NATARAJAN CHANDRAKUMAR, PMP

**** ******** **. * Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 * 847-***-**** * f9esi5@r.postjobfree.com

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE

Strategic, growth-focused technology leader who approaches IT from a business mindset and uses decisive leadership skills to drive critical initiatives through complex, dispersed organizations. Proven change agent and nuanced in communication skills to interact with technical, functional, and executive management.

Technology expertise include large scale enterprise systems; new product development; application modernization; product innovation; process optimization; technology integrations; infrastructure; web-based systems; SQL databases; and Microsoft technologies, systems, platforms and applications. Diversified experience in leading and managing Application Development, DBA, BSA, QA and SE teams.

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS

* Strategic Planning: Actively contributed, as a project steering council member, in project evaluation and selection by weighing in the organizational goals, strategic fit, sourcing options and delivery timelines.

* New Business Integration: Achieved multimillion dollar cost savings ($175,000 per system conversion), rapid ramp up and rollout into new markets with near-zero interruption to the business and client operations. Earned Outstanding Achievement Award from CEO for successful completion of largest acquisition.

* Product Innovation: Recognized with Silver Medal from ComputerWorld (CW Honors) for leading first-of-its-kind large-scale, wireless-based auction system integration and deployment initiative.

* Program/Project Management: Managed a portfolio of enterprise applications and handled complex business and technical demands with ease. Earned Exceptional Contribution recognition from SEI’s CEO for execution of multiple IAA projects with success and laying the new path toward gaining client confidence

* Process Innovation: Achieved major productivity improvements by implementing management training methodology and best practices for field operations and later expanded to field sales as well.

* Offshore Team Development: Extended development team to offshore and lowered costs by 70% ($1M) per year. Negotiated contracts, coordinated pilot run, and rolled out accelerated program.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

STRATAGEM CONSULTING, Buffalo Grove, IL

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT 2010 - Current

Specialization in application development, project management, and offshore team development and coordination. Presently performing technology feasibility studies and architecture/implementation recommendations for a professional services organization.

INSURANCE AUTO AUCTIONS (IAA), Westchester, IL 2003 - 2010

DIRECTOR OF APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT (2005-2010)

Promoted to oversee all enterprise application development, implementation, and maintenance for $540M multi-country auto salvage and auction organization. Managed a portfolio of applications that included ERP, e-business, business intelligence (BI), auction, accounting, and sales portal systems. Managed SDLCs, upgrades, releases, and infrastructure and vendor relations. Supervised 30 developers plus consultants and offshore resources.

> New Business Integration:

* Facilitated 200% growth in branch locations and saved $175,000 per system conversion

* Enhanced rollout success rate by incepting a rigid data conversion process framework

* Earned Outstanding Achievement Award from CEO for successful completion of largest acquisition.

Natarajan Chandrakumar * Page 2

(Insurance Auto Auctions, continued)

> Global Business Expansion: Advisory Architecture Lead for project to create architectural roadmap to expand enterprise solutions and enable global expansion with multiple languages and currencies.

* Led analysis and presented report to executive committee outlining top three solutions and risks.

> Website Development: Directed strategic corporate initiative to construct $1.5M state-of-the-art website (www.iaai.com) to meet customer demands. New website led to increased customer satisfaction and additional revenue.

> Database Administration: Assumed additional responsibility for enterprise data management and directed DBA Team efforts for four years. Managed upgrades, re-architecting, deployments, and more.

* Delivered major improvements in database performance, recoverability and replication.

PROJECT MANAGER (2003-2005)

Recruited to design, deliver, and lead solutions for systems development, business support, and process improvement, all supporting business growth. Coordinated integration of acquired systems with internal ERP.

* Recognized with Silver Medal from ComputerWorld in 2005 (CW Honors) for leading first-of-its-kind large-scale, wireless-based auction system integration and deployment initiative.

* Achieved savings of $4.8M in license, maintenance, and labor costs by leading development and implementation of new document scanning and management system.

* Realized $100,000 operational savings by using in-house resources to implement new financial interface.

SEI Information Technology, Chicago, IL 1998 - 2003

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Carried out high-level software engineering, business analysis, process design, database/architecture design, software development, and project management consulting. Led an $8M project with staff size of 40.

* Insurance Auto Auctions: Started as a team lead to implement Title Processing sub-system and assumed complete product management and release responsibilities for ASAP system. Personal innovations include the implementation of event-driven Notification sub-system and enterprise fax solution.

* Methode Electronics: Enhanced information architecture, developed content management system web pages and trained client’s in-house support staff.

* Reuters: Performed software engineering work for Digital Dashboard, News Distribution, News OLE DB Provider, News Headline Server, and other business systems. Carried out UI enhancement, prototyping, design, development, automation, and test case creation.

Previously held role: Application Development /Product Manager at UNITECH INTERNATIONAL

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

Six Sigma Green Belt Training, Chicago Deming Association

Information Technology Executive Development Certification (ITED)

Training includes: Personal Effectiveness for IT Professionals, Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Managers, and Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Association of Information Technology Professional (AITP), Chicago Software Process Improvement Network(C-SPIN), Chicago Area .NET Users Group

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Technical Skills: Windows 2000-Windows 7/Windows Server 2000/2003, AIX, HP-UX,, Solaris, SCO-UNIX C/C++, C#, C-Tree, Java, JavaScript, ASP, ASP.NET, Ajax, HTML/ DHTML, XML, XSLT, Visual Basic, VBScript, ActiveX, VSS, Visual Interdev, TFS,Rogue Wave Development Tools, UML, Crystal Reports,

MSMQ,MS-SQL Server, SQL Report Services, MySQL, ISAM, IIS, MS Project, Visio, and MS Office tools.

Contact this candidate