SIDDHARTHA SARKAR

Mr. Siddhartha Sarkar has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry,

out of which 18 years have been in Project Management, Operations

Management, Program Management, Account Management, Quality Process

Management and People Management roles.

Siddhartha has extensive experience with design, development and

maintenance of Client/Server and Web based applications on Microsoft and

Java based platforms. Siddhartha has considerable hands-on experience in

managing projects, client co-ordination and people management. For the last

9 years, Siddhartha had been in the role of offshore Senior Project

Manager/Principal Delivery Manager, with project managers of multiple

projects reporting to him.

He also has a very wide gamut of experience in employee recruitment support

and conducting Corporate Trainings. He has over 18 years of experience in

shortlisting and evaluating candidates, taking interviews and coordinating

organization wide recruitment drives. He has been closely involved in

conducting as well as formulating course content for corporate trainings in

every organization he has worked with. He is adept at conducting trainings

on any and every aspect of software engineering (including sizing and

estimation), Quality process management (CMM and ISO 9000) as well as

conducting and formulating trainings on Project Management (including

proposal writing), Corporate communication, behavioral training as well as

domain specific trainings on Airport application development and Embedded

systems design. He has also more than 15 years of experience in conducting

process audits.

Siddhartha is a subject matter expert in the area of H1B and L1B/L1A visa

justification documentation and he has over 12 years of experience in

framing H1B, L1B/L1A visa justification documents and conducting mock visa

interviews and coaching candidates in how to face H1B and L1B/L1A visa

interviews.

Till recently he has worked as a Deputy General Manager/Airport Vertical

Head with SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Siddhartha is trained in PMI PMBOK

and is also a trained Internal Auditor for ISO 9001:2008. He had been a

Principal Delivery Manager for the last 9 years and has had project

managers of multiple projects reporting to him. For the last 1.5 years he

had been in the role of Deputy General Manager and has had overall

accountability for the Airport Projects Vertical, the Embedded Systems COE

and the United Airlines Offshore Projects.

Siddhartha's job responsibilities include Project Planning, Resource

Management, Tracking and Monitoring, Customer Interaction, Technical

Guidance, Requirements Analysis, Status Reporting and Timely Delivery to

Client adhering to the Organization Quality Standards and keeping cost

within the Project Budget. He had been serving as the head of the SkyTECH

Middleware Center of Excellence (BSD MWCOE) for the last 6 years. He was

working in the role of the head of the SkyTECH Airport projects/product

Vertical. He was also the overall group manager of the United Airlines

Account projects at offshore. For the last 8 months, he had also headed the

SkyTECH Embedded Systems COE.

Siddhartha's management expertise includes simultaneous handling of

multiple projects, prioritizing workload and multi-tasking, flexible to

changing priorities, focusing on results, effectively identifying and

resolving problems using creativity with available resources, tackling

tough problems and following through to satisfactory conclusion. He is able

to manage diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet

aggressive budget and schedule targets. He is experienced in coordination

between business as well as technical stakeholders and has had proven

success in building client accounts and driving customer satisfaction.

Siddhartha is well versed in Function Point Analysis for software

estimation and in using tools like Rational Rose & StarUML for System

Designing.

Siddhartha's other technical expertise includes understanding of web

architecture & middleware technologies. Siddhartha has experience in Java,

Servlet, JSP, EJB, XML, XSL, XSD, JavaScript, HTML, Style Sheets, SQL,

Maven, MVC architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Weblogic.

Siddhartha has extensive experience with design, development and

maintenance of various Client/Server and Web based applications.

Strengths

. Able to manage diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to

meet aggressive budget and schedule targets

. Good verbal and written communication skills, and experienced in

coordination between business as well as technical stakeholders

. Proven success in building client accounts and driving customer

satisfaction

. A very good team player and experienced interviewer.

. Very process oriented and very conversant with ISO and CMM practices

and is a seasoned auditor.

Recent Customer satisfaction was at 3.5 out of 5 when I took over as Head

Achievements of the SkyTECH Middleware Center of Excellence in 2007, helped

ensure a customer satisfaction rating of 4.95 out of 5 for the past

2 years

Increased head count and subsequent revenue by 33%

Reduced Employee attrition to a minimum

Organization Level Activities

Is involved in Size and Effort estimation using Function Point for Client

Proposals.

Is a member of the proposal task force and is the main person responsible

for creating client proposals for any project in the Airport Domain

Is an active member of the SEPG group.

Is an accredited internal auditor and conducts IQA's and SQA's of projects.

Is a key member of the Senior Management and takes part in MR meetings

Conducted internal workshop and training sessions on the following:

< Risk Management

< Software Size Estimation

< OOAD, UML and Rational Rose

Trainings Attended

Course / Training Conducted By

OOAD, UML and Rational Rose 2000e Rational Corporation, Bangalore, India

XML PentaSoft, Calcutta, India.

CORBA using ORBIX WDC, Calcutta. India

Software Estimation & Requirements SkyTECH Solutions (Internal)

Management

PMI preparation training Pelcon, Pune

Technical Skill Set

Programming : C, C++, PASCAL, BASIC, FORTRAN, VISUAL BASIC, VISUAL

Languages C++,DELPHI, REXX

Operating Systems : MVS/ESA, OS/2, UNIX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS 3.11,WINDOWS 95,

WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION/SERVER 4.0, WINDOWS 2000, WINDOWS XP,

HP-UX 9.04 & 11.

Web Technologies : HTML, JAVA (JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, EJBs), VBScript,

JavaScript, CGI-PERL, ASP,VISUAL INTERDEV, MICROSOFT

FRONTPAGE

Database : DB2/MVS, OS/2 DBM, MS-ACCESS 7.0, WATCOM SQL, MS-SQL SERVER

6.5 & 7.0, SYBASE SQL SERVER v10, ORACLE 7.1, 8i, 9i

Servers : IBM WebSphere Application Server, BEA WebLogic Application

Server, Iplanet Server.

Others :

Academic Qualifications

. Master of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1993.

. Bachelor of Technology in Instrumentation & Electronic Engineering from

Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1991. Ranked First Class First

with Honours; was winner of University Gold Medal.

. Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from University of Calcutta

in 1988.

Employment Summary

Period Company Role

January 2014 - Solo Freelancing Independent Management Consultant

till date

May 2000 - SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Deputy General Manager

December 2014 Kolkata, India

January 1993 - R S Software (India) Ltd, Project Leader

April 2000 Kolkata, India

Experience Summary

Category Details

Project Customer Relationship building.

Management Risk Management.

Project Planning, Sizing and Estimation.

Costing and Budgeting.

Team Development.

Team Appraisals

Business Proposal preparation.

Development Preparing and giving presentations.

Increasing billing in existing accounts.

Domain Airlines and Airports

Embedded Systems

Organizational Was involved with CMM level 3 and Level 5 implementation. Was a

activities member of FAR teams.

Imparted training on Project Management, Costing and Budgeting,

Estimation Techniques; also imparted training on OOAD, UML and

Software Engineering.

One of the principal auditors for internal QMS audits

A regular interview panelist for any corporate recruitment drive,

including walk-ins.

Customers United Airlines, Chicago, USA

Handled Unisys, Beijing and Unisys, Hong Kong

Innovata LLC, Atlanta, USA

Tell n' Go.com, San Jose, USA

First Data Corporation, Boston, USA

Visa International, San Mateo, USA

Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, India

Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, India

Major Projects

1.Embedded Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Systems COE

Client Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC), Kolkata,

India

Central Mechanical Engineering Research

Institute, Kolkata, India

Description Circuit design & analysis - Compete Schematic

design for analog, digital &RF related systems.

Circuit simulation - Simulation for analog,

digital, mixed signal & RF circuits.

PCB Layout design - Multilayer board design

including signal integrity and Impedance

matching.

Component selection & procurement - Assist in

selection of components, also in procurement.

Intellectual property (IP) design service - RTL

based IP core design for

audio/video/image/dataprocessing, various

interfaces,soft-core processor and memory

controller as well as IP core as per user

requirement on different

reconfigurable (FPGA) target, deliverables will

be

NGC/Source code with test bench & soft

datasheet/user-guide.

IP verification service - IP core

verification (Functional & Timing) as per the

user specification and deliverables will be the

test reports .

IP testing service - Testing of the IP core on

concerned hardware with test report generation

for delivery.

Module development service - ASM/C based module

design on different targets like DSP/MCU

(ARM/AVR/PIC)

Linux device driver development - Device driver

development for various interfaces

Kernel-Configuration - Configure kernel as per

user and compile kernel against the given

architecture

Environment ARM7/ARM9

microcontrollers,DSP.Microblaze/PowerPC on

FPGA,Spartan 3/6, Xilinx FPGA devices, PIC

series microcontrollers, VHDL/VERILOG,Device

Drivers, Mentor Graphics PADS PCB Design suite.

Role Deputy General Manager/Embedded Systems COE Head

Duration of 6 months (February 2013 till date)

Siddhartha' s

Contribution

Responsibility Responsible for Customer Relationship Management,

business development and Overall Project

Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and

facilitate the Tech Lead and the VERILOG/VHDL

designer

Involved in project planning and co-ordination,

work allocation and monitoring, client

co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Involved in Vendor evaluation and vendor liaison

Co-ordinating with 3rd party Chip (IC)

fabrication and multi-layer PCB fabrication units

for ensuring proper manufacturing and testing of

chips and printed circuit boards designed by the

Embedded Systems COE

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance

to organization QMS processes, doing document

review, design review.

2.BAPL Airport Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Operations

Suite

Client Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd, Kolkata, India

Description Creation of a suite of products for Airport

Operations Management, for implementation at BAPL

Greenfield Airport at Durgapur, West Bengal,

India. The products include, Middleware Message

bus, AODB, FIDS, FLIFO, Airport Billing, Airport

Dashboard etc. Scope also includes building a

data center and installing and commissioning of

electronic infrastructure like surveillance

cameras, access control systems, networking,

voice and data ports, desktops, servers,

automated Car parking management system, FIDS

displays etc at the Airport Complex.

Environment Windows XP/Windows 7, SuSE Linux version 9 SP3,

Java 2, J2EE, Struts 2.0, EJB 2.0, Tomcat Server

, Mule Enterprise, OpenMQ, Drulez, Camel, JBOSS,

SoapUI

Role Deputy General Manager/Airport Vertical Head

Duration of 1.5 years (June 2010 till date)

Siddhartha' s

Contribution

Responsibility Responsible for Customer Relationship, business

development and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and

facilitate the Project Manager, the Financial

Analyst and the Infrastructure Head

Involved in project planning and co-ordination,

work allocation and monitoring, client

co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Involved in Vendor evaluation and vendor liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance

to organization QMS processes, doing document

review, design review, code review and test plan

review

3.Middleware Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Center of

Excellence

Client United Airlines (UAL), Chicago, USA

Description The Middleware Center of Excellence (MWCOE) is a

large team whose responsibility is to develop

various middleware services e.g. EJB services,

Web Services, Tuxedo services for various LOB

(line of business) projects at UAL.

Environment Windows XP/2000, SuSE Linux version 9 SP3, HP-UX

11i, Java 2, J2EE, EJB 2.0, WebLogic Application

Server v11, BEA Tuxedo v8.1, JBOSS, DataPower,

Tibco BW, SoapUI

Role Principal Delivery Manager/COE Head

Duration of 6 years (Jan 2007 till date)

Siddhartha' s

Contribution

Responsibility Responsible for Customer Relationship, business

development and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and

facilitate the multiple Project Managers of the

COE

Involved in project planning and co-ordination,

work allocation and monitoring, client

co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance

to organization QMS processes, doing document

review, design review, code review and test plan

review

4. Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

EasyCheck-In

Kiosk System

Client United Airlines (UAL), Chicago, USA

Description The Easy Check-in (ECU) Kiosk application is a

Java fat-client server application through which

passenger can check-in for flight himself,

check-in baggage, print boarding pass, modify the

travel itinerary and upgrade the travel class and

also can purchase any United special offerings

like Award, Premium Line, Upsell. Easy Check-in

helps avoid the wait in long queues for manual

check-in. This application is deployed on the

Kiosk Machines.

Environment J2SDK1.6 Struts 1.1, JSTL Expression Language,

Oracle Weblogic 10.3, jakarta-jmeter-2.2,

JavaScript, Runway, Apollo GDS, JDK 1.6, Eclipse

Ganymede, Maven, Oracle 10g

Role Principal Delivery Manager

Duration of 7 years (August 2004 till date)

Siddhartha' s

Contribution

Responsibility Responsible for Customer Relationship, business

development and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and

facilitate the Project Manager

Involved in project planning and co-ordination,

work allocation and monitoring, client

co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance

to organization QMS processes, doing document

review, design review, code review and test plan

review

Setting the system architecture.

5. Drug & Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Alcohol System

WebLogic

Migration

Client United Airlines (UAL), Chicago, USA

Description The Drug and Alcohol system is a web-based secure

application used to store and report the results

of random testing for United Employees for Drug

and Alcohol abuse. The system is used by United

to schedule testing for personnel, uploading the

test data from different locations, tracking and

reporting the data from these tests. Work

involved migrating the existing Drug & Alcohol

system from its existing WebSphere 3.1 on

OPEN-MVS platform to Weblogic 9.2 on SuSE Linux

platform.

Environment Windows XP/2000, SuSE Linux version 9 SP3, Java

2, J2EE, Jsp, Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, EJB

2.0, WebLogic Application Server v9.2 with

JRocket JDK 1.5.x, DB2Connect Server and Gateway

on Linux; JDK 1.5, Eclipse, ANT; DB2/OS/390

database server v7.1.2

Role Principal Delivery Manager

Duration of 9 months (April 2005 till December 2005)

Siddhartha' s

Contribution

Responsibility Responsible for Customer Relationship, business

development and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and

facilitate the Project Manager

Involved in project planning and co-ordination,

work allocation and monitoring, client

co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance

to organization QMS processes, doing document

review, design review, code review and test plan

review

Setting the system architecture.

6. OMMS/VMS Organization SkyTECH Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Client Unisys Corporation, Beijing, China

Description Implemented at the BCIA T3 (Beijing Capital

International Airport). This application manages

all activities on the ramp, working with airport

and third party staff to ensure the safe,

efficient, timely and complete processing of

turnaround services for flights at the airport.

It also deals with seamlessly integrating

functionality for Air-side vehicle management and

related work order tracking. VMS maintains and

manages vehicle data for all airside support

vehicles inclusive of the vehicles owned by

ground handling companies and other contracted

agencies. It generates vehicle assignment plan

(scheduled and ad-hoc) and work orders. It

monitors critical conditions for vehicle

assignment and generate appropriate alerts in

case of impacting operational conditions. It

generates reports on usage basis of the vehicles.

Environment Windows XP/2000, IBM AIX 6.4, Java 2, J2EE, Jsp,

Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, EJB 2.0, Hibernate,

Borland Enterprise Server 6.5.1, Borland

Visibroker Client 6.0, Log4j, Chainsaw, JDK 1.4,

Borland Jbuilder Enterprise Edition, Eclipse,

ANT, Oracle 10g

Role Principal Delivery Manager

Duration of (4 years) June 2005 To October 2009

Siddhartha' s

Contribution

Responsibility Responsible for Customer Relationship, business

development and Overall Project Delivery.

Primary responsibility is to monitor and

facilitate the Project Manager

Involved in project planning and co-ordination,

work allocation and monitoring, client

co-ordination, issue handling, doing inter-group

liaison

Ensuring project process and delivery compliance

to organization QMS processes, doing document

review, design review, code review and test plan

review

Setting the system architecture.

Personal Information

Date of Birth : October 01st, 1965

Gender : Male

Marital Status : Single

Interests & : Watching movies, Listening to music, Internet Surfing, Computer

Activities Games, Reading novels

Languages : English, Bengali, Hindi

Known

Contact Information

Phone- 91-33-256*-****

Mobile- +91-990**-*****

Email- acwf5l@r.postjobfree.com; acwf5l@r.postjobfree.com

Contact Address: - THE RETREAT, P110/19 KUMUD GHOSHAL ROAD,

ARIADAHA, CALCUTTA - 700 057,

WEST BENGAL, INDIA

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