Ramesh Rajagopalan, Project Manager

Ramesh Rajagopalan

Project Manager

Wipro Limited

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering
Experience
19 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months

Project Manager at Wipro Limited
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since January 2008

• Leading a team of professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment
• Lead and coordinate all project activities, allocate work and provide guidance to project teams
• Accountable for delivering projects on time, within budget and meeting the strategic business and technical requirements
• Monitor progress and make the adjustments, as needed. Conduct periodic reviews to ensure projects are on track
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, requirements, and success criteria
• Manage stakeholder communication, provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about risks, issues, corrective measures, and progress
• Maintain and track project risks and issues, manage risk mitigation plans, escalate in a timely manner, communicate to appropriate parties, and drive to resolution
• Responsible for the delivery of proposals, project plans, resource plans, progress reports and presentations to upper management.
• Ensure the delivery within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Cross functional coordination which involves collaboration, communication, and cooperation between individuals or groups from various functional areas
• Leading Application migration projects
• Security and compliance audits
• Prepare weekly and monthly status reports
• Participate in business meetings with various stakeholders
• Prepare data (KPI scorecards, project status etc.) for the monthly/quarterly governance meetings with customer and drive the meeting
• Team management for achieving the milestones as per plan
• Perform trend analysis, identify top contributed incidents and work with respective teams/individual to minimize the incidents.

Engineer, Customer Services at Accel Frontline Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2004 to December 2007

Responsibilities:
• Windows server Admin
• Schedule/Manage backup of the servers (Domain Controller, Mail Server etc.)
• Install desktop operating systems, install applications on desktops/laptops
• Setting up Network
• Server OS installation, OS upgrade, fix technical issues
• Provide hardware-based support for servers/desktops
• Coordinate with Microsoft, IBM, HP support teams to fix the issues
• Mentoring new team members
• Printer management/Asset management
• Manage the applications used by customer

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering
  • at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
  • April 2002

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics & Communication Engineering

Specialties & Skills

IT Operations
Stakeholder Management
Cross functional Coordination
IT Project Management
COMMUNICATIONS
MANAGEMENT
COOPERATION
GOVERNANCE
MILESTONES (PROJECT MANAGEMENT)
MITIGATION
MVS (OS)
PRESENTATIONS
TEAM MANAGEMENT
TREND ANALYSIS

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Certificate)
Valid Until:
January 2018

Hobbies

  • Travelling, Music, Reading