Natarajan Sankaran

Natarajan Sankaran

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Senior IT Manager for Project Delivery and Services at Global Telecom and IT Services
Texas, United States
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Starting at USD120/hour

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    Senior IT Manager for Project Delivery and Services
    Global Telecom and IT Services
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 (3 months)
    - Lead technology and strategy solution engagement across multi-functional workstream on big data and analytics for developing data management platform and customer data platform. - Drive improvement of programs using CMMI ver 2.0 framework and Agile project management practices across the organization.
  • Huawei Technologies
    Senior Project Manager for Automation and Intelligence delivery
    Huawei Technologies
    Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 4 months)
    - Hired as external management consultant and performed the role of customer project manager for evolved service assurance operation web service projects (OSS, Automation and Intelligence) using cloud native software. - Managed a distributed team of highly qualified professionals (40+ members) for successfully cutover the operation web service (AIOps) project for Fixed and Wireless domain. - Responsible for end to end cloud migration, customer satisfaction, project delivery, P&L, resource management, risk and cyber security compliance. - Achieved the project delivery revenue of 15+M USD and gross profit margin target of 26% through effective project management, monitoring and control. -Element management system and third-party system integ
  • B
    Director of Operations and Sales
    Berjaya Corporation Berhad
    Jan 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 7 months)
    - Data Practice Leader, Sales and advisory roles for digital transformation, service design strategy, client and partnership engagements. - Project Director for implementing Process Automation, Advanced Analytics and AIOps projects using CRISP-DM methodologies. - Monitor digital transformation programs and ensure it meets the goals and customer requirements.
  • Huawei Technologies
    Program Head for Transition and Transformation
    Huawei Technologies
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 1 month)
    - Hired as subject matter expert for south pacific assurance and managed service department. - Core bidding team member and led to secure US$300M deal for End to End Network Managed services, Next Generation OSS and AIOps project. - Contract disengagement leader and successfully negotiated and sign off disengagement service with client which helped to save 85+MUSD for Huawei. -Program Leader for Transition and Transformation activities for Network Managed service which includes OSS, Process and People. - Network Operations leader for Power and Energy Management.
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    Chief Operating Officer
    CADS - The Center of Applied Data Science
    Jan 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 8 months)
    - Manage end to end operations, P&L, develop strategic roadmap for Telco (ULearn) and Data science firm (CADS) - Data Practice leader and leading a team of data professionals to provide BI solutions and training delivery services in the areas of Data, Digital and Telco Analytics. - Instrumental in ideation, design, and conceptualization of data marketplace (DXP) platform.
  • Huawei Technologies
    Program Head for Network Managed Services Delivery
    Huawei Technologies
    Apr 2012 - Jan 2017 (4 years 10 months)
    • Hired as Subject Matter Expert and successfully managed large scale transformation programs and projects and generated annual business plan worth US$100+ Million. • Proactively introduce solution and values to clients to improve their business performance. • Identify and capture new business opportunities from existing clients, negotiate contracts, and drive revenue growth for the company. • As managed service presales solution leader helped to convert business deals close to US$500+Million. • Leader for energy efficiency programs and deployed technical and management solution to decarbonize and to save energy cost. • Managed team of ICT professionals across geographies to meet project scope of work and delivery timelines. • Perform
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
    Regional Program Manager-BSS Delivery Assurance
    Nokia Siemens Networks
    May 2010 - Mar 2012 (1 year 11 months)
    • Hired as senior external consultant for APAC BSS Projects delivery assurance, project milestones validation, quality and process Improvement activities for the organization based on CMMI, Lean and Agile. • Developed BSS delivery model along with customer and signed off to recognize project revenue of US$5+Million and drive step up BSS quality improvement programs. • Enterprise Agile Leader for Nokia BSS R&D units and carried out assessments to improve • Led the customer audit for entire Nokia projects in Malaysia and successfully passed the assessment with good result.
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    R&D Program Manager
    Nokia's Networks business
    May 2008 - May 2010 (2 years 1 month)
    • Heading quality department and process improvement initiatives for the WiMAX R&D facility. Program head for ISO 9001 quality certification and CMMI assessments and successfully assessed with higher maturity levels. • Oversee embedded software product development of WiMAX CPE (MIMO and SISO variant) using TR069 standards. Responsible for end-to-end delivery assurance that includes software, hardware and new product introduction. • Prepare annual internal quality audits plan, conduct audits and ensure conformance against the defined organization standards.
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    Program office Manager
    Ericsson R&D
    Apr 2007 - May 2008 (1 year 2 months)
    • Program manager for Agile and Streamline development in R&D projects for reducing product lead time to market by 50%. • Product development, delivery assurance and Quality In charge for BSS products. • Strategy, target settings and balanced scorecard set up and executive reporting with related KPI's and metrics.
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    Project Quality Manager
    Nokia Solutions & Networks – Telecommunications
    Jul 2005 - Apr 2007 (1 year 10 months)
    • Responsible for project milestone validation of BSS customer projects in India, Middle east, Europe and China regions. • CMMI assessment coordinator for Siemens AG, Germany and successfully passed the high maturity assessment. • Functional Area Representative for SEPG, SQA and Metrics Council for CMMI L4 assessments.
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    Quality Executive and Internal Auditor
    HCL Tech. DPO
    May 2004 - Jul 2005 (1 year 3 months)
    • Coordinated for ISO 27001 assessment, defined ISMS measurements and maintain organization process assets library and executive reporting on QA status. • Defined SLA based engagement for LMS projects between CISCO and HCL.
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    Executive-Quality Assurance
    Local SMEs
    Aug 2002 - May 2004 (1 year 10 months)
    • Part of organization SEPG, SQA and metrics council team. Identify the opportunities for process improvements and provide inputs for process optimization
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  • Scrum Alliance
    Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)
    Scrum Alliance
    Mar 2023
  • Huawei
    Data Privacy Protection
    Huawei
    Oct 2021
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    Certified Train the Trainer
    HRD Corp - Human Resource Development Corporation
    Jan 2018
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    Masters, Communication and Media Studies
    Edith Cowan University
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2003 (2 years)
  • Bharathiar University
    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science & Engineering
    Bharathiar University
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2002 (4 years 1 month)
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    Primary, Secondary and Senior School, MPCC
    Rsk
    Jan 1985 - Dec 1998 (14 years)
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  • Huawei
    Operation Web Service (Automation)
    Huawei
    Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 4 months)
    - As a Project manager took the responsibility to deliver Automation and Intelligent web service project using cloud native software and agile way of work. Managing a qualified ICT professionals to deliver this AI/ML scope of work
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    Data Analytics Project
    Jul 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    As a Project Director managing a team of data Scientists and data engineers to develop dynamic dashboard system using BI (Tableau) tool to visualize the market penetration as a percentage of the population, Product Availability by the dealers, Monitor Sales order and inventory movement, dealer penetration within specific radius, greater customer insights and behaviors. This project includes the ETL, rule-based Automation, analytics dashboards, predictive and what-if analysis for the Sales and management team to gain deeper insights and actions to increase 3x revenue and exponentially improve the customer service experience (Method/Lifecycle: CRISP-DM/ Iterative and Incremental)
  • Huawei Technologies
    Cybersecurity Assessment
    Huawei Technologies
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2017 (3 years 5 months)
    - PIC for coordinating and driving cyber security assessment for all customer projects in South Pacific region
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  • Huawei Technologies
    Global Technical Service -Technical Pacesetter Excellence Award
    Huawei Technologies
    Dec 2016
    - Awarded by Huawei HQ for providing excellent services on O&M Management.
  • Huawei Technologies
    Galloping Horse Award
    Huawei Technologies
    Dec 2016
    - Achieved several Galloping Horse awards for the contribution in MS presales and Delivery.
  • Huawei Technologies
    Best Region Process Controller Award
    Huawei Technologies
    Dec 2015
    - Awarded as best region Process Controller by Huawei HQ for improving the internal control maturity level.
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    How to reduce Product Lead Time to Market by 50%
    IIR Middle East
    Aug 2008
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    Implementing Quality Gates for Achieving Sound Management Decisions in Projects
    Quality Assurance Institute
    Feb 2007
    This paper was published to industry based on the best practices adopted in SIEMENS AG and was being a part of risk and quality committee we developed this framework for customer projects.
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    Planning a Suitable Approach to Avoid Risk of Failure in Multimedia Project
    Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications
    May 2003