Management Project

Parameswaran Lakshmanan

**********@*****.*** / +1-904-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/parameswaranLakshmanan

Summary

Associate with 11.5 years of IT work experience with both Technical and Management skills. I have executed projects in the realm of Application Development, Maintenance/Enhancement, production support and Conversion/Porting.

My technology forte is UNIX, Shell/Perl/Python Scripting, Sefas OpenPrint, StreamWeaver, AFP technology, C/C++ and Mosaic Architecture and Oracle/Sybase database. I have also worked in Java Swing and have exposure to C# .Net.

Diverse experience in Insurance, Banking & Financial services and Manufacturing network sector with good exposure in Customer Communication and Client management applications

Have experience working with various several print files like AFP, PostScript, LCDS, PDF

Strong experience in Perl Scripts development. Worked with array, hash, subroutines, packages, DBI libraries for database connectivity and parsing files. Developed several Perl process to monitor the input, process the input jobs and NDM the output jobs.

Very good experience of working in different relational databases like Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server and non-relational DB like ISAM and CDS. Worked on stored procedures, cursor, function, packages, triggers, indexes and performance tuning.

Excellent skills in working with UNIX shell scripts. Developed shell scripts for feed file integrity checks, polling, FTP activities using commands like find, grep, pipe, cut, redirection and utilities like awk and sed.

High skills in working on various UNIX environment and worked in porting an applications across different UNIX versions like Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO-UNIX and Linux.

Extensive experience with Cron and Autosys job scheduler like writing jil scripts for creating job definitions. Also used commands like autorep for checking status, definitions, sendevent for starting jobs, changing status. Experience in working with and supporting CA Technologies Workload Automation AE in UNIX AIX environment.

Worked extensively in NDM (Network Data Mover) scripts for job/file transmission and conversant with FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP protocols and encryption methods.

Strong object oriented development - Perl, Python, C++

Have completed the Cloudera Hadoop Admin Course

Successful at designing and implementing the Mail Management System which is an USPS compliance requirement for Citi in a short span

Exposure to working in onsite client’s place for about 3 years; good experience in Onsite-Offshore delivery model and its co-coordinating activities and managing the project delivery.

Technical Expertise

Environment

SUN, IBM-PC, HP, IBM and IA64 (Itanium) Workstations

Operating Systems

UNIX - Sun Solaris 8/9, RedHat Linux 7.1/7.2, HP-UX 11i/11i V2, IBM AIX 5.2/5.3

Windows - NT / 2000 / 2003 / 98 / 2003 / XP

Languages

Sefas OpenPrint, StreamWeaver, C# .Net, C, C++, JAVA Swing, OFB, ESQL

Databases

ISAM, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase

Scripting

Perl Scripts with DBLib, Korn/Bash Shell Scripting, Autosys JIL scripts, Make files, NDM control cards

Compiler tools

cc, aC++, xlC_r, gcc

Debugger tools

gdb, dbx, iDebug

Scheduling tools

Autosys, Cron, CA Workload Control Center

Communication Utilities

NDM, SFTP, telnet, SSH, rcp/rsh, SCP

Other tools

Make, Clear case, Connect Direct, SQL Loader, RCS, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, MS Visio, QC

Methods

OOPS Methodology, AFP/PS/LCDS/PDF Print Technology, MOSAIC Architecture

Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology (2003), Madurai Kamaraj University, India

Professional Trainings

Program or Course

Coverage

Dates

Hadoop Admin by Cloudera

Apache Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Hadoop Cluster, Installing anc configuring Hive, Impala and Pig, Cloudera Manager, Hadoop Security, Cluster Maintenance, Moitoring and Troubleshooting, Kerberos Configuration

Feb 2014

PMP training

Communications Management & Professional Responsibility

Cost and Quality Management

Human Resource Management

Integration Management

PMP Framework

PMP Processes

Scope Management

Time Management

Dec 2010

Leadership skills for PLs

Insight on Communication Skills Enhancement, Leadership Skills through Effective Delegation, Coaching Skills, Conflict Resolution, Team Management, Modern leader’s dilemmas

Sep 2008

Introduction to Financial Markets

Basic introduction on Payments/Cash Management

Apr 2008

Introduction to Financial Markets

Basic introduction on Financial sectors and market strategy

Feb 2008

PLs Training

Introduction, Project Planning - Project Tools QMS based tools), Project Estimation; Project Risk, Reporting Metrics, Interface to Support Group; Billing System Usage

Jan 2008

Professional Experience

Incepture Print Solutions, Jacksonville, FL Jan 2013 to Present

(BlueCross BlueShield of Florida)

Output Management System

Role: Technical Lead and Python Developer

Brief Profile:

IPS Output Management system provides customized printing and mailing solutions for both BCBSFL and external clients like Horizon, First Coast and Southern Farm Bureau. This includes high speed/high volume, flexible printing options, automated print tracking, flexible data input and output, printing of ID Cards including magnetic stripe technology, booklets, welcome and fulfillment packages. Mailing includes address cleansing, document assembly and insertion, high speed flat mailing barcodes and high speed postal sorting.

This system supports the following

Generates and embed IMB in all statements/letters mail-pieces

Embeds other barcodes like 2D for ease print facility processing

Job splitting according to the weight/sheet data

Allows both English and Spanish mail-piece processing

Generates the wrapper custom envelope for specific Clients

Pre-sort facilities according to the USPS norms for the better discount

Each portfolio/applications will define and send the set of unique jobs for mail-pieces processing. Sefas File monitoring script using python is developed and scheduled accordingly for processing the jobs. SFTP control cards are developed and scheduled for output job transfer to the HP IJ20 printers, Insite servers.

Responsibilities:

Designed, developed and implemented the Open Print Sefas print processing applications for the below applications using both back-office and producer

Designed, developed and implemented the below miscellaneous process using Python module

Sefas Pre-reception process to monitor for the different Customer input files and assign the proper JOBID and move to the appropriate folders

File move process which will convert the EBCDIC files to ASCII and grab/assign the proper the input ERD category for each input jobs/files from the Horizon UPS customer

JOB failure - alert email mechanism which continuously monitors the job failure and send email alerts to the Output Management group

Purge process automation to clean the input/output jobs and logs to maintain only specific days

Designed the Sefas Generic rendering Workflow which is flexible enough to generate both AFP and PDF output accordingly to the parameters and being utilized by several client applications

Integrating Sefas with BCC to generate IMB and produce CASS or NCOA processed address

Designed the standard Perforation barcode using 2D architecture and supported testing the new Perforate equipment in Incepture

Developed and integrated the USPS IMB generate C++ module into Sefas workflow for various applications

Participated and involved in Sefas standardization process of all the IPS application development

Development of day end processes using Python / UNIX Shell Scripts

Developing appropriate strategies for the implementation of the project

Created specifications like Back-Office Functional Specification, Technical Specification

Participated in all stages of the development life-cycle including requirement gathering, architecture, design, unit testing and implementation

Remediate, rerouted and addressed trouble tickets and participated in on-call for handling production trouble ticket requests

Managed and coordinated Sefas development install in IPS environment and test/prod environment upgrades

Technical Environment:

Linux, StreamWeaver, OpentPrint Sefas, SQL Server 2008, NDM, Python, Perl, UNIX shell scripting, Putty, FTP/SFTP, SCP, BCC

Citicards, Jacksonville, FL May 2010 to Jan 2013

Mail Management System

Role: IT Lead and Application Developer

Brief Profile:

Mail Management System is a full IMB embedding application for North America in Citi. It supports all the 7 different LOBs of Citi (CitiCards, CBNA, CFNA, CMI, Auto, Payroll, REL). One common system uses Pitney Bowes products StreamWeaver and Mail360 to generate unique sequence number for full service Intelligent Mail Barcode irrespective of LOBs. This system supports the following

Generates and embed Full IMB in all statements/letters mail-pieces

Embeds other barcodes like 3of9, 2of5 for ease print facility processing

Job splitting according to the weight/sheet data

Allows both English and Spanish mail-piece processing

Pre-sort facilities according to the USPS norms for the better discount

Each portfolio/applications will define and send the set of unique jobs for mail-pieces processing. File monitoring script using PERL is developed and scheduled using Autosys accordingly for processing the jobs. NDM control cards are developed and scheduled for output job transfer to the printers.

Responsibilities:

Designed, developed and implemented the below process using Perl

FileStab process to monitor for the different input files complete receipt using NDM system logs and to trigger the processing of the same

Invoke process to integrate the StreamWeaver to generate the USPS and PrintFacility specific barcodes. In addition, all the other Business requirements are implemented

Dynamically SW control card is generated using a separate PERL process according to the job info loaded into Oracle DB

Process to parse the sidefiles generated and load them to Oracle DB to extract/manipulate and generate control reports using SQL *PLUS

Output process to dynamically create the NDM control cards according to job different destination specifications

NDM verification process to check and alert for any ndm failure

Purge process automation to clean the input/output jobs and logs to maintain only specific days

Developing the stored procedures and SQLLoader control files to load and extract the reporting information and generating the control reports

Developed and configured Autosys JILs scripts to automate all the perl script jobs. Worked on CA workload system GUI to manage the autosys process created

Development of day end processes using Perl / UNIX Shell Scripts.

Configured the NDM nodes for all different destination nodes. Generated keys using keygen to generate CA certificates and configured secure+ NDM connection with 3rd party vendor system.

Defined, designed, and implemented MIS reporting systems, tools and applications to facilitate management of content.

Developing appropriate strategies for the implementation of the project

Created specifications like Functional Specification, Technical Specification and System Manual doc for prod-support that addressed all business requirements, user interfaces, process flow, performance, and scalability.

Participated in all stages of the development life-cycle including architecture, design, implementation, and unit testing.

Remediated, rerouted and addressed trouble tickets and participated in on-call rotation for handling trouble ticket requests in the post-implementation phases (4-weeks) for every releases

Managed and coordinated development and test environment upgrades.

Interfaced with vendors to evaluate and implement new software hardware products.

Technical Environment:

IBM AIX, StreamWeaver, Oracle SQL, Autosys, NDM, Perl, UNIX shell scripting, Putty, Autosys CA, QC, Mail360 components, FTP/SFTP, SCP

CitiFinancial, Baltimore, MD February 2007 to April 2010

Maestro RE Development and Maintenance

Role: System Analyst, Application Developer and IT Lead

Brief Profile:

Maestro is the proprietary software and loan origination system for CitiFinancial, interfacing with the Home Office Support Team (HOST) accounting system and ACTION to complete the loan-processing and maintenance activities, it also interfaces with BUTLER, the decision and pricing engine. BUTLER calculates customers’ ATP and LTV based on the credit bureau report and the application information.

CHM uses Real estate version of Maestro.

This application intends to capture data pertaining to the customer loan applications electronically. It serves as a front-end system and facilitates access of required documents by authorized end users to search, view and print the documents.

Responsibilities:

Requirements analysis and rollout strategy plan

Determining the estimation for the new functionalities and capacity planning

Preparation of functional and detailed design specifications

Location customization involving development of UNIX shell / Perl scripts, Sybase stored procedures

Developed batch processes for financial reporting applications and modules using Perl and Korn shell scripts on Oracle database

Proficient in archiving and backups. Used tar, cpio, dd, ufsdump, ufsrestore commands. Day to day administration of the Development, Test, Stage and Production environment.

Efficiently managed disk by deleting old log files.

Generated keys using keygen and also configured SFTP and FTP.

Modify Management Information System (MIS) back-end reports and integrate data fixes to data warehouse table

Perform functional testing

Coordinate user testing and rollout the application including both server and client packages to production

Translated requirements and functional designs into technical designs.

Maintained backup schedules for server storage. Read and interpreted UNIX logs

Technical Environment: SCO UNIX, Mosaic, OFB, C, Sybase, Perl, Unix shell scripting, Clear case, putty, Make, scp, rsh

Hitachi Limited, Japan August 2006 to December 2006

Linux Porting of JP1/IM-CS

Role: Technical Lead and Analyst

Brief Profile:

The scope of the project is to port JP1/IM-CS running on the windows and various UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX and AIX) to Linux platform. Few tools like Data Collection tool, Cluster setup command has been modified to support the network monitoring system. Have successfully implemented the UTF-8 encryption model in Linux

Responsibilities:

Make file preparation

Analysis on Linux porting issues

System test cases preparation

Build and Release Management

Bug fixing and product integration support

Regression testing on other Windows and UNIX platforms

Technical Environment:

Windows 2000/2003, RedHat Linux 7.1/7.2, Sun Solaris 9, HP-UX 11i, IBM-AIX 5.2, SUN ONE Studio 10, cc, aCC++ 3.6, Visual Age C++ 7.0, gcc 3.2.3, C++, Shell script, ISAM DB, MS VSS, Hitachi’s SRMVC, Hitachi’s SoftPro, Hitachi’s CLMAN, Data Collection tool, Cluster setup command, Clear case, putty, Make

Hitachi Limited, Japan May 2006 to July 2006

Development of JP1/IM-CS Sirius

Role: Analyst, Development and Quality Lead

Brief Profile:

JP1/IM-CS provides support for event matching functionality. The events are considered to be matched based on the conditions set in any monitoring nodes. Event conditions are further classified in to

Individual conditions

Common conditions

The events are considered matched if all the event conditions set are satisfied. In this version, Hitachi has decided to set logical expression for the individual conditions. Based on the expression evaluation, the events will be considered matched. Further, the JP1/IM-CS has to behave according to the DB version.

The scope of the project is to make the following enhancements to the existing system

Implementation of OR Setting of Individual conditions – Setting of logical expression of individual conditions for event matching functionality

Implementation of DB Compatibility – service has to act depend on database version

Implementation of Each user tree functionality

Implementation of Additional Tree generation functionality

Responsibilities:

Requirements analysis and estimation for the new functionalities

Preparation of functional and detailed design specifications

System test case preparation

Testing and Bug fixing

Defect prevention and Quality assurance

Release and implementation

Responsible for Project deliveries

Responsible for estimation of the projects

Technical Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Sun Solaris 9, HP-UX 11i, IBM-AIX 5.2, C, C++, SUN ONE Studio 10, aCC++ 3.6, Visual Age C++ 7.0, ISAM DB, Unix shell scripting, MS VSS, Hitachi’s SRMVC, Hitachi’s SoftPro, Hitachi’s CLMAN, Clear case, putty, Make

Hitachi Limited, Japan October 2005 to April 2006

Development of JP1/IM View Sirius

Role: Module Leader, Analyst and Quality Leader

Brief Profile:

JP1/IM View is also termed as BMV (Business Management View). BMV consists of two types of viewing screens namely: Monitoring view and Edit view. The scope of the project is to make the following enhancements to the existing system,

Implementation of IM-CS Interchangeability functionality – this functionality is to make the IM-CS View act according to various versions of service

Implementation of Monitoring Range Setup of JP1 Resource group functionality - this functionality is to provide the feature of a single user having different privileges for the monitoring nodes, instead of having a single privilege applicable to all the monitoring nodes.

Implementation of Sorting of Monitoring nodes functionality

Responsibilities:

Requirements analysis and feasibility study

Estimation for the new functionalities

Preparation of functional specifications

Analysis of impact areas and design for the new functionalities

Build Environment setup

Bug fixing

System testing

SK support

Technical Environment: Windows 2000/2003/XP, j2sdk 1.4.2_03, Java Swing, Eclipse 2.1, MS VSS, Hitachi’s SRMVC, Hitachi’s SoftPro, Hitachi’s CLMAN, Clear case

Hitachi Limited, Japan December 2004 to September 2005

Development of JP1/IM-CS 07-50

Role: Application Developer

Brief Profile:

In JP1/IM-CS, all the systems are monitored as nodes in BMV. The nodes are displayed as tree structure in parent-child relationships. Once any monitoring nodes get matched with the events, the status of the same node is changed according to the event conditions set and the same status is propagated to their parents and so on till root node. Hitachi has decided to provide some way to set a rule and based on the rule, the status has to be propagated. Further to this, the other view edit view has to be made online.

The scope of the project is to make the following enhancements to the existing system

Implementation of Higher level status propagation

Implementation of Online Editing

Implementation of Severity Customization

Responsibilities:

Analysis of the requirements and preparation of design memos

Estimation for the new functionalities

Preparation of functional specifications

Design and coding

Bug fixing and product integration support.

Coding

Test case preparation

Used STLs, hash table, vector, set to overcome performance related issues

Compilation and Building environment setup

Performance data collection

Testing

Technical Environment: Windows NT 4.0 Japanese Version, Sun Solaris 9, HP-UX 11i, IBM-AIX 5.2, C, C++, SUN ONE Studio 10, aCC++ 3.6, Visual Age C++ 7.0, ISAM DB, MS VSS

Hitachi’s SRMVC, Hitachi’s SoftPro, Hitachi’s CLMAN, Clear case, putty, Make

Hitachi Limited, Japan April 2004 to November 2004

UNIX Porting of JP1/IM-CS

Role: Application Developer

Brief Profile:

The scope of the project is to port JP1/IM-CS running on the windows platform to the various UNIX platforms (Solaris, HP-UX and AIX). Few tools like Data Collection tool, Cluster setup command has been ported to UNIX using scripts

Responsibilities:

Make file preparation

Analysis on porting issues to the UNIX(Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) platforms

System test cases preparation and testing

Coding of data collection tool using shell scripts

Used dbx, gdb for debugging and bug fixing

System testing

SK support

Technical Environment: Windows NT 4.0 Japanese Version, Sun Solaris 9, HP-UX 11i, IBM-AIX 5.2, C, C++, SUN ONE Studio 10, aCC++ 3.6, Visual Age C++ 7.0, ISAM DB, UNIX Shell scripting, MS VSS, Hitachi’s SRMVC, Hitachi’s SoftPro, Hitachi’s CLMAN, Clear case, putty, Make

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