Kannan P.

Kannan P.

Senior Technical (IIoT-Cloud-Big Data-ML) Manager

Chennai , India

Experience: 23 Years

Kannan

Chennai , India

Senior Technical (IIoT-Cloud-Big Data-ML) Manager

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23 Years

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About Me

Experienced and knowledgeable IT project manager having 20+ years of IT experience who is known for, his excellent project delivery skills, adaptable and transformational leader with an ability to work independently, quick learner, can-do and hand...

  • Proficient in Waterfall, SCRUM and DevOps (On Premises & Cloud native) delivery methodologies
  • Expertise on Insurance (P&C, Life, Pension and Healthcare (both Payer & Provider)), Banking and Transportation verticals
  • Have on diversified experience of managing multiple different kind of projects in parallel. The scope includes service tickets, small changes, change requests, mid-sized projects, and large portfolio etc.,
  • Ability to lead both Integrated project model and onshore-offshore delivery model
  • Having work experience with reputed international clientele spanning across difference geographies like USA, UK, and Switzerland.
  • Have an experience on Industry 4.0 terminologies and provided IIoT solutions for manufacturing sector
  • Have an expertise on portfolio/project/test management activities, encompassing planning, design, scope definition, estimation, budget tracking(P&L), managing senior/junior ratio, resource administration, process management and compliance with quality standards
  • Have an experience of playing Business architect role to interact and formalize the requirements with customer using Pega’s DCO
  • Acted as a Scrum Master with a focus on guiding the team towards improving the way they work, including helping the PO to create Product log, remove potential impediments, prioritize the resolution of defects, conducting project planning and daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, collecting metrices, improvement plan and product demos
  • Have a hands-on experience on developing an entire ETL Workflow
  • Have an experience of transitioning a service from one customer to other
  • Experience in products such as Facets healthcare , Litmus IoT etc.,

 

  • Technical expertise on IoT / AWS / Azure / GCP / Big Data / Docker / NoSQL / Microservices components, Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2), Code generators (COOL:Gen, Pega),  Scripting language (PERL and Python), C, Unix and it’s utilities Lex, YACC and TreeGen, RPA (Openspan) 
  • Have an experience on MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB and CouchDB
  • Hands-on experience in DevOps Toolchain, Terraform, Ansible, YAML, GIT, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet and Maven
  • Experience in terms of Requirements Gathering, Design, Code build, Testing, Automation, Deployment, Post warranty and Closure
  • Have an experience on implementing Web services both SOAP and RESTful in Web Applications using RESTful API
  • Good experience with configuring and using MQTT broker to send commands and receive events from devices
  • Solid knowledge on Micro controllers, Actuators, Gateways / Networks, and other protocols like OCPP
  • Extensive knowledge in Design, Development, Migration, Deployment, and Integration of Pega PRPC
  • Have an experience on gathering objectives, requirements and specifications using Pega’s DCO
  • Have an experience of developing an IT product and providing service support for the customers
  • Have a detailed exposure in different testing methodologies like test case written, test case execution, validation, traceability etc.,
  • Knowledge of ServiceNow, Splunk, HP Quality Center, HiperStation, WinRunner, QFT, LoadRunner, Jira, OpenSpan RPA, Power BI, MS Office tools including MS project, PowerPoint and Visio

 

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Portfolio Projects

Description

Successful Implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley, Pega BPM’s Control and Compliance Solution Framework for one of the US Customerusing Agile/SCRUM methodologies. The responsibilities include:

  • Encouraging the team members to have Agile mindset and behavior
  • Conducting agile ceremonies and events
  • Assist and support the team for the effort estimation
  • Support the team to ensure goals of sprints are met
  • Assist the team to remove any impediments
  • Guiding the team to learn from the retrospectives and make sure the there is an improvement on the future sprints
  • Collecting the data to produce the required metrices like team capacity (velocity), work break down structure (user stories), burndown charts etc. and contributed to Agile/SCRUM Compliance Audit & Engineering Rigor Audit

Feasibility study for DCO (Direct Capture Objective) in Pega 5.4 SP2 and used COI (Conflict of Interest process) to test the process from end-to-end

Used Pega BPM’s DCO to capture the business requirements of Control and Compliance framework for US healthcare customer

Migration of customer's application from Pega 4.2 to Pega 5.3

Proposal creation of Pega BPM’s work streams Training, Migration and Architecture assessment for BCBS NC

Worked along with other Pega architects to set up a Pega CoE and to develop PoCs for the identified Use cases

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Cloud infrastructure support to leading HMO, USA on both Operations and Engineering areas covering AWS, Azure and GCP

Data extraction, Exchange, Migration onto ServiceNow by building integrations between in-house environment and external systems (Splunk, Dynatrace, SolarWinds, Flexera, Perspectum etc.,)

Support Splunk related activities along with SolarWinds & Prognosis integration

Built a Machine Learning (ML) solution using AWS Sagemaker. Demonstrated to RC and presented as a webinar to DY Patil University, Mumbai students

Developed a PoC using loop Edge and loop Edge Manager of Litmus IoT framework to demonstrate the automation of complete Industrial Edge Computing platform and IIoT device and data management layer.

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Engaged to manage the migration of Life & Savings (L&S) insurance portfolio following the merger of 2 companies along with sustaining the on-going delivery. Overall responsible for delivering the following work streams: BAU project, small & mid sized projects and also large migration programme

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Up Skilled to Pega (PRPC) as part of the individual learning and development initiative and completed the courses Pega 7.1 SAE1 & SAE2, Pega 7.2 SAE, Pega 7.2 Business Architect and Pega Robotic Process Automation in PDN. Cleared the Pega 7.2 Business Architect practice exam.

Worked along with other Pega architects to set up a Pega CoE and to develop PoCs for the identified Use ca

Acted as a SCRUM Master to O2. The roles and responsibilities are:

  • Working with PO to build Product Log
  • Facilitating the Sprint planning meeting,
  • Conducting the daily scrum meetings and removing the impediments,
  • Conducting the sprint review and retrospective meeting
  • Product demo to customer / PO along with the team
  • Collecting the data to produce the required metrices like team capacity (velocity), work break down structure (user stories), burndown charts etc.

Worked with other SMEs to devise Pega’s DevOps release pipeline

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