Project Software Engineer

Arun Shankar Giridharan Contact: 1-201-***-****

Email: **************@*****.***

Over 8 years of experience in IT and ITES, I posses excellent

Executive functional understanding of the US Banking system and Online

Summary Banking Industry. I also blend experience in conducting

business analysis and process redesigning, with a sound

knowledge of project implementation methodologies and

practices.

Currently I am employed with Infosys Technologies working as a

Career Goal Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst in Continuous

Development/multi release project, for one of the top lenders

in USA.

To pursue a long-term career as a Lead Business System Analyst

in a professional organization that will utilize my information

technology experience for the development of the organization.

Experienced in the Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and

Implementation of Business application systems for Finance &

Areas of Banking Sectors.

Expertise Expertise in OLAP and OLTP Data Mapping.

Expertise in Requirements Elicitation.

Expertise in US Banking and Online Banking Industry.

Interpret product, application, market data, and client

experiences into concise use case studies to be used later by

QA team for quality assurance testing, and technical team for

development of Low Level/High Level Design Documents

Expertise in doing the Horizon and CA level estimate for the

ETL work activities.

Good Knowledge on SDLC, Business Process Modeling, Unified

Modeling Language, etc

Sound knowledge in data modeling, pulling data from various

OLTP systems and storing it in OLAP systems

Coordinate of Project management activities like project

planning, resource handling of Onshore and Offshore, status

report and tracking.

Assist with study phase of the implementation of various

projects

Strong problem solving skills.

Collect, interpret, and distill customers' business

requirements into clear specifications and other

product/application development artifacts using tools like

Rational Requisite Pro and MS Visio

Project Tracking & Monitoring, demand Management, Quality

control activities of deliverables and resolution of client

queries and end users.

Coordinate internally with technical development team,

designers, and architect, to translate business requirements

into product/application features and functions.

Communicate statuses for product/application development

milestones to the internal business development team

Expertise in Training and People management

Skills

Requirement Rationale Requisite Pro, Visual Paradigm and MS Visio

Gathering

Dataware House Ab Initio GDE, Ab Initio Co-Operating System, COGNOS

Tool

Databases IBM DB2, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server

2000, MS Access

Version Web EME, Expeditor, Changeman

Controller

Mainframe Tools FileAid, Expeditor, IBM File Manager, EasyTrieve, Rexx

Languages Unix, SQL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL

Operating Systems MVS, Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista

Others MS Office Suite, HPSC Change Management

Present Job Infosys Technologies Ltd (Sep 2006 - Till date)

Designation: Technology Lead

Client: SunTrust Banks Inc

Project: Data Integration Center of Excellence - Investment

ROLE: Senior Data Integration Business Analyst

Description: SunTrust DIME (Data Integration and Movement

Engine) is an environment built on 'Hub and Spoke' model. It

is designed to extract data only once from any given system,

transform that data as many times for as many projects as

possible, and Load that data to other systems.

DIME is central framework serving as the Enterprise Data Hub

for all system to system data transfer, and holds all the

transformation logic performed on data between source and

target (Technical Metadata), the lineage data as it moves

between systems (Operational Metadata), and the business

definition of source and target data stores (Business

Metadata).

Responsibility:

Prepare the Data Mapping document for the ETL Project work.

Prepare the Project plan for the project deliverables and

monitor all the project deliverables.

Delegate and assign work efforts for the resources under me as

per the project plan.

Lead the Offshore and Onshore, assign tasks to the team and

monitoring the day to day activities.

Understand the customers present business processes and its

systems.

Coordinate with the testing team for all the testing

activities and maintain them in the QC.

Prepare the implementation tasks for all the ETL work and

coordinating with the team to migrate the code to Production

and validating with the business partners.

Prepared and implemented data verification and testing methods

for the Data Warehouse.

Prepare the Initial Business requirement documentations and

process workflows.

Recruit and groom resources on Business Analysis and Online

Banking.

Prepare Test cases required for performance tests

Present Job Infosys Technologies Ltd

Client: SunTrust Banks Inc

Project: SunTrust Online Banking

ROLE: Lead Business Analyst

Description: SunTrust Online Banking allows user to access

SunTrust personal and business accounts via internet, it

supports viewing Account balances and posted transactions,

transfer funds, pay bills etc. Deposit Account Balances

reflect up to the minute branch and ATM transactions, as well

as same day money transfers, payments and advances directly to

and from loan accounts.

Responsibility:

Gather requirements from users to enhance the existing product

Prepare Functional requirements, Use cases, and review test

cases prepared by the testing team for the enhancements.

Conduct stake holders' analysis and Brainstorming sessions

with subject matter experts

Creation of BRD, Systems requirements specification,

functional design document

Prepare the Design document for the Online Banking Backend

functionalities.

Prepare the Project plan for the project deliverables and

monitor all the project deliverables.

Designed and deployed many migrations of mainframe modules to

.NET applications for Online Banking Bill Pay functions.

Solving user queries, production issues and improving the

productivity with proactive measures.

Involved in the conversion of online modules to GT Ivory

application to handle real time transactions.

Coordinate internally with technical development team,

designers to translate business requirements into

product/application features and functions.

Prepared and implemented data verification and testing methods

for various Online applications.

Other initiatives include:

Estimation of various projects at SunTrust for Infosys.

Prepare training materials used for the Knowledge Management

Portal, internal to Infosys.

Present Job Infosys Technologies Ltd

Client: SunTrust Banks Inc

Project: Sunset Focus Migration

ROLE: Business System Analyst

Description: This project envisages Sunset of the existing

Focus and Web Focus based reporting environment and migrate to

the enterprise reporting standards using Cognos 8 (Report and

query Studio) and other tools like SAS, Easytrieve and COBOL.

This project would enable the bank to discontinue the Focus

and Web Focus Licenses when they are due for expiry in August,

2007 and hence cut down the recurring infrastructure,

administrative, maintenance and support costs relating to

Focus and Web Focus.

Responsibility:

Gather requirements from users and help desk logs to enhance

the existing product

Prepare Functional requirements, Use cases, and review test

cases prepared by the testing team for the enhancements.

Conduct stake holders' analysis and Brainstorming sessions

with subject matter experts

Creation of BRD, Systems requirements specification,

functional design document

Prepare Configuration scenarios for Alert Management

Perform User Acceptance Testing

Monitor the project deliverables

Previous Job IBM India Pvt Ltd (Dec 2004 - Sep 2006)

Designation: Software Engineer

Client: IBM USA

Project: NiLS (Nordic International Leasing System)

ROLE: Business System Analyst

Description: NiLS is a financial system developed in global

Financing, IBM Nordic. This project involved

implementation of Leasing and Loan Contracts on all IBM

product and have full accounting support, including

depreciation on object level.

Responsibility:

Gather requirements from users and help desk logs to enhance

the existing product

Designing of Functional Specifications, Enhancement of the

system for different countries and Maintenance of the

system.

Project Tracking & Monitoring and demand Management.

Prepare Functional requirements, Use cases, and review test

cases prepared by the testing team for the enhancements.

Previous Job Syntel India Pvt Ltd (Sep 2003 - Dec 2004)

Designation: Software Engineer

Client: AMEX

Project: GMAPS (Global Merchant Profitability System)

ROLE: Junior Analyst

Description: American Express (AMEX) is one of the most

branded companies among the financial institutes in USA. AMEX

serves individuals with charge and credit cards, banking and

Traveler's cheque and other stored value product.

Responsibility:

Gather requirements from users and help desk logs to enhance

the existing product

Project Tracking & Monitoring and demand Management.

Provide Technical support to other team members, Quality

control activities of deliverables, resolution of client

queries and end users.

Prepare Functional requirements, Use cases, and review test

cases prepared by the testing team for the enhancements.

Academics

B. E Information Science 2003

Certification IBM Certified Data Base Associate DB2UDB v 8.1

s Infosys Foundation in Banking - I

Infosys Foundation Course in Banking- II

Infosys Mainframe Basic Programming Certification

Infosys MF Advanced Programming Certification

Brain Bench Certified on COBOL and JCL

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