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Ragu ********** AI Consultant

$1320 / day

Summary

A multi-skilled AI consultant, product strategist, support strategist, program manager, and customer success expert with extensive experience creating new AI SaaS platforms. With over 25 years of experience in building and working across various organizations, processes, and software tailored to diverse customer needs have been implemented. Versatile skills include a deep technical understanding combined with strong business acumen, adding significant value to outcomes.

Experience includes managing multiple projects, ranging from digital transformations and operating model changes to product, process, and sales business unit adjustments. Passionate about helping organizations evolve to meet strategic transformation and sustainability goals. Both small and large-scale projects and teams have been led, demonstrating adeptness in fast-paced and dynamic environments and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Experience spans SaaS, professional services, education, and training sectors.

The approach balances human factors and data, with capabilities in strategy development, stakeholder engagement, project implementation, customer-centric decisions, data analysis, and creative problem solving. Dedicated to working with internal and external customers to gather business requirements and provide fit-for-purpose software solutions.

SKills

AWSBeautiful-SoupComputer VisionData TransformationDAXDecision TreesGITlinear regressionsLogistic regressionsMicrosoft Power BINumPyOpenCVPandasPower BIPower QueryPythonSnowFlakeSQL
AI ConsultantData Scientist

Education

2014 Master of Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology

Experience

Feb 2024 - Current AI Consultant at City of Yarra

– Successfully conducted ITIL processes assessment to design
a 3-year strategical plan for higher maturity to matured
service delivery.
– Worked with stakeholders to manage IT Services outsourcing
tender, including requirements gathering, publishing
tender, evaluating the responses, shortlisting vendors,
Transition to selected vendor.
– Managed cyber security incident plan for IT security,
tabletop exercises, awareness sessions, implementation of
CSIP.
– Managed Service transition from PMO to support.
– Designed ITSM roles, successfully recruited various roles.
– Successfully contributed to AI working committee for future
AI implementation

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 Senior Project Delivery Manager at Yarra Trams

– Successfully designed, deployed Process, tool – Service Now
as per business needs.
– Manage the stream of projects to deliver the business
requirements for ICT continuity (DR) and Mobile Device
Management projects.
– Successfully audited and produced maturity assessment
results for current ITIL processes and provide Service
Improvement plans.
– Managed the resources and stakeholders and Project
Governance.
– Provided the 15% reduction in asset identification time in
first 2 weeks.
– Designed and implemented integration between Maximo,
Service now.
– Managed system integration projects that integrate the data
from Maximo-ServiceNow-SCCM and MDM.
– Engaged with various stakeholders throughout the lifecycle
of the projects to manage the projects for their successful
delivery.
– Led and managed multiple projects, primarily focusing on
vendor selection, vendor assessments against tender
requests, project objectives, timelines, and budgets.
– Managed vendors during the transition as per agreed
contracts, timelines, and resources.
– Worked with vendors 3rd party vendors to negotiate and
deliver contracts to their partners for implementation
services.
– Conducted and documented requirements for project delivery.
– Managed Service Desk deliverables through the 3rd party to
achieve business outcomes.
– Managed the project phases – Planned, scheduled, monitored,
and reported on project-related activities, ensuring the
project achieved the milestones against the business case.
– Been an active participant in monthly AI workshops.

June 2018 - Dec 2022 Customer Service Delivery & Support at SKAEL

– Successfully designed and structured Engineering,
Artificial intelligence Product strategy, support, customer
success practices. Built global teams to align product,
engineering, and marketing strategies. Set up teams across
the globe
– Demonstrated leadership in aggressively pursuing the
company’s objectives, successfully prioritising resource
allocation in higher growth markets and taking tough
decisions on underperforming areas.
– Successfully implemented customer success charter,
including onboarding new customers and land expansion
within the customer environment.
– Successfully delivered programs/projects to various
customers across the globe with a 95% success rate.
– Appointing partners to sell, serve customers, and set up
programs for their success.
– Set up a framework for the Customer Advisory Group and
conduct it quarterly to provide product roadmaps, seek
customer inputs and deliver introductions to critical
customers.
– Worked closely with the product teams as the trusted
internal partner for customers’ voices.
– Best year of achieving 17% growth in existing accounts and
80% customer retention
– Successfully maintained critical internal and external
stakeholder relationships for greater customer satisfaction
and product enhancements.
– Driving leadership internally and externally to represent
the company and technology for market adoption.
– Owned CS function including but not limited to financial
forecast, organisation structure, expansion, account
management and budget forecasts.
– Implemented ITSM framework for service management,
including but not limited to Incident, problem, asset
management, major incident management, change, release
management processes.
– Implemented Project Management office to delivery internal
and external projects.