Vaidyanathan Sivasubramanian

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VAIDYANATHAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN Mobile: +91 9632202921 ~ E-Mail: [email protected] ~ [email protected]

SENIOR LEADERSHIP | DELIVERY MANAGEMENT | PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | OUTSOURCED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT | QUALITY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Executive Summary

A seasoned top management IT professional with 23+ years of rich experience in creating and sustaining multi-geo teams spread across US / India / UK / Singapore / Malaysia / China working on various technology stacks and spanning multi-year/ multi-million dollar Programs. Instrumental in setting up Offshore Development Centre for various Fortune 50 companies like Intel, IBM, GE.

MS in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, India and Certified ITIL V3®. Currently working with NetApp as Senior Engineering Program Manager. Proficient in all aspects of Software Engineering, Outsourced Product Development, Project Management,

Business Development, Quality, Training and People Management. Sound knowledge of Technology as well as Business. As part of Production Leadership team, delivered innovative high quality products and services within

demanding time & budget restrictions. Good team player with excellent analytical, interpersonal communication and leadership skills. Passionate about creating and sustaining high performing organizations which develop innovative Products

and Services.

Core Competencies

Software Engineering Project Management Product Development

Quality Assurance Analytical & Problem Solving Creativity & Innovation

Coordination & Collaboration Training & Mentoring Leadership

Technical Skills:

Expertise in Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, FOSS compliance, TeraData Data Warehousing, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Reporting, Datameer, Pentaho, BlackDuck Protex, Oracle, SAP, Java, Spring, Hibernate, DB2, C/C++/C#, COBOL, JCL/VSAM/MVS, .NET, ASP, HPC, PL/1, REXX, Easytrieve, GCOS7, Supra, IDMS, IMS, Informix.

Noteworthy Accomplishments

NetApp:

Within a short span received all-round appreciation for Operational Excellence in leading the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) compliance, Business Intelligence and Analytics practices across NetApp.

CSC:

Several client appreciations for delivering Business Critical applications that are helping the PCI industry leader – VISA – in achieving its business objectives.

Aditi Technologies:

Several rave reviews from Microsoft in developing next gen Products of eLearning, Communication/ Collaboration, HealthCare, Scientific WorkFlow.

Intel:

Several rewards and four Departmental / Divisional Recognition Awards in InfoSec, mission critical applications development / maintenance and Corporate Training. Based on exceptional performance promoted from Software Group Leader to Engineering Manager and then Program Manager within a short span of time.

iGATE Global Solutions (formerly Mascot Systems):

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First to be nominated into “Mascot Movers” – an elite club of high achievers. Based on exceptional performance promoted from Associate Project Manager to Project Manager and then Senior Project Manager within a short time.

Career Contour

S. No. Company Name Designation Duration

1. NetApp Senior Engineering Program Manager Since Aug 2012

2. CSC Senior Program Manager Jun 2009 to Aug 2012

3. Aditi Technologies General Manager Feb 2008 to Apr 2009

4. Intel Corporation Program Manager Sep 2000 to Feb 2008

5. iGATE Global Solutions Senior Project Manager Jun 1997 to Aug 2000

6. WIPRO SystemsSystems Manager Jan 1995 to May 1997

7. PSI Data Systems Software Engineer Aug 1992 to Dec 1994

NetApp Senior Engineering Program Manager Since Aug 2012

Key Deliverables: ASUP Analytics and Reporting: AutoSupport is an integrated and efficient monitoring and reporting

mechanism that constantly checks the health of NetApp systems. The automated configuration, status and error data is mined to do Product Usage Analysis, At Risk Systems reporting, Install Base Profiling and Storage Efficiency related Big Data Analytics and Reporting using Hadoop / Cloudera / Flume / Datameer / Pentaho. The Install Base Profiling tool was developed using Agile Scrum methodology within four months and deployed within four weeks. This tool is providing invaluable insights to top management, Sales & Marketing, Account Managers and has received numerous awards for business enablement.

Business Analytics: BI Reporting and Data Analytics for Business Functions like Sales and Marketing, Finance (Internal Audit), HR including Competitive Analysis, Tech Refresh Analysis, Pipeline / Invoice / Shipment / Rebate Reporting, Segmentation Analysis, Quarterly Business Reviews, IDC / Gartner Reports Analysis, Win-Loss Reporting, Compliance Audits and Workforce Analysis.

FOSS compliance: of all the 23 products of NetApp across 5 different product lines using BlackDuck Protex, working with Product Ops / CTO / Legal / Information Engineering teams.

CSC Senior Program Manager Jun 2009 to Aug 2012

Key Deliverables: As part of the Office of Innovation, worked on three different strategic initiatives:

The GAD (Global Applications Delivery) Product Management initiative was chartered with planning, developing and deploying standardized processes for all industrialized global services of CSC

Enabled CSC global Accounts project their Engagement Summary in a professional manner to their clients by near real time Business Intelligence Dashboards.

Provided Program Management support to the global SAP Program. Development / Maintenance / 24x7 production support of four business critical applications of VISA,

namely, VbV (Verified by VISA), Prepaid, Loyalty, and Corporate Systems, with a team size of 60 members. The applications encompassed wide spectrum of technologies including MS Technologies (.NET 3.5, WCF, C#, SQL Server 2005), Java/J2EE (including Spring / Hibernate) and IBM (WBE, MQ Series).

Aditi Technologies General Manager Feb 2008 to Apr 2009

Key Deliverables: Lead a cross-functional team of 125 employees focused on creating cutting edge products for Microsoft on

latest technologies including .NET 3.0/3.5, WPF, WCF, SilverLight, HPC, SQL Server 2008, Exchange 12/14, Domino / Lotus Notes migration.

Some of the products shipped were in domains of HealthCare, eLearning, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Scientific WorkFlow. The end-to-end product life cycle envisage conception through to implementation. The primary


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focus was ensuring teams follow all the Microsoft Dev and Test Processes. The 54 person strong Test team focused on End User Experience Testing by Manual Testing as well as Automation Testing using tools like WTT and C# scripting.

The team comprising of User Experience, Technical Architects, Software Developers, Software Manual / Automation Test professionals worked on very tight Agile / SCRUM methodology projects with focus on quality to ensure operational excellence.

Intel Corporation Program Manager Sep 2000 to Feb 2008

Key Deliverables: Setup the Intel India Development Centre, chartered with full SDLC software development, maintenance &

24/7 production support of mission and business critical applications. The 284 applications, supported by a global team of 152 permanent employees across multi-geo (US, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore), are working in the spheres of Manufacturing Automation, Business Intelligence and Information Quality.

The technologies involved: Mainframes (from HP), Midrange (from Sun/Oracle) to PCs’ (from DELL) with VAX, Windows XP, Solaris as OS running COBOL, C/C++ on TIBCO middleware. Rigorous Test practices were implemented by a sub-team of 60 Manual and Automation Testers using tools like Rational Robot, WinRunner, LoadRunner and QTP. Creation of a $1.5m software development / test lab tremendously helped these efforts.

Proposed and executed Information Security Program Management initiatives to cyber secure the company. Achieved this by creating a “Rapid Application Qualification” team comprising a blend of 50 permanent / temp employees. Setting up of a US $2.5m Automation Test Lab, utilizing WinRunner and QTP involving 10K+ test cases, helped this effort. Put together an outsourcing strategy wherein managed two Indian vendors to remove a major security risk by EoL’ing over 10K WinNT4.0 systems and migrating them to Win2K / WinXP.

Created the Information Quality tool-kit for the company comprising of Data Quality Methodology, Processes, Tools and Training. The tool-kit is providing multi-million dollar ROI, apart from compliance to various regulatory requirements like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, DOD5015.2-STD and the European Data Privacy Directive. Major focus was to consolidate various disparate transactional and operational systems into TeraData as the Data Warehouse and to use MicroStrategy as Business Intelligence enabler – within a year cost savings associated with this effort came to $600 million!

Created an integrated framework of Business Process, Data and Data Quality deliverables for teams to work collaboratively towards achieving quality solutions.

Driving technical and soft skills enhancement of employees by defining and teaching Intel University courses like Data Quality, Structured Problem Solving and Decision Making. I have received several awards for being the best instructor and featured in the “Hall of Fame” multiple times.

Championing organization’s social responsibility tasks by being a proud & dedicated volunteer for organizing and participating in “Intel Involved” community activities.

iGATE Global Solutions Senior Project Manager Jun 1997 to Aug 2000

Key Deliverables: Instrumental in starting up and executing the Offshore Development Centre (ODC) having 400 employees.

Accounts included multi-year US $12.5m complete SDLC software development, maintenance and test support for leading Fortune 500 companies like GE, Agilent, Holland America Line Westours, SONOCO, Florida Power & Light and RichFood Distributors.

The technologies involved are ASP.NET, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IDMS, IMS, Supra, Easytrieve, SQL Server, C/C++, Domino/Lotus Notes on IBM Mainframes (primarily ES9000), PCs’ running OS390, Windows NT 4.0. To ensure quality testing, a dedicated Test Competency Centre focusing on Manual and Automation Testing using Rational Robot and WinRunner was created having 140 employees.

One of the chief Architects of the SmartAPPSSM based framework for defining and driving the offshore business model for any organization. As part of the process automation kit, developed four IBM Mainframe / Windows based tools for Y2K conversion activities. These helped drastically reduced the cycle-time of Testing by 60%.

As head of the Tools group, conceptualized and implemented internal Automation Tools on Domino/Lotus Notes for Project Management activities of Timesheet maintenance, Issue management, Resource management and Billing maintenance. Business partners access these tools to get seamless, up-to-date information on the state of their projects.

Instrumental in fostering quality culture by inculcating SEI-CMM practices within the company, towards achieving CMM Level 3 accreditation.


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Wipro Systems Systems Manager Jan 1995 to May 1997

Key Deliverables: Managed a US $1.2m account of GE Power Systems MRP applications involving software development,

maintenance and conversion projects on IBM Mainframes (primarily ES9000) running OS390 with COBOL/CICS/VSAM/DB2. A dedicated Test Competency Centre, having 34 employees, was setup to plan and execute 1K+ manual test cases, covering the two MRP applications, called COPICS (Customer Oriented Production Information Control System) and FOPICS (Fitchburg COPICS).

Legacy systems re-engineering of Albany Life Assurance PLC (part of MetLife) at UK: Based out of London for a period of nine months. Drove the business process and associated technology re-engineering to reposition Albany as the preferred Insurance partner for individuals and companies. The re-engineering involved IBM Mainframe (ES9000) based COBOL/VSAM/CICS/DB2/IDMS/IMS/Supra/Easytrieve application to a client-server model on IBM PCs’ with ASP.NET, SQL Server, VisualAge, VB/VC ++. Comprehensive Testing included Regression Testing, Load Testing and Stress Testing using Rational Robot.

Being a Systems Engineer, implemented Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Coding and Manual Testing for several projects of IBM, UK. Primary project was a US $2.3m, 100 person years account for completely revamping software applications suite of three power distribution companies of UK, running on IBM Mainframe (ES9000) with OS390 and COBOL/CICS/VSAM/DB2 as technologies.

Instrumental in fostering quality culture by inculcating SEI-CMM practices within the company, towards achieving CMM Level 5 accreditation.

PSI Data Systems Software Engineer Aug 1992 to Dec 1994

Key Deliverables: BULL France – OS patch development / deployment, Core Dump analysis of both OS and Database, Systems

Administration of local & remote mainframes / tape drives / printers and DBA for the BULL mainframe (DPS7) based network databases (IDBS) with a native OS (GCOS7).

Bank Of India – Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Coding and Manual Testing of the Foreign Exchange module of the project which was aimed at total bank & branch automation, running on UNIX based BULL mid-frames with Informix/C/C++. Other responsibilities included Business Proposal creating, Client Liaison and Issue resolution.

Acted as the Quality coordinator for ISO 9000-3 Software Standards implementation, auditing and certification of the company.

Academics and Value Additions M.S. in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science – Pilani, India with 9.07 CGPA in

2003. B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) in Computer Science & Engineering; Honors: Distinctions in all four years of

the course – University rank holder in 1992. Certified ITIL V3 ®; Honors: 100% Score.

Personal Details

Languages Known : English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, French. Address : 2601, 5th Main, Kumaraswamy Layout 2nd Stage, Bangalore – 560078, India. Preferred Location : Open to re-locate within India / Overseas.


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