Ramani Kesavan
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Canton, MI, United States
Toptal member since September 16, 2024
Ramani is a seasoned program and product manager with over 25 years of experience in business and mobile application delivery. She has extensive expertise in business analysis, project and program management, product management, and Agile solution delivery methods, including data analysis. With her experience including small startups and large automotive companies, Ramani has collaborated with senior business leaders on mission-critical custom application development for global organizations.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Clarity PPM
- Enterprise Application Design
- Excel 365
- IT Project Management
- IT Projects
- Jira
- Office 365
- Rally
Work Experience
Agile Project Manager
Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Headed multiple data migration projects from estimation to delivery using Agile methodologies.
- Led the development of a product roadmap, incorporating key infrastructure components.
- Developed and presented project performance in scope, cost, and schedule.
- Identified risks, developed a risk management plan, and managed and tracked issues and defects.
- Planned the sprints and tracked the development work following Agile metrics.
- Utilized Oracle and Toad to oversee more than eight projects within the informatics environment simultaneously.
Project History
GoPark and GoDrive | Beta Version for Complex App and Cloud-based Mobility Products
Coordinated multiple Agile teams to deliver a highly complex and technically challenging beta version of an app, showcasing effective project management and collaboration across diverse domains.
• Collaborated closely with product owners to develop a comprehensive product roadmap for delivering cloud-based mobility products, including GoPark and GoDrive native apps for iOS and Android.
• Developed product features, prioritized backlogs, and managed risks using CA Rally software.
• Coordinated multiple Agile teams, including data analytics, search engine, API, UI, hardware, legal, and DevOps.
The project involved installing dongles in experimental cars to capture vehicle data, which was then piped to a cloud-based solution for further analysis by the global data insights and analytics (GDIA) team.
Global Implementation of Clarity for Idea Management
Championed and implemented a global idea management solution with Clarity, significantly enhancing our innovation pipeline and fostering cross-functional collaboration across regions.
• Guided cross-functional regional leaders in executing proof of concept (POC) and pilot implementations of the idea management module in Clarity.
• Strategized and executed comprehensive Clarity training for all IT organizations, including content development, class scheduling, and logistics management.
Delivery of Financial Reporting Tool for Enterprise Program Management
Achieved significant efficiency gains by automating financial reporting processes, reducing report generation time from several days to hours and providing enhanced visibility and accuracy in financial and performance metrics across the company.
• Overhauled the Solution Definition Service's global financials, collaborating with representatives from all ten product lines across regions to gather and report data.
• Automated service performance report generation, reducing cycle time from several days to a couple of hours.
• Collaborated with product development organization (PDO) directors and IT finance to design operation dashboards tailored to directors' needs.
• Designed and implemented a business process report (BPR) that reflected global service financials, service performance, metrics, and improvements.
Certifications
ITIL Foundation Certification
ITSM
Project Management Professional (PMP)
PMI
Vignette Application Developer (VCD)
Vignette
Skills
Tools
Rally, Jira, Excel 365, Office 365, Slack
Other
IT Projects, IT Project Management, Clarity PPM, ITSM, Enterprise Application Design
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