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センティル Senthil Prabhu Mookiah

Technical Program Manager

I live in Edison, NJ, leading digital transformation programs and AI-driven solutions in the insurance industry.

I am a Technical Program Manager at Cognizant, where I drive large-scale IT initiatives, cloud migrations, and AI/ML innovations for Chubb Insurance. With over 19 years of experience, I specialize in modernizing enterprise systems, managing multi-million-dollar portfolios, and implementing intelligent automation to enhance business efficiency.

My expertise spans:

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • Cloud & Enterprise Content Management
  • Agile & SAFe Methodologies
  • Digital Transformation & Automation

I am passionate about solving complex business challenges through technology, optimizing IT operations, and mentoring future leaders.

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Experience

  1. Service Delivery Manager

    Cognizant | Chubb Insurance, WhiteHouse Station NJ

    Responsibilities include:

    • Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects & Operations
    • Lead suitable strategies and objectives.
    • Coordinate cross-project activities
    • Lead and evaluate project managers, Software Enginers and other staff
    • Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities
    • Apply change, risk and resource management
    • Assess program performance and aim to maximize ROI
    • Resolve projects’ higher scope issues
    • Prepare reports for program directors & CIO
  2. Technical Program Manager

    Cognizant | Chubb Insurance, Philadelphia, PA

    Responsibilities include:

    • Manages product backlog and priorities with our business and technology partners, including defect management and prioritization
    • Leads product backlog grooming sessions partnering with key resources.
    • Collaborates with stakeholders to plan and manage product releases
    • Manage customer expectations, documenting requirements and changes, creating proposals and modifying bids.
    • Drive continuous improvement of deployment processes, including assessment of program delivery capabilities, gathering, leveraging performance data/metrics, establishing corresponding targets, and measurement of on-going progress improvement initiatives.
    • Accountable for product quality and performance in the production environment. Accountable for product team response in event of critical or high impacting defect, including communications to stakeholders at all levels.
    • Supports and enables core agile practices and tenants: efficient just-in-time flow; lean practices; elimination of waste; DevOps CICD
    • Generates and maintains dashboards and reports that track product health and success metrics, technical KPI’s
    • Runs or contributes significantly to key Agile ceremonies: Program Increment (PI) Planning / Big Room Planning; System Demo; Inspect and Adapt (I&A), etc.
  3. Technical Project Manager | Scrum Master

    Cognizant | ACE Insurance, Philadelphia, PA

    Responsibilities include:

    • Application/System Maintenance of two proprietary ECM systems based on IBM FileNet & OpenText IDM Vignette
    • Leads and manages a team of both local and remote/datacenter service delivery talent
    • Works alongside and across teams and IT departments to ensure that business and service-level expectations (SLAs, SLOs) are exceeded
    • Support the Application Owner/Senior Manager in targeted efforts improve enterprise reliability, maintainability, availability, and recoverability
    • Builds on past success in driving exceptional customer service objectives, methods, and metrics
    • Collaborates with incident response teams to mitigate severity events
    • Ensures timely and accurate communications to the field/End users
    • Ensures processes, procedures, and documentation are maintained, updated, and executed
    • Creatively and continuously improves technology services processes
    • Serves as a strong proponent of excellence in customer service
    • Ensures consistent use of processes and best practices
    • Periodically serves as on-call SDM
  4. Senior Delivery Lead

    Cognizant | ACE Insurance, Philadelphia, PA

    Responsibilities include:

    • Design & Develop Technical Solutions for minor/major projects in a Central Claim Repository proprietary System.
    • Production Support & Build long term fixes for production defects.
    • Release coordinator/production gatekeeper for major product releases.
    • Run monthly Delivery audits, project control, and status tracking.
  5. Senior Technical Lead

    Cognizant | Hartford Insurance, Tokyo, Japan

    Responsibilities include:

    • Prepare Functional Specification on the complete Money transfer between the special account to the General Account, Processing the Annuity payouts.
    • A brand new system with the capabilities from the Initial Advance notice extraction to the Reception of the completed form and handling the payouts in Ingenium.
    • A central hub with external API to handle the complex Annuity calculation using the product Xpress as well the Japanese Taxation from the Necessary expense calculation to the Tax Withholding Amount.
  6. Technical Lead

    Cognizant | Ingenium Center of Excellence

    Responsibilities include:

    • Draft Project Proposals/Consulting on various Ingenium based projects.
    • Train new recruits on Ingenium Technology & improve training materials.
  7. System Engineer

    Cognizant | MetLife Long Term Care Insurance

    Responsibilities include:

    • Lead Developer of Ingenium Based Policy Admin System of MetLife Long Term Care.
    • Design & Develop Technical Solutions, introducing new functionalities in the Enrollment Processing & Underwriting, Billing, and Coverage processing.
    • Provide SME support on technologies and lines of business supported, attend to various project meetings to share his expertise on the subject matter, deliver small projects, and provide resolution and fixes to production issues well under the SLA agreements.

Education

  1. MS Computer Science

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta US

    Courses included:

    • Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning for Trading
    • Operating Systems, Graduate Algorithms, Computer Networks
    • High Performance Computing, System Design for Cloud, Quantum
  2. MBA Business Administration

    Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon India

    Courses included:

    • Financial Management & Decison Making, Marketing Management
    • Strategic Management, Operations Management, Macroeconomics
    • Optimization Techniques, Organizational Behaviour
  3. AMP Advanced General Management Program

    Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad India

    GPA: 7.93/10.00

    Courses included:

    • Decison Science, Business Strategy, Accounting & Finance
    • Enterprise and Risk Management, Digital Business Innovation
    • Leadership, Engagement and People Performance
  4. PG Diploma in Applied Data Science and AI

    Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkie India

    Courses included:

    • Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Reinforecement Learning
    • Large Language Models and Generative AI
    • Data Engineering
  5. BE Mechanical Engineering, Coimbatore India

    PSG College of Technology

    GPA: 8.04/10.00

    Courses included:

    • Compurational Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Engineering
    • Mechanics of Solid, Mechanics of Machines
    • Power Plant Engineering, Design for Manufacture & Assembly
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python, Java, C, C++
React, extJS
SQL, Db2
Scikit-learn, Keras, Pyspark
Solidity, Fast API
Azure, AWS, GCP
Management Skills
Program Management
IT Strategy
Agile Practices
Problem Solving
Operations Management
Leadership
Awards
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Coursera ∙ November 2023
I studied the foundational concept of neural networks and deep learning. By the end, I was familiar with the significant technological trends driving the rise of deep learning; build, train, and apply fully connected deep neural networks; implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks; identify key parameters in a neural network’s architecture; and apply deep learning to your own applications.
Blockchain Fundamentals
edX ∙ July 2023

Learned:

  • Synthesize your own blockchain solutions
  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the specific mechanics of Bitcoin
  • Understand Bitcoin’s real-life applications and learn how to attack and destroy Bitcoin, Ethereum, smart contracts and Dapps, and alternatives to Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm
Object-Oriented Programming in R
datacamp ∙ January 2023
Object-oriented programming (OOP) lets you specify relationships between functions and the objects that they can act on, helping you manage complexity in your code. This is an intermediate level course, providing an introduction to OOP, using the S3 and R6 systems. S3 is a great day-to-day R programming tool that simplifies some of the functions that you write. R6 is especially useful for industry-specific analyses, working with web APIs, and building GUIs.
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Languages
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English
75%
Tamil
25%
Hindi