C H A N D R A B ODAPAT I MCA, MCP, PMP
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IT DIRECTOR
Strategic technical leader with extensive experience in providing infrastructure design and implementation of multi million dollar IT
solutions in telecommunications, information technology, media, industrial automation and management consulting environments.
Excels at project management, establishing and streamlining processes, improving quality and managing multiple teams
involving medium to large scale projects across the globe. Highly effective in business analysis, application design and
implementation, solution’s architecture, and infrastructure planning. Manages product and outsourcing vendor selection,
contractual process and customer relationships.
PMP certified ● Microsoft Certified Professional ● Masters in Computer Applications
LEADERSHIP / BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Business / Project Strategy & Direction Quality & Performance Management
Crisis & Risk Management Team Development / Motivation
Recruitment / Deployment Policy Design / Development
User Requirement Consulting Client Relationship Management
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
SOA & DNA Software Architecture Database / Warehouse Design
Project Management Business Analysis
Software Development and Deployment Object Oriented Design
Quality Assurance Monitoring Help Desk / Call Center Implementation
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
Solutions C#, ASP.NET, WCF, WF and Web MS SQL Server
Architecture Ajax Services
Reporting OLAP Data Business Windows & Web
Services & ETL Warehousing Intelligence Forms
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, IRVING, TX 2009 – PRESENT
Technical Solutions Architect (Consultant)
• Architected strategic call center applications development framework for migrating multiple heterogeneous applications
providing application infrastructure, ready to use common reusable modules and enterprise application design pattern.
Gained performance improvement, high scalability, maintainability; reduced development time to 1/6 th saving $5.8 million
dollars.
• Recruited and built multiple strong technical teams. Lead framework development, code reviews, performance
engineering and PCI security practices. Developed coding standards, established best practices, implemented
performance engineering and identified bad code before production. Established a crucial review process cycle that
improved developers coding skills, promoted reliable and efficient code resulting in cost saving of $52 million dollars and
cutting down 38% of outages.
• Played multifaceted role driving strategic business requirements, capacity planning, production support, deployment,
resource planning, communicate solutions across teams and management.
LECG, DALLAS, TX 2004 – 2009
Senior IT Manager (2007 – 2009)
• Promoted from Solutions Architect to Sr. IT Manager to rebuild the IT division.
• Converted a 100% paper oriented office into automated online computerized office saving more than 50% of costs by
introducing office automation tools and technologies.
• Spearheaded infrastructure refinements allowing for business expansion internationally by providing online claims
administration system for legal experts and professionals across the globe.
• Instrumental figure in building systems and managing multi billion dollar settlements, handled huge volumes of checks
printing and disbursements.
• Propelled new technologies, formulated future visions, designed systems, enhanced software implementations, rolled
out products on time and budget across the company.
• Established IT vendor relationships; involved in negotiating, licensing and contractual agreements.
• Excellently managed business and technical issues that achieved the most effective solutions with strong project
management, business focus and resource management capabilities. Influenced growth and elevated market
presence.
• Drove LOE estimates which were close to 5% 7% accurate to actual.
Software Solutions Architect (2004 2006)
• Architected SOA based Claims Administration, banking, SSO security systems, time tracking and invoicing applications
and settlement websites; implemented efficient repeatable business processes.
• Automated claims administration processes in call centers by building new applications using ASP.Net, SQL, SSRS,
OLAP, IVR, document scanning and bar code technologies.
• Built a windows based new banking system to handle printing, voiding, mailing, generating positive pay files, uploading
bank paid files, reconciling accounts and managing account registers.
• Motivated business to expand online and handled all the migration efforts from intranet to internet.
• Championed key shift to outsource data centers by establishing multiple accounts with web, email hosting companies
and saved $300k in upfront infrastructure and maintenance costs to the company
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• Exercised responsibilities of planning, procurement of IT human resources, infrastructure, hardware, software and office
automation equipment.
• Provided extensive training on data warehousing, OLAP, web technologies to database administrators and developers
for building effective business intelligence solutions.
• Planned and organized database backup, maintenance, failover and disaster recovery strategies.
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, IRVING, TX 2000 – 2004
Technical Supervisor
• Architected online enterprise real time dashboard reporting solution which helped C level executives to identify the
bottlenecks in the systems and focus their efforts to resolve them by improving the orders and billing flow thru by 15%.
• Worked as a technical lead architecting solutions for various projects like Verizon Real Time Dashboard, EDW,
Campaign Management, VZ Active Insight, Voice Wing, Verizon Business Contingency Planning, www.verizon.com
online ordering and billing systems.
• Accountable for the 24/7 work in progress, attending meetings, working and presenting the status to managers during
critical business periods.
• Managed seven projects simultaneously with a team of 26 members onsite and offshore developers, DBAs, business
analysts, graphic designers and testers.
• Streamlined business communication with various teams for data exchange between main frames, Teradata and other
flat file systems, managed SQL and OLAP data warehouses.
DIASPARK, NEW YORK, NY 1997 – 2000
Software Design Engineer
Developed industrial automation and device communication applications for RFID, Barcode
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scanners, bio metrics, touch screens, smart cards, OPOS terminals, Magnetic card readers and
robotic arms.