Srihari D

With over 18+ years of IT experience, including 10+ years of Project Management experience and 3 years of Program Management experience, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to any organization. My technical expertise and Project/Program Management skills are complemented by my ability to collaborate effectively with teams and stakeholders across different functional areas. I am adept at communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and at building strong relationships with partners and vendors. Following are my overall job responsibilities.

• Defining the overall program strategy and goals, and aligning them with the company's strategic objectives.
• Ensuring that the individual projects within the program are aligned with the program strategy and goals.
• Managing the program budget, timeline, and resources, and ensuring that they are optimized for success.
• Managing the risks and issues within the program, and developing contingency plans if needed.
• Providing regular status updates to senior management and other stakeholders.
• Managing the relationships with key partners and vendors, and ensuring that they are delivering on their commitments.
• Ensuring that the program is delivering high-quality products that meet the needs of the customers.

Srihari D                                                                                                                                                        Senior Technical Project Manager / Program Manager

Professional Summary:

• Proven record with overall 18+ years of experience in IT industry for various PLM implementations & ASM projects. Managed variety of team sizes, onsite/offshore model in domains like Automotive, 

Construction, Heavy Engineering, Maritime & CPG as Senior Technical Project Manager / Program Manager.

• Innovative Program Manager with a proven history of strategically guiding organizations to reach goals. Adept in overseeing the progress of operations, and monitoring PLM & IT projects. Experienced in leading multiple project teams and evaluating project progress to achieve results in a timely manner.
• Experienced and initiative-taking Project Manager bringing forth over 10 years of experience serving as an effective Project Manager in IT Industry. Adept in all aspects of project management including planning, budget management, and coordinating all working parts of a project. Experienced in collaborating directly with clients to ensure all the goals of a project are achieved and met within scope and budget. Energetic, Self-Driven, and accomplished Project Manager in managing complex IT implementations, System integrations, Data migrations and AMS projects.
• Sophisticated software development and engineering skills with genuine enthusiasm for resolving business challenges through technical innovation. 
• Complex Implementations and Operations manager who bridges gap between business groups and implementations teams.
• Led and implemented complex PLM projects and global teams – Mitigated risks, managed requirements, and worked with project stake holders while managing expectations at various levels in the project.
• Primary skills are Technical Project Management, Account handling, Customer facing, operations support, working on project proposals and Estimations.
• Top-Performing leader with record of implementing successful operations of various tracks of the program.
• Proven Technical Manager with complete support in creating Functional Requirements Documents, Conceptual Design Document and Technical Design Document for implementation projects.
• Excellent communication skills, Team management, Client coordination, ability to learn new skills and versatile knowledge base.
• Secondary skills in supporting technical skills include C/C++, MFC, VC++, C#.NET SOA, Core Java, Python, Spring Boots, Angular JS, XML, Perl Scripting, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g.

Educational Record:

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering                                    2002 

National Institute of Technology, Surat (SVRCET)

Achievements:

• Certified Scrum Master.
• Received Gold Academy Award for extraordinary performance for GPDM project at L&T Technology Services.
• PMP certified – awarded from L&T based PMI
• Received Team Challenge-Milestone Award for extraordinary performance for supporting TCAI 7.2.0 under critical deadlines.
• Certificate of Achievement for successful Release of TCAI 7.0.0 from client Siemens.
• Achieved Champ Award at Scandinavian Microsystems for the best performance for iScanDisplay®.

Managerial Skills:

Project Management area: 

• IT custom application designs
• IT implementations
• Data Migrations/Integrations
• Enterprise-wide Implementations
• Strategic Planning
• Risk Management & Risk Mitigation
• Leadership and Performance Enhancement
• Change Management
• Complex-Problem Solving Abilities
• Agile Scrum management

IT Project Lifecycle: 

• Requirements Analysis
• Costing & Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support

Value-Added Leadership: 

• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Business & IT Planning

Professional Experience:

HCL TECHNOLGIES

Client: UKG, Dallas Texas                                                         Aug 2022 – Oct 2022         

Role: Program Manager

• Creating and overseeing the development of program plans that define goals, objectives, timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Implement program plans, coordinate activities across multiple teams, and ensure that the three projects under the program is delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Work closely with business leaders to accommodate teams to find the requirements and map them to Teamcenter solutions. 
• Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks and issues, and develop contingency plans to address potential problems.

Client: Illumina, Dallas Texas                                                               

Role: Business Analyst                                                                    Sept 2021 – July 2022         

• Work closely with business leaders to collect requirements and map them to Teamcenter solutions. 
• Help them achieve the required project deliverables for implementation projects under engineering tower.
• Analyze the business requirements, propose solutions, and develop the Teamcenter custom applications for engineering product development division.
• Works with the Siemens team on requirements review application development and implementation.
• Collect new change requests from Business users and perform revision, repair or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency.
• Create ways to automate all steps in the process that are not creating value or that can be simplified.
• Use metrics and analysis to ensure a delightful experience at various stages of project life cycle.
• Create, maintain, and disseminate data to stakeholders as per requirement. 

Client: Tenneco Detroit MI                                                                 

Role: Program Manager                                                                  Jan 2021 – Sept 2021         

• Work closely with business leaders to collect requirements and map them to Teamcenter solutions. 
• Help them achieve the required project deliverables for implementation projects under engineering tower.
• Responsible for the end-to-end project management to handle Engineering tower with 10 tracks. 
• Manage project portfolio and Advocate for deliverables that create the best possible experience.
• Help execute, review content and deliverables where it helps to ensure all steps for project implementations are successful.
• Use metrics and analysis to ensure a delightful experience at various stages of project life cycle.
• Create, maintain, and disseminate data to stakeholders as per requirement. 

Tata Consultancy Services

Client: Ford Motor Company, Detroit MI                                                                 

Role: Workstream Lead                                                              Mar 2019 – Jan2021

• Prepare the requirements for IVS Teamcenter and Software Release Portal functionalities and validate them in various environments.
• Analyze the business requirements, propose solutions, and develop the Teamcenter custom applications for engineering product development division.
• Works with the Siemens team on requirements review application development and implementation.

Develop the requirements for developing SRP system for S3 DB and common storage.

• Do root cause analysis for alarms from GiVIS tool and resolve them. Performs IVS Teamcenter alarm analysis activities.
• Prepare user guide documents to help Business users in usage of the IVS Teamcenter tool.
• Collect new change requests from Business users and perform revision, repair or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency.
• Create ways to automate all steps in the process that aren’t creating value or that can be simplified.

Client : BHGE Houston TX - Change Management Module Implementation

Role: IT Solutions Architect/ Project Manager                     Nov 2018 – March 2019

• Responsible for the end-to-end solutioning and technical project management. 
• Help them achieve the required project deliverables for implementation project.
• Monitor and control the project as per the directions needed to meet the Objectives. 
• Requirements gathering and propose TOBE system.  
• Propose solutions for complete change management module.
• Develop Functional Design documents and Technical Design documents specific to new enhancements and CRs.
• Work closely with development team help them developing the solution. 

Prolim Inc   

Change Management Application Rollout- Cincinnati OH                                                                               

Role:  Technical Project Manager                                                      APRIL 2018 – NOV 2018

• Managed a team of 8 project team members in the application implementation project.
• Project estimation proposal, planning & execution
• Monitor and control the project to make sure it is delivered under agreed project constraints. 
• Proposed the TO BE system & Road map for the functional implementation for engineering & manufacturing requirements..
• As an SA work with multiple stake holders to map project constraints to handle   detailed functional requirements and preparing software requirement specifications. 
• Solution alignment for customer’s requirements.
• Mentor technical team for solution implementation strategy.

Manufacturing Process Implementation - Cincinnati OH 

Solutions Mapping & Implementation                                            Feb 2018 – April 2018

Role:  Senior Consultant

• Perform system study –Teamcenter Environments interviews to understand the current system- AS IS 
• Worked along with customer to map detailed functional requirements and preparing software requirement specification. 
• Conduct trainings on implementable & proposed solutions to the team.
• Mentor technical team for solution implementation strategy and solution alignment.

KPIT TECHNOLGIES                                                                       

Role:  Lead Functional Consultant                                                                                       Oct 17 – Feb 2018 

Working as a functional consultant for Unilever through KPIT technologies with major role in Senior Technical Consultant for Teamcenter PLM solutions.

• Perform system study –Interviews to understand the current system- AS IS 
• Propose the TO BE system & Road map for the configurator requirements.
• Gather detailed requirements and preparing software requirement specification. 
• Conduct workshops with key stake holders to finalize TO BE Solution 
• Mentor technical team for solution implementation at offshore. 
• Conduct RCAs to analyze support issues and propose solutions. 

HCL TECHNOLGIES                                                                                    

Data Migration Enterprise - Unified                                                                  

Role: Technical Project Manager                                               Sept 2016 – Mar 2017

Worked as a Technical Project Manager at HCL Technologies with responsibilities of Project Management, design, development, and administration for Teamcenter PLM solutions.

• Project Planning, monitoring, and controlling the execution of the project.
• Handled couple of other accounts simultaneously with PMO responsibilities.
• Organize and develop entire migration process, proof of concepts for migration. High level technical design documentation to map the ADA Teamcenter enterprise to Unified migration.
• Prepare plan for Teamcenter Ent to TCU migration. 
• Migration from TC Enterprise to TC unified design & activity planning.
• Work closely with the team to monitor and manage the deliverables of the project.
• Prepare project status reports by collecting and analyzing information and trends.
• Work closely the project owner, conduct meetings with the stake holders to give the weekly updates about the project progress. 
• Implementation of Teamcenter Enterprise to TC Unified migration. 
• Help the team to develop scripts for migration using perl, VB Script for generating PLMXML and TCXML. Worked on Multilevel BOM structure creation using ITK.
• Activities involved ITK customization for writing workflow handlers, utilities.
• OTW deployment, 2/4Tier installation TCUA and multi cad integration (CATIA, Pro-E).

L&T Technology Services–Bangalore                                        July 2012 - Aug 2016        

Client: Caterpillar Inc. in IL USA.                                                Jan 2014-Aug 2016

Role: Application support Specialist

• Part of the team responsible for improving business processes of caterpillar and mapping the end user requirements with Teamcenter and propose appropriate solutions.
• Activities involved ITK customization for writing workflow handlers, RAC Customization.
• BNU -New workflow development for process enhancement.
• Worked on ACL, Workflow, Organization, Structure manager (PSE).
• Query developed to search engineering data using Query builder.
• Prepare and review the training materials for developed modules. 
• Handled data sharing and security for JVs

Teamcenter Application Implementation                                  Mar’14-June 2014

Role: Solution Architect / Technical Manager

• Project estimation proposal, Project Planning and Execution. 
• Work closely the project owner, conduct meetings with the stake holders of the project to give the weekly updates about the project progress. 
• Perform system study –Interviews to understand the current system- AS IS 
• Propose the TO BE system & Road map for the configurator requirements.
• Gather detailed requirements and preparing software requirement specification. 
• Conduct workshops with key stake holders to finalize TO BE Solution 
• Mentor technical team for solution implementation at offshore.
• Monitor and control the project until its successful rollout. 

GPDM Migration                                                                                    Dec 2013 – Feb 2014

Role: Project Manager 

• Involved in project estimation, proposal and planning.
• Work closely with the GPDM team to monitor and manage the deliverables of the project.
• Prepare work break down structures for the effective planning and execution. 
• Work closely the project owner, conduct meetings with the stake holders of the project to give the weekly updates about the project progress. 
• Site consolidation to merge all sites into a master site.
• Used Organization module and TC utilities for different sites organization mapping 
• CAD data and meta data migration from site to master site using data share scripts
• Designed & Developed automation script for data migration
• Developed logging script to report out error in readable format
• Running various utilities for data extraction, cleanup and loading

Client: GPDM Phase – I (Calsonic Kensai)                                                                  July 2012-Oct 2013

Role:  Solution Architect/ Technical Project Manager

• Part of requirements gathering team for GPDM phase –I project.
• Project Planning, monitoring and controlling the execution of the project.
• Customer interactions and meetings with stake holders for smooth execution of the project.
• Team building for the execution of the project.
• Designed PoC for demonstrating the integration of GID & GDPM systems. 
• Conducted workshops with key stake holders and finalize TO BE Solution
• Developed a service which communicates to GBOM from GPDM through Hulft to implement release process in GPDM.
• Prepared Design documents

Prion PLM & IT solutions Pvt ltd –Bangalore                                             

Client: Dodsal                                                                                                          Nov 2011-July 2012

Role:  Technical Lead.

•  Implemented solutions for engineering and procurement processes as per Dodsal requirements.
• Activities involved ITK customization for writing workflow handlers, utilities. 
• New workflow development for Engineering & procurement business processes.
• Worked on implementing ACLs, creating Organization structures, Structure manager (PSE).
• Implemented document management process for engineering & procurement processes.
• Generated reports using report builder for engineering process as per customer requirement.

Geometric Ltd – Chennai                                                                                    

Client:  FORD ITSI                                                                                                  Feb 2011-Oct 2011

Role: Teamcenter Analyst

• Analyzed issues and implement solutions for separation for various Teamcenter applications specific to Ford, Volvo and Mazda.
• Designed, developed ITK, RAC customization and shell scripts required for decommissioning Ford specific Teamcenter applications and related integrated applications.
• Implemented Ford specific PRI Processes in order to achieve separation from Volvo site  and Mazda site.
• Generation of Unit test scripts, Unit test cases, Unit test execution.
• Understand and adherence to Ford QA Processes. 
• Resolved technical issues encountered while implementing the solution for Ford separation process.

Client:  FORD ITSI                                                                                   July 2010-Jan 2011

Role: Teamcenter Analyst

• Performed RCA on Teamcenter issues.
• Teamcenter Multi-Site support for end-users across globe.
• Prepared CR and PRIs to fix the issues as per Ford process.
• Analyzing the Multi site issues
• Investigated through POM queries.
• Developed appropriate ITK utilitiesand tools for Teamcenter enhancements.
• Generation of Unit test scripts, Unit test cases, Unit test execution.
• Performed Shell scripting for QA Automation process.
• Understood and adherence to Ford QA Processes. 
• Regular communications, meetings with Ford team.

Thirdware Solution Pvt ltd- Chennai                                                           Oct 2009 – June 2010

Client:  FORD ITSI                                                                                                  Oct 2009-June 2010

Role: Teamcenter Analyst

• Configuration of AM Rule tree.
• Involved in requirement gathering phase
• Involved in overall design of Migration process.
• Performance Analysis.
• Generation of Unit test scripts, Unit test cases, Unit test execution & bug fixing.
• Understand and adherence to QA Processes. 
• Resolved technical issues of the team members.
• PoC demonstrations

Geometric Ltd – Pune                                                                                     April 2003 – Feb 2009

Client:  Siemens Product Development Center                                        Dec 2008-Feb 2009

Role: Teamcenter Developer

• Set up the development environment for AIX Server. (Installation of Autodesk Inventor, Installation of Weblogic, Installation of Oracle 10g, Configuring Business Modular Interface Development Editor, Team center setup on AIX)
• Ported TCAI 7.2.0 (Integrating CAD Tool Autodesk Inventor Integration with Team Center which is a PLM server) on to AIX 
•  User Interface development for TCAI integration. 
• Functional development for handling Corba calls for Inventor communicate to Teamcenter Server.
• Interacted with other development teams for functional enhancements for TCAI 7.2.0.
• Fixed Issues of porting on AIX. Team center related issues on AIX after porting.
• Reviewed the test cases written and lead the testing phase

Client:  LG Migration( LG )                                                                                 May 2008-NOV 2008

Role: Teamcenter Developer

• Involved in creation of Database, configuring the databases of LG with Teamcenter Engineering 9.1.3.x versions, development and enhancement of UG-Extraction (Application used to extract data from Databases) tools.
• Attended Production Issues of LG Migrated data, analyze issues and provide solution.
• Analysis, Development, Documentation of the issues related to different extractions (UG-Extraction, Proe-Extraction, DA Extractions and DD-Extraction) during different Load Tests.
• Performed Bug Fixing of issues related to UG-Extraction & Renaming.
• Performed Application testing after every fixation of bug and testing enhancement builds.
• Involved in running Adapters for extraction and enhancements (UG & PROE - Extraction and Renaming)

Client:  Siemens Product Development Center                                        Feb 2007-April 2008

Role: Teamcenter Developer

• Involved in customization integration of Autodesk Inventor with Team center engineering which is a PLM Server.
• Analysis, Development and Support for TCAI 7.0.0 issues of update CAD data (Parts, Assemblies, presentation files) from TCAI and retrieval of data from Team center 2007.
• Worked On initiatives which would require the changes in various components of the system in Windows Environment (TCAI 7.0.0).
• Fixed issues related to TCAI 7.0.0 and Previous versions on different environments (Inventor 9, Autodesk 2008, Inventor express etc
• Different versions of Team center servers like Team center 2007, Team center 9.1.x on Windows XP, Windows professional, windows Server)
• Application testing of builds on various environments

Client:  Siemens Product Development Center                                        April 2006-Jan 2007

Role: Teamcenter Developer

• Analyzed & implemented customer functional requirements for server side customization.
• Implemented functional requirements on Rich client through customization using Java Swings.
• Worked on server side customization using ITK and also involved in preparing SDD.
• Generated Unit test scripts, Unit test cases, Unit test execution.
• Tested the customized Tce applications on various environments.
• Created test results and fixing the issues.
• Analyzed and fixed bugs.

Scandinavian Micro Systems – Hyderabad                                                Mar2003- Mar 2006

Client:  Scandinavian Micro Systems - Norway                                        June 2005-Mar 2006

Role:  C++ Developer

• Set up Development environment (installationof software for encoders, Configuring DirectShow, Hardware related to media streaming, Visual Studio 7.0)
• Analysis, Design and development of iScanDisplay On Demand Application for Media streaming and Customized Web Radio Publishing and Broadcast module.
• Performed application Testing, analyzing the bugs of On Demand, WRP, Broadcast Module and implementing the bug fix.

Client:  Scandinavian Micro Systems                                                            Feb2004-May 2005

Role:  C++ Developer

• GUI development of Cruise Master for client and server side implementations by interaction with Fleet Planner Database. 
• Handled functionality for most of the client interfaces through COM Calls to Server.
• Investigated through debugging, analyzing the bugs at client side and as well as server side and implementing the bug fixes on them.
• Performed application testing on every new build for application stability.

Client:  Scandinavian Micro Systems                                                             Mar2003-Jan 2004

Role:  C++ Developer

• Involved in developing the GUI on Win32 environment and implementation of functionality.
• Investigated the issues through debug and providing a fix to the issues.
• Application testing after every new fix.

BE Electrical Engineering from NIT Surat.