Saravanakumar Kalimuthu Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bangalore

Portfolio & Program management: 24x7 Production Support, ERP projects and Application development Project planning and management - Setup, planning, monitoring, and controlling execution of projects. Ensuring delivery excellence and deliverable quality. Ensuring delivery within scope, time and cost. Qualitative and quantitative management to assess progress/quality/performance. Project monitoring & control using project metrics and health sheets. Ensuring adherence to defined goals; Optimization of project defined processes to increase performance. Resource management; project alignment, career management, coaching, mentoring, and training.Building and maintaining knowledge base. Cross training team members. Incident Management, Problem Management, Release Management, Communication management; project performance and status reporting to all stakeholders. Risks/issues/escalations management. Client relationship and expectation management.Working with cross cultural teams and clients across various geographiesManaged multiple projects of a large Customer Service Call Center (GE) at GE Consumer & IndustrialExperience on complete life cycle of a project from Requirement Gathering to Implementation, Go- Live, managing Production Environment including setting up support processes with involvement of multiple vendors Key specializations include building new relationships, customer engagement, handling multi-vendor assignments, setting up offshore processes, providing cost effective solutions to customers, building capable teams, P&L management, pre-sales and project management. Managed projects in T&M and Fixed price pricing models. Built and maintained relationship with senior client stakeholders as well as with business and IT managers

Bangalore

Organized Project Initiation Meeting.Prepared of Project Plans, Budgets and SchedulesIdentifying, tracking managing and resolving project tasks and issues.Identifying, managing and mitigating project risks and continuously monitoring the same.Ensured that all PMO standards and the user requirements (stated as well as implied) are met.Ensuring Delivery of IT Projects in agreed time, resources and budgetDefining and collecting metrics to give a sense for how the projects are progressing and whether the deliverables produced are acceptableSetting reasonable, challenging and clear expectations to project team. This includes providing good performance feedback to team membersFocused on Team building skills so that the people work together well, and feel motivated to work hard for the sake of the project and their other team members.Driven Project Steering Committees and Project Working Committees meetings and adequate Project reportingDocumentation of Project Progress reportConducted Project Closure Meetings.Vendor Management and Quality AssuranceImplemented continuous improvements to Project Management framework, processes, and guidelinesTrained other staff on Project Management and handhold them.

Led and developed full scale of project plans and executions.Defined the project scope of work, financial plan, its goals and deliverables.Managed all aspects of the project business plan and budget.Managed the operational, financial and technological aspects of projects based on timelines and work plans.Identified resources requirement, assigned responsibilities and coordinated directly and indirectly project staff to ensure successful completion of the project.Tracked project deliveries using project management tools.Managed the design of the project documents to monitor project performance and data stored.Reported on project progress and communicated relevant information to superiors.Resolved, traced and escalated critical issues to minimize project risk factors.Prepared the QA procedure of the project.Directed, supervised, supported and coordinated the project staff. .Communicated intensively with clients, sub-contractors and vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationship.Followed up with clients to verify satisfaction.

Requirements management, estimation, and scheduling.Analysis, design & development of the application.Created technical design documents and prototypes.Created ASP front end application for the customerIntroduced FO objects for creating dynamic PDF documents for contracts.Provided innovative design solution for handling shop floor based dynamic dashboard requirements.Created test plans and implementation plans for the project rollout

Pgdba, Information Technology

Cpt, Computer Technology