Hari Gurunathan

Global Delivery Leader

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About

Currently working with Cognizant Technology Solutions as Engagement Delivery Partner for Cable & Wireless Major managing 90M $+ Portfolio I help Organizations transform their IT and Business Operations. excel in ascertaining the root-cause of operational inefficiencies that restricts organizations from being lean and agile. also Focus to bring in Industrialization and Re-use to Jumpstart / Accelerate Practice which I Incubate and Build High Performance Self Sustaining Teams. Competencies: - AIOps - RPA, ITPA, Cognitive Automation (AI/ML) - Application Portfolio Rationalization ( APR) - Best Practices - DevOps, ITIL, Agile, Debt Management, Project Management, Program Management - Process Consulting - Finance Management – Cost Modelling and Chargeback - ALM Integration - People & Process Management - Gamification Previously with Virtusa Corporation as Head of Quality , Managing Overall India Operations ( Pune , Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai) Good understanding of Software Quality processes ,Tools and Platforms and implementation of High Maturity Software Practices leading to CMMI-Level 5 same in various environments. Skilled in defining and implementing standardized policies and procedures and other quality assurance activities such as conducting audits/assessments. Highly capable of handling international clients and cross functional teams across geography . Have over 25 years of experience in the industry.

Experience

  • Cognizant (12 yrs 1 mo)
    • Engagement Delivery Partner
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Senior Director
      May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    • Director
      Oct 2017 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Part of Solution Architect Community , Specializing in Enterprise Automation

  • Virtusa (4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Associate Director
      2012 - 2014 · 2 yrs

      Responsible for Overall Delivery Process Operation across India

    • Senior Manager - Location Quality Head
      Jan 2010 - Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Location Quality Head , Responsible for Implementing CMMI Level 5 ( Ver 1.3) , Designing Span of Control model to moniter effective utilization .

  • Assistant Vice President at Bank of New York Mellon
    Oct 2008 - Dec 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Managing 20 + FTE across various subsidery of BNY Mellon . In charge of developing Operation Procedure and deployment in creating Custom SharePoint Portal for Pershing UK , Trained leadership on SCRUM

  • Manager - Process Quality Assurance at Virtusa
    Jul 2004 - Oct 2008 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Managing Chennai Location Process Activities along with Program Managing Organization wide SPI

  • Process Consultant at Infosys
    Feb 2004 - Jul 2004 · 6 mos

    Process Consultant for Major Account in BCMD ( Banking and Capital Market)