Rajagopal Govindarajulu

*** ***** ******* ***** *****, IL 60177

224-***-**** acz2mv@r.postjobfree.com

Director/Sr. Manager of Information Technology

Highly Experienced Technical Manager, Excellent Project, Vendor Development and Team Leadership

Comprehensive background in technology project and service delivery for large prestigious organizations, in the public and private sectors. Internationally experienced. Excellent verbal and written communicator. Strong track record of building, leading and motivating onshore/offshore cross-functional teams.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Service Delivery Customer, Vendor & 3rd Party Relationships Program Management Manager of Managers Team Management Solutions Advice Cost Reduction Resource Management Leadership High Volume Transactional Systems System Architecture Strategy Process Improvement

Tech Evaluation Open Source Outsourced Operations Vendor development (self-certification model) Team Training Multi-Unit Harmonization

EXPERIENCES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Vendavo Inc., Mountain View, CA 2012 – Present

Pricing B2B software for margin and profit optimization to support big data analytics

Senior Technical Manager/ Solutions Architect

Manager of Managers, Project/Program Manager, Lead B2B, pricing strategy, pricing analytics, price management and deal management, power and risk, delivering solutions to clients on a web-based platform.

Oversee full project life cycle from requirement gathering, with projects worth $1-3 million

Lead three full cycle implementation for Fortune 500 company’s global pricing operations

Handle all functional harmonization, performance tuning and crisis handling of the project, as well as escalation management when necessary

Manage delivery and technical resources globally (CZ and India)

Provide project estimates and supported Change Orders as necessary

Map and integrate with client SAP or other ERP systems through Web Services or IDOC

Follow web-based principles and application of heavy object oriented Extensible java based Object-Driven architectural design work

Configure OLAP tools for Analytics, extensible adapter framework for data integration and allocation, and adobe flash driven object oriented UII framework for Price/Deal management

Involved in program management of the project for cost, budgeting, resource management delivery cycles and travel exceeding about $2.5 million

Lead onboarding of Solution Architects and Configuration Engineers

Deliver customer demo at various stages of the project until production roll out

Use Agile (Rally, Concerto software) and Waterfall principles in managing projects

Technology used: JBoss 5.1.x+, Oracle 11gR2, Netweaver, SAP integration, Model Driven java frame work, ORM techniques

Major Clients: Henkel, Sealed Air, Staples, Goodyear, AmeriSource Bergen, ABC Supplies, Texas Instruments

R R Donnelley, Chicago, IL 2005 – 2012

Print, digital and supply chain solutions provider

Senior Manager, Web Development

Set architectural direction for company’s web development activities, leading corporate strategy team for client facing web applications, and software development/maintenance process improvements for clients including Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, AXA, Agilent, AICredit (AIG), and Merrill Lynch.

Focused on on-time delivery (100% met), meeting the customer requirement and delivering an average of 10 to 15 % overall cost savings

Managed client-facing applications (java, .net, as400, SQL server, Oracle based) development and maintenance of local and remote teams of size ranging from 5- 10 members

Managed offshore teams in India consisting of SQL, ORACLE DB administrators, project managers, application architects, developers and QA

R R Donnelley, continued

Applied continuous improvement (Kaizen) principles in the development teams.

Delivered hands-on coding and architecting solutions in medium-complexity projects

Led vendor management: onshore-offshore development, rate negotiations, software evaluations and purchase, and contract negotiations

Presented software solutions and capabilities to clients, approving technical aspects of contracts

Negotiated with clients on timelines, technology, SLA and method of implementation

Led on-time delivery management using Critical Chain and Agile methodology, setting directions to QA methodology, coding standards, process quality assurance, coordinating remote location development and project coordination through System Development Life Cycle Framework (SDLC) and scrum meetings

Identified business processes to automate to save cost / add revenue $2+ million p/a

Evaluated programmers’ performance and remuneration, hiring/firing and resource planning

Technology used: TOMCAT, WAS 6.0/6.1, and RAD 6-7. Business systems: Order Management, client based Inventory management and more. SOA architecture (.net and java, SOAP and RESTful) /implementation of client & server components to automate order execution, retrieve financial client’s entitlements, consume mailing list service as a client. Implemented service traffic over dedicated T1/DS3 lines with https-client authentication. Struts-Tiles Framework, JSF, Hibernate persistence, Display tag, JSTL, Load testing Jmeter testing, Single Sign-On using SAML 2.0 using Site-Minder Affiliate agent and Ping Identity, tuning the load threshold levels from 100 to 500 concurrent users, Jasper Reports, JQuery tools

Aon Corporation, Chicago IL 2001 – 2005

British multinational corporation providing risk management and related services

Manager, Web Application Projects Architecture and Delivery

Oversaw product architecture, mentoring newcomers to Object-Oriented programming, customer discussion, project planning, management of CAPEX, cost-benefit, ROI and savings projections.

Managed project budgets up to $3 Million, with durations of 3-12 months or more

Directly managed statement of works, cost benefit analysis, technical manual, development, supplier/vendor negotiations and development, testing, user requirement gathering/feedback and Quality Assurance

Modeled databases and maintained dev/uat and prod. SSl certificate maintenance and ordering

Converted to new architect and new AppServer environment from WAS 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.1.1

Led Actuate reporting, server maintenance and administration

Designed and delivered J2EE web projects including web-database administration, Eligibility Engine, Auto Dealer Menu Application, Global Travel Shield (Amex), Enterprise Check Writer, Daily Time Management Application, American Express Claim Inquiry System and Medical Equipment Management System

Scheyer-Austin Ltd., Downers Grove, IL 1999 – 2001

Supply chain system integration specialists

Senior Consultant/Technology Architect

Led product architecture, client mentoring on Object Oriented programming, client expectation setting, project planning, development management, QA planning and testing, user requirement gathering/feedback, quality assurance and performance level maintenance.

Gained Customer Satisfaction Award for technology project implementation

Developed application of XML tags to macro function output from DB2 to provide for a VB application to parse the data and store it in SQL server

Designed and developed secured email management system with three levels of administration

Developed Business-to-Business application with various menu items (Inquiries) as additional features to the web application, customized menus using Net.data macros, JavaScript, HTML, RPGLE/CGI and CL and AS400 file systems and queries

Developed a Complaint & Deduction Management System (CDMS) as an addition to existing manufacturing package, involving complete database design, writing specification, program documentation and coding. in RPG1V/ ILE that includes Subfile programs for inquiry and selection, and batch /interactive processing.

Earlier Roles

Senior Programmer/ Operational Systems Analyst Quality Assurance Manager

Consultant Engineer Research Project Associate Senior Engineering/Vendor Development Manager

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Science, Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Wichita State University, KS

Master of Business Administration, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Madras, India

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Madras, India

SUN Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

IBM Certified Professional/Specialist for Visual Age for Java Professional Edition V3

Server-side Programming with VisualAge for Java Prof 3.0/Enterprise 3.5

IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition and configuration, EJB, deployment

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