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Sivakumar Balasubramanian

Dublin,CA

Summary

Purpose driven, result oriented and seasoned IT professional with 25+ years of rich experience that includes more than two decades of experience in generating business value using modern and transformational Data and Analytics solutions.

Deep expertise in leading wide range of digital transformation initiatives with specialization in data modernization leveraging cloud adoption and business insights across Healthcare & Life science, Manufacturing & Logistics, Insurance and financial domains.

Handled end to end program delivery responsibilities at various roles. Strong business consulting skills blended with strong technical expertise specializing in digital transformation solutions. Extensive experience in successfully implementing large business transformation programs that includes complex data integration, data modernization using agile methodologies, big data technologies and DevOps CI/CD, Analytics with data visualization and cloud migration projects.

Directed and governed complex technology programs and got rich experience in strategy roadmap consulting, program management, data modeling, data Management & Governance, architecture definition, performance tuning, quality assurance and gap analysis.

Experience Summary

  • Led end-to-end management of complex programs from concept to implementation with global delivery model spanning across different geographies with overall responsibility and accountability for top line and bottom line growth.
  • Handled leadership positions spread across different geographies comprising of different line of business resulting in significant expansion of business portfolio
  • Extensive experience in building and leading high-performance teams and delivering operational excellence.
  • Experience in working with key client business stakeholders and IT leadership team at C- levels ensuring successful implementation of projects.
  • Led several multi million dollar proposal response and presentations
  • Drive data driven metrics based delivery excellence with focus on best-in-class practices and continuous innovation and improvement
  • Anchored Technology center of excellence initiatives, automation through accelerators and drive go to market strategy in collaboration with alliance partners and product vendors
  • Detail oriented and customer focused Strong analytical skills, ability to quickly understand & provide robust solutions to client business priorities and challenges.
  • Strong technology and consulting experience that includes strategy roadmap definition, tool evaluation, architecture blueprint and performance tuning initiatives.
  • Effective communicator with strong leadership, team management and organizational skills.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions
San Francisco, CA
04.2005 - Current
  • Established portfolio level strategic themes, policies and vision in alignment with Business Unit level objectives.
  • Effective End to End portfolio management for several clients across geographies that includes multi-million-dollar projects over 50+ Million involving Application Development, Migration and Application maintenance programs, diversified technologies and project execution methodologies.
  • Spearheaded stakeholder relationships, multi-vendor programs across multiple geographies.
  • Successfully implemented award winning Corporate Performance Scorecard solutions including architecting solution end to end.
  • Directed migration Programs that include tool upgrades and cross platform migration programs.
  • Supported clients on Tool evaluations, architecture recommendations and proof of concepts.
  • Ensure and monitor program objectives are met, conduct periodic portfolio reviews across stake holders both internally and with clients.
  • Drive business development Initiatives, proposal presentations & led multi-million-dollar proposals.
  • Contract Management.
  • Manage and build sustainable customer relationship.
  • Financial responsibilities that include managing operations such as budgeting, planning and forecasting, resource optimizations, profitability, pricing Models and utilization.
  • Build & review integrated Project plans, LOE.
  • Established effective governance through proactive risk management, metrics definition & benchmarking & communication protocols.
  • Drive innovation themes and bring in best in class solutions to customers along with solution accelerators ensuring delivery excellence.
  • Manage and mentor team of program managers and their subordinates.
  • Conduct performance reviews, set goals to associates and provide constant performance feedback.
  • Coordinate across cross functional departments.
  • Drive account level quality assurance initiatives.
  • Led several organization level initiatives such as knowledge asset creation, build accelerators reducing time to market, recruitments, conduct induction programs and strategic initiatives.

Senior Consultant

Enterprise Solutions International Inc
, USA
08.2002 - 12.2004
  • Developed project plans, transform business needs to requirement documents, technical specification documents.
  • Requirement analysis and define data management design strategies.
  • Collaborate with business users, analysts, developers, testers.
  • Work along with Data Analyst and review Relational /Dimensional models across projects to support business requirements.
  • Meta data Model development implemented data security, data quality & data archival routines.
  • Conduct periodic trainings to key business users.
  • Status reporting.
  • Analyze and recommend performance improvement for batch loads.
  • Defined ETL standards, establish data cleansing techniques.
  • Lead testing and implementation effort.
  • Production support.

Senior Consultant

GATIM Inc
, USA
04.2001 - 07.2002
  • Designed relational and dimension data models.
  • Defined data flow methodologies across systems involved.
  • Managed & delivered functional requirements.
  • Informatica Administration.
  • Developed reusable codes, troubleshooting & Review codes.
  • Database Performance Tuning, define deployment strategy.
  • Developed Oracle backend Procedures, Informatica Mappings, Unix Shell scripting.

Consultant

Edge Technologies Inc
, USA
12.1998 - 03.2001
  • Understand business needs and requirements gathering.
  • Developed Oracle Stored procedures, Informatica Mappings.
  • Implemented backup & recovery strategies.
  • Developed Monitoring & optimization scripts.
  • Conversion of PL/SQL procedures to Informatica Mappings.
  • Performance Tuning, troubleshoot production issues & doing root causal analysis.
  • Developed interfaces to manipulate data between operational & DW using Pro.
  • Developed MIS reports & User interface using Developer 2000.

Software Engineer

Polaris Software Lab
01.1998 - 12.1998

Systems Executive

BITECH Ltd
, India
06.1997 - 12.1997

Education

Masters - Computer Applications

Bharathidasan University
India
05.1998

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Madras University
India
04.1995

Skills

  • Strategic definition & Planning
  • Portfolio Management
  • Contract Management
  • P&L Management
  • Business development
  • Operations management
  • Client Stakeholder Management
  • Knowledge Management & Competency development
  • Staff Development
  • Solution Architecture & consulting
  • Application design, development, Testing & Support

Certification

  • SAFe 5 Agilist
  • AZ-900 – Azure Fundamentals

Areas of Focus and Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning
  • IOT
  • Customer Data Platoform & Master data Management
  • Big data platforms & Technologies
  • Legacy application modernization and Cloud adoption
  • DevOps, DataOps, MLOps

Domains worked

  • Healthcare
  • Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing and Logistics
  • Insurance
  • Consumer goods

Timeline

Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2005 - Current

Senior Consultant

Enterprise Solutions International Inc
08.2002 - 12.2004

Senior Consultant

GATIM Inc
04.2001 - 07.2002

Consultant

Edge Technologies Inc
12.1998 - 03.2001

Software Engineer

Polaris Software Lab
01.1998 - 12.1998

Systems Executive

BITECH Ltd
06.1997 - 12.1997

Masters - Computer Applications

Bharathidasan University

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Madras University
Sivakumar Balasubramanian