Kesavakumar S J

Experience

Project/Program Manager- Experis US (A Manpower Company)
Client: Cisco Systems Inc. July 2011 - Present

Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO) in Cisco helps IT effectively introduce
changes to business organization using the Operating Model framework. Managing, leading Global
Business Partners (GBP) by collaborating with other Program & Release managers ensuring quality,
stability & reliability for all projects participating in releases.

Roles & Responsibilities
Managing 100+ cross functional resources globally; projects varying $100K to $3M
Drive the on-time and effective delivery of high quality Enterprise Releases across Cisco IT
(working with Dev PM, QA PM & Operations)
Follow Release planning ,execution processes, define & manage release schedules/milestones
from scoping until the production
Collaborate & manage release processes across all functions within Cisco IT & Business stake
holders
Identify and track key metrics critical to project success that improve predictability, identify risk
& execute on the mitigation strategies
Implementing metrics, processes & tools to automate project health reporting and team
intra/inter communications
Superior communication skills (status reporting) with Senior Leadership team including Cisco
Managers ITs, Directors & VPs.
Implementing best practices & spearheading continuous improvements with all release
methodologies (Agile/Waterfall) within the framework of Cisco's corporate risk controls
(Sarbanes-Oxley)

Release Program & Transition Manager- Vedicsoft Solutions
Client: Cisco Systems Inc. March 2009 July 2011

BIDS EDW is one of the largest revenue generating groups within Cisco. Managing, leading the
planning efforts & execution of releases in both EDW data warehouses - Oracle & Teradata

Roles & Responsibilities
Managed 6 resources globally; releases varying $1M to $0.5B
Responsible for ensuring a coordinated & consistent response across multiple development
teams during the IT scoping phase & development of functional specifications for a given
release.
Coordinate and provide leadership to cross-functional teams by providing periodic progress
reports to senior management at various stages of the release lifecycle spread across 6+
months.
Work with cross-functional core team to define & document the readiness scope, develop
detailed readiness plans, track/manage the plan to successful completion of multiple releases
Responsible for setting up of various infrastructure (database, Informatica, $U ) for Release test
cycles & continue as the single point of contact for any escalations during releases.
Responsible for risk management by identifying the potential risks in advance, proposing
mitigation plans and securing management sign off

Senior Software Engineer Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Client: Cisco Systems Inc. December 2004 March 2009
Roles Played: IT Analyst, Business Operations Lead

Cisco Finance IT group is another key contributor to the organizations revenue. Team specializes in
OLAP Reporting for Business Metrics like Bookings, Invoice, Revenue, Deferred Revenue, P&L to
perform critical business reports along with Data Integrity & reconciliations.

Roles & Responsibilities
Managed 4 offshore resources in providing 24/7 support to Cisco Finance IT team
Contact me
Email
sjkesavakumar@outlook.com
Skype
sjkesavakumar
Telephone
+1 408 991 4477 (US)
LinkedIn
Kesavakumar S J

About Me
Decisive, action-oriented
and results focused
professional offering
~10 yrs. of experience in
Project/Program
Management, Release &
Change Management,
Analysis & Design, Data
warehousing (DWH) tools
and methodologies.
Offer out standing talents
in team building, budget
management, developing
project scope (budgets,
timelines and delivery
dates), project& release
planning, organization
relationships, continuous
design improvements and
conducting status
meetings and group
reviews
Participative management
professional; results
focused, entrepreneurial
and practical
Experience in design,
development,
implementation,
maintenance & operation
of multiple projects and
ability to lead a team

Interest Areas
Release Management
Program/Project Management
IT Operations
Process Governance


Responsible for 24/7 uptime of critical P1 Finance applications. Audit, compliance reporting to
IT & Business teams
Closely interact with Controllers, Managers, IT Team to lay out new business models &
processes
Act as single POC for application releases, business critical P1s, management escalations,
infrastructure upgrades & providing management reporting on the potential issues/risks
Preparation of technical specification documents & analysis of business requirement by
working closely with various application , business teams & SME s


Skills























Education
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science (MS University 1999-2003)



Awards/Honors/Certifications
Operational Excellence Award (multiple times) - Cisco Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
team for successfully managing, leading & driving all programs & production releases
Release Recognition Award Cisco Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO)
for drastically reducing Teradata Production down time
Certificate of Appreciation Cisco Application Technology Services Organization (ATS)
team for outstanding performance & significant contribution to Kintana/PPM migration to
Richardson
Certificate of Appreciation Cisco Enterprise Release Management Organization (ERMO)
for Quality Process Governance across all FY12 Infrastructure releases
Pat On Back Award (multiple times)- Satyam Computer Services Ltd for out standing
performance
ITIL V3 Fondation, Oracle Certified Associate, IBM S390 Mainframe Professional
(Currently undergoing PMP training to attend exam in October 2014)

Achievements
Enabled Mobility (for iOS platform) for easy accessibility & project status tracking (Cisco)
Reduced Teradata Production down time from 5 days to 12 hrs. resulting 100% system
availability in 0.5 days & budget reduction by $ 0.5M (Cisco)
Introduced Project Portfolio Management workflow for Teradata platforms by working
with HP vendor & Configuration Management reducing man hours thus saving $75K
annually (Cisco)
Architected implementation of new process -Test Outage Capture tool (TOCT) (SSOT data
for any planned/unplanned downtime & Testing time loss) saving $500K annually (Cisco)
Handled Teradata Production releases, data worth of 130 Terabytes (core financial data for
Cisco Finance IT, ~ 50M Revenue) (Cisco)

Project Planning & Development
Release & Change Management
SDLC & Release methodologies
Data Warehousing



BI Tools

Databases


Programming GUI /Environment

Operations & Transition Management
Program Management
Onsite/Offshore team management
Technical Profile
Informatica Power Center 8.x/7.x, Designer, Workflow
Manager, Work flow Monitor, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, Dollar
Universe, SQL*Plus, Hyperion Essbase 6.5/9.x

Business Objects 6.5/6.0/5.1/5.0 MS Access Reports

Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8.0/7.x, Teradata V2R6.x, Teradata V12
IBM DB2, MS Access

SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, COBOL, TSO, VSAM, Sun Solaris,
MS DOS , Win 3.x/95/98/NT/XP, Red Hat Linux, S 390
Mainframe system
Management Profile