SIDDHARTHA SARKAR

Mr. Siddhartha Sarkar has over 21 years of experience in the IT industry, out of which 17 years have been in Project Management, Operations

Management, Program Management, Account Management, Quality Process Management and People Mana gement roles.

Siddhartha has extensive experience with design, development and maintenance of Client/Server and Web based applications on M icrosoft and

Java based platforms. Siddhartha has considerable hands -on experience in managing projects, client co-ordination and people management. For

the last 9 years, Siddhartha had been in the role of offshore Senior Project Manager/Principal Delivery Manager, with project managers of multiple

projects reporting to him.

He also has a very wide gamut of experience in employee recruitment support and conducting Corporate Trainings. He has over 18 years of

experience in shortlisting and evaluating candidates, taking interviews and coordinating organization wide recruitment drives . He has been closely

involved in conducting as well as formulating course content for corporate trainings in every organization he has worked with. He is adept at

conducting trainings on any and every aspect of software engineering (including sizing and estimation), Quality process manag ement (CMM and

ISO 9000) as well as conducting and formulating trainings on Project Management (including proposal writing), Corporate commu nication,

behavioral training as well as domain specific trainings on Airport application development and Embedded systems design. He has also more than

15 years of experience in conducting process audits.

Siddhartha is a subject matter expert in the area of H1B and L1B/L1A visa justification documentation and he has over 12 year s of

experience in framing H1B, L1B/L1A visa justification documents and conducting mock visa interviews and coaching candidates in how to

face H1B and L1B/L1A visa interviews.

He has worked as a Deputy General Manager/Airport Vertical Head with SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Siddhartha is trained in PMI PMBOK and is

also a trained Internal Auditor for ISO 9001:2008. He had been a Principal Delivery Manager for the last 9 years and has had project managers of

multiple projects reporting to him. For the last 1.5 years he had been in the role of Deputy General Manager and has had overall accountability for

the Airport Projects Vertical, the Embedded Systems COE and the United Airlines Offshore Projects.

Siddhartha’s job responsibilities include Project Planning, Resource Management, Tracking and Monitori ng, Customer Interaction, Technical

Guidance, Requirements Analysis, Status Reporting and Timely Delivery to Client adhering to the Organization Quality Standard s and keeping cost

within the Project Budget. He had been serving as the head of the SkyTECH Middleware Center of Excellence (BSD MWCOE) for the last 6

years. He was working in the role of the head of the SkyTECH Airport projects/product Vertical. He was also the overall group manager of

the United Airlines Account projects at offshore. For the last 8 months, he had also taken charge of the SkyTECH Embedded Systems

COE.

Siddhartha’s management expertise includes simultaneous handling of multiple projects, prioritizing workload and multi -tasking, flexible to

changing priorities, focusing on results, effectively identifying and resolving problems using creativity with available resources, tackling tough

problems and following through to satisfactory conclusion. He is able to manage diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet

aggressive budget and schedule targets. He is experienced in coordination between business as well as technical stakeholders and has had

proven success in building client accounts and driving customer satisfaction.

Siddhartha is well versed in Function Point Analysis for software estimation and in using tools like Rational Rose & StarUML for System Designing .

Siddhartha’s other technical expertise includes understanding of web architecture & middleware technologies. Siddhartha has experience in Java,

Servlet, JSP, EJB, XML, XSL, XSD, JavaScript, HTML, Style Sheets, SQL, Maven, MVC architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Weblogic.

Siddhartha has extensive experience with design, development and maintenance of various Client/Server and Web based applications.

Strengths

Able to manage diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive budget and schedule targets

Good verbal and written communication skills, and experienced in coordination between business as well as technical stakehold ers

Proven success in building client accounts and driving customer satisfaction

A very good team player and experienced interviewer.

Very process oriented and very conversant with ISO and CMM practices and is a seasoned auditor.

Recent 1. Customer satisfaction was at 3.5 out of 5 when I took over as Head of the SkyTECH Middleware Center of

Achievements

Excellence in 2007, helped ensure a customer satisfaction rating of 4.95 out of 5 for the past 2 years

2. Increased head count and subsequent revenue by 33%

3. Reduced Employee attrition to a minimum

Organization Level Activities

Is involved in Size and Effort estimation using Function Point for Client Proposals.

Is a member of the proposal task force and i s the main person responsible for creating client proposals fo r any project in the Airport Domain

Is an active member of the SEPG group.

Is an accredited internal auditor and conducts IQA’s and SQA’s of projects.

Is a key member of the Senior Management and takes part in MR meetings

Conducted internal workshop and training sessions on the following:

Risk Management

Software Size Estimation

OOAD, UML and Rational Rose

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Trainings Attended

Course / Training Conducted By

OOAD, UML and Rational Rose 2000e Rational Corporation, Bangalore, India

XML PentaSoft, Calcutta, India.

CORBA using ORBIX W DC, Calcutta. India

Software Estimation & Requirements Management SkyTECH Solutions (Internal)

PMI preparation training Pelcon, Pune

Technical Skill Set

: C, C++, PASCAL, BASIC, FORTRAN, VISUAL BASIC, VISUAL C++,DELPHI, REXX

Programming Languages

: MVS/ESA, OS/2, UNIX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 3.11,WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS NT

Operating Systems

W ORKSTATION/SERVER 4.0, WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP, HP -UX 9.04 & 11.

: HTML, JAVA (JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, E JBs), VBScript, JavaScript, CGI-PERL, ASP,VISUAL

Web Technologies

INTERDEV, MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE

: DB2/MVS, OS/2 DBM, MS-ACCESS 7.0, WATCOM SQL, MS-SQL SERVER 6.5 & 7.0, SYBASE SQL

Database

SERVER v10, ORACLE 7.1, 8i, 9i

: IBM WebSphere Application Server, BEA WebLogic Application Server, Iplanet Server.

Servers

:

Others

Academic Qualifications

Master of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1993.

Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation & Electronic Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1991. Ranked First

Class First with Honours; was winner of University Gold Medal.

Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from University of Calcutta in 1988.

Employment Summary

Period Company Role

May 2000 – till date SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, India Deputy General Manager

January 1993 – April R S Software (India) Ltd, Kolkata, India Project Leader

2000

Experience Summary

Category Details

Customer Relationship building.

Project Management

Risk Management.

Project Planning, Sizing and Estimation.

Costing and Budgeting.

Team Development.

Team Appraisals

Proposal preparation.

Business

Preparing and giving presentations.

Development Increasing billing in existing accounts.

Airlines and Airports

Domain

Embedded Systems

W as involved with CMM level 3 and Level 5 implementation. Was a member of FAR teams.

Organizational

Imparted training on Project Management, Costing and Budgeting, Estimation Techniques; als o imparted

activities training on OOAD, UML and Software Engineering.

One of the principal auditors for internal QMS audits

A regular interview panelist for any corporate recruitment drive, including walk -ins.

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United Airlines, Chicago, USA

Customers Handled

Unisys, Beijing and Unisys, Hong Kong

Innovata LLC, Atlanta, USA

Tell n’ Go.com, San Jose, USA

First Data Corporation, Boston, USA

Visa International, San Mateo, USA

Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, India

Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, India

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Major Projects

1.Embedded Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Systems COE

Client Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC), Kolkata, India

Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Kolkata, India

Circuit design & analysis – Compete Schematic design for analog, digital &RF

Description

related systems.

Circuit simulation – Simulation for analog, digital, mixed signal & RF circuits.

PCB Layout design – Multilayer board design including signal integrity and

Impedance matching.

Component selection & procurement - Assist in selection of components, also

in procurement.

Intellectual property (IP) design service - RTL based IP core design for

audio/video/image/dataprocessing, various interfaces,soft-core processor and

memory controller as well as IP core as per user requirement on different

reconfigurable (FPGA) target, deliverables will be

NGC/Source code with test bench & soft datasheet/user-guide.

IP verification service - IP core verification (Functional & Timing) as

per the user specification and deliverables will be the test reports .

IP testing service – Testing of the IP core on concerned hardware with

test report generation for delivery.

Module development service – ASM/C based module design on different

targets like DSP/MCU (ARM/AVR/PIC)

Linux device driver development – Device driver development for various

interfaces

Kernel-Configuration - Configure kernel as per user and compile kernel against

the given architecture

ARM7/ARM9 microcontrollers,DSP.Microblaze/PowerPC on FPGA,Spartan 3/6, Xilinx

Environment

FPGA devices, PIC series microcontrollers, VHDL/VERILOG,Device Drivers, Mentor

Graphics PADS PCB Design suite.

Deputy General Manager/Embedded Systems COE Head

Role

6 months (February 2013 till date)

Duration of Siddhartha’

s Contribution

Responsible for Customer Relationship Management, business

Responsibility

development and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and facilitate the Tech Lead and the

VERILOG/VHDL designer

Involved in project planning and co-ordination, work allocation and

monitoring, client co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Involved in Vendor evaluation and vendor liaison

Co-ordinating with 3rd party Chip (IC) fabrication and multi-layer PCB

fabrication units for ensuring proper manufacturing and testing of chips

and printed circuit boards designed by the Embedded Systems COE

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance to organization QMS

processes, doing document review, design review.

2.BAPL Airport Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Operations Suite

Client Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd, Kolkata, India

Creation of a suite of products for Airport Operations Management, for implementation

Description

at BAPL Greenfield Airport at Durgapur, West Bengal, India. The products include,

Middleware Message bus, AODB, FIDS, FLIFO, Airport Billing, Airport Dashboard etc.

Scope also includes building a data center and installing and commissioning of

electronic infrastructure like surveillance cameras, access control systems,

networking, voice and data ports, desktops, servers, automated Car parking

management system, FIDS displays etc at the Airport Com plex.

W indows XP/Windows 7, SuSE Linux version 9 SP3, Java 2, J2EE, Struts 2.0, EJB

Environment

2.0, Tomcat Server, Mule Enterprise, OpenMQ, Drulez, Camel, JBOSS, SoapUI

Deputy General Manager/Airport Vertical Head

Role

1.5 years (June 2010 till date)

Duration of Siddhartha’

s Contribution

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Responsible for Customer Relationship, business development

Responsibility

and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and facilitate the Project Manager,

the Financial Analyst and the Infrastructure Head

Involved in project planning and co-ordination, work allocation and

monitoring, client co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Involved in Vendor evaluation and vendor liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance to organization QMS

processes, doing document review, design review, code review and

test plan review

3.Middleware Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Center of

Client United Airlines (UAL), Chicago, USA

Excellence

The Middleware Center of Excellence (MWCOE) is a large team whose responsibility

Description

is to develop various middleware services e.g. EJB services, Web Services, Tuxedo

services for various LOB (line of business) projects at UAL.

W indows XP/2000, SuSE Linux version 9 SP3, HP-UX 11i, Java 2, J2EE, EJB 2.0,

Environment

W ebLogic Application Server v11, BEA Tuxedo v8.1, JBOSS, DataPower, Tibco BW,

SoapUI

Principal Delivery Manager/COE Head

Role

6 years (Jan 2007 till date)

Duration of Siddhartha’

s Contribution

Responsible for Customer Relationship, business development

Responsibility

and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and facilitate the multiple Project

Managers of the COE

Involved in project planning and co-ordination, work allocation and

monitoring, client co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance to organization QMS

processes, doing document review, design review, code review and

test plan review

4. EasyCheck-In Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Kiosk System

Client United Airlines (UAL), Chicago, USA

The Easy Check-in (ECU) Kiosk application is a Java fat-client server

Description

application through which passenger can check-in for flight himself, check-

in baggage, print boarding pass, modify the travel itinerary and upgrade

the travel class and also can purchase any United special offerings like

Award, Premium Line, Upsell. Easy Check-in helps avoid the wait in long

queues for manual check-in. This application is deployed on the Kiosk

Machines.

J2SDK1.6 Struts 1.1, JSTL Expression Language, Oracle Weblogic 10.3,

Environment

jakarta-jmeter-2.2, JavaScript, Runway, Apollo GDS, JDK 1.6, Eclipse

Ganymede, Maven, Oracle 10g

Principal Delivery Manager

Role

7 years (August 2004 till date)

Duration of Siddhartha’

s Contribution

Responsible for Customer Relationship, business development

Responsibility

and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and facilitate the Project Manager

Involved in project planning and co-ordination, work allocation and

monitoring, client co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance to organization QMS

processes, doing document review, design review, code review and

test plan review

Setting the system architecture.

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5. Drug & Alcohol Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

System WebLogic Client United Airlines (UAL), Chicago, USA

The Drug and Alcohol system is a web-based secure application used to

Migration Description

store and report the results of random testing for United Employees for

Drug and Alcohol abuse. The system is used by United to schedule testing

for personnel, uploading the test data from different locations, trackin g and

reporting the data from these tests. Work involved migrating the existing

Drug & Alcohol system from its existing WebSphere 3.1 on OPEN -MVS

platform to Weblogic 9.2 on SuSE Linux platform.

Windows XP/2000, SuSE Linux version 9 SP3, Java 2, J2EE, Jsp, Servlets,

Environment

HTML, JavaScript, EJB 2.0, WebLogic Application Server v9.2 with JRocket

JDK 1.5.x, DB2Connect Server and Gateway on Linux; JDK 1.5, Eclipse,

ANT; DB2/OS/390 database server v7.1.2

Principal Delivery Manager

Role

9 months (April 2005 till December 2005)

Duration of Siddhartha’

s Contribution

Responsible for Customer Relationship, business development

Responsibility

and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and facilitate the Project Manager

Involved in project planning and co-ordination, work allocation and

monitoring, client co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance to organization QMS

processes, doing document review, design review, co de review and

test plan review

Setting the system architecture.

6. OMMS/VMS Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Unisys Corporation, Beijing, China

Client

Implemented at the BCIA T3 (Beijing Capital International Airport). This

Description

application manages all activities on the ramp, working with airport and

third party staff to ensure the safe, efficient, timely and complete

processing of turnaround services for flights at the airport. It also deals

with seamlessly integrating functionality for Air-side vehicle management

and related work order tracking. VMS maintains and manages vehicle data

for all airside support vehicles inclusive of the vehicles owned by ground

handling companies and other contracted agencies. It generates vehicle

assignment plan (scheduled and ad-hoc) and work orders. It monitors

critical conditions for vehicle assignment and generate appropriate alerts in

case of impacting operational conditions. It generates reports on usage

basis of the vehicles.

Windows XP/2000, IBM AIX 6.4, Java 2, J2EE, Jsp, Servlets, HTML,

Environment

JavaScript, EJB 2.0, Hibernate, Borland Enterprise Server 6.5.1, Borland

Visibroker Client 6.0, Log4j, Chainsaw, JDK 1.4, Borland Jbuilder Enterprise

Edition, Eclipse, ANT, Oracle 10g

Principal Delivery Manager

Role

(4 years) June 2005 To October 2009

Duration of Siddhartha’

s Contribution

Responsible for Customer Relationship, business development

Responsibility

and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and facilitate the Project Manager

Involved in project planning and co-ordination, work allocation and

monitoring, client co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance to organization QMS

processes, doing document review, design review, code review and

test plan review

Setting the system architecture.

Personal Information

October 01st, 1965

:

Date of Birth

: Male

Gender

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: Single

Marital Status

: W atching movies, Listening to music, Internet Surfing, Computer Games, Reading novels

Interests & Activities

: English, Bengali, Hindi

Languages Known

: F2211745

Passport No.

April 28th, 2015

:

Valid upto

Contact Information

Phone- 91-33-256*-****

Mobile- +91-990**-*****

Email- acgre3@r.postjobfree.com; acgre3@r.postjobfree.com

Contact Address: - THE RETREAT, P110/19 KUMUD GHOSHAL ROAD,

ARIADAHA, CALCUTTA – 700 057,

W EST BENGAL, INDIA

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