accounts including solution delivery for Data-warehousing, Data quality using Informatica Products Generated sales pipeline in excess of $8M in 2009 and $10M in 2010 Responsibility for Partner engagement to drive sales, in 2010 increased the partner-generated sales by 50% Sales Engineering management - Budgeting, Planning & Management for Named Accounts Lead regional Quarterly-Business-Review (QBRs) leadership meetings, responsible for pre-sales training programs
- Supported on-boarding of Inside sales, SEs, Channel Partners & Partners
Senior Manager
M&A
07.2006 - 07.2008
- Manulife Financials acquired JHF
- I was leading the Merger System Integration efforts to consolidate Transactional
- Systems and Enterprise Warehouse used for financial reporting of annuity business $11M spent over 2 years and completed under budget Multiple Project Management initiative including ETL architecture, Development and Maintenance
John Hancock Financial Services
Boston, Massachusetts
05.2004 - 07.2008
Manager
CNA Surety
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
01.2004 - 05.2004
Senior Technical Engineer
Verizon, e-Business Technologies
Dallas, Texas
01.2002 - 12.2003
Senior Technical Staff Engineer
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois
01.2001 - 12.2001
Support Engineer
Kaashyap Radiant Info
Chennai
01.1998 - 08.2000
- Recognized in internal client’s quarterly report for Innovation – Mar 2023 Two of our teams were TechXcellence Winners in the account - Dec 2015 Unsung Hero award in Town Hall Meeting – May 2014 Runner up ‘Power Plant Optimization’ solution - Aug 2009
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Chicago, IllinoisBachelor of Science - Computer Science
Madras University, M.N.M Jain Engineering College
Certified Scrum Product owner – Scrum Alliance Certified Project Manager Professional – PMP Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer – Google - undefined
Skills
Effective leader
Strategic leadership
Advanced knowledge of technology
Business Management
Team leadership and direction
Program leadership
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Certification
Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
Interests
Life along with AI & ML
Cloud Transformation Journey
Tennis
Love to play Tennis to relax
Timeline
Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
07-2023
VP, Program Management - Delivery
Mastech Digital
08.2022 - Current
Director, Partner
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2018 - 08.2022
Certified Scrum Product owner – Scrum Alliance
01-2018
Global Program Director
Wipro Technologies
04.2015 - 10.2018
Senior Client Engagement Manager
Sony Network Entertainment
05.2011 - 03.2015
Senior Manager
Informatica Corporation
07.2010 - 05.2011
Senior Manager
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
08.2009 - 07.2010
Senior Manager
Informatica Corporation
08.2008 - 07.2009
Senior Manager
M&A
07.2006 - 07.2008
John Hancock Financial Services
05.2004 - 07.2008
Manager
CNA Surety
01.2004 - 05.2004
Senior Technical Engineer
Verizon, e-Business Technologies
01.2002 - 12.2003
Senior Technical Staff Engineer
Illinois Institute of Technology
01.2001 - 12.2001
Support Engineer
Kaashyap Radiant Info
01.1998 - 08.2000
Master of Science - Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Madras University, M.N.M Jain Engineering College