Summary
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Work History
Education
Skills
Onshore It Service Delivery Manager
Onshore Transition Manager
Offshore Portfolio Manager
Offshore Program Manager
Areas Of Expertise
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Onshore Program Manager
Personal Information
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Certification
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Muthukumar R

Muthukumar R

Summary

17 + Years of experience in IT Industry Played as a Deliver exceptional value as Program Manager/Delivery manager, and Development Lead for Data scientist, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Big data, Hadoop, Cloudera, Azure, AWS, PowerBI, Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense, UNIX. Worked on different industry -Banking, Engineering, Retail, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Government projects. Fortune 500, and startup ventures with the right solutions to achieve their goals. Lead strategy, project management, architecture, requirements, design, and development. Hands-on developer and key contributor. Build relationships, win new business, and empower client success. Onshore Program Manager / Onshore IT Service Delivery Manager /Onshore Transition Manager: Handled complex projects around $5M to $10M revenue, involving multiple vendors and stakeholders of clients across locations (North America, UK, India, Netherlands, Singapore & France. Established and maintained a consistent delivery in integrated approach to large applications and technology migration projects. Offshore Portfolio Manager / Offshore Program Manager / Offshore Transformation Manager; Plan and manage multiple projects involving Azure Cloud, Analytics, Big data, Hadoop, cloud era, Power bi, QlikView, Qlik sense, Data scientist,AI,ML .Aligned business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains. Transformation manager for implementation of Best-in-Class Framework for major accounts by identifying continuous process improvements. Able to manage multiple large project teams (size 30 to 75) in waterfall and Agile methodologies and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager / Program Manager

Cognizant
04.2021 - Current
  • Provide industry standard best solution for the given requirements using Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Azure infra to support advanced use cases on Track circuit, Signaling, POE, level crossing circuit
  • Played Senior Project / program Manager Partner for R&D projects in Network Rail project
  • Senior project Manager Role in NR account, Handling Team of 27+ team folks with skill set of Data Engineer, Data Scientist, BA
  • Managing a Data Science portfolio of Data Scientist and Data Science Projects through Development, Delivery, Service Management and Support
  • Providing technical and analytic direction, guidance, and roadmap on ML projects
  • Deep technical expertise and strong problem-solving and data analysis skills
  • Identify new applications for machine learning across the company, clients, and work with business partners to pilot Confidential or project
  • Facilitate the development of “request for proposals” responses and contract development
  • Lead the development of businesses cases for further project sales as determined by the practice
  • Drive the integrated value proposition and work with the client to gain alignment and buy-in
  • Work closely with leadership to set strategy and define success criteria for any
  • Involved On premises to cloud migration Using AI & ML
  • Planning and Establishing Project Goals.

Senior Manager Projects

Cognizant
04.2018 - 01.2021
  • Played COE Partner /Deliver Manger for three projects in Philips healthcare project which in two different Domain Idea to Market & Order to Cash in the supply chain platform
  • Provide industry standard best solution for the given requirements using, Power BI, Tableau, QlikView/ Qlik Sense technologies
  • Involved On premises to cloud migration Using Azure & Power Bi
  • Oversee the ongoing development and operations of business intelligence architecture and output that enables fact-based decision making, ad hoc analysis, and insight generation
  • Lead the BI Team’s operational and strategic planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources
  • Further improve self-service reporting and analytics throughout the company by providing the business with the tools required, the training and expertise required to use the tools, and unprecedented accessibility and visibility into the corporate data warehouse
  • Help to grow and foster the corporate data governance framework; work with the business and IT owners to help implement and grow pragmatic data policies and rules for governance
  • Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development and support of all BI systems
  • Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure that supports the BI and data warehousing environments
  • Work with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements in delivering new reporting functionality
  • Manage project tasks effectively and provide active support to project managers in estimation, risk management and issue resolution
  • Assists in the design and delivery of high-performance, low-maintenance and user-friendly customer interface for the business intelligence metrics
  • Provide thought leadership and innovative approach to delivery of user interface solutions
  • Handled Team of 40+ Folks in BI both Offshore & Onshore (Power BI, Tableau, QlikView/ Qlik Sense).

Senior Consultant

DBS
Singapore
10.2016 - 07.2017
  • Handled Big data Migration & Cloud Migration and Provide Support to all application activity on Bigdata
  • Managed team of 40 + peoples onshore /offshore
  • Proactively communicated project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management
  • Conducted regular project status/quality meetings and reports
  • Kept management and key stakeholders well informed on a weekly basis on project progress, status and/or concerns for each assignment
  • Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets
  • Responsible to set up weekly status meetings with the team and report the monthly status to program manager
  • SPOC for Change management, Problem Management & Incident management
  • Owned Document Creation process for new application and technical problem work sheet
  • Architect, design & develop Big Data Solutions practice including set up Big Data roadmap, build supporting infrastructure and team to provide Big Data
  • Architecting and implementing Portfolio Recommendation Analytics Engine using Hadoop MR, Oozie, Spark SQL, Spark MiLB and Cassandra
  • Excellent understanding of Hadoop architecture and underlying framework including storage management
  • Extensive experience in data modeling, data architect, solution architect, data warehousing & business intelligence concepts and master data management (MDM) concepts
  • Expertise in architecting big data solutions using Data ingestion, Data Storage
  • Experienced in Worked on NoSQL databases - HBase, Cassandra & MongoDB, database performance tuning & data modeling
  • Hands on experience in installing, configuring, and using Hadoop ecosystem components like Hadoop HDFS, Yarn, Map Reduce, HBase, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Pig, Flume, Smart Sense, Storm, Kafka, Ranger, Falcon & Knox
  • Experience in deploying Hadoop cluster on Public and Private Cloud Environment like Cloudera, Hortonworks, Amazon AWS, Rackspace, ECS & ISILON.

Team Leader

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai
07.2014 - 09.2015
  • Handled UNIX / Hadoop Team of 40+ peoples
  • Involved in the team setup and hiring process for internal project
  • Heading with CAB and assigning the Jobs to Team members and ensure all works will be done on time as per client request
  • SPOC for Change management, Problem Management & Incident management
  • Owned Document Creation process for new application and technical problem work sheet
  • Client Co-ordination on daily basis
  • Generate team reports on weekly basis as well as Technical Reports as per the Client Stakeholders Requirements
  • Daily Client Co-ordination and Ensure New Application Transition will be smooth to team members
  • Served as Hadoop& UNIX project lead in the completion of 80+ medium- to large-scale implementations, managing projects from business requirements analysis to solutions delivery and support
  • Managed a $1.2 million data-integration project for financial & Health care services firm that consolidated information from accounting applications, third-party market data and internal equities/fixed income applications
  • Contributed to furniture retailer's 15% revenue growth in 2015 by standardizing content from disparate databases, enabling sales and support staff to quickly respond to customer requests
  • Involved in start to end process of Hadoop cluster setup where in installation, configuration and monitoring the Hadoop Cluster
  • Responsible for Cluster maintenance, commissioning and decommissioning Data nodes, Cluster Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Manage and review data backups, Manage & review Hadoop log files
  • Monitoring systems and services, architecture design and implementation of Hadoop deployment, configuration management, backup, and disaster recovery systems and procedures
  • Configured various property files like core-site.xml, hdfs-site.xml, mapred-site.xml based upon the job requirement
  • Importing and exporting data into HDFS using Sqoop
  • Experienced in define being job flows with Oozie.

Lead Administrator

Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
Chennai
02.2013 - 03.2014
  • Handled Unix Migration and maintenance team about 30+ peoples
  • Worked collaboratively to manage build outs of large data clusters
  • Helped design big data clusters and administered them
  • Worked both independently and as an integral part of the development team
  • Communicated all issues and participated in weekly strategy meetings
  • Administered back-end services and databases in the virtual environment
  • Implemented system wide monitoring and alerts
  • Implemented big data systems in cloud environments
  • Created security and encryption systems for big data
  • Performed administration troubleshooting and maintenance of ETL and ELT processes
  • Collaborated with multiple teams for design and implementation of big data clusters in cloud environments
  • Involved in the Change management & Client management and daily calls with client and internal management
  • Heading with CAB and assigning the Jobs to Team members and ensure all works will be done on time as per client request
  • SPOC for Change management, Problem Management & Incident management
  • Handled the Appraisal & Recognition activity for team members
  • Perform IBM AIX Server system administration, including installation and customization Configure LPAR with Dedicated Resources
  • Administration & Configuration on IBM-AIX 5L V, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 & 7.1
  • Supported Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Involved with team about Change management like Working with CAB and Create the Change & get the Approval from CAB team & execute on time
  • Make the Back out plan for all Change
  • Own the Problem Management Tickets which comes from the Change.

Consultant

Cap Gemini India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
03.2011 - 01.2013
  • Handled the team of 25 peoples on Unix –Aix, HP Unix, Windows, Linux, Web sphere
  • Daily Client Co-ordination and Ensure New Application Transition will be smooth to team members
  • Worked as a SPOC for Change management and Incident management
  • Handled the Appraisal & Recognition activity for team members
  • Owned The Process Document for all New Scope applications & New Task’s and share with Team the same
  • Perform IBM AIX Server system administration, including installation and customization Configure LPAR with Dedicated Resources
  • Administration & Configuration on IBM-AIX 5L V, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1
  • Supported Disaster Recovery (DR) testing on (BNP Paribas Project)
  • Involve in service improvement plan
  • Configure VIO Server
  • Map LUNS to Virtual IO
  • NIM AIX OS INSTALL
  • Planned Failover & Fallback activity
  • Adding/Extending the File system, LV and Volume group
  • Adding the resources in to Resource Group
  • Planning and configuring two node cluster
  • Working with CAB and allocate the Change to the team
  • Handling Escalation on Change Management
  • Creation & Activating/Deactivating the LPAR profile via HMC console during the up gradation.

Senior Aix administrator

IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
08.2010 - 02.2011
  • Perform IBM AIX Server system administration, including installation and customization
  • Worked with integration team on boarding new projects into Global Server Build team
  • LVM management using Do Once Script (Customized script for GSB project)
  • Installing AIX 5.x & 6.x base image using NIM
  • Migrating + upgrading servers to newer versions of AIX
  • Upgrading ML using NFS
  • Creation & Activating/Deactivating the LPAR profile via HMC console during the up gradation
  • Creating Users, Groups, home directories and password administering.

Aix support admin (L2)

Coni bio
01.2006 - 08.2010
  • Day to Day server management activities
  • Creating Users, Groups, home directories and password administering
  • LVM Administration
  • Extending a volume group/Reducing a volume group
  • Exporting/Importing a volume group
  • Managing logical volumes (LV)
  • Mirroring a volume group.

Education

B.E - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Anna University
01.2005

D.E.E.E -

State Board from Arul Migu Kalasalingam College
01.2001

Skills

  • Management
  • Program Manager
  • Delivery Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • People management
  • Data Science
  • Data Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence / ML
  • Azure Migration
  • Databricks
  • Bigdata
  • Cloudera
  • Hortonworks
  • Cloud
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Azure Data factory
  • UNIX
  • Tools Handled
  • Remedy
  • Maximo
  • HP Service manager
  • Jira

Onshore It Service Delivery Manager

Onshore IT Service Delivery Manager, Handled complex projects around $5M to $10M revenue, involving multiple vendors and stakeholders of clients across locations (North America, UK, India, Netherlands, Singapore & France. Established and maintained a consistent delivery in integrated approach to large applications and technology migration projects.

Onshore Transition Manager

Onshore Transition Manager, Handled complex projects around $5M to $10M revenue, involving multiple vendors and stakeholders of clients across locations (North America, UK, India, Netherlands, Singapore & France. Established and maintained a consistent delivery in integrated approach to large applications and technology migration projects.

Offshore Portfolio Manager

Offshore Portfolio Manager, Plan and manage multiple projects involving Azure Cloud, Analytics, Big data, Hadoop, cloud era, Power bi, QlikView, Qlik sense, Data scientist,AI,ML .Aligned business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains. Transformation manager for implementation of Best-in-Class Framework for major accounts by identifying continuous process improvements. Able to manage multiple large project teams (size 30 to 75) in waterfall and Agile methodologies and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

Offshore Program Manager

Offshore Program Manager, Plan and manage multiple projects involving Azure Cloud, Analytics, Big data, Hadoop, cloud era, Power bi, QlikView, Qlik sense, Data scientist,AI,ML .Aligned business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains. Transformation manager for implementation of Best-in-Class Framework for major accounts by identifying continuous process improvements. Able to manage multiple large project teams (size 30 to 75) in waterfall and Agile methodologies and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

Areas Of Expertise

KalasalingamMiguArulConiParibasWipromapredhdfssite.xmlsite.xmlsite.xmlMiLBOozieOozieOozieHortonworksHortonworksDatabricksQlikSSAS, Tableau, QlikView, Qlik Sense., Hadoop HDFS, Yarn, Map Reduce, HBase, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Pig, Flume, Kafka, hue, Stream sets, Zookeeper, kudu., Apache Hadoop, Cloudera,QlikOozierks., AWS, Azure, Azure Data factory., Linux-OS (Red hat Linux 5, 6, 7), AIX VMware., MS Office 2010/2007, MS HortonworksarePoint, Azure DevOps, Agile., RDBMS, Sybase, SQL ,MySQL., HACMP, VCS, Hadoop, Ecosystems, VIO, VMWare, SSH, Telnet, Putty, git, eclipse, Remedy, Maximo,git Service manager, Jira.

Technical And Professional Certifications

  • Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (cca-500) - License: 100-017-847
  • IBM Certified Specialist – System p Administrator
  • ITIL V3 Certification
  • Certified Scrum Master

Onshore Program Manager

Onshore Program Manager, Handled complex projects around $5M to $10M revenue, involving multiple vendors and stakeholders of clients across locations (North America, UK, India, Netherlands, Singapore & France. Established and maintained a consistent delivery in integrated approach to large applications and technology migration projects.

Personal Information

Passport Number: U8184990

Accomplishments

  • Received UK Best IT Award for AI project
  • Have received multiple internal awards for Delivery & Technology roles

Certification

  • Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (cca-500)

  • http://certification.cloudera.com/verify - License: 100-017-847

    IBM Certified Specialist – System p Administrator

    `ITIL V3 Certification
    Certified Scrum Master

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Senior Manager / Program Manager

Cognizant
04.2021 - Current

Senior Manager Projects

Cognizant
04.2018 - 01.2021

Senior Consultant

DBS
10.2016 - 07.2017

Team Leader

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
07.2014 - 09.2015

Lead Administrator

Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2013 - 03.2014

Consultant

Cap Gemini India Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 01.2013

Senior Aix administrator

IBM India Pvt Ltd
08.2010 - 02.2011

Aix support admin (L2)

Coni bio
01.2006 - 08.2010

B.E - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Anna University

D.E.E.E -

State Board from Arul Migu Kalasalingam College
Muthukumar R