Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram
About Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram
Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram is a Vertical Service Lead for Subsurface Drilling & Wells at Cognite, where he has worked since 2022. He has extensive experience in IT service delivery, project management, and team leadership across various roles in multiple countries.
Current Role at Cognite
Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram currently serves as the Vertical Service Lead for Subsurface Drilling & Wells at Cognite. He has held this position since 2022, contributing to the company's initiatives in the oil and gas sector. His role involves overseeing service delivery and ensuring alignment with customer needs in the subsurface drilling domain.
Previous Experience at Cognizant
Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram has extensive experience at Cognizant, where he held multiple roles. He worked as a Project Manager for seven months from 2019 to 2020, and briefly as a Project Manager and Solution Architect in 2020. Additionally, he served as a Transition Manager from 2014 to 2016 and as a Program Manager from 2016 to 2019. His responsibilities included managing projects, aligning IT solutions with business needs, and overseeing functional and technical teams.
Educational Background
Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Kongunadu Arts & Science College between 1999 and 2002. Prior to that, he attended TSA Hr Sec School, where he studied PCMC and achieved his Higher Secondary education from 1997 to 1999. He also completed his 10th-grade matriculation at Vasavi Vidyalaya from 1987 to 1997.
Expertise and Skills
Nandhakumar possesses expertise in IT service delivery, encompassing both infrastructure and application services. He is skilled in managing teams across onsite and offshore locations and utilizes ITIL framework and Six Sigma (DMAIC) methodologies in his work. His experience includes account financial forecasting, account mining, and a strong background in on-prem data center and cloud transformation projects.
Career History
Nandhakumar Shanmugasundaram has a diverse career history, beginning as a Telecommunications Engineer at Adecco in 2006. He then worked at Mindriver Information Technologies as a Network Engineer in Dubai from 2008 to 2009. Following this, he joined Microland Limited as a Network Consultant and Incident Manager from 2009 to 2014. His career continued to evolve with various roles at Cognizant before his current position at Cognite.