Ravikumar Balan Email & Phone Number

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

• Manage end to end delivery of Data Analytics projects and stakeholders. • Works from a consulting model and skill set to understand business strategies and ensure customers’ needs, goals, and challenges are addressed appropriately.• Lead strategic planning and tactical implementation of Data Analytics projects• Support Data Analytics team in understanding business problems and translate into appropriate solutions

County Cork, Ireland

As CPO, responsible for product’s strategy formation as well as execution. Responsibility includes creating and managing a process that drives toward a scalable product portfolio that will in turn drive the business’s product profitability. He also ensures that there is a continuous improvement in the product as well as the product’s compliance to market needs wrapped in a product experience that continuously and consistently delights the consumers

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

Managing delivery of strategic change initiatives as well as handling planning and execution of Analytics,transition & offshoring roadmap for Allianz UK and other global entities. Building frameworks for the practice, driving succession planning programmes, and ensuring sound governance.  Responsible for setting up Data Analytics practice in ACIS Engaged in building capacity and capabilities for delivery excellence, in addition to ensuring development of competent project managers for deployment across all global entities  Identifying opportunities for business growth, overseeing transition projects and individual project management assignments, and mentoring engagement managers

Trivandrum/Munich

Ravi as an Engagement Manager was responsible for AD&M Services provided by Allianz Trivandrum to multiple Operating Entities of Allianz Group. He was responsible for Governance, Planning & Management, Relationship, Escalation of these projects . He is also responsible for the overall Program, financial management, People management as well as Infrastructure.

Engagement Manager for multiple accounts within Allianz Group

The Corporate High Risk Projects Group acts to control the number of critical risk projects, and the associated significant financial and brand impact, across Infosys. The group is an integral part of delivery operations, which has a presence in all units to better manage risk in delivery operations. In addition to the core operations of supporting high and critical risk projects across Infosys, the group has evolved to also proactively run preventive change initiatives across organization, and continuously raise organizational capability to manage high risk projects through education, process / system changes, etc. Functioned as a consultant for the group between 2008 and 2009, conducting assessments of projects, preventing escalation from high to critical risk and minimizing damage in the latter Provided external support and recommendations to senior management for 25 projects, achieving 90% rate of recovery through improvements in technology tools and talent issues Executed an organisation-wide initiative for intelligent staffing, involving alignment of appropriate skills and talents to specific roles in various projects

Offshore & Onshore Delivery Manager for Projects in the Retail vertical. Has managed multiple large and medium projects in Development and maintenance spreading across different technologies - Mainframe, Java, People Soft.Pre-sales Support for Retail & CPG unit  Provided support for responses to RFPs and RFIs from offshore by planning concepts, creating presentations, handling staffing and pricing, and coordinating finance/legal reviews

 Delivered 2 Information Warehouse projects for an internal client – Sales & Distribution, IBM, USA. IW is a suite of applications that stores and provides analysis of sales & marketing data

Software Design, Development & Testing

Epgbm, Global Business Management

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics

Pre-Degree, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry

10Th, Matriculation