Ravichandran Karuppaiah
Merrimack,USA
Summary
- Results-driven professional with extensive experience in leadership and strategic oversight. Adept at driving organizational success through effective team collaboration and dynamic problem-solving. Recognized for adaptability and keen focus on achieving objectives.
- Experienced with strategic planning, project management, and stakeholder communication. Utilizes these skills to enhance operational efficiency and drive team success. Track record of effective leadership in high-stakes environments.
- Hardworking and knowledgeable about business practices in the Health Care and Telecom industry. Adept at supporting and enhancing operations with a decisive leadership style and strategic approach to decision making.
- Recognized for collaborating with product owners, Business/Application Architects, partners, and peers to identify and implement strategic solutions that drive tangible and measurable value.
- Engaged highlighted talented professional, team oriented, culturally adopt across multiple functions, globally with direct and energetic style. Dynamic, results oriented leader in leading large scale (over 3 to 6 million) enterprise application (Development/Maintenance) projects in large portfolio engagement in HealthCare, Insurance and Banking & Financial practices.
- Proven ability to create alternative ways to quickly identify relevant patterns and issues, generate the options to attain the solution with objective and publish the process with best practices and standard.
- Recognized for leading, governing and ensuring the projects delivery with high quality and implementation of software projects/solutions with Collaborative, Agile and Solution Oriented.
- Proven track record in managing geographically distributed teams in multiple time zones with concurrent releases and scoping, planning, scheduling, and deploying the releases for path to production.
- Highly regarded for understanding key business objectives and needs for effective scope and delivery management and deep understanding of key organizational challenges and ability to deal with business, IT, infrastructure, and other stakeholders within the organization.
- Managed 100+ Associate organization in geographically distributed locations (USA & India) Have great sense of responsibility, ownership, and commitment in execution, providing pragmatic solution and willingness to accept new challenges.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director (Program Technical Delivery)
Incedo Inc
05.2022 - Current
- Managed E-2-E Technical delivery (from requirement to implementation) for Modernization & Re-platforing m of wireline, 4G & 5G technology feeds migration from legacy application.
- Delivered feed implementation design, deployment design, review with clients for approval and implementation.
- Owned and delivered observability implementation like Grafana Dashboard configuration, Kibana Alert Rules configurations, Enabling the application for Looker Dashboard implementation.
- Owned and delivered the deployment document that includes all technical information like pods, argocd apps, kafka etc and this document includes Method of Procedure (MoP).
- Owned and delivered Ops Manual preparation that includes KT recordings, technical details, network elements, downstream details and all required information for ops team to maintain the application post go-live
- Handled multi-organizational team that includes communication with downstream & network elements PoCs for UAT and go-live activities.
- Managed cross-functional teams for multiple large-scale projects, successfully completing each on time and within budget constraints.
- Improved overall team efficiency by streamlining project management processes and implementing new collaboration tools.
- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging staff to share innovative ideas and providing resources for professional development.
- Implemented data-driven decision-making strategies, leading to more informed business choices and positive outcomes.
- Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of operations.
Technical Program Director /Manager - IT Application Development
Conduent Business Solutions LLC
03.2018 - 05.2022
- Responsible for all aspects of engineering activities and process streamlining for Cloud based Medicaid suite that will be support GHS Claims system, that enables the GUI actions through APIs, that are driven by the outputs by invoking Fuse, Postgress DB and Blaze BRE
- Owned and Managed the program and delivered the modernized GHS enterprise project in Azure platform with latest tech stack (Azure, React/Redux JS, Node JS, RESTful services, Fuse, JPA and Hibernate)
- Played as Delivery Manager for ORP, TPMI (Data Center Migration) projects and delivered the projects with high quality and on-time
- Responsible for Scope baseline, rolling out RFP with Vendors in collaboration with Vendor Management Team and selecting the Vendors for product development
- Scheduled and supervised staff meetings to discuss new ideas and update participants on program details and milestones.
- Recruited and trained staff and volunteers to upgrade collective team skills.
- Mentored team members for professional development, resulting in increased productivity and job satisfaction.
- Collaborated closely with executive leadership to develop strategic plans for long-term growth.
- Designed customized training programs to enhance staff knowledge and skills in key areas of responsibility.
- Delivered outstanding program results by setting clear objectives and proactively addressing potential challenges.
Senior Manager/Manager/Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Inc.
08.2007 - 03.2018
- Responsible for all aspects of engineering activities and delivery for all projects (large engagement) in Medicaid suite that supported for State Health, which is web-based enterprise application
- And also managed the delivery for multiple clients in Insurance domain
- Awarded “Above and Beyond Award” in Q1 2016 and GDG Star Performer Award in Q1 2013 for performance excellency from Cognizant
- Played multiple roles like Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Release Manager, Solution Architect, Technical Lead and Change Management Lead
- Managed and delivered the large-scale Enterprise Application (Development/Maintenance) projects which are business critical with end-to-end ownership of across all phases of SDLC with JEE Technology with 60+ member team in geographically distributed locations
- Designed the technical solution for the critical deliverables by understanding the current architecture of the application and insights to meet the business objectives in Insurance and Healthcare practice
- Responsible for monitoring of the agreed quality parameters and introduces necessary counteractive measures
- Responsible to diagnose, escalate, and resolve the issues/challenges during life of the project as per defined processes and procedures
- Responsible for getting secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from the Project Sponsor and Stakeholders
- Responsible to identify the team and managed & mentored team members with great involvement and technical oversight
- Helped customers to develop and implement roadmap and strategy for operational process for business-critical functionalities with customer experience to meet the business objects
- Proven record in working with various client vendors and State vendors for requirement, business clarification and process discussions etc
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
Project Lead/Team Lead/Programmer
Kumaran Systems
07.2002 - 08.2007
- Lead and managed the delivery for small and medium scale projects with 20+ member team in geographically distributed locations and played multiple roles like Programmer, Tech Lead and Project lead
- Awarded 'Key Pillar' of company in the year 2005 for my contribution and excellency
- Developed the code for the business requirements using J2EE technologies (Java, JSP, Servlet, Struts, JSF, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS) and deliver within stipulated time with high quality
- Responsible for Unit testing, building the script for packaging, resolving the defects and providing support for UAT/Production defects
- Worked with senior management team and participated in the estimation process and pre-sales activities
- Worked with QA for SLA/metrics compliance for the project deliverables
- Lead the team and delivered the migration projects like anywhere to Java migration, primarily Oracle Forms to Java Migrations with high quality
- Responsible to work closely with Project/Delivery Manager and update the status for the assigned tasks
- Streamlined project management processes by implementing Agile methodologies and improving team communication.
- Optimized resource utilization by accurately forecasting project needs and allocating resources accordingly throughout the project lifecycle.
Software Engineer
Interfactive1 Softcom Solutions
01.2001 - 06.2002
Programmer
Coral Grid Software
09.2000 - 01.2001
Education
Masters in Business Administration – MBA -
Alagappa University
05.2011
Masters in Computer Applications – MCA -
Alagappa University
05.2000
Bachelors in Computer Science – BSc -
Madurai Kamaraj University
05.1997
Skills
- Strategic Program Management
- Delivery Management
- Deployment Oversight
- Change Implementation
- Agile Methodology Expertise
- Architectural Solutions Development
- Cloud Solutions Design
- Continuous Integration/Delivery
- Modernization and re-platforming
- Continuous Process Enhancement
- Strategic Work Organization
- Stakeholder Collaboration
Certification
- SAFe Certification, Scaled Agile
- ITIL v3 Foundation Certification, AXELOS
- Cloud adoption and transformation, Pivotal
- AZ-900, Azure Fundamentals
Technical Summary
Good Exposure in multi-platform web application and service development using Java, Servlet, JSP, Struts, JSF, Spring MVC, Spring DAO, Sprint Boots, ReactJS, Hibernate, HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, Oracle, Postgress DB. Good exposure in Cloud Computing, Microservices, 12-factor App, CI/CD, re-platforming & modernization. Good Exposure in Development & Build Tools/IDE (Eclipse, Toad, RAD, ClearQuest, ReqPro, ClearCase, Ant, PMD, Check Style, SonarQube). Proven knowledge on Azure Portal/DevOps. Excellent skills in requirements analysis, planning, estimation, tracking and reporting project status including resource loading and allocation management for projects and programs.
Timeline
Associate Director (Program Technical Delivery)
Incedo Inc
05.2022 - Current
Technical Program Director /Manager - IT Application Development
Conduent Business Solutions LLC
03.2018 - 05.2022
Senior Manager/Manager/Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Inc.
08.2007 - 03.2018
Project Lead/Team Lead/Programmer
Kumaran Systems
07.2002 - 08.2007
Software Engineer
Interfactive1 Softcom Solutions
01.2001 - 06.2002
Programmer
Coral Grid Software
09.2000 - 01.2001
- SAFe Certification, Scaled Agile
- ITIL v3 Foundation Certification, AXELOS
- Cloud adoption and transformation, Pivotal
- AZ-900, Azure Fundamentals
Masters in Business Administration – MBA -
Alagappa University
Masters in Computer Applications – MCA -
Alagappa University
Bachelors in Computer Science – BSc -
Madurai Kamaraj University
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