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Karunakar Gowni

Bangalore

About

+31685416858
Title: Program Architect/Technical Manager

Management Expertise
 Over 18 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) industry with strong technical consulting and project management
 Carries a consistent track record of leading and executing highly successful programs, delivery establishments and accounts. Associated in critical leadership roles and managed portfolios of $5-$15 Million of team sizes from 25-100+ across geographies
 Recognized for high quality standards, driving growth and delivering strategic results and value. Passionate to lead by example; create high performing teams and achieve results on time, on budget
 Extensive domain knowledge on Media, Publishing, Retail, Manufacturing, Travel, E-Commerce, Charity
 Expert in Project Management, project planning, effort estimation, team co-ordination, offshore & onsite co-ordination, risk management, quality management, change management, and customer management at executive/director levels.
 Expertise in Global Delivery Model (Onsite and Offshore model).
 Expertise in overall program Management and coordination which involves Operations, Training, HR, ER, Process implementation, Budgeting, Infrastructure and Project Deliverables
 Advise on Solution Architecture, RFI/RFP responses, Statement of Work creation, Solutions Demos and Negotiations
 A Certified Scrum Master having expertise in executing SCRUM and traditional projects. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
 A domain expert who understands the client’s business processes, differentiations, operating environment, industry dynamics, pain areas and suggest solutions
 Experience of handling customers across globe like USA, UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Australia & Singapore
 Experience in managing and delivery of projects through vendors

Technical & Domain Expertise
 Has strong architectural expertise in building high performance websites using PHP, MySQL, Drupal, HTML, DHTML, JQUERY, CSS, AJAX, XML, XSLT, Web services and JavaScript
 Has been part of numerous solutions designing, pre-sales, RFP and RFI responses as a solution architect/Sr Architect
 Reviews and Optimizations for web site performance for high traffic websites.
 Architected digital overhaul for a publishing enterprise using open standards and CMS tools
 Incubating & Leading COE’s/Practices for Drupal/LAMP and was part of many projects in different verticals
 More than 10yrs experience in building sites/platforms on Drupal 6.x/7.x/8.x
 AWS - Certified Solutions Architect & Acquia Certified Developer