Ravi Kumar

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About Ravi Kumar

The Manager, Software Implementation leads and manages the technical aspects of the customer-facing deployment projects/programs for North & South America, Canada, and Latin America, and provides deployment leadership and mentoring globally, at times. Key Responsibilities: • Plan, execute and maintain processes to drive Software Delivery improvement initiatives. • Responsible for developing strong technical teams to plan and support the delivery of new technologies and changes introduced by the Product teams. • Lead technical experts that complete the integration, configuration, and installation of L+G smart grid technologies. • Responsible for providing the development of meter data management systems and advanced grid analytics to transform advanced metering infrastructure data into actionable information for the utility industry. • Responsible for overseeing the performance of technical aspects of projects from inception to completion. Design, develop, and integrate solutions while consulting with infrastructure architects and ensuring that technical projects progress according to the project requirements. • Produce system documentation, including functional and system requirements, matrices, and narratives, as requested by the company’s technical leadership. • Work closely with product and project managers to define, prioritize, and communicate requirements to product development and quality assurance teams. • Investigate vendor solutions for product integration and cooperation. Perform business process modeling, requirements analysis, and use case development through customer and/or systems integrator discussions while functioning as a subject matter expert, understanding how L+G solutions fit into client requirements. • Generate solutions and help customers to understand the impacts of these solutions on business efficiencies. • Develop software using Agile development methodologies and apply expertise in system design principles and software development methodologies for SQL, Java/J2EE, and/or Python. • Serve as a consultant during early project phases while putting together requirements in response to customer Requests for Proposals (RFPs), confidently present technical solutions and value-added services to potential customers when requested, and may participate in some contract reviews and/or negotiations. • Perform consultative system analysis to assist in designing and coding middleware translation and conduct system audits to determine customer infrastructural improvements.