Project Management

Naresh Jain

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Summary

Management:

• Complete DW/EAI/BI engagement involvement and planning that includes budgeting, putting team in

action, work scoping and defining deliverables structure and phase or no-phase wise contents, facilitate

and propose solution to top management and get the buy-in, manage engagement risk and economics.

Client Management

• Managing day to day discussions and interactions with client managers, sr. managers and sponsors.

Account Growth

• Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams;

participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of

proposal pricing strategies

Org and Practice Building

• Perform role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively

participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams

and staff in local offices. Participate in discussions for the “thought leadership” and “architectural

approaches”

• Development of statements of work and/or client proposals

• Broad system level expertise across multiple computing platforms and technologies with the ability to

influence direction around information management at the Enterprise Level

• Organize knowledge transfer to clients

• Develop and manage vendor relationships

• Lead workshops for client education

• Identify opportunities to add value to the client's organization by effective use of information

management

• Build relationships with CXOs and key stakeholders responsible for information and performance

management in client's organization

• Ability to scope out the effort and cost for an enterprise reporting solution

• Ability to define how an enterprise information system will align with the organization's business and

strategic objectives

• Ability to manage multiple teams on a data warehousing engagement

• Specialize in architecting and managing BI solutions, involved in setting up best practices, BI data

quality standards, governance, data management, BI enterprise wide solutions, Business Intelligence

roadmaps, also with off-shoring component. (17 years plus in the industry)

• Currently running a $4.8m, a small data integration & business intelligence track for a retail client

Highlighted sections:

Oct’ 2006 –Jan ‘2008 (HealthCare)

Healthcare Project (Master data Management)

Retail industry Project May’2008 – Sep’2008

Transportation Reporting Project & Metadata Management

Education: M.S from BITS Pilani, India

Certifications:

Certified Data Management Professional: CDMP/CBIP (TDWI certified)

PMP (formal certification underway)

Infosys leadership Management Program

Microstrategy Certified

COGNOS trained

Business Objects Trained

Informatica Trained

DataStage Trained

TOGAF 9 Pre-Certified

Technical:

Proficient in wide range of BI tools and technologies like Informatica, Brio, Query, Business Objects,

Cognos, DataStage Enterprise Edition/DB2, Microstrategy, Microsoft OLAP Services, SQL, EXCEL and

other Data Warehousing related tools. Skilled in SQL Server 2000 and Oracle 8i/9i in administration level

and its data warehousing capabilities

Expériences :

Infosys Technologies Expérience: Dec’2003 <

Delivery Engagements

Sep’2009 – till date

SAP implementation – integration Track & Cognos Reporting/Analytics Track

• Setup onsite-offshore model

• Provided architecture leadership

• Managing onsite-offshore operations

• Client project reporting and planning

• Technically advising team on the day to day issue resolution

• Published a SAP-INFA data integration document internal to Infosys

• Infosys Account management

• Laid out MDM strategy for the BI digital warehouse

• Managing Digital BI analytics program

Jan’2009 – August 2009(Banking)

Marger & Acquisition Project

• Managed a program to design framework/utility for the merger and acquisition division for a bank

( phase 1 - 15 weeks )

• Managed and coordinated with a team of 26 resources from different groups as well as onshore and

offshore model

• Collaborated with various stakeholders and the steering committee

• Defined a phase wise approach and control the budget for the phase 1

• Effort estimated the entire program

• Provided thought leadership in laying out the M&A (Merger and Acquisition) architecture

Data Migration Project

• Managed history data information migration project for the data analytics stream in the central

repository

• Worked collaboratively with architects to define a standard utility (HUB -transformation) for any

history data movement (10 weeks)

Prototyping Project

• Managed a project with the team of one resource for a POC project to automate business

requirements through the excel documents into a ETL tool

Oct’ 2006 –Jan ‘2008 (HealthCare)

Healthcare Project (Master data Management)

• Involved from the pre-sales, proposal to client presentation and running the program

• Managed multiple projects with a team of 21 resources

• Participated/architected master data management for all lines of business

• Conducted JAD sessions with the business and the IT team

• Directly worked with VP (IT) and VP of enterprise architecture group

• Worked with the stakeholders in carving out a multi-year implementation roadmap

Consulting Engagements

Mortgage & Insurance Project Sep’2008 – Jan’2009

Broker Dealer Project

• 9 weeks highly visible project with the involvement of CFO (business) and VP (IT) with other

directors

• Provided architecture “vision and strategy” and implementation strategy

• Provided eight iterations of “90 days business value add” projects for the duration of 2 years to “fix,

enhance & win user confidence”

• Conducted an assessment on “Lights On” support and provided a sustainable estimation till the

“NextGen” solution kicks in

• Management reporting & presentations

Retail industry Project May’2008 – Sep’2008

Transportation Reporting Project & Metadata Management

• Managed a 4 months project directly with business stakeholders to lay out a new solution for the

reporting requirements

• Laid out strategy to capture metadata in the client’s purchased InfoCube software tool to manage

business as well as technical data

• Captured gaps and the pains

• Worked through the business matrix to design an effective data model for the scalability

• Captured thru JAD sessions reports with rationalization

• Presentation to the management on the effort estimation & costing

Retail industry Project Feb’2008 – May’ 2008

Vendor Management Inventory Project

• Managed a 3 months project for the international/emerging market stakeholders from the seven

countries

• Laid out phased wise/ priority based business intelligence reporting and daily analytics requirements

• Conducted daily JAD sessions with across continents

• Proposed future vision architecture solution approach options with various effort estimations

• Managed the project end to end

• Presentation with the management

Architecture Solution

Banking & financial Project J un’2006 – Oct’2006

• Laid out a plan with domain architect for the overall approach

• Worked on a data migration project to move 400 million clients

• Designed UDM based model

• Laid out strategy for the performance loading

• ETL architected the solution

• Participated in the design reviews

Inspection & Testing Lab project Feb’ 2006 – Jun’2006

• Took over a project from a different vendor

• Assessed the overall project from the architecture perspective

• Setup technical team and imparted architecture & technical knowledge (data model, ETL

transformation, Reporting, Analytics /framework) to the project team

• Provided a temporary support to the team towards study state

Travel & Entertainment Industry Project Nov’2005 – Feb’2006

Problem: Excel based reports with less flexibility (Sales & Marketing)

• Participated in 8 weeks discovery phase while working directly with VP (IT) and periodical steering

meeting with CIO

• Laid out a roadmap

• Architected EDW with the conventional approach with a junior architect

• Worked with BI architect to laid out reporting layer

• Participated in the rationalization of the reports

Transportation Industry Remediation Project Jan’2004 – Nov’2005

Problem: EDW with data quality challenges

• Led a team of architects to perform assessment study for three weeks working directly with CTO

(CIO)

• Solution approach presentation to larger audience on de-fragmenting EDW and re-architecture

approach (conventional design) with current and future reporting requirements

• Architected staging, ODS, DW and DataMart for all the transportation & logistics need

• Rationalized reports for the internal and external users

• Performed performance test for the Informatica server and submitted recommendations for a new

server

Misc (Pre-sales & Org building)

• Working with different verticals sales groups within the organization on the RFI/RFP responses

• Providing effort estimation

• Proposing high level solution approaches

• Participating in the RFP response calls with clients

• Planning and setting up teams for some of the staff augmentation clients

• Mentoring juniors

• Participating in organization new resource hiring process

Oracle Corp. Expérience: Jan’ 1999 – Jan’2004

Senior Consultant

Led technical stream projects with excellent technical skills for the various clients in the area of Data

Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Set up best practices for the data quality management, metadata

management, design and integration.

As part of the Architecture Group at EMC, designed and implemented a conventional enterprise data

warehouse data model for all the three hops (staging, ODS and DW). Conducted impact analysis of legacy

data warehouse (1 year)

• Laid out enhancement strategy for the Enterprise Data Warehouse

• Design and developed new data marts for the customer centric business group

Lead consultant at HP projects worked in different capacity (analyst, Data architect, ETL developer, data

modeler)

Designed and implemented Finance DataMart

Designed and implemented Forecasting DataMart

• Developed and recommended strategies and specifications for the BI solutions based on the analysis on

business goals, objectives, needs, and existing data systems infrastructure. Had authority on ETL

strategies/technologies for the forecasting model

• Requirements & gaps analysis from cross-functional teams; Strategy approach for forecasting DataMart

implementation; ETL design & development; Modeled product hierarchy management for the business

forecasting group; Data integration for the accurate product costing; Analyzed silo data warehouses for a

possible consolidation

Implementation of Business Intelligence Purchasing module

Analysis of business requirements for the module extension; Architected ETL solution from Oracle

Applications 11i; Designed purging strategy for the historical data; Led technical team throughout for the

implementation of the project. Designed and architected data integration for the Oracle Warehouse Builder

Imation Corp. Oct’1996 – Jan’1999

Team Lead/ Data Analyst / ETL Designer/ Data Modeler / Oracle DBA

Worldwide implementation of Oracle applications and Data Warehousing projects

• Requirement gathering and analysis; Legacy application data analysis; Analysis and design of staging

database; Analysis and design of Operational Data Store (ODS); Design of Star and Snow flake schemas;

Laid ETL design strategy; Worked on data conversion loads from legacy to warehouse; Designed and

developed Oracle discoverer reports; Worked as Oracle DBA

India Experience

CRIS & PriceWater House, India Jan’1988 < Oct’1996

System Analyst - Center for Railway Information System, New Delhi

Designed and implementation of financial costing and accounting system for the in-house accounts

department

Designed and Implementation of Claim Processing Information System for Indian Railways at 4 different

locations (Northern Railways, Western Railways, Southern Railways, North East Railways) with Novell

Networking and the model hook up to Railway Board in New Delhi. With PriceWater House conducted the

study on Thomson Press order management application.

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