Lingamurthy Tolahunase

Sr. Project Manager

Sector: IT-Software

Member Since, January 26, 2021

About Me

  • Academic Level Master’s Degree
  • Experience 18 Years
  • Gender Male
  • Industry Management
  • Date of Birth 09/11/1973

Description

  • Review of my credentials will confirm that I am a certified (PMP)® professional with 18+ years of rich and qualitative experience in Delivery Management (Projects/Programs), Team Management & Leadership, SAP Implementation,
  • Perusing Executive MBA in Product Leadership from Institute of Product Leadership (IPL)
  • Application Management Services, Requirement Gathering & Analysis, Process Solution Consultation, Stakeholder Management. Client facing roles.
    Worked with large and medium scale Govt. and corporate companies at national and international level. 7+ years of experience of working in Engineering & Manufacturing domain and managing turnkey projects.
  • Capable of Managing the projects and deliveries using PMI, Agile and Prince -2 methodologies.
  • I am presently associated with Zensar Technologies Ltd., PUNE as Sr. Project Manager.
    The select highlights mentioned below are indicative of the work that I have managed; my resume sets forth further details.
     Comprehensive experience in Project Transition, Improvements, Change Management, and driving new initiatives throughout the Service Operations Management
     Excellence in executing prestigious projects of large magnitude within strict time schedules, cost & quality, while successfully driving all phases of Project Life Cycle
     Comprehensive knowledge in leading the entire transition activities right from scratch entailing process stabilization, performance monitoring, people management, resource deployment & stakeholder reporting, risk identification, planning and execution of risk responses,
     Managing and monitoring key stakeholder communications, reporting of metrics and project performance to top management
     Achievement-oriented professional with excellent people management skills and an ability to manage change with ease

Education

  • Executive MBA in Product Leadership (2020 - Present) Institute of Product Leadership

    Perusing Executive MBA in Product Leadership

  • BE - Production Engineering (1994 - 1998) K K Wagh College Of Engineering

    Completed BE in Production Engineering - University of PUNE

Work & Experience

  • India (2012 - Present ) Sr. Project Manager

    Working as a Sr, Project Manager - at Zensar Technologies Limited - PUNE Spearheading a team of project delivery comprising of 35 members- CIDCO. Around 1800 SAP Users  As a Project Manager for End - to - End SAP Implementation projects, Global Roll outs, and support projects like CIDCO, TVNL, MSEDCL Burckhardt Compression, Etc.  Role of a Solution Architect, A Domain expert and SME for Power & Utility industry like MSEDCL, TVNL and Manufacturing industry like Burckhardt Compression and GEA- Global Roll out.  Performing several roles like finding new process, determining gaps in existing process and implementing new processes  Spearheading project planning & control activities involving planning & scheduling, cost & resource optimization, risk & change management, stakeholder communications and project documentation.  Interfacing with internal and external stakeholders for timely delivery solution.  Collaborating with other Project managers, Business owners and distributed teams, located across multiple geographies for efficient project delivery.  Liaising with Department Heads, Client IT Department and PMC (Project Management Consultant) - PWC  Driving change management, finalization, and Sign offs of business processes in SAP  Driving of Preparing solution blue - prints, functional specifications, Technical specifications, review of RICEFW (Reports, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms, & Workflows) documents, estimation, UAT, test scripts, suggesting delivery strategy and resolving complex business scenarios, Getting sign off for project milestones and deliverables.  Leading interfaces with other third-party softwares and applications – PI/PO  Addressing filling of RFPs and RFIs  Defining KPIs & metrics for the team and ensuring achievement of the goals while collaborating with senior & board level management team in decision-making process  Capacity building, Skill enhancement and Resourcing, contracts and developing high performance teams.  Generation and reporting of Key Metrics, Project performance to higher management.

  • Accenture Limited (2010 - 2012 ) Associate Manager

  • IBM India Private Limited (2008 - 2010 ) Advisory Consultant

  • Siemens Information Systems Limited (2006 - 2008 ) SAP Functional Consultant

  • Positive Metering Pumps (I) Pvt. Limited (2000 - 2006 ) Works Manager

Expertise

Project Management
Business Process Consultancy
Customer facing and Interaction
Requirements gathering and Finalization
Business Process Finalization

Honors & awards

  • 2016 Best Project Manager of the Year

    Awarded Best Project manager of the Year - 2016 for successful End to End SAP Implementation at TVNL (Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Limited - for govt. Of Jharkhand .