Consulting partner across Human Centered Design Thinking & Innovation, Lean, Digital Transformation.

Consulting Partner

Akirah Analytics & Consulting services

Akirah Analytics & Consulting Services was founded to help our clients by cross-pollinating the ideas and best practices learned from different industries and geographies. Akirah is a registered entity with the Government of Tamilnadu - India, and is eligible to render Training & Consulting Services.

Founder

Freshworks

Solving the Product, Process, and People problems in the growing SaaS industry
Digital I Innovation I Analytics I Lean

Director (SAAS Products)

Singtel

Digital - Applied Analytics I Lean I Design thinking I Innovation I AI ML

Senior Program Management professional, Managed large deals revenue for Applied Analytics, Data Visualisation, AI I ML used cases projects for Singapore Public sector units. Key person for Designing and Developing inhouse analytics products suiting the customer need. Lead a diverse team of Data Scientists to Lead Data scientist engineers, Solution Architects, CX, Design Thinking consultants in delivering world-class Analytics and Visualization solutions for key clients in ensuring the Gross Margins are met.

Managed the "whole nine yards" of Program management right from Managing Risk, Stakeholder Management, Budget, Profit.

 Program Director - Associate Partner (Digital -  Analytics Division)

A Senior Business change professional, Lead the Business Transformation I Design Thinking I Innovation I Lean initiative across APAC regions. I have helped my internal stakeholders in implementing the Mckinsey 5 Lens methodology, Lean Digital Transformation, Workflow design, Agile methodology. Handled large scale projects by leveraging Data insights/Data Mining using DISCO technology, RPA, AI, ML 

Verticals Handled:

•	Operations
•	Finance 
•	HR
•	Wealth Management business

Stakeholders & Resources Managed across

•	APAC (Singapore, Hongkong, India) 
•	London
•	Zurich

Associate Director - UBS Singapore branch

RENAULT NISSAN MITSUBISHI ALLIANCE, INDIA

Played a Pioneer role in setting up the Process excellence DNA for the Renault Nissan Alliance – India in conjunction with the centres of France & Japan. .As a Six Sigma Master Black Belt I have developed and implemented the Innovation framework practices with different programs aiming to solve the problems and benefits the alliance from the perspective of commonly called KRA – QCD (Quality, cost, delivery). 

I have Worked along with the different business verticals of Renault Nissan software Development centre in implementing the Business Transformation Program covering and impacting the workforce of Indian, Paris & Japan centres
	Kaizen
	Yellow Belt – Define Discover Reduce Replicate
	DMAIC - Business wide program 
	V –UP (Nissan production system)

Few of my achievement during my stint

	Cumulative closure of 426 projects from 2010 to 2015 under Kaizen, DDRR, DMAIC – Framework.
	Delivered a vouched cumulative savings in 2MM Euros from 2010 to 2015.
	Winner of the  “Watts Humphrey award  2012“ Prestigious award  from the SPIN arm of Software Engineering institute for the LEAN project in technology 
	Winner of the prestigious Renault MD special award for the year 2013 achieved for optimizing the FCR (full cost ratio) for Renault India P & L. Improving the cash flow for the Organization.
	Winner of SPICON – 2014 award.
	Indian statistical Institute (Six sigma Symposium 2015) best paper presenter for implementing LEAN in the engineering process group.
	V-UP (LEAN accomplishment award) a Renault Nissan India entity-wide award.
	Quality Assurance manager for the India in adopting the plans and processes specific to RNTBCI
	Performing the CMMI audits and assessment to ensure the processes are in alignment with ISO2000 standards
	Certified internal auditor for ISO 20000 
	KPMG certified practitioner on CMMI.SVC, ITIL 2011 service management practice

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt - ISIT

Infosys

Head of Quality & Risk for Infosys Philippines branch: 
Pioneer team in setting up the entire Quality, Risk, Process Excellence function right from the foundation for the Infosys Philippines branch
Country level responsibility in implementing the Infosys Six sigma DNA in Manila Delivery Centre Trained and mentored the Manila workforce in LEAN / DMAIC / Kaizen projects
Direct and dotted line reporting to the senior executives of the verticals handled (Manufacturing, Communication media & entertainment, Emerging markets, Telecom, Automobile, Global shared services centres)

Quality assurance certifications handled:
SAS 70 Type 1 certification
PCI DSS
ISO 9001
ISO 27001

Risk & Compliance:
Point of contact for Financial Risk & Physical risk

Head of Quality & Risk-Philippines branch

Successfully closed financial impacting Six Sigma Black belt projects 
Played a key role in developing six sigma green belts and certified GB's
Played a key role in achieving excellence in PACE awards for Chennai DC 
Preparing Service Manual and Service quality plan for new clients (Philips) and integrating with standard Infosys policies

INFOSYS – Process Transformation & Transition for the Chennai Delivery Centre

Philips

Implementing the Philips business excellence model for the Financial shared service centre in conjunction with Philips Lodz (Poland) and Philips (Bangkok) . 
Played a vital role in in implementing the continuous improvement culture for P2P , O2C , R2R for Philips and NXP division 
Played a vital role during the Merger and acquisition of Philips and Infosys

Six Sigma Black Belt & Coach - Global Financial Shared Service centre

Accenture

As a Operation experts worked across the Accenture learning shared services & Accenture call centre business practises in implementing the Operation excellence methodology .
My six sigma black belt projects were qualified for the ASQ certification

Six Sigma BB - Operations Excellence

Sutherland Global Services

Supporting the American clients technical issues related to hardware and software issues for a # 1 computer manufacturing client.

Technical support engineer

Prasanna Balasubramanian has close to 20 years of experience as a Senior Delivery professional in Large-scale operations, Digital Transformation, Lean Six Sigma, Advanced Analytics, Innovation and design Thinking, RPA, AI & and ML.

Diversified industry experience in Healthcare, Automobile, Banking, Software Development unit, Business Process Outsourcing, Telecommunication, Financial Shares Services & SAAS Products. 

He has solved problems, facilitated workshops, and incubated the concept of Innovation and problem-solving in the direct roles of Singapore Telecommunication, Philips, Accenture, Infosys, Renault Nissan & and UBS, to name a few global Fortune 500 companies.
 
He has taken up assignments in the country experience of France, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Managed resources and large-scale implementation across Zurich, London, Japan, Poland & USA.
 
He has been trained and certified by the Singapore University of Technology & Design in Design Innovation leadership & and also received the award for setting up a culture of innovation from various organizations.

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