Kumar Selvam
Kumar Selvam
pskumarweb@gmail.com
+1-860-834-2563
Morrisville, NC
www.pskumar.com

pskumarweb@gmail.com
+1-860-834-2563
Morrisville, NC
www.pskumar.com

KEY SKILLS
Overall Experience
24 yrs
Sales & Business Development
16 yrs
Service Delivery & Operations
18 yrs
Client Relationship Management
16 yrs
Project Management
19 yrs
Solution Architecture
20 yrs
SDLC
25 yrs
EDUCATION

B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology (Formerly known as Regional Engineering College), Trichy (India)

CERTIFICATIONS
  • Brain Bench Certification on VB.NET
  • Brain Bench Certification on ASP.NET
  • Brain Bench Certification on C#
  • Brain Bench Certification on ASP
  • Oracle 11i & PL/SQL- Certified by Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai
  • C - Obtained 3 Brain Bench Certifications

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Client Partner; managing large client portfolios handling sales & business development, client relationship, strategy and business transformations with directives on revenue and bottom-line.

PMP Certified; Program Management with extensive background in managing manifold projects, programs and possess 19+years of IT experience in IT Service Delivery and IT Operations.

Specialized Areas: Client Relationship Management, Service Delivery Management, Transition & Digital Transformation Management, DevOps, Program and Project Management.

Domain Expertise: Healthcare (14+years), Manufacturing, Banking & Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail & E-Commerce.

Career Path: Technical DeveloperSolution ArchitectProgram & Project ManagementTransition & Transformation DirectorBusiness Development & Account Management

MAJOR ROLES PLAYED

  • Client Partner for $48Mn of a top US Healthcare customer portfolio
  • Delivery Director for $41Mn customer portfolio
  • Global Transition Manager for $400Mn IT applications portfolio
  • Program Manager for major application portfolio rationalization program $8.5Mn
  • Project Manager & Solution Architect for major security and .NET application platform upgrade project in Wachovia Securities
  • Enterprise Application Architect for the VB & Power Builder to .NET upgrade program size of $4.5Mn

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Service Integration & Delivery Management, Business Development & Program Management
  • Global Application Transition
  • Pursuit/Deal Management for IT Consulting & Delivery
  • Due Diligence for application development, maintenance & support programs
  • Consulting in ITIL/ Process Improvement
  • AGILE-DevOps transformation and digitization
  • Expert in various stack of technologies and played Enterprise Architect role for multiple medium-large size projects and transformed application landscape by optimizing to delivery reduction on OpEx
  • Started as a technical developer, progressed into to an architect, transformed to Manager and evolved into Executive Management: (Global Team Management Skills across various areas – Infrastructure, Testing, Development, Maintenance & Support, Business Process Services)

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

Client Partner/Delivery Director for $41Mn Customer Portfolio: Managed customer relationship, service delivery and business development for customer portfolio consisted of various programs in IT, IT IS and BPS involving 9 locations and 3 countries

Managed Transition for customer portfolio valued at $400Mn – while holding the title of Transition Director (Global Transition and Transformation) for Walgreens at Chicago; also conducted a transition for McKesson Speciality Health and IT portfolio of UHG (PacifiCare Healthcare)

RFI/RFP/Due Diligence Deals won in 2015: Application maintenance deals (BCBSLA - $12Mn, MedAssets – $7Mn, Aetna International - $27Mn). Involved in providing solution from IT delivery, consulting, transition and portfolio rationalization. Involved straight from RFI response, questionnaire participation, architecting RFP solution, deal presentation through defence presentation and due-diligence

State of the Art tool for Transition Governance: created templates, tools, processes and governance from scratch for Centralized Knowledge Transition for application development, maintenance and support programs. Part of the strategic team which developed Cognizant’s Global Transition Framework

Project Manager for $8.5Mn Architecture upgrade project: Managed large project of assessing current state and defining future state of the application landscape. Directed and managed various projects as part of the program to achieve portfolio optimization with elimination, consolidation and upgrade

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Role: Client Partner Mar’18 – at present

Responsibilities: As a Client Partner, my responsibilities include Consulting, transforming business strategies for customer engagements and managing P&L for the $48Mn IT portfolio

Consulting:

  • Responsible and accountable for managing top-line growth by individual service lines (ADM, BPS, IT IS, IVS, DNA, BPM, etc.,)
  • Responsible for proactive IT solutions proposal for application reimaging, vendor consolidation and digitization
  • Responsible for quarterly, monthly projection and top-line based on pipeline of initiatives by service lines
  • Responsible for branding, identifying business cases and proactive solution proposal for NIA (Infosys’ Artificial Intelligence Integrated Platform)
  • Organize and lead deal pursuit teams, participate and lead developing aspects of the SOW, proposals, and contribute to solution and pricing strategy

Achievements:

  • $1.6Mn deal on next generation enterprise governance platform modernization
  • $2.2Mn deal on provider onboarding, credentialing using PEGA and machine learning to achieve 80% automation on PSV (Primary Source Verification)
  • $1.8Mn deal on Data Masking tool licensing, Test CoE for centralized regression testing task force providing governance across application areas - ->
  • $1.5Mn deal on microservices cloud migration for specialty and provider business lines
  • Agile & DevOps roadmap definition and implementation in 3 business applications areas
  • Reimaging of broker portal & provider portal applications
  • Proposed proactive solution for virtual consultation platform (Anticipated TCV $3.5Mn)
  • Proposed reimaging of broker credentialing and licensing platform modernization using Pega & Vlocity’s Channel Management
  • Proposed and implementing PEGA CoE for BPM applications consolidation and PEGA testing
Tech Mahindra
BASF - Durham, NC
Solenis - Wilmington, DE
Dec’14 – Jan'18

Role: Client Partner/NA Regional Operations, Delivery & Business Development

Responsibilities: As a Client Partner, my responsibilities include Consulting, transforming business strategies for customer engagements and managing P&L

Consulting:

  • Responsible and accountable for business development by managing separate task forces for new RFPs as well as expanding existing business by Defend & Grow initiatives
  • Leading Defend & Grow as an Organizational level initiative to expand the current footprint of all the customer base
  • Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple engagements (IT, IT IS & BPS) directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives
  • Responsible for IT delivery, operations and business development and managing P&L
  • Responsible for defining road map for digitization and AGILE-DevOps transformation of IT application portfolio
  • Responsible for proactive IT solutions proposal for application portfolio optimization to reduce application landscape footprint and OpEx spend
  • Responsible for managing delivery, service line targets for USCROP and P&SS business applications support
  • Responsible for proposing strategy and execution management of applications migration into cloud
  • Collaborate with various functional groups internally as well as in customer organization to obtain the necessary support on resourcing, operations support and technological advice on solutions proposal
  • Manage customer demand, expectation and relationship by involving customer IT leadership team and business sponsors
  • Direct and manage monthly and quarterly demand planning based on pipeline projects and resource utilization
  • Manage resource ramp-up/down and re-align core and flex team for maximum resource utilization and accommodate new projects and initiatives
  • Responsible for defining and directive engagement level innovation, service improvements and pass the benefits to customer through value additions, additional projects and service credits
  • Maintain key business relationships and enable achievement of specific objectives around all stakeholders for their respective business segments
  • Organize and lead deal pursuit teams, participate and lead developing aspects of the SOW, proposals, and contribute to solution and pricing strategy

Achievements:

  • Proactively proposed and implemented for 10g to 12c complete BDW & peripheral applications
  • Proposed and capitalized major IT application consolidation program of Datalake (BigData) implementation and migrating BDW and downstream applications with DataLake
  • Proposed and implemented new BI Analytics & Reporting platform in Tableau by migrating the current business reports into new Tableau BI platform
  • Performed major security upgrade of IT infrastructure, application and network security hardening
  • Proposed & implemented consumer facing website into completely e-commerce enabled platform integrated with SAP * SFDC through Enterprise Service Bus (webMethods)
  • Lead major applications migration to cloud and transitioned from application infrastructure to infrastructure as a service model
  • Implemented DevOps by maturing to lean Agile methodologies, lead processes and automation IT & business processes including various tools
Cognizant
SolutionStar Mortgage Solutions - Dallas, TX
McKesson Specialty health - Phoenix, AZ
Walgreens - Chicago, IL
Jun’06 – Aug'14

Role: Business Development & Service Delivery Manager

Responsibilities: As an Account Manager, my responsibilities include Consulting and Delivery for the AVM engagement of $14Mn and managing bottom line and P&L

Consulting:

  • Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple engagements (IT, IT IS & BPS) directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives
  • Responsible for multiple customer engagements’ P&L, revenue & profitability targets
  • Identify, plan and implement innovations across all the engagements to meet the SBU level targets
  • Responsible for account level profitability to meet the Organization SBU level targets by improvising the resource utilization and innovation factors
  • Drafting Short and long-term Roadmap for the account catering to objectives of Client and Cognizant
  • Responsible for performance of services to client as agreed in the contract and ensure that the Service Levels are achieved
  • Ensure quality and profitable services are performed to the agreed SLA
  • Ensure that systems, processes and methodologies as specified are followed to sure effective monitoring, control and support of service delivery
  • Lead the effort along with customer for Portfolio rationalization and design “Offshoring Strategy” in alignment with client’s strategic goals
  • Responsible for defining ADM Global Knowledge Transition Process Framework for the team to obtain application knowledge from the SMEs also to measure the success in qualitative and quantitative methods
  • Responsible for maintaining bottom-line through process, people innovation and other cost optimization techniques in managed services model
  • Adding to top-line revenue by driving Operational excellence and exploring the opportunities for cross and up selling in collaboration with various COE’s/Horizontals within Organization
  • Assist in developing proposals and partnering with team leads to staff projects
  • Maintain key business relationships and enable achievement of specific objectives around all stakeholders for their respective business segments
  • Organize and lead pursuit teams, participated and leaded aspects of the SOW and proposal development process, and contributed to proposal solution and various pricing strategies
  • Define and initiate projects, manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program
  • Motivate, mentor and lead personnel and ensure everyone is involved and passionate in the engagement
  • Present periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and client issues
HTC Global Services Dec’05 – Jun'06

Project Manager / Architect

Responsibilities: As a Technical Project Manager & Enterprise Architect, my responsibilities include Consulting and Delivery for application development, maintenance and support for in-house software products

Consulting:

  • Responsible for requirements gathering from business users and project stakeholders, analysis, technical design, development and implementation of the product backlogs
  • Responsible for maintaining multiple product versions and requirements for multi-tenant applications and product backlogs and parallel release management
  • Responsible for analyzing technical design concerns, and provide solution on application architect components and logical solutions for business problems and use cases
  • Responsible for leading the technical team for parallel work stream delivery, unit-testing, QA testing and implementation post coordinating UAT validation
  • Responsible for maintaining and support for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application and additional peripheral systems integrating with the core ERP application
  • Responsible for change management, cab meeting, risk analysis and mitigation, project cost, quality and schedule
  • Responsible for weekly internal and external stakeholder discussions and status reporting on the current progress, upcoming releases and future pipeline projects (backlogs)
  • Converted legacy web applications from classic ASP into ASP.NET web application with additional enhancements
  • Performed database design, logical & physical model designs, query optimization & performance tuning (Performed these DBA activities in SQL Oracle 9i)
  • Designed Theme Based, CSS Style Based UI Design using ASP.NET Themes & XHTML

Achievements: As a System Architect designed the complete Leave System & E-Attendance System to be dynamic and suitable for any kind of organization to fulfill their processes and standards.

Environment: ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, ADO.NET, AJAX.NET, WebForms, WinForms, XML, XHTML, CSS, ASP.NET Themes, Web Services, SOA, Oracle 9i, Crystal Reports 10.

Other roles handled: Project Manager, Architect, Technical Lead and Developer Jan’00 – Dec'05

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Languages
  • AngularJS
  • VB.NET
  • C#.NET
  • ASP.NET
  • VB6.0
  • ASP
  • C
  • C++
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Python
  • VB Script
  • Java Script
  • Shell Script
Technologies
  • ML.NET
  • ADO.NET
  • AJAX.NET
  • Web Services
  • JSON
  • REST Services
  • SOAP
  • HTML
  • DHTML
  • XML
  • XSD
Databases
  • Oracle
  • MSSQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • IBM DB2
  • SQLite
  • MSAccess
  • PL/SQL
  • T-SQL
  • Stored Procedures
Version Controls
  • Git
  • CVS
  • Visual Source Safe 6.0
  • WinCVS
  • ClearCase
  • SVN
Windows Programming
  • Win32 API
  • COM
  • DCOM
  • ActiveX
  • Batch Scripts
Operating Systems
  • Linux/Unix
  • Windows
  • DOS
  • HP-VMS
  • VMWare Esxi
Reporting Tools
  • Crystal Reports
  • Actuate
  • Tableau
  • Cognos
Design Methodologies
  • UML
  • MS Visio
Other Tools
  • MS Office
  • Autodesk Mapguide 6.0