Swamy Kuruvada, General Manager Operations

Swamy Kuruvada

General Manager Operations

Hudson Agile Technologies

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Master's degree, Information Systems and Management
Experience
25 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 7 Months

General Manager Operations at Hudson Agile Technologies
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since January 2020

Delivery management of NA customer accounts and operations from India, Bangalore

Dy Head - Service Delivery at Larsen & Toubro Infotech
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2019 to December 2019

Delivery management of Large healthcare NA customer
including transformation programs of Cloud & SNow.
Engagement head count - 180

Senior Delivery Manager at Capgemini Technology Services
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 2015 to January 2019

- Delivery management of large-scale transformation programs of strategic importance run in Shared Services model - IMOC Transformation Program
- Restructured existing L1/L1.5/L2 model into Industrialized ITIL based support model of Availability Mgmt, Incident Mgmt, Service Request Mgmt, Change Mgmt
- Restructured Pool of 600 associates working in mutualized/share support environment for huge customer base (200+)
- Technologies Involved - Wintel/Unix/Databases/Batch Management/Storage/Backup
-Region specific support - Central EU, Northern EU, Southern EU, US & APAC
- Transition of Associates servicing India/Germany/France/Poland/Scotland/US & APAC
- After restructuring total efforts 20% saved
- New Deals Solutions Support Centre
-Provided Competitive and winnable Solution in shared services managed operations support mode including Tower and DRS top management signoffs (D3/D4)
- Optimised DCD Solution inputs 2018
- Solution metrics (like # of server instances support per 1 FTE)
- Pyramid ratios (distribution of FTE support with different employee bands)
- Onsite-Offshore ratio split of FTE support

service delivery manager at Tech Mahindra
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2005 to September 2015

Delivery Manager 2014-15
10 Million+ Proposals support thru Transition COE
inception
• KMD Denmark
• Virgin Australia, Leighton Australia,
• Textron, Tech MBS, United Energy
* Virgin Australia (VA), Brisbane as Transition/Delivery Manager
• Service transition from VA and its vendor Staff
• SLA compliance including large scale transformation projects in BAU
* Head Count 60+, Deal Size 45M AUD,
Skills IMS Skills
Key Challenges
• Conflict of interest from in-house contractors/permanent staff of VA
• Complexity of environment and non-availability of necessary documentation
2010-14
* Applied Materials & SanDisk, Bangalore as a Delivery Manger including transition management
• Started with few T&M resources & grew the IMS associates’ strength to 70+
• Won 3 managed services projects, one of them at Onsite - NA region
* Head Count 73, 9M USD Yearly Run, Skills IMS Skills
* Key Challenges
• All the 3 managed services won over the incumbent vendor WIPRO.
• Fixed-Bid (FB) projects were of different technologies DCO/Remedy/End User support
• Knowledge Transfer (KT) from incumbent vendor
• Milestone achievement was always on-time for all these FB projects.
Program Manager
2006-10
* Target Corporation of India, Captive Business, Bangalore as Program Manager
• Grew the account into peak strength of 112 associates.
• Managed 100-member team consistently for 3 years,
• 400 excellent associates overall in various pyramids of customer retail business
• Complete Offshore Model, Monthly billing of 400K US$
* Key Challenges
• Account serviced in professional services mode
• Gap of bench availability and requirements on-hand
• Profile selection hit ratio requirement 80%
• Hiring clause in the MSA, that customer can hire 15% of the overall strength every 6 months
• 2009-10 was a very challenging period with recession
Project Manager
2005-06
* Microsoft account, India as a Project manager
• Supported growth of the BGIT Tier1&2 cosmos to 40+ DBAs from scratch

Project Manager / Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 1998 to March 2005

Served in the roles of Individual contributor to project manager
• Customer Accounts worked with - Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, American Express, GE and Telstra from Onsite and Offshore

Project Manager / Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
  • India - Bengaluru
  • October 1998 to March 2005

Served in the roles of Individual contributor to project manager
• Customer Accounts worked with - Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, American Express, GE and Telstra from Onsite and Offshore

Education

Master's degree, Information Systems and Management
  • at SV University
  • May 1997

Information Systems and Management

Specialties & Skills

Customer Facing
Global Business Development
IT Transformation
Project Transition
Program Management
DELIVERY
BUDGETING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FINANCIAL
PROPOSAL WRITING
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
FORECASTING
DOCUMENTATION

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Azure (Certificate)
Prince2 (Certificate)
ITIL Service Management (Certificate)
Executive Business Management Program for Experienced Professionals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015

Hobbies

  • Cricket, Singing