Raghavendran Vittal

Mobile: +91-771******* E-Mail: acuz81@r.postjobfree.com

In quest of challenging assignments to leverage Information Technology to enable sustainable growth of the Organization.

Present Position

Jayem Automotives (P) Ltd, Coimbatore

Oct 2015 - Till date Designation – Head - IT

MY PROFILE IN THE PRESENT COMPANY :

Jayem Automotives (P) Ltd is a unique Research and Development Company having a joint venture with TATA Motors Ltd. The Company also has tie up with MRF for retaining, maintaining and organizing Formula car races. My profile as Head-IT encompasses all Hardware, Software, Projects, SAP ERP & new initiatives ( cost reduction ) etc., I am handling a team of 7 IT technical personnel and am responsible for the overall efficient functioning of the in house IT infrastructure as well as other 3 offices situated at Hyderabad, Pune & Coimbatore. The major responsibilities include :

IT infrastructure

IT Facility provisions, expansion in Geo.spread

Ensure best industry practices

SLA Adherence

Overall IT Asset Management & Control

Ensure Data security, Surveilence, Data Storage, Server upgrades for present & future demands Ingeract with IT vendors for Tech support and Tech procurement Finalising Telecom & Broadband services after analsing critical factors of concern Ensure Appropriate standards in all IT functionality and getting standard certification Guiding, mentoring and leading IT team

Periodic review of employee performance & support for skills development Taking up new assignments as and when expected & exhibit excellence in execution of the same 5 "S" organizing workplace, following 5 "S" Standards, updated labelling, energy saving, cleanliness Achieve set of critical performance indicators, BSC score and ensure team BSC scores within standards

Overall Domain expertise

Coordination between various department, Agencies & Vendors on various projects/issues.

Money transfer Services including Compliance, Operations and Accounting.

Inventory of a very large scale heavy earth moving equipments manufacturing Company.

Financial accounting for various business like Manufacturing, Rubber estates, Textile, Gold merchants.

Software training - User training on customized applications, Training programmers (PERL,BASH).

Overall Technical expertise

Operating Systems : Unix (SVR 3.2), Windows 7,2003,2008 R2.

RDBMS : Unify Data server, MS SQL Server 2000,2005,2008 R2.

Programming : VB.NET 2.0, VB 6 and COBOL.

Internet applications development : CGI using PERL, XML.

Knowledge areas : SSIS, SSRS, SSAS using SQL Server 2005.

Others : AWK, VI, Bash scripting under Unix and VBA under Windows.

Good in LAN Trouble shooting, configuring LAN, Administering Windows for users & Firewall.

Installing Windows Server 2003 & 2008, SQL Server 2005 & 2008 R2.

Applications development : Using SQL Server 2005, 2008 R2, VB6, .NET, Crystal Reports V 8.5 PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES

Weizmann Forex Ltd – July 2007 to October 2015 ( 8 years & 3 months ) Weizmann Forex Ltd is the flag ship company of Weizmann Group having diversified business operations in Western Union Money Transfer, Foreign Exchange, Textile manufacturing, Wind mills and Resort. Job Profile

Currently working as Assistant Vice President – IT, reporting to COO of Money Transfer division.

Software Support Management

Responsible for uptime of customized application for Money transfer operations & Accounting.

Responsible for Compliance department requirements of Western Union and RBI & FIU guidelines.

Responsible for customization of modules in the application.

Responsible for evaluating, reviewing, recommending software products for New business requirements like Bulk emailing, Bulk SMS, CCTV, Bio Metric Attendance.

Support in new product launch like Western union pre paid card business, Domestic Money Transfer and Western Union Business Solutions.

Analyze & Provide solutions like Auto emailing, Lucky draw schemes, Call Centre Call recording.

Customizing Promotional schemes.

Co ordinate with 140+ offices across India for new product roll out in terms of software.

Recruiting personnel for IT requirements for both Hardware and Software support. Infrastructure Management

Sizing hardware and software requirements, design LAN strategy, Internet bandwidth requirements and Firewall requirements.

Layout of electrical, LAN, LAN Switch, Router, UPS and Firewall placement.

Contract management for Firewalls, AMC for Hardware, other related product vendor management.

Sizing requirements for Server for software products. 2006-2007 - Systems Plus Solutions - Mumbai - Principal Consultant - 8 Months In charge for code Support of .Net based package – Voice / E mail based Imparting Technical / domain based training for staff. Customer relationship.

1990–2006 - Bharat Earth Movers Limited - Senior Supervisor (Programme)- 16 Years Worked in EDP department in Inventory Domain at various regional office, head office maintaining Operating systems, Users, Network, Reporting Decision Support Systems Part of implementation on two different platforms.( Unix and Windows ) Training users / installing customized packages / network trouble shooting. 1988-1990 - Ramachandran F.C.A – Coimbatore- Programmer / EDP In charge - 1 and Years Design and development of Financial Accounting Packages for clients. Maintenance of packages, customization for new clients. 1988-1988 - Computer Point, Cochin – Ernakulam - Associated Systems Engineer - 6 Months Faculty for Dbase III +, Lotus 1-2-3.

Customization of Financial Accounting Packages for clients. Gold Stock accounting for jewelers.

1986-1988 - N.R.Doraisamy F.C.A – Coimbatore - Programmer / EDP In charge- 2 and Years Design and Development of Financial Accounting Packages for clients. Training operators to use the Accounting package.

Customer interaction for customization of Financial Accounting package. 1984-1986 - The Vijayakumar Mills Limited – Udumalpet - Programmer - 1 and Years Programmer (BASIC) for Payroll of Textile mill employees. Assisting the Systems Analyst in day to day operations. 1982-1984 - ELGI Equipments Limited – Coimbatore - Console Operator - 2 and Years Console operator for CP/M based DCM Galaxy 9/11 Systems Job control / Data entry department management.

Data processing for Sales/Purchase/Order processing. ACADEMICS

1999 - MCA from Bharathidasan University of Technology, Thiruchirappalli-Tamilnadu – 61%. 1995 - PGDCA from Alagappa University, Karaikudi-Tamilnadu 69%. 1981 - B.Sc (Mathematics,Statistics and Accountancy ) from Madras University, Chennai 52% CERTIFICATIONS

Brain Bench : Project Management.

Brain Bench : Unix Administration (General), RDBMS Concepts, SQL (ANSI) and COBOL II. NCSA : Unix Operating System.

Cambridge Business English Certificate from British Council – Passed with Distinction. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth & Age : 11th March 1961 - 55 Years.

Languages Known : English, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi

Present Address : 232, “Shandhar Nivas”, 6th Street, S & P Garden, Mogappair West, Maduravoyal post, Chennai - 600095. Passport No : K8927157 Valid up to 2022.

Present Salary : 10.05 Lacs + Mobile + Medical.

Raghavendran Vittal

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