HARIHARAN DHANDAPANI
Ajax,ON
Summary
Results-driven Senior Project Manager with a solid track record in Banking and Insurance, concentrating on payment automation and digital transformation. Skilled in Agile practices and stakeholder management, directed a team of 40+ professionals to complete intricate data migration projects on time, boosting operational efficiency and delivering measurable business value.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Toronto, Canada
09.2024 - Current
- Currently leading a team executing multiple payments system related projects and responsible for planning, execution and delivery.
- In addition to managing a mixed team from RBC and multiple vendors, acting as a project prime and managing multiple upstream and downstream teams.
- Co-ordinate with business POs, BSAs, Architects, Technical leads to align on the functional & non-functional requirements with emphasis on MVPs.
- Manage project risks, develop mitigation plans, and report to leadership and stakeholders.
- Ensure successful project execution through structured methodologies, conduct all the agile ceremonies in addition to scrum of scrums with the other teams in the project.
- Conduct bi-weekly review sessions with the delivery management team as well as the business stakeholder team.
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Toronto, Canada
08.2023 - 09.2024
- Successfully executed an acquisition project targeted at enterprise-wide historic structured data migration with a team strength of 40+ associates.
- Responsible for planning, designing the data transformation landscape, setting up the team, development, testing and deployment.
- Led both the onsite, offshore team with agile focused daily standups, connectivity with the necessary stakeholders in both the organizations.
- Setup Jira for delivery and defect management including daily work assignment and tracking.
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Toronto, Canada
05.2021 - 07.2023
- Executed a transformation project targeted towards digital modernization of the manual processes in Finance Planning and Vendor Management Teams involving Microsoft Power Platform.
- Captured the functional requirements involving the resource management, Product and Project Management Processes.
- Handled a 10-member team involving the Architecture, Design & Development along with interfacing with multiple other stakeholders from Customer's business, Enterprise, and Infrastructure teams.
- Agile project management acting as a Product owner as well as performed the role of Scrum master including all the scrum ceremonies.
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Sunlife
Toronto, Canada
10.2019 - 04.2021
- Led a transformation program involving migration of 300+ sites to 'Adobe Experience Manager' involving 50+ associates and multiple stakeholder groups.
- Planned different streams of delivery based on the site transformation type, effort involved and facilitated seamless co-ordination between developers, testers, Product Owners, Architects, Site Authors, Business teams, management through daily stand-up meetings, authoring and defect huddles, Scrum of scrums, authoring handovers, Business acceptance testing handovers.
- Co-ordinated the delivery of integration to various Mar-Tech products like Google Analytics, Adobe Target, SEO, Qualtrics, Adobe Campaign.
- Performed various site testing scenarios including browser, device and accessibility testing following the WCAG standards.
- Prepared and delivered the Weekly status report, Authoring handover and Business Testing handover.
- Delivered the program involving 300+ sites on time and with seamless coordination with multiple teams involved.
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
GE Healthcare
Bangalore, India
03.2019 - 09.2019
- Project Manager leading support and maintenance of OpenText Archival Platform and OpenText Content Server platform.
- Led multiple projects involving archiving content from other systems into OpenText Archival Server.
- Development project for automating Business processes following an adaptive lifecycle using Rally tool.
- Separation project following the Danaher acquisition.
PROJECT MANAGER
Eli Lilly
Indianapolis, USA
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Operations Manager leading one of the largest SharePoint environments' Application, its associated Platform and Database support including document migrations using DocAve.
- Performed the SharePoint online Cloud Migration assessment.
- Strategize and lead the execution of SharePoint migration to O365 cloud platform.
- Unified migration portal setup and migration setup using Metalogix Content Matrix tool.
- Planning wave migration and collaboration with site owners to ensure seamless end to end migration.
- Weekly Reporting to upper management on migration status, risks, and issues.
- Setup of new components on the cloud using PowerApps, MS Flow and Power BI.
PROJECT MANAGER
The Mosaic Company
Riverview, USA
06.2013 - 12.2016
- Project Manager leading OpenText content server Administration and Support.
- Integration of MS Office components in OpenText.
- Kofax Capture, Kofax Markview for SAP and Maximo Administration, Upgrade and Support.
SUPPORT LEAD
Agilent Technologies
Santa Clara, USA
07.2012 - 05.2013
- Onsite Coordinator for IBM Filenet P8, Filenet Capture and Oracle UCM support.
- Server and application monitoring.
- ERP integration maintenance and support.
- Creation of data migration procedures and performing data (along with image annotations) migration from Image Services to FileNet P8 platform.
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Sekisui Diagnostics LLC
Framingham, USA
01.2012 - 06.2012
- OpenText Content server 2010 Installation and configuration.
- Content migration from parent organization running on Livelink Enterprise Server 9.5.1 and 9.7.1 version to the separating organization on Content Server.
PROJECT LEADER
GE Real Estate
Bangalore, India
09.2009 - 12.2011
- Project Leader responsible for project management, setup and administration of Livelink Enterprise Server 9.7.0/9.7.1.
- Upgrade of Livelink Enterprise Server from 9.7.0 to 9.7.1.
- Development of Security Management Tool.
TECHNICAL LEADER
SABIC Innovative Plastics
Mumbai, India
10.2008 - 06.2009
- Oracle Process Manufacturing (OPM), Advanced Pricing and Advanced Collections Setup.
- Raw Material Introduction Quick hit process automation with JSP lookups and asp reporting.
TECHNICAL LEADER
GE Plastics
Pittsfield, USA
06.2006 - 10.2008
- Automation of Raw material Introduction, New Product Introduction, UL Follow-up, Platform Tracker, Experimental Material and New Item introduction processes.
- Livelink Performance Analyzer environment setup and User Access request process automation.
- Livelink upgrade from 9.2 Sp1 to 9.7.
DESIGNER & DEVELOPER
GE Plastics
Mumbai, India
04.2004 - 06.2006
- Designer and Developer, responsible for automation of manufacturing processes using Livelink Workflows, eForms, ASP reporting and SQL queries.
ASSOCIATE MEMBER-PRODUCT MANAGEMENT GROUP
DUKE ARNICS ELECTRONICS LIMITED
Hyderabad, India
12.2002 - 03.2004
- Interface between the customer and the Research & Development for product related issues and new product developments.
- Software, Firmware and hardware testing of the electronic tri-vector meters.
- Onsite support for Gujarat Electricity board for meter tampering analysis and replacement at various cities in Gujarat.
Education
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
04.2002
HONOURS DIPLOMA - WEB-CENTRIC COMPUTING
NIIT
04.2002
Skills
- Project management and transformation
- Payment and automation projects
- Content and website migration
- Business process modernization
- Agile and waterfall methodologies
- JIRA and Rally tools
- MS Excel and MS Project
- SDLC and continuous integration
- Requirements gathering and scope definition
- Risk and issues management
- Budgeting and cost baselining
- Work breakdown structure and project charter
- Sprint planning and daily standups
- Stakeholder management and communication planning
- Performance management and capacity planning
- Reporting and project performance measurement
- Improvement plans and best practices documentation
- Test strategy, planning, and execution
- Adobe Experience Manager expertise
- Digital marketing integration strategies
- Search engine optimization techniques
- ETL migrations with Microsoft SSIS
- PowerApps, Power Automate, and Power BI proficiency
- API implementation skills
Certification
- SAFE 4 AGILIST
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
- ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Timeline
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
09.2024 - Current
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
08.2023 - 09.2024
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
05.2021 - 07.2023
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Sunlife
10.2019 - 04.2021
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
GE Healthcare
03.2019 - 09.2019
PROJECT MANAGER
Eli Lilly
01.2017 - 01.2019
PROJECT MANAGER
The Mosaic Company
06.2013 - 12.2016
SUPPORT LEAD
Agilent Technologies
07.2012 - 05.2013
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Sekisui Diagnostics LLC
01.2012 - 06.2012
PROJECT LEADER
GE Real Estate
09.2009 - 12.2011
TECHNICAL LEADER
SABIC Innovative Plastics
10.2008 - 06.2009
TECHNICAL LEADER
GE Plastics
06.2006 - 10.2008
DESIGNER & DEVELOPER
GE Plastics
04.2004 - 06.2006
ASSOCIATE MEMBER-PRODUCT MANAGEMENT GROUP
DUKE ARNICS ELECTRONICS LIMITED
12.2002 - 03.2004
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
HONOURS DIPLOMA - WEB-CENTRIC COMPUTING
NIIT
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