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Yogesh Kulkarni

Yogesh Kulkarni

Greenville,SC

Summary

Diligent Technical Program Manager with robust background in managing technical programs and leading cross-functional teams. Proven track record of successful project execution and process optimization. Demonstrated ability in strategic planning and risk management.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification

Work History

Technical Program Manager/Program Manager/Business Analyst

Johnson and Johnson
06.2023 - Current
  • Reviewed affected parts and identified non-conformances (NC) through in-depth evaluations
  • Optimized MES workflows to enhance the efficiency of quality management processes
  • Reviewed the actual inspection reports and identify the conforming and non-conforming feature dimensions
  • Integrated Opcenter MES with various shop floor systems and ERP systems for seamless data flow for JJVC plant Scope 2.0
  • Prepare ICV, IQ scripts for deployments
  • Managed, and implemented MES solutions using .NET and SQL Server, ensuring efficient tracking of production data and process workflows

Technical Program Manager/Program Manager/Business Analyst

PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development)
06.2020 - 04.2024
  • Company Overview: The part of GE ISU (Industrial Solution Unit)
  • Program Management and projects reporting to Tata Consultancy Services and Customer Management Representatives as per the Project Management Procedures, Policies and Guidelines
  • There are various status reports for stakeholders to capture all business-critical activities, developments, and risks associated with RDM Implementation
  • Interact with the Customer IT and Business Team to define/validate portfolio level requirements and prioritize the requirements, ensure that the project requirements are assigned to corresponding project manager for fulfilment of the requirements as a RDM in RDM project
  • At PPD, create a process to load and process periodic data extracts created by Veeva into the PPD data lake
  • The Veeva extracts will be on all objects in their Veeva Clinical Vault data model and will also contain audit trail tables separate from the data tables
  • We are expecting approximately 80 objects for data, audit trail plus a third set of tables that will be a combination of the data and audit trail data to be a full transaction table
  • Veeva will be responsible for creating the extracts and posting the output files to S3 storage
  • Veeva will be responsible for creating a process to ensure all data files are delivered before new extract cycles start and to have the ability to recover from errors
  • The PPD process will need to track the status of each data load and ensure prior loads have completed before starting a new cycle
  • There will also be groupings of tables to be defined to allow for parallel processing
  • These data loads will go into the Data Lake Raw Data zone for landing tables, as part of the design we will confirm if all 3 sets of extracts object need to be loaded
  • The part of GE ISU (Industrial Solution Unit)
  • Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring support for program initiatives.
  • Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.
  • Developed strategic plans, setting clear objectives and achievable milestones for the team.
  • Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budgets.
  • Conducted comprehensive program evaluations, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable solutions.
  • Managed multiple strategic projects with numerous sub-projects or workstreams.
  • Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.

Program Manager/Business Analyst

PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development)
06.2020 - 06.2023
  • Company Overview: The part of GE ISU (Industrial Solution Unit)
  • Program Management and projects reporting to Tata Consultancy Services and Customer Management Representatives as per the Project Management Procedures, Policies and Guidelines
  • There are various status reports for stakeholders to capture all business-critical activities, developments, and risks associated with RDM Implementation
  • Interact with the Customer IT and Business Team to define/validate portfolio level requirements and prioritize the requirements, ensure that the project requirements are assigned to corresponding project manager for fulfilment of the requirements as a RDM in RDM project
  • The scope of RDM is to load, manage and distribute dimensional data to PPD systems for the purpose of achieving overall system consistency within CTMS and other PPD systems, particularly those that integrate with CTMS
  • The centrepiece of this workstream will be a physical database which houses the dimensional data and some core data domains
  • This data will be maintained by our business partners using UI applications and some data sources will have specific Talend ETL jobs supporting the maintenance
  • Some of these data objects will need to be defined and created
  • Some will require maintenance jobs
  • All will require views and publishing to consuming systems
  • The part of GE ISU (Industrial Solution Unit)

Program Manager

Element Fleet Management
10.2020 - 04.2021
  • Company Overview: The part of GE ISU (Industrial Solution Unit)
  • Program Management and projects reporting to Tata Consultancy Services and Customer Management Representatives as per the Project Management Procedures, Policies and Guidelines
  • There are various status reports for stakeholders to capture all business-critical activities, developments, and risks associated with Element Fleet Implementation
  • Interact with the Customer IT and Business Team to define/validate portfolio level requirements and prioritize the requirements, ensure that the project requirements are assigned to corresponding project manager for fulfilment of the requirements as a OTR and Remarketing reporting process project
  • In Off The Road(OTR) project, TCS team will partner with Element’s functional and IT specialists to understand the priorities and develop, test & deploy the code for the features/ functionalities pertaining to the requirements to fix Off the road Date in system
  • This team will have the necessary skillsets across the Element Technology stack, understanding of the business and operational processes to complete the development
  • Remarketing Reporting Process project- is to modify processes to ingest all critical applicable fields from Auto-IMS inbound file and provide capability to business to load data from other vendors which does not have any automated inbound process established to support remarketing auction reporting
  • The part of GE ISU (Industrial Solution Unit)

Program Manager/Business Analyst

GE Power
06.2017 - 09.2020
  • Program Management and projects reporting to Tata Consultancy Services and Customer Management Representatives as per the Project Management Procedures, Policies and Guidelines
  • There are various status reports for stakeholders to capture all business-critical activities, developments, and risks associated with Exalead Implementation
  • Interact with the Customer IT and Business Team to define/validate portfolio level requirements and prioritize the requirements, ensure that the project requirements are assigned to corresponding project manager for fulfilment of the requirements as a Onepart Exalead project
  • Dassault Exalead OnePart product implementation for GE Power involves indexation 4 million parts, this will help design engineers to reuse the existing parts by reaching the relevant parts and reduce the manufacturing cost of the parts
  • The Tool has other implemented features like below for Power business
  • By using Reduce: - it will stop de duplication of the parts
  • Where used parts: Search where the same part used in other assemblies
  • Specifications: It will search relevant specs in PDF and docx format attached to given parts
  • It has CAD/prt files indexation, so that it will show the relevant CAD attributes
  • Carried out the following activities(Work Involved): Study the existing operational processes; recommend changes to the existing processes for seamless operational flow
  • Design new processes for effective day to day project coordination activities
  • Conduct weekly/monthly/quarterly business review meetings with the GE and TCS leadership and discuss overall program status on key metrics
  • Agile methodology is being used to manage Exalead One Part projects
  • Scrum framework manages the projects and delivers value iteratively at short intervals
  • Majority of my day is spent in driving and attending agile meetings like Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, iteration review, sprint retrospective etc
  • Liaison / Interact with offshore and Onsite Management teams for resolving escalations/issues with respect to budgeting, resourcing and scheduling perspective
  • Participate in Exalead OnePart, Requirements meeting and understand each design engineer’s requirements and Priorities
  • Estimate effort requirement based on experience
  • Get approval from GE for estimation
  • Managing and assigning the work to the team members and deploying them at plant location
  • Developed strategic plans, setting clear objectives and achievable milestones for the team.
  • Identified program obstacles and communicated possible impacts to team.
  • Conducted comprehensive program evaluations, identifying areas for improvement and recommending actionable solutions.

Program Manager/Business Analyst

GE Power
02.2016 - 06.2017
  • Take lead role and Participate in Supply Chain Optimization Requirements meeting and understand each design engineer’s requirements and Priorities
  • Estimate effort requirement based on experience
  • Get approval from GE for estimation
  • Prioritize all PFMD(Proficy Manufacturing Discreate) user stories based on their Customer Requirement Date and Customer feedback
  • Assign Resources to work on the project based on Resource loading
  • Manage/Execute Sprints using Rally tool
  • Carried out the following activities: Resource allocation, PMR activity, Onboarding of candidate, Hiring for the project
  • Managed and supervised administrative and daily program operations, complying with policies and regulations.
  • Developed strategic plans, setting clear objectives and achievable milestones for the team.
  • Facilitated workshops and conducted one-on-one training to educate team members.

Program Manager

GE Oil and Gas
03.2014 - 01.2016
  • The work involved: Bringing the necessary skilled resources for the engagement by identifying internally or by recruiting to work with GE team
  • Managing the project deliverables
  • Managing and assigning the work to the associates and deploying them at the plant location within US
  • Facilitating necessary training to the candidates on the required automation knowledge of control system
  • Work with Electrical Design engineering to capture the drawing requirements according different types voltages

Project Manager

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)
04.2013 - 03.2014
  • Handled end to end delivery of the project
  • Was doing Continuous attention to technical excellence
  • Motivated and mentored the team members to complete their individuals, encouraged them to take the ownership of the individual code
  • Arranged the trainings for new concepts as required
  • Used ANT and NANT for the build scripts
  • Arrange the Scrum meetings daily, worked closely with SME’s and understand the requirements
  • Taken the code ownership of each delivery

Project Manager

Siemens Enterprise Communications
09.2012 - 04.2013
  • Company Overview: Munich, Germany and Texas, USA
  • Handled end to end delivery of the project
  • Was doing Continuous attention to technical excellence
  • Motivated and mentored the team members to complete their individuals, encouraged them to take the ownership of the individual code
  • Arranged the trainings for new concepts as required
  • Used ANT and NANT for the build scripts
  • Arrange the Scrum meetings daily, worked closely with SME’s and understand the requirements
  • Munich, Germany and Texas, USA

Project Manager

JP Morgan Chase
12.2010 - 08.2012
  • Company Overview: USA
  • Provide a replacement to the current Notes Absence databases
  • The company wide move from Lotus notes to Microsoft outlook has resulted in a need to decommission all notes databases
  • There are currently over 60 different Lotus notes absence tracking databases housing over 12,500 employees
  • The aim is to replace the notes databases and offer current customers a new solution as Global Absence Tracking System
  • Handled end to end delivery of the project
  • Was doing Continuous attention to technical excellence
  • Motivated and mentored the team members to complete their individuals, encouraged them to take the ownership of the individual code
  • Arranged the trainings for new concepts as required
  • Used ANT and NANT for the build scripts
  • Arrange the Scrum meetings daily, worked closely with SME’s and understand the requirements
  • USA

Education

Bachelor of Science - Engineering

Shivaji University, Maharashtra ,India
06-1999

C-DAC(Diploma in Advance computing) Pune Maharashtra,India , July 2000

Skills

  • Project management
  • Project planning
  • Developing project strategy
  • Agile methodologies
  • Technical roadmap design
  • Process development
  • Stakeholder management
  • Client relationships

Affiliations

  • SCRUMstudy SMC Scrum master
  • SCRUMstudy Product Owner

Certification

  • PMBOK Fifth Edition Certification Acquired.
  • [Microsoft Certified Professional] Microsoft 2005
  • Hands on Essentials – Data warehouse : Snowflake Badge 1 2023
  • Microsoft Azure AI Certified.
  • AI-Business-Leadership-Certification

Timeline

Technical Program Manager/Program Manager/Business Analyst - Johnson and Johnson
06.2023 - Current
Program Manager - Element Fleet Management
10.2020 - 04.2021
Technical Program Manager/Program Manager/Business Analyst - PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development)
06.2020 - 04.2024
Program Manager/Business Analyst - PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development)
06.2020 - 06.2023
Program Manager/Business Analyst - GE Power
06.2017 - 09.2020
Program Manager/Business Analyst - GE Power
02.2016 - 06.2017
Program Manager - GE Oil and Gas
03.2014 - 01.2016
Project Manager - RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)
04.2013 - 03.2014
Project Manager - Siemens Enterprise Communications
09.2012 - 04.2013
Project Manager - JP Morgan Chase
12.2010 - 08.2012
Shivaji University - Bachelor of Science, Engineering
Yogesh Kulkarni