Prathap (Prat) Shanmugam Email & Phone Number

North America

Modernize Value Added Tax (VAT) software applications. Build SaaS solutions for compliance and returns

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

• As a manager of 5 managers, and responsible for 3 teams of full-stack software engineers, modernize bank services such as bill payments, CDs, and IRAs, using a nimble front-end and API and micro-service based back-end.
• Enable teams to deliver enterprise-level services via strategic partnerships with stakeholders and business partners with diverse points of view to build consensus. Address client needs and achieve win/win solutions.
• Proactively collaborate with senior and executive leaders in legal, risk, compliance, design, architecture, business, agile, and product management teams to drive product innovation that is secure, scalable, and user.
• Removed more than 90% of security vulnerabilities and reduced associated maintenance costs by fully adopting CI/CD and DevOps tools and replacing containerized architecture with a serverless back-end
• Maintain an inclusive culture that provides psychological safety and nurtures creativity and innovation
• Mentor and motivate others in their career growth, and learn from those relationships in return

Pennsylvania

• Managed an agile team of Software Engineers with varying levels of experience and a Scrum Master to support Warehouse Management, Inventory Management, Labor Management, Work Force and Work Space Management systems.
• Managed an IT budget of $9.25M and a large team of Software Engineers and Infrastructure teams to launch the heavily automated, QVC’s first warehouse on the West Coast (Ontario, CA)
• Replaced the warehouse management system (WMS21) in Rocky Mount, NC with Manhattan’s WMOS, and implemented a Hibay system aka ASRS (Automated Storage/Retrieval System) within a budget of $7M
• Saved $230K in yearly maintenance/support by scrutinizing an old contract and eliminating support for unused components of an application
• Completed corporate-wide implementation of the Condeco room reservation application, and the Xerox Follow Me Print application to provide cost savings in printing solutions
• Maintain yearly Capex and Opex budgets, re-forecast budgets monthly and prepare and present financial reports to stakeholders

• Integrated a scalable jewelry fulfillment system with the warehouse management system, including automation via pick-to-light and carousel systems within an IT budget of $10M
• Realized operational cost savings by relocating the Jewelry operations and successfully upgrading the warehouse management system within an IT budget of $8.42M
• Rejuvenated the WMS21 application - conceptualized, tech-led, project-managed, and delivered an innovative database-oriented solution to revive an end-of-life application, with a budget of less than $130K
• Collaborated with global/multi-site, cross-functional IT teams of Enterprise Architects, System Administrators, DBAs, Network, Security, Change Management, Release Management, and Quality Assurance professionals to.
• System diagrams, technical design specifications, prototyping, visualization, and proofs of concept
• Volume and performance testing, systems readiness testing, QA, and user acceptance testing

• Optimized process and execution via creativity in design, coding, and implementation of an innovative inventory picking system by reengineering existing business rules into a multi-layered decision-making system
• Increased inventory handling efficiencies by designing, developing, and implementing interfaces between the warehouse management system and an automated robotic system
• Designed and developed a database configuration tool to seamlessly merge the existing hardgoods configuration dataset with the new jewelry dataset as part of the system cutover
• Implemented a zoned physical inventory system to eliminate week-long system downtime and enable concurrent customer fulfillment during yearly inventory accounting and reconciliation
• Successfully converted numerous corporate middleware interfaces from WBI to the Tibco platform

Greater Omaha Area

• Responsible for full SDLC and project management of new applications in C/Unix, Pro-C, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms using Oracle and Unify databases
• Delivered applications for functional areas including Administration, Finance, Customer/Agent Relation, Actuarial, Reserves, Reinsurance, etc.
• Designed and developed an online application to maintain records retention information on off-site storage of business documents and other archival materials including microfiche and microfilms

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Designed, developed and tested algorithms using angle screen and blue noise masks to assure high quality color screen printing
• Designed and developed a toolbox with quick, preview type image processing tools including edge detection, embossing, sharpening, blurring, posterizing, noise filtering, etc

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering