NARENDRAN MARUTHU
Chennai
Summary
Results-driven professional with over 17 years of expertise in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), specializing in product and project management, quality assurance, and quality audits. Proven track record in overseeing the configuration, development, and testing of IT manufacturing applications within the medical device sector. Adept at driving process improvements and ensuring compliance with industry standards to enhance operational efficiency and product quality. Committed to leveraging extensive experience to deliver innovative solutions that meet organizational goals.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Project Manager
GE Healthcare
01.2025 - Current
- Drive Platform Upgrade: Development, implementation, training, and support of MES platform.
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams in the deployment of MES ecosystem across manufacturing plants.
- Project Direction: Direct multiple projects and lead a team of internal and external vendors in delivering business solutions.
- Project Planning: Create project plans to fit stakeholders' and customers' needs, delivering within budget on desired outcomes with full accountability for project results.
- Role Definition and Collaboration: Define project roles and responsibilities, collaborating with customers to ensure cross-functional understanding among project members.
- Project Tracking: Perform project tracking through clear and concise reports and time management reports, proactively identifying potential issues and tracking project member progress against commitments.
- Continuous Improvement: Learn from recent projects to identify and recommend improvements, cost-saving initiatives, and substitutions to positively impact current and future project deliverables.
- IT Product Management for MES Platform: Manage ideas from manufacturing sites and oversee new features and enhancements from inception to implementation.
- Roadmap Coordination: Coordinate with business, site, and technical teams for roadmap preparation, prioritizing site user requirements, and maintaining project roadmap and release plan for MES platform.
- Point of Contact: Serve as the point of contact for all manufacturing supply chain applications to interact with Bartender application, seeking new opportunities and enhancing collaboration between Manufacturing DT applications.
- Vendor Management: Act as the point of contact (IT Supply Chain - Manufacturing portfolio) for vendor management for both IT operations and programs.
- Resource Management: Coordinate with supply chain manufacturing program managers for resource, budget, and risk management with vendor teams for project deliverables.
Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
GE Healthcare
04.2020 - 12.2024
- The project involves the implementation of the electronic Device History Record (eDHR) for GE Healthcare using Rockwell Advantage 10.3 and APC Toolkit as the MES product.
- Quality Assurance Role - Highlights: Support global manufacturing sites for all FDA and MDSAP audits.
- Release Plan Maintenance: Responsible for maintaining the release plan and audit playbook.
- Scrum Coordination: Schedule Scrum meetings with all stakeholders and coordinate deliveries.
- Retrospective Meetings: Conduct retrospective meetings every quarter to improve project management activities.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate with cross-functional product owners on deliverables for enhancements and new features for eANDON, Cycle Time Analyzer, ePI, Factory 360, Labor Insights, and Takt Reports.
- Black Box Testing: Coordinate Black Box testing and complete validation for the application’s requirements and technical upgrades in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
- Development Activities: Involve in development activities for interface between ERP systems and MES eDHR for installation base lifecycle program.
- Traceability Matrix Maintenance: Maintain the traceability matrix of the application for all audits in the manufacturing site.
- Change and Quality Management: Establish and monitor processes for change management and quality management.
- Brilliant Manufacturing Initiatives: Participate in Brilliant Manufacturing initiatives in sites across Asia regions and strategy calls with all manufacturing sites.
- Automation Solutions: Work on initiatives like Biometrics to reduce manual data entry and provide more automated solutions.
- Business Continuity: Ensure business continuity and disaster recovery exercises are successfully completed for MES application each year.
- Reporting Development: Work with the reporting team for the development of Data Lake and HVR to customize reports based on site requirements by offering the right data from eDHR.
MES System Analyst
GE Healthcare
06.2015 - 03.2020
- The project involves the implementation of the electronic Device History Record (eDHR) for GE Healthcare using Rockwell Advantage 10.3 and APC Toolkit as the MES product.
- Upgrade Customization: Involved in upgrading the customized MES application from Java-based Pnuts to Vaadin HTML Web-based application.
- User Interface Design: Involved in designing new user interface screens and customizing existing functionalities in the new user interface.
- Black Box Testing: Conducted Black Box testing and complete validation for the upgrade of the application in the new user interface screen in HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
- Documentation Review: Conducted a complete review of all design, code, and validation documents for a smooth transition to the new screen.
- Development Activities: Involved in development activities for the interface between ERP systems and MES eDHR for the new upgrade.
- Traceability Matrix Maintenance: Maintained the traceability matrix of the application for all audits in the manufacturing site.
- Change and Quality Management: Established and monitored processes for change management and quality management.
- Strategy Meetings: Participated in strategy meetings and periodical business meetings with all manufacturing sites and the IT team.
- UI Rollout Planning: Actively planned for the rollout of the new UI screen with the manufacturing sites in phases and assisted sites in India, France, and the US for pilot runs.
- Brilliant Manufacturing Initiatives: Involved in Brilliant Manufacturing initiatives in sites across Asia regions and participated in all strategy calls with all manufacturing sites.
- Automation Solutions: Worked on initiatives like Biometrics to reduce manual data entry and provide more automated solutions.
- Business Continuity: Ensured business continuity and disaster recovery exercises were successfully completed for the MES application each year.
- Reporting Development: Worked with the reporting team for the development of Data Lake and HVR to customize reports based on site requirements by offering the right data from eDHR.
MES Functional Consultant
TATA Consultancy Services
01.2008 - 06.2015
- The project is MES configuration and implementation for Johnson & Johnson group of companies by using Camstar Manufacturing 5.2 as the MES product.
- Involved in the preparation of customer requirements and compiling them into Functional Requirements specifications (FRS) and System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
- Setting up gap analysis process and evaluate all identified gaps through developed process and group them as releases.
- Document functional requirement specifications and prepare use case documents for functionalities in each release.
- Create High Level Development Design (HLD) document corresponding to functional requirements defined in the use cases.
- Involved in discussions with Johnson & Johnson personnel based on the System Requirements Document to cover the functionality, operational, technical issues, and scope of work.
- Involved in the prototype development and proof of concepts and to identifying gaps and scope of configurations.
- Based on identified gaps, worked with vendors to develop components, and involved in the delivery of those components in composite build releases.
- Involved in the development of Interfaces to communicate Camstar Manufacturing to ERP system.
- Involved in developments of reports in SAP business objects.
- Coordinating with validation team for preparing test cases with functional test scenarios/steps to cover requirements defined in the use case documents.
- AS – IS Study, To-Be Process design, mapping in the application by preparing traceability matrix along with test cases.
- Onsite configuration lead for the MESf Camstar foundation implementation for Cordis Miami site.
- Involved in Modeling Object configuration like creation of Workflow, Tasks, Electronic Procedure, Products, Bill of Process, User Data Collection definition, Mfg. Calendar, Label Templates and other modeling Objects.
- Involved in creation of User Query, Computation, Device capture interface and other Site specific objects for special requirements involved in project.
- Coordination in requirement gathering and helped in the development in the SAP business object reports for Cordis Miami site.
Education
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -
Anna University
01.2007
Master of Business Administration - undefined
Periyar University
01.2023
Skills
- Project Planning and Execution
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Resource allocation
- Quality Assurance
- Change Management
- Team Leadership
- Communication
- Budget management
- Performance Monitoring
- Agile methodologies
- Product strategy
- Product Vision
- Product Roadmap
- User-Centered Design
- Feature prioritization
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Performance Metrics
- Customer Feedback integration
- Problem solving
- Test Planning
- Test Strategy
- Manual testing
- Automation testing
- Defect Management
- Test case development
- Regression testing
- Performance testing
- UAT
- Validation
- Continuous improvement
- Documentation
- Risk Metrics
- Reporting
- Collaboration
- Release planning
- Version control
- Incident Management
- Release documentation
- Audit Preparation
- Compliance management
- Audit Playbook maintenance
- Non-conformance management
- Training
- Awareness
- MES
- Rockwell FTPC
- Camstar foundation
- GE Proficy
- Oracle ERP Applications
- Bartender
- PPM
- Rally
- Confluence
- Aha
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Certification
- Certified Professional Scrum Master I
- Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner I
- Certified in ITIL Foundation certificate in IT service management
- GE Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
- GE Building Essential Leadership Skills (BELS)
Languages
English
Tamil
Key Competencies
Project Planning and Execution, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Resource allocation, Quality Assurance, Change Management, Team Leadership, Communication & Budget management, Performance Monitoring, Implement Agile methodologies, Product strategy & Vision, Product Roadmap, User-Centered Design, Feature prioritization, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Performance Metrics, Customer Feedback integration, Problem solving and communication, Test Planning and Strategy, Manual and Automation testing, Defect Management, Test case development, Regression & Performance testing, UAT and Validation, Continuous improvement, Documentation, Risk Metrics and Reporting, Collaboration & Communication, Release planning, Version control, Change and Incident Management, Release documentation, Audit Preparation, Compliance management (FDA, MDSAP, 21 CFR Part 11 & Part 820), Audit Playbook maintenance, Non-conformance management, Training and awareness
Personal Information
Nationality: Indian
Awards
- Empower entrepreneurial spirit 2025, Vendor Management & TSA exit for Manufacturing Portfolio
- Empower entrepreneurial spirit 2024, Successful IT vendor management & Manufacturing IT Apps Spin off activities
- Spotlight Award, Multiyear Operational excellence award for the year 2021
- Leadership Bravo Award, Gateway server upgrade 2021
- Bravo Award, Delivering with focus on MES Platform Testing
- Impact award, Driving 37 change controls, 36 User stories and 120 Bugs closure in application
- Impact Award, Successful IT MES Application MDSAP Audit completion
- CIO award, MES eDHR Upgrade project
- Impact Award, 2017 Resiliency Platform Project for interface improvement with Siebel, Peoplesoft and other oracle systems
- On the Spot award, Successful implementation of Cordis Miami MES implementation of Compound Line
- On the Spot award, Successful implementation of eDMS and eDHR implementation for Japan -HINO site
- Certificate of customer appreciation, Coordination of eDMS application
- Certificate of customer appreciation, Coordination of eDHR application in GE Bangalore Site
Timeline
Staff Project Manager
GE Healthcare
01.2025 - Current
Staff Quality Assurance Engineer
GE Healthcare
04.2020 - 12.2024
MES System Analyst
GE Healthcare
06.2015 - 03.2020
MES Functional Consultant
TATA Consultancy Services
01.2008 - 06.2015
Master of Business Administration - undefined
Periyar University
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering -
Anna University