Project Manager Management

Narayanan Jayaraman

Phone: 801-***-****

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

A challenging and performance oriented senior level assignment in Delivery

/ Project portfolio management

Synopsis

A result oriented PMI certified professional with over 16 years of

experience in Delivery and Project management including 7 years of overseas

experience in USA

Demonstrated competence in Project Management and interfacing with clients

for ascertaining requirements and delivering appropriate product solutions

Have a strong background in ORACLE database and extensive work knowledge in

J2EE, PL/SQL environment. Have sound knowledge in Retail domain

Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills

with proven abilities in leadership skills

1 Core Competencies

Offshore Delivery and Project Management

Handled a team of 80 plus in India delivery center and responsible for

delivering services to both internal and external customers.

In depth Project Management experience in directing and managing

distributed teams for multiple projects simultaneously

Proven ability to initiate and execute projects efficiently and in a timely

manner and communicate with stakeholders

Highly disciplined professional with excellent interpersonal skills

including analytical, problem solving, Organizational, issue resolution and

customer relationship management

Adaptable and flexible with a deep commitment to resolve production issues

24x7

Managed recruitment for sourcing the best talent from diverse sources for

India Development Center

2 Career History

Organization Role From To

Tomax Technologies, USA Technical Jan, Present

Consultant 2010

Tomax India Software Pvt. Sr. Project Manager Feb, Dec, 2009

Ltd, India 2004

Tomax Technologies, USA Project Lead Dec, 1999 Jan,

2004

Edison Enterprises, USA Software Consultant July, Nov, 1999

1998

CA Systems, India Systems Analyst Dec, 1996 June,

1998

BPL, India Programmer Analyst June, 1996 Nov, 1996

Maini Group, India Software Engineer May, 1993 May, 1996

2 Professional Experience

Tomax Corporation, Salt Lake City, USA

Jan, 2010 - Present

Tomax is one of the leading providers of retail solutions. Retail.net is

a comprehensive solution for demand -driven retail continuum, from planning

and merchandising through execution in the store. It consists of various

components viz. Merchandise Management, Customer Management, Store

Operations, Merchandise Planning, etc.

As a Technical Consultant, Core responsibilities are

Manage and lead Integration Products life cycle

Research and recommend new Open source tools

Define Road map for the same

Design and provide Integration solutions based on customer requirement

Tomax India Software Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India

Feb, 2004- Dec, 2009

Worked as a Senior Project Manager in Tomax India, which is a wholly owned

subsidiary of Tomax Corporation USA.

Core responsibilities

Manage and lead Project planning, estimation, budgeting, risk assessment,

resource allocation and project performance metrics.

Analyze and transform business requirements into a functional form with

comprehensive solutions using the appropriate methods, tools and

technologies

Provide leadership, direction and guidance to project teams

Plan and manage introduction of new tools and process improvements in order

to improve productivity, quality and cycle times

Accountable for managing and developing project team including hiring,

retention and compensation decisions, performance management, skill

development and succession planning

Drive and deliver product development reviews with product-level directors

in US to ensure support strategies and deliverables are commensurate with

the goals and expectations of the product group

Define and provide direction to implement industry standard software

development processes.

Demonstrate leadership skills in team building and organizational

development

Responsible for setting up Center of Excellence for Delivery

3 Projects handled

4 E-commerce Portal Integration

Enables retailers to sell their products through e-commerce portals

Merchandise and Store Operations Management

Provides management of Items, Vendors, Purchase Orders, Price management,

Receiving and return to Vendors, etc.

Enterprise Integration

Integrates legacy applications with Tomax retail products suite.

TOMAX Corporation, Salt Lake City, USA Dec, 1999 -

Jan, 2004

Lead design, development, and deployment of Integration applications to

meet business requirements that are cost effective, performance efficient

and sustainable.

Responsible for designing various Integration architecture and data

migration tools based on customer business needs.

Review new requirements for applications and work with business users to

clarify technical specifications.

Design appropriate technology solutions based on the approved requirements.

Work jointly with the functional business analysts to transform Integration

business requirements into technical specifications.

Assisting project management with the planning and resourcing of technical

design, development, testing and delivery phases of projects.

Evaluating deliverables to ensure they meet or can meet established

requirements, processes and standards/quality.

Ensure compliance with coding standards, source code control, Version

control, build procedures, and deployment procedures.

Trouble-shoot issues as necessary in both test and production.

Work with off shore team to develop changes, participate in problem

resolution and transfer technical knowledge.

Evaluating and recommending of technology solutions & propose new

technology-focused service offerings.

Edison Enterprises, Los Angeles, USA July,

1998 - Nov, 1999

Responsible for defining detailed design of the Billing determinant and

Recalculation engine

Responsible for developing / modify programming systems including testing,

debugging and documenting programs

Understand business requirements and assist with project planning and

project timeline

Review and provide input to functional and technical design, business and

technical requirements, project scope, and project plan.

Assist the QA teams in helping them understand the modules and work with

them to establish high level testing plans and methodology

Played a stellar role in executing development tasks as per Project plan

CA Systems Inc, Bangalore, India Dec, 1996 -

June, 1998

Responsible for requirement analysis, defining detailed design of the

General Ledger Module.

Extensively involved in logical database design, creating Schema, stored

procedures and triggers

Lead and mentored a team of size 5 for Accounts payables and receivable

modules.

1 Education

1998 Masters in Computer Application, Madurai Kamaraj University, India.

1991 Bachelors in Computer Science, Bishop Heber College, Trichy. India.

1994 Advanced Diploma in Systems Management - NIIT, Bangalore, India.

2 Professional Credentials

Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 platform

Oracle Certified Internet Application Developer, Oracle Developer Release 2

3 Enterprise Software Skills

J2EE, SWING, XML, XSD, DTD, Web services, Visual Basic 4.0

Developer 2000, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10gAS, SQL*Loader

Oracle AQ, IBM MQ Series, OJSP, JMS, SOAP 1.1, WSDL, Axis 1.3, Pentaho Data

Integration

JBOSS, Oracle AS, Tomcat

TOAD, PL/SQL Developer, Eclipse, JDEVELOPER, WinCvs

MS Office, MS Project

JIRA issue tracking tool

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