Project Manager Quality Assurance

Venkateshwar Rao

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< Decisive, result focused and action oriented Senior Professional with

over 14 years of experience in Quantitative Project Management

(Application Development, Maintenance and QA activities), Requirements

Management (Gathering, Elicitation, and documenting), Project Management

Office (Delivery Management), Competency Building, Coordination with

Support groups, Resource Management, Invoicing and Receivables Management

and Business Development in Financial Services (Banking & Insurance

systems) domains.

< Seeking a challenging position in ITES.

Core Competencies:

< Possess sound knowledge of Software development/design including

Quantitative Project Management, Client Management, Finance Management,

People Management of Predictive Analytics, Text mining, Statistical

Modelling, Operations Research and Machine Learning, HDFS, MAP REDUCE,

HBASE, HIVE, R, Zoo Keeper, Mahout, Sqoop, Flume.

< All India rank of 444 in the GATE entrance conducted by IIT Kharagpur

made possible because of my knowledge of Operations Research - Linear

Programming, Net Present Value, and Goal Programming

< Apache Hadoop -Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCD-410)

< Experienced in implementation of complicated MAINFRAME applications using

MAINFRAME projects and implementation using MVS, HIGH LEVEL ASSEMLBER

(HLASM), VS COBOL II, JCL, CICS, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, DB2, MODEL 204, MS-SQL

SERVER 7.0.

< Knowledge of international work cultures by virtue of overseas exposure

in the US and Canada.

Career Profile

Human Activity Recognition Using Smartphone data 05/13 - present

Tool used - R

Authorship Identification on Unstructured Text 01/13 - 04/13

Authorship identification is a research field of pattern identification in

online writeprint. Given excerpts from a book, classifying it by author

name is quite challenging. In addition to the use bag of words in the

traditional text classification problems, authorship identification also

focuses on creating attributes such as authors' linguistic

style such as usage of digit, punctuation, words and sentences' length and

usage frequency of

words and so on to study the patterns and relate it to authors. The

classification model used is K-NN or SVM models, the distance metric can be

computed using Manhattan or Euclidean, the bigram size can be set as 1 or 2

or 3, the k-value can be set for k-NN model.

Tool used - R.

Senior Project Manager, iGate Global Technologies Ltd, Hyderabad (Jan 2006

- Dec 2009)

Achievements:

. Recipient of R&R Award for working against odds to delight the customer.

. Appreciation letter from the client for my contribution to the Deposits

Project.

. Successful in manual conversion of SAS to COBOL of Retail Demand Deposit

Application for a bank.

. Digital conversion project for a bank based out of USA.

. Successfully ran the Manual testing centre for a leading bank based out

of Canada.

Job Profile:

. Involved in project management and implementation of quality initiatives

besides development of knowledge artifacts, billing the client.

. Ensure strict adherence to financial targets in addition to participating

in RFPs and attending training sessions.

Consultant, NIIT Technologies Ltd, New Delhi (May 2002 - May 2004)

Achievements:

. Played key role in the successful bidding of multi-year contracts worth

USD 20 Million.

Job Profile:

. Provide leadership to various project related activities and CMMi

initiatives in addition to knowledge management and mentoring of team

members.

Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Bangalore (Jan 2001

- Apr 2002)

Achievements:

. Instrumental in the successful completion of "CICS macro to command

level" conversion of over 10,000 programs of Assembler and CICS codes.

. Actively involved in conducting "Assembler" training for freshers.

Job Profile:

. Ensure strict adherence to delivery schedules and quality parameters with

prime focus on maximizing client satisfaction in addition to team

handling and management of client and internal communications.

Software Engineer, SDS Infotech Ltd, Thiruvananthapuram (Jan 1994 - Dec

2000)

Achievements:

. Played key role in the successful completion of Year 2000 conversion of

HomeComm/Lifecomm systems.

. Actively involved in training colleagues on "IMS DB/DC" in addition to

learning German language.

Job Profile:

. Attending and conducting training sessions in addition to delivery of

work packets and management of client and internal communications.

Project Profile

< eGL Project for Royal Bank of Canada, North Carolina, USA (Jun 2008 - Dec

2009) : -

Description: Expansion of enterprise general ledger number from 5 digits

to 10 digits.

< Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Canada (Jan 2006 - May 2008) : -

Description: Conversion of Assembler programs to COBOL.

Job Profile for the above projects

. Senior Project Manager leading a team of 50 members with prime

responsibilities of project management; preparation of proposals,

metrics and presentations for stakeholders in addition to invoicing,

implementation of user requests, enhancements, production support and

quality assurance.

. Management of client interactions, estimation and work allocation in

addition to conducting performance appraisals for team members and

reporting project status to the management.

. Technology used - Assembler, COBOL, CICS, JCL, Changeman, VSAM, File

aid on Mainframe/ z OS Platform, HP Mercury quality centre, QTP.

< LIFE COMM for Trhivent Financial for Lutherans, Minneapolis, USA (Jun

2003 - May 2004) : -

Description: An administrative tool and management control system for

individual lines of business for life and health insurance companies

designed to provide features and capabilities necessary to process the

majority of significant administrative functions with in the frame work

of one system. LIFECOMM contains programs written in VS COBOL II, HLASM

and IDEAL & DATACOMM.

. Project Leader involved in implementation of user requests,

enhancements, production support, model office support and quality

assurance for the LIFECOMM System. Hardware: ES-9000.

. Technology used - Software: HLASM (Assembler), IDEAL, DATACOMM, JCL,

CICS, VSAM, DB2 Tools: PANVALET, ZEKE, FILE-AID and XPEDITOR on MVS

Platform.

< Neilson Media Research Digital Conversion for Neilson Media Research, USA

(Jul 2002 - May 2003) : -

Description: Conversion of the existing analog system to digital. (All

the programs were analyzed for digital impact and then digitally impacted

programs were converted post code remediation, unit testing, regression

testing & integration testing.

. Consultant involved from the assessment stage of digital project to

implementation of the digitally enhanced system.

. Technology used - Software: PL1, HLASM (Assembler), JCL, ISPF PANELS,

VSAM, Model 204 Tools: PANVALET, VIASOFT-SMARTEST on MVS, VM Platform.

Hardware: ES-9000.

< Office Depot for Office Depot, USA (Jun 2002 - Jul 2002) : -

Description: Development of over 35 programs from specifications to final

implementation.

. Consultant assigned charge of complete SDLC Cycle besides ensuring

strict adherence to Quality Assurance parameters.

. Technology used - Software: VS COBOL II, JCL, CICS and DB2 Tools:

CHANGEMAN, INTERTEST on MVS Platform. Hardware: ES-9000.

< TAI Re-insurance for Phoenix Life Insurance Company, Hartford, USA (Oct

2001 - May 2002) : -

Description: An administrative tool and management control system for

reinsurance business for life and health insurance companies designed to

provide features and capabilities necessary to process the majority of

significant administrative functions with in the framework of one system.

TAI REINSURANCE contains programs written in VS COBOL II, CICS, and DB2.

. Analyst involved in implementation of user requests, enhancements,

production support and Quality assurance.

. Technology used - Software: VS COBOL II, JCL, CICS, DB2, MS-SQL SERVER

7.0 Tools: ENDEVOR, $AVERS, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR on MVS Platform.

Hardware: ES-9000.

. HDFS, MAP REDUCE, HBASE, HIVE, R, Zoo Keeper, Mahout, Sqoop, Flume.

Good knowledge of Predictive Analytics, Text mining, and Machine

Learning.

.

< HOME COMM-LIFE COMM for Phoenix Life Insurance Company, Hartford, USA

(Jan 1994 - Sept 2001)

Description: An administrative tool and management control system for

individual lines of business for life and health insurance companies

designed to provide features and capabilities necessary to process the

majority of significant administrative functions within the frame work of

one system. HOMECOMM/LIFECOMM contains programs written in VS COBOL II,

HLASM.

. Analyst involved in implementation of user requests, enhancements,

production support and Quality assurance.

. Technology used - Software: HLASM (Assembler), JCL, CICS, DB2 Tools:

ENDEVOR, $AVERS, FILE-AID, XPEDITOR on MVS Platform. Hardware: ES-

9000.

Education & Training

Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCD-410)

Basic Managerial Finance, University of California, 2007

Trained in REXX, CLIST, 1998

Undergone training in MVS, ASSEMBLER S/370, VS COBOL II, JCL, CICS, DB2,

IMS DB/DC, 1994

GATE-94, IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal, 1994

B.E. (Mechanical), Sri Venkateswara University, Andhra Pradesh, 1993

Trained in FORTRAN, 1992

Active participant in trainings on ISO and QMS at Phoenix Global Solutions

India, Bangalore

Undergone training for PMP Certification

Technical Skills

. Operating Systems: MVS, MS-DOS, Windows NT/ 2000, Linux, Unix

. Network Operating Systems: WINDOWS XP/Professional

. Programming Languages: ASSEMBLER, VS COBOL II, JCL, Visual Basic,

JAVA, SAS, IDEAL, Documerge, R

. RDBMS/DBMS: IMS DB/DC, DB2, CA-DATACOMM, MS-SQL SERVER 7.0

. CASE/Tools: ENDEVOR, PANVALET, Sqoop, Hive, HBase, AVRO, Whirr, HUE,

FLUME, CHUKWA, PIG

. Framework: Mapreduce

. Other Tools: ENDEVOR, PANVALET, CEDF, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID

. Functional Areas: Design, development and implementation of Bank

applications, and Insurance applications.

Personal Particulars

Current Location: Hyderabad, India

Languages: English, Hindi & Telugu.

Valid Indian Passport holder

Reference: Available on request.

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