SAROJ KUMAR NAYAK Mail:
************@*****.***
No.17, Samrat Layout, Arekere, Mobile:
Banerghatta Road, Bangalore-76. Phone: 080 -
26490425
A highly accomplished and motivated BE professional with MBA in
Systems & Marketing, having over 10 years of experience in Mainframe
Software Development services and Product Delivery.
Key Achievements
. More than 10 years of working experience in Software Analysis, Design,
Development, Conversion & Maintenance of Financial markets and
inventory order management related domains.
. Around 3 years of experience as a role of Associate Project
Manager.
. Around 10 years of professional work experience in Equities, Bonds,
Futures & Options, Investment Banking.
. Managing complex projects with team size of 10 to deliver in time for
front end products of Thomson Reuters, from requirements gathering to
production GO live, post support issues and performing functional
testing using QA Hiperstation.
. Extensive client interaction and client engagement & very good in
Production support Planning Modules.
. Good team player with perfect communication skill and has ability to
understand and adapt to new technologies and different environments.
. Clear understanding of business processes and possesses a flexible
& detailed oriented attitude.
. Managed Quarterly Software Release downstream products every
quarter for two years.
. Managed On-site implementation for Thomson Reuters in London &
twice for IBM in Netherlands.
. Trained at IBM Bangalore on mainframe technologies
(PL/I,COBOL,DB2,IMS DB/DC,JCL,VSAM)
. Also worked on CICS,Assembler,ADSO & tools like ENDEVOR,JOBTRAC,File-
Aid,Xpediter & in mainframe testing - Regression Testing in QA
Hiperstation (Compuware). Good expertise in learning on the job on
tools.
. Trained at COMPUTER ASSOCIATES on CA-IDMS.
Responsibilites as role of Associate Project Manager
. Project Estimation - Understand the requirements, participate in the
initial analysis and prepare the effort and schedule estimates for the
work. Discuss the estimates with the client and get it approved.
. Resource planning, acquisition and release - Plan for resource needs
for the project and resources for the project work. Plan for the
training the members joining the project team according to the project
requirement.
. Client interaction - Regular & need basis interaction with the client
for resolving issues & planning activities.
. Project planning, execution and tracking - Plan the tasks for team
members and track the status of the work till closure. Weekly status
meeting and status report.
. Stakeholder Management, People Management - Communicate project
status, risks and issues to all the stakeholders of the project and
address any concerns raised.
. Analysis, Design, Test plan reviews - Review the analysis, design and
test plans for the project. Project technical support and guidance to
the modules needing the same.
. Risk and issue management - Analyse the issues and risks to the
project, take actions as needed and work on closing the same.
. Program management - Introduced innovative reporting method to reflect
the actual state of the production system. Finalized the SLA and KPI
metrics provisional contract, while ensuring that the service is
clean.
. Team management - Creating and maintaining an environment conducive to
remain hungry for more knowledge in product, domain and technical
areas.
Experience Summary:
Business Domain Skill Set
* Finance
. Acquired good knowledge of Assets like Equity, Fixed Income, Futures
& Options and Funds data while interacting with Data Analysts, TR
Product Managers & Third part data supplier like; MSCI, FTSE etc
. Worked in Thomson Financial products like DLIVE, DS Advance,
Navigator
* Inventory Control
. Storage & Distribution of spare parts
. Customer Support Management
> Technical Skill Set
Operating Systems MVS,Windows2000,MS-DOS,VM,MS-Window,NT 4.0
Databases DB2, IDMS, IMS, SQL, ORACLE
Programming Lang COBOL, PL/I, ASSEMBLER, Java, REXX
VC Tools, OLTP ENDEVOR,JOBTRAC,Changeman,CICS,ADSO,IMS
DC,File-Aid, Xpediter
Experience Profile:
. Working as Associate Project Manager at THOMSON REUTERS, Bangalore
since February 2004.
. Worked as Software Engineer at IBM GLOBAL Services Pvt. Ltd.,
Bangalore from Jan 2001 to Jan 2004.
. Worked as Software Engineer in ASKEY SYSTEMS Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore from
Jan 2000 to Jan 2001.
* Achievements
. On Sep'2013 received Thomson Reuters Recognition Platinum Award for
MSCI Precision Project.
. On Nov'2008 received Certificate for ThomsonReuters Outstanding
Perfomer.
. On Jul'2005 received Certificate for Outstanding Perfomer in
Thomson Financial.
. On Nov'2001 received Customer Excellence Satisfaction Award from
IBM Netherlands .
Educational Qualification & Certification:
. M.B.A. Oct'94, Utkal Unversity, B.E. (Electronics) Dec'91, Marthawada
Unviersity
. IDMS - Certification on Database Navigation, Concepts & Facilities
from CA
. Certification on Securites L1/L2, Fixed Income, Co. Fundamentals,
Earnigs L1/L2 - Thomson Prometric
. DB2 - 512 Certification in 2002.
. Java - 1.2 Certification (Brain Bench) in 2000.
. MCSD - (VB, SQL, Windows Architecture) in 1998.
Projects Summary:
Current PROJECT #
Client Customers in UK, Asia & US for Thomson T1 Products
Period From July 2008 - Till date in Bangalore
Position Role as Associate Project Manager
Project DataStream
DataStream Research Service is one of the largest historical
numerical financial databases containing .Over 65,000 Equities- With
Market Data, Current and forecast valuation ratios & fundamentals.
Over 90,000 Bonds - Including Government, convertibles, corporate
with credit information and valuation measures.Over 70,000 Indices -
including 3rd party (MSCI, FTSE etc), Datastream's own and local
market equities.Over 200,000 forecast and historic Economics.
Client interaction for requirement gathering, database design for
effective & faster data retrieval.
Assigning tasks to Team members & Resource Planning and allocation.
Designing of Batch/Online programs for effective data loading into
database records & error handling, reporting for content anlysts.
Decide on Jobtrac scheduling, dependencies, re-run information,
callout, On-call, Critical job support & maintenance of production
system.
Make sure of implementation goes perfectly with pre-implemtation,
Go-live & post-production process.
Channelling the team to bring the probable operational issues to
book and fixing it permanently
Taking Part in Analysis and Review & Reporting to Higher management.
TSO / ISPF, PL/1, IDMS, ASSEMBLER, JCL, ADSO, JOBTRAC, File-Aid,
Xpediter
THOMSON REUTERS, Bangalore.
Managing
following
activities
Software & OS
Work Location
PROJECT
Client THOMSON, USA
Period From February 2004 - June 2008
Position Role as Module Leader
Project THOMSON TRANSACTION SERVICES HOST.
TTS Host is the signature product developed at Thomson. TTS Host is
a mainframe-based
Managing system, consisting of approximately 500 separate user transactions
following commonly referred to
activities "online functions". These functions are used to enter and process
orders for securities.
Functions are available to accommodate virtually every aspect of a
firm's day-to-day tasks
& and are grouped according to departments typically found in a
Software & OS back office.
Understanding application system & Domain knowledge to work at
Work Location offshore.
Reporting Project/progress status to management in Bangalore and
USA.
Requirements gathering, analysis, preparing estimation and sending
to the client.
Make sure of Go-live, Post-prodcution implementation support &
prepare fortnightly release notes.
OS/390,DB2,COBOL,CICS,JCL,VSAM,ChangeMan, FILEAID
THOMSON FINANACIAL, Bangalore.
PROJECT
Client IBM Netherlands.
Period From July 2003 - February 2004
Project GPS Measurements & Control
The project involves extraction of data from SAP/Xelus and then
loading the ODS
datamarts. BRIO reports are generated using the data from the ODS
Responsibilit Datamarts.
ies Around 22 new datamarts are created and maintained in this
application.
Analysis of the requirements, Preparing estimation and sending to
the client.
Understanding application system & Domain knowledge to work at
Software & OS offshore.
Loading & unloading tables, checking the data representation from
Work Location file to tables.
Developing new programs to handle the insertion/ updation /
deletion of complex requirements and frequency of load.
PL/I, DB2, JCL, SCLM, OPC, MVS, TSO/ISPF
Two months in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Then executed from Bangalore.
PROJECT
Client IBM Netherlands.
From January 2002 - July 2003
Common Parts Processes and Systems
CPPS is a common system used to support the planning, ordering,
receiving, storage
and distribution of spare parts. The system is online 24 hours per
day for 7 days per
week. This is necessary because the participating countries are in
different time zones
and have different holidays.
Monitor IMS logs for any online program abends. These online abends
along with the
solution are reported to the customer.
Perform normal maintanence tasks of adapting the software according
to the requirement.
Work on enhancement work, includes analysis, estimate, design, code
and unit tests.
Answer user queries from the customer/custodian.
PL/I, IMS DB/DC, DB2, SCLM, OPC, NetView FTP, MVS, TSO/ISPF
IBM, Bangalore.
Period
Project
Responsibilit
ies
Software & OS
Work Location
PROJECT
Client IBM Netherlands.
Period From January 2001 to January 2002
Project Configurator for Software
CFSW is the IBM Worldwide software configurator. The configurator is
used to create valid
Responsibilit software orders for IBM S/390 customers. The client part is written
ies in C++. The database is
relational. Output report is generated at Dallas, Texas & front-end
validation and user interface
code is maintained at Uithoorn..
Software & OS Analysis of PMRs generated by L1/L2 Help-desk Worldwide.
Preparing the Weekly Status Report.
Work Location Using QMF to generate queries & analysis of data returned.
Maintaining Root-Cause analysis of PMRs.
Knowledge of Architecture and Business process.
VM, REXX, DB2, C++, Tracer, Pratest, SWNT FWD & BWD
Four months from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Then from IBM, Bangalore.
1998 - 1999: Advanced Technology Labs, Chennai as Software
Engineer
1995 - 1998: Jindal Strips Pvt. Ltd. as Assistant Manager
1991 - 1992: Orisa Sponge Iron Pvt. Ltd. as Apprentice Engineer
Personal & Passport Details:
Date of Birth : 25-05-1968
Passport No : G-1550717
Date of Issue : 06/02/2007
Date of Expiry : 05/02/2017