Project Manager

Giridhar polur

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

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Phone : 479-***-****

Experience summary

Giridhar Polur is an extremely strong MDM Architect

with acutely developed architectural,

implementation and deployment methodologies with

management skills.

AS A MDM ARCHITECT, PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AND J2EE

SENIOR TECHNICAL SPECIALIST HOLDS 10 YEARS OF

EXPERIENCE WITH PROGRESSIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN

APPLYING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO BUSINESS NEEDS.

AS A ACCOMPLISHED MDM AND APPLICATION ARCHITECT

HOLDS IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE IN VARIOUS

INDUSTRIES VIZ., BANKING, INSURANCE, MANUFACTURING,

TELECOM, RETAIL AND HEALTHCARE.

HOLDS 5 YEARS OF PROFICIENT EXPERIENCE AS MASTER

DATA MANAGEMENT (MDM) ARCHITECT ON IBM'S MASTER

DATA MANAGEMENT / WEBSPHERE CUSTOMER CENTER WITH

IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE OF THE PROVIDED

ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS FOR MULTIPLE CLIENTS IN

USA, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA.

HAS EXPERIENCE AS A CONSULTANT TO IBM FOR 3 YEARS

AND HAS EXECUTED PROJECT UNDER DIFFERENT ROLES

VIZ., PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, WCC SENIOR SOFTWARE

PRODUCT SPECIALIST, WCC SENIOR CONSULTANT AND WCC

CONSULTANT FOR VARIOUS CLIENTS IN MULTIPLE

COUNTRIES.

HE HAS EXPERTISE IN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

(SOA) USING WEB SERVICES IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOAP

OVER HTTP / JMS.

POSSES THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF DIFFERENT PHASES

OF SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE AND J2EE / GOF

DESIGN PATTERNS.

HOLDS H1B VISA WHICH IS VALID TILL 2012.

ROLES PLAYED

MDM ARCHITECT

MDM Principal Consultant / MDM Project Manager

WCC Senior Software Product Specialist

System Analyst

Senior Developer

Key SkilLs

MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT

SOA Services

Messaging Architectures

ESB Strategies

Database Management & Design

Data Migration & Planning

Technical Problems Solution

Technical Solutions Analysis

Professional experience

WAL-MART, US CLIENT, VENUE US

MAR, 2010 TO TILL DATE

Technologies :

IBM Master Data Management (MDM) / WebSphere

Customer Center (WCC) v7.0.1 & v9.0.0 Product -

Java - EJB - Web Services - WSDL - SOAP - XML - WAS

- DB2 - AIX / Windows XP - Patterns - Session

Fa ade

Role : MDM Architect on Global MDM SYNC Project

Wal-Mart has decided to merge their Location Master

Data Management HUB which is getting implemented

for Multi-Countries into single application, on the

similarly lines the second application Supplier

Master Data Management Hub follows the same

footsteps of multi country role-outs. Both of these

applications are developed on IBM MDM Server

Product under the Wal-Mart Profit MDM Program. As

of now there a 3 countries in production

(applicable both for Location and Supplier Hubs)

viz., United Kingdom, North America(US, Canada and

Puerto Rican) and Japan. Has started with

integration of UK & NA as a pivotal project and the

same process will be continued for the next

countries to be rolled out into production and the

process of Syncing them into a single application

follows sequentially. This project was crucial,

critical and high magnitue for Wal-Mart Business as

it involves not only the technical challenges but

also merging of large regional functionalities into

a single application which was a humongus task. As

a MDM Architect for Global MDM SYNC project his

responsibilities includes but not restricted to

providing architectural, functional and technical

directions to his 20 member team along with

managing them. His team members span across the

landscape of Profit MDM Program teams viz.,

Legacy(Mainframes), Data Integration(DI), Extract

Transform and Load (ETL), Master Data Management

(MDM), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

Responsibilities Held :

Architecting the Global MDM SYNC project and

providing architectural directions to the team

members for both the applications Location Master

Hub and Supplier Master Hub.

Planning the tasks and managing of team members

along with coordinating the activities with

relavent teams of Project Landscape.

Mentoring and monitoring of team on functional and

technical aspects of MDM Product and in

coordinating the SYNC activities across the

landscape.

Providing regular status updates on the progress of

project to higher management.

Has completed merging of two countries and gearing

up to merge third country which has moved into

production recently, mean while has taken up the

task of coordinating the migration of MDM

production from version 7.0.1 to 9.0.0

Recognition :

Project was a out-and-out huge success which has

provided him a great recognition as an Architect.

Had received numerious appreciation mails from

client management and from the Cognizant management

on the huge success of the Global SYNC Project.

Wal-Mart, US client, venue India

Mar, 2009 To Feb, 2010

Technologies :

IBM Master Data Management (MDM) / WebSphere

Customer Center (WCC) v7.0.1 Product - Java - EJB -

Web Services - WSDL - SOAP - XML - WAS - DB2 - AIX

/ Windows XP - Patterns - Session Fa ade

Role : MDM Architect / Principal Consultant

As a Master Data Management (MDM) Architect /

Principal Consultant his responsibilities includes

managing 25 member team in architectural, technical

and functional aspects. His team members were

working on two different applications named

Location Master HUB and Supplier Master HUB under

the program called Wal-Mart Profit MDM. These two

applications are implemented on two different

instances of IBM MDM Product v7.0.1.

Responsibilities Held :

For enterprise level socialization of custom MDM

services / artifacts from Location Master and

Supplier Master HUBs, he had provided architectural

and functional assistance to the client in

practicing the architectural, strategic and

technical approach.

Few of the functional areas in which he has

provided architectural guidance in the project are

Security, SOA with Web Services, Event Manager,

Message backfeed (to the source systems), MDM

Product Upgrade process, Message Logging in

Response Publisher and Internationalization of MDM

Product etc.

As a SOA architect he has coordinated with Client

SOA and Client Management teams and architected the

corporate level web services which are socialized

at the enterprise level.

As part of socialization of web services at

enterprise level he has

Interacted and assisted ESB team for web service

registering.

Architected the demo mockup screens and

demonstrated successful execution of these web

services via ESB.

Provided architectural and technical assistance to

multiple consumers in accessing these services via

ESB,viz., .NET and Java clients.

As a offshore coordinator has interacted with

clients and involved in the activities of planning,

analysis and in provided technical assistance to

offshore team for creating services along with

providing status update to onsite / offshore

management teams.

Awards & Recognitions :

He has received Star of The Quarter award from

Cognizant Technology Solutions for his multifaceted

accomplishments in architectural, managerial,

functional and technical aspect in the project.

He had received lot of appreciations from client

community on multiple occasions for his

architectural & implementational approaches and

solutions.

TIAA-CREF, US client & Karvy, Indian client, venue

India

Jul, 2008 To Mar, 2009.

Technologies :

WebSphere Customer Center (WCC 7.0.1) Product -

Java - EJB - XML - WAS - DB2 - AIX / Windows XP -

Patterns - Session Fa ade

Role : MDM Architect / MDM Practice Team Lead

As a Master Data Management (MDM) Architect and

Practice Team Lead my responsibilities includes

creating proposal for the new / existing clients

along with providing architectural issues which are

arising in the ongoing projects.

Responsibilities Held :

Provided proposals to two new clients TIAA-CREF, US

and Karvy, India for support and enhancement

engagements respectively.

As a MDM practice lead architect he was responsible

for

Monitoring all the MDM implementational and provide

architectural solutions for the issues arised

during the project execution.

Providing assistance in functional and technical

aspects of IBM MDM Product to the resources

deployed in different projects at mulitple client

locations.

Managing MDM team members which involves placement

of resources in MDM projects and shuffling the free

pool resources in non MDM projects for effective

utilization of available resources.

Plan the training requirements of the team as well

creating MDM Practice specific documents, reusable

utilities.

Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIaC),

ACT, Australia.

Jul, 2007 To Jun, 2008.

Technologies :

WebSphere Customer Center (WCC 7.0.1) Product -

Java - EJB - XML - Web Services - WSDL - SOAP - XML

- WAS - DB2 - AIX / Windows XP - Patterns - Session

Fa ade

Role : WCC Senior Software Product Specialist / WCC

Architect

He had worked for Immigration department in DIaC

Office as a WCC Senior Software Product Specialist

/ WCC Architect and was involved in architecting

and achieve Single Customer View using WCC. DIaC's

implementation of Client Data Hub (CDH) is intended

to decommission some of the legacy systems and the

departments. This system in its fullest

functionality is proposed to be accessed by the

departments viz., VISA Processing Center, Border

Security Center, Case Management Center, Compliance

Center, Detension Center, Settlement Center office

and some more customers to be included as part of

this list in the future.

Responsibilities Held :

As a WCC Senior Software Product Specialist / WCC

Architect he has provided architectural assistance

in desiging and identifying the services that can

serve DIaC requirements which includes

enhancements to the existing services and creating

brand new services.

Was Involved in producing artifacts like Macro

Design and Micro Design documents for the

customization in WCC Product.

Has architected and designed LDAP security

integration with WCC Product and enabled the

functionality of Coarse Grained access to services.

Had implemented Rules of Visibility (ROV) as part

of Fine Grained access to data.

Had interected with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

team to expose the WCC services to the consumers

via ESB Layer.

Had provided assistance to development team with

architectural and technical insite on multiple WCC

product features implementation in the project

viz., extensions, additions, composites, security

enablement (Coarse Grained and Fine Grained), Rules

of visibility, Name and Address standardization and

integration of product with EAS ( Entity Analytic

Solutions).

Cardinal Healthcare, Dublin, Ohio, US, venue USA

Feb, 2007 To May, 2007.

Technologies :

WebSphere Customer Center (WCC6.5) Product - Java -

EJB - XML - WAS - DB2 - Windows 2000 - Patterns -

Session Fa ade

Role : WCC Techno Functional Consultant / WCC

Senior Consultant.

Cardinal Healthcare uses WCC to understand overall

performance of an Organization or an Individual

with respective to their vast product list of

services they provide. WCC enables them to

understand the behavior, requirements and

functional areas of operations of each Customer and

enables them to support their clients. By

understanding the customers, cardinal healthcare

will improve client relationships and increase

their services to the client with increased revenue

to the organization in return.

Responsibilities Held :

As a WCC Techno Functional Consultant he has

understood the customer requirements vis- -vis

capturing customer details in WCC which involves

Requirement Analysis, Estimation, designing and

developing enhancements to the existing service and

creating new services in WCC.

Designed and incorporated Data Extension, Data

Additions, Search Customization and Composite

Operations into WebSphere Customer Center Product.

All the enhancements are done using J2EE and

deployed on IBM WAS Server.

Was responsible for developing various proof of

concepts during evaluation phase using J2EE

Patterns.

Has provided assistance to integration testing team

in accessing WCC HUB from third party front end

applications like Siebel, Client Customer View

Portlets etc.,.

Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, Melbourne,

Australia.

Feb, 2006 To Jan 2007.

Technologies :

WebSphere Customer Center (WCC6.5) Product - Java -

EJB - XML - WAS - DB2 - Windows 2000 - Patterns -

Session Fa ade

Role : WCC Senior Technical Consultant / Senior

Developer

Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) is a

motoring club and mutual organisation, providing

services such as roadside assistance, vehicle, home

and contents insurance, personal and car loans,

driving instruction, tourism services, home

security products, as well as a lifestyle club

known as RACV Club (in Melbourne CBD and at

Healesville) and RACV Resorts.

Responsibilities Held :

As a WCC Senior Technical Consultant he was

responsible for mentoring programmers on different

features of WebSphere Customer Center as well

assigning and monitoring their activities in WCC

customization.

Has incorporated Data Extension, Data Additions,

Search Customization and Composite Operations into

WebSphere Customer Center Product either by adding

to the existing services or by creating new ones.

Assisting and coordinating with Middle Tier team

called HUB and Front End Tier called the SCV

(Single Client View) in accessing the different

services provided by WCC.

Has developed various proof of concepts on various

requirement implementations in WCC during

evaluation phase.

Had worked closely with the WebSphere Portal team

and the Message Broker team.

Awards & Recognitions :

He has received the Thanks ! award from IBM for my

accomplishment in both technical and functional

areas of WCC for RACV project. My involvement in

this project spanned across all stages of SDLC

starting with Requirement Analysis, Estimation,

Design, Development and Deployment of Customized

WCC along with Mentoring and Monitoring of Team

working on this Project.

SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, US, venue CANADA Sep,

2005 To Jan, 2006

Technologies :

DWL Customer(DWL553) Product- Java - EJB - XML -

WAS - DB2 - Windows 2000 - Patterns - Session

Fa ade

Role : Technical Consultant / Senior Developer

DWL Customer is the former name of IBM WebSphere

Customer Center which is used in capturing customer

details and provides services to the different

client application which uses this product for

storing and accessing Customer related information.

Responsibilities Held :

As a senior developer he was involved in

requirement study, analysis, designing as well as

developing them.

Has incorporated Data Extensions, Data Additions,

Search Customization and Composite Operations into

WebSphere Customer Center Product either by adding

to the existing services are by creating new once.

Has mentored and monitored programmers on different

features of WebSphere Customer Center as well

assigning and monitoring their activities in

customizing the new requirements of the client, in

WCC.

As a WCC technical consultant he was responsible

for understanding requirements of front end

application (Portal) and has designed and developed

the required services and also has provided

understanding assistance of WCC services to front

end users.

He has a commendable knowledge on distribution

environment.

Has provided assistance in testing and in fixing

bugs effectively and efficiently at the System

Integration Stage (SIT).

Honeywell eReceivables Support Project, US Client,

venue India

Aug, 2004 to Aug, 2005.

Technologies :

JSP, Servlets, JDBC database connectivity, Oracle

8.i, HP UNIX, Eclipse 2.1

Role : Technical Leader

Honeywell is a diversified technology and

manufacturing leader of aerospace products and

services; control technologies for buildings, homes

and industry; automotive products; power generation

systems; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics and

advanced materials.

Responsibilities Held :

This is a support project which included

Maintenance, Bug Fixing, and Minor Enhancements in

application called as eReceivables. His

responsibilities includes

Providing technical designs and clarifications to

the team as well as working on the PS Tickets.

Was responsible for reducing the PS ticket Count.

Has involved in preparing Impact analysis design

for the enhancement requirements to the existing

application.

Has acted as a single point of contact for the

clarificaitons and for management approvals /

updated from the onsite team.

Global Communications and Media Corporations,

Verizon, US Client, venue India

Jan, 2004 to Aug, 2004.

Technologies :

Struts, JDBC database connectivity, Oracle 8.i, HP

UNIX, Eclipse 2.1.

Role : System Analyst

CAF (CABS Automated Front End) was running on

Oracle Forms in Production. This Application is

transformed into J2EE using Struts.

Responsibilities Held :

As the project was running in production, it

required continues maintenance of new requirement

changes in oracle forms besides the conversion of

the various artifacts into J2EE application. So he

was involved in new requirement changes in Oracle

Forms along with injecting the same functionality

in J2EE application.

Was given the responsibility of webifying the

Oracle Forms based application into J2EE

application.

Has developed test case documents and User manual

documents on different module and educated the

client on their usage.

Dual Currency Deposits Project, Shinsei Bank, Japan

client, venue India.

Feb, 2003 to Jan, 2004.

Technologies :

JSP, Servlets, XML, JDBC connectivity, Oracle 8.i,

HP UNIX, Eclipse 2.1

Role : System Engineer

This web application was developed on MVC

Architecture. This is based on the Dual Currency

Deposits functionality of Banking domain. The

Web/Application server used is EAServer. By using

the MVC Frame Work we had completed the project

well ahead of the scheduled project time i.e., 1

week. This architecture helped us in distributing

work effectively among web designers and Java Bean

Developers.

Responsibilities Held :

One of the key members involved in designing the

Project in MVC framework.

Developed the Controller part of the MVC which

enabled the programmer to concentrate more on the

functionality and presentation layers.

Developed the Dual Currency Product Master which is

the critical module for the Project.

Guided the team on MVC Architecture usage.

Developed reusable functions and methods in

JavaScript, Cascaded style sheet (CSS) and in Java

bean which enables team to reduce their effort in

creating and in testing those functions and

methods.

Provided technical and functional guidance to peers

and for subordinates.

Mutual Funds with Security Layer, Shinsei Bank

Japan, venue India.

Feb, 2002 to Jan, 2003

Technologies :

Java, XML, JSP, Servlets, JDBC database

connectivity, Oracle 7.x, UNIX.

Role : System Engineer

Developed Web Security Application with acts as a

single Window login Shield for all applications

used by Shinsei Bank.

Implemented Mutual Funds Product for Shinsei Bank,

was responsible for the development of Interfaces

to do online transactions with different

applications. The communication between the systems

is done with XML messages.

Responsibilities Held :

One of the key members in designing and in

development of Secure Layer screens.

Modules he has handled are Master Maintenances like

Funds, Nationality, and Holidays etc., for MF

Project Implementation.

Generated MF Transaction Reports and has prepared

User Manuals for Interfaces.

One of the key members in design, development and

implementation of interfaces.

Has coordinated with FFS ( Financial Fusion Server

) team, as it is the mediator between MF system and

Host System, to Configure FFS.

Mutual Funds Application, CITI BANK, Belgium

Client,venue India.

Oct, 2000 to Jan, 2002

Technologies :

Java, JSP, Servlets, JDBC database connectivity,

Oracle 7.x, UNIX.

Role : System Engineer

Citibank Mutual Fund System allows CITI Bank

Account Holders to trade in this System. Mutual

Fund System Creates an Account for each of the

Customer who is interested in Mutual Funds. This

System facilitates MF Customer to Subscribe, Redeem

or Switch in Mutual Funds. Each of above three

processes comprises of three phases i.e., Order

placement, Batching and Contract. Each of these

phases is designed with Maker and Authorizer

options.

Responsibilities Held :

Developed Subscription, Redemption, Switch and

Merger Modules.

Provided efficient support for SIT and UAT for bug

fixes and minor modifications.

Developed test case documents and user manuals.

Production Support till the product stability.

Developed handy tools for team like

Developed a Web based standalone application for

finding out the difference of a single table

structure that is present in two different

environments like Development and System

Integration Server or System Integration Server and

User acceptance Server which provided team to

figure out the changes that are missed out in

respective environments.

Developed a console based java program which will

display all the differences in table structures in

two different environments in a flat file.

Developed a Web based field text maintenance screen

to maintain the Front end field name in different

languages.

Developed a standalone web based feature which

enables to refresh the memory of the server with

out actually restarting the server if there is any

change in the Properties of the application.

EDUCATION qualifications

1997 - 2000 SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY,

TIRUPATI, INDIA.

Master of Computer Applications Post Graduate

Degree

1994 - 1997 Sri Krishna Devaraya

University, Anantapur, INDIA.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Physics and

Chemistry as Major.

e-mail : **************@*****.***

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MOBILE : 479-***-****

PRODUCT TRAINING

SEP' 2005

DWLCUSTOMER INC, TORONTO, CANADA.

Got trained on WebSphere Customer Center Product v5.5.3 (which is

formerly called as DWLCustomer product before IBM acquiring it).

Feb' 2009 IBM

India, Bangalore, India.

Received training on IBM InfoSphere QualityStage and DataStage v8.1.

Jan' 2010 IBM

India, Kolkata, India.

Received training on IBM Message Broker v6.1.

Awards

THANKS ! AWARD FROM IBM

DEC' 2006.

STAR OF THE QUARTER ! AWARD FROM COGNIZANT

DEC' 2009.

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