Jayaraj (Jay) Velayutham Email & Phone Number

Frisco, Tx, Us

Allen, Tx

Hands-on leader focused on improved faster time to market, web portal services, program Vulcan strategic planning, SAFe ART/Scrum Master Agile, SDLC program and project management, as well as vendor relationship management.Notable Contributions: • Objectively promote open and transparent communications and agile values among agile teams, partner with Product teams to define future state, vision, roadmap and prioritize backlog and successfully facilitate sprint ceremonies, including… Show more Hands-on leader focused on improved faster time to market, web portal services, program Vulcan strategic planning, SAFe ART/Scrum Master Agile, SDLC program and project management, as well as vendor relationship management.Notable Contributions: • Objectively promote open and transparent communications and agile values among agile teams, partner with Product teams to define future state, vision, roadmap and prioritize backlog and successfully facilitate sprint ceremonies, including iteration planning, daily standup, backlog refinement, system demo and retrospective. • Consistently aid agile team in managing risks and dependencies, track and remove impediments and resolve issues, as well as assist in executing features and generate program level metrics, such as Feature Progress Report, Program Perf Metrics and scrum level of burndown and velocity; coach agile teams to adopt and implement continuous integration and delivery and DevOps while also managing third-party vendors, financials, invoice reconciliation and approvals with budget forecasting.• Routinely lead large, complex projects from inception to production rollout by effectively utilizing on-and off- shore providers; directed all SOW deliverables; reported project costs, forecasts & improvements to steering committee.• Collaborate with business partners to align business solutions and expectation; ensure client satisfaction and achieve all business goals; serve as liaison between business and key stakeholder with honest/open exchanges, challenges and issues internally while successfully running multiple concurrent initiatives, risk assessments, program reporting, and handling escalations. Show less

Rosemont, Il 60018

Led increased operational efficiency, go-to-market initiatives, client growth, Agile/SDLC program and project management, cloud and Azure implementations, vendor relationship mgmt, IT governance, IT strategy, IT PMO and IT outsourcing. Notable Contributions: • Served as Scrum Master for increased operational efficiency to lead group of projects for product bankruptcy management systems of $1.5M, improved revenue increase of 40% with 15% of operational staff redirected to other… Show more Led increased operational efficiency, go-to-market initiatives, client growth, Agile/SDLC program and project management, cloud and Azure implementations, vendor relationship mgmt, IT governance, IT strategy, IT PMO and IT outsourcing. Notable Contributions: • Served as Scrum Master for increased operational efficiency to lead group of projects for product bankruptcy management systems of $1.5M, improved revenue increase of 40% with 15% of operational staff redirected to other tasks; effectively led go-to-market initiatives as SDLC manager to develop strategy for managing program of $3.5M to meet GTM objectives, business license, disbursement and audit with teams located in various cities and countries; enabled business to move into new markets and achieve 45% quick revenue growth. • Planned, executed, controlled and managed SDLC program and project management; positively presented program performance to Governance Board monthly and core team weekly; reduced inefficiencies in business operations by performing Lean Value Stream mapping; successfully resolved issues and conflicts by building consensus around all decisions empowering team to solve issues and accommodating different views.• Manage & motivate project managers and technical partners as direct and dotted line reports, while recruiting and mentoring technical employees and providing career development opportunities.• Ensure alignment of projects and programs in portfolio with enterprise strategic objectives with full responsibility for intake process, cost-benefit/impact analysis, NPV/IRR analysis and prioritization. • Led Office of the CIO; defined and implemented strategy, performance monitoring, Strategic Supplier Management, and financial Management; assessed IT maturity model and recommended movement from Level 2 to Level 3; productively utilized Garner’s Pace Layer and Application Portfolio Management which identified 20% of applications for elimination across all departments. Show less

Northbrook, Il

Application Delivery and Support• Reference Data Implementation: Managed a strategic project to centralized and standardize management of reference data across the enterprise using a product called Golden Source. Integrated with foundational data from Bloomberg, EJV, and GICS. Partnered with multiple vendors (Golden Source, Accenture and Allstate Operations) to implement phase-1. Budget: $1.3M. Duration: 9 months.• Performance Reporting: Managed to roll out a web application to… Show more Application Delivery and Support• Reference Data Implementation: Managed a strategic project to centralized and standardize management of reference data across the enterprise using a product called Golden Source. Integrated with foundational data from Bloomberg, EJV, and GICS. Partnered with multiple vendors (Golden Source, Accenture and Allstate Operations) to implement phase-1. Budget: $1.3M. Duration: 9 months.• Performance Reporting: Managed to roll out a web application to provide performance metrics for Allstate Pension Plan (APP) and Allstate Retirement Plan (ARP).• Analytica and VAR Application Upgrade: Managed to upgrade Analytica and Value At Risk (VAR) to use Rogue Wave (C++) libraries and Microsoft SQL Server.• Tax Application Support: Partnered with Tax and Operations teams to enhance and support Tax application. Generated reports from DW and validated them against Accounting System (Maximus). Created Tax reporting processes separate from STAT and GAAP. Show less

Northbrook, Il

Managed Application Development and Support team to implement several high visibility/priority IT applications.

Vernon Hills, Il

Part of a team to launch Allstate Bank. Managed several IT projects to improve Operational efficiency.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electronics Engineering

Big Data

Introduction to Big Data Hadoop Platform and Application Framework

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering