Kadambari Menon has over 9 years of experience working for Accenture Services Pvt Ltd in various roles such as Cloud Automation Lead, Technical Coordinator, Offshore Infrastructure Lead, and Infrastructure Analyst. She has led teams, optimized resources to reduce costs, and improved processes. Additionally, she is the Head of Operations for her online boutique Flutterflies which sells ethic wear and has seen annual profit increases of 25%. Kadambari holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University.

1. KADAMBARI MENON
+91 8861405451 kadambari.menon@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT LTD Jun 2011 – Present
A leading global professional services company with more than 375,000 employees, reported a net revenue of $31.0 billion in FY 2015
Cloud Automation Lead, Bangalore, India May 2016 – Present
 Leadership: Led a 4-member team comprising Subject Matter Experts to reduce the time taken for end to end environment creation from 2 weeks
to 3 hours.
 Market Research: Launched research on third party automation tools and prepared recommendations based on maximum return on investment
which saved an estimated $0.5M on software licenses.
Technical Coordinator, Bangalore, India and Sidney, Australia Dec 2014 – May 2016
 Consensus Building: Extensive planning for over a year, managing expectations, persuasion and clarity in communication during daily meetings
with representatives of both old and new vendors resulted in smooth migration of production and non-Prod environments from Telstra Datacenter to
NTT Datacenter, which enabled the client to prepare for an anticipated 400% increase in traffic to the system.
 Initiative: Stepped up to the challenge of being assigned the role of deployment manager during crucial deliveries by revamping the handling and
reporting of issues by the team, which reduced lead time for code deployments by 15%.
 Communication/Risk Management: Advised the project on risks of its existing Business Continuity Plan (BCP), i.e., the systems of prevention and
recovery of the project to deal with potential threats to the company. Brought together various teams – IT Security, Client connectivity, Network
Team, Business Continuity Management team, Facility Team and came up with a sound BCP strategy.
 Collaboration: Liaised with teams in three different time-zones to deliver project well ahead of stipulated time, saving 25% of estimated budget
Offshore Infrastructure Lead, Bangalore, India Nov 2013 – Nov 2014
 Problem Solving/Planning: Conducted extensive research to optimally distribute resources that decreased annual cost of Infrastructure by 33%.
 Mentoring: Guided 30+ new recruit to facilitate seamless onboarding process; ensured proficiency in project architecture and infrastructure.
 Team Work: Leveraged the expertise of various cross functional teams and productively collaborated with project manager for the setup of three
new facilities for the project that accounted for a $7B extension of the contract.
 Business Operations: Appreciated by executive team for effectively leading the offshore infrastructure unit of Technical Architecture by decreasing
the downtime of environments by 30% and by keeping a healthy relationship with external vendors as well as the client.
Infrastructure Analyst, Bangalore, India Jun 2011 – Sep 2013
 Communication: Liaised between the offshore and onsite teams, effectively bridged the existing communication gap and thereby improved team
productivity and ensured 40% faster solution delivery by establishing daily meetings and facilitating constructive communication.
 Research: Published White paper on “Migration of Virtual Machines from OVM2 to OVM3” that helped projects within the company to upgrade their
legacy virtualization tool, leading to 150% more stable servers.
 Certification: Established self as primary contact for infrastructure tasks in a short span and got certified as Redhat certified Linux Engineer.
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE
FLUTTERBYES
An online boutique that retails responsibly sourced ethnic wear for the contemporary Indian woman.
Head of Operations, Part-time Sep 2013-Present
 Engaged with local vendors and artisans to come up with a revenue model that fairly compensates their efforts v/s exploitation that’s rampant in the
textile industry. Achieved 25% increase in profit each year since launch by focusing on customer retention and social media marketing.
 Chosen as one of the 5 best online boutiques to buy south Asian ethnic wear by Relaxa, a Sydney based lifestyle magazine.
EDUCATION
MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY, Kerala, India
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering 70% May 2011
 Published a research paper, ‘Implementation Of An Improved Search Engine That Effectively Crawls The Ajax Webpages' which was chosen as
one among 20 IT based research papers that were selected from over 1000 entries to be presented in the International Conference 'ICRIT 2011'.
 Conceived and conducted a new event “imag-e-nation” for Azure 2010, Annual techno-cultural fest of the college. The event had one of the highest
registrations that year and has since been adopted as a staple event at this fest.
 Active participant in inter-collegiate fests. Won numerous prizes for paper presentations and Fashion shows.
 Pitched to C-Suite of corporate multinationals and successfully raised $5k as sponsorship for college Basketball Tournament.
INTERESTS
 Edit a YouTube Video Series that aggregates contemporary news in ten points from by leveraging interest in national and international politics.
 Conducted events like Karaoke nights, Baking sessions and Newspaper collection all around the city to raise funds and awareness about better
education for under privileged children in orphanages as a part of thought leadership initiatives by MAD, Bangalore.