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Parthasarathy Natarajan

Raleigh, NC

Summary

Accomplished Project/Program Manager offering 18+ years of experience in IT Project delivery. Successful when leading high-performing teams to sustain product vision, roadmap and business goals. Excellent at leadership skills and talent for driving stellar, on-target results that aligns with strategic objectives of the organization.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Technical Project Manager

Qualys Inc.
10.2021 - Current
  • Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
  • Instrumental in leading team of Technical Project Managers (Project Management Office) in Cloud operations domain, managing customer accounts and key projects including Qualys platform builds and change management
  • Spearheaded FedRAMP High compliant Qualys platform build in Oracle Cloud infrastructure (OCI)
  • Orchestrated high visibility Program including multiple Qualys Cloud platform builds in OCI and migrated on-prem solutions to OCI
  • Accomplished Software and Hardware project delivery, Hardware decommission and asset disposition projects
  • Primarily focused on Deploying security products for customer needs, Customer relationship management; working with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations and Technical Support); implemented process improvement for efficient change management & customer communication,

Technical Project Manager

Qualys Inc.
09.2019 - 09.2021
  • Successfully manage key projects and customer engagements
  • Manage operations of Shared Platforms and multiple customer Private Cloud Platforms - Enable new features and services, Perform application upgrades and product deliveries.
  • Establish proper expectations with customers and internal resources, drive speedy resolution within schedule, and communicate status to leadership
  • Manage and facilitate technical discussions with customers and service delivery teams
  • Effectively work with Global teams in achieving project goals
  • Serve as point of escalation for projects and deployments
  • Accomplish client goals by communicating issues & impacts, priority of open tickets, and communicate timelines for ongoing projects and commitments by creating project plans with realistic timelines

Project Manager

Infosys Ltd.
11.2016 - 09.2019
  • Streamlined parallel development and enhancement projects in Global MDM application integrated with 80 Territories and 10+ systems including Salesforce CRM system
  • Developed Scrum team of over 30 members (Global Team) which enabled successful implementation of multiple projects, resulting in over $10 million revenue
  • Transformed project delivery model from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum framework) through coaching. Conduct Scrum events such as Backlog refinement, Sprint review & Retrospective and Sprint planning.
  • Successfully Implemented Salesforce CRM System Integration with MDM application through REST APIs for Data retrieval & Client creates.
  • Pioneered in application migration from On Premise data center to Microsoft Azure Cloud involving multiple technology upgrades
  • As Scrum Master, optimized Iteration scope and velocity through coaching. Increased team velocity by 18% by enabling CI/CD implementation and process improvements

Project Manager

Infosys Ltd.
03.2016 - 10.2016
  • Accomplished architecture and development of self-service SharePoint portal with team size of 20+ yielding revenue of over $3 million
  • Automated data governance and approval process through workflow implementation
  • Decreased time to production from 4+ months to 6 weeks which increased Stakeholder confidence
  • Streamlined Project Estimation, Technology assessment, requirements & scope management, team velocity, SLA adherence and Operations transition
  • Orchestrated data migration to Microsoft Azure Cloud (IaaS Solution) including Infrastructure build and application deployment
  • Acquired and developed Scrum team. Educated team and served as Scrum Master while piloting Agile Scrum as new framework for software development

Project Lead

Infosys Ltd.
11.2014 - 02.2016
  • Lead technical team in Content engineering, Application enhancement and Maintenance in onsite-offshore model
  • Subject Matter Expert in migrating structured data to MarkLogic DB
  • Organized Project estimation, Project feasibility study, scheduling and tracking, resource planning, Design/Code reviews
  • Develop team through coaching and mentoring. Defined responsibilities and roles of 20 team members
  • Recommended architectural improvements and integration solutions

Technology: MarkLogic, xQuery, XML/XSLT, XPath, UNIX, Sablime (Unix) and GitHub

Technology Lead

Infosys Ltd.
10.2009 - 10.2014
  • Technical lead role in migrating XML data to MarkLogic database, data transformation, content search/retrieval
  • Collaborated with Business users from concept through final delivery of product
  • Lead application development, enhancement and UI Refresh for Legal and Patent data applications
  • Effectively conducted Requirements analysis, Design, development, unit testing, design review, configuration control, deployment and Operations Transition
  • Leveraged automation to bring overall production ticket queue down by 30%
  • Lead effort in developing tools for unit testing and code deployment automation which resulted in 35% effort saving with annual cost saving of $150K
  • Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement

Technology: MarkLogic DB, xQuery, XML/XSLT, JavaScript, GitHub

Education

Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Bharathiar University
Tamilnadu, India
2004

Skills

  • 18 years of experience in IT industry including 7 years of Project Management experience
  • Enabler in IT organization journey into Cloud Computing
  • Exceptional Verbal and Written Communication Skills
  • Highly skilled in Technical Project/Program management, Project scheduling, Stakeholder relations and cross-functional team collaboration
  • Hands on experience in delivering Systems integration and data migration projects following Change Management process
  • Good interpersonal skills with focus on Team Building and Customer Problem Solving
  • Proven Leadership experience in managing multiple work streams and Executive reporting
  • Demonstrated ability to Mentor and Lead Project Managers within PMO
  • Highly focused on Process improvement, Innovation and Best Practices in Business operations

Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)(2019) certified through Project Management Institute (PMI)

Technology Highlights

Methodologies: Waterfall - SDLC, Agile - Scrum and Kanban
Project Management Tools and Applications: - Azure DevOps (ALM), Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Visio, JIRA, Confluence, Project Management with Monday.com, Smartsheet
Platforms: Unix, Windows

Cloud Service Platform: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Microsoft Azure

Timeline

Senior Technical Project Manager

Qualys Inc.
10.2021 - Current

Technical Project Manager

Qualys Inc.
09.2019 - 09.2021

Project Manager

Infosys Ltd.
11.2016 - 09.2019

Project Manager

Infosys Ltd.
03.2016 - 10.2016

Project Lead

Infosys Ltd.
11.2014 - 02.2016

Technology Lead

Infosys Ltd.
10.2009 - 10.2014

Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Bharathiar University
Parthasarathy Natarajan