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ANKIT SAXENA

***************@*****.*** **** Pontiac Dr Apt 2018 Aurora IL - 60502 516-***-****

Experience Summary

Manager with over 11+ years of experience and an in-depth technological background in Mainframe, Information Management, Data Analytics, Project Management, end-to-end SDLC and application development methodology (Agile, Waterfall)

Managed and successfully delivered large-scale of Testing and Data Warehousing projects with a strong focus on Payment card and Insurance industry

Extensive experience in Technology Architecture including Data Analysis, Data profiling and Mainframe

Areas of strength include identification of business opportunities, creation and implementation of information & BI strategies, testing center of excellence, people management, driving business and technical collaboration

Experienced in interacting with all client and project stakeholders and has implemented road maps and data strategies for higher management on enterprise architecture

Experienced in change management and release management process

Expertise in Production Support/Operations and outsourcing projects Experience Details

Role: Delivery Lead

Company: Accenture - USA

Client: Payment Card Processing Company Jan 2013 – Present Project Details: Accenture is engaged by client First Data team to assist them and to manage the implementation of Testing Centre of Excellence

(previously testing was supported by development team) for the client backend applications.

Successfully implemented the testing center of excellence by using the Accenture delivery methodology.

Successfully implemented the important SLAs and KPIs with the client leadership team.

Managed a team of 26 people and delivering testing work of 5K hours in a month.

Provided weekly updates related to key milestones to the client leadership and highlighted any risk with appropriate mitigation plan.

Created test strategy and test approach and got it reviewed by all the project stakeholders for all the important projects and compliance releases.

Successfully coordinated the testing as a project test Manager for BAMS Canada project.

Having a complete knowledge of FD settlement applications and overall backup of all the 17 applications in MBE.

Complete knowledge of south & north change release processes. I was the back up of Lana Kaplan when she used to run the change release cycle.

I had also proven my deep backend knowledge to all FD crucial projects and most of the IT directors/project managers know me.

I also have a sound knowledge of merchant terminal certification and rapid connect modules. Technology Landscape: Mainframe, Oracle & Java, RTM & RTC and Microsoft Project Plan Role: Technology Architect

Employer: Accenture - Belgium

Client: ING Belgium Bank Aug 2012 – Oct 2012

Project Details: ING Belgium wanted to outsource the code factory for all their legacy and data ware housing applications. Accenture was also identified as a preferred partner to submit their RFP for this opportunity to mitigate the rising cost of maintenance of their applications.

Participated with the client stakeholders and business users to understand the overall architecture of their legacy and ETL applications.

Worked with the Accenture solution architect team to identify the success stories implemented by Accenture successfully for their clients and proposing solutions to the prospective client.

Provided daily updates to the Accenture leadership team and discussed all the risks and issues. Technology Landscape: Mainframe and ETL

Role: Technology Architect

Company: Accenture - India

Client: Travelers May 2010 – Jul 2012

Project Details: Accenture was engaged in helping the client with a large IT transformation where the existing data stage and DB2 tables are being replaced by abinitio and Teradata tables respectively.

Took the business requirements from the client team for the new upgraded ETL framework.

Created global specs to convert all the data stage jobs to abinitio jobs and DB2 to Teradata tables.

Designed and modeled data marts for global business users based on their new reporting requirements.

Worked with the development team during the build phase and clarified all their queries to make sure sprint completes on time.

Assisted business users to develop test cases which would help during UAT. Technology Landscape: Data Stage, Abinitio, DB2, Teradata, Autosys & Mainframe Methodology: Agile

Role: Team Lead

Company: Atos Origin

Client: KPN Telecom Apr 2008 – May 2010

Project Details: Designed and implemented Finance Reporting solution for credit managers. Reporting solution would help credit managers to validate vendor data with internal data warehouse data and to analyze critical KPI’s. This activity of comparison was being done manually and took lot of time and also there were questions on data integrity. We automated the process to save about 80% time of credit managers.

Interacted with Business users to understand the business challenges and brainstorm with them on various options to automate the process.

Assisted client project manager while estimating the effort hours to build the application and also suggested ways to reduce the cost.

Worked with Business Analyst team to develop functional document to get better functional knowledge.

Worked with source team and analyzed source data and developed source to target data mapping document.

Created data model for cognos, scalable to any volume of data.

Developed Fastload, Multiload and BTEQ scripts to load data from flat file and develop base tables and data marts.

Created detailed plan to get UAT done by the application users. Technology Landscape: Teradata, Cognos & Mainframe Role: Systems Engineer

Company: Tata Consultancy Services - India

Client: Carnival Cruise Lines (Unisys Application Support) Feb 2006 – Apr 2008 Project Details: TCS was maintaining and enhancing the client system and applications.

Provided Production support for daily legacy jobs and ensured that jobs get completed within the SLA.

Fixing any defects reported, including the unit testing and the integration testing.

Provided solutions for enhancing the application as per client requirements and the performance of system.

Make sure the daily final accounting file was submitted to bank on the same day. Technology Landscape: Unisys OS 2200, COBOL, Mapper, DMS, ECL, TIP, Uniaccess, DPS, Rational Clear Quest SKILLS

Databases : Teradata, DB2

Hardware : Z/OS IBM & Unisys 2200

Programming Languages : Structured Query Language (SQL) ETL Tool : Abinitio

Reporting Tools : Cognos

Other Tools : TOAD, Autosys, Clearcase, JIRA, RTM, RTC, Endeavor, MPP Operating System : Windows, Mac, UNIX

EDUCATION

Rohilkhand University, India June 2005

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology GPA: 7.44

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