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SEASONED AND EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL, WITH FOCUS ON INFORMATION

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT WITH PROVEN ABILITIES IN LEADERSHIP, TEAM BUILDING,

BUSINESS ANALYSIS, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, DATABASE ADMINISTRATION, WITH

EXPERTISE IN VARIOUS BUSINESS AREAS INCLUDING AVIATION,

TELECOMMUNICATIONS, OIL AND GAS, UTILITY BILLING, HEALTH CARE, SUPPLY CHAIN

MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT.

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. Project Management, Vendor Management

o Leadership, Team Building

o Business Analysis,

o Database Administration,

Proven experience in successful project implementations delivering

projects on-time, on-budget and with a high degree of customer

satisfaction. Effective team building and management skills are

verified by the success of the project teams. Ravi has excellent

insight into budget and financial concerns with a history of

profitable solutions. Ravi has excellent communication and project,

portfolio reporting skills and strategic progress on IT initiatives to

Senior Leadership. Excel at managing projects, collaborating with

project teams, interfacing with clients, and deploying technology to

build successful solutions for clients

. MBA, University of Calgary, Canada. Haskayne School of Business (2009)

. B.S. Computer Engineering (1993)

PMP (Project Management Professional) PMI (Project Management

Institute), License 70551925

July 2013 - Present

Project Management Profile

PROJECT DELIVERY SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

PROFILE PROJECT INITIATIVES, QUOTE TO CASH AND SOX

COMPLIANCE PROJECTS

Technical implementation of enterprise application

BRM(Billing and Revenue Management)/ERP

RFP, RFI, Vendor management, product selection and

procurement

Methodologies Practical application and understanding of industry

standard and internal methodologies: Agile,

Waterfall, SCRUM

Resource Management Strong leadership and people management skills.

Responsible for management and overall group

cohesiveness of technical, non-technical and

executive resources (up to 30 project resources).

Achievements

MANAGER - IT PROJECTS - BE AEROSPACE CONSUMABLES MIAMI MAY 2011 -PRESENT

. Successfully managed and implemented the Integration and Merger of

LaSalle Electric with BE Consumables, to synergies the best practices

in IT for both businesses. Team Strength -20 People in 4 different

geographic locations. Sales Volume $7 Million.

. Led, Developed and successfully Implemented EU VAT (Value Added Tax)

implementation in CARDEX (the home grown ERP system), so B/E is

compliant with the various VAT tax legislations. ROI was $1 million

savings due to taxes filed accurately by B/E. Project team - 20

people, in 3 different geographic locations.

. Managed and successfully implemented Finance and Accounting IT End Of

Month process improvements, that significantly reduced the run-times

(went from over 6 hours to under 3 hours) for the EOM processes,

automated several manual error prone processes. Team strength 10

people.

. Led the successful design, development and Implementation of a Role

based access control project within the ERP system, Ensured that B/E

was compliant for SOX or Segregation of Duties compliance Project team

15 people. Role - Project Manager

. Managed the initiation, scope and planning of a paperless three way

match solution in the B/E Accounts Payable ERP system that will

automate the matching process, enabling B/E to reduce the manual

tedious work and paper work needed to do the match. This will ensure

fewer mistakes, less head count needed and ensure vendors get paid on

time. Role - Project Manager. Team strength - 20 people, Potential

Savings $200,000 per year

. Led the implementation and Migration of the Accounting General Ledger

from a Home based ERP system to Oracle JDE. _ON-Going Team Strength

30,

Senior Independent Consultant Billing - Inuit Mountain View CA Nov 2010

-May 2010

. Led the revenue recognition, currency conversion and interface between

Oracle BRM (Billing & Revenue Management) with Oracle E-Business and

Siebel for the International BRM project catering to multiple Intuit

products in Multiple countries. (USA, UK, Canada, India)

. Devised and implemented currency conversion and revenue recognition

strategies to enable Intuit to go to market internationally using the

SAS (Software as a service) model.

. Led the successful development, testing and implementation of a major

software project (Go Connect 2.2), to enable Intuit to add vital

functionality to an existing product.

. Designed, created and implemented successful functional models, to

ensure proper accounting principles are used for revenue recognition

and are compliant with US GAAP.

. Functional and Senior analyst in the Implementation for Oracle BRM as

the billing platform for Intuit's suite of domestic products and new

acquired product range.

Project Manager/Manager Billing Delivery Shaw Communications -Calgary,

Canada

April 2010 - October 2010 (6 months)

. Managed and led the successful implementation of the IUN (Internet usage

notification) project where Shaw will be able to bill for customers

downloading content beyond a certain limit. This project was completed on

time, on budget with high business satisfaction. Team strength 10 people

. Successfully managed and implemented the Market segmentation project on

DOC1 so that media ads on invoices could be specifically targeted to

specific customers based on viewing patterns and demographics. Team

strength 5 people.

Project Manager 2008-Apr 2010 ENABIL SOLUTIONS LTD (2005 - 2010)

Calgary, Canada

Database Team Lead 2007-2008

Senior Database Administrator 2005-2007

. Managed the implementation and conversion of a multi-million dollar

project, of a legacy billing platform to Oracle Billing and Revenue

Management for a US wireless carrier with a subscriber base exceeding

70,000. Efficiently handled a team working in 3 different time zones

to ensure high performance and productivity levels.

. Led the successful design, development, implementation of a multi-

million dollar billing and CRM system for a new telecom carrier whose

subscriber base has grown from 0 to > 150,000 subscribers within 1

year. Motivated the team to high levels of performance resulting in an

overall resounding project success.

. Successfully implemented a performance enhancement project for a > 2TB

database that halved the billing time from 48 hours to < 24 hours.

Managed multiple teams including Oracle, TELUS DBA team, outside

consultants, internal development team and VMC client expectations.

This project helped ENABIL to meet its Service Level Agreements for

the bill cycle duration and helped save thousands of dollars in lost

revenue. Team strength was 20 people.

. Managed and implemented a major upgrade for the Billing System (> 500

users supporting 400,000 telecom subscribers, 2 TB Database), by

upgrading to a new version of the billing framework (Portal 6.5 to

7.2), Oracle version 9.2.0.4 to 10.2.0.3 and Solaris 8 to 9. This

initiative resulted in generating additional $2 million in revenue.

. Managed and reduced the data volume in the existing database, by

designing, developing and automating an archiving strategy (by > 40%).

This saved an estimated $100,000 every year and improved overall

database performance by 20%. .

Database Analyst /Lead Developer- Petro-Soft Systems Ltd. Calgary Canada

2004

. Designed and developed an interface between the existing Phoenix (Oil

Reserves Management) application and the Ergo Engine (Economic Engine

for Value calculations) for both Oracle and SqlServer Databases.

. Managed data conversion and data transfer operations for switching

over to Phoenix, for clients like Anadarko and British Petroleum

DBA / Senior Consultant - Schlumberger Information Solutions, Calgary

Canada 2001 To 2003

. Generated $50,000 revenue by developing and implementing data

extraction views from Field View to be used as source data for Suncor

Fire bag application. Completed the project on time, on budget and

with a high level of client satisfaction.

. Improved the performance by more than 90% for Total Fina Elf's Oracle

Database at Nigeria remotely. Saved the company more than 80 man-

hours time and $30,000 by eliminating travel using proven

communication, analysis and troubleshooting skills.

. Generated $40,000 revenue by designing, developing and implementing an

auditing system for Apache. Completed the project on time, on budget

with zero defect lists resulting in a high level of customer

satisfaction.

. Enhanced field user effectiveness by generating (> 50 technical

solutions) to solve database issues.

. Managed the Migration and upgrade several Oracle (7x and 8i) databases

to Oracle (9i) and SQL Server 7 Databases to SQL Server 2000.

. Enhanced Database efficiency and reliability using regular performance

tuning and scheduling daily and weekly backups.

. Improved reporting within the in house project tracking system (Light

House) by designing and implementing an Email capability from within

the database to email weekly reports to management.

. Conducted and organized database training for clients and employees.

Independent Consultant - Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta (1998 - 2000)

Team Lead- Enmax EPC Conversion, City of Calgary Banner

Application, Calgary Alberta

Ravi Led the Development of the Front End Screens for Pension

Calculations. Team strength of 10 people.

Project Manager/DBA - Noesis Corporation, Edmonton Alberta

Team Lead - Fifth Dimension Information Systems, Edmonton Alberta (1996-

1998)

Technical Profile

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS:

ORACLE BRM (7.4,7.3,7.2,6.5), CARDEX (UNIDATA/PICK PROGRAMMING), ORACLE

E-BUSINESS, SYSTEM ARCHITECT, SHAREPOINT, MERAK CAPITAL PLANNING AND

MERAK FIELDVIEW,

PETRO-SOFT PHOENIX (RESERVES MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND DATABASE SYSTEMS)

Project Management & Analysis Tools:

MS Visio, MS Project & Project Server, Mingle, Oracle BPA (Business

Process Architect)

Development /Design and third party:

Oracle CASE * Designer 2000, Crystal Reports 5.0, Business Objects

4.0.5.5,Oracle Forms 5.0,Oracle Reports 3.0,, Pro*C, Pro*C++, ERWIN,

Oracle PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, SQL *PLUS, COBOL, PASCAL, C, BASIC,

FORTRAN-77, TOAD 9.0, Spotlight

Databases & Operating Systems:

Oracle (11g, 10g, 9i, 8i), SQL Server, MS Access, MS Windows, NT, 2000,

XP, Vista, 8, HP Unix, Sun Solaris, Linux

Professional Certifications

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATES

ORACLE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL DBA (9I, 8I), MST-2072/2071 ADMINISTERING A

SQL SERVER DATABASE, ORACLE BILLING AND REVENUE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

(PORTAL 7.3)

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