Senior Project Manager

Project Management

• Data Champion and Solution expert with more than 16 years of experience in executing complex Enterprise Analytics, Mobile Applications, Cloud and Big Data projects.
• Strong Project/Program Management skills and have led technical teams of various sizes from 10 to 120 full-time resources distributed across multiple geographical locations.
• Held various roles in Consulting, Product Management, Solution/Enterprise Architecture, Software Development.
• Successfully executed large projects with onsite-offshore model across various technology streams ranging from Web technologies to the Mainframe environment.
• Proven ability to deliver projects in Retails, BFIS, Media, Airline and Pharma verticals.
• Experienced consulting practitioner in data warehousing, data engineering, and visualization engineering.

TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
• Overall Program Delivery and People Management.
• Lead teams that design data models and associated metadata for mission-critical systems. Systems that require high-volume, real-time, distributed data processing, data lake/warehouse/marts come under my purview.
• Coordinate Scrum-of-Scrums, Release Trains and setup the CICD pipeline of all the scrum teams.
• Key consensus builder for developing the overarching architecture roadmap for enterprise solutions that includes big data, DWH, data security, master data management, BI platform, etc.

TEAM MANAGEMENT
* Interviewing and recruiting contractors and team members for the projects. Facilitate and negotiate with the vendor partners in securing good quality resources and managing expense budgets for the same.
• Mentor team members to achieve individual career objectives, as well as team goals, besides promoting company values.
• Mentor my scrum masters to efficiently facilitate the scrum and mentor product owners to write stories and acceptance criteria.
• Manage large teams across shores and resolve conflicts and manage risks successfully.

CLIENT RELATIONS
• A primary point of contact for escalations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and ensure SLA's are maintained and improve the quality of delivery.
• Create CR's on scope extension and present alternatives to client leadership.
• Serve as communications lead and advocate for the IBM solution offerings to the clients through technical forums, webcasts, and conferences.

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
• Business Development
• Research client inquiries on emerging trends in the market, industry best practices, emerging technologies and develop POC's for the client's leadership team.
• Worked closely with the sales team to develop a selling strategy within the targeted accounts.
• Initiated pre-sales activities by conducting extensive competitive analysis to identify and understand target segments, verticals, use cases, and new market opportunities.
• Evaluation of emerging data-related technologies and provide the right technological stack for the organizations. My practice currently focuses on all Big Data, Analytics, and Cloud technology stack.

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
• Lead and provide End to End Consulting for BI/Analytics solutions and create roadmaps.
• Accomplished various Enterprise initiatives related to Guest, dotcom, Merchandising, and Platform Migration projects.
• Guided the project teams across multiple verticals to set up the Center of Excellence for BI&A practice.
• Currently leading the initiative to grow a combined practice for cloud and big data technologies.
• A key enabler in setting up process and governance models, process audits and conducting hackathon.
• Principal Evangelist for the adoption of new technologies to generate positive revenue growths in the account.
• Created assets such as product presentations, blogs, technical brochures, RFP's.

• Successfully implemented business solutions like MDM, POS, Order Flexible Fulfilment and Guest Rewrite Applications.
• Delivered great results in providing high-quality capacity planning and project estimation for the projects. Received outstanding performer award for 3 years in a row.
• Key liaison between the Engineering and the Business teams in the Data Transformation Strategy. It includes all DWH/TD, Big Data and Reporting Solutions.
• Partner with leaders at various levels across silos like Distribution, Store planning, Merchandising, Guest, etc. to guide complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
• Application Architect Advisor for OLAP cube-based reporting, MicroStrategy, SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, etc.
• Architected and deployed the mobile application used by Stores teams to manage critical performance metrics.
• Developed a Mobile App used by field leaders to get insight into key retail metrics including Sales, Payroll, Operations, Team, Guest Survey, and Guest Experience.
• Created Mobile Solution to focus on the Holiday Sales and improved the response time of the Merchandising Promotions Team.
• Solution architect for the "Brand Promotion Analytics Suite", an AI-driven application created to mine the Guest behavior and use distribution service to push brand promotional events.
• Solution Architect for Campaign Effective Measurement Platform that enabled the business to answer the five W's of the guest activity.
• Key developer and application architect in platform migration projects.

Principal Consultant - BI/A Solutions

• Solution Architect for the applications related to Home Price Index, Forecasting, Market Trends, Value Trends, Listing Trends, and Securities.
• Lead a team of visualization engineers and created a vast portfolio of charts and widgets for interactive applications.
• Solution Architect for Data Migration projects related to MBS, CDO's data. Developed market mix analysis using the data acquired.

Solution Architect

• Application architect for BI and Analytics solutions related to Marketing Management, Campaign Management, Remote Personal Selling and External Data Management.
• Solution Architect for the development of a Marketing operational data store.

Application Architect

• Business Analysts and Enterprise Architect in delivering solutions on the key functional areas like Financial Reporting, Merchandising, Licensing, Fan Information, Forecast Accuracy/Budgeting.
• Developed both the Data architecture and Reporting Solutions.

USA, Business Analyst, Enterprise Architect, BI Developer

• Application Architect and key developer on Global Sales and Margin, Forecast Accuracy, Procurement, Order fulfillment, Financial reporting.
• Lead developer of Corporate KPI's Dashboard and Scorecards.

USA, Application Architect, Business Analyst, BI Developer

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Kannan Krishnan: Senior Project Manager in Bangalore, KA

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