Kannan Krishnan: Senior Project Manager in Bangalore, KA

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.