Akash Chaudhury, CLP, PCLP

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Hello

I have over 17 years of experience in IT and 10 years with application development on Lotus Notes and

Domino Administration.

After of break of 3.5 years because of personal problems, I now seek to rebuild my career as Lotus Notes

Specialist / Consultant. With over 10 years of creating and maintaining Lotus Notes applications and

maintaining Domino Servers, I hope to achieve the same. Sponsorship might be required for me to work.

Attached is my profile for your review.

Regards

Akash Chaudhury

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Akash Chaudhury, CLP, PCLP

Phone +91.9711813553,

Email: acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com, acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com

HEAD – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Proven Technical & Management Experience in a Career Spanning 15+ Years

Technically sophisticated and business savvy management professional with a pioneering career

reflecting strong leadership skills with a “hands-on” IT and IS expertise. Maintain focus on achieving

bottom line results while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to

meet a diversity of needs. Record of delivering simultaneous large scale, mission critical projects well

within projected budgets.

IT Strategic Planning/Business Solutions/Team Leadership/Budgeting /

Project Management/Capital Expenditure Planning/

Contract Negotiations/Vendor Relations

Professional Experience

Head – I.T., ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel India Pvt. Ltd. May 2004 to Sep 2009

ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel India Private Limited, formed in September 2000, is a wholly

owned subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Steel, Germany. The core business is Electrical Steel, a

modern strategic steel product of national importance for electrical equipments. Catering to

worldwide customer base, the product range includes special qualities of Carbon Steel products

for Automotive, White Goods and Engineering Applications.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of

the information and technology systems for eight national locations with an annual

budget of €3,00,000.

Management of multiple information and communications systems projects related to

including data, voice, video and office automation.

Facilitate communication between staff, management, vendors, and other technology

resources within the organization.

Design, evaluate and implement systems that support end users in the productive use

of computer hardware and software. Oversee and evaluate system security, network

security and data back up procedures.

Promote and oversee relationships between the IT resources and external entities (e.g.,

government, vendors, researchers, and other organizations).

Scope of position includes departmental direction and full design, installation,

engineering, implementation, support, training, administration and management

authority for:

- LAN / WAN Network Services - PC Desktop Systems

- Application Systems - Helpdesk Operations

- Database Management - Mail Systems

- Web/Internet Design / Operations - Data Security and Integrity

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Akash Chaudhury, CLP, PCLP

Phone +91.9711813553,

Email: acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com, acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com

Key Achievements:

Yearly revenue generation of € 26.000 (Twenty Six Thousand) for providing IT services

to Rothe Erde India Pvt. Ltd., an upcoming ThyssenKrupp company.

Decreased inventory, application pricing and licensing expenses by establishing

standardization for application development, PC desktop systems and network.

Attained a consistent 99% uptime by implementing Disaster Recovery and fault tolerant

plans for Business Continuity.

Managed and optimized the Software Development initiative to achieve a development

delivery from 2.5 months to 2 weeks.

Business Process Mapping was completed in six months – 8 months ahead of

forecasted time of 14 months.

Implemented Power Conditioning and Monitoring Systems to help achieve “Cost

Reduction on Power expenses”.

Defused and resolved long-standing conflicts and departmental issues.

Some Key Projects at TKES India

1. Digital Certificate based authentication for Wireless LAN. The focus of the project was to

achieve :

a) A secure network that did not allow foreign connects.

b) Visiting delegates to any location would authenticate without IT intervention.

2. Revamp of the Backup & Restore System with a Disaster Recovery Mechanism

Redesigned the existing Backup System to reduce the backup window by 60% and introduce

Disaster Recovery Mechanism for Business Continuity. The new design transitioned from a

partial daily recovery to a full recovery of an Operational Shift.

The Disaster Recovery mechanism includes relocating the tape archival unit about 2 KM

from the Data Center.

3. Implementation of “Branch Circuit Monitoring”, a first in India, is a concept by APC, which

allows centralized monitoring and controlling individual power circuits.

4. Deploying a Production Planning Tool with a focus on the following:

Minimization of Inventories at FG, WIP and Raw Material.

Reduction in Production Costs

Maximization of Equipment Usage

Slitting Optimization

Capacity Planning

Manpower Planning

Generation of What-If scenarios based on multiple criteria.

Real Time Plans

5. Migration of the existing network from Leased Line to MPLS and A Remote Access Solution

that provided seamless access into the corporate network from anywhere in the country.

The only requirement was the availability of a wireless signal.

The Remote Access Infrastructure is also being used to provision alternate connectivity in

case of failure of primary network connects and provision single man offices.

6. Implementation of SAP with Real Time data transfer between SAP and the Production

Management System(PMS). The PMS was extracted from the erstwhile in house developed

Business Management System. The PMS was created to reduce the implementation cost and

retain a similar operating environment for the shop floor.

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Akash Chaudhury, CLP, PCLP

Phone +91.9711813553,

Email: acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com, acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com

DM – I.T., RM Software India Pvt. Ltd. April 2000 to Feb. 2004

RM Software India Pvt. Ltd. (RMSI) is a leading name in the GIS solution space and branched

out in software development in other areas. RMSI is also the off-shore development center for

RMS, a US Based company. IT had to ensure a seamless merger with our head office. IT was

also required to ensure that clients could reach pilots deployed by various development groups.

This involved high interaction with our counterparts at US as well as various international clients.

Recruited to primarily manage a development initiative on the Lotus Domino platform and

manage the Information Technology department as well.

Key Achievements:

Nominated Employee of the Year 2002

Selection and deployment of a Storage Area Network for the organization.

Administration of the Storage Area Network on a day-to-day basis.

Attained a consistent 99% uptime by implementing Disaster Recovery and fault tolerant

plans for Business Continuity.

Lead and mange a team of 5 developers for executing projects on Lotus Notes. Generated

Revenue of 50,000 USD in the first year.

Lead a team of 10 desktop engineers.

Project Estimation and costing.

Responsible for Network Management on LAN and WAN issues.

Setting up Disaster Recovery and its management.

Vendor Management

Define IT requirements, their purchase and implementation.

Budget Planning

Previous Employment List

Executive I.S., New Holland Tractors India Pvt. Ltd. April ‘98 to March 2000

1. Administration of the Windows NT Network

2. Administration of the Lotus Notes Network

3. Developed over 40 daily use applications in Lotus Notes.

4. Team Leader for development of applications on Lotus Notes through third party vendors.

5. Setting up of Video Conferencing on ISDN (BRI) on PictureTel Equipment.

6. Setting up of WAN for Data and Voice linking three office locations on Leased Line and ISDN (BRI)

7. Team member for implementation of BaaN.

8. Developing Applications for connecting to the ERP System deployed.

9. Evaluation and pre - implementation study of ISDN (PRI) on Fiber Optic.

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Akash Chaudhury, CLP, PCLP

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JVG Group of Companies July '95 to Feb ‘98

The Inventory Maintenance and Tracking solution was designed with a very tight integration between the

warehouse and retail operations. Sub-module communication was controlled internally. It consisted of the

following modules:

Warehouse Operations Retail Operations

1. Material Requisition and Planning 1. Stock Requirement Generation.

2. Vendor Maintenance, payments and 2. Stock Receipt from Warehouse.

receivables. 3. Retail Price Fixation

3. Purchase Ordering 4. Billing

4. Stock Maintenance at Batch level. 5. Returned Goods

5. Price Fixation 6. Bad / Expired Stock Maintenance.

6. Stock Transfer to Retail Operation. 7. Inter-unit Stock Transfer Order.

7. Bad / Expired Stock Maintenance. 8. Stock Taking and data collation.

8. Stock Taking and data collation 9. Reporting.

9. Reporting.

All stock transfer communication between the Warehouse and the retail operations was done via modems

and fallback using floppy disks and manual entry.

M/s Daurala Organics Ltd. January '94 to May ‘95

A Pharmaceutical manufacturing organization into provisioning the basic startup of manufacturing high-

end antibiotics. Developed modules for Inventory and Financial Control.

M/s Burlington Home Shopping February '93 to December ‘93

A Catalogue based Home Shopping organization accepting orders on telephone and post. Hired as a

Contractual Programmer to enhance Order Processing performance. Additional data entry and reporting

modules were developed around the existing application to achieve the target.

Also designed for an Entrepreneur Manufacturing Unit engaged in the manufacture of specialized

electronic timers and related data collectors. The system catered to the following:

1. Inventory maintenance at component level.

2. Bill Of Material Maintenance.

3. Vendor Maintenance.

4. Material Requisition and Planning.

5. Purchase of raw material and its Inventory.

6. Raw Material Inward.

7. Production Status.

8. Billing of Finished Goods.

9. Financial Statements.

M/s ISCT December '91 to January ‘93

Worked with ISCT as a corporate trainer.

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Akash Chaudhury, CLP, PCLP

Phone +91.9711813553,

Email: acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com, acdy5s@r.postjobfree.com

Training’s and Certifications

Certified Lotus Professional (CLP) Application Development certification offered by Lotus Development

Corporation for Release 4.5 & Release 5.

Certifications:

PCLP Notes Principal Application Developer R4 – 31/03/1999

CLP Domino R5 Application Developer – 21/12/1999

Diploma in Advanced Programming and Computer Applications from ISCT and LSDP, UK.

Skills

Technical Soft

1. Networking Hardware – Switches, Routers 1. Customer Orientation

Multiplexers 2. Team Approach

2. WAN - Leased Line, ISDN 3. Problem Solving

3. Structured Cabling – Fiber Optic, STP, UTP 4. Vendor Management

4. Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBeUI, RIP, IGRP, 5. Decision Making

SNMP, FTP, Telnet, ATM, Fast Ethernet, DHCP, DNS, 6. Planning

Proxy, PPP 7. Commercial Acumen

5. Networking Software – Novell Netware, Windows NT

4.0, IIS 4.0, Proxy Server, Windows Server 2000 /

2003

6. Programming Languages- C, Lotus Script, Lotus

Formula Language, JavaScript, HTML

7. Database Systems - FoxPro, Oracle V – 7

References: Available on request.

Personal Details

Telephone +91.9711813553

Languages Known English, Hindi

Foreign Languages German (Six Months Diploma)

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