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Suja Ganesan

Suja Ganesan

Chennai

Summary

Delivery Manager & Customer Experience Lead with 17+ years of expertise in IAM, Directory Services, and Cybersecurity across global enterprises. Former Service Delivery Manager for IBM Security solutions and Transition Lead for Centrify migration with strong expertise in LDAP (IBM SDS, Sun One, Tivoli, ODSEE). Skilled in Agile leadership, customer engagement, and service delivery with a proven record of driving secure, reliable, and business-focused identity solutions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Tech Lead-Cyber

Fiserv., Inc
03.2021 - Current

- Leading end-to-end IAM operations for PingFederate, PingDirectory, and PingAccess, ensuring secure, scalable, and customer-centric service delivery.
- Drove real-time SSO issue resolution, LDAP configuration, and cert management to enhance **Customer Experience** and minimize user disruption.
- Supported compliance audits and maintained process documentation to uphold service reliability and a seamless customer journey.

Lead Consultant

HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2022 - 03.2024

- IAM Consultant (Directory Services): Managed LDAP operations (monitoring, replication, schema/index updates, password policies, ACIs, certificates) and application integration on Tomcat with secure provisioning and certificate renewals.
- Transition Manager: Unix Access Management migration to Centrify (AD authentication), ensuring seamless access, improved efficiency, and compliance with enterprise standards.
- Enhanced security & compliance** through audits, policy enforcement, user/group role management, and incident resolution, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards.

Service Delivery Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd. / Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
08.2009 - 05.2022

- Service Delivery Manager (IBM LDAP) & Directory Services Specialist: Delivered migrations (Sun DS V5.2→V6.3 for Avis, TDS V6.3→ISDS V6.4 for Whirlpool) and managed end-to-end LDAP operations—installation, replication, schema/index updates, password policies, ACIs, certificates, and user/group management.
- Resolved high-priority LDAP issues with vendor support, ensured compliance through audits, metrics, documentation, and led RFS/migration activities (planning, estimation, timelines).
- Agile Squad Lead: Coached teams on agile best practices, facilitated ceremonies (scrums, sprint planning/reviews/demos), and worked with Product Owners on backlog prioritization and release planning to improve delivery efficiency.
- Governance & Service Excellence: Established project metrics to track customer value, coordinated sign-offs with client teams, resolved incidents, and escalated risks/issues to governance committees while driving continuous improvement using IBM Bluesight & Mural Board.

Assistant Systems Engineer/Production Support Executive

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2007 - 08.2009

- Production Support Executive (Directory Services):** Administered BMC Identity Management components, handled user/group provisioning, password management, and manual account setups.
- Monitored workflows, performed health checks, generated error reports, and resolved job abends, incidents, and user issues to ensure service stability.
- Tools Used: BMC Identity Management Suite, BMC Passport, BMC Calendara Directory Integrator, Sun Directory Server V5.2.

Education

M.S - Software Engineering

VIT University
05.2007

HSLC (XII) - undefined

Auxilium Girls Higher Secondary School
05.2002

SSLC (X) - undefined

Auxilium Girls Higher Secondary School
06.2000

Skills

  • Operating Systems: Windows 11, UNIX, RHEL 810
  • PM/Agile tools: Project planning, Root Cause Analysis, Project Tracking and Kanban board, Blue sight and Mural
  • IAM Products: Ping Directory 93, Ping Federate, ODSEE 11, ISDS V64, Tivoli directory Server V63, Tivoli Directory Integrator, Tivoli Access Manager e- business, Sun One Directory Server, BMC Identity Management Suite, IBM Maximo, BMC Remedy, Tivoli Directory Server V6x and Tivoli Identity Manager,Centrify/Delinea Access, Microsoft AD
  • LDAP Browsers: Softerra, JXplorer,Apache Directory Studio and Java LDAP Browser

Certification

  • Google Cloud Digital Leader - Feb, 2023
  • ITIL Version 3 - May,2012 (Internal IBM)
  • Team Kanban Practitioner - Dec, 2018
  • Scrum Master Training - Dec, 2018 (Internal IBM)
  • Certified Scrum Master - April, 2022

Timeline

Lead Consultant

HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2022 - 03.2024

Tech Lead-Cyber

Fiserv., Inc
03.2021 - Current

Service Delivery Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd. / Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
08.2009 - 05.2022

Assistant Systems Engineer/Production Support Executive

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2007 - 08.2009

HSLC (XII) - undefined

Auxilium Girls Higher Secondary School

SSLC (X) - undefined

Auxilium Girls Higher Secondary School

M.S - Software Engineering

VIT University
Suja Ganesan