Gaurishankar Visvanathan, IT Industry Consulting

Gaurishankar Visvanathan

IT Industry Consulting

Consulting

Location
India
Education
Master's degree, Marketing & Finance
Experience
25 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 10 Months

IT Industry Consulting at Consulting
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2020 to May 2022

Initiated the services with 2 customers and grew to 5 customers in 8 months.
Built a team of DBAs from scratch to 30 members over 8 months.
Product troubleshooting to ensure all stakeholders’ expectations are met.
Implemented Quality and Delivery processes, created a Knowledge Management site.
Clearly defined project roles & responsibilities, ownership and escalation paths.
Ensured uninterrupted services to Clients across different time zones.
Acted as a hub connecting the Engineering & Service Teams, the Business Partners, and the Customers.

Program Manager at Ernst & Young
  • India - Bengaluru
  • July 2018 to November 2018

July 2018 - Till Date:, Bangalore as
Planning the global implementation of a Procurement application for the Client
Scheduled and tracked the entire exercise from end to end
Reviewed and signed-off related Documentation
Established and led the core team, which involved the Business and the Vendor across geographies
Initiated routine touch point check calls on governance, training and miscellaneous points

Project/ Service Manager at CGI
  • India
  • July 2005 to May 2018

Key Result Areas:
•Planning & building IT project at enterprise scale involving selection of appropriate technology and products, finalizing Service Level Agreements, outsourcing tasks and directing the timely completion of projects
•Defining the strategies, information architecture and other technology directions for implementation and operations of client services, product support, quality assurance and training
•Delivering regular health check of the projects to senior company leadership and ensuring that end-user requirements are adequately met; building capacity plan basis the current utilization & forecast requirements for IT resourcing, staffing and supporting call volume predictions availability
•Prioritizing tasks/ initiatives based on business impact and resource availability
•Devising & implementing IT strategies in line with the company’s business plans; creating and implementing policies and procedures for all IT platforms
•Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations; developing competency among the team members; managing appraisal process across the levels, conducting interviews to recruit the right talent &enhancing and developing employee competency

Major Projects:
•Cloud Migration
•Product Customization and Implementation Project
•24/7 Support for a major European Telecom Company
•Enterprise Wise Support and Service to the Customers; a Public Sector Transport companyand a UN organization
•Transition a Support Operation from Paris to Chennai for a major French Bank
•Transition & transform a multi-technology, multi-geography service support to a successful project for a multinational brewery

Project Lead at HCL Technologies
  • India
  • January 2002 to June 2005

Key Result Areas:
•Partnered & collaborated with teams spread across geographies to deliver within SLAs; received appreciation from the client and senior management for quality and timeliness of deliverables
•Anchored & established a common workspace for knowledge management; authored documents for clients and teams’ benefits and streamlined the recruitment process for teams

Lead Analyst at HCL Perot Systems
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2000 to September 2001

Established Quality processes.
Implemented Business Analysis to streamline requirement gathering and to aid in zero-defect deliverables.

Marketing Co-ordinator / Programmer at Tata Infotech Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • October 1995 to March 2000

Joined the Business Office and liaised between Onshore and Offshore. Instrumental in streamlining and easing the visa processes for onsite consultants.
Moved to the Systems stream and worked in two Y2K projects; following which worked on the development of scanning software.

Marketing Analyst at Systime Corporation
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 1994 to September 1995

Marketing of the JD Edwards, an ERP system.
Also worked as a Business Analyst for the ERP system.
Instrumental in securing a major contract.

Business Analyst at Kale Consultants
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 1994 to October 1994

Authored documentation for a Passenger Revenue Accounting System.
Co-ordinated with Clients on behalf of the Development teams.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing & Finance
  • at San Jose State University
  • January 1989

The MBA was with electives in Marketing and the final thesis was Finance oriented - on Investment Banking.

Bachelor's degree, Business and Commerce
  • at Osmania University
  • April 1986

Specialties & Skills

conversational French
Transitioning
Diplomacy
Communication Skills
Program Management
BUSINESS PLANS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DIRECTING
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
LEADERSHIP
MANAGEMENT
MENTORING
MIGRATION
NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER
POLICY ANALYSIS

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker
Kannada
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

ERT Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Group 4 Securitas
Date Attended:
March 2011
First Aid to the Injured (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 1979
Diploma in Public Speaking (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 1981
Software Testing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2000
Software Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2000
Eagles Management Program (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2009
Inclusivity Management (Training)
Training Institute:
CGI Internal Training
Date Attended:
February 2015
Behaviour Analytics (Training)
Training Institute:
CGI Internal Training
Date Attended:
January 2017
Agile 101 (Training)
Training Institute:
CGI Internal Training
Date Attended:
June 2016
Insurance 101 (Training)
Training Institute:
CGI Internal Training
Date Attended:
February 2018
CSM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2017
Valid Until:
August 2019
Project Management 101 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
DELF B1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2020

Hobbies

  • Trekking up to hill top forts
    Have trekked to a a fair number of hill top forts in the Western Ghats